I enjoyed the in depth look into Pablo Escobar’s hippos. Amazing what kind of wide ranging effect this has on the country.
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
- The Log4j mess
- On the Log4j Vulnerability
- More Log4j News - Schneier
- Lessons from Log4j [LWN]
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