Friday Links

Some nice urbanisation going on in Barcelona. I also enjoyed the podcast about scams and trust. LeadershipThe MarsBased Handbook - I love this kind of open handbook. It is silly that everybody has to invent them from scratch. EngineeringHow LinkedIn automates cherry-picking commits to improve developer productivity - "While most repositories (e.g., web services) practice continuous delivery solely from trunk (or main branch), those (e.g., core libraries) that need to stabilize their release or release on a fixed schedule use release branches." ...

Lots of urbanism links, but apart from that, I can recommend the "The Pillars of Integrity" podcast episode and the (German) story about a dog "Bambam". Leadership#161 Jim Dethmer: The Pillars of Integrity [Podcast] - this was a great episode, not only about the pillars, but the rest of the chat too ...

Short one today! I enjoyed the conversation about "Brains, hormones, and time" with Dunbar. If you haven't subscribed to "The War on Cars" yet, this 100th episode might be a good start. LeadershipThe Backbone of a Successful Team: 1:1s, Skip Levels, and the Delegation Framework (with Spencer Norman, VP of Engineering at Privy) [Podcast] - there is a lot in this. I don't agree with all of it. ...

I enjoyed the podcast about Rawls' Theory of justice and the article about "BAU work", which is really about much more. LeadershipGo Beyond Fixing It: How the VP of Engineering at Box Approaches High-Stake Change (with Tamar Bercovici, VP of Engineering at Box) [Podcast] - different levels of leadership and focusing on goals ...

Another week and too many links. Slava Ukraini But more importantly, today is the anniversary of the aggression against the Ukraine people. It threw me off-centre quite a bit last year, more than the pandemic and more than many things I can remember living through. ...