Lots of good stuff again this week.
I recommend listening to the history of TrainingPeaks and coding in the red-queen area.
Leadership
Using postmortems to break out of infinite loops | Adnan Karač | LDX3 London 2025 [YouTube] - a quick talking about how to make them useful.
Team OKRs in Action - they have to be co-created, not top down.
Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions? - tradition. I last worked with linked lists in C on the Amiga.
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' - “How's that going to work when ten years in the future you have no one that has learned anything,”
Engineering
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back for 2024 - I think that is cheating.
Vibe Coding: The Shadow IT Problem No One Saw Coming - I recently vibe coded a simple version of Officevibe. I am sure it is full of bugs and security issues, but I could easily have started using this in a company. Now it is sometimes easier to vibe code something, than ask for subscription to some SaaS tool.
Email is Easy - test your email parsing skills
opencode - kind of open-source Claude Code
This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad - well, that's one way to do it.
Coding in the Red-Queen Era [Podcast] - you have to figure out what you can do, what the machines can't do.
Urbanism
I went to America's road trip hell [YouTube] - pretty, in an ugly way.
Dear Britain, it’s now clear: 20mph zones save lives and don’t slow traffic. Implement them - Sadiq Khan - Dear Germany too.
States rethink a long-held practice of setting speed limits based on how fast drivers travel - this is even worse than the German way
Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024 - these are inter-city routes
Online tools for IRL amateurbanism - some new ones for me
I changed my mind about these bike protests [YouTube] - I miss critical mass
David Seymour was right to question our compulsory helmet laws - cycling without helmet can be unhealthy, not cycling is worse
Global Insights from The Future Design of Streets [Podcast] - reports from different cities and roles.
Environment
Spain wildfires are ‘clear warning’ of climate emergency, minister says - most are burned ever.
‘Unlike any other kind of fear’: wildfires leave their mark across Spain - this numbers are old, I think it is up to 400,000 hectares now
Spain faces its worst wildfire season in 30 years, with 40 active blazes and more than 30,000 evacuated - a bit newer
Civio - Forest fires map - surprisingly many in the north-east
The Future of Climate Change Is on Mauritius - today's dystopia
Random Raves
The Butterfly Who Flew Who Into The Rave - RISING 2025 (Trailer) [YouTube] - love it. Via The Guardian article.
Accidental Icons: The Roland TR-808, TB-303, SP-404 and More - if you never played around with a 303, you got to try it, in the best case a hardware one.
ChatGPT will apologize for anything - "they're just continuing with your improv session."
There's a Reason Bar Ice Looks Better Than Yours (And You Can Fix It) - my first try at this was a failure. I have to dig out my insulated container.
Why Leather is Unbeatable - Motorcyclist Review while Sliding [YouTube] - I am more a textile guy, but this is fun.
Why isn't anyone Talking bout the INSANE CASSETTE PRICES [YouTube] - my taste is cheaper.
‘I didn’t realise pigs were like, massive’: the London rapper who fell in love with farming - this is a fun watch, and free on YouTube.
Amiga Developer Docs - I am still sad that I threw all of them out, except of the Design Manual.
Scroll bleedthrough - more realistic e-book reading in the browser.
"It's one of the most powerful software sound design tools on earth – and it's free" - Composers' Desktop
How Spain put up wealth taxes – without chasing away the billionaires - seems to mostly work.
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event - yep
Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash - we will see, the money has interest in it going on.
Denmark to abolish VAT on books in effort to get more people reading - from 25% to 0%.
"In addition to reading and writing SQLite database files, the sqlite3 program will also read and write ZIP archives." - what?
Building TrainingPeaks [Podcast] - another lovely podcast looking into cycling related businesses.
The Life Scientific: Anthony Fauci [Podcast] - more than the Covid guy.
Friday Links Disclaimer
Inclusion of links does not imply that I agree with the content of linked articles or podcasts. I am just interested in all kinds of perspectives. If you follow the link posts over time, you might notice common themes, though.
