Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky | Substack

🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥

In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.

rocksky.app/rocksky-sdk-demo

Rocksky SDK demos across 10 languages — a tour of the AppView read-query API.

Paul Frazee on Bluesky and the AT Protocol

Podcast Episode · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · January 17, 2025 · 1h 8m

Composure

On yet another foray into the list of opinions I have that I’m sure are making me progressively more unemployable by the day, I asked some people on the internet: who is doing interesting work on software composability these days and where do I find them?

A European path out of Big Tech lock-in: Eurosky + the "Everything Account" idea (AT Protocol)

If you care as much about privacy, decentralization, and independence from Big Tech than having a 100% EU-made software stack, Eurosky might be worth…

Squishy Computer | Gordon Brander | Substack

Learning to build living software. Click to read Squishy Computer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Squishy Computer | Gordon Brander | Substack

Learning to build living software. Click to read Squishy Computer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

The Git-ification of the World — Tim Morrissey

Why AI conquered software first, and what that tells us about which industries are next.

‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World

404 Media has obtained a copy of ‘Haotian AI’, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster's face into anyone else's on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.

A programmer's loss of identity - ratfactor

This is the follow-up to last year’s I’m an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don’t speak for me. In that essay, I tried to express why I was so agonized by the leaders in my industry doing a speedrun towards dystopia and how it all felt so divorced from what technology could, and should be. Everything I wrote there is still true, but amplified.

Software Bonkers

I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.

Introduction | Blacksky Documentation

Blacksky Algorithms builds open-source, community-driven infrastructure for decentralized social media. Our mission is to empower communities with tools for safety, governance, and control over their online spaces. This documentation is designed to help new users understand what Blacksky offers and how to get started with our feeds and moderation services.

How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …

Write-Only Code | Heavybit

AI may be accelerating software into a world of "write-only" code that forces a rethink of culture, processes, and tools. Heavybit’s Joseph Ruscio explains.

Basic | The Personal Computing Platform

We build products, tools, and standards to make computers more personal.