Activity Log - 2025-10-14

Geoff Huntley Amazon Kiro analysis https://ghuntley.com/amazon-kiro-source-code/
Looked into Beads: worth considering for spec management https://github.com/steveyegge/beads
MCP is the wrong abstraction (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAYZjVAodoo), I had read the Cloudflare article about MCP being RPC, but did not fully grasp until this video.
Future of Bun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSIgEJSi0rY): great analysis of the landscape and why becoming the place where agent code runs is key for Bun. Also need to further investigate the multiple responsibilities taken by bun.
Vite won (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w61mLV5nZK0) learnt about bundler
Code Complete with Steve McConnell https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/code-complete-with-steve-mcconnell
- Top-down vs bottom-up design approach: rare people are capable of both. People that use one type usually can’t understand that others use the other approach as they are themselves unable to practice it
- Looks typically like the John Ousterhout vs Kent Beck, the first being unable to conceive that design could happen as you go.