Early Bird Ticket Sales have opened for Nebraska.Code()!

Nebraska.Code() brings together talented developers and tech leaders from across the region July 22nd-24th in Lincoln, Nebraska.

https://nebraskacode.amegala.com/

#Nebraska #AI #EmergingTech #DataAnalytics #CareerProgression #CloudComputing #DevOps #FrontEnd #Agile #SoftwareCraftsmanship

Introducing the Behavioral Layer

www.cognitiveinheritance.com/Posts/introducing-the-behavioral-layer.html

Modern systems increasingly receive free‑text input, either from humans or from language models. These inputs can be ambiguous, incomplete, or phrased in ways the domain layer cannot act on directly. They are not the predictable, schema‑bound shapes that a…

"Donella Meadows wrote about how the most dangerous dynamics in systems are the ones where delays hide the cause-and-effect connections. The layoffs happen today. The spending cuts happen over the next six months."

-- Patrick Prill

https://testpappy.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/the-domino-effect-nobody-sees-coming-or-how-ai-layoffs-will-ripple-through-everything/

Friends...

On April 6,7,9 & 10, we will do another cohort of the Leading Technical Change seminar. The reason I'm letting you know now is that I believe this will be the last of these seminars I will lead.

Humorous response from four First Nations on Vancouver Island to a Conservative MP. One of the best ways to respond to ignorance and bigotry.

#Indigenous #LandAcknowledgement #VancouverIsland

*Edit: typo

• $98,329 on a Steinway piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s
• $5,300,000 on Apple devices
• $2,000,000 on Alaskan king crab
• $6,900,000 on lobster tail
• $15,100,000 on ribeye steak in a single month
• $124,000 on ice cream machines
• $139,224 on doughnuts
• $12,000 on fruit basket stands
• Over $60,000 on Herman Miller recliners

Soup kitchens can provide a hot meal to the hungry for an average of $2 per plate

This could have provided about 1,000,000 hot meals to people in need.

Hand drawn illustrations are like the “visible mending” of our Moment?

We need to be intentional about shift-shift-shifting our consumption away from entitlement and ultra-convenience towards patterns of greater community care…

It’s urgent, but we can still make a difference with effort and without insisting on shifting everything everywhere all at once… And not in a judgy punitive way… because everyone is in the middle of a *lot*… just making it through days and weeks…

But with intention.

So, @joeltosi and I are working on a book. It has a fictional component with a fictional company. And we're gearing up for our pre-sales launch. As it happens, pre-sales will start close to April 1. You maybe see where this is going.

Yup, I've just finished a rough cut of a 90 second video ad spot that has me cracking up so hard I can't breathe. Maybe others won't find it as hilarious as I do. But the buzzwords, oh my word the buzzwords. Much enterprisey, so platform.

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,