Friday, May 02, 2025

Friday Links 25-06

City Of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, with a cloudy sky
A few uplifting stories about urbanism and science this week. 

I also really liked the video about the empty virtual world and browsing through Moby's gratis track collection.

Leadership

The best culture book of 2025: The Power of Mattering [Podcast] - I am not 100% convinced, but it is on my to-read stack now. 

TBM 351: The 4 Prioritization Jobs (And Why It Matters) - I would say they are very much related.

Engineering

How should Stripe deprecate APIs? (~2016) - most importantly, they don't use versioning, like many organisations.

Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437? - spoiler: we don't really know.

Urbanism

Putting the Trans in Transit with Katelyn Burns [Podcast] - transport infrastructure protects everybody.

When Darkness Fell: How Spain’s Blackout Revealed Architectural Truth - interesting idea, sadly without any photos from the blackout. 

UK Ikea boss backs calls to pedestrianise Oxford Street as flagship store opens - "In the past two years, the number of vacancies and candy shops have dropped" 

Cycling in City of London rises by more than 50% - in two years!

How to make cars disappear without banning them - about LTNs being quite successful.

Paris Proves the Power of Pedals: How Cycling Helped Cut Pollution in Half - infrastructure is making a difference again.

Random Science

The Age of Aquaticus [Podcast] - one example of fundamental science unexpectedly leading to big industries. 

Unstoppable: Tu Youyou [Podcast] - the one example of traditional Chinese medicine being useful? With the help of a lot of science, obviously. 

Signal Hill: Caterpillar Roadshow [Podcast] - lovely story about a wonderful Japanese kid doing science. 

The fly-tipped sofa: how an abandoned couch changed a small village – in pictures - I love this. I guess the story would have been different with a fly tipped washing machine. 

mobygratis - 500 free tracks from Moby! Free as in beer, and mostly as in freedom. 

I Spent 30 Days in a Dead Game [YouTube] - there must be many of these around, unless they just shut down. Lovely video anyway. 

demanda.ree.es - nice site to track the Spanish energy mix in real time. You can also browse back to the blackout

How Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ altered the course of electronic music - I think this was the first electronic record I heard, my father used to play this. The influence on techno music was pretty big.

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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