Christof Damian

A short one this week.

I skipped a week again.

My tip for this week: search for more videos of Danny Leon’s amazing skate in front of the eclipse.

This week I really enjoyed the podcast about compression (The Hutter Prize) and the one about seashells.

I liked the “Border Collie” post today, the podcast about air conditioning in Europe, and the interview with Mike D.

I have been on vacations, which means today is a bit longer than usual.

Rand’s perspective on All Hands is worth a read this week.

This week I enjoyed the last episode in the Industry Special from Escape Collective about Chinese brands.

This week was weird.

Two good engineering podcasts to listen to this week, the one about OpenCode and the one about spec-driven development.

Again a few good podcasts, I especially liked the one about The Pre-Training Wall and the Mythical Man Month.

Two weeks of links again!

Some good podcasts this week, I liked the ones about aging programmers, bees, and GLP-1s.

Quite a few articles about AI costs getting out of control.

A bit of a mixed bag today.

I caught up with my YouTube, two good videos from NotJustBikes about cars and oil being bad.

Two weeks of links.

Logo: Codeberg e.V. — CC BY-SA 4.0 As part of moving my services to EU-based infrastructure, I’ve been migrating away from GitHub to Codeberg, a non-profit code hosting platform based in Germany.

Two great podcasts this week, with the creator of Claude Code, and another one with Werner Herzog.

The podcast about culture is great, so is the one with the creator of Kotlin.

The interview with Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon by The Europeans is great, so are their other topics.

A bit quieter this week.

Today is a weird one, so much in engineering is about AI.

I enjoyed the interview with the OpenClaw creator, even if I hate about half of his opinions.

If you watch one thing this weekend, watch the video about being misled about renewable energy.

I have been meaning to do this for a while.

It is a bit sad that he is leaving In Our Time, but I enjoyed the interview with Melvyn Bragg.

This week I enjoyed the podcast about Venezuela, the blog post about asking, and the one from Lara Hogan about employees getting stuck.

Like a lot of Europeans, I realise that the US isn't a reliable partner anymore.

This week I enjoyed the podcast about Godbolt’s Rule and the one with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

First round of links for 2026.

Another year, another bunch of books.

Clearly, I have been slacking for the last weeks.

OK, Zoo might slightly be overstating it.

Screenshot from TI99 Pirate Adventure game This week, I enjoyed the blog about chat programming, and coding at work, which is probably related.

I’ve mentioned my approach to technical debt often, but I’ve never actually written it down.

Skateboarder jumping off a building in NYC Short, but with lots of good stuff.

Short one today.

I was busy last week, which means more links for today.

A few interesting articles about AI this week.

Gorilla in Barcelona Zoo This week, I remembered Jane Goodall.

Don’t Need Money by Poorly Drawn Lines Some “AI” related stuff today, with the idea of prompt engineering being requirements engineering and how these new tools can enable non-programmers to get closer to the code.

If you have a weird fascination with trams, you should probably check out the full World Tramdriver Championship video.

Small selection today.

Quick selection.

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.

The band Kraftwerk on stage Lots of good stuff again this week.

I liked the work bringing Doom to the Amiga, without actually using Amiga code.

These are too many links.

Photo: Oto Godfrey and Justin Morton Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0 Too many random links this week.