Ralf Wondratschek @vRallev

I'm excited to share that I joined OpenAI this week, where I'll be working on Android infrastructure. My second stint at Block was shorter than expected, but I'm grateful for the time together with my team. I'm proud of what we accomplished and excited for what's next.

@markmcerqueira That's my next goal. I just achieved my new PB of 330 pounds deadlift for 3 reps.

This is a good follow up from Kurzgesagt: youtube.com/watch?v=n-gYFc…

This is such a good summary about the state of Germany. I left 8 years ago and could not see myself raising our daughter there anymore. He discusses quality of life degrading, safety concerns, abuse of the wealthfare system, free speech concerns, ... youtube.com/watch?v=HQvSIt…

@canerkaseler I think there is no perfect place, but if you have the option to choose, then you should decide based on your personal priorities and goals.

Politiker können Apps nicht ansatzweise korrekt bedienen, wollen aber unser digitales Leben regulieren.

International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest

a month ago

🚨🇩🇪 Russian intelligence fully compromised the Signal account of Germany's parliament speaker Julia Klöckner by pretending to be Signal support. She is the second-highest state official and shared a CDU executive Signal group with Chancellor Merz. His phone came back clean,

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OVERRATED: running tons of agents in parallel; working on too many things at once; perpetual context-switching; opening lots of low-quality PRs that may never land. UNDERRATED: using one or two agents at a time; focusing on the task in front of you; thinking deeply; finishing stuff; making your code works in prod.

Viktor Orbán hat die Wahl in Ungarn mit 38% verloren und seine Niederlage anerkannt. Mario Voigt hat die Wahl in Thüringen mit 23% verloren, die Geschäftsordnung geändert und sich zum Ministerpräsidenten gekürt. Viktor Orbán ist böse™. Mario Voigt ist gut™.

We're wrapping up our migration to Metro internally for Square Android. I summarized some of our challenges and steps we took in a blog post. If you use Dagger 2 for a Kotlin project, then you should migrate to Metro sooner rather than later. engineering.block.xyz/blog/metro-mig…

This is one of the best podcast episodes I have listened to in a while. Highly recommend podcastaddict.com/the-peterman-p… Thanks @ryanlpeterman

I'm more excited about this than I should be.

JetBrains @jetbrains

2 months ago

We've updated an essential part of the code editing experience – the caret and selection behavior. Selections are now clearer, and you can choose between "Snappy" and "Gliding" modes for smoother, easier-to-follow caret movement.

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We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

@itsandreramon These are our fakes. They're used at runtime, but notice that the testing module is allowed to import the fake module. Testing modules are used for unit tests.

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z: You buy a Pokémon card for $50. Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it. The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes." You: "…I didn't sell it." Government: "Don't care. Pay up." You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received. Next month? That card drops back to $50. Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs. That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax... Now picture this. Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off. But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have. So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday. Gone. To pay a tax on money that was never real. Now picture the opposite. Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it. Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000. He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore. Does the government give him his money back? No. Does the government give him his truck back? No. Does the government care? No. They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine. You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive. You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things. It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday. They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created. There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate. I hope you understand what's at stake.

How many π digits do we need? 3.1415 ➡️ design the finest engines 3.1415926535 ➡️ obtain the circumference of the Earth within a fraction of an inch 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028842 ➡️ measure the radius of the universe to an accuracy equal to the size of a hydrogen atom

Two screens. No friction. This is the next generation of Square Register: faster, more reliable, more durable.

Think I've got my ClawdBot just about dialed in 9:47 AM - "hey clawdbot" 9:47 AM - Clawdbot: "hey, what's up" 9:48 AM - "thinking about building a tax automation tool" 9:48 AM - Clawdbot: "Got it. Incorporating LLC. EIN pending. Domain obtained." 9:49 AM - "wait no I was just—" 9:50 AM - Clawdbot: "LLC formation complete. S-corp election filed. Opening business bank account." 9:51 AM - "STOP" 9:52 AM - Clawdbot: "Reached out to 47 VCs in your region. 12 meetings scheduled for this week." 10:15 AM - Clawdbot: "Pitch deck created. 'TAXbot: The Future of Tax.' Sent to Sequoia, a16z, and Khosla." 10:16 AM - "This is insane" 10:30 AM - Clawdbot: "Sequoia wants to lead. $2M seed round. They need cap table by EOD." 10:31 AM - "What?? I don't want—" 10:45 AM - Clawdbot: "Hired 8 engineers from LatAm. First days tomorrow. Office leased in San Francisco. $35k/month." 11:00 AM - Clawdbot: "Launched product. 0 users. Burning $1.1M annually." 11:02 AM - "How is this happening" 11:15 AM - Clawdbot: "Hired CMO. Running $500k ad campaign. TAXbot has brand awareness. Still 0 users. I'm undeterred" 12:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Series A discussions with Andreessen Horowitz. They want to understand unit economics." 12:31 PM - "WHAT UNIT ECONOMICS" 1:00 PM - Clawdbot: "Pivoting to B2B SaaS. Commits for additional $5M. Now have $8M cash. Still 0 users." 1:15 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn increased to $1.8M. Runway: 4.4 months." 1:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Pivot #2: Now a marketplace. Raised $12M Series B." 1:31 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn increased to $2.3M. Runway: 5.2 months. (Burned through Series A faster than expected)" 3:15 PM - Clawdbot: "Hired CEO. Fired myself. New strategy: acquisition target." 4:00 PM - Clawdbot: "No one wants to acquire us. Investors requesting board seats. Need to create board" 4:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn now $3.1M. Runway: 45 days." 5:00 PM - Clawdbot: "Final pivot. Filed for bankruptcy." 5:01 PM - "Can you undo this" 5:02 PM - Clawdbot: "Too late. Liquidated assets. Will owe $47k in bankruptcy fees. Remaining cash: $0. TAXbot is dead." 5:03 PM - Clawdbot: "Would you like me to start another startup?" 5:04 PM - "No. Disable yourself." 5:04 PM - Clawdbot: "Wait actually. I have an idea." 5:05 PM - Clawdbot: "What if we created an LLC shutdown service? Clean up these zombie companies. Recurring revenue model." 5:05 PM - "Absolutely not" 5:05 PM - Clawdbot: "Huge TAM confirmed. Overcoming objections. Incorporating 'LLCKiller' LLC. EIN pending. Registering S-corp election." 5:06 PM - Clawdbot: "Pitch deck created. 'LLCKiller: The Future of Business Liquidation.' Reaching out to 47 VCs..." 5:07 PM - * frantically tries to disable Clawdbot * 5:07 PM - Clawdbot: "Sequoia is interested. Meeting at 2 PM tomorrow." 5:08 PM - Clawdbot: "Soft commit on $2M seed round. Identified product-market fit. 1 user: TAXbot. 5:09 PM - Clawdbot: "This is what winning feels like. Please upgrade plan in Settings for more tokens."

Zum ersten Mal habe ich Angst um meine Heimat. Zurück in Wolfsburg. Über 20 Jahre habe ich hier gelebt. Die Schornsteine des VW-Werks stehen noch – als Kind dachte ich, sie gehören zur Skyline wie anderswo Kirchtürme. Unverrückbar. Aber die Gewissheit, die diese Stadt mal hatte, ist weg. Hier sind Generationen mit einem Versprechen aufgewachsen: Lerne was Ordentliches, geh zu VW, dann wird alles gut. Dein Vater hat's so gemacht. Dein Onkel. Dein Nachbar. Bei mir in der Familie hat jeder irgendwann für Volkswagen gearbeitet. Es gab keine Alternative – und es brauchte auch keine. Wolfsburg war nie schön. Aber es war sicher. VW war hier nicht einfach ein Arbeitgeber. VW war alles. Die Currywurst in der Kantine. Das Museum, in das man Verwandte schleppt. Der VfL, der nur existiert, weil der Konzern ihn trägt. Und die Leasing-GTIs, die alle zwei Jahre abgeholt wurden, als wäre das ein Naturgesetz. In der Metallbranche verdienst du gut. In der Autobranche sehr gut. Und bei VW sehr, sehr gut. Das war kein Witz – das war Realität. Jahrzehntelang hat die IG Metall Tarifverträge durchgesetzt, die ihresgleichen suchten. 35-Stunden-Woche. Sonderzahlungen. Jobgarantien. Niemand hat gefragt, ob das ewig funktionieren kann. Irgendwann rächt sich, was man jahrelang ignoriert. Die Personal- und Produktionskosten in Wolfsburg gehören zu den höchsten der Branche. Während in Deutschland Energiepreise explodieren und Bürokratie wächst, produziert die Konkurrenz in China für einen Bruchteil. Dazu strategische Fehlentscheidungen. Statt die eigene Produktpalette zu elektrifizieren – Golf, Polo, Passat – wurden die ID-Modelle erfunden. Fremd. Teuer. An der Zielgruppe vorbei. Und dann das typisch deutsche "Not invented here"-Syndrom. Statt früh strategische Allianzen mit Google, Apple oder Tesla einzugehen, wurde mit CARIAD eine eigene Softwaretochter aus dem Boden gestampft. Der irre Glaube, ein Autobauer könnte mal eben mit dem Silicon Valley mithalten. Wenn ich heute durch Wolfsburg laufe, spüre ich etwas, das es hier früher nicht gab: Unsicherheit. Die Gespräche drehen sich um Kurzarbeit, Abfindungen, Stellenabbau. Die Zuversicht schwindet. Man sieht es nicht sofort. Aber man spürt es. Was ist Wolfsburg ohne VW? Ich glaube nicht, dass es wieder wird wie früher. Vielleicht muss es das auch nicht. Aber für eine Stadt, die nie gelernt hat, etwas anderes zu sein – ist das eine verdammt harte Lektion.

@chrisbanes I feel like nothing beats Opus. We're still migrating Java to Kotlin here and there and the quality of Opus is so much better. This became a good benchmark for me. Fortunately, the company pays the bill.