Mike Sperber

Here's a classic Perlisism:
“It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?”
www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis...

(I had also hoped for some CI support for this in the sense of tracking the resulting numbers and their evolution over time.)
The reality seems to be that it's just a unit test that says either true or false.
Was I wrong to expect more?

I had hoped that a "fitness function" would be a measure of the quality of the architecture, and I had thus expected that the way to practice EA would be to make sure that measure goes up (or at least not down).

I had gotten excited about the idea of Evolutionary Architecture, but until this week never had the chance to read the book. Now I'm a bit disappointed.

For the final talk on track B at #BOBkonf2026, @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org will present "SwiftUI is functional", focussing on the underlying concepts for a great overview.

bobkonf.de/2026/chakrav...

I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.

The final talk on #BOBkonf2026 track A is Nicolas Rinaudo's "Encoding Effects as Capabilities" that discusses various features of Capabilities as implemented in Scala.

Find out more: bobkonf.de/2026/rinaudo...

Ab dem 23.3. unterrichtet unser Chef Dr. Michael Sperber (@sperbsen) die iSAQB-Advanced-Level-Schulung “Funktionale Softwarearchitektur” (FUNAR), bei unseren Freunden bei oose in Hamburg.
www.active-group.de/schulung/FUN...

Auch nach 30 Durchläufen macht die FUNAR immer noch Spaß und ist jedes Mal ein bißchen anders, weil die Teilys ihre eigenen Fragen und Herausforderungen mitbringen. Vier anstrengende aber lohnenswerte Tage!

Das iSAQB Software Architecture Forum 2026 iSAQB Software Architecture Forum | 16.-17. Juni 2026 in München – Unterhaching | Die neue iSAQB®-Community-Konferenz für DACH

🎉 𝗗𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 – 𝗱𝗶𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗦𝗔𝗤𝗕-𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆-𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘇 𝗳ü𝗿 𝗗𝗔𝗖𝗛 – 𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲! 🎉

📍 16.–17. Juni 2026 | München-Unterhaching
🎤 23 Sessions auf Deutsch · 23 #iSAQB Kurator:innen & Expert:innen vor Ort
💡 Themen aus dem #CPSA Advanced Level
🎟️ Very Early Bird bis 2. April

👉 t1p.de/zhq7r

New Haskell Interlude!
Franz Thoma is Principal Consultant at TNG Technology Consulting, and an organizer of MuniHac. Franz sees functional programming and Haskell as a tool for thinking about software, even if the project is not written in Haskell.
haskell.foundation/podcast/77/

Der Ukraine in den vier Jahren seit dem russischen Überfall langsam, zögerlich, halbherzig und übervorsichtig zu helfen, war und ist menschlich, militärisch, wirtschaftlich und finanziell schlecht. Wer Frieden will, muss sich schnell und entschlossen durchsetzen wollen.

The program for the International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming - FLOPS - is out, and registration is open.
FLOPS 2026 will happen May 26-28 in Tsukuba, Japan -
see you in there!
functional-logic.org/events/flops...

BNF from https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus-reference/class.html#%28def._%28%28submod._%28lib._rhombus%2Fprivate%2Famalgam..rkt%29._core%29._class._rhombus%2Fdefn%29%29

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mflatt: let’s ditch s-exps to make our language more accessible :)
also mflatt: rhombus defines eight different ways an identifier can have a binding in the core language and the standard library adds several more. here is the documentation for how to define a basic datatype. do you like this

Schlagzeile Welt: Mit Extremisten sollte man nicht kooperieren“ – Kretschmann warnt vor Linkspartei

Was ist das eigentlich für eine Strategie der Grünen in Baden-Württemberg, die CDU rechts überholen zu wollen? Und was ist das eigentlich für ein Bundesland, in dem das funktioniert?

Im Jahr 2025 gab es in Deutschland zwischen 13 und 15 Mio neue COVID-Infektionen. In unserem neuen Paper "Update 2025: Modellierung der COVID-Infektionszahlen in Deutschland (2020-2025)" haben wir nun die Daten für das 6. Jahr der Pandemie ergänzt (Pre-Print).

entwickler.de Software Know-how Unbegrenzt. Wegweisend. Kompakt an Deiner Seite. Der neue Lernstandard für Software-Professionals: Die Fullstack Experience

We're happy to announce @entwicklerde.bsky.social as another returning sponsor, helping us out at the Silver level for #BOBkonf2026!

One month until #BOBkonf2026! If you haven't yet, get your tickets now -- details here: bobkonf.de/2026/registr...

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We are delighted that Well-Typed LLD are back as Bronze sponsors for #BOBkonf2026! Check them out here: www.well-typed.com

Photo of Active Group’s trade-show booth, with Marcus Crestani in front. The back fall features the word “Abstraktion”. The foreground contains a CRT terminal and a dot-matrix printer.

On my way to OOP. My co-worker Marcus Crestani is already on-site at the @activegroupgmbh.bsky.social booth and looking fabulous, will try to do my best to compete.
See you at our booth or my talk tomorrow!
www.oop-konferenz.de/de/programm/...

The final block of talks on track B at #BOBkonf2026 starts with Alexander Thiemann with his experience of "Using Domain Driven Design to Refactor Stripe Billing".

Find out more here: bobkonf.de/2026/alex-th...

ZuriHac 2026 - Registrations are open!

ZuriHac is the biggest Haskell community event in the world: a completely free, three-day grassroots coding festival co-organized by the Zürich Friends of Haskell and the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Science.

Register: zureg.zfoh.ch/register

AGI is when everyone is using emacs

Looking forward to yet another OOP talk. I'll talk about something the software development/architecture community seems to have lost, namely leveraging powerful data/object models to design rich applications that make our lives better. See you next Thursday!

A photo of a trade-show booth for Active Group with the word “Abstraktion” featured prominently, along with a CRT terminal and a dot-matrix printer.

It's been a while - but next week, we'll once again have a booth at OOP.
Come see us to chat - or just come to see a booth that looks ... a little different.)
Also check out our CEO's talk on Resurrecting OOA/OOD for the 21st Century on Thursday!
www.oop-konferenz.de/de/programm/...

Very much looking forward to talking about the conceptual origins of SwiftUI and how that makes it an effective and versatile UI framework!

On track B at #BOBkonf2026, @tacticalgrace.justtesting.org's talk "SwiftUI is functional" gives insight into SwiftUI’s software architecture, with a focus on underlying concepts and not on a particular implementation.

Find out more:
bobkonf.de/2026/chakrav...

The second #BOBkonf2026 talk of this block in track A is Olaf Klinke's "Refinement types for the digital information age", where we examine what happens if we use property languages to design a data type that makes illegal states unrepresentable.

Find out more: bobkonf.de/2026/klinke....

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We're happy to announce that International Software Architecture Qualification Board @isaqb.bsky.social is sponsoring #BOBkonf2026 (bobkonf.de) at the silver level!

On track B, #BOBkonf2026 picks back up after the break with Fritz Henglein's talk "Programming Efficient Joins", where he shows that, contrary to common belief, joins are simple to program to be guaranteed worst-case optimal, even for cyclic queries like triangles.

bobkonf.de/2026/henglei...