Micha

@at_chiru @jaimemh @SurrealDB @tobiemh Great to have you Chiru!

2 months into life at @SurrealDB, and my first role in both the database world and developer experience. SurrealDB wasn't new to me, I'd been part of the community for a while - attending AMAs by @tobiemh, following the early beta days, and watching the product and community evolve from the outside. 🧵 Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly of joining a fast-moving company and helping level up its DX:

@IntCyberDigest lol privacy my ass 🇪🇺

🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it. The scope is staggering: 🔴 Every query you type 🔴 Every voice and photo search 🔴 Every autocomplete you accept 🔴 Your language, your device 🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid 🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered 🔴 Every click and scroll 🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions Meaning the European Union now knows your: 🔴 Health symptoms 🔴 Pregnancy 🔴 Sexual orientation 🔴 Political views 🔴 Religious beliefs 🔴 Financial distress 🔴 Legal trouble 🔴 Addictions 🔴 Affairs Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access. The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union. Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that. Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history. Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given. Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage. Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state. In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it. The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026. After that, the door does not close again. Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!

@BrettFromDJ home-assistant.io was first!

Linear: puts the actual product on the homepage and lets you click through it. More companies should be doing this.

SurrealDB 3.0 is coming, mark your calendar! On February 17, 2 PM GMT we’ll unveil our latest major release, sharing what’s changed under the hood and how it reshapes the way you model and query data, especially for modern, AI-driven applications. 👉 youtu.be/USg8ZQC5mQc

@tweethue any chance homekit support is still coming this year? Or perhaps an updated timeline. It’s the reason I bought the hue doorbell, really hope this feature will drop soon :)

@jarredsumner @SlackHQ There are code snippets actually (/snippet) but I barely use it. Markdown codeblocks would be a huge upgrade!

when will @SlackHQ add syntax highlighting to code blocks? Discord has had this for years

@sandrogozi @SecRubio Correct! It’s a digital dictatorship 🎉

No @SecRubio ! Simply, the EU is not a digital far west.

Mass surveilance is here to protect the children.

@ReginaDo @EPPGroup So happy to be spied on soon ☺️

Delighted that our blueprint to help keep children safe online has just passed in the European Parliament. A major step forward in supporting parents, strengthening protections, and putting young people first. Proud to have played a part in shaping this important work @EPPGroup

@amasad Gekoloniseerd 🇳🇱🇳🇱

wtf ive never been to the Netherlands.

@artman Funny, the first thing I got opening the article was a cookie banner haha

Europe is so back. No more cookie banners, if member states approve of the proposal. theverge.com/news/823750/eu…

@mullvadnet And then? Politicians! No, can't do that...

@discord why do I get ads when I pay for Discord Nitro?

@basilthegreat Has he never heard of Apple Pay? Maybe he should try it, you need to click a button a whole two times, so difficult to use!

🚨KEIR STARMER JUST ADMITTED DIGITAL I.D WILL BE USED TO MAKE PAYMENTS AND ACCESS MONEY We are turning into a communist state He's just said the quiet bit out loud THIS MUST BE STOPPED

Hey @tweethue, I just installed my hue doorbell, but I think something is up with the activity zones. I know it’s in beta still, but I don’t receive any notifications of people walking by / other motion. Clips are only created (rather short by the way) when someone actually rings the doorbell. The motion sensor works great by the way, my porch light turns on as soon as someone walks by. Is there anything I can do to debug this issue? Thanks! Love the doorbell besides that and hoping homekit support drops soon 🚀🚀🚀

🇪🇺 My fellow Europeans You have to fight ChatControl 💪 Don't let @vonderleyen read your chats! metalhearf.fr/posts/chatcont…

@bunq I like the new separation between banking and saving accounts 😃 We share a groceries account in our household, but the people with which the account is shared can no longer find the account anywhere, we reported that during the beta phase. Was that issue resolved, by any chance?

The wait is over! Our latest app version is FINALLY here for everyone to enjoy 🙌 With this latest version, everything’s faster, sleeker, and built around you. 🚀 Try it today and experience the future of banking. #bunqUpdate29 #bunqV5 #BankSmarter #AppUpdate

@JPEGuin Thanks! Appreciate it 🚀

@kearfy Thanks for the heads up! I'll work on a fix soon and push out an update

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@joshm Pretty much everything. I look at dia sometimes and everytime my conclusion is that it feels incomplete compared to arc

As part of this acquisition, we’ll be bringing some of Arc browser’s “greatest hits” to Dia. Think: CMD-S to hide the sidebar (Focus Mode) and special integrations with GitHub, etc. What do you miss most from Arc that we should consider bringing over after the deal closes?