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The whole Log4j incident was also fun to follow.
Management
How To Start A Book Club At Work - beginners guide
Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team - lots of insights from different leaders and companies
Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations - because of changes
Technology
Log4j / Log4Shell
Rails 7.0: Fulfilling a vision - as much as I question the use of SPAs, I am not sure about this approach either
Web3 is Bullshit - indeed
Load Fonts Fast - even the simplest things are complicated nowadays
Someone Is Running Lots of Tor Relays - that can't be good
How We Run Engineering All-Hands at Storyblocks - nice structure and ideas for content
Urbanism
EPBD: Mandatory bicycle parking in all new and renovated buildings will make cycling easier for millions of Europeans - brilliant, this is a big hurdle for a lot of cyclists in cities
La Rambla’s reformation to start in 2022 at a cost of €44.5m - the plans look pretty. Will it reduce the number of tourists and tourist traps? probably not
Faster trains and cheaper tickets to boost European rail travel in new strategy - just a proposal, it is still in the hand of the useless local governments
Mit Lastenrädern mehr als 16 Mal um die Erde [German] - very successful and free cargo bike rental in Berlin
How to ride a bike with no hands - if your city is build for this and it is legal
Every neighborhood should have a corner store—but can't [YouTube] - my dream is to open a little shop in our (commuter) village, because there is nothing at the moment
Österreich sagt Autobahnbau bei Wien ab [German] - Austria is not going to build some motorways, because of the environmental impact
Random Hippos
How Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ became a biodiversity nightmare [Podcast] - I heard of them on and off before, but this is a summary of everything related to narco hippos
Will loneliness kill remote work cultures? With Noreena Hertz [Podcast] - very insightful
The Most Popular Every Intention Articles in 2021 - nice collection of self help articles including the very good The Introverts Guide to Increasing Energy
New EV Spartan 4x4 full review - on and off-road [YouTube] - I really want my Defender electrified, but this also looks fun and more reasonably priced
Man spends 27:41 messing with two old compact Compact Cassette decks [YouTube] - I still have two decks to fix too
Mixtape | Exclusive Clip Featuring Gemma Brooke Allen & Nick Thune | Netflix [YouTube] - it has Tape in the title, so I have to watch it
