Microposts
SE Radio 657: Hong Minhee on ActivityPub and the Fediverse – Software Engineering Radio
Haven’t really looked into ActivityPub yet; this was a good intro.
Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong - Ian Cooper - NDC London 2025 - YouTube:
Since James Lewis and Martin Fowler wrote their paper on the microservice architectural style in 2013, a lot of words have been dedicated to the subject. But many of them propagated misunderstandings of the properties of the architectural style.
Somehow it is still difficult to have a high signal, low noise discussion about this.
The Developer Voices podcast by @krisajenkins.bsky.social has quickly become my favourite tech podcast over the last six months. Still working through the back catalogue but faves so far are the NATS, Cuis and Zig episodes.
Heading to Melbourne for Developers, Developers, Developers.
Nice breakdown of Janet Jackson bassline that causes havoc with spinning disks a la the classic video by @bcantrill.bsky.social youtube.com/watch
Upgraded my streamer and amp and have fallen in to some dangerous amp burn in rabbitholes.
I wish I hadn’t discovered pointing out of phase speakers at each other because now it’s all sounding achievable without angering neighbours.
When designing a domain model, don’t fall into the mistake of trying to create some Platonic ideal of the “real world”.
Derek Comartin discusses other mistakes here: The WORST domain modelling mistakes!
“I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” - Joanna Maciejewska
