Sunday, 9. March 12025
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A bagel without a queue.

Veahavta bagels beat the Budapest bagels. So good!

Learned two new words: Squeegee, which is the German “Wischer” and already one of my favorite onomatopoetic words.

Another German translation can be “Rakel” which I did not know either and which is used for screen printing. Of course there is a Rakelratgeber, it would not be Germany without such a thing.

What is TypeScript? An overview for JavaScript programmers.

Dyne.org is a digital community and free software foundry. We share tools, practices and narratives that empower artists, creatives and citizens in the digital age.

We focus on developing software that benefits society, rather than generate profits and profits. It's about developing technology that people can understand and control, rather than having people being controlled by machines. Building communities is valuable in the long term, with other types of benefits that are not monetary, because there are other ways to prosper and earn. Software not just about money, it's about participation, ideas, people and a sense of community.

Rising like an iron phoenix from the ashes on Marco Rubio’s forehead…

Iron Front USA.

Relevant: Three Arrows.

Interestingly, while during the Weimar republic the targets of the arrows were monarchy, nazism and communism, nowadays they represent opposition against fascism, capitalism and clericalism for the Austrian social democracts (the symbol is in their official flag). Not surprisingly, the US faction calls for the fight against fascism and racism but – at least as I am aware of – not against capitalism.

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Better a Living Mess Than a Dead Masterpiece.

Your codebase is decaying right now. Will you spend today polishing abstractions… or building something that matters despite the mess?

Some decent suggestions.

How Core Git Developers Configure Git

hdp – What would happen if we didn't use TCP or UDP?

(…) what if I sent a packet using a transport protocol that didn’t exist? Not TCP, not UDP, not even ICMP—something completely made up.

Here is an expanded cheat-sheet to help you break out of the American tech bubble.

Nicht alles, was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich, aber…

“Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service.”