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