The Compendium
A compendium of insights about complexity structured as inter-linked cards by Alex Komoroske
Why embracing complexity is the real challenge in software today
In the midst of industry discussions about productivity and automation, it’s all too easy to overlook the importance of properly reckoning with complexity.

Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems | R-bloggers
I am someone who regularly uses R, and my interest in programming languages means that on a semi-regular basis spend time reading blog posts about the language. Over the last year, or so, I had noticed several patterns of behavior, and after reading a recent blog post things started to make sense (the blog post […]

Complexity and Strategy | HackerNoon
I struggled with how to think about complexity through much of my career, especially during the ten years I spent leading Office development. Modeling complexity impacted how we planned major releases, our technical strategy as we moved to new platforms, how we thought about the impact of new technologies, how we competed with Google Apps, how we thought about open source and throughout “frank and open” discussions with Bill Gates on our long term technical strategy for building the Office applications.

The Complexity of Simplicity
The Complexity of Simplicity
Convivial Computing Salon #6: Convivial design heuristics for software systems

Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say

AI-powered garbage trucks have flagged 20,000 homes in one Texas city.
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links

Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links

What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?
www.tinlizzie.org
The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation — Peter Whidden
OpenProcessing - Creative Coding for the Curious Mind

Nature of Code

L-systems
Hermes Agent — AI Agent Framework

OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
LettaBot - Your personal AI that remembers
zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw
xenodium/agent-shell

goose

Spatial programming without escape

An invitation into Droste's Lair

Something Pretty Right: A History of Visual Basic | Retool

Issue 084: Spreadsheets
Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE)
Live Programming in Hostile Territory
This is really exciting to see! I think some magical things can happen when we "free" our links from static pages and let them intermingle…
Sensors, not just bookmarks [Patterns of Sensemaking #1] - Cosmik Labs
taurean (@taurean.bryant.land)
connections collecting things of a "theme" and making connections
Lego Brick Commons & Spontaneous Collaboration - Wesley's notes
I think about semble as the infrastructure for social bookmarking and explorations of the collective sensemaking that emerges on top of it.

Technology is Not Values Neutral: Ending the Reign of Nihilistic Design

Cyber-Marx

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

📏 When machines start calling the shots

Information Civics

Data Feminism
Kanjun 🐙 on Twitter / X
Hiring and firing a DBA

LLMs and performative productivity

Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment — Maggie Appleton, GitHub

We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design

Agents want flexible schemas
Open Agroecology Laboratory – REGOSH
Welcome to Farm Hack | FarmHack
The SAGE Community Coordinator: A Demonstration

FarmBot | Open-Source CNC Farming
Growstuff - Growstuff
LiteFarm | Sustainable Farm Management Software