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Friday, August 09, 2024

Friday Links 24-23

Teapot and cup on table

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:

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. 

"Every casualty reduced makes a difference": Significant drop in casualties on Welsh roads since 20mph speed limit - surprise!

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.

Friday Links Disclaimer
Inclusion of links does not imply that I agree with the content of linked articles or podcasts. I am just interested in all kinds of perspectives. If you follow the link posts over time, you might notice common themes, though.
More about the links in a separate post: About Friday Links.

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