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A lot of pledges for improving the environment are happening at the moment, while at the same time Bitcoin and NFTs seem to be out to burn the planet.
Management
Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance - every CTO / developer should probably bookmark this:
Companies that excel in providing the right tools, culture, product management, and talent management not only develop software faster but also deliver significantly stronger business outcomes.
The State of Remote Work with WeWork, Qualtrics, and Miro - "overwhelmingly employees want some remote work (97.6% - Buffer) and some office (93% - Qualtrics)."
Top 9 Books for Managers and Leaders | Aydin Mirzaee, CEO at Fellow.app [Podcast] - just a short episode, but with good book suggestions
Hiring like a human: what we learned from taking a people-first approach - very long read about trying out new things in hiring
When Taking Fridays Off Can Help Our Team Get More Done: An AMA on the 4-Day Work Week - I am pretty sure this will be normal in the future
How to Run Effective 1:1s - just a refresher and good summary
Technology
Green Vs. Brown Programming Languages - about popularity of languages over time or the shiny new toy syndrome
How to fight back against Google FLoC - I don't think that FLoC will survive for long
Backdoor Found in Codecov Bash Uploader - this seems to have exposed a lot of credentials
More time, tools, and details on the page experience update - Google delaying using page speed in the page rank metric, because the web is still slow
Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers [LWN] this an ongoing story, but it looks like a university tried to insert bugs into the Linux kernel as a research project
Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 - not well received from what I have seen on Twitter
Why does Amazon hate its most enthusiastic smart home fans? - I just got into home automation with Home Assistant and I already run into this. Looks like I need different cameras in the future.
Hands-On with the PiStorm, the Ultimate Raspberry Pi-Powered Accelerator for Your Commodore Amiga - this is brilliant, maybe I can dust off my A1000 and A3000 at some point.
Raspberry Pi Turbo Boosts Amiga 500 Retro Computer - more on the Amiga upgradeEnvironment
Coal mining. Bitcoin mining. Same thing. - #burntheplanet
Deutschland soll Fahrradland werden – bis 2030 [German] - the best thing about German is that you can just make up new words: "Ankündigungsminister" or Minister of Announcements. I feel the same about some of the climate pledges for the far future
We Must Cut Car Use To Save The Planet, Agrees U.K. Government - the UK has probably the most ambitious climate goals and they already have done a lot. Great to see that cars can be part of this.
Carbon emissions to soar in 2021 by second highest rate in history - well done everybody! ... slow clap ...
Facebook says it has reached net zero emissions - that is pretty amazing and they didn't even buy offsets
Urbanism
The Emperor's New Tunnel [Podcast] - I like Tesla and Space-X, but Elon Musc is clearly a super villain with stupid ideas
How US helmet laws are used against cyclists of colour and homeless people - put this in the bucket of "How ... is used against ... of colour"
Photo Series: Public Spaces of Barcelona - people over cars = living
Economic impacts on local businesses of investments in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure: a review of the evidence - people over cars = money
Surrendering Our Cities to Cars Would Be a Historic Blunder - this is an opportunity that hopefully some cities will use
Random Acid
The Endless Acid Banger - algorithmic music is always tricky, but who cares if you have endless 303s?
‘I’m not ready for other people’s sweat to drip on me’: will clubbing survive the pandemic? - yes
Why is it so bad being a night owl? [Podcast] - spoiler: because we have to get up early
Has the pandemic changed our sleep habits? [Podcast] - yes, but not as much as one would think
Middle-aged people who sleep six hours or less at greater risk of dementia, study finds - tell this to my animals!
Is sitting still slowly killing us? [Podcast] - yes, but a little bit of exercise helps
Rutger Bregman is hopeful for humankind [Podcast] - Maybe humans are not all bad. I have to check out his book.
inclusive.careers - interesting approach to a job site by showing diversity information in the listings
«Benvinguts al Bages» s'endinsa a Castellbell i el Vilar, un poble de resistents [Catalan] - my village, in case anyone cares. We don't always dress up like this.
How to Come up With New Ideas - structured way to open yourself to new ideas
Turns Out, Spock Is Kinda Bad at Logic - ha! Take that you pointy eared man! Lets do Data next.
Why Do Details Matter? [YouTube] - I am obsessed, but not quite that much
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