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Mary Shaw #fse26 keynote cites Zave and Jackson’s requirements problem paper. Gotta say it’s a bit weird to see papers that were central to my PhD but ignored by most of the major venues given so much attention 20 years later.
1 views
What Dr Shaw adds is the idea of context and purpose. Jackson’s problem frames were often demonstrated in trivial cases like zoo turnstiles (if memory serves). Usually this was for scalability to be sure.
But no one cares if the turnstiles don’t work because the human overseer can just reset it. #fse26
📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
1.2%
Engagement vs followers
Jun 2026
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Encouragingly, no one has taken the free “Blockchain development · 5 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2.5 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
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The new ACM CEO being a long-time Oracle/Ellison employee does not fill me with confidence. Feels like getting an oil executive to run your sustainability non-profit. Lots of experience in running a business, but totally antithetical cultu…
Two blindspots I'm trying to be aware of: AI upside risk, that AI will completely replace software engineering: not only writing code, but also testing, design, deployment, validation. That humans will only be providing requirements.
And o…
The miracle of Eduroam continues - available at the Campbell River public library. Turing award to whomever devised the idea.
Another possibly unwanted suggestion: all the remote-only presentations should be moved to the afternoon of the last day. Seems unfair to travel all the way to the conference and get 2 people watching your talk in person. #fse26
No longer do we get print proceedings (fine, kills trees), but now with ACM “Open" we don't even get a link to a proceedings website with PDFs.
Instead papers from the conference are all on the Digital Library, except ... the non-research…
Listening to a paper I shepherded as registered report PC chair for MSR, subsequently published as Phase 2 report in EMSE, and now a journal first presentation at #fse26 - a nice study on microservices using a cohort study method.
What Dr Shaw adds is the idea of context and purpose. Jackson’s problem frames were often demonstrated in trivial cases like zoo turnstiles (if memory serves). Usually this was for scalability to be sure.
But no one cares if the turnstile…
Mary Shaw #fse26 keynote cites Zave and Jackson’s requirements problem paper. Gotta say it’s a bit weird to see papers that were central to my PhD but ignored by most of the major venues given so much attention 20 years later.
Day one of #fse26 starting with a workshop on humans and AI.
Was it that the dev cycle was too slow to realize the value of capturing intent? Maybe we got too bogged down in the implementation struggles, which is now a much less intense part of the process?
2/2
I find posts like https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/05/04/10-lessons-for-agentic-coding.html?utm_source=dbreunig interesting.
Nearly every single lesson was (imo) widely seen as a good idea pre-GenAI, e.g. “document intent" or “keep specs in …
What Dr Shaw adds is the idea of context and purpose. Jackson’s problem frames were often demonstrated in trivial cases like zoo turnstiles (if memory serves). Usually this was for scalability to be sure.
But no one cares if the turnstile…
Mary Shaw #fse26 keynote cites Zave and Jackson’s requirements problem paper. Gotta say it’s a bit weird to see papers that were central to my PhD but ignored by most of the major venues given so much attention 20 years later.
Day one of #fse26 starting with a workshop on humans and AI.
Was it that the dev cycle was too slow to realize the value of capturing intent? Maybe we got too bogged down in the implementation struggles, which is now a much less intense part of the process?
2/2
I find posts like https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/05/04/10-lessons-for-agentic-coding.html?utm_source=dbreunig interesting.
Nearly every single lesson was (imo) widely seen as a good idea pre-GenAI, e.g. “document intent" or “keep specs in …
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Jun 2026
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2026.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 2.5× per week.
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Estimated62/100
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Credibility score
82%
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Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
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- Est. 82% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.2% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Very new account (under 3 months) — higher throwaway/bot risk.
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