@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk'graphviz' is a suite of programs for drawing graphs (In the nodes/edges senses, rather than upwards and to the right sense) - and it uses a file format called 'dot'. Lots of things generate dot output (such as systemd-analyze I mentioned) and it's really easy to generate from scripts and things. 'dotty' is probably the most common program in the suite.
There are some newer formats and programs - but this one is probably the most universal.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrime Security, which develops AI agents that help with security design during software development, raised a $20M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/12/09…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAs AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)
https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social99% of stakeholder "ideas" are just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.
Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling. Strategy becomes dominated by the overriding need to make the good number go up.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“But software design is just vibes!”
No, it’s absolutely not. It’s an extremely well researched topic with an abundance of studies, literature and scientific articles over the last 75 years.
Here’s some books to get you started. They’re over 30 years old.
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza@… made me think about my preference for minimalist apps
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_design/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzHackers exploit 3D design software to target game developers, animators https://therecord.media/hackers-blender-software-malware
@aardrian@toot.cafeIf I didn't need iOS 26 for testing, I’d have waited a few point releases. Fixing years of tech debt is good, but has to frustrate those who updated but might have wanted to wait.
“Apple to focus on ‘quality and underlying performance’ with iOS 27 next year: report”
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSingapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/singapore-startup-b…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialHappy Scale now uses the new Liquid Glass design!
One of my daily apps :-)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/happy-scale/id532430574
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"The last hit song of Belgian singer Stromae, called “Santé”, is a tribute to all those workers behind the scenes in our modern world; the ones growing or catching the food we eat; the ones transporting us; the ones building and cleaning our facilities; those who more often than not, we simply do not see.
How long until Stromae releases an update to this song including software workers among those groups? Not very long."
@whitequark@mastodon.socialmy definition of "an UI bug" is basically "any design or implementation choice that makes users miserable". i do not think many in open source hardware|software share this definition and i won't be satisfied until it's a new norm
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioStill can't believe that Apple, a true pioneer of online Music Stores and Jukebox software and user interface design shipped this.
This is an actual screenshot of Apple Music on the Mac.
It's an empty box. The volume controls need an extra click. It doesn't show me elapsed and remaining time.
This is stuff that my CD player in the 80s did better.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoThis looks nice! Sometimes we get really cool things posted when folks show up at Maker Forums to make their first post, and AxioCNC looks modern and has some potentially really helpful features. 🎉
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/made-a-free-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple replacing Alan Dye with Stephen Lemay may fix Jony Ive's mistake by restoring the Jobsian "design is how it works" ethos in Apple's UI design (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
@crepererum@mastodon.online@… just watched your #FOSDEM talk about Dune3D. I really like how pragmatic your software design choices are.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115604873348659045
Maybe you think all of this is irrelevant now, who gives a fuck about a media format more than 50 years old?
Well, fun fact, the design of SD cards is referencing the design of floppy disks, and were specifically made thin enough to be used in floppy adapters (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath).
Yes, they made an adapter to stick your SD card in and read and write it in a standard floppy disk drive; though you would need to install special software to use it (ironically that software probably came on a CD).
Why would they do such a thing? Because there was no (widespread) USB.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
@nitpicking@mstdn.partyWhat's the official way to report bugs in the #Mastodon web software? I just muted an account, and my feed jumped back 9 hours. That can't be by design.
#BugReporting
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVinci, which uses AI simulations to accelerate chip and other hardware design, raised a $36M Series A led by Xora Innovation, taking its total funding to $46M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/software-
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115990080839153274
Making software, from the the overall design, the user interface and experience, the process flows, the underlying architecture and all the way to the nitty-gritty implementation details and low-level code structure is an incredibly intellectually rewarding and deeply satisfying creative activity.
Why would you want to deny this to yourself to be a clanker herder?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA technical deep dive into Amazon's Trainium3 accelerator, including its server SKUs' specifications, silicon design, power budget, and bill of materials (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/aws-trainium3-deep-dive-a-potential
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNeural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/20…
