What I have found gripping

• Getting more context to understand new and niche areas of expertise

• Sharing context whenever necessary

• There are many ways to look at a technical problem

• Assumptions need to be tested

• When writing tests, there is a technique called TCR. It stands for “test, commit, reverse”

• In a given context, mutual understanding can be developed through shared language

• There is a growing trend named “Going analogue”

• Listening to folks with very different life experiences is a good reminder that life experiences in their diversity can coexist with all the nuances they include

• Broadening one's view of the world takes conscious effort

• Balancing curiosity and deepening one's knowledge

• Seeing what works and what doesn't while problem-solving when it comes to moving from theory to practice

• There is always more to learn

• Interdisciplinary thinking remains appealing 

What I have read

• Test-Commit-Revert: A useful workflow for testing legacy code in Ruby, José M. Gilgado

• Bringing teams closer together with a service jam, Co-op UK

• Digital Development Standards, Co-op UK

• The Balanced Engineer • Issue #45, Brittany Ellich

• What's the Difference Between Equity and Equality? Colleen Murphy

• Introduction to creating accessible documents, Catriona Morrison (Tetralogical)

• Is 2026 the year of analogue? Emily Maskell

• Et si remplacer les humains par l’IA… coûtait plus cher que de les garder ? Eitanite Bellaiche

• Que devient Sabine Quindou, la co-animatrice de C'est pas Sorcier ? Ophélie Haire

• Femmes et hommes de science – Evolution de la proportion des femmes et des hommes en coordination de projets entre 2015 et 2025, ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)

• Numérique responsable : réduisez l’empreinte de vos usages, investissements, produits et services digitaux, Agir pour la transition écologique (AGIR)/ADEME

What I have watched

The Butterfly Effect: measuring AI’s impacts on society and the environment, Dr Sasha Luccioni

Featured quote

Most or all of the infrastructure your application needs will be commodity. Following common standards allows you to engage specialists to design, define, diagnose issues and fix problems with the infrastructure, saving a lot of time and effort both at design time and during operation. — Co-op UK’s Engineering team

Further reading and resources

In English

• Dr Sasha Luccioni’s official website

• Gemma Cameron’s bio from DDD Europe 2018

• Techniques for WCAG 2.2: PDF Techniques, W3C

In French

• Ethique et IA à l’ENS : retour sur la conférence de Sasha Luccioni, ENS Foundation

• Eitanite Bellaiche (LinkedIn)

• Conseils pour les entreprises, ADEME

• C’est pas sorcier (émission), Wikipedia