Engineering Management
Chief Notion Officer - I have been thinking about knowledge management in companies forever. I tried everything from wikis, to google drive to github. They tend to be write-only or succumb to bit rot very quickly.
Production Oriented Development - great summary of best practices for how to get from code to production. I think I agree with all of them.
Backstage: Spotify Developer Portals with Stefan Ålund [Podcast] - More on the Backstage system from Spotify, which only makes sense for very large companies, but is still pretty interesting.
Urbanism
Bikes in the year of the pandemic (series introduction) - not much of a series yet, but this looks promising. We are in interesting times for the bicycle movement and industry.
Oslo got pedestrian and cyclist deaths down to zero. Here’s how - it is possible if there is a will and if you stop listening to the loud car minority
The Amazing Way Bicycles Change You| Anthony Desnick | TEDxZumbroRiver [YouTube] - another bicycle TEDx talk
Random Skateboards
Let’s flip again: skateboards take off for a new generation - one day I will ollie! And if it is the last thing I do!
Spain’s mortuary workers endure the daily march of death - always amazing to read how people at the front-line of the pandemic are handling it
Borgen, the Danish Show You Have Either Never Heard of or Absolutely Love, Is Coming Back on Netflix - The Danish West Wing will be back!
EP 1: What will the world look like after COVID-19? [Podcast] - Bill Gates has a podcast and it is pretty great. This episodes also features Dr. Fauci, which Bill apparently knows for a long time, which should feed into the usual conspiracy theories.
PHP8 Released!
- everybody seems to hate PHP, but I still remember it with some
fondness and do sometimes miss the community, tools and libraries. It
was the language I used first when starting with this web thing and in
many jobs afterwards.