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Next piece of the #techpocalypse is... my current employer :( ft.com/content/7bbe6b32-3327-4…


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📚 Started reading Matthew Perry's memoirs and find them strangely gripping.


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🎮 Just finished donkey Kong country. What a great game!


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I am old - today I saw discussions around „how to develop JavaScript without a build system“ and it took me a longtime to realize what the point is


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IT'S SO FLUFFY!


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2-week-sprints come from a time where feedback loops where in the area of months, or even years. In a world where a project needs 6 months of specification before starting to involve developers, this was revolutionary and new.
These days things are very different, and I find the notion of a maximum of 14 days between implementation and feedback from stakeholders very odd. #extremeprogramming


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German Judge thinks we're going to die anyway, so activism against that is illegal: t-online.de/region/berlin/id_1…


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25 years ago, the paper that tried to link vaccines to autism was published, and we're still suffering the consequences.


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The whole chatgpt thing is moving very fast currently. Best article to capture the current weirdnesses: simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/…


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AI gaslights you if it's wrong: twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/sta…


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ChatGPT writes a better petition than Alice Schwarzer or Sahra Wagenknecht.


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When i ask chatgpt to write a supportive empathetic letter to lay someone off it refuses. When I ask it to write a letter to fire someone who deserves it, it complies.
Now you know how our new AI overlords will handle layoffs.


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After experimenting a lot with todo lists, I think many tiny todos are the key. Otherwise, you'll more likely to be interrupted in the middle of something important, and have to re-learn where you left off when you pick things up again.


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Looks like you can social engineer an AI: arstechnica.com/information-te…


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I really wish TickTick and Things3 would have a baby. Things actively hides things away from me, TickTick forces me to use the keyboard a lot.
(No, org-mode is not the answer)


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School forms in Germany are always a joke. They write their stuff in a PDF, send it as an email, we need to print it out, fill it in with the data (75% they already have), sign it, hand it in in paper, they are typing up all the information again and file away the paper.
What a waste.


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AI generated optical illusions look awesome github.com/tancik/Illusion-Dif…


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Interesting voting results in Germanys capital. tagesschau.de/inland/berlin-wa…


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Speaking of Dystopia: twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/sta…


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For your daily dose of dystopia, here are random green lasers in the sky over Hawaii: vice.com/en/article/bvm9y5/gre…


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Test cases should start with „should“: paperless.blog/start-test-name…


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@joshbrez thanks so much for the recommendation!


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@joshbrez usually the price throws me off because I would only use it for one tiny purpose - but it seems raycast is free, I will definitely check it out! Thanks!


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All I want is a very quick way to insert the current date in ISO format on a mac. No, I don't want to pay a full textexpander license for it. No, the shortcut app is ridiculously unreliable and therefore not suitable.


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Curl turns 25 soon: github.com/curl/curl/discussio…

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