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. ...
Amiga 1000 by Blake PattersonPocket 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. EngineeringMicroservices Are a Tax Your Startup Probably Can’t Afford - very long read about the pitfalls and some advantages of microservices. ...
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. LeadershipThe best culture book of 2025: The Power of Mattering [Podcast] - I am not 100% convinced, but it is on my to-read stack now. ...
Many podcasts this week. I really loved the one with Cyndi Lauper. I did enjoy the one with Kent Beck and basically all the engineering and leadership ones. LeadershipKent Beck on why software development is an exercise in human relationships [Podcast] - great interview with Kent, he is so humble and down to earth. ...