Both leadership podcasts about managers and coaching are excellent. The post about remote work is also interesting. People are different, so are organisations. Leadership The future of work? “The manager as a therapist” [Podcast] - I think I used that line before. I am not sure if this is a good thing. Extras #24 - Building High-Performing Teams Through Coaching - with Steph Yiu [Podcast] - interesting stuff from Automatic. I would love to see that kind of support in all companies. ...

Some cheerful urbanism news this week. It is especially great to see how Paris is progressing. For a fun nerdy read, have a look at the tic-tac-toe implemented in printf, or the floppy history. Engineering How to measure your cloud carbon footprint [Podcast] - nice open-source tool. Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened - Schneier weighs in too. The Turing Police say “X Wins” - tic-tac-toe implemented in a single printf. ...

Heisenberg’s indeterminacy principle formula. Two weeks of links, which includes a collection from the xz debacle. I loved reading these, as this is a good combination of spy story and technology postmortem. If you want to read an overview, read the timeline post. Good podcasts this week: about the Heisenberg principle, and the silencing of climate protesters in the UK. Leadership Getting real with Employee Experience [Podcast] - two good interviews with people active in the area. ...

For my new job, I (annoyingly) have to use a silly MacBook. For everything else, I have a nice, beautiful desktop running Fedora. I looked into KVMs to share my monitor and keyboard between the two computers, but couldn’t really find something reasonably priced and functional. Synergy/Barrier/InputLeap for keyboard sharing I have used Synergy before to share keyboard and mouse between Linux computers, and this was already a good step. There is a fork for Synergy on Linux called Barrier, which now has been forked again to InputLeap. Now the maintained version is Deskflow. It also allows copy & paste between systems. ...

Painting with two radio masts in the country side I loved the essay about 40 years of programming by Lars Wirzenius. The coaching session about career goals is also great, independent of the topic. Leadership How Do I Balance My Career Goals with My Company’s Needs? [Podcast] - great coaching session. Breaking Down Barriers: How Field Trips to Different Team Offsites Spark Cross-Team Collaboration - I love this idea. Leadership requires taking some risk. - “sometimes bottom-up leadership requires obfuscating the work being done” ...