As many of us say, technology is fashion and passion. Programmers identify with the language they use just people do with brands (beer, shoes, cars, political parties). 🔗 Why engineers can’t be rational about programming languages

Use women’s razors for a better, more comfortable shave, he says. 🔗 How Gillette Used Gender to Make Face Shaving Needlessly Worse for Men

JetBrain’s The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity survey is out. It’s an oddly, narrowly focused survey. Mostly on metrics used to measure developer experience. Above, the metrics most used for tracking/rating/metric’ing development..As the conclusion says, measuring DevEx is getting better: The good news is that companies are getting more serious about tracking developer experience, not just productivity. The drop in irregular DevEx assessments – from 53% in 2024 to 29% in 2025 – shows a positive shift toward more structured and thoughtful measurement.

Figure 1 shows a steady decline in interstate migration rates between 1996 and 2024 across all age groups. The figure also shows that moving rates are consistently higher for younger adults (25-34) than for older age groups and that mobility has declined within every age group. Thus, the overall decline in the mobility rate (age 25+) is due to a combination of population aging and mobility falling within every age group.

IDC predicts that by 2027, half of all AI-enabled enterprise applications will require new oversight positions dedicated to governance, risk, and accountability. Predictions are mostly (only) valuable to see what someone is thinking and hoping to be true - their in-head-vibes. Here, you can see what one of the IT thought-leaders will be thought-leadering in CY2026z 🔗 The Future of Work: AI Agents as Instruments

Tiny CLI scripts for tiny tasks. // I love this kind of thing. 🔗 My Secret Recipe for Personal Scripts

“It’s also a part of a broader inversion of values. In America, we now treat the jobs that keep the world running like teachers, sanitation workers, nurses, delivery drivers as failures of ambition, while the real prestige lies in moving capital or manufacturing hype.” // Yowch. 🔗 How Bible Sales and Chipotle Explain the Economy

Applying inflation to Apples’s revenue makes it more flat. // The same would apply to other companies. 🔗 The problem with dollars

Any cloud will do: “We believe that the three clouds competitively are on roughly equal footing,” said Goldman Sachs managing director Eric Sheridan. “That’s a very different competitive positioning for Google Cloud now than two or three years ago.” 🔗 AI turned Google Cloud from also-ran into Alphabet’s growth driver

There’s a new study out that means it’s time to update all those slides that say AI projects are failing: [A] new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School complicates the narrative. The study found that 74% of businesses that measure the ROI from their generative AI efforts are already seeing a positive return, and more expect to see a positive ROI within the next two or three years.