Fragments: May 27
At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to…
Why citations matter more than backlinks for AI visibility
For years, the SEO playbook was straightforward: earn backlinks, climb rankings, capture clicks. But as AI reshapes how traditional SEO works, a different mechanism is determining which content gets seen…
Trump Let The Truth Slip Out While Claiming That He Is In Perfect Health
Doesn’t every president endlessly ramble about ballrooms in between falling asleep in public? That’s what Donald Trump wants the American people to believe. A president who has never released his…
Maintainability sensors for coding agents
There are multiple dimensions we usually want to achieve and monitor in our codebases: Functional correctness (works as intended), architectural fitness (is fast/secure/usable enough), and maintainability. I define maintainability here…
Blacksheep one electric moto: $40k bespoke luxury
I have to start by addressing the elephant in the room – an equivalent of $40,000 (£29,000 precisely) for an electric motorcycle might be stretching it too far for most.…
Samsung chip workers approve new deal and will receive huge bonuses
Crisis averted – Samsung workers approved a new pay deal that will see 10.5% of the company’s semiconductor operating profit be distributed as special bonuses towards workers in Samsung’s chip…
Introducing the HubSpot Agent CLI
A few weeks ago, I wrote about our vision for the agent era: agents should be able to run on HubSpot, and to run HubSpot. I want to go a…
Muni Call Risk | EI Blog
1. Connect issuer sophistication to portfolio design: Less financially sophisticated issuers may pose greater disclosure or governance risk, but they may also exercise call options less efficiently. For some investors,…
A master class in persuasion from an unlikely place
Walk down a suburban street, and you might stumble across a following sign. It’s probably messy with poor formatting and inconsistent font size. Here’s one that I saw in Houston.
Radio-frequency transistors break 100 GHz barrier
Carbon nanotube transistors operate above 100 GHz with low power use, supporting 6G networks, wearable devices, and electronics. Electrothermal co-design of flexible carbon nanotube radio-frequency transistors. The device structure is…
