iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

(no I did not realize there were that many when I started taking screen captures, but once I went down that road I felt committed)

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Check out the rest of the agenda and speaker lineup!

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And just because it's kind of required these days, I do have one talk involving AI: Designing Software for Agentic Development. This one is definitely a moving target as things are changing rapidly. I expect to be updating things right up until the talk starts. Which is TOTALLY out of character 🤣

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Designing Software for Agentic Development
28 Oct 2026

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My other talks are on... Antipatterns and Worst Practices! Always fun to talk about things that didn't work out and what NOT to do.

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I'm speaking at Techorama 2026 Netherlands
Antipatterns, Smells, and Worst Practices
27 Oct 2026

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(They should have a tagline like "We're getting medieval on your A-...I")

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Voucher redemption :: Techorama Netherlands 2026

This link may save you money - it has a limited number of uses and I don't know if they're used up. Also, I think it expires at some point: pretix.eu/techorama-nl...

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 11h

Who wants to come to the Netherlands next month? Check out TechoramaNL! I'll be giving a full day software architecture workshop and presenting, along with a ton of amazing speakers!

Techorama
I'm speaking at Techorama 2026 Netherlands
Software Architecture Fundamentals
26-28 Oct 2026 Utrecht, The Netherlands

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We’ve gone from “clown event still possible” to “clown event exceeded expectations” 🤡

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 11h

John Papa sharing wisdom on using Ai effectively at #CloudAISummit2026 keynote

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Instagram User on Instagram

How Does AI Work? www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...

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It does, and there’s a spectrum from autocomplete to OG copilot filling in a whole method when you’d only typed its name or a comment, to full agent-generated files that are created or modified without any human looking on in an editor. So, some of the activities must necessarily account for this.

A “Too Big To Fail” golden bailout is almost certainly in their future, and likely explicitly in their plans.

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Anthropic have non-cancellable obligations of $500bn yet they have $4.6bn of cancellable income. How on earth do they expect an IPO valuation of $2tn?! Is its existential risk to humanity the risk it presents to the market?

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Design Analysis Talking to Users Considering Alternatives A/B Testing Security Practices Proper Accessibility Reviews Tests Refactoring Troubleshooting Bug Triage …and every other part of delivering quality software. What activities have I left out?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17h

The ability to rapidly generate code on demand changes the typical programmer’s mix of how they spend their time. Typing code was never the most valuable thing programmers did; with agent-assisted programming hand editing source code shrinks as a percentage of their day, leaving more time for…

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Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 29/09/2026

Checking out the ISC2 meeting tonight at TrustedSec in Fairlawn

ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 29/09/2026

Amazon seems to be struggling this afternoon… store, music, several things.

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Domain-Driven Design Europe @dddeu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Over six sessions, this loop is what turns "I understand tactical patterns" into "I can build a working domain model and defend every decision in it." If you've been meaning to move from knowing DDD to actually doing it: buff.ly/l82hY4k and we start on October 5th.

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Deliberate Practice: Why Reading About DDD Isn't Enough

Move from knowing DDD to actually doing it

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Arthur Doler @arthurdoler.com · 23/09/2026

This, but for drawing your own slides for talks. Here is a series of images of my slides over the years. Starting in 2017 and continuing until my most recent. Just get started. You'll get better as you go, even if you only build talks once or twice a year.

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 23/09/2026

“If your elected officials are not representing you then they should not know peace” - Josh Johnson

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Frans Bouma @fransbouma.com · 22/09/2026

Also “English preferred adjective ordering” is something that I don’t recall ever being taught in school but every native speaker just *knows*. Determiner → quantity → opinion → size → age → shape → color → origin → material → purpose/type → noun

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One look at the Experienced Devs Venting / Burnout thread on reddit will tell you just how bad the software industry is at the moment. :( www.reddit.com/r/Experience...

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From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the ExperiencedDevs community

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Did not know this existed, thanks…

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Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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USPS is actually generally pretty good. Despite efforts by some to kill it so they can make money off of the delivery business. But I’ve totally seen UPS and other carriers stop on the side of the road at my driveway, sit a moment, decide “nah it’s 🌧️ or 🌨️”, and then drive off. “Attempted delivery”

They’re two sides of the same coin, though, and I suspect all the players will try all of these approaches in attempts to sell their products (which by and large are still not profitable).

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I learned some things about English (after years of speaking/writing it natively and years of classes) by taking German in high school. Things that had been just implicit (to me) were laid out explicitly as the second language and its rules were described and taught. Always learning.

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Podium looks a bit AI slopped…

Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Every innovation and change in business these days is either: We took this product you like and turned it into a subscription We took this subscription you begrudgingly pay and added some ads We took these ads you found annoying and found more ways to find you

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 18/09/2026

Saying the quiet part out loud and on the record…