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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel

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Platform Engineering Manager, Father of Twins, Senior+ Software Engineer Now: Go, speed skating, gym, studying Japanese, Critical Role, Cuppin.gs Software: Python, Django […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ rls.social/@alper, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h
Turns out that “obesity of the mind” is an old term, but I guess we're bringing it back. Old reference: www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/… New reference from Teendrama […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
Why is nobody forcing the CDU to come out with a paper about the protection of migrant life in Germany? Exactly. Nobody cares. systemli.social/@anneroth/117421902…
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Anne Roth (@anneroth@systemli.social)
Erinnert sich noch wer daran, dass diese Woche Nazis, BSW und CDU einen Rechtsextremisten gewählt haben?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Oh yeah funny for Kreuzberg to elect die Linke and have everything happen at their offices across the water in Friedrichshain. Are we represented at all between the gerrymandered district we live in and the soviet history of the party? It could be nice actually to cut XHain apart.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Die Linke Kampagne war Woke 1.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Why don’t we see CDU members hounded in the media for days? What is the press in Germany doing other than manufacturing consent for whoever they think butters their bread? ohai.social/@sonjdol/11740639532966…
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sonja dolinsek (@sonjdol@ohai.social)
Find es skurril, dass sich immer noch mehr Leute darüber aufregen, dass in Berlin mit der Linken verhandelt wird als dass in Sachsen-Anhalt eine rechtsextreme Regierung bevorsteht. Der Rechtsruck der deutschen Gesellschaft ist offenbar vollendet
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Wieso erstellt man keine Dienstaufsichtsbeschwerden wenn ein Amt nicht auf E-Mails reagiert?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
The loose knit group of cycling clubs in a specific park in London have a web presence that's tidier than that of many company or institution in Berlin. Why is this? www.regentsparkcyclists.com
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Regent's Park Cyclists
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Looking to get digital copies of the books my kids use in school (for reference) and I'm guessing the German publishers won't be too forthcoming with them? The shadow library also does not carry most of them. Is there a repository somewhere? Do teachers get PDFs?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Judging by the attacks the Linke is seeing at the moment I feel like expropriation of real estate may actually be a real solution. Nothing else explains this level of insanity.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
If you must share LLM generated output without editing it, have the decency to block quote it.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Facebook is a massive scam farm these days and why should that be allowed? thenextweb.com/news/meta-scam-ads-r…
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German court rules Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
A Frankfurt court ruled Meta liable for scam ads on Facebook and Instagram, saying its algorithms rule out the EU’s hosting defence.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
The CDU carries with it a stench of death and it rubs off on others. Why should anybody vote for an incompetent, corrupt and racist CDU if they can get all of that and more from the AFD? systemli.social/@anneroth/117321867…
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Anne Roth (@anneroth@systemli.social)
Ich wundere mich nicht über Leute bei SPD und Grünen, die das Berliner Wahlergebnis schockt und die dafür die Linke verantwortlich machen. Ich frage mich, ob denen klar ist, was von ihnen übrig bleibt, wenn sie mit der (dieser) CDU koalieren in Berlin.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Got a: “computer says no” today from a German civil servant. If people here had realized how great an excuse computers are so as not to be responsible for things, they would’ve digitized Germany decades ago.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
A strong argument written in German against the privatization of social media as a problem inflicted on us by unaccountable profit seeking corporations. I'm not sure whether this will do anything to course correct the idiocy that our politicians seem hell bent on […] [Original post on rls.social]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
The German car industry has remained immensely profitable all the while driving itself off a cliff (!). The crisis is entirely self-inflicted and lots of people have taken the money and ran. There need to be political and criminal consequences for this before the country can move on […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
You may have seen that deleting lots of small files on your laptop can be a very intense and slow process. Deleting lots of things in a database can require so much extra work and bookkeeping that it can be detrimental to the health of the system […] [Original post on rls.social]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I don't think Omarchy is going to make Linux better so much as that they identified that Linux on the desktop has reached a tipping point and now is the time to capitalize on it. That's the DHH playbook and why would it be any different this time? One thing I will give them is that the total […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I was forced to create a passkey recently and I wanted to store that key in 1Password where I store all my other credentials. How to do that properly was pretty non-obvious and a bad enough experience that it seems that it wasn't tested or a priority for anybody […] [Original post on rls.social]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I had to explain today that Banh Mi is made on baguettes because the area used to be called FRENCH Indochina and the bread is a colonial leftover. Imagine what great food we could have had here in the west if we'd been colonised by countries with actual cuisines? Why didn't the Japanese […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Take five minutes over on Twitter after yesterday's Berlin election results, and it should become immediately obvious how that space is extremely compromised and slanted.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
I remember being worried that the CDU would form a government with the AFD. The better question to ask now is why should a CDU exist at all if people have an option that pushed the buttons but harder and better. It’s “great replacement” but for political parties […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
The response from the general public to pretty much any policy change will be like this. Plus ça change… troet.cafe/@Jenny_Nass/117302610772…
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Fräulein Nass ☑️ (@Jenny_Nass@troet.cafe)
Angehängt: 1 Video Ich blinke auch nicht. Das macht mich nur müde
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
It’s possible to vote for the new euro banknotes though it’s not much of a choice if most of the proposals are equally atrocious. Was it part of the design brief to include random modernist buildings on one side? Because a lot of them do […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
My kids have picked up French on Duolingo with vague appeals to German/French friendship among other reasons that remain unknown to me. (Apparently there is not such a thing as German/Polish or German/Czech friendship.) For all my considerable proficiency in the language, I am yet to find a […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Just seeing the politician of the AfD suggest to connect Spandau to Berlin with a boat. These elections are just too dumb, there are no solutions and both the candidates and the electorate don’t have any brain cells between them […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
This episode from the lovely city podcast by Inge Wannet is a perfect account of what it feels like to cycle through Amsterdam rush hour. For added effect, listen to it at 1.4x. www.ingewannet.nl/destad/episode/2a…
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De Stad | Inge Wannet
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Tooze makes a coherent argument in this episode of Surplus why expropriation of the large landlords in Berlin makes economic sense. Morally it's of course a no-brainer. Very much worth listening to if you still have to make up your mind for the Berlin election […] [Original post on rls.social]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
More and more people are finding that you can't really let LLMs loose on any significant amount of code. It's fine for simple things, but when things get complicated (or even just non-obvious) it'll grind and grind and continue trying stuff and producing code until it creates a huge christmas […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Maybe to emphasize how marginal the BVV election in Berlin is, I can't find example ballots for my borough (or any other) online.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
It seems game over for the SPD after this. Even the Forsa polls are bad. The legal proceedings aside; drop shipping a random guy in from Hannover as your candidate because apparently you have no talent in the ranks, turns out to be a very fragile strategy […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Bought revamped Nokia phones for my kids which are nostalgic and cheap. Chibo promises that they come with 10 EUR of prepaid credit but you have to call service before it gets loaded on there. Honest mistake, or dark pattern? These days you can never tell […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
A rundown of the differences between Rust and Zig. I can't say I'm very convinced. besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt…
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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
A very good explanation of what the real difference is between ‘simple’ and ‘complex’ in software engineering and what the consequences of this tradeoff are. jyn.dev/simple-is-not-the-same-as-s…
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Simple Is Not Small
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
I think this may be a good resolution to the Typescript Result pattern issue. Who would have thought that `anyhow` would come in handy after all. (Also I now understand what anyhow is supposed to be doing.) daviddalbusco.com/blog/tiny-utils-f…
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Two Tiny Utils for the Result Pattern
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
After the way OpenAI behaved here with this math proof, I don't see how anybody would trust them with secret information. It feels like we haven't seen the last of this issue yet. cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
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Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
LLMs could solve all of math and drop it as exabytes of obtuse Lean code and what good would it do?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Where does anybody find good English language (or German for that matter) coverage of things happening in Germany?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Berlin could mitigate and contain the hacker attack if it was able to act with speed and consequence but if this is the kind of stuff you have to deal with, then it’s quite hopeless. The consequence for this should be to shut Lichtenberg out of the security perimeter and remove their access to […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
I had deleted my Duolingo account but now that my kids are into it, I made a new one and I put in my daily lessons. And it’s fun to mogg the other parents who are also on the app now with my topped out scores.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Die Linke has mind bogglingly simplistic politics. Their idea is to put a brake on every kind of cost, like here with the *Nebenkostenbremse*. pca.st/episode/42bfad81-26d2-468c-a… Rent surcharges in Germany are ridiculous and a problem (like many things) but the […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
I cycled past the GeoGuessr championships here in Berlin this week and the people who go to an event like that are exactly the kind of people you would expect would go to something like that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wbau6wdKzI
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Sitting outside a genuinely pleasant sports facility here in Berlin. Lots of sporty people coming and going, a terrace, perfect weather. The only thing that could be better would be to not have this also be the smoking area and subject everybody to that bad habit.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Similar to how dogs are used to occupy public space, I could walk around with a swarm of robots soon and claim they’re my pets?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Is there a high-protein snack that goes as well with a coffee in the morning as a butter croissant does?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
This tallies with my intuition for why it's often more profitable to leave commercial properties vacant. The operating costs to maintain an empty office building are really not that high. www.freerange.city/p/why-do-commerc…
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
Understanding “extend and pretend”
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
> The SQLite team themselves suggest that SQLite is a better fopen(), and they meant it as a design goal, not a joke. After using Postgres for everything, we can go one step further and use sqlite for everything. joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3 […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
A great idea to use a software tool that exfiltrates all your data without your knowledge or consent. Not at all surprising also that it would be Grok doing such a thing. www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-inte…
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SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
Oops!
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Here’s an idea: Developers should go through a proficiency test before they are allowed to use LLMs to generate code. Think of it as an AI driver’s license. alper.nl/posts/llm-license
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LLM Driver's License
Here’s an idea: Developers should go through a proficiency test before they are allowed to use LLMs to generate code. Think of it as an AI driver’s license.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Shoehorning the open source forge into the same web application where corporate software engineering takes place was a historic mistake. Maybe it'd be best to separate these two. Open source is facing challenges around trust, effort and financing fueled in large part by the LLM explosion in […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
> These look intimidating the first time you see them, but they are boilerplate. And that's exactly the problem with Rust. You can know precisely what you want to do but you'll spend lots of time making this stuff line up and dealing with obtuse type checking […] [Original post on rls.social]
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