“Blockchain merely records those umpires’ judgement in a permanent and public place — it doesn’t make that judgement trustworthy, nor does it provide a way to detect liars.“ onezero.medium.com/the-inevitabil… by Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

CUPID properties instead of SOLID principles: "Principles are like rules: you are either compliant or you are not. This gives rise to “bounded sets” of rule-followers and rule-enforcers rather than “centred sets” of people with shared values."

The latest issue of the Thoughtworks Technology Radar is out thoughtworks.com/radar

If you are living your best #remotework life but your team's standups aren't bringing you joy the latest Thoughtworks Tech Radar suggests "rethinking your remote" standups including our "meandering team sync" approach here Honeycomb.io System Status Updates. thoughtworks.com/radar/techniqu…

We're dipping our toes in - first on-site event since forever in our Berlin office! My colleague Kiran and I will present and answer questions about the latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar. Register here (event will be in English, 2G+) thght.works/3NtCx7x

Our CEO, Guo Xiao, explains his Thoughtworks journey from grad #Developer to leading a company of more than 10,000 people and what he has learned about #SoftwareDevelopment along the way. #TWPodcasts thght.works/3N2APJa

Carbon offset, on the BLOCKCHAIN. With a "Goddess Nature Token". By Adam Neumann, of WeWork fame. Raised $70m. 🤷‍♀️ "Remember: if you don’t understand crypto products ..., you are forced to rely on the judgments of celebrity investors like A16Z to guide your financial decisions"

Our 100th podcast episode is live! Join our podcast hosts Neal Ford and Birgitta B. with guests, Rebecca Parsons and Chad Wathington, as they explore how Thoughtworks has gone about trying to build a culture of innovation over the last couple of decades thght.works/3BotnW7.

Yet another talk of #amaberlin published - Birgitta B. - Cognitive Biases and Agile Architecture youtu.be/JdNuXKbXmN8

An interesting analogy for software maintenance by Eduardo Ferro (eferro.net/2021/02/basal-…) sparked some good discussions among us a year ago, which we finally got around to putting in a podcast episode

Thanks for having me at #xpand2022 Propeller ! And also thanks for the feedback and many questions from listeners afterwards. Here are the slides to my talk: speakerdeck.com/birgitta410/cu…

It just keeps going, so many levels in this „speed“ run!

.Mike Mason and I hosted an interesting conversation with @boicy and Martin Fowler about the unavoidable force that is Conway's Law, and why "software architects need to think about IT organization design"

The 2 things I like most about the Mastodon hype: 1. Attention to one of the many approaches to decentralization other than web3’s blockchain-hammer-for-everything 2. Saying toot and tröt invariably makes me smile,especially after reading Eugen Rochko say „I’m just bad at naming“

#TWTechRadar events about the latest edition in Germany: Tomorrow, Nov 8, in Munich, Nov 10 in Hamburg and Stuttgart, Nov 15 online and in German thoughtworks.com/events thoughtworks.com/radar

they just need one 7500x engineer

If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: eff.org/deeplinks/2022…

Recently I joined Birgitta B., Moritz Heiber (@[email protected]), and @xuv on the Thoughtworks Technology Podcast to talk about Mastodon, ActivityPub, and The Fediverse thoughtworks.com/insights/podca…

Victory! The security expert Ola Bini - (@[email protected]) was finally declared innocent yesterday in a unanimous verdict by a three-judge tribunal in Ecuador. 1/ peoplesdispatch.org/2023/02/01/dig…