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Fragments: widening perception gap of LLMs, notes from Foocamp, today is 1997, a shift to supervisory control, Eric Evans keynote, Thoughtworks's token sourcing strategy martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

A few more thoughts on why embracing X is wrong: https://lexontech.org/a-few-more-thoughts-on-why-embracing-x-is-wrong

Half the #AI agents in production are if-statements with a GPU bill https://dev.to/cyclopt_d...

Have you tried pulling the plug? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ #ai #anthropic #doomers

Fragments: agents make programming harder, creating a breakaway agent needs super-persistence, AI needs a conscience more than consciousness, theses on AI regulation martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

NEW POST I see AI and LLMs as bringing a mix of boons and banes, but one feeling dominates: not just are they pretending to be a person, but the kind of person I don't like. martinfowler.com/articles/202...

Life in Dartmouth

“…there’s been a crash in South Korean memory stocks. Is this a leading sign of a wider collapse?”

Move code review before the code thenewstack.io/move-code-re...

Iwo's Rigor Pack https://www.iwoszapar.co...

❄️😎🌷🍂 My #virtualtours now have many spots where you can see how it looks in each of the 4 seasons! 📍Here's Cranberry Lake, along the BLT Trail in #Halifax, #NovaScotia. 👀 Check out my virtual tour, here: kuula.co/share/78DSr/...

It's the first day of hurricane season in the Atlantic. TC-ATLAS now features a real-time monitoring page with geostationary and microwave satellite data, real-time surface observations, and objective model forecasts from Google DeepMind. michaelfischerwx.github.io/TC-ATLAS/rea...

I've spent years interviewing data workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry in places like Kenya & Colombia. Now it's the #4 fastest growing job in the US. AI is coming for your job and not in the way you think. My latest for @moreperfectunion.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aooi...

Fragments: updated guide on AI coding, video on harness engineering, how long should a function be, the problems of Software Brain and why AI is unpopular martinfowler.com/fragments/20...

Highlights from #Git 2.54 https://github.blog/open...

LLM pricing has never made sense https://anderegg.ca/2026/04/22/llm-pricing-has-never-made-sense

Ryanair wants no part of baseball food culture. 🤣

If you're using Spring Boot 3.2 and Java 21 (or later), add this to your properties: spring.threads.virtual.enabled=true You can thank me later. #Java #SpringBoot

Besieged https://redmonk.com/sogr... #analysis #AI #codingassistants

NEW POST Rahul Garg sees a frustration loop when working with AI and identified five patterns to help. Here's the first: priming the LLM with knowledge about the codebase and preferred coding patterns. martinfowler.com/articles/red...

Please do not use System.currentTimeMillis() to measure elapsed time: develotters.com/posts/how-no...

Learn fundamentals, not frameworks https://newsletter.techw...

The State of #Java on #Kubernetes 2026: Why Defaults are Killing Your #Performance https://akamas.io/resour...

#Java UI in 2026: The Complete Guide https://robintegg.com/20... #GUI

NEW POST Powerful context engineering is becoming a huge part of the developer experience of modern LLM tools. @birgitta410.bsky.social explains the current state of context configuration features, using Claude Code as an example. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

AGENTS.md https://agents.md

Welp… off to a good start, 2026!

Check it out! The annual compensation in the Halifax tech community report is available now for 2025. In the report you’ll find salary, technology, and community insights that can help you better understand the technology community of Halifax and beyond. www.halihax.com/annual-compe...

‘We want to be offensive too’ — Trump’s Department of War move shows his flimsy grasp of history

This is one of the best custom plates I’ve seen in the city

Oh look what I got! @keeganmatheson.bsky.social

Meanwhile at City Hall

People who complain about Discord and Reddit mods wouldn’t survive a day on 2016 StackOverflow www.infoworld.com/article/3993...

worthwhile🧵on the remote-v-office-v-hybrid topic

Introducing Chroma, our powerful colorblind simulation tool, now open to everyone! Discover how it works, and try it for yourself: https://ubi.li/DYT5U

Holy crap this article

I just deleted my twitter account!

Nov. 20, 1967: In the middle of the night, the City of Halifax demolished the century-old church in Africville. Documents were forged to allow for the demolition, and many vital records were lost. Learn more 👇

So tragic. Do we have a better warning system in place now?