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A bit of a catch-up issue of the Friday Links. Full of urbanism, randomness, a few of 2020 reviews and the usual engineering management.
Relatively few podcast were released over the holidays. I managed to catch up with my back-log (for a while).
Management
What are our core values and practices for building software? - cool summary about Thoughtsworks engineering values. I think they probably apply to a lot of companies
Packlink engineering vision for 2021 - I find it a bit messy, but did pick up some good ideas like the Tech Radar. I also find that I think less about technologies now and more about general direction
TBM 52/53: Real Teams (Not Groups of One-Person Teams) - Totally agree. I am rereading Peopleware and they also go on about this. Team Topologies instead pretends that there are no individuals.
Tech Lead Management roles are a trap. - they are also a reality in most small to medium sized companies.
What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry - that is fricking long!
TBM 2.1/52: Continuous Roadmapping - isn't this how everybody does it?
Building On-Call Culture at GitHub - great insight how to think about code ownership in a mononlith and how to map that to on-calls
Technology
Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2 - this is pretty bad and just the beginning.
Russia’s SolarWinds Attack - good write-up by Schneier
Ruby 3.0.0 Released - we are going to stick with 2.7 for a bit longer, but they are finally thinking about performance.
HTML over the wire - I now have a rule: read what DHH thinks and do the opposite
Visualizing GitHub’s global community - pretty new home page. Also see: How we built the GitHub globe
Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform - CentOS was still trying to rescue their image in December. I think they have given up now.
Commits are snapshots, not diffs - someone trying to explain Git again :-)
RubyConf 2020 [YouTube] - all the talk videos
Microservices Monitoring: Using Namespaces for Data Structuring - good tips from AppSignal, if you do use Microservices (or just many services)
Just desserts: Baking with AI-made recipes - great idea and surprisingly successful - more on the behind the scenes
Bootstrappable builds [LWN] - interesting concept, but seems a bit academic
Urbanism
The Future of Offices When Workers Have a Choice - I like the idea of more of a mix of living and working areas. This already exists in many European cities, but seems rare in the US.
Removed London bike lane blocked by parked cars most of the time – study - this is a surprise to no one. Good use of technology though. It is also weird how people remove pop up bicycle lanes while we are still in the middle of a pandemic
Been doing some gaming on the holidays. There's a lot of differences between different city building games, and it reflects the places where they're designed. Here's a thread on SimCity, Cities Skylines, Transport Tycoon, A-Train, and Soviet Republic. - comparison of city games with screenshots and how realistic they are from an urbanist perspective
Before: 19th Century $1-building; Now: luxury house/pizzeria [YouTube] - should I feel bad about liking this kind of gentrification? I don't care! I want a fire station.
Supermanzanas, o cómo devolver al peatón la ciudad robada por los coches [Spanish] - looks like Madrid might be planning super blocks too. Good visualizations in the article.
Barcelona is redesigning 21 downtown streets to prioritize people, not cars - more about the new (not really) super blocks.
Cycling Injury Risk in London: Impacts of Road Characteristics and Infrastructure
"When compared to no infrastructure, this study found that protected cycle infrastructure reduced odds of injury by 40-65% in the morning commute, whereas advisory lanes increased injury odds by 34%. Junctions were found to increase injury odds threefold; higher pedestrian density also increased injury odds. This study supports growing evidence of a ‘safety in numbers’ effect."
Two-way street: how Barcelona is democratising public space - even more about Barcelona streets
2020
LWN's 2020 Retrospective - predictions for 2020 were generally off a bit
A year with Covid -19 [Podcast] - Year review from Science in Action, with report snippets over the year
Athletes Don’t Quit - Strava community in numbers. The graphs in relation to lock-downs are interesting. And Brazo de Hierro's photos are great.
2020: Year In Review - World Bicycle Relief is still my favourite charity. Mostly because of bicycles.
Random Generators
Patch notes just dropped - generated with Totally Rad Generator
Burning the furniture: my life as a consumer - nice long read. I am a self confessed IKEA guy.
Extreme Time Value of Money: Late-stage Career Planning - Kent Beck about how career planning changes with age
Rear View Wheel Vol.15 End of Year 2020 - a bit naughty to just post people's rears, but nice cycling photos
Unhealthy snacks to be banned from checkouts at supermarkets in England - maybe Brexit has some advantages in being able to make these rules faster?
Sewed own popup dome-home for need, been selling them since [YouTube] - now I want a dome, but that doesn't really fit our style
Why Barcelona Is Becoming a Hub for Travel Startups - clustering?
Do We Lose Skills Because of Technology? [Podcast] - no, we learn other things
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