This week, I recommend the blog posts in engineering. Some nice toys to play with. Engineering Building Bauble - language to create shaded graphics and animations. You can modify the code in the blog post to play with it. The Visible Zorker - looking at the inner workings of Zork. Building a tiny Linux from scratch - pretty cool, I haven’t even built my own kernel for a long time. ...
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. ...