I can't sleep. I can write. So I'm writing..

Let me tell you a story. About an engineer that's been in tech for 15 years, burned out three times, left the industry, started systemic training, and then realized what they had been taught in school was not only incomplete, it was actively misleading.

Not because of bad actors (although these exists, newsflash, I know). But from the geometry of composition. The structure of who talks to whom, when, in which order, produced properties that none of the individual parts had — the composed system's complexity exceeded the regulatory variety any single actor had been built to handle. Ashby's law, applied to alignment: a regulator must match the variety of the system it regulates. The parts were sized for themselves. The composition exceeded their variety.

(Are we talking about AI or are we talking about humans? Yes.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)

#TechIndustry #SoftwareEngineering #Burnout #TechBurnout #QueerTech #FeministTech #TransTech #AuDHD #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #PsychologicalSafety #Cybernetics

The Hasso Plattner Institut für Digital Engineering GmbH—a German tech institute—features my "Phases of Team Development" IP on teamwork tradecraft in their curriculum on software engineering and project management

🔗 https://scottgraffius.com/blog/files/hpi.html

#technology #softwareengineering #teamwork

QBE – Compiler Back end: Version 1.3

https://c9x.me/compile/release/qbe-1.3.html

#HackerNews #QBE #Compiler #Back #end #Version1.3 #CompilerDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #TechNews

We're back with another event before our summer break! 🌴

Join us on the 17th of June to learn more about PHP Objects Values with Daniel Leech and Resilience Design with Brian D. Walker! 📚

Sign up for this event here: https://luma.com/yu2pa6he

Thank you to AutoProtect for hosting us in their lovely offices and to Accentrix for sponsoring us🎉

#leedsphp #leedstech #php #php8 #resilience #softwareengineering #backend #databases

Self-calling executables

https://log.pfad.fr/2026/self-calling-executable/

#Programming #GoLang #SoftwareEngineering

We're back for 2026 and we're bringing the campfire to you. 🔥

Jim is packing the van and headed on a full US and Canada road trip with legs across the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, and East Coast.
Our infamous single-day conference is coming to a Ruby community near you.

Keep up with us at👇

xoruby.com

#XORuby #XORuby2026 #RubyCommunity #Rubyists #SoftwareEngineering #TechConference #SingleDayConference #NotYourAverageConference #Sustainability

I've published an article on some of the explorative work I've been doing to attempt and measure the power consumption of applications as they are being developed. It's really more of a quick overview to introduce the work and, while I could really go deeper on some of these issues, the idea was to take stock of what's been done and gather some feedback.

The article can be found at: https://developer.ibm.com/articles/quarkus-power-extension/

#sustainability #SoftwareEngineering