Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 09/10/2026Today's riding was Col du Mille with a mild and stunning snowcover. Great day on the bike! #mtb #mtbverbier #verbier 020
Reposted by Rob SessinkM. C. Escher @mcescher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Circle Limit I botfrens.com/collections/12055/cont… 071
Reposted by Rob SessinkSteef-Jan Wiggers @steefjan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"Is it built?" and "Can we operate it?" are different questions. A platform can pass the first comfortably and fail the second completely, and the second one decides go-live. On production readiness and the execution gap: sjwiggers.com/2026/08/25/f...sjwiggers.comProduction Readiness: Closing the Execution Gap - Cloud PerspectivesExplore the concept of production readiness and understand what it truly means for your integration platform. 121
Reposted by Rob SessinkChad Fowler @chadfowler.com · 19/08/2026The specification is not a document. This is a long one. I’m trying to work through what the durable artifact of software becomes when code is cheap to regenerate, and what that means for documentation, production evidence, decisions, evaluations, and provenance.aicoding.leaflet.pubThe Specification Is Not a Document 1305
Reposted by Rob SessinkRodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Just published a shot blog post on four different time scales that technology development and deployment works at simultaneously. It is short. rodneybrooks.com/four-time-sc...rodneybrooks.comFour Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment – Rodney Brooks 3215
Reposted by Rob SessinkTim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Why we should all be hoping for the AI bubble to pop and preparing for the opportunity to turn that into a golden age. Deeply rooted in Carlotta Perez's theory of the role of bubbles in technological revolutions. x.com/i/status/207...x.comVijay Pande (@vijaypande) on Xhttps://t.co/LFtxExihQl 143
Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 13/06/2026Hiking the steep trail of Verada do Calhau with stunning views on the hills and cliffs of Achadas da Cruz. #madeira #hiking 010
Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 31/05/2026One step further in defining a #SDLC for an event driven architecture using open standards and specifications like #jsonschema #cloudevents #asyncapi Experimenting how good agents and tooling can generate code artifacts using models: JSON schema, CloudEvent definitions and a registry. So far 👌🏻 010
Reposted by Rob SessinkRob Bowley @robbowley.net · 29/05/2026A senior engineer, three years deep helping lead AI augmented coding adoption in ~4000 engineer organisation, writing honestly about their experiences. Very good and worth a read. jamiehurst.co.uk/2026-05-24_a...jamiehurst.co.ukJamie Hurst's Blog - Is this sustainable?Jamie Hurst - Software and System Engineer, Enthusiast of Terrible Cars 286
Reposted by Rob SessinkNew_ Public @newpublic.org · 26/05/2026How do we ensure that the gatekeepers of tomorrow earn and keep our trust? If they’re really coming (and we think they probably are), how do we shape them to support us rather than shape us? More on what happens to social technology “After the Feed” here: newpublic.org/afterthefeed 022
Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 21/05/2026Our #Stoneman Arduenna adventure. Multiday #mtb tour in the Belgium Ardennes. Hard and rewarding! #YouRock 050
Reposted by Rob SessinkShivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful. 243169451829
Reposted by Rob SessinkOliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 11/04/2026This should be a hugely dynamic time for Europe. The democratic world need new energy and leadereship, it needs alternatives, it needs nations with global outlooks that are also resolutely non-imperial. This challenge/opportunity is not being met. 1105
Reposted by Rob SessinkBenjy Stanton @benjystanton.co.uk · 28/02/2026“If Europe wants change, it cannot simply recreate the same model under a different logo. It must move beyond the document-and-format architecture altogether.” ia.net/topics/trapp...ia.netTrapped in MS OfficeSeeking IT independence, Europe wants to escape Microsoft Office. The question is: where to? 043
Reposted by Rob SessinkRob Bowley @robbowley.net · 11/03/2026thedecisionstack.comWhen Software Becomes Cheap, Strategy Becomes EverythingMost companies are applying AI at the wrong level. When software gets cheap, the moat isn't technology — it's strategic clarity. 072
Reposted by Rob SessinkDane Owens @owendanes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now 216256586908
Reposted by Rob SessinkOliver Gould @olix0r.net · 05/03/2026it's amazing how there's a renaissance of great terminal interfaces 0101
Reposted by Rob SessinkQue Mário? - Mesa 56 FIQ-BH! @masquemario.bsky.social · 01/03/2026GAG 😱 youtu.be/ReLnaKkktQ0?...youtu.beROSALÍA - BERGHAIN (Live at Brits Awards 2026 HD)YouTube video by Rosalía Lyrics 063
Reposted by Rob SessinkHans L’Hoest @hanlho.com · 23/02/2026Lots of highlights for me in this article from @suksr.bsky.social susannekaiser.net/building-fou...susannekaiser.netBuilding Foundations for Continuous (AI-accelerated) Change - Susanne KaiserAI doesn’t fix your bottlenecks. It amplifies them. DORA’s report on AI-assisted software development [1] confirmed that AI amplifies existing flow and exposes brittle processes and frictions. If your... 011
Reposted by Rob SessinkSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 15/02/2026Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...simonwillison.netHow Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive DebtThis piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that … 4146187
Reposted by Rob SessinkKevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 11/02/2026A crescent view of Earth seen through the lunar module window of the outbound Apollo 15 mission in late July 1971. Along with the thinly illuminated Earth, the camera picked up a lot of sun glare on the thick window glass. flic.kr/p/2rW2tui 29326
Reposted by Rob SessinkLorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 09/02/2026New blog post: Nobody knows how the whole system works surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/n...surfingcomplexity.blogNobody knows how the whole system worksOne of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W… 43416
Reposted by Rob SessinkSimon Martinelli @martinelli.ch · 03/02/2026New blog post ✍️ Spec-driven development is not a return to waterfall. AI makes coding faster, but speed was never the real problem. The real bottleneck is still requirements and specifications. 👉 Read the post: martinelli.ch/why-spec-dri...martinelli.chWhy Spec-Driven Development Can Be Iterative, Incremental, and Agile - MartinelliWhenever I talk about AIUP and Spec-driven Development, I often hear the same concern: “This sounds like Waterfall.” That reaction is understandable. For many developers, words like requirements, spec... 182
Reposted by Rob SessinkDavid Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 03/02/2026LLM code gen is allergic to software design. It's a side-effect of limited context - drives it to primitive obsession and a bunch of other smelly designs. You can navigate it to good outcomes, but it's very reflective of the difference between "scripts" and "software" if you don't pay attention. 081
Reposted by Rob SessinkMartin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Snowy landscape in the Central Bohemian Uplands 1433141
Reposted by Rob SessinkTed Stryk @tedstryk.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Today in 1986, Voyager 2 made humanity's first and only encounter with Uranus, revealing its clouds, rings, and fascinating zoo of moons. 525586
Reposted by Rob SessinkAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... " 813203986508
Reposted by Rob SessinkAndy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/... All the hot topics from the last year: • More Postgres action! • MCP for everyone! • MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB! • File formats! • Market movements! • The richest person in the history of the world!cs.cmu.eduDatabases in 2025: A Year in ReviewThe world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025. 17625
Reposted by Rob SessinkRodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Just published my annual predictions update, tracking from Jan 1st 2018, with new commentary and new ten year predictions. It is long. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...rodneybrooks.comPredictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 – Rodney Brooks 36320
Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 31/12/2025Hoi @volkskrant.nl , waarom krijg ik dit soort push reclame als ik voor een abonnement betaal? 010
Reposted by Rob SessinkIO+ @nl.ioplus.nl · 20/12/2025World-Class Industry? Alleen met een World-Class Society ioplus.nl/nl/posts/world-class-indu…ioplus.nlWorld-Class Industry? Alleen met een World-Class SocietyWie alleen inzet op ‘verdienvermogen’, loopt het risico de samenleving te verliezen, waarschuwt Tilburg University. 021
Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 20/12/2025@nieuws.nos.nl eerlijke vraag. Waarom worden acties van/rondom Trump en Amerikaanse politiek veelvuldig gebracht als prominente artikelen op de NOS app. Wat is de relevantie hier voor Nederland? Zoals dit item nos.nl/l/2595329, vanwaar die focus, er gebeurt toch wel meer nieuwswaardigs in de wereld?nos.nlTrump voegt eigen naam toe aan prestigieuze Kennedy Center in WashingtonDe raad van toezicht, waar sinds dit jaar vooral Trump-loyalisten in zitten, heeft ingestemd met een naamsveradering. 010
Reposted by Rob SessinkAllen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Let’s talk about “Move fast and break things.” First of all, Facebook itself changed its motto to “Move fast with stable infrastructure” in 2014. So much for breaking things, at least if you’re a soulless corporate behemoth. 1/12 1513751490
Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 26/10/2025Autumn walk and finding abundant mushrooms on dead wood in the Slangenburg. 030
Reposted by Rob SessinkRob Bowley @robbowley.net · 02/10/2025The idea of AI as a new abstraction for software keeps coming back – prompts as the source of truth, code as an artefact. Why it won't work any time soon, even if things like non-determinsim and hallucination become solved problems.blog.robbowley.netWhy AI won’t work as a software development abstraction | Rob Bowley 5167
Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 09/09/2025Biking roundtrip on the #Ameland after the #tri-ambla. The #wadden are beautiful! 020
Reposted by Rob SessinkAndrea Magnorsky @roundcrisis.com · 01/09/2025Coordination is not free -- And the corollary, the more systems (of software or people ) need to interact to make change, the higher the cost 041
Reposted by Rob SessinkJack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Where does reliability begin, and where does it end? In distributed business architectures, the answer is responsibility boundaries. New post: jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/7/...jack-vanlightly.comResponsibility Boundaries in the Coordinated Progress model — Jack VanlightlyBuilding on my previous work on the Coordinated Progress model, this post examines how reliable triggers not only initiate work but also establish responsibility boundaries . Where a reliable tri... 0145
Reposted by Rob Sessinkshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/07/2025everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight 15248351334
Reposted by Rob SessinkBert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 11/07/2025People say that to be relevant in the cloud again, you first have to spend dozens of billions on data centers before you can meaningfully compete. But this is entirely not the case. US clouds are in practice not cheap at al and the cloud does not scale like a factory: berthub.eu/articles/pos...berthub.euThe cloud is not an outclassed chemical plant - Bert HubertThere is a lot of recent discussion about digital autonomy and Europe’s “position in the cloud”. Here, I want to break down and refute a commonly made argument: that the lead of American cloud provide... 061
Reposted by Rob Sessinkdeveloper.overheid.nl @developer.social.overheid.nl.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025📋 Input gevraagd voor de consultatie van de REST API Design Rules 2.0.0! Onze collega's van @forumstandaardisatie horen graag jouw mening voordat deze op de "Pas toe of leg uit"-lijst zal belanden. developer.overheid.nl/blog/2025/07/…developer.overheid.nlConsultatie NL Profiel CloudEvents en REST API Design Rules 2.0.0 | developer.overheid.nlForum Standaardisatie toetst het verplichten ("Pas toe of leg uit") van NL GOV profile for CloudEvents en NLGov Rest API Design Rules 2.0 aan de overheid. Via internetconsultatie.nl kunt u beide voorstellen bekijken en uw mening geven. Dit kan tot en met dinsdag 5 augustus. Uw inbreng is van groot belang. 256
Reposted by Rob SessinkJessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 21/06/2025On real problems, one cannot define away the complexity of the world in the interest of devising an elegant solution. - preface to Software Fundamentals, Parnas. 0127
Reposted by Rob SessinkJack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 11/06/2025How to reliably distribute work across microservices, stream processors, durable execution, event-driven, orchestration and now AI agents? Coordinated Progress is a 4 part series that explores the common structure behind reliable distributed systems. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/6/...jack-vanlightly.comCoordinated Progress – Part 1 – Seeing the System: The Graph — Jack VanlightlyAt some point, we’ve all sat in an architecture meeting where someone asks, “ Should this be an event? An RPC? A queue? ”, or “ How do we tie this process together across our microservices? Should it ... 3318
Reposted by Rob Sessinkpurr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 04/05/2025A little purr for you from the galaxy far, far away. (Sound on) 🐈⬛🤍 #cat #purr #maythe4thbewithyou 9488711682
Reposted by Rob SessinkCharity Majors @charity.wtf · 26/03/2025I stumbled across this essay as I was falling asleep last night, and left myself multiple emphatic reminders to remember to circle back to it today. "The joy we're about to lose...we'll become overseers rather than creators, managers rather than builders." annievella.com/posts/the-so...annievella.comThe Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie VellaMany of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But... 712528
Rob Sessink @yucca.io · 25/03/2025Tranquility of Meiji Shrine and Park amidst Tokyo. #Tokyo #Meiji 040