Both in software engineering and in engineering leadership, fads come and go but the fundamentals stay the same. Larson makes a good throw at collecting those very fundamentals (and gives you a way to gauge yourself against them). lethain.com/good-eng-mgm...

Not sure how many people know that this kind of deep data modelling is possible to do in Notion. I love tools with a high skill-cap and Notion is definitely one such. xvw.lol/en/articles/...

I am yet to read the Differential Dataflow paper but still interesting to read this explanation of how and why decorrelation works in database engines. LATERAL JOINs and query plans have become something of an interest of mine over the past weeks. www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/mate...

Servo is a massive achievement. One of the more unknown but potentially very impactful things about the project is that its modular nature allows parts of the web rendering stack to be embedded elsewhere (in game engines and such). blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-...

Watermarks are just one part of Flink which are difficult to wrap your head around but this interactive explanation does a good job of explaining them. Now for all the other parts of Flink… flink-watermarks.wtf

A hilarious comedy of errors that is a unique feature of the Javascript ecosystem. When even the simplest code can fail disastrously if you don't have all the right checks in place. marma.dev/articles/202...

Both placing these ads and serving them should be illegal in any reasonable market/democracy. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The quality on every Meta property is low and people are there mostly because they can't leave due to the network effect. This is market failure and it couldn't hurt for Europe to bring down the hammer here. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/m...

Musk's attacks on British politics have been bizarre to witness. Imagine the richest man in the world waging an influence operation trying to put the far right in power in your country. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Love to see this being in 2025 and Germany still hasn't figured out how to get an adequate amount of bandwidth to everybody in the country. Maybe they'll never figure it out. www.golem.de/news/deutsch...

Came home from work tonight at 18:00 and quickly threw together both schnitzel and onigiri for dinner. A new personal best.

Hydrogen! Which irrelevant technology will Germany be financing next? www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...

Spectacular execution of the idea of having a physical terminal through which to input Unicode characters. Real custom keyboard enthusiasts should have one of these on their desk. hackaday.io/project/1926...

China is steaming ahead also with self-driving car technology. What was the old joke again? Germany will allow self-driving cars as soon as the local car makers manage to cack the problem. Guaranteed not to happen before 2050. www.economist.com/china/2025/1...

As a computer science graduate, I can't figure out how to transfer my signal account to a new phone. I now see how so many people lose all their chat history etc. whenever they get a new phone.

Nobody should be surprised that this German government will do little other than give handouts to their friends. Or at least the CDU will. Does the SPD have anybody to give handouts to?

Next week I'll be back in Japan for the first time in a decade. I'll be spending most of my time in the countryside this time round. I'm immensely looking forward but also somewhat apprehensive given how much everything has changed.

AI is for office workers without skills and gamers without friends. Excellent value proposition.

Startups consist entirely of strip mining human values these days.

Not much point being here feels like it. The vibes are off and the engagement is low.

“Dilan Yeşilgöz is de pick me girl en pick me-migrant in één.” Left no crumbs.

This branch of Getränke Hoffman should be levelled and the lot filled with 10 stories of mixed development housing. No free parking within city limits.

One reason why nobody in Germany is very much outraged by this situation is that this would be mostly legal in Germany and most definitely impossible to convict on. Germany has a special class from 14yo when people are considered youths, no longer children.

Tried to get a nice loaf of bread just now and found all the bakeries sold out and ready to close. I know most Germans stop work at 4pm but there’s a productive class of people here who continue working until 6pm. I guess we’ll have our stay at home wives buy the bread just like the CDU intended.

One of our kids’ classmates has parents who both work. That mother is in our classroom chat and you can read how she is going insane every time she has to deal with yet another situation where the school expects a parent (=the mother) to be available during the daytime.

As a good example of how I’m doing: I managed to go to the swimming pool today without a towel. I did check in the elevator down whether I had brought my swimming trunks.

Haben irgendwelche Grüne sich zu Zoran geäußert? Ich habe bisher noch nichts gesehen und sehe eigentlich inhaltlich kaum Überschneidung die es rechtfertigen würde.

Cries in Berlin where we are condemned to an eternity of sub-mediocrity.

Fixing a mistake I made a long time ago is a good opportunity to review all my logins, mark which ones need phone 2FA and also close a lot of accounts. Good riddance Xing! It was never good.

A day of parent teacher conferences and every time we do this little dance, it becomes more and more clear that the most important thing my kids learn in school is that effort is not rewarded. That I don't have that much issue with because it is true, but they (and we) also don't get any agency.

Noticing recently that navigating transit in Berlin using Google Maps contains glaring errors and omissions even for relatively simple routes. Back to City Mapper we go. (Telling that the enormous fees Google charges on this product aren't enough for it to be maintained.)

Best swimming pool in Berlin that we could go to tomorrow? And why is it good?

During trick-or-treating yesterday I was super tired and didn’t parse what happened. Turns out I was offered baked goods by our evil vice mayor which I refused. My political instincts remain on point.

Every time I want to do something with parental controls in any app (Spotify, Netflix, iOS), it’s either impossible to do or impossible to figure out. It’s not like we can meaningfully do anything about it or switch to a different provider where things are better. I guess we’ll exit at some point.

Democracy means that the people listed here deserve everything bad happening to them now.

Good to have explained this explicitly why mathematics is such an essential component of programming. People without an inclination for this kind of abstract mathematical thinking often are poor and chaotic programmers. the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-bett...

Good to have explained this explicitly why mathematics is such an essential component of programming. People without an inclination for this kind of abstract mathematical thinking often are poor and chaotic programmers. the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-bett...

Can't argue with that: "Many chefs I know get upset at me when I tell them this. But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue." www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

This is a fair point not to import code and instead fully qualify what it is that you are using. kevincox.ca/2025/07/20/n...

Let's hope Steve Klabnik's instincts are right a second time round. Seeing the potential of Rust and making it real is already a great accomplishment. If he manages to do the same with jj and get us out of the git/Github mess, that'll be a spectacular twofer. steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...

I've been trying out some novel window managers (paneru, komorebi, Aerospace) now that we have a bunch to choose from on macOS as well. A lot of work remains to be done but at good to see some interesting options out there. alper.nl/dingen/2025/...

Being close to tech and now also to schools, I can tell you that those two things should not mix in any way. The only interchange should be levying taxes on tech companies to better fund schools. www.wired.com/story/silico...

Always nice to visit Friedrichshain and keep my Spanish alive. Puedo recomendar esta café y su torta de limón.

Alternative licenses like the Forklift Certified License are a good and necessary counter-reaction to open source becoming a corporate hollowed out shambles. Any time somebody mentions a big project that's open source, my first question is: “How fake open source is it?” aria.dog/barks/forkli...

Predictions are a nice business because at some point they will be true. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Lots of respect for the people who spend years pushing something like a standardised Python lock file. It's crucial but invisible work. snarky.ca/why-it-took-...

I still haven't upgraded to the new iOS and seeing these reports, I'm not sure whether I should. www.nngroup.com/articles/liq...

When people say that Kubernetes is complicated, this is the stuff they mean. As far as I can tell, there's no way to play this complexity game reliably, so the only reasonable way through would be not to play. blog.amberwolf.com/blog/2025/se...

If your reliability depends on heroic efforts or arcane knowledge from individuals, then you have no reliability. This week's AWS outage shows that clearly. Whatever conclusions you draw from that is up to you. www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

This is what people mean when they accurately say that Silicon Valley CEOs are "bitch coded".