Pink bike covered in pink flowers parked on the Joes Kloppenburgbrug in Amsterdam

Quite a few articles about AI costs getting out of control. For something different I recommend the podcast about the origins of Rose Bikes.

Quote of the Week
What they found instead was that “who is on a team matters less than how the team members interact, structure their work, and view their contributions” (Google 2015). In other words, it all comes down to team dynamics.
Accelerate
Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Engineering

Do I belong in tech anymore? - I can relate to some of this.

The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next? - I predict that a few companies will reduce AI usage for coding and products with increasing prices.

GitHub freezes new Copilot sign-ups as agentic AI breaks the economics of flat-rate developer subscriptions - more effects of wrong pricing.

The Bot Tax - “The risk is that we’ve built a toil generator that runs on someone else’s bill and on our team’s understanding of its own code.”

Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions - pretty cool hack.

Continuing the story of early DOS development - more early history open sourced.

emacs-skills: Emacs skills for coding agents - OK, some of these are actually useful.

Urbanism

Statistisches Bundesamt: Jede sechste im Straßenverkehr getötete Person war 2025 mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs [German] - bleak news.

Fahrrad-Unfallstatistik: Deutscher Sonderweg [German] - and nobody doing anything about it.

We Finally Have the Data on Cyclists Running Stop Signs [YouTube] - turns out it isn’t dangerous after all.

How Frank Lloyd Wright Predicted Modern Suburbs (Broadacre City) [YouTube] - he did some wacky designs for cities.

Environment

One year after Spain’s blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on - and it made Spain more robust during this oil crisis.

Random Bikes

Building Rose Bikes [Podcast] - another cool origin story.

DNA Lounge: Wherein we have a gallery of dick pix - that’s a nice collection of … data.

Doomjobbing: how the modern job hunt became a vicious loop - putting a word to it.

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