The interview with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon by The Europeans is great, so are their other topics. Both videos in urbanism are a nice watch for today.
Engineering
Internal Platform Technical Product Manager (TPM) patterns: pros and cons - some scenarios, mostly useful for bigger teams.
Canada Needs Nationalized, Public AI - so does the EU
The Way of TDD - quick intro. I think this approach is useful when using LLMs to write code.
DORA 2025: Measuring Software Delivery After AI - I didn’t realise that DORA changed this much. Includes AI and focuses more on the whole developer experience.
MCP Servers and the Return of the Service Account Problem - another one of the security nightmares with agents.
Google is making Gmail, Docs, and other apps work better with OpenClaw - a bit fiddly to set up (it requires GCP), but useful.
Urbanism
San Francisco is awesome. It could be much better - still struggling with old ways of thinking
This Is The Real Reason We Can’t Have The Cities We Dream Of [YouTube] - GCN looking at the mess that is planning liveable cities.
How Your Parents Ruined Driving [YouTube] - and it’s leaking into the EU.
Environment
London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution - cycling & EVs
Winter 25/26 is rainiest and warmest in Catalonia in last 30 years - that’s definitely how it felt.
Random 303
10 of the best Roland TB-303 tracks of all time - Acid!
Europe’s anti-Elon [Podcast] - interview with the creator of Mastodon and other nice topics.
Other Links
- Weekly Design Links – 03/10/26
- What I’ve been reading (and listening to) this week ending 8 March 2026