I learnt this week - 14th April 2025
The links today including the best programmers, improving retrospectives, a live tube map, unusual trading cards, prioritisation, complex decisions, MCP issues and conversational interfaces.
The links today including the best programmers, improving retrospectives, a live tube map, unusual trading cards, prioritisation, complex decisions, MCP issues and conversational interfaces.
A blast from the past with the language TCL and a nice explanation why some bugs just don’t get fixed.
A place in Japan where you can shoplift, as long as you are silent, and what does it mean to have high agency?
Can we know tackle projects that were too big using AI and should we ignore getting the best name for something?
A way to run weather forecasts with orders of magnitude less computing power and picking a strategy based on what your opponent/competitor doesn’t want you to do.
In a recent article Seth Godin identifies that the sorting of information into directories had a big impact. He gives the …
An illustration of how to defeat writer’s block and a new school that is getting amazing results.
A new approach to working out your location without using GPS and an online Mandelbrot set explorer.
A brilliant advert from Apple in 2013 and the need for “normal” engineers on teams.
A free handbook for startup CTOs and a game that involves you identifying a time and a place.