It is a bit sad that he is leaving In Our Time, but I enjoyed the interview with Melvyn Bragg.
The blog post about curiosity as a leader is short and great.
Leadership
Should you include engineers in your leadership meetings? - interesting idea, not really in my area at the moment.
Curiosity is the first-step in problem solving - I think curiosity is always a good place to start from.
Engineering
Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI - everybody seems to be building browsers with AI at the moment. I sense trouble.
Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam - there are certainly some parallels
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents - I recognise a lot of this in my work with Claude Code.
Anthropic embeds Slack, Figma and Asana inside Claude, turning AI chat into a workplace command center - I am just trying this at work, it hasn’t been useful so far.
“Test Interface, Not Implementation” - good reminder of the practice.
Rebuilding Gather’s virtual world brick by brick - I forgot about Gather! This is a nice insight into the architecture.
Writing Visualizations with Remotion - that’s pretty
Exploring AI agent platforms [Podcast] - their definition of agentic excludes Claude Code. They might have a point.
The hidden skill behind every high-performing engineering team with Andrew Stellman [Podcast] - I don’t agree with all of this, but it includes some good points.
Urbanism
Switzerland to expand rail network and drop more than 30 road projects - there is still some road widening.
Library of Things expands across Catalonia to reduce unnecessary purchases - good initiative.
Le concours - pictures from 70s Paris
A European social network for the WTF era [Podcast] - Forget about the social network. The interview with Katja Diehl is the good bit.
Random Graffiti
Art transforms Besòs into open-air museum - pretty! Once the days are getting longer I’ll have a look.
France to ditch US platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom for ‘sovereign platform’ amid security concerns - nice
‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country - “Instead, you should pay attention to the fact that you live in a society that is more humane”
The Venezuelan Curse (Part 2) [Podcast] - the second and final part reaches until today.
Melvyn Bragg meets Misha Glenny [Podcast] - I can’t remember how long I listed to In Our Time. It is weird if a long time presenter gives way for the next one.
The Punchline [Podcast] - I usualy skip US sports episodes. This one is like a Disney film.