I liked the work bringing Doom to the Amiga, without actually using Amiga code. And I learned some new things about the history of Civility in the BBC podcast. Leadership How We Encourage Self-Improvement at Buffer - $1000 is nice, it is more than in many organisations. I don’t think it is enough. TBM 370: Dependencies Aren’t Your Problem - “Shift the goal from managing dependencies, to focusing on the throughput of potentially value-creating activities” ...
These are too many links. I was on holiday … twice. I could stagger these, but there will be more next week. There are still many good things here. Too many. I am sorry. Leadership How We Plan Retreats, After Hosting 14 over 12+ Years (+ Get Our Retreat Planning Playbook!) - important for fully remote companies, and I didn’t often see this done right ...
Today is apparently the Urbanism YouTube edition. I also really liked the podcast about Hindenburg, and the video about the bikepacking trip (in Germany, sadly). Engineering Annotation Mono v0.2 - a pretty new mono font Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy [LWN] - It is a pretty drastic move, and I wonder if anything will change after this. Setting Up MCP Servers in Claude Code: A Tech Ritual for the Quietly Desperate - I have to give some of these a go. ...
My YouTube links got lost because of my new workflow. It is working now. This week I enjoyed the Podcast about copyright and the video about cycling couriers in Seoul. Leadership The Heart of Innovation: Why Most Startups Fail - long read about demand. Your Manager Is Not Your Best Friend - your manager should be thinking about the company and the team, then the individuals. ...
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. ...