I was a bit distracted last Friday, so it is another double week today.
I truly enjoy the Bookoverflow podcast. Some of the books I know already, and find the different perspectives interesting. Some of the other books I do plan to read now.
For something entirely different: The Orkneyinga Saga and Fed podcasts.
Leadership
No More: It’s The People - at least not all the time.
Engineering
Bookoverflow [Podcast] - many good episodes discussing engineering books or talking to authors. Some examples:
- "The Practice of Programming" by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
- "A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout
- "Fundamentals of Software Architecture" by Mark Richards and Neal Ford (Part 2)
- "What Is ChatGPT Doing... And Why Does It Work?" by Stephen Wolfram
- "Clean Coder" by “Uncle Bob” Martin
Story: Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell [Podcast] - banging your head against Microsoft's wall.
Maximal min() and max() [LWN] - that should be easy with a macro … tens of years later … oops.
Work
Why Don't We Have a 15-hour Work Week? [Podcast] - probably because of the rich.
Return-to-office mandates hurt employee retention, productivity, survey says - surpise!
Environment
Extreme heat poses ‘real risk’ to Spain’s mass tourism industry - and the locals.
Fed with Chris van Tulleken [Podcast] - about the chicken we eat.
‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis - eat the rich!
Germans Combat Climate Change From Their Balconies - this is not legal yet in Spain.
‘It made me cry’: photos taken 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers - whatever you do, don't read the Twitter replies.
Barcelona records lowest nitrogen dioxide levels in 25 years - good, but: "However, pollution levels still exceed the limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European targets for 2030. "
All-night streetlights make leaves inedible to insects, study finds - that is a new side effect to me.
Wildfire boundary maps expand to new countries in Europe and Africa - nice. I have seen this working in Catalonia already.
Urbanism
A Swiss Town Banned Billboards. Zurich, Bern May Soon Follow - nice. I think they banned neon lights in Barcelona at some point.
Do bigger highways actually help reduce traffic? - no
NYC REALLY Screwed Up Congestion Pricing (with Doug Gordon) [Podcast] - that is a pretty remarkable mess-up.
‘Massive disinformation campaign’ is slowing global transition to green energy - it is better and cheaper, but many still believe this.
Prague 1 reintroduces night ban on vehicles in defiance of Prague City Hall - because of noise pollution.
Very similar to Wiesbaden (in German): Wiesbaden reduziert Tempo in kompletter Innenstadt
Environmental Urbanism and Urban Geographies: Medellín 2024-2027 Urban Plan - mostly about green corridors. There was a plan like that in Barcelona in the past, it never happened.
Random Tea
Europe's under-the-radar region that's home to the 'undisputed tea world champions' - I can't find a decaf version of this.
Western DJs accused of ‘normalising war’ for playing at Russian techno events - I am sad to see Magda on the line-up.
CDs sales are growing. How I wish I hadn’t given my beloved collection away - or we could just buy music, instead of rent?
Battenburg markings - I find the British emergency vehicles strangely attractive. I didn't know that the pattern had a name and a design brief.
The Orkneyinga Saga [Podcast] - super fun.
Techno godfather Juan Atkins: ‘There were 5,000 white kids going crazy to my music’ - one of the great ones.
Mosquitoes can fly but they can't hide from the Bzigo Iris - all it needs now is a stronger laser.
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