Sunday, 22. February 12026
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artpoint.eu

I am delighted that art point still exists! I came across the store in Vienna’s seventh district by chance (I am still living under a stone) and immediately recognized Lena Kvadrat’s signature style; fondly remembered the fashion show I was proudly wearing one of her designs as a non-model entity. ’Twas the best of the times, no InstaMetagram, not sure there are any photographs, just these memories that can’t wait.

“I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software.”

On the whole, this has been a very pleasant experience for me as a maintainer.

Why there’s no European Google? – And why it is a good thing!

Via lobste.rs:

You are not even trying. When you try alternative such as Comaps, you discover that there are many many ways in which Google Maps sucks: ever tried planning bikepacking trips or walking treks with Google Maps? Ever used Google Maps in a forest? It sucks. Every solutions shines in a given context. Saying "but Google Maps is superior" is simply false. The fact that most people, including those in tech, cannot see it is a huge problem.

How to Think About Asia in 2026.

Asia is no longer primarily an arena – it is an actor (or a set of actors) capable to effect change not just in Asia, but around the world.

Naaaa![^1].

How to be more agentic.

Build a better mousetrap. Have an enviable marriage. Start a country. No one is born with it, everyone can learn it, and it’s never too late.

[^1]: Not another article about AI.

“An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me.”

An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.

Thursday, 19. February 12026
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buntesAT ist eine Monatszeitschrift, die in Österreich produziert wird. Schwerpunkt der Zeitschrift ist die Sichtbarmachung von unterrepräsentierten Menschen, Themen und Meinungen im Land.

Saturday, 14. February 12026
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Schwarzwurzelsuppe.

AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers.

Reading and understanding other people's code is much harder than writing code. AI-generated code is other people's code. So we've taken the part developers are good at (writing), offloaded it to a machine, and left ourselves with the part that's harder (reading and reviewing), but without the context we'd normally build up by doing the writing ourselves.