Crystal (crystal-lang.org) looks pretty good as a new programming language, basically the syntax of Ruby with the concurrency of Go. First heard about it because Kagi is built in it)

You know your civilization messed up big time when the hardest part of doing anything is getting permission to do it. We should be fighting nature, physical law, entropy, etc, not government rules and bureaucracy.

So the new pope has a MINT degree, speaks several languages fluently, has experience in the previous administration, as well as led a large international organization before. Looking at our government: Can we please try a conclave next time?

I’ve gotten am embarrassing amount of leverage out of “I’m afraid. I guess I’ll just do it while afraid” and “this is going to take a long time, but the time is going to pass anyway”

Ich würde dazu gerne einen Kommentar schreiben über die Kompetenz der Bundesregierung in Sachen Wirtschaft. Aber dann habe ich mich an die Kompetenz der Bundesregierung in Sachen Meinungsfreiheit erinnert.

You're never going to be able to measure the ROI of sharing, giving back, writing, engaging, and just giving a fuck. But karma does occasionally reveal the path by which it returns.

Im liberalen Argentinien 🇦🇷 gibt es auch Meldestellen. Dort werde aber keine Leute denunziert, deren Meinung Trusted Flaggern nicht passt. Hier kann man bürokratischen Unsinn melden, der uns das Leben schwer macht. Wann auch bei uns?

Was ein ekliger Tweet. Da steht allen Ernstes „ihr Leben lassen mussten“. Nein, mussten sie nicht. Sie wurden ermordet. Und wir wissen, welche Partei dafür die historische Schuld trägt - die #SED, die dreimal umlackiert heute Die Linke heißt. #Mauerbau

Just a friendly reminder that German economic demise is self-inflicted. Choices have consequences, you get what you vote for.

There’s an essay where a famous magician says the secret to magic is doing an inconceivable amount of work for a trick. So much work that it’s easier for audience to believe you are magic. I think this might be the key to doing anything great.

Never underestimate how important it is to pick good examples in your documentation

Speech is not violence. Violence is not speech.

He's right. Except in a few edge cases, everything good (health, education, rule of law, tolerance) is downstream of economic growth.

Dinge, die in einer Rezession Gift sind:

Google hat weltweit gut 180 000 Angestellte. In Deutschland arbeiten fast genauso viele Menschen in der Verwaltung von Sozialleistungen (Deutsche Rentenversicherung: 63 000. Bundesagentur für Arbeit: 114 000).

Ich ziehe meinen Hut vor den Dolmetschern, die diese literarisch wertvolle Rede von Parlaments-Poet Martin Sonneborn zu übersetzen hatten. Das könnte ihn angeblich eine Strafe des Parlaments kosten. Da muss er uns wohl bald in der Abgeordnetenbar anpumpen 😉👇🏼

Deutsche Bahn’s punctuality target for 2026 is 60%. Not 95%. Not 80%. Sixty percent. And they’re struggling to hit it. This is what “we’ll maintain it later” looks like at national scale

The best MacBook neo review is not a review, it’s a love letter to the Mac, and computers, and nerddom, and human ingenuity: samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-…

there really is a "fix everything right now" button for buying a printer and its been the same for 20 years