Hardcore Software by Steven Sinofsky

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230. MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win?
There's a long history of "middleware" in our industry. Everyone wants it. There's always a hot one, but it rarely makes to the finish line and often…
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229. "Tech Goes Hardcore" ... Again.
Our industry is cyclic but the latest wave of efficiency harkens back to the time when companies told us not to be penny wise v. pound foolish. It…
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228. DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us)
DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside the current center of US AI…
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227. CES 2025: An Abundance of (AI) Experimentation
CES proved a transition year with many established product lines showing incremental improvements or focusing on B2B areas and new product lines showing…
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Remembering Mike Maples, Sr.
The computer industry lost a legendary executive this week with the passing of Mike Maples, Sr.
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225. Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…"
Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended
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224. Books to Read and Gift (2024 EoY Edition)
A Books I Read in 2024 list. Some of them I enjoyed. Some of them drove me bonkers. I like that part of reading. Hope you enjoy this list.
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