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I am a bit disillusioned with our response to the climate crisis and the pandemic.
So I am focusing on other things like management, nostalgia and urbanism!
Management
Agility ≠ Speed - common misunderstanding well explained
My experience with Re-organising a team - some good tips to keep in mind for the next time
Please dogfood your software interview homework - this are some awful examples. Who would work on a test for a whole day?
Flickr Engineering Team Vision & Guiding Principles - So many good ideas came and are still coming out of Flickr. I think this is a vision most engineering departments could adapt.
What’s the Best Meeting Cadence for Different Types of 1:1 Meetings - pretty much common sense
Don't soften feedback. - work in progress for me
Managing Humans: Michael Lopp in conversation [YouTube] - he is just so reasonable!
Engineering
CRISP: Critical Path Analysis for Microservice Architectures - if this doesn't turn you off microservices, I don't know what will
Why I Hate Password Rules - because they are stupid
Environment
The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing - people are still believing this now
Blah, Blah, Blah, Boom - I am very close to muting "COP26" on twitter
Urbanism
Parking Has Eaten American Cities - especially bad in the US, but also a problem in Europe
Paris to make motorcyclists pay for parking from 2022 - Barcelona should take note, motorcycles on the pavement are a pain and they are not policed at all
Why the Netherlands is the Best Country for Drivers [YouTube] - because driving is not like in the ads
LA tests Dutch/Japanese pocket communities. Skeptics like it [YouTube] - these are brilliant!
Half of journeys in Barcelona by car, up 23 points since before pandemic, study says - depressing "6,000 cars per square kilometer in the Catalan capital, twice as many as in Madrid or Paris."
The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach
Perfecting the New York Street An achievable, replicable plan for a city that’s embracing public space as never before - nice before/after mock-ups. Who could be against this? But clearly people are
Random Models
scalemates: Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Calypso - discovered one of my favourite models on this site, which is quite a treasure for model nostalgics
Sales of eco-friendly pet food soar as owners become aware of impact - "Globally, pets consume about 20% of the world’s meat and fish" with two flexitarians and six animals in the house I am very aware of this problem. Maybe they all should get used to more fish.
Conspiracy Chart - so funny and though so sad
TV tonight: David O’Doherty talks nonsense in new series – and it is bliss - Richard Ayoade on a bike? In the Kent countryside? Sold!
Barcelona Welcome Desk - in case you plan to move here
An instant Amiga or Atari ST in your browser - this is brilliant, no need to unpack my old Amiga
Mask-wearing linked to 53% cut in Covid incidence, global study finds - more surprises!
Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of offline social networks? - not really
Line length revisited: following the research - this is not about code, but texts
