Framing.
Israeli filmmaker’s search for stolen Palestinian films in Israel’s archive
In this documentary, Israeli researcher and filmmaker Karnit Mandel uncovers previously unseen footage of Palestinian life and history in a box of old VHS tapes.
The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE:
I don't think a lot of the AI that's being integrated into these products is welcome or necessary or useful. What I see is [...] company wide OKRs saying [...] every product team needs an AI goal. And then the product manager, the directors are like, okay, we'll figure out where to put AI.
A discussion with Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation. Highlights include a fantastic lighting history of how we got to the current AI moment and a push back on the notion that resisting current AI initiatives move forward without restriction is impeding progress.
There’s a logical fallacy I’ve observed in software discourse that I called the “weaponised no true Scotsman”. I think a better name for it is the “no true straw man”.
The AI Hoax is Destroying America with Ed Zitron:
[...] none of these companies really understand customers or problems.
The scarcity of serious criticism of the LLM hype by journalists has been pretty depressing.
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
