What I've been reading

• Sprint before you can walk: fail faster, Mark Edwards

• Can anyone stop President Musk?, Elizabeth Lopatto

• Jed, Jennifer Pahlka

• Transformer - Spreadsheet, Tom Yeh

• How to silence your inner critic enough to write publicly, Georgina Watts. Great post on getting past your own anxieties to write publicly. I empathise strongly with the author and lots of things here resonate.

• Python3.14's new tail call interpreter

• How to create and deliver strategies in digital government, Mili Malde via Frankie Roberto's weeknotes.

• Best Simple System for Now, Dan North

• DOGE Is Hacking America, Bruce Schneier & Davi Ottenheimer

• DEI – TO TRUMP OR NOT TO TRUMP, Martha Lane Fox

• Debating the Merits of LLMs, Michelle Barker

• Designing on a cold, rainy night in Stoke, Katherine Wastell

• Siren Call of SQLite on the Server, Malcolm Matalka

• If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well, Mike Taylor

• The side you are on, Morgan Jones & David Klemperer

• The End of Programming as We Know It, Tim O’Reilly. Still not convinced, is writing code really the hard bit of our day jobs? It it not about understanding the business logic and manifesting that through are code in a way we and others understand that is more important? Having AI write my code doesn't help me understand the domain or load it into my mental model. This is before considering the questionable way intellectual property has been embedded without permission into these models.

• Civic Tech’s Third Wave, James Turk

• My LLM codegen workflow atm, Harper Reed](https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/)

• Can I ethically use LLMs? Nicole T

• Moving on from 18F. Ethan Marcotte

• The climate hypocrisy chronicles #3: changing sponsors but not values, Damien Hall

• The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective, Ashley

• Ugly Code and Dumb Things, Armin Ronacher

• The threat of peace, Lawrence Freedman

• The Gulf Between Design and Engineering, Rune Madsen. via Frankie Roberto's weeknotes.

• Declarative package management with a Brewfile, Matthias Portzel

• Die Linke is back, Ulrike Franke

• It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds, Bert Hubert

• Congo's Curse, Lawrence Freedman