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Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year. Key Takeaways: We have entered into an AI world. While nearly half of booths didn’t directly mention AI or agents in their taglines, the effects of AI are everywhere. Multiple spaces (Identity, SaaS, AppSec, Data) have almost every vendor leading with AI; existing unsolved problem areas just got worse. At the same time, there’s a clear trichotomy in the market: tools that tell you how bad things are; tools that stop adversaries, and tools that prevent problems from occurring. While you’d suspect that the tools that fix things would dominate, the tools that merely tell you how bad things are seem to be frustratingly plentiful...
AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle at QCon London. Fewer junior developers join the industry, and AI slows hiring at the entry level. By Ben Linders
Smashing Magazine’s in-person conferences are back and returning to the wonderful city of Freiburg next month, September 7–10. SmashingConf Freiburg 2026, September 7-10 originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.
AI is an amplifier; strategic focus on the organizational system brings the greatest returns. DORA's 2025 research on AI in software development provides team profiles and success capabilities that can be used to put the research into practice. By Ben Linders
As part of the Förderverein AWS Community DACH e.V. I joined the selection committee for talks again this year. Third year in a row (I wrote about the previous editions and my broader community journey in my 2025 year in review ). The process is always inspiring, fair, and full of incredibly well-crafted abstracts. How the evaluation works Sessionize uses a Comparison Evaluation Mode based on the Elo rating system (from chess). Three sessions are shown at the same time and you rank them relative to each other. You don't assign absolute scores; you just decide "this one is better than that one." Each comparison produces three "games" (A vs B, B vs C, C vs A) and the algorithm adjusts ratings accordingly. After a first pass through all sessions, the system gets smarter about which triplets to show next, targeting sessions with similar ratings for more precise differentiation. It's fast, focused and surprisingly fair, because you only ever think about the three in front of you, not all others. You can also use "Strong opinion" options: Top (this is excellent), Doesn't fit (wrong conference), or Ignore (conflict of interest, can't judge). These signal the algorithm without distorting the ranking. In my case: I marked 2 as "Doesn't fit" (not because they lacked quality; they were actually interesting but too inspirational for a technical community day, better suited for a different audience). The other 2 ignored were my own submissions : Vibecoding in Between Meetings and Serverless vs Kubernetes - The Final Showdown . The full process The behind-the-scenes post by Philipp Garbe explains the whole pipeline in detail. In short: Round 1 (Screening): Board members filter out spam, incomplete proposals, marketing pitches, non-AWS topics, and speakers outside EMEA. Round 2 (Content Evaluation): Every association member can participate. This is the Elo-based comparison round. Members must disclose personal connections and skip sessions they can't rate objectively. Round 3 (Fin
QCon AI New York 2026 (Dec 15-16) has opened registration at The Westin Jersey City Newport. Six tracks on production AI, chaired by Eder Ignatowicz with Faye Zhang and Wes Reisz. First sessions announced in August, full program by November. By Artenisa Chatziou
How we decide is at the core of architecture, and the architecture advice process is a way to decentralize architectural decisions. It needs to be supported by Architecture Decision Records because of the speed at which technology and systems move, and can be complemented by a weekly architecture advice forum. By Ben Linders
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz
To provide SRE as a service, a team built a center of excellence, introducing Federated SREs and roles like production manager and technical tribe lead. They created a culture of data-driven conversations where SLOs and SLAs were democratised. Surviving growing cognitive load meant continuously simplifying architecture and embedding sovereignty and resilience into platform design decisions. By Ben Linders
Japanese version available on note . Hi, I'm chatii @chatii . I recently attended Laravel Live Japan 2026. Here's what inspired me and what I took home from the conference. Profile Organizer of PHP Conference Kagawa Encountered PHP back in the 4.x era Freelancer English level: "Can read reasonably well," "Can write a little," "Can listen a bit," "Cannot speak at all." 5/23 PHP×Tokyo - Laravel Live Japan PRE-PARTY PHP×Tokyo - Laravel Live Japan PRE-PARTY - connpass (English follows Japanese) PHP×Tokyoは、PHPやLaravelが好きなエンジニアのためのインターナショナルなミートアップです。 日英のライブ翻訳付きなので、英語が得意でなくても大丈夫です！言語の壁を越えて、PHP/Laravelについて語り合いましょう！ 登壇者も募集中です！登壇を希望する方はこちらからご応募ください。 登壇は日本語・英語どちらでも大丈夫です。 #### タイムテーブル * 13:00 - 13:30 受付 & ネットワーキング * 13:30 - 13:40 オープニング * 13:40 - 14:10 "Man... phpxtky.connpass.com I first participated in "PHP×Tokyo March 2026." It was my first time attending a meetup with international participants. I couldn't speak English, but I hoped to be able to communicate somehow. Back in March, David helped me immensely with translation, which made me feel a bit apologetic... At the PRE-PARTY, I took the plunge. During the networking session, I managed to approach Victor Ukam , who gave the talk "Manage AI Prompts as Versioned Files in PHP," and said in English, "I have a question...!" Well... communication after that relied on Google Translate, but I was able to overcome the "first hurdle." You could say I successfully executed <?= "Hello, World" ?> . Also, it was great to see Ivan again, who came from Russia. I first met him in March, and I was so happy he came over to say hello! 5/25 Eve of the Conference, Gyoza Restaurant Zumi organized an unofficial pre-party via the laravel-live-jp channel on the "Laravel Japan" Discord. Participating in these "fringe events" around a conference is always fun. I had booked a hotel from the day before, so I joined in. The real-time translation app that Albert Chen built was incredibly high-performance... 5/26 Day 1 ...Actually, I couldn't sleep at
AI bias mirrors human bias; both stem from our language and lived experiences. Ethics and AI are inseparable, but AI changes affordances, making harmful actions easier to carry out. The EU regulations apply to AI, since digital products are products. The ultimate goal is accountability: companies must ensure transparency, and laws should favor using the simplest AI that gets the job done. By Ben Linders