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Toot of the Week

Everyone’s having a hard time dealing with all the everything— @donni@mastodon.social

Software

• My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation (cosive.com)

  Chris Horsley installs a new washing machine and compares the process to unknown unknowns in software development.

• Death of a thousand nits (bitfieldconsulting.com)

  John Arundel gives advice on writing code reviews.

Cutting Room Floor

• The midwit home (dynomight.net)

  Incredible article about the midwit smart home: Using low-tech devices like timers and sensors that work without a phone or a hub.

• What is USB Club? (usb.club)

  Yatú Espinosa and Norm O’Hagan explain their USB memory network.

• Can I ethically use LLMs? (ntietz.com)

  Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya explores the ethics of using an LLM.

• It Never Gets Easier (shripriya.com)

  Shripriya explains how business never gets easier, but the challenge and the perspective changes.

• Goodbye Surveillance Capitalism, Hello Surveillance Fascism (maxmurphy.xyz)

  Max Murphy explores the idea of surveillance fascism, and how we can resist.