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2026-02-05

Don't tell Bezos he needs to fire one-third of Washington Post staff: Sanders

(source: @Adfichter)
Bernie Sanders:"If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy."https://bsky.app/profile/sanders.senate.gov/post/3me34egkev22b

2026-02-04

@overturemaps now offers STAC catalogue with all datasets

(source: @Dominik Weckmüller)
@overturemaps now offers a STAC catalogue with all their datasets and it's super convenient to use! The best part: every dataset is now also released as pmtiles file you can query on the spot in your browser!Browser: https://radiantearth.github.io/stac-browser/#/external/stac.overturemaps.org/2026-01-21.0/catalog.json?.language=enPmtiles example: https://pmtiles.io/#url=https%3A%2F%2Ftiles.overturemaps.org%2F2026-01-21.0%2Fplaces.pmtiles&map=0.8/0/0

2026-02-04

Putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos

(source: @qdot)
inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys mefor some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

2026-02-04

Update for our datasatz Points of Interest Open (#POI-Open)

(source: @BKG)
📢 Update für unseren Datensatz Points of Interest Open (#POI-Open)Neues Thema:🏛️ Welterbe-StättenAktualisierte Themen:🛫 Flughäfen🛂 Grenzübergänge🛣️ Kilometrierung BAB🏥 Trauma-Zentren🔗 Infos zum Produkt: https://www.bkg.bund.de/SharedDocs/Produktinformationen/BKG/DE/P-2026/260203_POI-Open.html#Geodaten #OpenData

2026-02-04

I miss thinking hard Link: Jernesto on thinking hard

(source: @Hacker News 500)
I miss thinking hardLink: https://www.jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hardDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264

2026-02-04

Wollt ihr nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel verkaufen lassen?

(source: @Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf)
Wollt ihr euch nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel für dumm verkaufen lassen? Dann ist dieser Vortrag das Richtige! Er zeigt den Stand der Wissenschaft, aber auch die häufigsten Tricks der Klimatäuscher. Holt euch einen Tee und schaut gerne mal rein!https://youtu.be/fMcm1ku-NOw?si=DWqOEeMyucpylh1P

2026-02-03

The color of AI is beige, not beige: TLDR

(source: @tante)
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@aramba/116008791654771014The color of "AI" is beige.It's good that a paper did the legwork but nobody can be surprised by this who knows how an LLM works.

2026-02-03

Different llm models come up with same shitty stories: Study

(source: @Aram Bartholl)
Research shows that different llm models come up with the same shitty stories, although very open prompts like “story about a dragon”

2026-02-03

Introducing Async-GeoTIFF, a library for reading GeoTIFFs

(source: @Kyle Barron)
Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new high-level library for reading GeoTIFFs and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs. https://developmentseed.org/async-geotiff/latest/blog/2026/02/03/introducing-async-geotiff/- High-level & easy-to-use- Load from full-resolution or reduced-resolution overviews- Fast, with a Rust core- Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding- Integration with NumPy, PyProj, Affine, & Morecantile- Remote data support with Obstore- Lightweight with no GDAL dependency- Full type hinting- Broad decompression supportA @developmentseed project.

2026-02-03

Every enterprise app feels like typing on a membrane keyboard

(source: @JA Westenberg)
Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.

2026-02-03

Good tech acts as a tool to help you think outside of the box

(source: @Poe LeRoy)
Good tech acts as a tool to help you think outside of the box, not something that traps you inside of a box.Source: @kagihq https://kagi.com/changelog#9683#meme #comic #tech #foss #fediverse

2026-02-02

OpenLandMap does the Right Thing - COGs you can open in terra

(source: @Barry Rowlingson)
OpenLandMap does the Right Thing - COGs that you can open in terra (use /vsicurl prefix on the URL) and then crop/mask to a small extent. Also works in python with rasterio. https://stac.openlandmap.org/lc_glc.fcs30d/lc_glc.fcs30d_19950101_19951231/lc_glc.fcs30d_19950101_19951231.json

2026-02-01

Code ist nicht dein Freund, wenn Du YAML hasst, deswegen PyInfra

(source: @Kris)
Wenn Du YAML hasst, und Du deswegen PyInfra für eine Lösung hältst,https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complexity-clock.htmlCode ist nicht dein Freund. Solange Du Operations mit Development verwechselst wird Dein Leben nicht besser.https://blog.koehntopp.info/2016/09/01/be-simple-be-boring-be-obvious.html

2026-01-31

MacBook Pro M4 can drive a Dell UP3218K display: Test

(source: @Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺)
Great news, folks! I have successfully verified that the MacBook Pro M4 can drive a Dell UP3218K display! 🥳This is the MacBook: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-10-31-macbook-pro-m4-impressions/I’m using 2 of these cables which are spec'ed for 8K@60 Hz: https://www.digitec.ch/de/s1/product/onit-kabel-usb-type-c-displayport-2-m-2-m-videokabel-39380797Seems like a pretty smooth desktop experience, thus far, but I have only tested for a few minutes.This is the second-ever computer I have gotten to work with the display! Previously, I could only make Nvidia GPUs in PCs work. The display is from 2017…

2026-01-30

Antirender removes glossy shine on architectural renderings

(source: @Hacker News 500)
Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderingsLink: https://antirender.com/Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829147

2026-01-30

AI handy for stuff you don't need/want to master: Javahippie

(source: @Brett Cannon)
RE: https://mainz.social/@javahippie/115983154571179269AI is handy for stuff you don't need/want to master (e.g. you're asking the intern to do something), but you have to be careful you don't offload too much if you do want to master something (i.e. it can't replace experience if you want to grow).

2026-01-30

Today is a good time to revisit the concept of 'Vegan + bacon'

(source: @Danielle Foré)
I can’t remember where I saw it, but I feel like today is a good time to revisit the concept of “Vegan + bacon”.People often avoid making small positive changes because they get caught up in trying to go all the way. For example, “I could never go vegan. I love bacon too much”.So then go vegan plus bacon. Or vegetarian plus bacon. Or just switch to oat milk and eat more vegetables. Whatever small change you can make is good

2026-01-30

Morning 30. Jan – T , 0.8–3.5 °C, -0.0–0.8

(source: @meteo (dark mode))
Morning 30. Jan – Tᴇᴍᴘ🇫🇷▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️🟥🟧🟧▪️▪️🇩🇪▪️▪️▪️🟧🟥🟥🟧🟨🟩🟧▪️🇦🇹▪️▪️🟨🟨🟨🟨🟧🟩🟧🟩▪️▪️▪️🟥🟧🟩🟧🟩🟩🟩🟦🟦🟦🟦🟩🟥🟨🟨🟦🟩🟦🟨🟦🟦🟦▪️🟥▪️🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩🟥🟧▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️🟨🟦🟦▪️▪️🟥▪️▪️🇮🇹🟥 0.8–3.5 °C🟧 -0.0–0.8🟨 -1.1–-0.0🟩 -4.4–-1.1🟦 <-4.4

2026-01-30

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale

(source: maggieappleton.com)
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code


2026-01-29

Ist Moltbot der erste echte KI-Assistent?

(source: @heise online)
Ist Moltbot der erste echte KI-Assistent? Warum das Tool für Wirbel sorgtMoltbot soll sich Gespräche merken und proaktiv Aufgaben erledigen. Warum das Tool einen Hype in der KI-Szene erfährt und welche Risiken damit einhergehen.https://www.heise.de/news/Ist-Moltbot-der-erste-echte-KI-Assistent-Warum-das-Tool-fuer-Wirbel-sorgt-11158909.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#Hacking #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Security #news

2026-01-28

Was hat Statistik damit zu tun, warnt Medien vor Hitze?

(source: @Übermedien)
Im Sommer warnen Medien vor Hitze. Im Winter, wenn deutlich mehr Menschen sterben, bleibt es eher still. Warum Kälte als Gesundheitsrisiko in Medien kaum eine Rolle spielt – und was Statistik damit zu tun hat. Von Andrej Reisin. Jetzt ohne Abo lesen: https://uebermedien.de/113247/hitze-macht-schlagzeilen-kaelte-toetet-leise/

2026-01-27

How did The Markup's fake profile-bewerbungs work?

(source: @Marcel Waldvogel)
Wie solche Fake Profil-Bewerbungen aussehen, hat The Markup, eine US-amerikanische Online-Publikation, beschrieben, basierend auf den eigenen Erfahrungen bei der Besetzung einer Stelle. 12 Stunden nach dem Aufschalten des Job-Inserats hatte das Unternehmen mehr als 400 Bewerbungen erhalten. Diese sahen auf den ersten Blick meist plausibel aus. Im Detail fielen dann aber schnell Dinge auf, welche klar machten, dass kein Mensch hinter der Bewerbung steckt:https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2026/01/24/fake-candidates-recruiter-scams-ai-slop

2026-01-27

Welcome to cuML’s documentation! — cuml 25.12.00 documentation

(source: docs.rapids.ai)
cuML is a suite of GPU-accelerated machine learning algorithms designed for data science. Its API is similar to scikit-learn, allowing users to leverage the familiar fit-predict-transform paradigm without needing to write GPU-specific code. cuML offers significant performance improvements, being 10-50x faster than CPU-based alternatives for many workloads. It supports over 50 algorithms across various machine learning categories, including clustering, regression, and classification. For scaling, cuML provides multi-GPU and multi-node support through Dask, enabling it to operate on large clusters. Users who experience long processing times with scikit-learn, umap-learn, or hdbscan are likely to benefit from cuML, as its equivalent estimators …

2026-01-24

Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents

(source: simonwillison.net)
Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article …

2026-01-23

Silence can mean: I agree, I strongly disagree

(source: @Jeff Atwood)
Silence can mean: I agree.I strongly disagree.I am indifferent.I am out of town.I am having technical problems.I don’t know how to address this sensitive issue.I am busy with other things.I did not notice your question.I did not realize that you wanted a response.

2026-01-23

Your Dorky Spatial Database is My Magic Answer Machine

(source: www.youtube.com)
Points, lines, and polygons in a database aren't cool. Rasters in a database may be even less cool. You know what's cool? Transforming PostGIS into a Magic Answer Machine. In this talk we'll show not only how to access and use Data That Lives Somewhere Else but also analyze and understand that data by dynamically accessing some of the AI models you both love and fear. We'll be doing all of this while living inside the PostGIS database and using just SQL to access an ever-expanding universe of outside tools and data.

2026-01-23

WebGPU Water

(source: jeantimex.github.io)
Cool WebGPU demo

2026-01-22

Oooooooh, it just hits me: Wikipedia was born in the US

(source: @Ilya Zverev)
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@sesivany/115939683331097935Oooooooh.It just hit me.Wikipedia was born in the US. That's why there is the Wikimedia Foundation which controls the project, keeps everything inside its infrastructure, and is the single point of contact for the project.OpenStreetMap was born in Europe. By the words of Jiří, our DNA is different: we provide the data and do the absolute minimum, allowing hundreds of companies flourish on our data. E.g. there are no official routers or search engines.#openstreetMap #wikipedia #opendata

2026-01-21

Remember 'don't print this email' in signatures that was cringe?

(source: @Lucie / minute)
Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!

2026-01-19

H2D accessories

(source: m.youtube.com)
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

2026-01-19

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

(source: lucumr.pocoo.org)
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

2026-01-19

Armin Ronacher asks is AI coding agent users experiencing mass delusion

(source: @Christine Lemmer-Webber)
Armin Ronacher, who even very recently has previously has been very pro ai agent vibecoding to the point of criticizing critics, seems to have stepped back and asked the question: are AI coding agent users all experiencing mass delusion... including himself? https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/Conversation on lobste.rs is also interesting https://lobste.rs/s/0pxvyd/agent_psychosis_are_we_going_insane

2026-01-19

Quite the read: A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump's America

(source: @@PrivacyMatters)
Quite the read. By a former British Diplomat.‘A Year of Living Dangerously in Trump’s America’https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a-year-of-living-dangerously-in-trumps-america/

2026-01-19

Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog

(source: blog.mikeswanson.com)


2026-01-17

Link

(source: @Eric Alper)


2026-01-17

My laptop is on macOS Tahoe, my main Mac remains on Sequoia

(source: @Rob Griffiths)
My laptop is on macOS Tahoe (so I can support our customers), but my main Mac remains on Sequoia, because I don’t like Liquid Glass and some of the functional changes in macOS Tahoe. But I was tired of the constant "UPDATE TO TAHOE NOW YOU SLACKER!" dialogs that Apple sends my way.You *can* block this stuff, but it requires installing a device management profile. It’s not as scary as it may sound, and the end result is Tahoe-free Mac usage, at least in 90 day chunks.https://robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/

2026-01-17

ASCII characters are not pixels: A deep dive into rendering

(source: @Ricardo B�nffy)
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

2026-01-17

Link

(source: @Michael Roberts)


2026-01-16

KI Bilder in Ebenen zerlegt Qwen-Image-Layered: Heise+

(source: @heise online)
heise+ | Photoshop neu gedacht: Wie kostenlose KI Bilder in Ebenen zerlegtQwen-Image-Layered bringt Bild-Ebenen auf den eigenen Rechner. So zerlegen Sie mit der KI Plakate oder Grußkarten, um sie nach Belieben neu zu arrangieren.https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Photoshop-neu-gedacht-Wie-kostenlose-KI-Bilder-in-Ebenen-zerlegt-11122638.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#Bildbearbeitung #Entertainment #GenerativeAI #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #news

2026-01-16

Why Taxwire standardized on marimo for data exploration and internal tools | marimo

(source: molab.marimo.io)
How marimo enables engineers and tax experts alike to work with data

2026-01-16

The Journey to Zero-Copy: How chDB Became the Fastest SQL Engine on Pandas DataFrame

(source: clickhouse.com)
From 30 seconds to 0.5 seconds — the story of how we made ClickHouse fly on in-memory data

2026-01-15

AI Technology Radar

(source: ai-radar.aoe.com)



2026-01-14

Im Februar wird das elektronische Gesundheitsdossier verhandelt

(source: @Digitale Gesellschaft (CH))
Im Februar wird das elektronische #Gesundheitsdossier in der Gesundheitskommission des Nationalrats verhandelt. Wir sind eingeladen. Dies ist unsere Position.https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/2026/01/14/elektronisches-gesundheitsdossier-e-gd-position-der-digitalen-gesellschaft/

2026-01-13

How to know if that job will crush your soul - Anil Dash

(source: www.anildash.com)
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

2026-01-13

@codinghorror as in this meme?

(source: @Leon Bambrick)
@codinghorror as in this meme?

2026-01-12

Will this crush my soul? Asks Anildash on how to avoid soul-crushing jobs

(source: @Anil Dash)
One of the toughest things to judge when considering a new job or a new role is, basically, “Will this crush my soul?” Here’s a simple list of questions you can ask to help improve the odds that your next gig will be less soul-crushing: https://anildash.com/2026/01/12/will-that-job-crush-your-soul/

2026-01-12

Opus 4.5 result on METR task duration is wild

(source: @kevinschaul)
Opus 4.5 result on METR task duration is wild

2026-01-12

The militia turned out to be not so well-regulated. (From July 2020)

(source: @Matt Bors)
The militia turned out to be not so well-regulated.(From July 2020)

2026-01-11

art

(source: @Andraste Sideyr)
art


2026-01-09

The Emperor Has No Clothes: How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code - Mihail Eric

(source: www.mihaileric.com)
The core of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Warp isn't magic. It's about 200 lines of straightforward Python. Let's build one from scratch.

2026-01-08

Collaborative LLM Agents for C4 Software Architecture Design Automation

(source: arxiv.org)
Title: [2510.22787] Collaborative LLM Agents for C4 Software Architecture Design Automation This research introduces a multi-agent system powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate the design of C4 software architecture models. The system simulates a dialogue between role-specific expert agents who analyze requirements and generate Context, Container, and Component views of the C4 model. A hybrid evaluation framework, combining deterministic checks for structural integrity and C4 rule consistency with LLM-as-a-Judge for semantic and qualitative scoring, assesses the generated models. Tested on five system briefs, the workflow demonstrated rapid C4 model creation, maintained high compilation success rates, and achieved …

2026-01-07

Core Memories With the Swiftie Dads

(source: kottke.org)
In 2023, Paul Scheer spent a few days talking to fathers who accompanied their daughters to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in LA

2026-01-06

Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

(source: pluralistic.net)
This is true. Code is a liability. Code's capabilities are an asset.

2026-01-06

Palantir Swiss Army Report

(source: cdn.repub.ch)
he Swiss Armys report on Palantir, which recommends to not use the product. It provides a glimpse on how they evaluate products and also how Palantir got into a lot of other positions. It is mostly OSINT and not very technical, more on an organisational level.

2026-01-04

The AI-Ready Software Developer

(source: codemanship.wordpress.com)
For over a billion years now, we've known that "code-and-fix" software development, where we write a whole bunch of code for a feature, or even for a whole release, and then check it for bugs, maintainability problems, security vulnerabilities and so on, is by far the most expensive and least effective approach to delivering production-ready…

2026-01-03

Cameras and Lenses – Bartosz Ciechanowski

(source: ciechanow.ski)
Interactive article explaining how cameras and lenses work.

2026-01-02

Bespoke software is the future | Farid Zakaria’s Blog

(source: fzakaria.com)
At Google, some of the engineers would joke, self-deprecatingly, that the software internally was not particularly exceptional but rather Google’s dominance was an example of the power of network effects: when software is custom tailored to work well with each other.

2026-01-01

Ivo's Capuns online bestellen

(source: www.ivoscapuns.ch)
Bestellen Sie sich die Bündner Spezialität "Capuns" mit der Sauce nach Hause.

2025-12-30

AI Agent, AI Spy - media.ccc.de

(source: media.ccc.de)
Video Streaming Portal des Chaos Computer Clubs

2025-12-25

The Shape of Artificial Intelligence - by Alberto Romero

(source: www.thealgorithmicbridge.com)
What AI really looks like

2025-12-25

What are the two hardest problems in Computer Science?

(source: @big awoo notation)
The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

2025-12-22

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

(source: simonwillison.net)
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …

2025-12-22

Just in time software · Don't Panic

(source: commaok.xyz)
Words about Go and software

2025-12-22

Serienjahr 2025: Das sind die besten Serien des Jahres – und die schlechtesten | DIE ZEIT

(source: www.zeit.de)
Großer Spaß, großer Schmerz und ein schlimmer Verdacht: Das Serienjahr 2025 war voller Highlights. Wir empfehlen herausragende Produktionen, die man gesehen haben sollte.

2025-12-22

2025 LLM Year in Review | karpathy

(source: karpathy.bearblog.dev)
2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes

2025-12-20

GeoArrow on Web; Can We Live Without GeoJSON? :: FOSS4G 2025 :: pretalx

(source: talks.osgeo.org)
GeoArrow is a binary data format for geospatial data. It is designed for efficient data exchange, so is suitable for such usages as WebGIS. This talk will give the overview and the current status, including the limitation, of FOSS4G ecosystem around it, including DuckDB, Deck.gl, and MapLibre.

2025-12-18

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Eng Management. | Irrational Exuberance

(source: lethain.com)
I wrote a book, An Elegant Puzzle, which will be available in late May, 2019. This is something I’ve been working on over the past year, and which I’m extraordinarily excited to share!