I caught up with my YouTube, two good videos from NotJustBikes about cars and oil being bad.
I really liked all the links in leadership this week, all highly recommended.
Leadership
The Vasa - “Understanding why the Vasa sank also gets to something important about how organisations fail.”
TBM 417: Before You Fire All Your Glue People Because of AI - very good point, a lot of work is invisible, we might lose the context.
How Engineering Leaders Approach Strategy - Crafting Engineering Strategy by Will Larson [Podcast] - I love his blog, this is part of a review of his latest book.
Engineering
State of Radicle CI and where it’s going: April 2026 - still on my to-do list to try out.
Is Anthropic ’nerfing’ Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation as leaders push back - I haven’t seen it, though Opus 4.7 seems a bit weird.
The Human Cost of 10x: How AI Is Physically Breaking Senior Engineers - it doesn’t actually make our life easier, we just do more.
Nineteen Features, Zero Architecture - nice experiment, maybe not totally fair.
Friends GIF cripples website discussion platform backup with 377 gigabytes of Rachel’s ‘happy dance’ - oops.
Urbanism
When Oil Gets Expensive, Cities Get Better [YouTube] - it doesn’t seem to make a difference at the moment.
Every Reason to Hate Cars [YouTube] - fully agree.
The Most Controversial Street in London [YouTube] - depending on who you ask.
Are Bike Lanes Actually Ruining Our Cities? [YouTube] - no.
Work in Progress: How we’re tackling Sidewalk Sheds (with John Wilson) [YouTube] - why am I following the Mayor of NYC? I don’t know!
What I Stopped Thinking About When I Went Car-Free - it’s a lot of cognitive load that nobody considers.
Barcelona to standardise La Rambla terraces under new design code - nice.
Are Human Drivers Finally Obsolete? [Podcast] - Probably not, unless we ban people.
Guess the Tube Line - so much fun, if you spend some time on the Tube.
Random Tea
Health and Safe-Tea at Work: Brewing Time [YouTube] - I just discovered that Yorkshire Tea has a YouTube channel.
500 Words 12: The Future Of DJing [German] - I hope AI isn’t the future, it is a personality killer.
Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic launches first trans healthcare guide - good.
Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data - that’s a bit rubbish.
Other Links
- Weekly Design Links – 04/14/26
- Fragments: April 14
- Links #158 (the long one)
- What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 12 April 2026