Friday Links 26-07
Today is a weird one, so much in engineering is about AI.
Check out the live coding trance video and pretty Stockholm metro videos.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/02/friday-links-26-07.html
#fridaylinks #friday #links #engineering #urbanism #environment
Today is a weird one, so much in engineering is about AI. Check out the live coding trance video and pretty Stockholm metro videos. Engineering Extremely Lazy and Immensely Curious - I still think it makes you dumb. Mediations #35: Learning. Again. And Again. - learning how AI fits in and how we fit in. Implementing a clean room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code - is it clean code if Claude probably had access to a Z80 emulator at some point?
Si je suis moins présent ces temps-ci, c’est parceque je prépare une espece d’essai ou de manifeste sur un système de ville idéale appelé __Polis__.
#utopie #villeNouvelle #urbanism #architecture #politics #politique #municialité #democratie #democracy #citéIdiale #idealCity
Transport #Scotland is running a virtual exhibition room for the public to respond on what to do with the Woodside Viaduct: https://www.pinpointcloud.co.uk/M8WoodsideViaducts/
Please check out the proposals and let them know of your preferred solution.
Option 3 involves removing the ageing & expensive structure and reconnecting the neighbourhoods ripped apart by the motorway, it’s the only way to go in my eyes.
#scotland #glasgow #transport #urbanism #uk #scotpol #ukpol #travel
A really excellent outsider’s perspective on urbanism — from my favourite encyclopaedic podcast #urbanism #coreurbanism

From a comment on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm4de6-eTg)
'Whenever someone says, "SUVs are safer than sedans", I reply, "I stand up in movie theaters because the view is better" '
I'm stealing that and will be using it all the time now. #urbanism

Finally...
...I just hope they've sorted where the buses go.
Why This Tiny Apartment is Taking Over American Cities