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From the New York Times:

As Steiner was becoming wildly popular while his Haas team remained all but irrelevant, Christian Horner, the Red Bull team principal, took note. From the start, Horner has been one of the show’s most compelling characters, a charming but Machiavellian aristocrat shown feuding with Wolff, his counterpart at Mercedes, as their two teams battled for the championship last season, but also expertly riding a galloping horse on his country estate with his wife, Geri Halliwell, the Spice Girl. According to Bratches, Horner called Netflix early in the show’s run to say that if they sent a crew to Red Bull’s headquarters in southern England, he would make it worthwhile. “These guys are ridiculously competitive, and not just with the cars,” Bratches says. “We took advantage of that.”

• 3D Printing Grows Beyond Its Novelty Roots was an interesting read about how 3D Printing is getting better and the companies leading the way are in Massachusetts!
• A Technologist Walks into the U.S. Government is where Victoria Houed shares some advice on how to nurture the tech talent to government pipeline. She was a TechCongress fellow.
• GDS is decommissioning its Heroku like PaaS; I shared some thoughts on twitter.
• Shareful is a wonderful extension to the MacOS share menu. Adds the much needed “copy” option to apps that were missing it among other things.
• I enrolled in July’s How to Boost Your Brain + Memory TED Course. Colleagues at work were excited to launch this new product and the content seems interesting. At $50 it’s not a bad deal to check out.
• Applications for TED2023 in Vancouver, Canada are now open. Having staffed conference this past year, I can assure you its a top notch experience.

Stanford Computer Science Professor John Ousterhout presents his views on software design at Google. Lots of good nuggets in this including the idea of deep classes. As he notes in the talk some of his ideas go against the advice you get from folks like Martin Fowler and Sandi Metz, who might tell you to limit the number of lines of your classes and methods. My colleagues at NewHaven.io point out software is more art than science in its design, so both approaches can work. You just need the experience to know which one to use.

From the New York Times:

Interviews with nearly 20 current and former city workers suggest several key reasons behind the city worker shortage: a bureaucratic and lethargic hiring process that makes it hard to quickly fill vacancies; a job market that, in many cases, offers more lucrative and more flexible private-sector options; a pandemic-era hiring freeze that was largely lifted by November, according to the state comptroller’s office; and, according to the city, a rule that an agency can only hire one worker after two have left.

From Vulture:

And then there’s Guenther Steiner, inarguably the saddest character on Drive to Survive. As the principal for Haas, a team that routinely contends for last place since its inception, he stars in what is clearly the most unflattering narrative in the series: the perennial loser fighting for the smallest of victories. Steiner-centric episodes are exercises in Sisyphean struggle; as portrayed across the docuseries, the Haas drivers frequently underperform or bear the extreme brunt of bad luck. The team’s plight was encapsulated by a phone call caught on tape in the first season in which Steiner grumbles to the team owner in his thick Merano accent, “We look like a bunch of fucking wankers.”