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Quick selection. This week I liked the podcast with the whaler, and the Chinese cycling industry. Leadership Rate My Manager - Oh, no! It’s pretty new. (Side note: This looks vibe coded) Engineering Bringing BASIC back: Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source - very nice. It is one, 7000 line file. Browsh - new text-based browser. BYTE - visual history - I still have my favourite issues, like the one with the Amiga 3000 on the cover. I also remember one about Desqview/X, that I probably have somewhere. ...

TI 99/4A home computer original box for European market This week I enjoyed the post about dealing with abandoned EV charger hardware and of course, the video about the TI 99/4A. Leadership Nobody Wins at Calendar Tetris - busy doesn’t mean productive Tech debt isn’t an ‘IT issue.’ It’s a business strategy - yep. The Management Skill Nobody Talks About - how to fail good. Engineering Building your own CLI Coding Agent with Pydantic-AI - lots of them are popping up now. It is a good intro to the tools and libraries. ...

The band Kraftwerk on stage Lots of good stuff again this week. I recommend listening to the history of TrainingPeaks and coding in the red-queen area. Leadership Using postmortems to break out of infinite loops | Adnan Karač | LDX3 London 2025 [YouTube] - a quick talking about how to make them useful. Team OKRs in Action - they have to be co-created, not top down. Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions? - tradition. I last worked with linked lists in C on the Amiga. ...

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 ...