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Nice article about the state of #AI, share with family and friends shumer.dev/something-big-…

AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Google something, you used to get a link to my website, but now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work. This has a devastating impact on traffic.

The only one i can still use is Codex ACP. Why would i use WebStorm which only supports Codex and not the fancy Codex app directly. This is so f***ing harmful for JB. Get this thing fixed or I'll drop the IDE after using it for all my life!

I'm using @JetBrains with it's agent harnesses. Junie has a ton of bugs recently, so I'm forced to switch to the other ones. Now, I'm not allowed to use my subsidized @claudeai agent anymore because I'm using WS license from my company WTF @wordmandotdev? Tryin to kill JetBrains?

@wolfmanfx Ikea Markus. Used to be 149, now at 179. Best that I ever had.

I need a new office chair any tips are welcome 🙏

whooooop, finally, just did "ng new" and it did setup prettier out of the box and put the config into .prettierrc @Jean__Meche did you do this? if yes i owe you a lot of 🍺s

@itsolelehmann Europe is doomed

I'm German. Germany's ENTIRE AI data center capacity is less than 1/2 of just one site being built in Texas. We have 530 megawatts of AI data center capacity in the entire country. The US has 8.2 gigawatts. That's 15x more compute on a country with only 4x the people. Per German, the US has roughly 4x the AI infrastructure. One university computer at MIT is 4x faster than Germany's most important commercial AI facility. The obvious reaction here is "so what, German companies can just rent compute from AWS." But that's the same logic Germany applied to Russian gas for two decades. Roughly 70% of German enterprise AI today runs on American cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft, and Google. Which means it runs under American law. Every AI tool running in German hospitals, courts, ministries, banks, and factories sits on a foreign platform. Here's why this can actually become problematic. Imagine these scenarios: > The next GPU generation launches and American companies get access first because they own the data centers. German firms wait 12 months and pay 2-3x more for what's left. > A frontier AI model gets released and US export controls block it from being deployed in Germany. SAP and Siemens watch American competitors integrate it for a year before they can. > And in the worst case, a US president decides to use AI access as leverage in a trade dispute. German companies get cut off from the models their American competitors are still running. All of them are compounding problems that will negatively impact the German economy (and everyone's standard of living/jobs etc). None of this is hypothetical. > The US pulled Starlink as leverage with Ukraine in March 2025 > Chip exports to China have been throttled for three years > And the CLOUD Act lets the US demand any data stored by American cloud providers (even when the customer is a German company and the servers are physically in Germany). Germany doesn't have an answer for any of those scenarios today because the infrastructure that would make those answers possible isn't built yet. Now look at why this is actually happening on the ground. In the last 3 months Germany rejected 3 AI data center projects in a row: > Groß-Gerau, February: Vantage Data Centers, €2.5 billion, 174 MW. Voted down 18-14 by the local council > Maintal: EdgeConnex, €1 billion, 170 MW. Blocked over a backup gas generator the developer needed because grid connections in Germany take 7-10 years and a data center is built in 2 > Freyenstein, Brandenburg, April: 700 MW AI campus. Killed by protests before construction €3.5 billion in AI infrastructure turned away in one quarter. And the situation is more urgent than it looks because compute is getting harder to access, not easier. NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs are already allocated through the second half of 2027. The American hyperscalers locked in the bulk of new production with forward orders placed in 2025. TSMC's advanced packaging lines (the actual bottleneck) are sold out through 2026. Germany has no hyperscaler of its own. That means German industry sits at the back of the queue, and the gap compounds every quarter that goes by. Where Germany is falling short right now comes down to three things: > Public backlash, because the case for what AI data centers actually do for a country has never been made to the people voting on them > Industrial electricity at €0.16-0.18 per kWh vs about $0.08 in Texas. For a 1 GW campus that's $700-900 million extra per year just for power > Grid connections taking 7-10 years for large facilities when the data center itself is built in 2. No serious operator runs on math where the wait is longer than the build And the first one is the biggest. Electricity policy and grid timelines are fixable. Public consent isn't, until someone makes the case that this infrastructure isn't nice-to-have. It's the foundation everything else runs on. The average person only feels the downside (noise, rising electricity cost, terror attack vector) We have a big messaging and marketing problem around data centers and why they are critical for everyone's future. Germany still has the foundation to win this if it moves now. Germany adopted its first national data center strategy in March 2026. 28 concrete measures, annual progress reports, doubling overall capacity and quadrupling AI capacity by 2030. The plan exists. The Industriestrompreis launched on January 1st of this year. It targets 5 cents per kWh for half of an industrial user's annual consumption. If data centers get cleanly pulled into that framework, the electricity cost gap with Texas gets significantly closer. Deutsche Telekom turned on 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in Munich in Q1. One facility increased Germany's available AI compute by roughly 50% overnight. And the demand is already domestic. SAP, Siemens, BMW, BASF. The German industrial anchors that benefit most from AI are German companies. The customers are at home, the infrastructure should be at home too. And this is the thing that most people forget. Germany won the second industrial revolution. By 1900 German chemical output had passed Britain's, Siemens was wiring the world, and BASF and Bayer were inventing industries that didn't exist before they built them. The companies that came out of those decisions are still the largest employers in Germany 130 years later. Germany sat out the third industrial revolution, the software one, and that was survivable because software didn't run factories. But AI runs factories. It runs hospitals, logistics, courts, and financial markets. This one is infrastructure in the same category as railways and chemical plants. The plan is written and the money is ready. The only question left is whether the country will let it get built. There's a lot of work left to do, but I'm staying optimistic.

@niklas_wortmann @JetBrainsRider Fair enough ❤️

@LX_T @JetBrainsRider I have promoted angulararchitects as well for years 🤷‍♂️

Happy to pitch in some @JetBrainsRider licenses for the team 🫡

@niklas_wortmann @intellijidea @jetbrains Yes.

Does that mean we need something like a terminal mode in @intellijidea and other @jetbrains IDEs? 🤔

@KirkMDesign Or self-employed and have 80h weeks 🤪

you actually need to be unemployed to stay up-to-date in what's happening in the ai world

@huge_icons Did you really use the deprecated Angular logo 🤦

frontend devs, what's your go-to JS framework?

@Dutch_Guy @tailwindcss As Angular developer I don't need tailwind anyways

The fact @tailwindcss breaks in production when you concatenate class names is really quite a bummer :-( More duplication it is, unless someone knows a better solution..

This 30-min workshop from the creator of Claude Code will teach you more about vibe-coding than 100+ YouTube videos. No fluff. Just pure signal. Watch it before everyone else does.

Angular will introduce a new decorator in v22: @Service - Root by default - inject() only It will stream line how we define services and reduce even more the boilerplate. github.com/angular/angula…

@Dutch_Guy @WebStormIDE I agree. Using Webstorm/Junie/Opus.

Okay.. honestly? @WebStormIDE plus Junie 🤷

@Jean__Meche Omg that's so cool 😍

Something I've wanted for years. Finally going to land in #Angular v22. You'll be able to comment attributes/inputs. What you're seeing here is the toggle support by Vscode (thx to the Angular language service extension).

@McFLoDuR @JS_Days I've just posted the SpeakerDeck: speakerdeck.com/lx_t/refactori…

@LX_T @JS_Days Will there be a recording available someday or the talk slides?

can't wait for my talk about #refactoring dusty #Angular components with the help of 🤖🕵️ tomoro at @JS_Days in #München

Heute im Rahmen der @JS_Days zum ersten Mal mein neues Workshop-Programm Refactoring verstaubter Angular-Komponenten – hier die Slides (in Deutsch!): speakerdeck.com/lx_t/refactori…

@McFLoDuR @JS_Days I think it's being live broadcasted only. I'm going to post the slide deck here later, but it's in German 😅