Management
Performance reviews should be unsurprising, fair, and motivating - nothing to add really. I wouldn't say I am 100% there yet, but this should be the goal.
The 2021 State of Remote Work - Buffer asks remote workers about remote work ... 2.4% don't like it and 3% wouldn't recommended it. Possibly some selection bias.
Nails in the Coffin: Why a Flat Organizational Structure Fails - flat organizations probably never really exists, there is always a power and communication hierarchy
Why take-home assignments might not be as bad as their reputation - as long as they are lightweight they are probably ok
Engineering
org-mind-map - in my mission to do everything in Emacs (not really) I looked into doing mind maps. This really just converts org-mode to a pdf graph and is not quite what I want.
Visiting another world [LWN] - a new gopher! I completely forgot about gopher, but that is how I started to get into the browsing the internet
Python cryptography, Rust, and Gentoo [LWN] - building Rust is annoying and having it as a dependency will mess up the life of a lot of people
Ruby on Rails View Patterns and Anti-patterns - more tips from AppSignal, not advanced, but still interesting and I see these mistakes a lot
Internet Archive's book scanning - insight into how they do it, low tech, but cool
UOMF: My Emacs Key Binding Strategy - Number #831 on things I don't have: an Emacs Key Binding Strategy
Growth Engineering at Netflix — Automated Imagery Generation - pretty cool to personalise spam content
Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform - from an XML file to a couple of services
Minesweeper automates root cause analysis as a first-line defense against bugs - finding bugs at scale
Google joins the Rust Foundation - so does Microsoft. I wonder how these companies decide on doing projects in different languages.
8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number... - stable kernel is too stable for 255 minor versions
The imminent stable-version apocalypse [LWN] - more on the kernel versions from LWN
Launching OSV - Better vulnerability triage for open source - vulnerability database from Google using fuzzing
Disqus, the dark commenting system - this is depressing ... I guess we have to own our own comments again
Your legacy database is outgrowing itself - scaling MySQL at chess.com
Presidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons - he might have to use a dumb trainer and a personal coach
Urbanism
How Sweden is taking back parking spaces to improve urban living - nicer cities in Sweden ... lots of renderings only
Six in ten users of pop-up bike lanes in Paris are new to cycling, says city’s government - build it and they will come
Cycling
The MigraCode Gran Fondo - cycling is great, MigraCode is a brilliant organization, so my only worry is about having an event like this in 2021
How to ride a bike in the city when it snows - not a problem we have in Barcelona, but the pictures are nice
Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study - old article, but it resurfaced again. We obviously knew this already.
Environment
Climate action could save 'millions of lives' through clean air, diet and exercise - and make cities nicer
'Invisible killer': fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds - this is roughly on the same level as smoking
Random Few
The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility - this is so funny. I hope they extend it. Germans do use "Spanish" too.
1-7 February 2021 - nice weekly notes, but please if you blog use something that provides an RSS/Atom feed. Maybe I should do weekly notes? Or monthly?
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