This week I really enjoyed the podcast about compression (The Hutter Prize) and the one about seashells.
Leadership
Board Meetings: Your Notetaker Is Not Welcome Here - this might be true for more meetings.
AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x - I am a little bit more optimistic, but they have the data.
Engineering
Incidents start before the response does - who hasn’t been notified by customers about an outage?
keyv and cacheable npm Package Hijacked in Supply Chain Attack - another one.
SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? - great, now CVEs are useless too.
RJ45 Wiring Diagram: A Quick Guide for Beginners - I am crimping cables. I hate it.
Why programmers will never be replaced - We Programmers by Uncle Bob [Podcast] - It turned into mostly an off-topic chat, which was pretty good.
The Hutter Prize: Compression, prediction, and the limits of intelligence [Podcast] - I loved this one. Let’s just write the best compression :-)
Urbanism
‘They were told bikes were for men’: how Latin America’s city of cycling is breaking gender barriers - Nice initiatives.
Is This Peak Hot-Weather Urbanism? [YouTube] - I guess we have to learn from them.
Inside Barcelona’s most sweltering neighbourhood: El Raval - that being said, the old housing in Barcelona is pretty good in the heat.
Nomenclàtor dels carrers de Barcelona [Catalan] - check out the background on street names in Barcelona.
Environment
EU relaxes methane and carbon emission rules - Thanks EU!
Romania blasts Danube River to protect nuclear plant cooling [YouTube] - This is fine.
Random Seashells
Seashells [Podcast] - Great episode on a topic I knew nothing about.
A Hotshot [Podcast] - Firefighting wildfires.
Fastmail offers EU data region - nice. They still have some data like logs in the US.
Other Links
- John Freeborn: Weekly Design Links – 08/04/26
- Clive Thompson: Linkfest #47: A Decoy Font, “Reverse Minesweeper”, and A Plant That Dies If You Look At Your Phone
- Jason Yip: What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 2 August