Anthony Bouch

Huge respect for @matteocollina @loige and others who've built careers on distributed systems and complex orchestration. But my advice - even now? Stick to a modular monolith until it's bursting at the seams - then take it from there. #SoftwareArchitecture

Wonky Dell ... #dell

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

YouTube is being completely overrun with AI-generated slop. Fake product reviews, republished famous talks with AI narration. I probably never "loved" YouTube — but it was genuinely a valuable resource. #AISlop #YouTube

New in the EU - Faster registration: Entrepreneurs, founders, and companies will be able to found an EU Inc. company within 48 hours, for less than €100 and with no minimum share capital requirements - ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…

🚨𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled EU–INC, a new framework that lets you launch a company in 48 hours for under €100 Starting a company across the EU today = 27 legal systems, 60+ company structures 🤯 That might be about to change… The European Commission just introduced 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰., a new optional corporate framework designed to make Europe actually function like one market. Here’s what stands out: → Set up a company in 48 hours → Cost: < €100 → Fully online, no minimum capital → One single framework across all EU countries → Easier share transfers & fundraising → EU-wide employee stock options (huge for talent) Especially the EU-wide stock option plans, taxed only when employees actually sell (instead of when granted) is huge. This makes it far easier for startups to attract and retain top talent, finally putting Europe closer to the US playbook. Source/More info: ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… In short: This is Europe trying to compete with the simplicity of a Delaware C-Corp 🇺🇸 And honestly… it’s long overdue. For years, European founders had 2 choices: 1. Stay local and deal with fragmentation 2. Move to the US to scale 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰. is trying to remove that trade-off. If executed well, this could be one of the most important structural changes for European startups in decades. What do you think?

Something magical happens when you code after midnight. The world goes quiet, distractions vanish, and it's just you and the problem. No pings. No meetings. Just pure flow state and a glowing terminal. Peak productivity hits different at 2am. #LateNightCoding #DevLife #CodeFlow

In the age of agents and AI — especially post-OpenClaw, it's starting to look like the only OSs that matter are macOS and Linux. #AI #macOS #Linux

Just wrapped another great workshop: 'An Introduction to UI/UX (in the Time of AI)'. One of the things that makes UI/UX such a fascinating field right now is how much confusion still surrounds it — even before AI entered the picture. #UIUXDesign #UXDesign

Meanwhile in Bueng Kan. A viral clip shows monks in their robes riding a banana boat at Kham Sombun Beach in Bueng Khong Long district. The shop owner said five monks approached him, saying they wanted to try it at least once in their lifetime. Not wanting to refuse, he arranged a single ride for them. #Thailand

. @loige @matteocollina - also AverMedia program unique serial numbers into the device so that you can in plug two of them into your MBP for a portable two-camera setup that should work with each HDMI input and your streaming software (without port swapping). Fyi ;-)

If you're looking for an HDMI <-> USB capture card for your MBPs the AverMedia CamStream 4K - BU113G2 - is a solid choice. Much better than the Cam Link 4K - and works fine (with no green screen flashes) with all CalDigit docks. @CalDigit @AVerMedia @matteocollina @loige

Not the dog tryna explain how to throw the sandal to his owner 😭🤣

It's been skewed by the top 10% for a while now. And they can and should do more to help change this - doctors, lawyers, accountants, financial services professionals (although maybe AI is about to tilt things the other way).

looking forward to our new role as boutique software plumbers 🙂 Excellent article from @matteocollina adventures.nodeland.dev/archive/softwa… @loige

One of the best cartoons in ages! Thank you @BillBramhall!

Temporal is now Stage 4 at TC39 🎂🎂🎂 Thanks to all the other champions of JavaScript's new date-time API. It has been a wild ride over many years! I wrote a blog post explaining how we got here 📜 🧵

Fun exercise helping seniors train both brain and motor skills.

I don't have "deep insights" about Americans as a species. I have memory. And I have pattern recognition sharpened by what it means to live under the consequences of decisions Americans call "foreign policy." You grow up Vietnamese, you learn early that there are two parallel realities: The one you live through. And the one narrated about you on American television, in speeches, in films, in history books. My family lived through the moment when American abstractions like "credibility" and "containing communism" stopped sounding strategic and became physical: Bomb craters. Refugee boats. Bodies. You watch villages renamed "collateral." You watch coups renamed "restoring democracy." You watch blockades renamed "pressure for reform." You watch your dead filed away as "tragedy" so that no one has to call them what they were: crimes. After a while, you stop getting angry at every sentence. You start studying the grammar. Who gets to remain human in the story. Who gets turned into an adjective. Whose violence is "regrettable," and whose resistance is "terrorism." Which lives are allowed complexity, and which lives are flattened into body counts, talking points, and background noise. Then you hear Americans speak about entirely different places, entirely different wars, entirely different enemies, and the same grammar is still there: "Intervention" instead of invasion. "Stability" instead of control. "Responsibility" instead of domination. "Sanctions" instead of siege. If you grow up with that long enough, you learn that what empire calls "responsibility" usually means someone far away is about to bleed. That's where my "insight" comes from. From watching the same software run on different hardware. From listening closely to the metaphors they don't even notice they're using anymore. From realizing that, for a lot of good, ordinary people, this isn't malice. It's the water they were raised in. The story is always written from the cockpit, never from the crater. So when I write about American exceptionalism, I'm not claiming mystical access to "your people." I am describing the hallucination I've been forced to survive under since I was born. And once you see the pattern from outside the blast radius, it becomes almost impossible not to see it everywhere.

. @loige - @aws-sdk/client-ses with Cloudflare workers to create a contact form submission from an Astro site ;-) gist.github.com/58bits/8c4de23…