This week I enjoyed the podcast about Godbolt’s Rule and the one with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
You might notice more podcasts this week. Something went wrong with my link collection system recently.
I am also moving the blog … more things will go wrong.
Leadership
Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization - nicely put. It’s similar to the creation vs maintenance tension.
Is training really corporate sludge? [Podcast] - in my experience, mostly yes.
Engineering
How AI will change software engineering – with Martin Fowler [Podcast] - I like the concept of non-deterministic coding … and worry about it.
AI-assisted software development in 2025: Inside this year’s DORA report [Podcast] - I guess it had to show up in DORA.
How developers can get the most from new AI coding workflows [Podcast] - a relative pragmatic approach.
The joy of doing it right: lessons from 50 billion downloads with Jesse Wilson (Cash App, Google) [Podcast] - interesting story about the accidental success of a library.
Story: Godbolt’s Rule - When Abstractions Fail [Podcast] - some nice retro game development learning brought to the present.
DeepSeek API Docs - DeepSeek now supports the Anthropic API format … in case you run out of tokens.
Urbanism
Spain’s €60 monthly transport ticket is now on sale - I posted about this before, it is now live.
Paris unveils new urban cableway; longest in Europe [YouTube] - also posted before, this has some good interviews.
Evolution of the Barcelona Metro 1863-2050 (geographic map) [YouTube] - the look into the future is interesting.
PARIS - 3D TIMELAPSE - 300 BCE to 2025 [YouTube] - old cities are amazing
Random Puppets
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop: Back to Fraggle Rock [Podcast] - I love all the muppets.
The Fediverse Experiment [Podcast] - a podcast I didn’t know about discovers the fediverse, together with a lot of listeners.
The Alien in the Room [Podcast] - they mean LLMs
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Computer Scientist [Podcast] - fun Desert Island episode with the inventor of the WWW
Fela Kuti: Enter the Shrine [Podcast] - this sounds like Techno to me
It’s a sunny day on YouTube, with more than 100 “Sesame Street” episodes available to watch for free - more puppets
this is why everyone’s running now [YouTube] - it makes sense.
Check out Cannondale’s first-ever bike: the ST-500 from 1983 - pretty