Two weeks of links. A lot of AI related articles again. I liked the paper about using chatbots in leadership, and the one about the YAML of the mind. If you want a podcast, check out the one about night trains. Quote of the Week The technologies we use to try to “get on top of everything” always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the “everything” of which we’re trying to get on top. Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman Leadership We-ness: The secret cause of Psychological Safety [Podcast] - very interesting deep dive into how feeling like a team can increase psychological safety. ...

As part of moving my services to EU-based infrastructure, I’ve been migrating away from GitHub to Codeberg, a non-profit code hosting platform based in Germany. One of the things I needed was a CI pipeline to build a container image and push it to the Codeberg container registry for my wildfires project (which also posts to @catfires@rls.social). It took a few tries to get right, so here’s what works for me. ...

Two great podcasts this week, with the creator of Claude Code, and another one with Werner Herzog. And check out the links from other people, they are much better than mine. Sorry about destroying your productivity with the 100 jumps game. New addition to these posts: Quote of the Week A profusion of ideas spewed forth from his mind. There was no such thing as a bad idea, apparently. But, perhaps more important, there was no such thing as a good idea either, until it had been tried and coolly evaluated. Reamde Neal Stephenson ...

The podcast about culture is great, so is the one with the creator of Kotlin. Tanith’s techno set is pretty great too. Leadership The more you talk about culture, the less people believe you [Podcast] - I have seen some of the stuff they mention. My preferred product management techniques and frameworks - “Talk to everyone” ...

The interview with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon by The Europeans is great, so are their other topics. Both videos in urbanism are a nice watch for today. Engineering Internal Platform Technical Product Manager (TPM) patterns: pros and cons - some scenarios, mostly useful for bigger teams. ...