Two weeks of links again! Three podcast recommendations from me, if you got the time: Dadaism, Cow Resistance, and Desert Island with Si King. The post by Rands about being overwhelmed as a leader is also great.
Leadership
Barely Treading Water - I can relate very much. “Say No” is a good start.
3 AI PM Archetypes + 1 - nice overview from his point of view.
What should one think of the 2026 DORA brochure? - more of an AI pamphlet, not based on data.
Engineering
Code Review Responses: Add Context When It Counts - I like the little titbits from them.
What is Code - and how it is changing with LLMs.
I’ve Been Shipping ‘Multi-Tenant’ Wrong for a Decade - I prefer my tenant stuff in the code, databases are so awkward. It does look elegant.
Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ - this is basically what companies are now experiencing too.
Mythos finds a curl vulnerability - as in: one.
Claude Code RCE Flaw Lets Attackers Execute Commands via Malicious Deeplinks - meanwhile in vibe coding news.
Copy.Fail Linux Vulnerability - this was very annoying.
Ongoing updates on Copy.fail and variants - and more of these.
Rackula: Server Rack Planner - nice AI assisted project.
delim-list - I never heard of paste before.
Urbanism
I Took Not Just Bikes Cycling in London [YouTube] - It’s so much better than when I left, but there is still so much to do.
Die Fahrrad-Revolution von Paris [YouTube, German] - meanwhile in Paris.
Meet the Americans who choose to live without a car in the US: ‘It takes some doing’ - like they are only special in the US.
Environment
California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon. - nice.
Fuel to electric: How Nairobi is moving beyond fossil fuels | DW News [YouTube] - Europe is basically left behind.
Random Sandwich
‘10 minutes of nirvana’: 52 writers on the best sandwich of their life - yummy.
Kraftwerk review – after more than half a century of techno supremacy, they still sound like the future - they definitely still sound fresh.
Angine de Poitrine review – alien rock duo’s UK debut is hypnotic, harebrained and 100% worth the hype - weird and nice.
Dadaism [Podcast] - another great episode of In Our Time. I can get used to the new presenter.
The Resistance of a Cow [Podcast] - people believe weird shit.
Si King, cook [Podcast] - great to hear from him.
Fodor’s No List 2026 - this is helpful, it needs more entries.
Insider Betting on Polymarket - surprise!
At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks - lol
GERMANY IS OVER [YouTube] - click-bait, still good.
Other Links
- Ben Crowder - Links #163
- Weekly Design Links – 05/19/26
- Linkfest #44: Hallucinopedia, Salmon on Cocaine, and How Phil Collins Accidentally Invented Gated Reverb
- What I’ve been reading (and listening to) week ending 17 May 2026
- What I’ve been reading (, watching, and listening to) this week ending 10 May 2026