Christof Damian: Friday Links 24-07

Good urbanism videos today.

If you got some time, I can also recommend the podcast about bonuses and the four part series about the bicycle industry bubble.

Leadership

Do bonuses actually make us work harder? [Podcast] - it is very tricky, and can go awfully wrong.

The Hagakure #76: Why Are You Not Hiring Junior Developers? - Your juniors will be faster seniors than you expect. But AI is working against them.

How to Run an Async Retrospective? - I wonder how useful these really are.

Engineering

How GitHub uses merge queue to ship hundreds of changes every day - I like this, even on a smaller scale.

programmingfonts.org - because you can never have enough of them.

Playing audio files in a Pi Pico without a DAC - I probably would use a DAC.

List of 2024 Leap Day Bugs - thankfully this happens only every four years … since we are apparently not great at it.

strudel - "a new live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser! It is free and open-source and made for beginners and experts alike."

Work

In-Depth: How Does Working From Home Influence Teamwork? - many studies, non-conclusive.

Workchat: workplace culture has never been more complicated [Podcast] - Let's see if "Chronoworking" becomes a thing.

How to Handle a Retreat: 16 Tips from Bufferoos as We Head to Cancún - Step 1: head to Cancún.

Urbanism

Why Is It So Hard To Cross The Street? (& What You Can Do To Help) [YouTube] - the flag thing is still hilarious.

Drop Bar Girls and my homage to the road bike - cycling chic is back.

Should Cities be Circles? [YouTube] - yes, Circleville is a thing.

How the Dutch SOLVED Street Design [YouTube] - this should be possible everywhere.

What are the benefits of low traffic neighbourhoods on residents in London? [YouTube] - following the "culture war" around the LTNs is a weird look into the UK.

Random Emojis

On Families and Equality - this is a difficult problem to solve, none of the solutions are ideal. And yes, I now subscribe to a blog about emojis.

How did the bike industry get into such deep trouble? [Podcast] - if you are interested in industry bubbles, or bikes, this is a great four part series.

‘Hard Miles’: The Hollywood Movie That Could Boost Bicycling - new cycling film!

Hairy Bikers chef Dave Myers dies at 66 - RIP

Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon’s Toxicity - the Fediverse needs to chill a bit.

Easy-to-make kimchi - Kimchi in general isn't that hard. This is a good way of making it.

‘It makes me so sad’: church re-emerges from reservoir as Spain faces droughts - my drought update.

Feeds all around - useful tool to find RSS feeds of your Mastodon network.

Carve Her Name - "Every day women have, and are, making history. Find out what happened on this day, and carve her name with pride."