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This week I enjoyed the podcasts about Lise Meitner and Korea. OpenRailwayMap is also nice to play around with, if you are interested in railways all over the world. Engineering The Work of Building for Other Engineers: Platform & SRE Mindset Anatomy of a Recruitment Phish - the things jobseekers have to deal with nowadays. Environment Climate action literacy interventions increase commitments to more effective mitigation behaviors [Paper] - people don’t know which individual actions are useful. I should get rid of my pets. ...

First post curated via Readwise Reader. I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket. I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye video this week. It is lovely and a bit sad. Leadership Stuff I learned at Carta. - lots of good stuff, maybe not applicable in all organisations. Early Days of Agile Development & Is Design Dead? • Martin Fowler & James Lewis • GOTO 2024 [YouTube] - nice chat. ...

Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-) ...

A very random collection this week, with some prepping research. The Life-Sized City report from Berlin is pretty cool, so is the one about building a simple game in different engines, I also liked the post about microservices. Engineering Microservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford - very long read about the pitfalls and some advantages of microservices. Formally verified cloud-scale authorization [Paper] - fascinating. Maybe only do that if you have a billion calls a second. ...

A few uplifting stories about urbanism and science this week. I also really liked the video about the empty virtual world and browsing through Moby’s gratis track collection. Leadership The best culture book of 2025: The Power of Mattering [Podcast] - I am not 100% convinced, but it is on my to-read stack now. TBM 351: The 4 Prioritization Jobs (And Why It Matters) - I would say they are very much related. ...