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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 · 5h
I learned a bunch of stuff about passkeys here and I continue to be validated in my decision not to use them. It's very complicated and opaque and the ‘just trust me bro‘ from the various proponents who are employed by large tech companies is not an adequate guarantee […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
Google search as a product feels like it's dying. No idea what's happening there anymore. sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird
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When did Google get so weird?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h
A useful guide how to capture state transitions in your postgres database reliably. thoughtbot.com/blog/inserting-state…
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Inserting State Transitions in Postgres
An append-only status model gives you full history, but concurrent transitions can produce contradictory records. Here’s how to prevent that.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
A really simple bit of digital activation in Zohran Mamdanis' communication which is one of many parts that make him so effective. iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-th…
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Zohran and the short link | Will W.
I’m a big fan of the Zohran Mamdani administration.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
It's very cool that it's possible to reverse engineer your hardware and rewrite the firmware. I'm not sure if this will break out to become a widespread thing but it could if a bunch of things around UI design and LLMs come together. Every piece of hardware has its own personalized generated UI […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
We'll see more of these venture funded projects revert back to the mean which in this case is Node, which has gotten seriously better over the past years. Open source is slow and steady and it endures. dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I think many organizations would benefit from an LLM policy that's similar to what Rust is putting forward here. Proactive compulsory disclosure in particular is something that would prevent a lot of time being wasted […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
I know for sure this oddly named function in the `re` library has bitten me a bunch of times when writing Python and I'm glad to see that it's being phased out. Just why did it take so long? hugovk.dev/blog/2026/soft-deprecati…
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Soft-deprecating re.match()
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Now that I'm maining Herdr by Can Çelik and OMP by Can Bölük, I have truly arrived into the golden age of Turkish software engineering. You don't have to be called Can to work on this stuff, but apparently it helps. herdr.dev omp.sh
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Herdr: the runtime coding agents run on
Run them anywhere. Leave them running. Herdr holds real terminals open so your agents keep working when you close the laptop, and gets you back in from any tty.
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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 · 16/10/2026
Lots of people on e-bikes/scooters who’ll get away from the traffic light first and then box you in 30m ahead because they’re speed capped. On my dainty road bike I’ll draft them but if I’m riding one of my Gazelles, I am busting through.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
Seeing the bros with their company branded Patagonia kit having lunch in Mitte, makes me glad to have switched to Montbell.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
@isotopp Indie game revival anstehend?
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
What do the hiring practices at OpenAI look like these days? And if their internal tools are so strong and dangerous, why couldn’t this guy generate a firmware exploit to install on the screen? This is a damning indictment of their models. masto.ai/@WellsiteGeo/1174385660001…
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WellsiteGeo (@WellsiteGeo@masto.ai)
BBC News - Saudi employee charged with planting recording device in OpenAI office https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwg5jq4vlddzo "OpenAI said they were able to use their AI models "to understand the device and where it had come from" So, they plugged an unknown, presumed malicious, device into a machine which was part of an experimental ('cos they're developers) AI system. Well, that's a whole new attack surface there. OK, you burn an asset getting it plugged in, but that's only a human. Disposable.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
@timbray @gruber X was and is only usable with a self-curated list. I don’t see a lot of crap over there unless I choose to.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
@thomasfricke @isotopp Die zehntausende Leute die in der GKK arbeiten in Deutschland waren in den letzten 10 Jahren leider nicht zu motivieren eine funktionierende online Terminvergabe uns zur Verfügung zu stellen.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Turns out this is a thought with enough currency to merit writing a book about it. Nice to see somebody jumping on that. juju-chu.com
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Juju-chu! — Starting Your Jujutsu × AI Workflow with jj new
A hands-on book on adopting Jujutsu (jj) with Claude Code and Codex: automatic snapshots, undoable operations, and safe history rewriting.
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Love riding the U-Bahn and listening to a boy wearing a fake datejust explain which fast food chains in which locations are the best.
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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
Dan Abramov's account of how he used LLMs to do novel math is interesting and revealing. It is possible to deploy these tools to do new and original things, but right now it takes a lot of time, persistence and expertise. overreacted.io/how-i-vibed-a-proof-…
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I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
I joke that staying off X was Woke 1. Gruber has a point here. I also enjoy Mastodon more than I do Bluesky and my feed does have a bunch of interesting things in it. But truly, there is zero “action” there. The people who build it even pride themselves on it. When the design goal is to be […]
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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 · 13/10/2026
> Firebase never bothered updating its status page. That incident management even at Google these days could be better than this, is naive. We have to accept that this is as good as it gets mostly because most people aren't going to move away anyway […]
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
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 · 12/10/2026
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 · 03/10/2026
@isotopp @rstockm @joschi How can something be worse than Teams?
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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
(Of course this entire kerfuffle could be avoided and the housing crisis be solved, if a significant and non-transferable land value tax would be passed together with a state-wide upzoning.)
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Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel @alper.rls.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
The land on which the dwellings stand is of course much more valuable and it’s the part where the owners have had almost no contribution on the value creation. The land becomes more valuable because of all of us here and it should be expropriated for a symbolic amount because we created the value.
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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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