Alper Cugun

Do not treat as human those who would not treat you as human.

You can and should email your local city government for instance to remove the construction site of the luxury office development in front of your house which is completed and sitting empty for over a year now.

Today in Germany can’t run a high speed rail network: our ICE will stop at Luwigslust (pop 11,778). Of course you need density to run a network which is an opportunity: Threaten to take away the ICE train station unless the city plans and approves 10’000 units of housing.

No programming language needs to continue to exist forever and in some cases it may be better if it ceases sooner rather than later. alper.nl/posts/18943/

Anybody know when the Berlin BVV governments will be formed? Is there any reason to wait? Does anybody even care one bit about this?

I understand why our governments do not want us to use Tiktok. Did German state media feature unfiltered bits of for instance Elwan from the French student protests anywhere?

You’re telling me that the enterprise collaboration platform that everybody in Germany is pushing is written in PHP? And PHP is entirely owned again just like it’s been dozens of times now. This sure is a choice and a testament to a lack of skills.

The Shimano museum seems like a must-visit attraction next time I find myself in the general area. inrng.com/2026/10/shim...

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.

Google search as a product feels like it's dying. No idea what's happening there anymore. sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/

A useful guide how to capture state transitions in your postgres database reliably. thoughtbot.com/blog/inserti...

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...

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/d...

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. blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...

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/so...

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

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?

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.

Seeing the bros with their company branded Patagonia kit having lunch in Mitte, makes me glad to have switched to Montbell.

The political talent on offer in Berlin is simply not very good across the line. It’s the best argument for opening the vote because the white German element just doesn’t cut it.

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.

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

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-...

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. app.dealroom.co/news/note/in...

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/a... New reference from Teendrama: teendrama.substack.com/p/teendrama-...

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.

Zohran didn’t bow down like that. I guess they went over there and took all the wrong lessons. ‘Please only the lessons that work with my existing frame of reference. Nothing that would be difficult or would make me uncomfortable.’

Die Linke Kampagne war Woke 1.

Wieso erstellt man keine Dienstaufsichtsbeschwerden wenn ein Amt nicht auf E-Mails reagiert?

You’re saying this can be done without police brutality and kickbacks to friends’ non-profits like Berlin’s CDU led government has been doing up until now? Our incoming new mayor at least has a good example to follow.

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

The left can't be trusted either because they're oftentimes financially illiterate and almost entirely beholden to Russia.

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?

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.

You can't do politics in a country if there's an active gas leak. First you have to stop the gas leak.

@linkexhain.bsky.social Wann kommen die Radwege?

@baxhain.bsky.social @linkexhain.bsky.social Hallo, wir haben hier in der Lindenstraße eine Baustelle für diesen Spekulations-Bau Viktoriahöfe obwohl hier schon seit mehr als ein Jahr nicht mehr gebaut wird. Wann wird diese Baustelle entfernt?

If you must share LLM generated output without editing it, have the decency to block quote it.

Facebook is a massive scam farm these days and why should that be allowed? thenextweb.com/news/meta-sc...

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.