New blog post "UML: My Part in its Downfall" about my experiences in UML standardisation and the factors that I believe contributed to its downfall tratt.net/laurie/blog/20… 🧵

Easy to forget, but the debate about signals is the same one we had about 2-way data binding vs unidirectional data flow 10 years ago. Signals are mutable state! They’re bindings with a new name. The simplicity of UI as a function of state is lost when updates flow unpredictably.

New survey on the impact of AI on tech comm -- this survey seeks to take the pulse of tech comm, gathering the thoughts and feelings that tech writers have about AI and whether it will transform the practice of documentation. idbwrtng.com/survey-ai-impa… #techcomm #ai

If I'm just asking questions, looking at answers, and connecting boxes together... am I still "programming"? 🐇🧊🐇 Strange days for sure. #ChatGPT

I'm excited to share this interview with my friend Andy Fitzgerald. Our conversation focused on moving beyond the page as a metaphor for delivering information toward more flexible content structures. Also, Groucho Marx one-liners. (You've been warned!) #InformationArchitecture

Interesting to see the ongoing prompt tuning of chatgpt plugins in Simon Willison's plugin prompt repo: github.com/simonw/scrape-…

Beautiful articulation of exactly how I (and the video confirms) others have felt recently, put way clearer than I could. For a while React was the only serious choice, but the landscape has shifted significantly and other options are there! (Just not as loud on twitter)

Stop building the thing. Build the thing that builds all the things. IMO the most important thing every developer could be doing right now on nights and weekends is building a general purpose personal junior dev agent they can control and trust, that they can scale to fleets.

We're working on shipping huge updates to Stately.ai studio and I cosign this completely

Software engineers, complete this sentence: "We create diagrams of our software system's architecture because..."

TRUE WEALTH (2nd Ed) Worriless sleeping Clear conscience Reciprocal gratitude Absence of envy Foamy coffee Crusty bread Inexperienced enemies Frequent laughs No meals alone No gym classes Gravel bicycling Good digestive functions No Zoom meetings Periodic surprises Nothing to

fucking hate German breaking every possible UI

This is how I use Zod. It's terrific

When the AI takes over I'll be executed because I'll still be laughing at the "salmon in a river" prompt response

This is brilliant. The process of designing a new font for Cheetos 😂

What Claude Code has revealed is that most people either have mediocre ideas or no ideas at all. The tool is a force multiplier for those who already know what they want to build and how to think through it systematically; it elevates competence, rewards clarity, and accelerates

This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.

I 100% agree with what is being said here Not only in software engineering but across the board in all industries