







Order and purpose from a principal group engineering manager at Microsoft
What's On Your Home Screen, iFixit Co-Founder Kyle Wiens?
The iFixit co-founder discusses his screen-off approach to smartphones


Clara 🍓 (@clarabelle.xyz)
18+ 🧁 full snack developer Working on @booksky.club, @middleearth.quest, @enneagram.blue plus the cooking feed, the BoobSky feed, the ButtSky feed etc 🫡 🌶 of.com/clarabellewoods/c50 🎁 throne.com/clarabellewoods projects 🍄 clarabelle.xyz
Microsoft Build 2026: Be yourself at work - The Official Microsoft Blog
Platforms shift when developers build. We explore, choose tools, dream, create. This platform shift comes with more information than ever, ready at your fingertips. This shift, it’s about building fast AND THEN: it’s about building, operating, optimizing and observing. Securing your infrastructure, applications and agents in a seamless way that doesn’t slow you down from...

Amelia Wattenberger
I create things on the web, explore novel interfaces, turn data into meaning, and empower devs with AI.
Foundations & Futures of HCI: a teach-in with Professor Kate Starbird
As part of HCDE’s 2025 graduation events, Professor Kate Starbird delivered a special teach-in exploring the foundations and future of human-computer interaction. Starbird traced how the technologies we use every day emerged from federally funded research, and emphasized the continued importance of inclusive, human-centered research. Her talk urged graduates and guests to recognize the role of public investment in shaping technology that serves people.

HCDE Distinguished Lecture with Laura Forlano | Designing Consequences: On Living Well with Machines
Alexander Obenauer
Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.
All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders | Andreessen Horowitz
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...

The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella
Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But …
Bailey Townsend | Software Developer
Bandaid Engineer and open source software developer.


Inside Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows, Office, and work
It’s all about the web and Lego blocks.

Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
Podcast Episode · The Pragmatic Engineer · September 23 · 1h 27m
A practical guide to frontend System Design
Sam, a passionate frontend developer, had been in the job market for what felt like...

Jermolene — learning to program since 1978
In April 2024 I gave the opening keynote at the software industry conference “QCon London” under the title "The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World".