Turns out I hadn’t noticed my hosting provider Vimexx has their MySQL databases on latin1 coding and this blog was running on that happily corrupting data.
It’s become fashionable in tech circles to say that all legislation is bad. This is a dangerous and wildly ignorant way of thinking. Without legislation, many people would not survive and the very things that we depend on for a good life would not exist.
Wer täglich, manchmal mehrmals die Stunde, die Verdammten belächelt, ist wohl zu Recht in der Hölle. Twitter, so mussten wir uns eingestehen, war der Ort, den wir bewohnten, weil wir sehr schlechte Menschen waren.
After some occasional brushes with party politics and reading up on the minimal political agency that we foreigners get here, I dove in. The rise of right-wing sentiment seemed to be a good reason to become a member of the Greens just like I imagine it did for a number of people. Much good that did do if you see the continued rise of that sentiment and this Green government all but enabling right-wing parties with their politics of austerity.
Wanted to show the kids some chiaroscuro for their art class about light and dark tomorrow and ran through some of the all time greats from Caravaggio. They were particularly impressed by Holofernes being beheaded.
Thoroughness unpacked in three dimensions like this by James Stanier is so good and gives a much better way to think and talk about issues of velocity:
As somebody working in platform for the past years, I’ve become very familiar with the different dimensions of this debate around productivity and John here unpacks the topic in a way that’s really useful. I used the nails analogy just yesterday.
Krasse Links looks like yet another collection of links but the German wall of text notwithstanding, it’s a remarkable act of curation and contextualisation. Remarkable and unique for sure in Germany.
For a relatively complete and concise rundown of how insane Germany is at the moment, this conversation with journalist James Jackson is highly recommended. Things are really spiralling into pure madness here and it seems likely that that will be the new normal.
Of course it takes a Dutch guy, an outsider, to blow the lid off Germany’s Nazi Bilionaires. David de Jong is doing great work and the German establishment tries to bury that as much as possible (because they know which side their bread is buttered on).
Trying for years to explain to people that Germany has almost zero project power and is incapable of any progress and then suddenly a movement springs up that agrees entirely with that assessment.
I can always trust PTO to treat a topic with clarity and without giving it any quarter. The political-ideological tally that Romm recounts here is chilling and its consequences will be far reaching.
In the tech world we have a bunch of crypto bag holder VCs backing Trump hoping their investment will then pay off. Nothing to see there other than the moral emptiness expected of these people.
After watching the misery around python packaging for years, it’s good to see a bunch of movement in this space and with uv potentially something like a clear winner. That winner should take all and this problem can be solved for the foreseeable future.
That skateboarding originated out of the byproduct of one of Alvar Aalto’s designs should not be that surprising. Architecture (built and coded) determines large parts of human behaviour.
I don’t agree that naming is that hard but I do agree with Steve Klabnik here that we should avoid redundant naming if at all possible. Say on Github I have to describe my commit, name my branch and then also title my Pull Request. It’s a bit much.
A quick look to what’s awaiting Germany-which has bet heavily on hydrogen cars-several decades in the future. California has a hydrogen highway which looks like it is on its way out.
Long distance bike packing races however brutal they may be look like they fulfil an ideal. They have an activity that’s not that fast but where you can still cover a lot of distance and terrain. The contestants are physically and mentally absurdly fit and still they go through hell. The remoteness of the locations usually creates a special connection to the local people and culture.
Coffee is already incredibly under pressure due to climate change. The last thing it needs is well meaning but harmful legislative burdens from the EU.
You start out writing a small flask app that gets a bunch of traffic, then rewrite it in an afternoon and then look at this: “The site was rock-solid after the go rewrite.”
The thing that Bert is not getting here is that Gaia-X is meant to be a distraction and not much else (that “else” would be politically far too risky to act upon). That’s the way these kind of things work. Meanwhile Europe will remain without its own cloud.
A piece about real-world Rust development that struck a cord with many people. Most of the issues listed here are valid and longstanding to the point that you have to wonder if they’ll ever be fixed.
I don’t think it’s appreciated how bad it is for one of the richest men in the world and the leadership of a company to walk around propositioning random employees. Elon Musk is a bad person and you should feel bad if you like him.
I remember when I got banned from the forum of one of Germany’s larger liberal podcasts for saying that Bitcoin is mostly something by and for criminals. I think that statement was pretty much entirely correct.
The end of free money has had a huge negative impact on open source. I agree with the author here, it would have been better to license everything under copy-left and see what happens.
Stop writing documentation about your codebase norms that nobody will read anyway and use this approach codifying requirements in tests. It’s so simple and frankly quite ingenious.
In Good Company sounds like a good idea for a podcast, but after hearing the CEO of Deutsche Telekom deny how his company is responsible for Germany being in the dark ages when it comes to internet speed, I couldn’t listen to it anymore.
Coming from an area in the center of Turkey where water was always scarce, it’s not really possible to be surprised by this development. Though if you talk to people locally of course many of them will continue to deny deveolpments because they have no other option.
A breath of fresh air to read somebody breaking with the TDD dogma. Test are useful but please remember: “Write tests, not too many, mostly integration.” and try to exercise some judgement.