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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love what you do. I am a huge fan of TDD and simple, testable design with fast feedback loops. Yet, I have not felt as empowered as a software developer in a long time. The last time I felt a big boost like that was when I learnt what easily testable software design means. AI is a game-changer.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"The Israeli Government's decision to publish construction tenders for the E1 settlement project is unacceptable." - Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Amazon is building the nation’s largest fossil fuel plant exclusively to power artificial intelligence As my colleague @emilypont.bsky.social notes, the plant’s permit allows for essentially double the emissions of the most polluting power plant in the U.S.

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Amazon Is Building America’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI

The company confirmed its plans to market research company Cleanview.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Fish. 🐟 France, Portugal and Germany managed to bloc EU sanctions on Russian fresh fish imports. Apparently Surimi is an indispensable French classic. Germans can only eat fish fingers made from Russian fish. And Portugal's national dish, dried cod, is now Made in Russia.

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When someone responds to a question with "this is what Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/MarginallyDistinctFromPaulieTheParrot says ..." If I ask you something I am not using you as an intermediary between me and a search engine.

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"Monolith" is a deployment strategy, not an architecture. All it tells you is that you deploy the entire system in one go. It tells you nothing about the structure of that system.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Three times now the European Parliament has voted against a proposal to allow Meta, TikTok, Snap etc to scan all your private communications for child sexual abuse material, "just in case". 1/

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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So tragic. I hope there will be lots of support for the victims.

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Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com · 07/07/2026

I don't feel the need to comment or discuss this. Just repost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYrM...

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Right v. Wrong

YouTube video by Saul4Democracy

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Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Choose pair programming Choose energised work Choose test-driven development Choose short iterations and frequent releases Choose continuous integration Choose refactoring the code to keep the design simple and malleable Choose your future. Choose XP.

The trainspotting meme about “choose life”

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 15/06/2026

When I first learned about XP in 2000, the values of Communication, Feedback and Simplicity were easy to grasp. The 4th value of Courage, though, wasn’t as clear. My recent experiences using LLMs to work with legacy code have helped me understand what Courage actually means! tiny.cc/m025101

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Courage

It only took 25 years to figure it out!

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I don't teach tokenmaxxing. I teach feedbackmaxxing. Join me tomorrow evening at 18:45 GMT+1 for our final Test-Driven Development workshop for self-funding learners. Yes, your boss *should* be paying for it and giving you the time, but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...

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Essential Code Craft - Test-Driven Development – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - Our new Essential Code Craft training workshops are aimed at software developers who are self-funding their profession...

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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

#3 single responsibility principle?

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mxrt @mxrt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The most insightful take on Mythos I've seen so far. Everyone should read this but especially those who are currently thinking through the possible regulatory responses.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The world is now so full of ridiculous things that I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The world really is idiotic. I made a list of things that are impossible to believe. Seeing it in writing might help you deal better with the situation. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-ho...

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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos @emmanuelvalverde.dev · 02/04/2026

Something we should all think about

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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My challenge is usually not convincing management, but convincing other developers.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"The signal that passes without mediation is also the signal that nobody can question." Really important exploration of the dangerous fallacy behind Palantir (as well as dangerous people) www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying

LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/02/2026

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

a windows 11 menu showing "convert to adobe pdf", "ask copilot", and 4 more options that take time to load

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 19/02/2026

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 23/01/2026

I wasn’t much of a Tesla fan before, but our new house came with two Tesla products pre-installed. Both of these are kinda fucked due to intentional decisions made by Tesla to screw over customers. The EV charger will only charge Tesla EVs and the Powerwall essentially cannot ever be upgraded.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is the equivalent of a large nuclear power plant in terms of 24/7 power. Except that a nuclear power plant has much lower availability than this solar/battery-combination. The combination also has like a million pages fewer compliance worries.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Now this is the handwriting (and the organized page layout) of a real crystallographer!

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We drug discovery types probably have more room to maneuver than we think in picking our candidates for clinical trials:

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What Makes A Drug

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Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco. youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ

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Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility

YouTube video by UCSF Documents & Media Photography

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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A few former colleagues of mine put these resources together for handling compliance documentation as part of CD. github.com/ready-to-rel... This is a collection of practices that we used to comply with pharma regulations.

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GitHub - ready-to-release/eac: Audit-ready Continuous Delivery for regulated industries.

Audit-ready Continuous Delivery for regulated industries. - ready-to-release/eac

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

One of the worst developments of the web in 2025 has been Google inserting itself into sharing of links through various of their applications. A "share.google" link is full of explicit tracking, so Google knows who is sharing what with who, while also obscuring TO YOU what the origin of the link is:

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JP Aumasson @aumasson.jp · 27/12/2025

2026 will bring more blockchain/quantum/AI scams, hacks, overvaluations, bankruptcies; VC psyops, trolls and bots, paid articles and endorsements. Meanwhile there wont be no... - "AGI" - useful/practical quantum computers - meaningful blockchain use beyond tokenization Like the past 10 years.

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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I hope the vacuum cleaner will serve you well 😀 And there are always music and movies 🙂

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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

We cannot choose our family. The holidays are almost over now. I hope you got to do things you enjoy. Cheers.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

6000 people (so far) visited this page about the launch of an EU institute. The majority of readers who made it beyond the first few paragraphs actually read the whole 9000 word article. There is genuine interest in digital autonomy and EU plans:

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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

We need to talk about this A LOT in Europe. Such a shocking illustration of how we are getting colonized by the Americans. Let's spread this widely so it helps galvanize public opinion.

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Ted M. Young (he/him) aka @JitterTed @ted.dev · 15/11/2025

On Tuesday, Nov 25 at 18:00 UTC, I'll be doing a 90-min online presentation of my #Java based "Event-Sourcing from Scratch" talk. Details and _free_ registration at luma.com/dt9fc391 Lots of room to sign up! Join live to ask questions, or watch for the recording later.

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Java Event-Sourcing from Scratch · Zoom · Luma

Event-sourcing allows the business to ask questions about your application's data that weren't thought of when the system was created, such as "how often are…

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

You've got to hand it to the software industry for coming up with new and ingenious ways to not solve problems people actually want solved.

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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Sad, but understandable. What is wrong with people that they need to flood every corner of the Internet with content created entirely by LLMs?

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

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Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Making a firm commitment to asking the question that reveals ignorance until said ignorance is gone

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Two people arguing about a decision (at least past the point where any new information is emerging) is a bad sign. I'd ask myself a few questions: (1) Has the incentive system within your company encouraged competition? 1/11

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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I think these AI written and narrated YouTube are a big threat to YouTube. They pollute YouTube and make the whole experience so much worse.

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Iain @iainnd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.

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