What I've been reading

• What does it really mean to learn?
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more rigorously than knowledge workers do
• Why I Still Use Python Virtual Environments in Docker
• Differing Values In A Team Are Costly
• The Impossibility of Making an Elite Engineer
• Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?
• Interesting community discussion around UV python package manager (via)
• AI Adoption
• Service Patterns: Part 1 - History, Opportunity and Challenges
• Feeld dating app – Your nudes and data were publicly available. A pretty mad vulnerability disclosure story.
• My Eulogy for the Open Web and Old Google
• NHS cannot embrace AI until its basic IT systems are up to scratch. This goes for such much public sector "transformation" talk. We have to sort out the really basic stuff first before we even go near AI.
• Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech
• Great men do wear their babies – the days of criticising a father for carrying his child are over. Top dad content.
• We Hot-Wired the iPhone 16. Great to see Apple making improvements in their phone repairability.
• Interesting exploration of the growth issues of PyPI and approaches for addressing this. (lobste.rs discussion)
• ‘I’m motivated by the puzzle’: how Courtney Dauwalter became ultrarunning’s GOAT
• You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE. Whilst you're probably not I did have to follow these steps on my Raspberry Pi 4B which was running cups-browsed.