Carphonewarehouse put together a lovely looking website that compares cities based on a number of attributes such as monthly rent, internet speed, and quality of life, in an attempt to show the best cities for freelancers.
France's Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés published a great wide ranging GDPR guide for developers, covering compliance, securing source code, infrastructure selection and data retention management among other things.
The Japanese Fugaku supercomputer produced a particle simulation of COVID-19 spread in an office environment. Running 416 quadrillion calculations per second, the supercomputer simulation shows how ineffectual office partitions are over time at containing the spread of COVID-19 aerosols.
Spanish newspaper El País published a fascinating analysis of three indoor Covid outbreaks and looks at how they could have been avoided. The article suggests mitigation techniques in the relation to outbreaks in a call centre in South Korea and in a restaurant and on a bus in China.
The Observer Effect published an interesting interview with Marc Andreesson, partner at Andreesson Horowitz. The interview covers a lot of ground and includes some great insights into how Marc manages his productivity and goal setting on a weekly, monthly and annual basis. A standout thought for me from the interview is that it is better to "tune against a single goal as compared to trying to rethink the goals".
Layoffs.fyi is a list of people that have been layed off and are looking for work. The entries are searchable by location, skills and job titles among other elements.
The Binary Mist blog published a great piece on all the things that can be addressed while trying to improve software development productivity. The piece covers everything form bigger screens and better tools to improving processes and leaving developers alone (to avoid context switching).
Illustrated Agile are runing an excellent article series that deals with organisation silos. Part two of the series deals with how to work towards removing silos, by encourage personal journeys, developing fellowships and building accountability into the organisation.
You may be aware that the game Monopoly was actually invented by Lizzy Magie to highlight the inequalities of landlordism. This week in his podcast David McWilliams shares a similar bizzare historical origins story, this time about The Wizard of Oz which was actually a satircal commentary on the gold standard.
