Sony Walkman on a wooden bench

A bit quieter this week. The podcast about the golden ages of computing is interesting, the GitHub issue exploit is also worth a read.

Leadership

The Complicators, The Drama Aggregators, and The Avoiders - I definitely recognise some of these.

Engineering

Socialize the Plan - Does reviewing plans really make sense? They are basically throwaway.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines - oops.

FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale - nice to see Meta moving stuff upstream.

GitHub - pablodelucca/pixel-agents: Pixel office. - visualise your agents (if you are on VS Code).

The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch [Podcast] - history lesson on computing.

Notes: The Universal Paperclip Clicker [Podcast] - I can relate. I am not happy programming any more, even if I produce more results.

Urbanism

BahnBet — Bet on German Train Delays - making virtual money with delays.

When will Europe get the trains it deserves? [Podcast] - The Europeans interview Jon Worth and talk about trains.

Random Walkmen

Walkman.land - so much pretty! I have been very good at not collecting Walkmen.

What is OnRouteMap? - another tool to find amenities along your route.

XKCD Dependency - the well-known comic animated.

Nick Simson - a collection of personal sites.

Scotland becomes first UK country to legalise water cremations - I never thought about the environmental impact of cremations. You can liquify me and then flush me down the toilet.

Hit and Run - I relate to this. I’ll stick with my old radar, it works pretty well.

All the cool kids are playing this wonderful geography game: Capitalle - I am so bad at this!