iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

We’re doing house cleaning and to get rid of our old furniture the local BSR does pop-up tips for each neighborhood. You just have to get stuff there. Striking this time though the number of people hovering around looking/begging for anything of value they could pilfer.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Sitting in an U-Bahn wagon on the U2 where the digital screens inside don’t show the station name when we’re at the station. So you want me to look out the window and try to figure out where we are based on if I maybe can see a sign there?

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The level of cognitive dissonance to do this every day without realising that you’re an idiot, must be out of this world.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I totally missed Foursquare being acquired. I think that'll mean game over for Swarm and the platform sooner rather than later. Let's be glad there's a bunch of @proto based replacement services and it's not hard to generate data migration tools […] [Original post on rls.social]

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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 · 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 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

She talks about how the stuff around “values” and “AGI” that Anthropic puts forward helps create alignment and speeds up decisions. The interesting thing is that this effect works even if the thing they're describing (like AGI) is entirely fictitious. Stories work […] [Original post on rls.social]

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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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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

A secure LLM system cannot be given write access to any important endpoints. That's the basic first principle of AI security at the moment. I have a relatively high value Instagram username that I'm holding onto for dear life against a barrage of attackers trying […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

> The candidates who stand out are the ones who understood the problem before they started designing the solution. > The ability to incorporate new information fluidly, showing both conviction and flexibility, is one of the highest-signal moments in the entire […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I often joke that Kubernetes is nothing more than a Docker installation and a bunch of shell scripts interacting with each other. In fact, at the most basic level, if you don't have any knowledge, you could definitely build a very fragile cluster that way. It […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Germany: Cash is preferred but also enjoy these 1c & 2c coins we still have in circulation despite unheard levels of inflation in recent years. It doesn’t get any more fun than this.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Greetings after a mad dash to section G of platform 22 on Munich HBF in 33C full sun. What a botched redevelopment of a train station this is. In the Netherlands I imagine temporary station squares and pedestrian bridges would be erected to prevent this misery.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Yesterday I had to listen to somebody claim that the vastly underperforming Italian education system is better than what we have here in Berlin because “everybody gets a chance.” People are just so stupid.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Disregarding the bicycle street is the norm until some bros here seem to have caused a minor accident on Mariannenplatz. The entire street had congregated to make sure they don’t flee and face some justice. In the Berlin of today, there are no traffic rules to speak of.

Multiple men standing in front of a Mercedes, backs to the camera

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

A beautiful story of how iteration on an app is a process that's worth it and that can yield something close to perfection like with Pedometer++. I wish every app had a person like this behind it who goes the distance and sweats every detail […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Sovereign Tech Fund investing in KDE points towards some concerted effort into weaning Europe off big tech. KDE has come a long way and with a bunch more more pushes like this, it could become a more than worthy alternative to Windows. kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tec…

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

A bit on Deutschlandfunk about the sizable group of people in Germany who do not use the internet. They start talking about how offline people are usually disadvantaged in some way, but that can't be the reason because you can get online for a couple of bucks […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

I don’t really know why Tempelhofer Feld is on the agenda again but in contrast with most pandering commentators Tooze yesterday in Berlin was clear that building on the field is ideological and will not solve anything.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

Poster for the Berlin car free referendum seen on August 2021 That’s how much time the (anonymous) group had to come up with a proposal that could work and they neglected to do that. Instead they wasted a huge amount of time and energy for a political total loss.

Volksentscheid Berlin Autofrei hier unterschreiben

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

We have new signage in Berlin which means that the bike path that everybody’s been using for a decade has now become illegal. I paid €30 for this knowledge which is fair enough. The annoying part is the uneven enforcement and absent cycling policy in ‘Green’ […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

The care for these kind of minute details of map design is part of what makes Google Maps such a standout product. What products do you use day to day where the makers sweat out the tiniest of details like this? But to be more correct, none of this is “tiny” […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

"If you use git rebase, the answer to this article’s question is probably yes. You will mostly likely love Jujutsu." I think this is a fair point. There are a lot of developers who don't even know what rebase does and they will probably not enjoy Jujutsu very […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

For beans and coffee Kolo Coffee as a roastery and shop proved to be excellent. An outpost of Ukrainian coffee culture in Berlin with beans that are a cut above what you would normally get in this city. I can’t wait to brew these every day. maps.app.goo.gl/kQARJLYh6W6C8qmk9?g…

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

With Scratch Kiezcafe we may just have a new coffee shop that’s a keeper in my area. Nice coffee, nice baked and great local vibes. maps.app.goo.gl/FvekrmWqCFaXZpnE7?g…

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

We dug up the old game boy and I had to nail a quick level 9-5 clear for the rocket launch.

Soviet space shuttle launch on a Gameboy

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

The Berlin car referendum has managed to waste political capital and score an own goal by allowing the right-wing political parties to use it as an excuse to campaign more broadly (general political placards aren’t allowed yet). These are everywhere and there’s nothing opposing.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

Le Smash is a good burger place in Amsterdam. We all ate and drank really well, service was quick and my kids played SFII on the MAME box in the back. maps.app.goo.gl/WCUQNBFFGwWZFome6?g…

View of the entire establishment and the counter

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Being on a kids’ schedule I drank more than my fair share of mediocre to bad coffee in Amsterdam. Sam’s koffie was very disappointing especially for the setting. maps.app.goo.gl/LnjtepyxiFRBFFo49?g…

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Actually well behaved dogs or dog owners are more or less non-existent in Berlin. Here’s a nice pup being told to sit and wait outside of a shop in Amsterdam who’s obeying.

Dog sitting outside of a bakery in Staatsliedenbuurt

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Liev is a cute little coffee place offering a much needed alternative to the Scandinavian in this part of Amsterdam. The coffee is great. Definitely a place I’d come back to. maps.app.goo.gl/bFFYxmCfioUAft5K8?g…

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Not entirely sure how I missed Five Ways all this time on Boerhaaveplein but this is a stellar coffee place in an oddly tucked away corner in Amsterdam. We caught them just before closing and grabbed some playground and sun after a day well spent. maps.app.goo.gl/AeyMFb61JpiYCuEd9?g…

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

We dropped by the Muizenhuis gallery/store which seems to have become a phenomenon. The craft is done with care, the stories are fun and of course it’s a great way to milk the nostalgia for an Amsterdam that’s barely more than the whiff of a memory. www.sam-julia.com

Selfie in front of the display of the Muizehuis

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

The Amsterdam-Berlin train is deeply unserious and stops in marginal towns on either side of the border. As far as I’m concerned it should only stop in Amersfoort on the Dutch side and Osnabrück/Hannover on the German side.

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Volgende trein: 12:13 +5 SPR Uitgeest
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

Baqme is a startup that has station based electric cargo bikes all over Amsterdam. That’s been a lot more convenient and also more affordable than the few rental options that are normally available. €20 for a full day is super decent. An electrified cargo bike is […] [Original post on rls.social]

An incomplete track of what we rode and saved

Two kids in a cargobike rolling down weesperzijde

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

It’s pretty amazing to be able to plug in and turn on 35 year old digital devices. Without so much as having to buy a cable.

A SNES playing Legend of the Mystical Ninja through an adapter cartridge

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Eating with a group I had a good opportunity to order half the menu of a Dutch snack bar and let my kids sample the delicacies our country has to offer. Joppiesaus and saté were of course also present.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Gisteren bij de lokale derby in Arnhem veel mensen op de been. In de chaotische kantine waar iedereen pitchers bier aan het halen was zag ik ook zwarte meisjes in hijab en mensen van allerlei afkomst. Integratie is wat je er zelf van maakt.

Keeper shouting directions viewed through a fence

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Using my external 40% keyboards has always been very annoying with my Macbook. I type Dvorak so that’s what the keyboard layout is set to but that only really works properly if the laptop is set to the US layout. But when I type on the laptop directly I have to […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

In questions asked almost never: "Did we actually need a pub/sub system here, or did it just look good on paper?" Complexity is a force of entropy. Put more than 2 people in a room and if not checked, they will come out with something that's mostly unnecessary […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Quite the achievement from Miles to give me a car that’s more disgusting than a Berlin U-Bahn. The cars should record every trip from the inside and out to stop whatever the hell it is that’s happening in them.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

Working ahead of my kids doing the German advanced math assignments (Känguru) for fun but I’m a bit stumped with the later numbers (C4 I figured out now). Claude’s answers for both of these are horribly wrong. Wasn’t everybody claiming that math had been “solved” by AI on benchmark tests?

Känguru 2025 - 11-13 questions C4 and C5

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Cycling around the outskirts of Berlin and Brandenburg today, I saw political billboards from FDP, CDU and AFD positioning them themselves as the anti-anti car party. This will not be the only issue where these three parties will be entirely indistinguishable from each other.

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Then I bought a ticket for what is going to be a rather bad movie—children don't deserve movies that are good—on Cinestar.de where after the payment redirect I ended up back on this page. The confirmation that the ticket had actually been purchased did hit my […] [Original post on rls.social]

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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

Then you try to find a movie to watch and you get something like this. Look at what passes for a people facing website in 2026 over on Critic.de. If this is the bar, then I, a person with no visual skills to speak of, have been a competent web designer for most of my life.

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