2020 was a bit unexpected to say the least. Here is a quick review from my perspective.This is the second year we are living in the countryside and hour from Barcelona and over the year it turned out to have been a pretty good decision. JanuaryPretty uneventful. I mostly cycled indoors and met the BRCG crew once for a longer ride. A storm hit Spain and led to a bit of damage on our house. ...

C64 Generator A bit of a catch-up issue of the Friday Links. Full of urbanism, randomness, a few of 2020 reviews and the usual engineering management. Relatively few podcast were released over the holidays. I managed to catch up with my back-log (for a while). Management What are our core values and practices for building software? - cool summary about Thoughtsworks engineering values. I think they probably apply to a lot of companies ...

goodreads books 2020 You would think a global pandemic would be good for your reading habit. This doesn't seem to be the case for me. I am not sure where the time I spent on commute went, but definitely not towards some good use. This list is kind of in order, but also grouped by author and series. ...

I can't remember when I started to listen to podcasts. I am sure I was not an early adopter. It might have been around 2004 using iPodder on Linux with the first iPod and later an iPod Shuffle. Over the years I used various tools and devices to download podcasts and now have settled on Pocket Casts on Android. It has nice sync functionality between multiple devices and a useful web interface too. The web app is also useful to pull up the recently starred episodes for my Friday Links.I have a silly amount of subscriptions, the list below are the main ones which are still active and the ones I am still listen to regularly. ...

One of my favourite houses Last one before the holidays, where I am going to post some other things. A little bit on productivity today as I look into the Zettelkasten hype. Leadership How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too - I am personally just looking forward to the holiday. Shared vision on organization - I think this is one of the hardest things to get right ...