When helping teams be effective with tools such as User Story Maps or Example/Feature Mapping this can be a difficult mindset switch, especially for those coming from a visual/interface design first process.
Kraftwerk on BBC’s Tomorrow’s World 1975 - YouTube:
Kraftwerk have a name for this; it's machinemusik.
Michael Brooks takes a question on Israel
I deeply miss Michael Brooks; his moral clarity, his silly humour and his generosity. A stone cold mensch.
Israeli defence minister plans to move Gaza’s population to camp in Rafah | BBC News
Israel Katz told journalists […] he wanted to establish a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the city of Rafah to […] house […] eventually the whole 2.1 million population.
Grab your earplugs as the silence of the reaction to this will be deafening.
ClojureScript from First Principles — David Nolen - YouTube:
Recorded at Clojure/NYC meetup on June 4th, 2025.
It warms my heart to know that this project is very much alive.
AI is the suture.
The fundamental misunderstanding in Team Topologies | Patricia Aas
Inverse Conway Maneuver is not a logical consequence of Conway’s Law
What if AI takes your job?
Software engineers these days somehow mix a sometimes perverse Developer Experience fetish with a fatalistic refusal to sharpen their tools.
Israeli Airstrikes Decimate the Last Restaurant in Gaza City in Nightmarish Bloodbath:
After Israel imposed a total blockade on March 2, most restaurants were eventually forced to close. Thai Restaurant, somehow, managed to remain open, serving only hot drinks and slices of pizza.
Nine weeks into the current starvation siege the Israeli military simultaneously bomb the nearby food market and the last restaurant in Gaza where journalists – some of the few who can afford the slices of pizza for sale – congregate to charge their phones and file their stories.
Israel’s cabinet has approved plans to capture all of Gaza | SBS News:
Israel was in touch with several countries about US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and relocate its population, under what Israel has termed “voluntary emigration”
I was forced to burn my books to survive in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
Standing before our library, I reached for the international human rights law volumes. I decided they had to go first.
Architecture vs Model Business Software | Kalele:
If you see the software being used in unexpected ways, it almost certainly shouts out missing workflows and broader business processes.
Was making a quick note and autocorrect kept changing jira to junta. I feel less SAFe.
Just starting to scratch the surface on residuality in architecture from Barry O’Reilly and wondering if @hillelwayne.com has looked into it.
An Introduction to Residuality Theory - Barry O’Reilly - NDC London 2024
New footage of aid workers killed in Gaza contradicts Israeli account of deadly attack - YouTube:
The footage reveals that the workers’ ambulances and fire insignia were clearly visible when Israeli troops are believed to have opened fire on them.