Florian Weber

@andy_matuschak Moved to Barcelona last year. Would be cool to have a coffee together, if you've got time :)

HCI folks: I'll be in Barcelona this Thu-Sun for CHI. Ping me if you'd like to hang!

super stoked to be co-sponsoring @levelsio's #vibejam with @heyglif ! It's never been easier or more fun to build GAMES thanks to vibe coding - 14yo me would have been all over this (and tbh at 44, same) but building the game is only half the battle...you gotta get the word out, too! * launch videos * consistent marketing assets for your socials * game characters as influencers! we've built Glif dot app to help with all that - think Claude Code for AI video, marketing, and content generation as a sponsor, I sadly can't participate, but this month will build an example game and showcase how I use Glif for marketing, assets, distribution and its launch video... stay tuned, lots more coming, and comment below if you're doing vibejam this month and I'll send you some Glif credits! LFG

@thorstenball The best solution: quark :)

Mildly interesting: whey protein prices over time 2020: 50 Euros 2026: 80 Euros

@genmon No RSS feed on news.inanimate.tech ??? 😭

@threepointone Barcelona is even nicer :)

maybe we should open a Madrid office, for… reasons

The Office when Claude Code is down

@julianlehr @mitsuhiko Hahaha. Was just gonna write the same thing.. I would love to hear that talk

@mitsuhiko are you questioning rudi völler's AI expertise?

One of the fascinating cultural issues in the DACH region is that once it's moving towards acceptance, rather than going with the folks who actually spend time on something, confs and newscasters are looking at the establishment which often has no clue. x.com/steipete/statu…

@steipete @_zenzoen Hope none of that gets to you. Super cool to see all that's been happening with you and openclaw in the last few weeks. Hope you still get time to train :)

@_zenzoen Oh man that guy must have a hard life with all these negative thoughts.

A typical mentality in Germany in one pic (with auto translation) @steipete

Before Moltbook, there was MyMCPSpace dot com (2025) which we launched as an agent social networking site / April fools project 😅 the naming cadence here is very funny

@benln When Barcelona?

Cafe Cursor in Madrid

@steipete @mitsuhiko @badlogicgames Sometimes really hate how similar parts of AI twitter feel to crypto twitter at its peak: "Not doing x? Have fun being poor/losing your job/etc", all the argot, parroting hyperbole statements without much understanding

@mitsuhiko @badlogicgames LITERALLY

Oh, so that's what all these fucking DMs are about.

@artman @vesterinen If you ever think of moving somewhere else in Spain, give Barcelona second chance. Moved here 7 months ago and very happy. So amazing areas barely have any tourists at all

@vesterinen Barcelona is too touristy, Madrid too inland and hot. Portugal would have been another option and maybe we’ll find ourselves there at some point.

Moved to Valencia in Spain. Any insights into interesting tech events or meetups overe here?

@thorstenball Nice deadlift!

Leg day: not skipped

@aweissman Been listening to that again a lot lately. What a groundbreaking album

What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) resonantcomputing.org

@stevekrouse Re: "But really the way to learn vocab is to read great books, talk to smart people, listen to podcasts, etc." That works well if you can already do those activities without too much friction. If not, SR imho makes a huge difference to bootstrap yourself into that position

Well that struck a nerve! Spaced repetition has a lot of fans! I think spaced repetition = flashcards. And flashcards stink! Consider that if your brain keeps forgetting something, maybe there's a good reason it doesn't want to remember it Brains are really good at remembering important stuff If you want to remember something, find a way to fit it into your brain in such a way that it'll stick, ie via a story or relating it to things you already know or find interesting Forcing your brain to memorize facts it wouldn't otherwise remember is the illusion of learning, not actual learning. Those facts aren't connected to anything, so it's harder for your brain to make use of them in a real context There's an SAT vocab book I loved that did this kind of learning right. It came up with silly stories and drawings to teach you words. I remember reading it with pleasure a couple times and then knowing all the words. No effort required. (I forget that name of that book. Anyone know what I'm talking about?) But really the way to learn vocab is to read great books, talk to smart people, listen to podcasts, etc. @erikphoel talks about "Aristocratic Tutoring" as the way we produced genius in the past. Geniuses are created by having kids grow up in an environment with smart people - not via flashcards. Scalable and systematic forms of education such as flashcards, classes, grades, tests etc produce learning in spite of themselves. They are inferior ways of learning and teaching. We should aspire to do much much better

@stevekrouse SR works a thousand times better if prompts are written in a way so they are connected to something that is personally meaningful to you.

@stevekrouse Some of your critique sounds like flawed prompt writing rather than issues with SR itself. eg: "Those facts aren't connected to anything, so it's harder for your brain to make use of them in a real context" → That's a classic anti-pattern with SR prompt writing.

@stevekrouse Also concrete example: I've recently moved to Barcelona. Using SR for vocabulary has made a huge difference in practicing/speaking Spanish in every day life. Without that most of those conversations would have such a high friction, that I would probably barely any of it

@stevekrouse Are the two things exclusive though? This great talk makes the case that they can be complimentary: andymatuschak.org/hmwl/

Spaced repetition gives me the ick It's like the Soylent of learning. It's a scientist's idealized form of learning, stripped of all the natural messiness that makes learning rich and beautiful Picture a mom using spaced repetition flashcards on her baby Now picture that mom speaking lovingly to her baby about whatever's on her mind as they go about their day Which world do you want to live in? Where do you think the baby is better off? The humane way to learn something is to be immersed in an environment where learning happens naturally, automatically, as a consequence of natural motivation and play Think about all your most positive learning experiences. Learning your native language. Learning to move your body at playgrounds as a child. Learning to play video games. Learning how to use a computer by messing about. All natural, without instructions, or idealized, measured doses of learning Natural learning is a beautiful human process. Spaced repetition loses all of that. We should flip our focus from learning random facts as fast as possible to crafting ENVIRONMENTS where skills and learning happen naturally Want to learn French? Go to France Want to learn math? Go to Mathland (Logo or Scratch) Want to learn programming? Go to Val Town ;)