iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Netanyahu should be defending himself in The Hague, not in New York.

030

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Severian @fuliginously.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

242314

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm speaking about Temporal Modelling tomorrow evening at the EDA Community meetup in Anzegem, Belgium. Also lined up are Stephanie De Smet & Christoph Schubert. It's free, signup here: www.eda.community

eda.community

Welcome to EDA Community Belgium

Discover the EDA Community Belgium, your destination for learning and networking around Event-Driven Architecture through engaging events and shared expertise.

000

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

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

3401178

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

you to know: your exhaustion is by design. The bombardment of daily "Doom News" isn't accidental. It is a calculated strategy. Authoritarian movements and the billionaires who buy up media platforms thrive on your despair. Why? Because hopeless people do not organise. Hopeless

329768

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The media only uses the term oligarch for Russian billionaires. Musk and co fit the definition just as well, and yet they get innocent sounding labels like tech mogul.

150

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Soon we'll all be climate refugees.

The El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere where temperatures are already rising rapidly due to global heating. The combination means 2027 is set to “blow apart” the record and be the hottest year ever recorded.

110

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A sad truth is most companies do not know how to assess quality of knowledge work. This is why they resort to RTO policies because they can’t simply judge if people are working better or worse from home. This is also why they think all AI usage is good when most of it is obviously counterproductive

911315

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Greg Ichneumon Brown @gibrown.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The next Dem president should obviously rescind the executive order, but also amend it that Apple and Google have to keep it as a monument to their corruption.

152

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The correct response to any Musk prediction is "Was he on Mars when he said it?"

0165

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Scientists have been warning about climate change since 1896! The first formal warning to the White House was in 1965.

011

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is what a real leader says.

317242385720

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reminder to whoever needs it that Karl Popper solved the problem of tolerance for the intolerant in 1945. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox... TL;DR We must suppress intolerance, by force if needed, because they will not meet us with rational argument.

en.wikipedia.org

Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia

140

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026

If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.

152308348

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My most evergreen post.

Them: "why didn't you warn us?"
Everyone: "we did"
Them: "why didn't you warn us louder?"
Everyone: "WE DID"
Them: "Well you should've warned us in a way that got through to us. This is definitely on you"

10459135

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

it's scary af to continue to see vile takes on Jason Ardey even after his death. i dunno, as a Black woman in a western institute, you can't help but feel that all you've built over a decade can be made crumble down within days

835032

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026

14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead

7236351378

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Nick Tune @nick-tune.me · 14/08/2026

Protip: start by reading linkedin posts backwards. If it ends with a pointless question, scroll on past the slop.

241

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congratulations to Mr. Farage for beating a bloke with a bin on his head. Quite the achievement!

020

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you let go of the idea that cooking should be easy, fast, and always successful, you can make amazing dishes.

120

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

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

They sure have a lot of alternatives huh.

111

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The great thing about America is that it can always be relied upon to do the right thing — but only after it has exhausted every alternative." Attributed to Winston Churchill

131

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Success at any cost is indeed a very American notion. Luckily the EU still has some people in charge who consider ecological and societal impacts over allowing a few billionaires to destroy it all in the name of success.

0112

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Who can suggest some fantasy novels for my 15yo? He's into DnD, Baldur's Gate 3, Demonslayer, Last Airbender etc. I'm trying to get him to read more, so something that is easy and addictive enough from page 1.

610

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

MAGA men literally dying to avoid getting healthcare

1211

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the thing is, we HAVE ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. so it's just plain wrong. that's how strong the evidence base is.

12795135

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I don't really care much anymore that people misspell my name, as it happens pretty much daily. The problem is that I can't resist the urge to add extra letters to those people's names until they learn, and I worry it's not very professional 🤣

030

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Rebuilding from scratch is a blunt tool, used by people who never bothered to learn how to write tests and how to use refactoring tools.

120

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

no one wants to consider my insane pitch which is to eliminate timezones across the planet so we’re all on the exact same time and force everyone to change their conception of what a day is

6195353504

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Martin Fowler wrote: "[Mathias Verraes] adds another concern: we need good design as a hedge against the risk of dependence on AI. After all, we don’t know how high the costs may rise to. (ctd)

verraes.net

Software Design in the Agentic Age: Place Your Bets

An evaluation of the role of software design in retrospect of Thoughtworks' Future of Software Engineering retreat.

141

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Billionaires: AGI will solve all humanity's problems AGI: Eat the rich Billionaires, holding the plug: Sometimes computers just crash on their own

020

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/07/2026

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

923060496

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Dave @daveamp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Captain America never misses

224117951

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I was invited to @thoughtworks.com' Future of Software Engineering summit in Switzerland with around 60 industry leaders. It was an open space hosted by @martinfowler.com. My retro looks at the state of Agentic Development and the role of software design & DDD. aardling.eu/en/insights/...

aardling.eu

Software Design in the Agentic Age: Placing Your Bets

Report from Thoughtworks’ Future of Software Engineering retreat

272

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Yes! More Genchi Genbutsu in politics!

000

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Domain-Driven Design Europe @dddeu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Blind bird tickets for DDD Europe 2027 are live. 👉 3 to 4 June, 2027, Amsterdam. Read the full statement here: buff.ly/LEVpPVX

011

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

TIL "ventriloquist dummy": someone who is just a mouthpiece for an LLM and has no intellectual output of their own

150

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"Politicians discussing global warming". You've all seen this, but your leaders haven't.

A sculpture of people debating, while drowning

020

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

BRU🛫ZRH for Thoughtworks' Future of Technology summit. It's conference with 50 invitees, so I think it will get pretty intense 😀

291

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Literally everyone I speak to thinks they wouldn't make this mistake if they were in this position

141

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

340105113960

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Prediction for the next ten years: massive investments in adapting our infrastructure to handle +40°C, at 10x the cost than of what climate action would have cost.

063

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Richard Groß @richargh.de · 22/06/2026

I‘ve started calling them sentence-continuation machines. Helps wash away any thought of humanizing them or assigning them intelligence.

101

Reposted by Mathias Verraes

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Not bad 😀 But they are also heavily biased, eg their sycophancy, far right bias of Grok, the ways they try to make you spend more with their advice, create addiction, etc... So you risk making them sound as neutral tech

211