@shanselman Dear Scott, I couldn’t help but notice that your Podcast seems to be on a hiatus. Maybe I never witnessed previous breaks, but is it a temporal thing or in fact the end of an era?

I don't think that time heals the feeling of loss of loved ones. It's more that you build safe roads and bridges across the hole they left, and you know most of the time how to route your inner traffic to use those roads, but if you skid off the road, you can fall into the very same hole that […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/116001075271116490 What’s amazing is that I remember some 80ies winters to be darn cold, but in fact it was already getting warmer. On a tangent, I became witness of the last big snow in #freiburg in 2006.

first time I have zero interest in installing the latest OSX.

Today my wordle constraint solver didn't find a solution. It was using previously played words to be even sharper. Turns out that today a word has been played that according to "past wordle answers" has already been played. So either the data is wrong, or that would be a first.

Ich nehme an, ihr seid auch dafür, dass das Bundesverfassungsgericht prüfen sollte, ob die vom Verfassungsschutz als rechtsextrem identifizierte Parteien womöglich verboten werden müssen? Immerhin wird ja sonst alles hier in diesem Land geprüft…

On the note of #pratchett, after having swept through the whole DEATH storyline, I am trying to get into the witches one with Wyrd Sisters and actually finding it a bit difficult.

The big question for me is always: what‘s the percentage of baseline support for fascists in each country? Those who consider themselves in the in-group and have no problem or even welcome applying violence to the out-group?

If you look at LLMs with executing agents as just an extension of evolution in general, it is actually quite fascinating. If it helps to build back our intelligence, which appears more and more as an unintended consequence, or a happy accident, depending on your mood, I‘m rooting for it. We are […]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115983875604010038 Which in turn must mean that 90% were sold to Florida as I saw quite a few.

Whatever you think of the catholic church, this is pretty well written and informed: http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/messages/communications/documents/20260124-messaggio-comunicazioni-sociali.html

Diesen Winter scheint #rsv der dominierende respiratorische Virus zu sein. Covid wie letztes Jahr diese Zeit auf dem absteigenden Ast, Grippe nicht so krass wie letzten Winter (basierend auf Kläranlagenmonitoring) […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sven_giegold/115983710240426560 Der hat mal richtig ausgeholt, all dieses würde ich Frau Reichelt gerne an den Kopf werfen. Was die Frau schon alles kaputt gemacht hat, und man lässt sie weiterlaufen!

Then of course, once commerce enters the picture, the enthusiast approach is sentenced to death. See also Marques latest video on the One Plus smartphones. As long as we consider steady state economy as a failure, and growth = success, the enthusiast approach that contains a modicum of utility […]

IDK, I'm just some old white guy, but when someone does or says something good, they need positive reinforcement. Negative reinforcement will tend to suppress the behavior and we want more of it.

Bruce Springsteen hat einen Protest- und Support-Song für die Menschen in Minneapolis veröffentlicht. Darin findet er ziemlich deutliche Worte. Bislang war von prominenten US-Musikern eher weniger Politisches zu hören zur aktuellen Situation. Deshalb ist diese Veröffentlichung durchaus […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/115972315780495974 Still remember it. Was watching, big space fan, 11 years old. Very sad.

Hey, you. Yes, you, my dear IT-consultant. You're thinking of leaving consultancy for product dev because you want to "take ownership"? Just don't. 60% of your time you'll be handling ongoing bit rot.

Ein freier (!) Artikel auf der Zeit über die Probleme im Wissenschaftsbetrieb: https://www.zeit.de/2026/04/wissenschaft-forschung-reproduzierbarkeit-populismus/komplettansicht Wie beim Coden auch, war das produzieren des Contents nie der bottleneck, sondern der Review des selbigen.

RE: https://front-end.social/@sarajw/115967204986381073 Dear God, give me the strength to not implement the CSS Day logo with a css grid.

At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if a real person would be called „Cruella De Vil“

Gotta give it to him: the way he successfully distracts time and again from the #epstein files is quite something.

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115936757240817023 I call Huang‘s statement a „pompous privileged pillager“-narrative

„And as a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions — that they must develop greater strategic autonomy: in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains.“ Hear that Germany? Stop selling our integrity and security for some quick-earned bucks. Gas deals with the US […]

TIL: sane-washing.

Something I really did not have on my radar anymore, is what good slapstick #friends sometimes had. The #ross leather pants scene had me completely cracking up!

Every time I refresh some of my memories about the inner workings of a cell it just blows my mind. Really.

I think this is worth a read: https://overreacted.io/a-social-filesystem the at protocol is a pretty cool thing, and it should be ripped out of the hands of those bigots and people should do stuff with it. I wish the fediverse would look at it.

iOS 26 on the iPad is a fucking nightmare.

#rust builds…now that's real compiling, eh?

the kind of css mess that claude code produces is absolutely amazing. Of all the minor, major and humongous brain farts that that model blurts out as code, I believe css is the one where it is really the least capable.

Kennt jemand dieses Insekt? #Insekten #insektenbubble

Number 1 source of react bug: Stale dependencies. #react

RE: https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/115890983018671432 Just brutal.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/115887472566046044 Ht to our timeline that I had to think about it.

New Tesla feature to automatically create explicit images of pedestrians it passes on the street https://newsthump.com/2026/01/13/new-tesla-feature-to-automatically-provide-explicit-images-of-pedestrians-it-passes-on-the-street/

@khalidabuhakmeh Hey Khalid, hope you're well, I am on a quest to reduce our cookie size and have built a redis-based UserTokenStore (IUserTokenStore impl). I would have liked to compare notes and see if I did it okay (it seems to work), but I don't seem to find such an implementation. Maybe […]

Covid went away when you stopped testing. Unemployment went away when you stopped counting. Pollution went away as you stopped caring. And the best part: it works on a big percentage of the population. To anyone who likes people and roots for this species: I respect you and I want to be there […]

The harmful effects of pollution have been known for decades, and every U.S. presidential administration since the Reagan years has assigned some value to human life. Until now. Read more from @Techcrunch: https://flip.it/B-F3W0 #science #pollution #health #epa #trump

It has been how many days now since that white woman was shot the US? Any protests? Nothing? So not #alllivesmatters after all? It might also be the numbing media silence over here in Germany. This was not an accident. It is only going to get worse. Fascism is a loser ideology that devours […]

Found a bug in Duende after a couple of hours that was making our cookie grow. Then got the idea whether it had already been fixed. Yes it had. Updated nuget, PR, done. 🙄 How was your day?

Das Führen irgendwelcher Register für Leute, deren Geschlechtsentwicklung nicht ins Mainstream fallen, erschließt sich mir nicht. Trans rights are human rights, und in diesem Sinne müsste doch jedes Bundesverfassungsgericht entsprechend entscheiden?

Würdet ihr jetzt bitte mal! Ich halte nicht viel von Petitionen, aber ich halte Gott verdammt noch etwas von gezeigter Solidarität mit den betroffenen Menschen und diesem rechten Schmutz der da gerade fabriziert wird. Alerta antifascista! epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_...

[Contains swearing 🤷] One thing the left intellectual will never address and even neglects that it exists is the aggression inherent in many (especially young) males. Closing eyes to this means we keep having some really stupid discussions like why we can’t forbid fireworks or introduce a […]

in the javascript ecosystem, you cannot win...

Google Gemini allowed me to - create a program in a constraint solver previously unknown to me that solves wordle puzzles - taught me a good deal about shannon entropy to the point where I had some aha moments (note: I never studied CompSci, so in many ways I'm very late to the party) I […]

And LibreOffice looks like puked out. Why do people make it so easy for Microsoft

Is the numbers app really that shit. Un.be.lievable.