Engineering
Building Bauble - language to create shaded graphics and animations. You can modify the code in the blog post to play with it.
The Visible Zorker - looking at the inner workings of Zork.
Building a tiny Linux from scratch - pretty cool, I haven't even built my own kernel for a long time.
Environment
BBC Trending: Were Valencia's floods engineered weather? [Podcast] - this was a new conspiracy theory for me.
Urbanism
How can urban transport work in extreme winter conditions? [YouTube] - By prioritizing public transport, walking, and cycling.
142. Congestion Pricing Is Finally Here [Podcast] - The War on Cars interviews people affected by the congestion charge in NYC.
Meet the brothers who built NYC’s favorite congestion pricing tracking tool - "Unsurprisingly, depending on the route and time of day, the new tolling scheme seems to be working — perhaps even better than expected."
Still on track: Barcelona’s metro celebrates its centenary [Podcast] - 100 years!
Random Coffee
From the archive: The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? [Podcast] - I have given up for a long time. There might be some benefits that I am not getting.
How Quitting Alcohol Transformed My Cycling [YouTube] - I mainly enjoy the relaxed weekend mornings.
Sites without sound: Oslo leads in quiet, low-emission electric construction - I noticed some electric construction vehicles when I was in Oslo.
PANTHER electric test drive on the race track - Rosenbauer - I like fire engines!
‘I like to break the rules’: Björk on comedy, darkness and the most flamboyant tour of her career - I really like when artists change over time, leaving some fans behind, even if this includes myself.
New Spanish law to "protect" cyclists proposes drivers must slow 20km/h below speed limit before overtaking bike riders - We have the nicest drivers already, let's see if this improves it even more.
1235. Waro Kishi /// House in Shimogamo /// Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan /// 1992-94 - I have been following this blog for a while. There are many houses I don't like, but this one is nice.
Revisited: just how bad is alcohol for us? [Podcast] - still bad.
Five years of Covid: Part one and Part two [Podcast] - a review, mostly of the science.
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