On 23.01.2026 (08:30 – 10:30 PM Berlin time) I will be holding 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.
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
- 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”
- „Flood the Zone…“
- Last but not least:
- The link to all other sources I did mention in the „Thoughts“-related discussion in 2024-25
In case I did forget anything that you miss here, please get in touch.
Thank you very much for that extended and great discussion!