This week I enjoyed the podcast about Godbolt’s Rule and the one with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. You might notice more podcasts this week. Something went wrong with my link collection system recently. I am also moving the blog … more things will go wrong. Leadership Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization - nicely put. It’s similar to the creation vs maintenance tension. ...
First round of links for 2026. Everything is bad, so have some links to cheer you up. I really liked the article about visibility, the one about Friday deploys, and sitting alone in a café … which I can relate to. I am a big fan of Bill Nighy's podcast, that certainly will improve your mood. For some reason, the random section is full of cassette tape related links. LeadershipTeam's “Wrapped 2025” to Increase Velocity - nice idea I clearly didn't implement ...
Another year, another bunch of books. I spend most of the year binging through thriller series that I had already had started in 2024. The books I really liked were the newest book from the Slough House series, the spy novel The Persian, and Fundamentals of Software Architecture (even if I didn't finish it). I am still using Goodreads to track these, so you can find the pretty Year in Books there. ...
Clearly, I have been slacking for the last weeks. Just look at all the links from other people at the bottom! This might also be the last post for the year, as I will be enjoying the festive season. ...
OK, Zoo might slightly be overstating it. Let's start at the beginning. In March 2019, we moved from Barcelona into the countryside. While I grew up in a village and studied in a small town, my recent life I spend in London and Barcelona. It was also my first house, farmhouse even, having lived in flats most of my life. So clearly, I thought about how I could complete my cosplaying of country life. ...