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@Nativewired at NDC Copenhagen 2026:
"How I helped developers talk about feelings and needs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOClkh3ZB5Q&list=PLPcpEUTAU3-gm3VKimFV-OoTBalKGmhYY
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"AI made me doubt everything about programming"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-f94n_9M&list=PLPcpEUTAU3-gm3VKimFV-OoTBalKGmhYY
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@woodyzuill at @dddeu 2024:
"Advanced Software-Teaming [Mob Programming]"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL4WxpiG1D8&list=PLPcpEUTAU3-gm3VKimFV-OoTBalKGmhYY
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@kevlin interviewed by @rdmueller for software-architektur.tv: "AI as a Mirror"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZBDDy9AXZk
#OnModernDev #AlexThuDisruption #AlexThuWatching #AlexThuClassics
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The „Trends across the software craft“ section of Gergely Orosz's Craft 2026 talk are very well worth considering… because they should really give us pause:
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Tristan Harris interviewed by Otto Scharmer for the „Presencing Series 2026“:
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"Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again“
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Some wise words to keep in mind over the next few months (or years):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM2c33qy16U
With the duration to keep them in mind depending on the bubble size that will be preceding the ‚bang‘ - like in @ewolff’s never-forgot Twitter adage dating back to the beginnings of the 2010s:
„I like 'big bang‘ projects; you need to be there when it is *big* - and need to be gone when it makes *bang*."
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Yuval Noah Harari at the World Economic Forum 2026:
„An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity“
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The recording of my (German) „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development“ talk at the embarc Architektur Punsch on 08.12.2025 has been uploaded to YouTube.
For more details (including the link to a talk-related video interview that @sippsack did with me), see:
https://onmoderndev.de/en/blog/2025/12/08/remote-talk-on-08-12-2025-at-embarc-architektur-punsch
🖖, Alex
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„Politics is how we make decisions in groups when we don’t agree on the goals. If we do agree on the goals then it's just a question how we’re going to meet them - we’re doing project management. But what do you do in a society, or a company, or an open source project or anything else where we don’t agree on where we’re supposed to go? […] That’s what politics studies. And I don’t think it’s a dirty word.“
@gvwilson in:
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INNOQ Technology Lunch: @feststelltaste „Das tapfere Schneiderlein: Sieben Schnitte auf einen Streich“
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INNOQ Technology Lunch: "Digitale Souveränität: Buzzword oder Business-Critical?"
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„Simplify - and in simplifying your own code to solving your own local problems, you are also building institutional knowledge about how to simplify. Which sounds really basic, but I would claim we don’t really even have that [knowledge] anymore.“
Jonathan Blow in his talk „Preventing the collapse of civilization“ 🤔 -> 👏
https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko?si=MleNlQVg8y8yag-Q
#OnModernDev #AlexThuWatching #AlexThuClassics
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"Have you learned about SOLID principles X years ago, but now struggle to remember what each letter stands for? @tastapod came up with CUPID - an alternative that could be easier to remember:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knNaUSLhx-U“
(Andriy Svyryd - https://x.com/andriysvyryd/status/1444384855114977281)
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"if the consequences were not so disastrous, it would be a bit comforting that not only IT is dominated by a continuous demand for the next fashion. it appears we are so conditioned by 50+ years of ad-driven immediate gratification promises we lost our ability to focus longer-term“
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"Conway's Nightmare: If you constantly change the org chart, i.e. running everything as projects, then your code base will be a big ball of mud.
https://x.com/cmuratori/status/1504125343782817800“
(Alf Kåre Lefdal - https://x.com/aklefdal/status/1505903857708277763)
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"nothing to add ... highly recommended talk
I was thinking about this talk by @allspaw from a few years ago earlier, went back and re-watched it. It's had a significant impact on how I've approached work over the years since.
Highly recommended, especially if you've never seen it.
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I would very much like to add:
If you want to start to build a habit today (AKA: „the stuff we humans run on most of the time“) - more specifically a habit of broadening your perspective once a week - make sure to watch @gvwilson‘s talk today… works perfectly fine as a combined kick- & headstarter:
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Mark Zuckerberg & Yuval Noah Harari in discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boj9eD0Wug8
Nice: „Mark invited Yuval to talk. Then Mark tried to find approval for facebook. Mark didn’t find approval. Mark sad. Don’t be like Mark, be like Yuval."
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Susan Goldsworthy: "Confronting and Navigating Inner Polarities in Leadership“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reR9HQusTtw&t=4571s
„If I had to characterise the emotional tone of what I have been doing for quite a number of years, I would say that I was in the business of anxiety - that I'm creating more anxiety around Al, climate change, whatever. Now we need to switch to a different project, which is to rebuild trust, because when there is too much anxiety and you can't trust…“ 1/
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"The only way to scale a hero-based organization is overtime.“ 👏 (Rich Sheridan)
… as heard during today’s Seattle Code Crafters Meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/seattle-software-craftsmanship/events/307081546
You can find the recording here:
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Starting tomorrow:
MIT/u-lab MOOC "u-lab: Leading From the Emerging Future"
https://mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITxT+15.671.1x/
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I have been recommending the slides of the "Fantastic Biases & Where to Find Them in Software Development“ talk by Michael Kutz & João Proença for years now (you can find them here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nH4U-mAxMhLxB9k2RKVb5fG51Z-JBmbTV-JQGAV2Q3w/edit#slide=id.p).
But recently @stefanscheidt provided me with a link to a recording of that marvelous talk. Make sure to not miss out on that one:
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Today I received notice that my Craft 2025 talk became available on YouTube 💯!
In case you were not able to participate, feel free to check it out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV-glhoGSh8
All the best from Lake Constance,
Alex 🖖 -
Die Aufzeichnung meines „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development - Beobachtungen von einer 20-jährigen Reise“-Talks vom 04.06.25 beim techCamp Hamburg ist jetzt bei YouTube abrufbar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0by9vGnmQ
Am 18.08. besteht darüber hinaus die Möglichkeit sich die Langversion des Vortrags bei einer Gemeinschaftsveranstaltung der Softwerkskammer Köln und den REWE digital Events anzuschauen:
https://onmoderndev.de/2025/07/14/vortrag-am-18-08-2025-bei-der-softwerkskammer-koeln/
Live long and prosper, 🖖
Alex