Friday Links: Worms, Amazon, and Agile
07 Nov 2025 #mondaylinksHey there.
Hope your week’s been good. Here’s what caught my eye lately:
#1. Around this day in computing history, the Morris worm infected 10% of the Internet. A prank that got out of control. Thank goodness that worm is trapped in a floppy disk now. Do you still remember floppy disks?
#2. Amazon has been in the headlines: outages, layoffs, and users leaving its cloud. Maybe the could wasn’t such a great idea after all (20min). And I don’t need to worry about the fear of missing the cloud hype.
#3. I don’t miss Scrum and its “ceremonies” from the corporate world. The whole Agile movement has become a performance theater (6min). We get stuck in rituals instead of real work. Arrggg!
#4. As a coder, I’m grateful for free and open-source software (FOSS). But it rarely beats the convenience of most closed software. Often FOSS scares “normal” people (3min).
Also on my blog this past week, I share about AI’s hidden gift (2min) and the real problem with AI writing all our code (3min).
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See you next time,
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