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Book cover: Commodore Amiga a visual Commpendium The leadership antipatterns are quite good, so is the video about a new development in Amsterdam. Leadership Product Coaching with Petra Wille [Podcast] - coaching not agile coaches. Briefly: Anonymous Questions - how to set up Q&As as a leader Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders — Lessons From Stripe, Uber & Carta - #3 being a shit-umbrella Engineering What to Know Before You Implement Public-Facing APIs - I still think versioning APIs is overrated. ...

For my new job, I (annoyingly) have to use a silly MacBook. For everything else, I have a nice, beautiful desktop running Fedora. I looked into KVMs to share my monitor and keyboard between the two computers, but couldn’t really find something reasonably priced and functional. Synergy/Barrier/InputLeap for keyboard sharing I have used Synergy before to share keyboard and mouse between Linux computers, and this was already a good step. There is a fork for Synergy on Linux called Barrier, which now has been forked again to InputLeap. Now the maintained version is Deskflow. It also allows copy & paste between systems. ...

Nerd emoji Good urbanism videos today. If you got some time, I can also recommend the podcast about bonuses and the four part series about the bicycle industry bubble. Leadership Do bonuses actually make us work harder? [Podcast] - it is very tricky, and can go awfully wrong. The Hagakure #76: Why Are You Not Hiring Junior Developers? - Your juniors will be faster seniors than you expect. But AI is working against them. ...

It has been two years since Russia’s invasion and beginning of the unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. There is fatigue and attention, and headlines are turning to the next topic. I’m not as down about it now as I was two years ago, as it really got under my skin. Now I stay mostly current with the news to not forget. I am impressed by The Guardian’s continued reporting on this. ...

Cheese on a plate I am well impressed by the transparency of Atlassian on going distributed and Buffer about their salary report. Both a worth a read. Leadership Overcoming toxic positivity with Susan David [Podcast] - toxic positivity is only a small part of this interesting conversation. ADRs and RFCs: Their Differences and Templates - I think nowadays ADRs are more common, maybe not always useful. Zombie leadership: Dead ideas that still walk among us [Paper] - some bad ideas of leadership that are still around. ...