Interesting Interview: Why The Best Software Engineers Focus On System Design

I've just watched this great interview with Bassem Dghaidi on Beyond Coding Podcast

• Why The Best Software Engineers Focus On System Design

Interesting Talk: AI made me doubt everything about programming

I've just watched this interesting talk by Felienne Hermans:

• AI made me doubt everything about programming

Interesting Talk: Understanding is the new bottleneck

I've just watched this interesting talk by Geoffrey Litt:

• Understanding is the new bottleneck

Interesting Video: Is TDD Actually Useful for AI Agents?

I've just watched this interesting video by Alex Bolboaca

• Is TDD Actually Useful for AI Agents?

He's commenting this great article: TDD inside the agent loop - theater or actual value? by Birgitta Böckeler

Interesting Video: How To Build a Dark Software Factory in 3 Months

I've just watched this interesting video by Ray Myers

• How To Build a Dark Software Factory in 3 Months

From his series: Dark Factory Considered Harmful.

Interesting Interview: From Technical Debt to Triple Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code

I've just watched this great interview with Margaret-Anne Storey on Tech Lead Journal channel

• From Technical Debt to Triple Debt: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Code

Interesting Interview: Signals & Levers: Systems Thinking to Navigate Software Delivery Illusions

I've just watched this great interview with Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi on Tech Lead Journal channel

• Signals & Levers: Systems Thinking to Navigate Software Delivery Illusions

Books I read (January - August 2026)

January
- The Fraud, Zadie Smith
- Son de Mar, Manuel Vicent
- Alien Clay, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Misterios de Madrid, Antonio Muñoz Molina
- Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World, Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
- The war of art, Steven Pressfield
- Solving the procrastination puzzle, Timothy A. Pychyl

February
- Ava en la noche, Manuel Vicent
- Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Saturday night and Sunday morning, Alan Sillitoe
- Vibe Coding, Gene Kim, Steve Yegge

March
- Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In, Brett Bartholomew
- How to Understand Almost Anything: A Practitioner's Guide to Domain Analysis, Markus Voelter
- Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future, Olaf Stapledon

April
- Architecting for Scale 2nd Edition, Lee Atchison
- Birthday, Alan Sillitoe

May
- Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- El primer siglo después de Beatrice (Le premier siècle apès Beatrice), Amin Maalouf
- Methuselah's children, Robert A. Heinlein
- Extremophile, Ian Green
- Understanding Distributed Systems 2nd Edition, Roberto Vitillo

June
- Las escalas de Levante (Les Échelles du Levant), Amin Maalouf
- AI changes the Tools, you still own the Craft, Hoang Nguyen
- Nonstop, Brian Aldiss
- Earth abides, George R. Stewart
- Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
- Halcyon Years, Alastair Reynolds

July
- Children of Strife, Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Jamás tendré 20 años, Jaime Martín
- Jóvenes Hombres lobo (Werewolves in Their Youth), Michael Chabon

August
- Becoming a Harness-Driven Developer, Miloš Kecman
- Aventuras en oriente de Mikael Karvajalka (Mikael Hakim), Mika Waltari
- Spec Driven Development: Construye con IA sin Perder el Control, Bezael Pérez
- OOP the easy way, Graham Lee
- Secure By Design, Dan Bergh Johnsson, Daniel Deogun and Daniel Sawano
- Get Your Hands Dirty on Clean Architecture 2nd edition, Tom Hombergs
- Testing Spring Boot Applications Demystified, Philip Riecks