After a slow ramp up and getting used to, I switched from the iPhone to the @fairphone.com running with @murena-com.bsky.social (de-googled & OSS Android) 2 weeks ago. I'm surprise how comparible the overall experience is. I'm about to cancle my big AppleOne subscription this week. #nowayback

Whoever needs to hear this: hayzam.com/blog/01-you-...

Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.

We’re doing an Agentic Coding conference in Hamburg on March 22nd! 🎉 Not many details yet, but super early bird tickets are on sale and selling fast. Super excited about this one! #hamburg luma.com/45lfeyeh

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Let’s see how fast I’m going to regret this… #digital #sovereignty

Interessante Ankündigung, hat leicht vibes der Verzweiflung. Aber das ist vielleicht ein gutes Zeichen, vielleicht gibt es wirklich eine nachhaltige Bewegung Richtung EU Tech 🎉 aws.eu/de/

A great point by @drfranksauer.bsky.social

What if using American cloud services becomes untenable for Europe due to deteriorating geopolitics? It's hypothetical for now, but no longer unthinkable. By @quentinsf.com: statusq.org/archives/202... Local-first software to the rescue?

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

YEAH! Wir müssen uns digital unabhängig machen. Ich habe damit Anfang 2025 begonnen (bin weg von MS Office, Google, Amazon, Disney+) und empfehle euch, das in Häppchen aufzuteilen. Mein Projekt für Januar 2026: Umstieg auf Linux 😅 #didit #dutgemacht www.youtube.com/watch?v=N77A...

👀 Some words about Chatto, my BIG project. It's a group chat app that - is incredibly easy to self-host - has very modest hardware requirements - scales really well - apache-2.0 license - hosted platform launching in 2026 Looking forward to writing much more about this soon. Let's do this. 🚀

It's my birthday, but today *you* get the presents! Introducing "Beans", a CLI-based, flat-file issue tracker designed for humans and their robot friends. 🫘 Track your work right in your repo, using the CLI. And if you work with coding agents, supercharge them with a full picture of your project!

Nobody is born a great engineer. Great engineers are forged in the fires of experience -- year after year of compounding challenges and opportunities. Does your org frustrate the pursuit of greatness, or unlock and accelerate it? For whom? And then yes: shipping is the mechanics of learning.

I know there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the value brought by LLMs, but how can anyone not be slightly delighted by technology you can run on your own (powerful) computer that causes it to draw you an SVG almost-pelican with both visible legs and the caption "🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!"

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

VEO 3 Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue. This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.

Being a Software Engineer Pro: If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself. Con: If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.

Blue hour is starting 😍

Beautiful sunsets are beautiful!

Zero damns given 😱

Great stuff! And perfect timing…

Curl -v Google.com https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/05/curl-v-google-com/