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Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 21h

Anne is such an inspiration 👏

Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social · 21h

Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !

Place de Catalogne avant/après avec des arbres.

Place de Catalogne vue de haut avec des arbres.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21h

“With 470 trees planted and 4,000m2 of nature in the heart of the 14th arrondissement, the Place de Catalogne has been radically transformed in 2024!” — Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, continuing the green transformation of central Paris. Greening, cleaning and cooling the city for people.

Anne Hidalgo @annehidalgo.bsky.social · 21h

Avec 470 arbres plantés et 4 000m2 de nature en plein cœur du 14e arrondissement, la place de Catalogne s'est radicalement transformée en 2024 !

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · Jul 10

BEFORE AND AFTER: Paris returned a roundabout for cars back to human habitat.

Exact same spot photographed by me. Now the roundabout is full of trees and people are walking and scootering.

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Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 1d

Lo pensaba el otro día. Es brutal como TVE se está sabiendo adaptar a las nuevas generaciones y los nuevos formatos 👏

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Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 1d

Beer night with my beloved Eva. Amazing flavor from Ārpus and the Xul Beer Co. It's a freaking smoothie! 😅

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“The Ford Govt in Ontario has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.

Ford says it will make the province more efficient & reduce red tape.

It won’t do either, and he knows it.

It might get him “speeder votes” though.

This will kill more people.

Ford government passes bill banning municipal speed cameras in Ontario

The Ford government has passed a controversial omnibus bill banning municipalities from installing speed cameras.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 3d

🔴 Un medicamento viviente que cabe en una cuchara salva la vida de ocho jóvenes con el cáncer infantil más común elpais.com/salud-y-bienest...

Un medicamento viviente que cabe en una cuchara salva la vida de ocho jóvenes con el cáncer infantil más común

El tratamiento experimental, elaborado con células en el hospital público de La Paz, logra una supervivencia preliminar del 70% en pacientes que no tenían ninguna opción para seguir viviendo

elpais.com

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La Vanguardia @lavanguardia.com · 3d

🧬👏 Cinco niños que ya no tenían opciones frente a la leucemia han vuelto a vivir gracias a una terapia CAR-T desarrollada en España. El tratamiento, creado por el Hospital La Paz de Madrid, ha logrado que los pequeños estén libres de cáncer dos años después.

www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/2025...

Niños con leucemia avanzada se salvan gracias a una terapia CAR-T creada en España

Cinco niños y jóvenes con leucemia a los que no les quedaba ninguna opción de tratamiento están vivos y sin ningún rastro de cáncer más de dos años después de

www.lavanguardia.com

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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 3d

Here is the long and short of it.

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Yacine Kheddache @kheddache.me · 5d

🎉 𝟭𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀! From one Git commit by @lbroudoux.bsky.social in 2015 to a global open source community, what a climb it’s been 🏔️

👉 Read the full story and celebrate with us:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/celebr...

#CNCF / @linuxfoundation.org 🙌

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Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 5d

I've published his full, powerful text as an excerpt in this week's newsletter. It's too important to wait for the book.

Read the full story: newsletter.fmvilas.me/posts/cherno...

Chernobyl wasn't a technical failure

The Chernobyl disaster wasn't a technical failure. It was a catastrophic failure of psychological safety. Read the full story.

newsletter.fmvilas.me

Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 5d

This isn't just a history lesson. It's a critical warning for every engineering team building complex systems today.

Your culture is either your biggest safety net or your most dangerous blind spot.

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Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 5d

I asked my friend, the psychologist Fran Arismendi, to write about this for my upcoming book, Shift.

He broke down exactly how a sick organizational culture made it impossible for operators to speak up, turning a preventable issue into a global disaster.

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Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 5d

We've got the Chernobyl story wrong.

It wasn't a technical failure. It was a catastrophic failure of psychological safety.

A culture of fear, secrecy, and blame-shifting led directly to that reactor's meltdown.

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ChrisInParis @chrisinparis.bsky.social · 11d

For urbanists out there, a really fun video by @evanedinger.bsky.social who spent a day cycling in both London and Paris. I've mostly cycled in Paris and love the changes and admit I find way too many hostile cars in London, but it's still good. Well worth watching!
youtu.be/3BJ-ccBgwYw?...

I Cycled London and Paris the Same Day – Here’s What I Learned

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

youtu.be

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Pavel Bodiachevskii @pakisan.bsky.social · 12d

🚀 Big news for #AsyncAPI builders!
The first “Building AsyncAPI Like LEGO” release just dropped

Annotate your component and your @jetbrains.com IDE instantly recognizes it

Preview:
🌐 Servers
📡 Channels
⚙️ Operations

Building APIs just got more modular 🧱

plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/15673...

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AsyncAPI Plugin for IntelliJ-based IDEs 🚀 Enhance your AsyncAPI development workflow directly within IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, and other JetBrains IDEs 📄 What...

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Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 12d

Haha! Never saw it that way 🤣

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Fran Méndez @fmvilas.me · 12d

I was going to install MacOS Tahoe (the latest one, with liquid glass UI) but I thought I'm going to wait until they realize how bad it is and get rid of it.

Everyone has the right to make mistakes and fix them. I hope they realize quickly 😅

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Greg Schier 👨‍💻 @schier.co · 12d

WTF. 🤯

Postman's server's are down and you can't even use desktop app with your local APIs!

This is exactly why I made yaak.app. It works offline, is open source, has no telemetry, no VC funding, and even syncs with Git!

Give it a try and let me know what you think ✨

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Pavel Bodiachevskii @pakisan.bsky.social · 17d

🚀 Working on a new AsyncAPI @jetbrains.com Plugin feature that takes editing to the next level!

Just tag your component with
x-asyncapi-server: 3.0.0
and the IDE instantly recognizes it — giving you live preview, validation, and autocompletion

#AsyncAPI editing now feels modular, fast, and fun 🧩

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Microcks @microcks.io · 17d

🎉 We’re excited to welcome TransferGo, a fintech leader serving 8M+ customers across 160+ countries, to the growing Microcks community of API innovators!

After evaluating multiple tools, the team found Microcks to be the best fit, thanks to its seamless support for both @openapis.org & AsyncAPI.

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 14d

One of the only times I’ll ever say I love Times Square.
❤️ NYC.
No dictators and no kings in the USA.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15d

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 17d

Whereas Vienna once saw an average of five days above 30°C each year, it now sees more than thirty, creating urgency for an ambitious and multifaceted re-greening strategy—embedded in many different policies and processes—which strives to improve climate resilience, public health and social equity.🧵

Photos of streets and public spaces in Vienna that are subject to the city’s re-greening strategy: the introduction of new trees, plants, grass, and flowers into formerly hard asphalt surfaces.

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