Two great podcasts this week, with the creator of Claude Code, and another one with Werner Herzog. And check out the links from other people, they are much better than mine. Sorry about destroying your productivity with the 100 jumps game. New addition to these posts: Quote of the Week A profusion of ideas spewed forth from his mind. There was no such thing as a bad idea, apparently. But, perhaps more important, there was no such thing as a good idea either, until it had been tried and coolly evaluated. Reamde Neal Stephenson ...

The podcast about culture is great, so is the one with the creator of Kotlin. Tanith’s techno set is pretty great too. Leadership The more you talk about culture, the less people believe you [Podcast] - I have seen some of the stuff they mention. My preferred product management techniques and frameworks - “Talk to everyone” ...

The interview with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon by The Europeans is great, so are their other topics. Both videos in urbanism are a nice watch for today. Engineering Internal Platform Technical Product Manager (TPM) patterns: pros and cons - some scenarios, mostly useful for bigger teams. ...

A bit quieter this week. The podcast about the golden ages of computing is interesting, the GitHub issue exploit is also worth a read. Leadership The Complicators, The Drama Aggregators, and The Avoiders - I definitely recognise some of these. Engineering Socialize the Plan - Does reviewing plans really make sense? They are basically throwaway. A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines - oops. ...

Today is a weird one, so much in engineering is about AI. Check out the live coding trance video and pretty Stockholm metro videos. Engineering Extremely Lazy and Immensely Curious - I still think it makes you dumb. Mediations #35: Learning. Again. And Again. - learning how AI fits in and how we fit in. Implementing a clean room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code - is it clean code if Claude probably had access to a Z80 emulator at some point? ...