Rutger Roffel 

I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at @droidcon (@droidconBerlin) about the future of the drivers license. See you there? 👀⚡️ berlin.droidcon.com/rutger-roffel/

I’m done with conferences that charge attendees (high prices) but still expect speakers to cover their own travel and accommodation. What exactly are those ticket fees paying for? if not the people providing the value?

@levelsio Is that the portugese thuiskopieheffing?

/r/mildlyinteresting In Portugal you pay up to €7.50 when you buy a laptop called a "copyright levy" You pay €4/TB of storage in the computer, so for a MacBook Neo 13" with 512GB that's €2.05 It's regulation made in 1998 to compensate artists for you illegally sharing MP3 files which nowadays of course doesn't make sense anymore since we have Spotify and YouTube Much of the money doesn't even arrive with artists btw, 30% is taken by the organization collecting the tax and lot of it remains unclaimed and some of that goes again to the organization collecting the tax as "operational costs" 🤡

@jelmerdeboer meetings

Heeft iemand enig idee wat topfunctionarissen en topambtenaren doen? Is dit, net als """experts""" gewoon vage NOS-taal?

@luke_pighetti the real reason is more monetisation for longer videos

when did we normalize every youtube video being 30+ minutes long? i don't have enough time for this

@SEGVeenstra yeah lol, for a really old project i made an action that pushes to ftp 🥲

I never really got the hang of GitHub actions. I always ended up with tons of trial and error mistakes. Therefore I always used Codemagic for my pet projects. However, now with AI, GitHub actions have become much easier.

@janwilmake Didn’t find use for it yet but I am pretty sure it’s the future. cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

@Rudcher i don't know yet am not that familiar with AP2. have you worked with it?

Today I made a Demo of Stripe-Connect-backed p2p Payments This little app (p2p-stripe-connect.wilmake.com) allows for X Login and p2p payments between X users. It uses a global durable object with SQLite to facilitate transactions, and in essence is a ledger for Stripe Connect. It allows depositing money with stripe, sending to other users, even if they're not on the platform yet, and withdrawing money using Stripe Connect.The demo version (p2p-stripe-connect.wilmake.com) uses test api keys (A sandbox) so you can deposit money for free. github.com/janwilmake/p2p… A next step could be coming up with a simple MCP extension to add payments to MCP tools from other X users, then creating an MCP client that has this as the basis, so we can start building MCP servers that receive payments. Another next step could be to see if we can back the money deposited with USDC so payments can occur on a crypto platform (e.g. coinbase) such that we can use x402 as the payment protocol for MCP servers (see github.com/modelcontextpr…). The benefit of starting with stripe connect is that the user experience is very smooth; nobody needs to deposit crypto! As most internet users aren't cyrpto users, this is a big plus. Generally excited for paid MCP servers because it creates a new incentive for building actually good MCP servers besides just "look at us we have an MCP". Also, it reduces friction of MCP use because possibly we can just create MCP servers that only reuquire payment, but no identity. This creates a paradigm where there is no oauth required, allowing dynamic discovery and use of MCP server by ai agents.

@_philschmid would be nice to just have a latest. that would be ok for the most non-critical software. we can just monitor it via evaluations.

PSA: We're retiring Gemini 3 Pro Preview on the Gemini API & AI Studio on March 9, 2026. - Mar 6: `gemini-pro-latest` alias moves to 3.1 Pro - Mar 9: Gemini 3 Pro Preview is shut down Please upgrade to gemini-3.1-pro-preview to avoid disruption.

@ow tbh the only thing i need is a +30 seconds button and all other gibberish can be removed.

today i learned commercial microwaves are where the good ones are hiding. one GIANT time knob, NO buttons!!!

30% of houses are deemed unsafe 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

@pcshipp just a simple tracking event. Might even work towards a kpi since you'll probably only copy replies that you like.

I always wonder, Why does ChatGPT call an API when I click copy?

@SEGVeenstra lol fr

I really hate it when I follow some tutorial and in the end it doesn't work...

Imagine the UK and Ukraine (re)joining.

Europe overtook the US on the GitHub Innovation graph. 🇪🇺💙

@MartjanKuit Het Ij dempen.

Ondertussen in Amsterdam: Kabelbaan over het IJ! Nee, brug over het IJ! Neehee, tunnel onder het IJ! parool.nl/columns-opinie…

@janwilmake Perhaps with Chrome Headless mode via the CLI? developer.chrome.com/docs/chromium/…

does anyone know how to run chrome WITH devtools mcp in the cloud?

Love this kind of nerding.

@_philschmid Will there also be a link between the Google for Developers Developer Program plans aka google dot dev?

The Google AI Pro plan ($20/mo) and ultra ($249.99/mo) turning into the solo builder offering. 🧑‍💻⚡️ Including: 🔹 Google Antigravity 🔹 Jules & Gemini CLI 🔹 Cloud Credits $10/month for Pro, $100 for Ultra 🔹 Gemini in Chrome with Auto-browse 🔹 Google Search AI Mode (agentic) 🔹 Flow: Access to Veo 3.1 🔹 Nano Banana Pro: Image gen & editing 🔹 YouTube Premium (in Ultra, discounted for Pro)

@KasLekNL Hier ontbreekt nuance over datasoevereiniteit en strategische afhankelijkheden. De AI-fabriek is juist bedoeld om in NL/EU rekenkracht en expertise te organiseren zodat we minder leunen op Amerikaanse platforms voor kritieke datastromen en toepassingen.

Ruim € 200 miljoen publiek geld voor een AI-supercomputer in een oude Groningse tabaksfabriek. De politiek juicht om innovatie, terwijl onderzoek de meerwaarde ‘beperkt’ noemt. kaslek.nl/nieuws/ruim-20…

Status: When a brand new deployment pipeline passes on first try and you wonder what you did wrong.