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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 23/05/2026
Very interesting, humane, factual conversation about healthcare systems and abysmal cuts in global aid with @agawande.bsky.social #podcast #healtcare open.spotify.com/episode/0beE...
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131. The Global Health Crisis: USAID cuts, Trump, and the limits of AI (Atul Gawande)
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 20/02/2026
I got this newsletter update from Lufthansa and I kind of like what they do here with explicitly offering an option to unsubscribe. You noticed how the image didn't load, yup, that's how they don't know if I'm reading it. There is some honesty in the message, what do you think?
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 16/02/2026
Wow, it's 2026 and Microsoft Excel still hangs and crashes when a network connection is slow or down?!
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 09/08/2025
Perhaps that might have something to do with testing behaviors 😉
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 25/07/2025
Bats of Bluesky
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 14/07/2025
I sure did not expect Gemini to spill the beans in response to my request for a cooking timer. And yet it did. Maybe it thinks I speak JavaScript. The timer sure works. @kevlin.bsky.social does this quality as one? Software revealing its guts not just in failure? 🤔
A screenshot of the Gemini app on an Android phone showing some code in response to a timer request.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 14/06/2025
A very thoughtful and informative article on the causes of excessive cost of nuclear energy. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ba...
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The bad science behind expensive nuclear - Works in Progress Magazine
How 1920s experiments on fruit flies and a secretive weapons testing programme made nuclear energy unaffordable
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 12/05/2025
I can tell you in September 😅 right now the evenings are getting brighter and brighter so these are generally very well visible. I think they have some backlight though.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 11/05/2025
I'm loving the new e-ink displays that are appearing across Stockholm's SL public transport network. They are sharp, clear, work high contrast and low power consumption.
Digital bus stop display showing departure times for three buses in Täby, Sweden. Bus 610 to Vallentuna (Rosengården) is arriving "Nu" (Now), Bus 611 to Täby kyrkby in 2 minutes, and Bus 605 to Gribbylund in 3 minutes. The display is mounted under a glass shelter with part of a building and blue sky visible in the background.
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Kevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I'm running my Keeping It Simple masterclass a few times at conferences over the next few months: Codecamp, Bucharest, 6-7 May codecamp.ro/masterclasse... SDD, London, 12 May sddconf.com/agenda GOTO Copenhagen, 30 September gotocph.com/2025/masterc...
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Codecamp - Your IT Conference in Romania - Bringing you fantastic insights from the best minds in the IT industry, the people who changed the game in software development
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 01/05/2025
I'm a little confused by this information from Gemini about the lack of end-to-end encryption. I'm pretty sure the only reason to not encrypt is do that Google can see the message...
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 22/04/2025
Listening to the media commentary on the death of Pope Francis I'm surprised by the liberal vs. conservative narrative. I don't hope for another "liberal" pope but a leader who continues the truly traditional work of the Gospel: serving the poor, seeking justice, and building bridges. #HolySea
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 22/04/2025
I wonder how much longer we'll get to see #KevlinHenny software failures in the wild. I mean the _revealing_ kind. The new failures of the AI kind tend to be more of the opaque #FailWhale "Something Went Wrong" kinds.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 09/04/2025
You mean some people are sometimes selfish?
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 06/04/2025
A smear of butter, a glimpse into chaos. Nature’s fractals show up where we least expect them — even on a knife blade. #Fractal #ChaosTheory #NaturalBeauty
Butter on a knife edge that has formed a tree-like fractal pattern
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 27/03/2025
Neither do I but I happen to know someone who is more of an expert 😉
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 27/03/2025
What prompted my reflection, someone misunderstood how skyscrapers are built these days. It revealed a broader pattern
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 27/03/2025
It can be different - music or construction or manufacturing.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 27/03/2025
It's kind of cute when speakers at technology conferences create analogies to domains they have no idea about 🤭 I'm sure these analogies work for the majority of participants but feel funny when you know how things actually work in that domain.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 23/03/2025
C'mon MacOS, keep up with the times. Your Activity Monitor is still only showing the CPU chart, what about the GPU?
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 23/03/2025
"Down to whatever it takes" wasn't the first red flag 🚩 it was the last one. This is absurd. Slavery feels like a completely appropriate term here. On the other hand at least they are honest about it 🤷🏻
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 18/03/2025
With almost 1mln subscribers this is a great opportunity to explore and gain insight into the state of technology. Contribute your perspective and benefit from the insights it will no doubt generate.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 18/03/2025
My friend @hejelin.bsky.social together with @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com are sending out a survey as part of the "Pragmatic Engineer" newsletter. If you are working as an engineer or a manager in technology please take 5-15 minutes and share your perspective. 📋 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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What is in your tech stack?
Hi 👋 this is Gergely and Elin at The Pragmatic Engineer (https://pragmaticengineer.com). We want to know what tools, languages, frameworks and platforms you're using today! We want to get a realisti...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...),  posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 18/03/2025
Congratulations to the Gimp team🥳 And if you want a vector image editor, an Adobe Illustrator alternative, that is free and open source check out Inkscape at inkscape.org/release/inks...
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Download Inkscape 1.4 | Inkscape
Inkscape 1.4 is the latest major Inkscape release that brings you many fresh new features and new functionality.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 16/03/2025
”The single most effective habit is the willingness to change your own mind“
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 11/02/2025
Where is generative AI when one needs it... For example to generate the ALT text for photos. It works remarkably well. I want it right in my workflow seamlessly integrated.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 11/02/2025
Perfect spot to review some #XPconf submissions.
A black MacBook laptop is open on a wooden table, displaying a lock screen with a forest wallpaper and the time "15:36" on Tuesday, 11 February. The table has a natural, rustic appearance with visible knots in the wood. Surrounding the laptop are stacks of books, potted plants, and a power strip. The scene is set in a well-lit, cozy space with large windows in the background, showing an outdoor winter landscape with bare trees and a snowy ground. A person is sitting in a woven chair near the window, partially visible in the background.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 09/02/2025
I agree with the sentiment. There is one phrase that deserves a closer look for me: "Get it right the first time" I think this is a good aspiration. I don't think it's always realistic. I'd rather see "detect early, fix easily"
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 09/02/2025
Interesting development in the European electricity grid. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Baltic nations cut ties to Russian power grid, prepare to link with EU
The three Baltic states disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid on Saturday, the region's operators said, part of a plan designed to integrate the countries more closely with the European Union and boost security.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 15/01/2025
“People fantasize that strong-man rule will be simple and stable, but for everyone except the strong man it is exhausting and destructive.” ~T. Snyder
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 08/01/2025
I'm pairing this up with a new 🔤 font: monaspace. A monospaced font with texture healing ✨. monaspace.githubnext.com
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Monaspace
An innovative superfamily of fonts for code
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 08/01/2025
What got me hooked was the blog post that Mitchell wrote about Grapheme Clusters. Using a terminal written by someone with a deep understanding of fonts and different writing scripts is a huge bonus to me. I have always cared about the aesthetics of the interface mitchellh.com/writing/grap...
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Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 08/01/2025
Starting the new year with a new 📺 terminal emulator on Mac. I used iTerm for a long time and completely by chance bumped into 👻 ghostty.org. It's written in zig by Mitchell Hashimoto, has just been released and I'm ❤️ loving it. It's fast, os-native and feature-rich with sane defaults.
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Ghostty
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 25/12/2024
I know many people who have used #AdventOfCode to learn a new language. I have found it an excellent set of small challenges to get into the syntax and features of a new language. Some problems do require a good grasp of algorithms and data structures. It can distract from learning the language.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 25/12/2024
I just completed ⭐️ all 25 days of 🎄 Advent of Code 2024! This is my annual opportunity to practice blurry-eye coding and have fun solving puzzles. Thank you for putting together all the fun challenges @was.tl #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com
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Advent of Code 2024
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 22/12/2024
Where is the only relevant skill: collaboration? 😉 I'm not sure debugging is a skill. It's a collection of skills
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 20/12/2024
For the past three months I have tried to take a peek at the future of AI-fuelled software development. The result? A mix of powerful insights, frustrating hiccups, and plenty of learning opportunities. marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12...
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Experience in LLM-assisted software development
Marcin Floryan: Working with psychological safety, technology and complexity to understand and influence systems of work. http://pronoun.is/he; agile descaler @Spotify
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 20/12/2024
Refactoring existing code is fully integrated into the regular workflow.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 08/12/2024
Humans are full of emotions that can have a very high generative energy. It's such a shame when organisations limit the spectrum of emotions that are engaged to a single one: fear.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 07/12/2024
With what being ugly? Ugly sounds like a strong judgment. Finding the source of that judgment is a good first step.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 05/12/2024
One company seems to integrate their IT systems with the help of carrier pigeons. hat else could explain this?!
A small part of a screenshot from a web page displaying conformation of unsubscribing my email address from their mailing list. 

It says it will take them 10 days to stop sending offers and news.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 05/12/2024
Thank you @nativewired.com and @marc-johnson.bsky.social for your reviews which made this post better.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 05/12/2024
We are bombarded with information. Most social platforms keep us in neat and distinct bubbles. Confirmation bias is rampant. Remaining curious and critical is a key skill. Here is a small personal story of confronting one of my own views. marcin.floryan.se/blog/2024/12... #blog #informationBias
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Do you trust your sources?
I don’t eat meat 🥩. To be precise, I mostly don’t eat meat. I explicitly and deliberately choose to not eat meat because I believe that reducing the amount of meat, mostly beef, we consume, has a posi...
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 05/12/2024
Look at you, all native wired 🦄 Glad I could help.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 03/12/2024
I was listening to a nice podcast episode this morning (open.spotify.com/episode/1yNr...). It's very good and for a moment I caught myself thinking that it sounds like NotebookLM. I'm pretty sure it's not. Uncanny
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Nature of Intelligence, Ep. 2: The relationship between language and thought
COMPLEXITY · Episode
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 28/11/2024
And they do that in case you forget your password because, although it has to have at least one upper case letter and two digits and at least one special character, it also has to be a maximum of 12 characters 😆
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 28/11/2024
No, the only questions you could choose are: * What was your first phone number? * What was the street two blocks away east from your grandfather's first house * What was the most common breakfast of your favorite Maths teacher
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 28/11/2024
Because that's when we stopped doing diagrams.
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Marcin Floryan 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇵🇱, 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @marcin.floryan.se · 28/11/2024
Apparently there are still websites (in the UK) that ask you for security questions when you create a new account. Security questions?! Really? Has anyone else seen that recently? I thought that was considered poor security practice
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