Michał Bugno

International tourism (number of annual arrivals): 🇫🇷 France: 117.1m 🇵🇱 Poland: 88.5m 🇲🇽 Mexico: 51m 🇺🇸 USA: 45m 🇹🇭 Thailand: 39.9m 🇮🇹 Italy: 38.4m 🇨🇿 Czechia: 37.2m 🇪🇸 Spain: 36.4m 🇨🇦 Canada: 32.4m 🇭🇺 Hungary: 31.6m 🇨🇳 China: 30.4m 🇭🇷 Croatia: 21.6m 🇮🇳 India: 17.9m 🇹🇷 Turkey: 15.9m 🇩🇰 Denmark: 15.6m 🇩🇪 Germany: 12.4m 🇬🇧 UK: 11.1m 🇦🇷 Argentina: 7.4m 🇷🇺 Russia: 6.3m 🇧🇷 Brazil: 6.3m 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 5.2m 🇯🇵 Japan: 4.1m 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 4m 🇸🇪 Sweden: 1.9m 🇦🇺 Australia: 1.8m 🇳🇴 Norway: 1.4m 🇨🇺 Cuba: 1m 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 0.9m 🇫🇮 Finland: 0.9m 🇲🇻 Maldives: 0.55m 🇮🇸 Iceland: 0.5m 🇻🇪 Venezuela: 0.4m 🇲🇩 Moldova: 0.03m Source: Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, UN Tourism. Data from 2020 or latest available. France is 2020, Poland is 2019 for example.

FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀 Our use of C and Assembly in FFmpeg has been an unacceptable violation of safety. FFmpeg will be running 10x slower - but we're doing it for your safety. All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later.

Pretty fascinating that in England the moment a person opens their mouth, you can read their entire life story. Where they went to school, what their family is like, their economic background, everything. A friend of mine says he literally can’t date in London anymore bc the second a girl speaks, there’s zero mystery. He already knows her postcode, her school and her dad’s job. It’s over before it starts. In Poland, none of that exists. People speak the same regardless of where they grew up, where they went to school, what they do for a living. A homeless man and a university professor can sound nearly identical. Nobody can tell that I basically grew up in London. Nobody can tell I haven’t lived here in years. There are no accent clues and no class markers, no education giveaways, nothing. So getting to know someone here is a completely different experience. You actually have to be curious. You have to ask and you have to discover a person the old-fashioned way bc nothing about the way they speak is going to hand you the answers. Pretty cool

we as software engineers are becoming beholden to a handful of well funded corportations. while they are our "friends" now, that may change due to incentives. i'm very uncomfortable with that. i believe we need to band together as a community and create a public, free to use repository of real-world (coding) agent sessions/traces. I want small labs, startups, and tinkerers to have access to the same data the big folks currently gobble up from all of us. So we, as a community, can do what e.g. Cursor does below, and take back a little bit of control again. Who's with me? cursor.com/blog/real-time…

I'm usually not one to write thought pieces without much technical depth. But here we go. Slow the fuck down. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-03-…

So let's start from this post to tell you about my journey with the LLMs and the new Redis data structure I'm implementing right now. Vector Sets were hand-coded, this time I decided to use Claude/Codex as a helpers, and guess what? The work I had to do was huge. Thread:

I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would prevent outright exploitation by our competitors, but those were to allay fears of my partners to allow me to make the gift. AI training on the code magnifies the value of the gift. I am enthusiastic about it! Some people do look at open source as a tool for social change, career advancement, or reputation building, but those are all downstream of the gift.

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

@marcinbunsch You mean 4.6 or just in general compared to others?

It is absolutely insane how good Claude Code is now.

UNUSUAL: 🇵🇱 Kraków is among most polluted cities in the world today. Source: iQAir

Three crossing tides converged at the Haining section of the Qiantang River in east China, forming a spectacular triangular geometry.

Ostatnio tak miałem przy „Chatce Puchatka”

The CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister in Sweden. He should have his cabinet together by the end of the weekend.

Open playtest alert - you can play The Maker Way on Steam now! 🛠 Build machines (rovers, drones etc.) 🌎Use them in a physics-based open world 🏛 Build bases 🔫Engage in combat Fight for liberty! Fight for progress! #IndieGame #GameDev #Playtest

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@Spotify I used to love your "Spotify Weekly" recommendations. In the past year or so it started suggesting some shit dance music. And it's getting worse. These are my weekly playlists from past 9 years. Notice how the amount dropped in 2023 and 2024.