Spotify and Shopify are publishing some good articles on technology and management recently. Also some good news for the environment.
Management
Achieving Team Purpose and Pride with Scrum - how one team at Spotify improved their team with Scrum
Who’s the Boss? [Podcast] - about giving employees the freedom to express themselves at work
Key Remote Work Statistics to Keep in Mind in 2021 - nothing surprising, the rest of 2021 will be interesting to watch
How to Bust Bias at Work [Podcast] - good ideas on this
Engineering
Create your own journaling app without writing code - pretty amazing what can be done without coding nowadays
Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity - Shopify doing a modular monolith
Other Driven Developments - more of a fun post. I am sometimes using Jenga Driven Development
Role Management at Slack - first rule of role management: there is always a special case
Technology
Chia has grown almost 1 exabyte (974PiB) in the last 24 hours. The scale of this is hard to comprehend - still burning the planet
New cryptocurrency Chia blamed for hard drive shortages - burn the planet and steal our disks!
The reality behind NFTs [Podcast] - it is a stupid idea
objective or biased - “On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications”
Colemak - do we need another keyboard layout? … nope. A bit surprising that the number are always layout in the same way
Google revives RSS - not really, also: it was not dead
Urbanism
Can Removing Highways Fix America’s Cities? - yes
People Walking And Cycling Spend More In London’s Shops Than Motorists - I think everybody knew that, right?
Cities that better serve women cyclists have more bicycling overall, a study suggests - Apparently if you don’t ignore 50% of the population your overall group is bigger? Que surprise!
Trouble in cyclists’ paradise: Amsterdam accused of favouring pedestrians - as much as I like bicycles, you should favour pedestrians
On your bike! Ed Miliband on Britain’s much-needed cycling revolution - the old story: boy meets bike, boy falls in love, boy becomes obsessed by urbanism
Ignore the naysayers – low emission zones do work - naysayers are just loader
Environment
I always thought that people will start suing for clean air at some point, this was a good week
- Australian court finds government has duty to protect young people from climate crisis
- ‘Cataclysmic day’ for oil companies sparks climate hope
- Court orders Shell to slash CO2 emissions in landmark climate ruling
- Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut carbon emissions by 45% by 2030
Smoking ban on four Barcelona beaches comes into effect this weekend - oh yes please
Petition calls for smoking ban on all Spanish beaches - even better!
Asthma in toddlers linked to in-utero exposure to air pollution, study finds - more court cases in the future
Richest nations agree to end support for coal production overseas - nice, but the time-line is depressing
Random Techno
Daft Punk Is Staying at My House, My House [Podcast] - Techno in the 90s. This gave me goosebumps. Make sure to check out the Slam Radio Podcast too.
‘I’m way older, but I’m still doing it’: Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy - still amazing
Turmoil at the freenode IRC network [LWN] - good summary about the freenode mess by LWN
ORBISThe Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World - plan your Roman holiday!
On Kangen water, snakeoil and the New Age far right - magic water!
Football-mad Barcelona votes to build cricket oval - one day I will understand cricket, until then it is just nice to watch
Herman Miller Has Quietly Cornered the Luxury Gaming Chair Market - I need a new chair, but this might be too much