On 23.01.2026 (08:30 – 10:30 PM Berlin time) I held my talk „Thoughts on (Modern?) Software Development – Observations From a 21-Year Journey” at the Calgary Software Crafters and JUG Seattle Meetups (remote and in English).
The talk’s sources can be found here, the Meetup event page here:
https://www.meetup.com/calgary-software-crafters/events/312385143
UPDATE: JUG Seattle was so kind to cross-post the talk to its members, see here.
The talk has been recorded and is available on YouTube.
During the talk and in the ensuing discussion some additional sources were mentioned:
- Alex’s featured hashtags (books)
- Alex’s guide to his Mastodon hashtags
- Alex’s reader
- Richard Sheridan “Joy, Inc.“
—> How does a company look like, that has Kent Beck’s XP in its DNA and where „joy at work“ is a central idea? - Robert C. Martin in “Clean Agile”: The XP “Circle Of Life”
- John Allspaw: „How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day”
- Carl Sagan: Cosmos (start here, then watch this)
- Peter Block: „The Answer to How Is Yes”
- Susan Goldsworthy at the Inner Development Goals Summit 2025
- Ian McGilchrist: „The Master and his Emmisary”
- Vox.com: „Flood the zone with s***: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy“
- The Anatomy of AI: https://anatomyof.ai
—> How is AI „created“ before it is delivered to the „customer”? - Last but not least:
- The link to all other sources I did mention in the „Thoughts“-related discussions since 2024
In case I did forget anything that you miss here, please get in touch.
Thank you very much for that extended and great discussion!