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Posts from July 15, 2026

7 posts from engineering leaders published July 15, 2026, by Daniel Stenberg, Lou Franco, Kent Beck and 4 more.

July 15, 2026 7 POSTS

Workshop Basel day two

If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move over the name tags we wrote yesterday to our new seats. No…

Systems & Infra

26 for 26 Half Year Update

At the beginning of the year, I made a 26 for 26, which is a list of 26 mini-goals for 2026. Here they are with their status. I use ✅ for done, 👌 for easy, ⚠️ for hard but possible, 🛑 for probably will not get done. So 11/26 done, which is less than 13 […]

Leadership & Management

Weekly Update 512: IoT Lockout Fail

"Build a smart home", they said. "It'll make life so much better", they said. Well, life wasn't very bloody good at 23:00 the other night after travelling 33 hours from Paris only to find the IoT doorlock batteries dead and the

Security

Refactoring English: Month 19

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are…

Career & Craft

Own the Outer Loop

Engineers need to own the outer loop, the accountability for these systems. A written version of my AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 closing keynote: quality, verdict, and answerability, the three hidden costs of delegation, and building software factories you can stand behind.

Frontend & Web