An engineer testing a military vehicle in Finland works out that four driven wheels change everything, pitches it inside the company, and a road car category gets invented. Sean Winkler tells that story properly, with the names and the mechanism, and it is the best motoring writing you will find on a marketing blog.
The drifting post is equally thorough, breaking a handbrake slide into a sequence you could follow, and treating the whole discipline as a judged art rather than a race.
Then he writes about loneliness, using the research suggesting humans cannot hold more than about a hundred and fifty real relationships, and asks why a more connected world produces more isolation. It is a genuinely thoughtful piece and it sits oddly beside the cars.
There are shorter notes on electric charging networks and an application update.
Read the loneliness post if the cars are not your thing, and the drifting one if they are.