Both long leadership posts are definitely worth a read.
Leadership
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs). - massive topic and, as usual, Will really presents it well.
TBM 240: The Ultimate Guide to Developer Counter-Productivity - this seems to be the topic of the day again.
Engineering
OpenTF for an open Terraform [Podcast] - it's called OpenTofu now. I hope they make it.
You call it tech debt I call it malpractice [Podcast] - I like that framing.
Story: Configuring Identity: Adam Jacob and the Search for Self in Software [Podcast] - Chef history.
Forty years of GNU and the free software movement - happy birthday!
Make time to address low-hanging technical debt - I wouldn't count the examples in the article as technical debt. I do like the criteria for the low-hanging part:
- Easy to verify
- Easy to remove
- Small improvement to some part of the development, deploy, or end-user experience
It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy - I am a bit surprised and worried.
Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app - must be nice to have that kind of infrastructure. Also: Django?
Environment
Swedish government faces backlash after slashing climate budget - My guess is that the UK and Sweden are just the beginning, everybody else will pretend that they reach the goals and then fail at it.
‘A lifeline for dirty cars’: EU backs new air pollution limits, but not until 2035 - another step back.
EU states must bridge ‘planning gap’ in order to hit climate targets, report warns - not going to happen.
German parliament approves plan to replace fossil-fuel heating systems - the watered-down plan.
‘Major disruptor’: El Niño threatens the world’s rice supplies - maybe people start worrying if they can't get their rice?
Heat denial: influencers question validity of high temperatures - Denying must be the hardest hobby.
Australia to acknowledge climate risk to government bonds after world-first court settlement - maybe people start worrying if it affects their money?
Urbanism & Transport
Back to School with the Bike Bus [Podcast] - Are bike buses the most effective way to get people on board of more liveable cities?
All aboard! Can Luxembourg’s free public transport help save the world? - "The loss of income from abolishing fares was small, Bausch explains: about €40m a year, when the overall cost of running the system is about €800m"
European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds - nobody is surprised. Germany leading the way.
So will Hannover seine »nahezu autofreie« Innenstadt bauen [German] - hard to believe that this is in the same country as Berlin.
This Spanish city has been restricting cars for 24 years. Here’s what we can learn from it - the only surprise is that it happened.
This train is your charger: Lessons from Madrid about transit as public space - I have to confess that I mostly walked or used the taxi.
The Legal Attack on Superblock Barcelona - when you think everything is going well, ...
Berlin clubbers and green protesters unite to fight motorway plans - this must be the silliest motorway currently in planning in the whole world.
DIY Kyiv - The Rise of Temporary Urbanism in Ukraine - life seems too normal.
Random Pets
The case against pets: is it time to give up our cats and dogs? - I am worried about the meat consumption of our zoo.
B612 Font family - any suggestions on where I could use this? I notice there is already a Fedora package.
Raising the bar: Annemiek van Vleuten, one of cycling’s great revolutionaries, retires - she is a remarkable cyclist, not many like her around at the moment.
Do you really need to walk 10,000 steps a day? And 17 other fitness ‘rules’, tackled by the experts - there goes my age & metabolism excuse!
