Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps? | Hacker News:
I think the bigger story here is that Israel are removing (in physical terms) towns and villages from Lebanon.
As usual nerds missing the big picture.
Report: This Is How Netanyahu Convinced Trump to Launch a War Against Iran:
During a visit to the White House […] Netanyahu’s accompanying staff screened a montage of potential leaders who might seize power in a post-ayatollah Iran, including […] the last shah’s exiled son.
The Mythical Agent-Month – Codemanship’s Blog:
The combinatorial explosion in lines of communication required to keep team members in sync applies whether those team members are human or AI.
While true, as in humans, module and component design can buy some wiggle room here, however LLMs are not very effective drawing these boundaries alone. One reason is the lack of good training data for real world architecture but there could be more fundamental limits.
IDF Confirms: AI Infrastructure Built in Gaza Now Active in Iran, Lebanon:
[...] sources told Haaretz that Israel does not rely on external providers, working with open source models that were repurposed and fine tuned by the army.
Palestinians in the West Bank Are Now Experiencing Multiple Settler Attacks Per Day:
They usually happen late at night, when people are asleep in their homes with their families
Remember these marauders are armed by the Israeli government, defended by the military and funded by people and governments in the west.
The Annoying Usefulness of Emacs - YouTube:
my recommendation for people […] looking to learn a cool customisable text editor, never try Emacs because you won’t be able to get rid of this goddamn text editor from your life. No matter how hard you try, it’s too goddamn f**king useful.
This gets to the crux of why Emacs is simultaneously magical and cursed.
The exact place they went to do their rescue work was targeted again once they arrived
How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers | Al Jazeera
Since the ceasefire took effect at noon on October 10, Israel has killed at least 615 Palestinians and injured 1,651
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‘The West Bank’s Area C Is Almost Completely Ethnically Cleansed’ - Haaretz
While everyone was supposedly looking.
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#limehelmetsofsydney
Are Integrated Tests a Scam? TDD, Architecture, Fast Feedback – J. B. Rainsberger - YouTube:
if programmers are too productive […] and if their primary interaction is with a machine […], they are not practicing interacting with each other.
Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers’ week | The Guardian:
This is a managerialist term intended to stop thinking, one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of ‘social cohesion’ is propaganda.
We’re drowning in managerial jargon.
AI and architecture - Barry O’Reilly - LinkedIn:
Claims of AI driven improvement, even if true, seem to ignore the wealth of low hanging fruit that can improve individual and especially collaborative software development. This post applies that lens to architecture.
The first horrible truth is that developers pre-AI weren’t skipping architecture because they didn’t have time, it’s because architecture is orders of magnitude harder than coding and very few can do it. When we talk about the 10X dev we are very often talking about people with architecture skills. It requires skill, experience, and a little bit of luck in landing the right projects across a career. It requires technical depth, lateral thinking, and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
The second horrible truth is that developers who haven’t got there yet are almost always utterly convinced that they’re already there. This makes discussing architecture very difficult and leads to lines being drawn around architecture and gatekeeping to keep the conversations sane.
Well said.
Regime change or shake down? Po-tay-to po-tah-to.
The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow - YouTube:
Time for a Post-American Internet
Looking forward to reading Enshittification.
I know I’m rather late to the game but finding myself obsessed with overall software enshittification of late. Might be AI or updating to iOS 26 or just steady decline in quality of software overall not sure but it’s all I can see some days.
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.
