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

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

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

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

IT'S SO FLUFFY!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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

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

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

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

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

@joshbrez thanks so much for the recommendation!

@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!

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.

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