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Catching up with everything again. Some good long reads in the Work section, especially the report about women in the workplace.
Management
Agile vs Kanban [YouTube] - forget about the "vs", he just gives an introduction to both and some personal opinions
Don't worry, you’re not wasting your mentor’s time. - good to know, now I need some mentors...
1.0 Is the Loneliest Number - "By shipping early and often you have the unique competitive advantage"
Say Goodbye to Your Manager - it is really about "bad managers"
Engineering
Partitioning GitHub’s relational databases to handle scale - the main learning here is that you can get away without doing it for a very long time
Dungeon 230--I'm goin' in. - good post about how we can change everything later and avoid upfront design
How Backstage Made Our Developers More Effective — And How It Can Help Yours, Too - we are definitely still too small for this
Improve Your Life with Long Error Messages - "Guru Meditation"
How to Reduce Memory Bloat in Ruby
Technology
webshit weekly July, 2021 -
"Google, the world's largest repository of algorithmic search expertise,
gets trick-fucked by blogspammers and doesn't notice because nobody at
Google both speaks Norwegian and gives a shit about search results"
"Bicycling enthusiasts try to figure out why someone without even a Serfas sponsorship has managed to win. Hackernews knows it was because the professional collusion tools failed the old guard, creating an opening for someone to win based on actual physical exertion. One Hackernews is mad that women are allowed to ride bicycles, but it's not clear if the anger is about the competitive aspect or that a woman has a bicycle at all."
A fork for the time-zone database? [LWN] - heartbreaking! My favourite Changelog is getting messy
Set Safari free! - I still can't believe that this is happening, how is not everybody complaining about this?
Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation - this is another nice step to less code
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler - this is also a good thing for people using AWS
PostgreSQL 14 released - also relase notes and the little things
I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto - well, that is one person of the list! or is it?
Courtès: What's in a package - as a former Fedora packager I can relate
The Framework Laptop is now shipping! - nice, but not for me. The port things look weird and oversized too.
Bespoke - very cool modular synth, also for Linux
Clive Sinclair and the offbeat brilliance of the ZX Spectrum - we had ZX81, ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari 800 and my TI99/4A in our early home computer "gang"
Remote Work
If You Never Met Your Co-Workers in Person, Did You Even Work There? - maybe
Working From Orbit - this would free up some space in offices. I can't see myself moving to this any time soon though. Linux support is still in the making.
Women in the Workplace 2021 - very long report, with some positive news but also a lot of work to be done
The data doesn’t lie: what we learned when we tried a 4-day workweek - another successful experiment
New Microsoft Study of 60,000 Employees: Remote Work Threatens Long-Term Innovation - "Short-term productivity goes up, long-term creativity goes down."
Environment
Can YOU Fix Climate Change? [YouTube] - no
Pollutionwatch: the fight to protect children from dirty air - it is a bit annoying that this even is a fight
When will countries stop exploring for oil? [Podcast] - sometime between 2050 and never
Waste from one bitcoin transaction ‘like binning two iPhones’ - well done everybody, well done!
Cycling
‘I haven’t looked back’: the women who discovered cycling in lockdown - this is great. I also think I see a lot more women on my rides. Often alone or small groups.
Lockdown sees cycling gender gap narrow, government statistics reveal - more data on this
Why aren’t more big bike firms tracking their environmental impact? - because it takes time and effort. Good to see Trek giving it a go.
Urbanism
The Unstoppable Appeal of Highway Expansion - people will never learn
Superblocks and tactical urbanism – who owns Barcelona‘s streets? [Podcast] - people do
Tactical Urbanism & Barcelona’s Future [YouTube] - local critique of these
The Liberation of Paris From Cars Is Working - interview with one of the people making this happen
Germany: parking row brews as Green mayor plans to increase fees by 600% - still a bargain
Telosa - billionaire is going to build city from scratch ... two words: "Flying" "Taxis"
A conversation with Bianca Hermansen about Democratic Design in Cities - Ep 16 [Podcast] - interesting perspective, our cities are not often democratic designed, even if we try
Cycling by Design - Scottish cycling infrastructure guidelines (pdf)
ZDF Magazin Royale vom 17. September 2021 [German, Video] - comedy show about German's addition to cars
Random Sleep
Why Sleep Deprivation Kills - that was unexpected
What Is “Revenge Bedtime Procrastination”? - TIL ... I had to look that up recently
The Evolution of Crocodiles [Podcast] - back from the summer break and a great episodes. Crocs!
YouTube to remove misinformation videos about all vaccines - I have some other conspiracy theories I would like to have removed please
9/21/21 - It's Today!
Whistle, Gotham City’s latest superhero, is Jewish. It’s a full-circle moment for the comics industry. - ordered!
Ikea's New Gaming Collection Looks Pretty Good - I was looking for a reasonably cheap new chair!
Dutch are world’s tallest people – but they’re shrinking, study shows - see nutrition
Friday Links Disclaimer
Inclusion of links does not imply that I agree with the content of linked articles or podcasts. I am just interested in all kind of perspectives. If you follow the link posts over time you might notice common themes though.
