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| The Nothing Line by Rob Manuel |
Engineering Management
4 Steps to Remote Success: Hiring, Decision Making, Collaborating and Managing with Katie Wilde, VP of Engineering at Buffer [Podcast] - lots of of good stuff about remote teams ... which most of us still are
Collaboration Incentives - more from Kent Beck about geek incentives
4 Tips for Shipping Data Products Fast - these also apply to all kind of products
Hack-Week: Embedding Our Values and Causes in Our Product - cool theme for a hackweek and great projects too
Someone noticed that my manager README vanished from GitHub. I already added a note to the old post. I am still considering what to do about it.
The Seven Domains of Transformation - I just scratched the surface of this, but it seems to be an interesting framework for transformations
Steal this micro-feedback strategy from one of the world’s top cycling teams - marginal gains example from cycling applied to management
You're not just a manager, you're also a boss - annoyingly yes
Measures of engineering impact - some ideas and examples from companies trying to measure this
Engineering
Four Microsoft Exchange Zero-Days Exploited by China - a bit worrying the amount of zero-days recently
Mysterious Macintosh Malware - I wonder if they forgot the payload
Running Emacs with systemd - this is so simple. I probably should done this earlier.
New Feature: Searching Through Samples in AppSignal - another nice feature for people using AppSignal for application monitoring
Software evolution: the lifetime of fine-grained elements - paper on the life-cycle of lines of code. "Statistical analysis shows that code lines are durable, with a median lifespan of about 2.4 years"
Design Better Avatars - more inclusive!
UX inspiration from history: Sony Walkman - I am a bit cassette nostalgic, this looks into the UX of them
Pandemic
How Garmin Users Prioritize Movement in a Global Pandemic - Garmin looked at the data of what people have been up to in 2020
Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid | Free to read - long read
If Covid-19 nevertheless continues to spread in 2021 and kill millions, or if an even more deadly pandemic hits humankind in 2030, this will be neither an uncontrollable natural calamity nor a punishment from God. It will be a human failure and — more precisely — a political failure
Will Spain be able to vaccinate 70% of the adult population by the end of summer? - probably not
Double March - stuck here forever
Almost over! It will never be over. Almost over! It will never be over. - at least stuck here for this year
Environment
Fitbit Sense review: a good smartwatch that fails on sustainability - I don't care about the watch, but The Guardian now includes sustainability in reviews, which is great.
The problem of CryptoArt - it is the energy wasted
Crypto Fart - jwz also doesn't like it
Electricity needed to mine bitcoin is more than used by 'entire countries' - nobody seems to care
Urbanism
La superilla de l’Eixample: carrers per a vianants, sense asfalt i amb més vegetació [Catalan] - this looks promising, now I wished I bought a flat in those streets
Berlin’s Rent Controls Are Proving to Be a Disaster - it is still early, but I expect it to be
Cycling across Europe in the pandemic - BBC World Service [YouTube]
Low-traffic schemes benefit most-deprived Londoners, study finds - it turns out that it isn't for the rich, so the rich protesting can stop pretending to care for the rest of the city
Neuer Verkehrsplan: Berliner sollen häufiger Rad als Auto fahren [German] - Berlin has a lot of cyclists, not because of the support of the city, but in spite of
Los carriles bici de Via Augusta y paseo de Maragall, operativos en 2023 [Spanish] - in 2023! I could have used these five years ago
The City Where Cars Are Not Welcome - Heidelberg apparently.
“We all know we have to go in this direction,” he said. “It’s just a question of how fast.”
Where the Bicycle was Invented (and Forgotten): Coventry [Guest Video] [YouTube] - nice report from Coventry, British cities are so pretty
Cycling
Adidas launches Velosamba SPD cycling shoes for city cyclists - oh, nice
Are Electric Bikes Dangerous? - probably not
Immoral and irrational cyclists? Exploring the practice of cycling on the pavement - research paper about pavement cycling ... mostly because infrastructure is a bit rubbish
Random Noise
The Nothing Line - I recorded the sound of an empty Underground train and it made me feel a bit weird and spooky [Audio] - this is brilliant, great for background noise
Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache [Audio, YouTube] - I discovered this today. TODAY!
Galician noir: how a rainy corner of Spain spawned a new TV genre - I am mostly into Nordic Noire, but maybe I should give these a try
Building the future of work with Google Workspace - some stuff to look forward to. I am using workarounds for most of these at the moment (also on The Verge: Google Workspace picks up new features designed for remote work)
La ausencia de viajeros acelera el abandono de la terminal 2 de El Prat [Spanish] - the older Barcelona airport terminal is basically abandoned
The Nothing Line - I recorded the sound of an empty Underground train and it made me feel a bit weird and spooky - this is brilliant, great for background noise
Benefits of microdosing LSD might be placebo effect, study finds - it is basically the homoeopathy of drugs
Why you should be playing Valheim - I got spammed about Valheim from all directions. I am going to give it a try, but my computer is probably not powerful enough.
Vintage technology: 'It sounds so much cleaner' - when did Psion 5 and mini disk became vintage? I am too old.
Radio Hour with Björk [Audio] - a mix set by the Islandic weirdo
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