Environment

I have been lazy and travelling over the last few Fridays. Today is a catch-up post, with quite a few links. I recommend the podcast about the Reiser story today and the video about the first BMX park in Nigeria. Engineering The Legacy of Unix - Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan [Podcast] - The problem with Bookoverflow is the effect on my to-read list. Story: ReiserFS [Podcast] - Great summary of the whole Reiser saga, with some things I didn’t know already. Tim Bray also has a related post: Remembering Bonnie ...

The open mouth of a hippo sticking out of the water Two podcast recommendations today: the one about culture fit and the one about Escobar’s hippos. Leadership The wrong way to think about culture fit [Podcast] - It is very hard to get this wrong. Similar as values. It is just to easy to abuse. How Infrequent Retrospectives Reduce Learning Cycle Time and Make Everything Worse - retrospectives are still my favourite part of everything agile. ...

Four dogs looking into the camera Mostly urbanism links today. This week I recommend the talk by Cabel Sasser, it’s weird and fun. Engineering gptel - Emacs client for all kinds of LLMs SMURF: Beyond the Test Pyramid - everything is a tradeoff. Environment Tax on Europe’s frequent flyers could raise €64bn a year – study - unlikely to happen. Fuel duty expected to rise by up to 7p a litre after the budget - it has been reduced before and had been frozen for a long time. ...

Many links today, as I skipped some Fridays due to business and problems with my local workflow for links, which should finally be fixed. This week I especially enjoyed the video about donated bikes for Ukraine and the podcast Shell Game about scary AI stuff. Leadership TBM 313: Chat, Breathe, and Reflect - how to deal with uncertainty, don’t pretend you don’t have to change your approach. ...

If you want to go into a niche topic, watch the one about fire departments in the US, and now they affect cities. I also enjoyed the blog from Google about Rust adoption. Leadership The Founder Mode Tradeoff - “Wielding power comes at a cost. Ignoring that cost serves no one in the long run. We all love a good hero story, but it’s not the whole story.” Engineering Radio Survivor: Podcast #342 – The Famous Computer Cafe [Podcast] - meta episode about the radio show, with one of the creators. ...