A short one this week. The management reading list gave me some new ideas and the interview with Mr. T is great.
Leadership
Good Culture is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI - It relates to the quote above.
Reading about management - a good reading list, some new stuff for me too.
Engineering
Maybe We Shouldn’t Be Reviewing All This Code - I certainly agree with code reviews being about learning, not bugs. Replacing this won’t be easy.
Un-Racing Issues - how Tim deals with AI PRs.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode - nice hack.
Creepy crawlies - Funnily enough I have to deal with this now on my own Forgejo server.
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full - cryptography is hard.
Urbanism
Japan to lower residential road speed limit from 60 to 30 kph - just like that.
Environment
Per capita consumption-based CO₂ emissions - Spain is not doing too bad.
Record-hot summer: Catalonia records 20 days above 40°C - it has been a bit warm.
Random Podcasts
The one change that worked: I stopped listening to podcasts – and my mind flooded with ideas - this seems to be a step too far for me :-)
‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T - lovely interview.
Other Links
- Martin Fowler: Fragments: September 1