JP de Vooght

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New blog post:
Independent? Impossible! Why Dependencies Matter So Much
https://ewolff.com/2026/06/24/independent-impossible-why-dependencies-matter-so-much.html
Independent? Impossible! Why Dependencies Matter So Much | Eberhard Wolff

Software architecture is about managing dependencies, and independence is the goal — or so it seems. In reality, however, it is not even entirely clear what dependencies actually are.

Don't Hire Juniors to Write Code, Hire Them to Become Seniors - ShiftMag

Cutting junior hires looks smart on a spreadsheet. It isn't. Here's why companies that stop hiring juniors will be too brittle to survive.

ShiftMag
Cool hardware project PicoPCMCIA via @CyReVolt – will the retro computing movement evolve into something like Wookiepedia's Salvagers?
https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/
PicoPCMCIA – yyzkevin

Our session from 2026 Conference for Advancing the #ParticipatorySciences is free for view. The session
"What competencies in participatory sciences are in your syllabus?" covers the Competency Framework for Citizen Science (CitSciComp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PyvDf7VEzQ #Science #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryResearch
CAPS 2026: What competencies in participatory sciences are in your syllabus?

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Les chercheurs ont divisé par deux leurs vols professionnels sans y être contraints

Une étude récente montre que les scientifiques français ont drastiquement baissé leurs déplacements.

The Conversation

Do you work for a public transport company in Europe (or anywhere else in the world for that matter)? The EU wants to hear from you!

As part of a project to create a unified standard for public transport ticketing across Europe, allowing a single ticket to be sold from anywhere to anywhere, we'd like to collect as much information as possible on what transport products currently exists. With enough information, we hope to be able to write a standard that covers every edge case.

If you'd like to help us, you can download our questionnaire here. More information: https://bt4pt.eu

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An ontology engine packaged as MCP server with tools for building, validating, querying, and reasoning over RDF/OWL ontologies by Fabio Rovai
https://github.com/fabio-rovai/open-ontologies cc @kvistgaard
GitHub - fabio-rovai/open-ontologies: AI-native ontology engine: a Rust MCP server with tools for building, validating, querying, and reasoning over RDF/OWL ontologies. In-memory Oxigraph triple store, native OWL2-DL tableaux reasoner, SHACL validation, SPARQL, versioning. Single binary, no JVM.

AI-native ontology engine: a Rust MCP server with tools for building, validating, querying, and reasoning over RDF/OWL ontologies. In-memory Oxigraph triple store, native OWL2-DL tableaux reasoner,...

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A new paper out in the AGU Community Science journal: Community-Driven Solutions for Groundwater Resilience in California https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025CSJ000167?campaign=woletoc led by Roshni Katrak-Adefowora.
Key Points
• Community-based participatory approaches help ensure that climate adaptation benefit and are supported by communities
• Coordinated, strategic, and incentive-based land transition solutions can improve groundwater sustainability and create additional benefits
#Science #ComunityScience #CitizenScience

"This year I've been writing about how we're moving from a web of pages to a web of capabilities. To me, that's never meant that the human web we all know and love is going away. Clearly I don't think that, otherwise I wouldn't have started a new tech blog. Rather, the point I've been trying to make is that there's an extra layer of the web emerging — one that is built for our machine helpers."

https://ricmac.org/2026/04/07/the-agentic-web/

We've been iterating on that idea for 30 years. From 1996: "I use AltaVista to build BYTE's Metasearch application and realize that every Web site is a software component." (https://web.archive.org/web/19970712042450/http://www.byte.com/art/9611/sec9/art1.htm).

It's an evolving story with respect to who writes components and who uses them, but it's still a story about building and using components.

The agentic web: how AI systems will change websites

The agentic web is shifting websites from content destinations to agent-accessible capabilities — changing how sites are discovered, understood and used.

Richard MacManus
I still think of the days where I discovered the EDIT word in PC/FORTH that came on a single floppy