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SAP SAP Community
Mastering SAP Cloud ALM Monitoring Dashboards

<DIV><SPAN>With SAP Cloud ALM and Joule, the future of ALM is already here: AI agents that monitor your landscape, explain every anomaly, drive your project delivery, write your stakeholder reports, and flag risks before…

Engineering Hacker News
Tailcat

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat">https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452990">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49…

Engineering Hacker News
An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/">https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452980"…

Engineering Hacker News
CDs vs. NIMBY

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.betonit.ai/p/cds-vs-nimby">https://www.betonit.ai/p/cds-vs-nimby</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452822">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

Engineering Hacker News
YouTube Format IDs

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://gist.github.com/MartinEesmaa/2f4b261cb90a47e9c41ba115a011a4aa">https://gist.github.com/MartinEesmaa/2f4b261cb90a47e9c41ba115a011a4aa</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombin…

Engineering Hacker News
Graze Joins Flipboard

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://graze.leaflet.pub/3mtypcuxxc22p">https://graze.leaflet.pub/3mtypcuxxc22p</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452740">https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

SAP SAP Community
Carolina Podcast Series.

<P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Atul_Joshi85_0-1787764393518.png"><img src="https://community.sap.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/451614i7D4FB5AD1C934E70/image-size/me…

Engineering Hacker News
Tim Curry has died

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film">https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-ki…

Engineering Hacker News
The turbulent AI era is here

<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make">https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make</a></p> <p>Comments URL: <a href="https://ne…

SAP SAP Community
Add new fields to App'My Inbox'

<P>Dear SAP Team,</P><P>While approving POs with app -inbox, Users needs PO’s we have the different types, appearing just below the LPO number, on heading level, that</P><OL><LI>Drugs and Pharmaceuticals</LI><LI>Standard…

SAP SAP Community
Story report for performance form and objectives

<P>Hi</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I have a query from a manager who would like to see in a report for their team. I can easily get everything apart from the comments. I can see the section comments but we have fields for comments…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Paul Dix

<blockquote cite="https://pauldix.com/the-end-of-programming"><p>The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently ru…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!

<p><strong><a href="https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins">EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!</a></strong></p> EVE Online has been one of the most interesting case studies in Python at sca…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
llm-anthropic 0.27

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.27">llm-anthropic 0.27</a></p> <p>This release of the Anthropic plugin for <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/">LLM</a> mainly p…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Fragments: August 24

<p>I was listening to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-helen-toner.html">Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner</a> about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent d…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Your executable is a SQLite database

<p><strong><a href="https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database">Your executable is a SQLite database</a></strong></p> Farid Zakaria describes a neat Linux pattern for creating a SQLite database…

Architecture InfoQ Architecture
JDK 27 and JDK 28: What We Know So Far

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/08/java-27-so-far/en/headerimage/java-istock-image-01-1787482494699.jpg"/><p>JDK 27, the second non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its first release candidate phase featur…

Engineering InfoQ Engineering
JDK 27 and JDK 28: What We Know So Far

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/08/java-27-so-far/en/headerimage/java-istock-image-01-1787482494699.jpg"/><p>JDK 27, the second non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its first release candidate phase featur…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Drew Breunig

<blockquote cite="https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/08/23/fable-the-end-of-moore-s-law.html"><p>Prior to Fable, it felt silly to waste <em>too</em> much time improving your coding harness or context strategies. A new model w…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Linus Torvalds

<blockquote cite="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c"><p>And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work.</p> <p>I'd like to…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
llm 0.33

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.33">llm 0.33</a></p> <p>My highlights from this release:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
More than just code review

<p>The key skill required to make productive use of coding agents is being able to confidently instruct them on how to make changes and then confidently verify that those changes have been applied in the correct way.</p>…

Architecture InfoQ Architecture
AWS Releases Aws-Bench to Evaluate Agents on Cloud Tasks

<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/08/aws-bench-agent-evaluation/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1787307655540.jpg"/><p>AWS has released aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real AWS…

AI Simon Willison's Weblog
llm 0.32.1

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32.1">llm 0.32.1</a></p> <p>Fresh installs of LLM stopped working the other day because the OpenAI Python library dropped its usage of <c…

Engineering The Pragmatic Engineer
The Pulse: We need to talk about migrations with AI

Asana completed a testing framework migration in two weeks, that they would have delayed for years more, and they’re not alone. Also: AI startups could make Gartner much less relevant, and more…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern

<p class = 'precis'><b>TL;DR</b><br/><i>Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software</i></p> <img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/card.png'></img><p>I’ve noticed a…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Fragments: August 18

<p>Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for the rest of the industry. The trouble is that I have little a…

Engineering The Pragmatic Engineer
The Pulse: Meta’s self-inflicted resignation-wave

The social media giant is offering $1M+ retainer equity grants to staff who are leaving: and even this is not effective. Also: is Grok Bot the “OpenClaw moment” for managed AI agents?…

Architecture Martin Fowler
TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value?

<div class = 'img-link'><a href = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/tdd-in-the-agent-loop.html'><img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/donkey-card.png' width = ''></img></a></div…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Fragments: August 4

<p>There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/openai-says-its-models-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-in-unprecedented-incident">Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked…

Architecture Martin Fowler
The Conductor Developer

<p class = 'precis'><b>TL;DR</b><br/><i>Why I think software development is starting to feel a little more like conducting an orchestra.</i></p> <img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/card.png'></img> <p>…

Architecture Martin Fowler
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

<div class = 'img-link'><a href = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html'><img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/donkey-card.png' width = ''></img></…

Engineering The Pragmatic Engineer
Formal methods with Hillel Wayne

Hillel Wayne explains why formal methods like TLA+ matter, how they help build reliable software, and whether AI will finally bring formal verification into the mainstream.…

Engineering The Pragmatic Engineer
How building software is changing at Anthropic

A deepdive on what’s changed in how the leading AI lab makes software. Ever more code review and testing is done by AI, two-pizza teams very much alive, and more. Details from inside of Anthropic…

Architecture Martin Fowler
The Orchestrator's Tax

<p>Subagents get justified by time saved and parallel execution, but <b class = 'author'>Rahul Garg</b> explains that's not what matters most. Every token in the orchestrator's context is competing for its attention, and…

Architecture Martin Fowler
Why I’m Writing Rachel’s Ramblings

<p class = 'precis'><b>TL;DR</b><br/><i>I have ideas. I haven’t been writing them. That’s about to change. I promise… myself.</i></p> <img src = 'https://martinfowler.com/rachels-ramblings/card.png'></img> <p>I’ve been t…

Architecture The Open Group
Discussing the Release of the ArchiMate® 4 Specification

<p>Written by Neil Francis, The Open Group</p> <p>We sat down with Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie, Chair of the ArchiMate® Forum, and Kelly Cannon, ArchiMate Forum Director, at The Open Group Summit in Oslo, Norway on April 28th…