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Nothing about the war in Europe. It is to fresh and too frustrating. I don't even want to think about it.
Leadership
TBM 8/52: The Data-Informed Product Cycle - "We (hopefully) start with a Strategy"
You Won't Have All the Answers: Why Being Intellectually Honest and Disassociating from Ideas Makes You a Better Leader (with Remi Guyot, Chief Product Officer at BlaBlaCar) [Podcast] - how to get into management and how to enable people
From Manager to Director: Guide to Managing Managers [Podcast] - mostly about the differences to managers and how to grow into it
Don’t Be the CEO of Happiness: Why Culture is Defined by a Team (with Colleen McCreary, Chief People, Places, & Publicity Officer at Credit Karma) [Podcast] - Good communication is key
The Death of Process - plan for obsolescence of the policies you create!
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler [Podcast] - founding story of Goodreads
Engineering
Moving the kernel to modern C [LWN] - "modern" as in over 20 years old standard
Data diffs: Algorithms for explaining what changed in a dataset - quickly see differences in data
A walk through Project Zero metrics - seems like we are getting better at fixing security issues
Y2038 - I am mostly hoping to be retired by then
Balancing Safety and Velocity in CI/CD at Slack - it is interesting how bad it was and how they dealt with it
Learning from incidents [Podcast] - how to best handle incidents to gather insights and learn
The Kobayashi Maru of Comparing Dates with Times - dates and times are the worst
Work
Our Vision for Location-Independent Salaries at Buffer - not quite location independent, but the two bands are pretty close
How to Have the Best Bad Meetings - controversial!
Mandatory cycling helmet law dropped in Seattle as it unfairly targets black people and the homeless, say officials - they also are not very useful
Why People Really Quit Their Jobs - "People leave jobs, and it’s up to managers to design jobs that are too good to leave."
The 4 Rs of people-first culture - quite common sense, but I like the definition
Environment
Valve partners with iFixit so you can replace Steam Deck parts by yourself - we need more of this kind of information for products
The future of research events? - "I think it’s also urgent though that we stop tolerating conferences without an ethical/environmental policy."
Ghost village emerges in Spain as drought empties reservoir - beautiful, but also frightening. We haven't had proper rain in more than 70 days now.
Urbanism
There Are No Accidents with Jessie Singer [Podcast] - cars don't kill people, people do
What Happened When They Banned Cars [YouTube] - spoiler: everything got better
Stealing Bicycles by Swapping QR Codes - sneaky!
Well There's Your Problem | Episode 96: John Forester & Vehicular Cycling [YouTube] - I listened to the podcast, but this has slides. Good history and insights into urban cycling
‘Noise radar’ in Paris will catch raucous cars and motorbikes - meanwhile most cities don't even enforce speed limits or stop lights
Bicycles and public transport: The perfect match - good to see the World Bank getting into this
From crisis to opportunity: How the Philippines built 500km of bike lanes in less than a year - apparently this is very one sided and doesn't talk about the local advocacy groups, but still good news
Wie Europas Metropolen das Auto loswerden wollen [German] - slowly
Random Supercomputers
Clustered-Pi Zero edition - your own mini Cray!
Homage to Spain’s railways: take the slow train for the best scenic routes - I don't ride enough trains!
Romeo and Juliet [Podcast] - the brilliant thing about In Our Time are these kind of topics that I usually wouldn't get in contact with. Great episode.
Presenting: Science Vs. Joe Rogan: The Malone Interview [Podcast] - turns out it is indeed pretty bad
Can Joe Rogan change? [Podcast] - spoiler: no
Bypassing Apple’s AirTag Security - "Apple didn’t think this through nearly as well as it claims to have"
More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows - for some reason I wanted to find out how useful guns are to prevent crime or in self defence. This is a great article and answers that question.
Synology NAS and Hard Drive Compatibility in 2022 – Should I Be Worried? - turns out that Synology is behaving not nice
A Software Engineer Upgraded an Old iPod for 2022 - I am using YouTube Music and I do hate it at times. It really forces you to listen to the same songs over and over again.
Making Singletrack Legal: The Threat of 1,000€ Fines and The Politics of Barcelona’s Collserola Park - this is so frustrating. I had some of my most fun riding on those singletracks, when I lived in Barcelona.
Portland Startup to Mine Artisanal Bitcoin Using Only Slide Rules and Graph Paper - finally hipster coins!
‘The sprites clearly do not look like actual lemmings’: the inside story of an iconic video game - TIL: there is a documentary about Lemmings
worldle - I am so bad at this
»Alle diese Wege gibt es noch, sie haben eine Geschichte« [German] - cycling in the Pyrenees
Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder. - super useful paywall skipping tool
In Praise of ‘Line Goes Up’ - can't be repeated often enough
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