Honestly, this checks out. Embabel is an enterprise play, and one where Java developers' skills are on point. Spring has proven itself for business logic, systems that are built to last, event-driven systems, transaction systems and so on. 🔗 Java relevance in the AI era – agent frameworks emerge.

This is has some new material in it, not just the same old transformation discussion from agile and DevOps. So: thumbs up! 🔗 8 platform engineering anti-patterns

Meanwhile, what’s going on with developers outside of the GenAI echo chamber. What’s up with people disliking Jira so much, yet using it so much? 🔗 The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack?

”Tech is a pop culture. Very few of the decisions made in the industry are made rationally or empirically. Studies and tests are used to justify the emotional decisions of the executive or management class. Infrastructure and stack decisions are made hedonistically – “cool” tech that makes the engineers and devs feel good about themselves almost always gets a priority over “boring” tech that has no risks. The industry, especially the software side of tech, is driven by emotion and a sense of what is fashionable.

With some generalization, this is good advice for any pitch, from corporate presentations to call for papers. The point that you need to make it easy for other people to advocate for you is a good one, rarely mentioned. 🔗 What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)

The decline of the US Rust Belt is directly linked to the rise of China, driven by US free trade policies that incentivized companies to relocate manufacturing overseas for cheaper labor and less regulation.

The Gruber: “When is the last time an investigation regarding the legality of the App Store’s dominant market position went in Apple’s favor, in any country? I can’t recall one.” 🔗 Apple Loses Landmark U.K. Lawsuit Over App Store Commissions

Tips on doing corporate videos. It’s almost: be less polished. Plus, The Kids Slang. 🔗 high production value ≠ rizz.

As always, if you want your people to get more work done, interrupt them less and invite them to less meetings. This applies to all people, not just programmers. A meeting is not work, it’s talking about work. 🔗 Meetings and interruptions are still the biggest obstacles for developers, even with AI

I think the point is: it’s nice the professionals can make excellent content. It’s fun that the rest of us can now putter around the edges of that, ten seconds at a time. // Also, looks like a good example of a “Strasian reading” with Casey, there. While he is condemning AI generated images, he is showing the cool things he can make with it. // At some point we’ll have to confront the elite/commoner conflict between experts and goofballs using new tools to ape the experts.