Two weeks of links. A lot of AI related articles again. I liked the paper about using chatbots in leadership, and the one about the YAML of the mind. If you want a podcast, check out the one about night trains.
Leadership
We-ness: The secret cause of Psychological Safety [Podcast] - very interesting deep dive into how feeling like a team can increase psychological safety.
State of the Global Workplace 2026 - it’s not great, people care less about their workplace.
Using customized, conversational AI agents in leadership and management research - this surprised me, it is pretty positive about AI usage for leadership.
Engineering
Sebastian Bergmann: AI agents can now write code, run tests, and open PRs — what keeps them in check? - best practices and how they are still the best when using AI.
Greg Wilson: “Programming by Chat: A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of 11,579 Real-World AI-Assisted IDE Sessions” - link to interesting paper about how engineers are using AI.
Hackers breached the European Commission (The Next Web) - more Trivy effects.
Android Studio supports Gemma 4: our most capable local model for agentic coding
Gemma 4 26B (IQ4_XS) - Optimized for 16GB VRAM
Painting with Math: A Gentle Study of Raymarching
The role of LLMs in patch review - work in progress for the kernel.
AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar - more AI kernel feedback.
Self hosting as much of my online presence as practical - I didn’t know about the BlueSky part.
What We Learned After Finding 7 Forgotten Jobs Running for 5 Years - I bet everybody has these kind of jobs. I like the idea of a monorepo to surface these.
The YAML of the Mind - interesting idea to use a formal language to describe exactly what we want with AI.
Urbanism
How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets - My prediction is that Paris will lead the most bicycle friendly cities in a few years.
‘Changing a city is complicated’: Anne Hidalgo looks back on 12 years as Paris mayor - how Hidalgo enabled the changes in Paris.
Train journeys between Barcelona and regional capitals now take longer than they did in 2000 - the infrastructure is getting worse.
Europe’s night train renaissance: Still on track? [Podcast] - sadly not, but there is hope.
Environment
Turkey to race ahead of EU on battery storage amid fossil fuel crisis - and Germany is falling back.
Avocado Diaboli: how California’s battery storage is working out - very well, thank you very much.
Random Spreads
Gentleman’s Relish is toast after its maker axes the pungent anchovy spread - what? I never had the chance to eat it, and now it is even more overpriced. I guess I have to make it myself.
Chad: My therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the Artemis II dashboard - pretty amazing visualisation.
42 stages, unbeatable scenery, 144,000ft of climbing: Is the Grand Tour of Catalonia Gravel the world’s most epic gravel ride? - I need more time, fitness, and maybe a gravel bike.
Electronic dance music events appear to provide a mental health boost for women over 40 - for everybody!
OBSOLETE SOUNDS - samples from stuff only I remember.
Supreme Court of Finland makes crimes against humanity convictions in landmark ruling - nice to see the law working in some countries.
The end of Orbán? [Podcast] - one can only hope.
Apple at 50: my top five Apple moments - I am definitely not an Apple fan. Great hardware, mediocre software, bad politics.
Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac - I use whipper, in the comments there are some new options.