Otto von Wesendonk

@samlambert @kdaigle +1

If the community wants to save contemporary GitHub we should rally around @kdaigle becoming independent CEO. He has been there since the old days. Knows the soul of the product and knows how to do it.

Code is not cheap and never was. You either pay to write it well, or pay when it breaks.

@shadcn 🙋‍♂️

I see. How many of you do this? I’d like to get a sense of how common this is.

LMAO who made this extremely based 😭😂🤣

Something Jocko said on a podcast I was listening to c. winter 2020-2021 changed my life—he was recounting how someone once asked him “what he says to himself” to get himself to do all the crazy disciplined stuff he does (up before 4am working out every morning, etc) and he was like that is the EXACT wrong question, you need to get out of the mind and into the body, you need to learn how to move the body by just going around the mind, let it scream and protest while you drag yourself out of bed, you cannot be held hostage by having to get the mind on board before you do anything

Most of the time I like that ChatGPT has context from my previous conversations when I start a new chat, but I would love an option to disable it for just a single conversation at the time of starting that thread.

There's never been an investment like the investment in railroads. (This graph has a log scale!)

Every time I see a tweet saying “I can vibe code this in a weekend” - I think of the slack notification system.. It takes time, persistence and effort to get the details right. Sure, a lot of simple workflows will get vibe coded away. And maybe you can put this in Claude Code and get the code right in one shot. But quality, depth and great systems will still have value and take time. You can’t vibe code lessons. Now and forever.

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Tech lead is less about coding and more about the team. via @gregorojstersek

The effectiveness of your AI usage will be a function of the breadth and precision of your vocabulary. We deem a person a “clear thinker” when the words they communicate with *enhance* your model of the world. If you’re asking AI to draft an email or vibe-code an app, a simple prompt will get you em dashes or purple gradients. Clear thinking and expression will get you much further. Like the difference between small talk about the weather, versus someone offering you a novel idea or even an insightful new lens of the world around you. While your vocabulary and understanding develop, there are some shortcuts. Skills (as in skills.sh) magically augment your prompt and offer variety. You might not have the precise vocabulary I use when I give feedback to our product designers or when I @v0, but I’ll be able to share back my skills with you.

@SebJohnsonUK I fear what Europe is lacking is the culture of entrepreneurship more so than the ecosystem. The latter is just downstream from said culture of risk-adverse, status-quo seeking, tall-poppy cutting Europeans and the governments they elect.

All the principles of software engineering are not really about code per se. They are about how to organize the highly detailed specification of a product.

@pitdesi Berlin is a business lightweight compared to the West Germany. Since business travel drives airline revenue, Berlin is mainly relegated to low-yield tourist routes.

Berlin is by far Germany's largest city, yet it has surprisingly poor air connections compared to smaller German cities like Frankfurt and Munich. The reason traces back to the Cold War... For 45 years after WWII, Lufthansa was legally banned from flying to Berlin. Instead, the city's largest carrier was Pan Am, the iconic international American airline, and they had a mini-hub there (see image 1!) It's very strange to have a US airline dominating traffic between a bunch of German cities... it's a strange quirk that arose from how the powers divided Berlin after WWII. Before the war, Berlin Templehof was among the busiest airports in the world, and one of the largest buildings in the world. After the war, the US, UK, France, and Soviet Union each controlled sectors of the city, with West Berlin (& the airport) sitting deep inside Soviet-controlled East Germany. To maintain access, the powers created strict rules: only airlines from the US, UK, and France could fly into West Berlin, and the planes had to be piloted by citizens of those countries. This meant that Lufthansa (German flag airline) was completely shut out of its own capital & largest city. There was another restriction that made flying to Berlin especially difficult: planes couldn't fly above 10,000 feet in the air corridors. The Soviets imposed this ceiling as part of the 1945 agreement and refused to change it, even as jet aircraft were introduced in the 1960s, and Pan-Am was flying mostly 727's For context, they usually fly at 30k feet+, so they were burning 30% more fuel and operating 20% slower than they should. The whole thing worked because (like a lot of things there) prices and competition were controlled and very high, so even though it was operationally expensive, the math worked. So for decades, American pilots flew Pan Am jets in and out of Berlin while German flight attendants staffed the cabins. Meanwhile, Frankfurt and Munich developed into Germany's major airline hubs during the years when modern air networks were taking shape. When German reunification finally ended these restrictions in 1990, it was too late. Berlin never fully caught up, and that's in part why Germany's largest city remains surprisingly underconnected by air today. Now Templehof is a park that's open to the public. I recommend renting a bike and traversing the runways!

It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment.

The reason it’s incredibly hard to break out of a “kind lie” doom loop is because the longer it’s gone on, the more unkindness is needed to get back on track. And the fact that you’re in this situation to begin with probably means your culture will hate that.

Germany making moves

😑 zeit.de/wirtschaft/202…

Man muss es so klar sagen: Der Umgang der politischen Parteien und der medialen Öffentlichkeit mit der AfD ist ein Desaster historischen Ausmaßes. Kein Unfall, kein Kollateralschaden. Ein selbstgemachtes Fiasko. Die Union hat keine Strategie. Punkt. Sie verliert sich in künstlich aufgezwungenen Abgrenzungsdebatten, statt den angekündigten Politikwechsel endlich durchzusetzen. Statt zu führen, verwaltet sie die Brandmauer. Statt Wähler zu gewinnen, wirft sie sie über die Mauer, aus Angst vor der Sensibilität des Koalitionspartners. Die SPD ist substanzlos, verängstigt, führungslos. Seit Jahren ignoriert sie die Bedürfnisse ihrer eigenen Kernwähler, mit Ansage, mit Arroganz. Sie Folge? Diese Wähler wechseln im vollen Bewusstsein zu den Rechtspopulisten. Nicht aus Versehen. Nicht aus Verirrung. Sondern, weil die SPD ihnen nichts mehr anbietet. Und statt sich zu hinterfragen, beschimpft sie die Abgewanderten. Die Grünen suhlen sich im Gefühl moralischer Überlegenheit. als wären sie die letzte demokratische Partei im Universum. Regelmäßig mobilisieren sie gegen eine Partei, die doppelt so viele Wähler hat wie sie selbst. Mit Unterstützung ihrer medialen Claqueure treiben sie die Polarisierung immer weiter und liefern der AfD genau das Klima, in dem sie gedeiht. Die FDP wäre eigentlich die einzige Partei, die noch eine glaubwürdige Erzählung hätte, um AfD-Wähler zurückzugewinnen. Aber dafür müsste sie sich vom Kurs der Anpassung lösen und das Risiko eingehen, wieder echte liberale Kante zu zeigen. Mehr Milei wagen statt Dürr-Kurs. Die Medien haben die AfD jahrelang ausgegrenzt und verteufelt. Nicht wegen ihrer Inhalte, sondern wegen ihrer Existenz. Dieser Umgang ist längst auf deren Wähler übergesprungen: Millionen Menschen fühlen sich nicht kritisiert, sondern verachtet. Sie wenden sich ab, konsumieren alternative Medien, bauen Wagenburgmentalitäten auf und verstärken sich gegenseitig. Bei jeder Gelegenheit wird eine neue Brandmauer-Sau durchs Dorf getrieben und man wundert sich ernsthaft, warum die AfD wächst. Weil es inzwischen cool ist, zu den Ausgrenzten zu gehören. Seit Jahren beobachte ich dieses Schauspiel und ich erkenne kaum jemanden, der irgendetwas verstanden hat. Und wenn jemand es doch ausspricht, wird er öffentlich niedergerungen. Selten gab es ein so kollektives politisches Versagen wie im Umgang mit der AfD. Alle Akteure oben haben das Gegenteil dessen erreicht, was sie wollten: Sie haben eine politisch talentfreie Partei zur stärksten Kraft gemacht. Arroganz und Moralisierung waren der Treibstoff.

@jaredpalmer @github Proper solution for stacked/dependent PRs

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