Covers of the books mentioned I kept my reading in pretty light. I mostly read crime series, I am following and binged a new one. There were some books I have been pretty disappointed with. At least this will reduce my future reading list. You can also check out My Year in Books on Goodreads. Non-fiction Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business - I was joining a company focused on Kanban, which I never used fully before. I wanted to catch up with the ideas and concepts. This is a great book for that. Overall, it turned out the company actually used a long to-do list for their planning and not the more advanced ideas. ...

I have been lazy and travelling over the last few Fridays. Today is a catch-up post, with quite a few links. I recommend the podcast about the Reiser story today and the video about the first BMX park in Nigeria. Engineering The Legacy of Unix - Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan [Podcast] - The problem with Bookoverflow is the effect on my to-read list. Story: ReiserFS [Podcast] - Great summary of the whole Reiser saga, with some things I didn’t know already. Tim Bray also has a related post: Remembering Bonnie ...

The open mouth of a hippo sticking out of the water Two podcast recommendations today: the one about culture fit and the one about Escobar’s hippos. Leadership The wrong way to think about culture fit [Podcast] - It is very hard to get this wrong. Similar as values. It is just to easy to abuse. How Infrequent Retrospectives Reduce Learning Cycle Time and Make Everything Worse - retrospectives are still my favourite part of everything agile. ...

This week’s recommendations: the podcast about lawns and why cars are so scary at Halloween. Leadership Why Your Meetings Suck (And How to Fix Them): Insights from Dr. Steven Rogelberg 6 | 37 [Podcast] - focusing on 1:1 meetings Measuring Developer Productivity with Diff Authoring Time [Podcast] - the use case is improving developer experience tools and not measuring developers. TBM 318: Why Orgs Become Too Tall - again a good overview from John about the causes, some of them are difficult to work around. ...

Four dogs looking into the camera Mostly urbanism links today. This week I recommend the talk by Cabel Sasser, it’s weird and fun. Engineering gptel - Emacs client for all kinds of LLMs SMURF: Beyond the Test Pyramid - everything is a tradeoff. Environment Tax on Europe’s frequent flyers could raise €64bn a year – study - unlikely to happen. Fuel duty expected to rise by up to 7p a litre after the budget - it has been reduced before and had been frozen for a long time. ...