~/log $ tail -f # podcasts & reads worth the bandwidth — newest first
Stay for the How Good segment at the end — Te Aihe Butler on the old tech that is healing his brain. Being “Chrono Triggered” into games that ask for your attention rather than farming it is a sharper argument against the modern attention economy than most things written directly about it. The bulk of the episode is Toby Manhire and Duncan Greive on a prime minister who cannot get a grip on his own narrative.
David McWilliams and Sinead O’Sullivan on how Ireland can be awash with money and still unable to finish anything — no accountability, and the same problems solved over and over. A useful case study in what happens when delivery capability, not funding, is the actual constraint.
A thorough counterweight to resume-driven microservices — boring, well-understood tech carries you a very long way.
A deep history of how one firm on one island came to make most of the world’s leading-edge silicon — reframes what “supply-chain risk” actually means.
The clearest framing I’ve read for why platforms that own demand, not supply, end up winning — still holds up years later.
Long-running interviews with the people behind open-source projects — good signal on where tooling and developer culture are heading.