Friday, September 26, 2025

Friday Links 25-21

Comic strip with a bird thinking "I don't need money. I'm rich in happiness" - Man handing over envelope: "Sir, the bill for your happiness." - Letter says: "$4000"
Don't Need Money 
by Poorly Drawn Lines
Some "AI" related stuff today, with the idea of prompt engineering being requirements engineering and how these new tools can enable non-programmers to get closer to the code.

I also liked how much Wil Wheaton likes a new metro line.   

Leadership

RTO mandates lead to us questioning leaders - it was never about RTO. 

Engineering

Prompt Engineering Is Requirements Engineering - I don't think we were ever good at requirements, how are we going to be good with prompts? 

URL Pattern API - this is new, and took quite a while 

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - :-) 

To vibe or not to vibe - good compact framework to think about vibe coding … or not. 

Developer Productivity With and Without GitHub Copilot: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Case Study [Paper] - "We did not find any statistically significant changes in commit-based
activity for Copilot users after they adopted the tool, although minor increases were observed."

Mean time to shared understanding: Bridging the gap between citizen developers and developers [Podcast] - citizen developers, aka normal people changing the code. 

RPM 6.0.0 released - RPM v4 turns 25! See here for some history:  Evolution of the RPM package format

Environment 

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis - the Arctic is not completely frozen any more 

Urbanism

“…we are all Angelenos who love our city of angels. Our Metro system is an expression of that love for our communities.”  - Wil Wheaton attending a new metro line opening 

Good cities can't exist without public order - it isn't as bad as in the US, but crime does affect transit ridership everywhere. 

Random Money

Minimum Wage Machine - that is a good visualisation of minimum wage 

Rails Needs New Governance - guess who misbehaved again! 

The Ruby community has a DHH problem - yes, he did. 

C2PA Investigations - I'm not really concerned about C2PA or see it be more widely available. It is interesting and probably worth looking into if you are a photographer. 

The Life Scientific: Doyne Farmer [Podcast] - Hacker who became economist.  

Other Links

Friday Links Disclaimer
Inclusion of links does not imply that I agree with the content of linked articles or podcasts. I am just interested in all kinds of perspectives. If you follow the link posts over time, you might notice common themes, though.
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