This week I enjoyed the interviews with Hazel Weakley and Melinda French Gates. For some reason, I also have a few clubbing related links. If you like electronic music and play around with it yourself, I recommend the podcast with Alex McLean about live coding. LeadershipSoftware Development As Collective Learning With Hazel Weakly [Podcast] - Very thoughtful interview about Hazels journey and her views on leadership. ...
Both leadership podcasts about managers and coaching are excellent. The post about remote work is also interesting. People are different, so are organisations. LeadershipThe 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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...