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European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 10h

Half of Europe's population was exposed to poor or worse ground-level ozone levels so far in 2026, as successive summer heatwaves drove up concentrations, according to new @CopernicusECMWF analysis. 🔗 atmosphere.copernicus.eu/air-quality/... #AirQuality #Ozone

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is asking AI agents to do TDD "theater" or actual value? Join @emilybache.com for a free live workshop: "From Traditional TDD to AI-Assisted, Without Losing the Plot" 🤖 Learn how to drive AI with TDD discipline. Book your spot ➡️ www.subscribepage.com/eb-webinar

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/09/2026

I've published detailed notes and an annotated transcript to accompany the video of the keynote I gave at @wearedevelopers.bsky.social World Congress North America in San Jose on Friday - here's my rundown of everything that's happened with LLMs in 2026 so far simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/...

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2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological …

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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 25/09/2026

New post/newsletter: Harms of the AI ecosystem – infographic A visual aid for discussions and learnings about the impact of AI development on everything from individual to global to planetary wellbeing. #DigitalEthics #AIEthics axbom.com/aieco/

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Harms of the AI ecosystem – infographic

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026

Yes, you read that right. NINE times cheaper.

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Last Year Has Changed Everything I Knew About TDD After 20 Years | @emilybache.com 📽️ AVAILABLE NOW Watch HERE ➡️ youtu.be/wK5WgbqtI50

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The Last Year Has Changed Everything I Knew About TDD After 20 Years

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Last Year Has Changed Everything I Knew About TDD After 20 Years | @emilybache.com 📅 TONIGHT @ 7PM (UK) Subscribe & turn on notifications 🔔 so you NEVER miss an upload! ➡️ youtube.com/@ModernSoftw...

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Peter Kofler @codecopkofler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I structured my thoughts for months about My Writing and GenAI - read here blog.code-cop.org/2026/09/my-w...

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Pawel Brodzinski @pawelbrodzinski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At Lunar, we've been appreciating a flexible and broad skill set over a deep one. For years, it felt like an uphill battle. Enter AI. Suddenly, the job market is all like, "You were right all that time." pawelbrodzinski.substack.com/p/product-de...

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Product Developer A.D. 2026: Jack of All Trades

T-shaped skills still work as metaphor for a decent product developer. It’s just the shape of the T has changed.

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Steve Fenton @stevefenton.co.uk · 16/09/2026

We all have to stop treating technical practices as a side quest when they are, in fact, the mission. "If the only problem were translating the cost of AI tools into end-to-end value, it would be serious enough. But something far worse is happening..." thenewstack.io/ai-co...

A chart showing two potential cost curves. The traditional one is low at first, because time is saved by not doing technical practices, then it climbs with increasing rapidity. The second path invests up front in technical practices and prevents the rapid ascent, keeping the software sustainable over the long term. This was the premise of Extreme Programming.

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Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Was the Hexagonal Architecture invented by Alan Key?

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When AI generates the job description and AI rewrites the CV, the system is broken.

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What is the first trait that comes to mind when you think of the BEST TEAM you ever worked in? 👇

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 11/09/2026

And, in 2025, Europe produced more electricity from wind and solar combined than from fossil fuels for the first time.

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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 08/09/2026

🚨 Announcing Pushin 🚨 Now officially: I'm announcing Pushin.eu, a git hosting platform built and run entirely in Europe. Think GitHub/GitLab but European, better, and faster. Built with #ElixirLang and #RustLang. peterullrich.com/announcing-p...

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Announcing Pushin

I'm launching Pushin.eu, a git hosting platform built and run entirely in Europe.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026

2026 really was a fundamentally different summer to 1976 in terms of temperature across the UK and Europe Data: ERA5

Comparing 1976 and 2026 summers in NW Europe

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What is the BEST case scenario for AI adoption in the tech industry? Say, in 10 years, if you were the ultimate optimist, what would you want it to look like?

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

10 tips if you're moderating a panel. Trust me I have learned these the hard way by watching 1000 bad ones (including with me in the chair), and a few great ones. Panels need to be lively, engaging and enlightening. Here's a few pointers on how to make that happen (if you're lucky).

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Emily Bache @emilybache.com · 01/09/2026

I'm speaking at Code.talks in Hamburg in November. They currently have a special "back to the office" discount on tickets - take a look! codetalks.com

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Peter Kofler @codecopkofler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Did you miss training your juniors during your adoption of GenAI? Regular "learning hour" sessions with whole teams are a great way to teach developers to take (back?) control of the software quality if their work. See sammancoaching.org/training/del... (15 September 2026, 14:00 CEST)

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The car industry didn’t see this coming. In 2015, 330k fully electric cars were sold globally, about 1% of the market. In 2025 it was 14m, close to 1/5 of all new cars. The fleet on the road tells you about the past. Sales figures tell you about the future. janrosenow.substack.com/p/the-car-in...

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The car industry didn’t see this coming

From Norway to Nepal, current sales reveal a transition far further along than the stock on the road suggests.

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Verify now supports inline snapshots github.com/VerifyTests/...

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Henry Coles @pitest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Seeing a lot of "mutation testing is too slow" posts from people who are trying to do it with an LLM. People, the existing mutation analysis tools are literally orders of magnitude faster. And that's true even if you exclude all the time used by the LLM.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.

Graph of student exam scores correlated to homework completion time for to groups, students using AI and those that did not. There is a slight spike for studens using AI who also maintained extensive homework completion time. As described in post, the number of students falling into this bucket was 20 out of 26,000.

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Nick Tune @nick-tune.me · 21/08/2026

I had a mini-breakthrough with Codex in terms of getting it to follow my software design and application architecture conventions (which are all documented in markdown and enforced by tools) Previously, when it violated a rule it would hack the code to make the violations go away. Inefficient.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Do I have the heart to tell the harness/loop/graph/whatever-they're-calling-it-this-week engineering folks that software process engineering has been a thing for decades? Or that it doesn't work very well? Of course I do 🙂 codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/r...

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Return of the Revenge of the Son of Software Process Engineering

I watched an interview recently with Claude Code creator Boris Cherny where he talked about how he doesn’t prompt anymore, he just “writes loops” that do the prompting for him. Pu…

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Emily Bache @emilybache.com · 20/08/2026

If you're using ai agents to write code, you'll definitely benefit from the technique Ivett and I are talking about in this interview. Video: youtu.be/6AgndHSkHFI blog post: coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/08/how-...

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How to Stop AI from Ruining Your Codebase

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How to Stop AI from Ruining Your Codebase | @emilybache.com & Ivett Ördög 📅 TONIGHT @ 7PM (UK) Subscribe & turn on notifications 🔔 so you NEVER miss an upload! ➡️ youtube.com/@ModernSoftw...

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM

Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 15/08/2026

POV: You’re a beaver just casually jump-scaring a duck 💅

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Emily Bache @emilybache.com · 13/08/2026

I missed this post when I was on vacation, so highlighting it now. @icooper.bsky.social is being very thoughtful about what development with AI looks like when you care about code quality and a maintaining a shared 'theory' for long term success. ian-cooper.writeas.com/coding-agent...

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Coding Agents: Driving In Gears

The Value of Understanding Code In an agentic engineering world, what is the value of the code? We set the agent a goal, provide the req...

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Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Kent Beck playing chess: "Make the checkmate easy, then make the easy checkmate."

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Emily Bache @emilybache.com · 10/08/2026

Friendly and insightful article about some ai booster claims that don't quite stack up. raymyers.org/post/fibs-an...

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Fibs and Fibbonacci - is LOGOS faster than Zig?

Another fake compiler. Nothing to see here. Do not read this article.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a really good overview of the energy costs of using AI by @zekehausfather.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-e...

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The real energy use of agentic AI

Agents use about 600x more energy than simple AI prompts

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We are building powerful, poorly understood, non-deterministic systems, handing them autonomy, and wiring them into places that matter. Stop asking if AI is conscious. Start asking: where is the engineering discipline keeping it safe? New video out now ➡️ youtu.be/mRF99to28sA

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The Real AI Threat ISN'T Sci-Fi (It’s So Much Worse)

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Nick Tune @nick-tune.me · 05/08/2026

People talk about building a harness, but for legacy modernization I think building a "shared brain" might be even more important. It's what me and @selrahcd.bsky.social used to replace a legacy system. 1/4 #legacyModernization #architectureModernization

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Artem Zakharchenko @kettanaito.com · 02/08/2026

I suspect that those claiming agents write great tests never had big expectations from their tests, to begin with. If you don't know what makes a test good, how can you tell if what the agent gives you is any good?

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It's a tacit admission that harnesses are not, in fact, reusable - that they are sensitive to changes in the ecosystem and what worked for Bill might not work for Ben. It suggests what's really needed is principles and heuristics for harness design that can adapt rapidly to each setup.

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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 31/07/2026

July’s rewilding wins have landed 🦅 This month we’re celebrating baby beaver births, two seagrass success stories and white storks spreading their wings in England. Explore these uplifting rewilding stories👇 🧵1/6

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I talk SWE @italkswe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I might be late to the party but @birgitta410.bsky.social work on harness engineering martinfowler.com/articles/har... is amazing! It is really helping shape the conversations about agentic work in my team

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Harness engineering for coding agent users

A mental model for building trust in coding agents through feedforward guides, feedback sensors, and iterative harness engineering.

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Charles Desneuf @selrahcd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A test name shouldn't contain the word correctly, like in "should do something correctly". The test name is here to describe what correctly means.

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Modern Software Engineering @modernswe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Louder for those at the back, Gojko Adzic! 📣

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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 07/07/2026

Keith Adams thought AI would democratize software, raise the floor. His dream: a version of Doom where all the monsters have my face. But its been "more of an amplifier of differences in facility than a leveler." Expected a compressor. Got the opposite.

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Steve Fenton @stevefenton.co.uk · 07/07/2026

Meanwhile in DevOps No.78 Prompt engineering. #MWID

Ellis is drinking a coffee while chatting to Blake.

"How are your prompt engineering skills?" Ellis asks.

"First rate," Blake responds. "Just tell me what you need, and I'll start engineering immediately!"

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Can you, as one person, possibly make a difference in whether an unusual, creative, category-breaking book (a book without a marketing department or a budget behind it) succeeds? Yes you can, and I'm going to tell you why it's a hell of a lot more attainable than you think.

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