Stephan Schlecht

Water quality, environmental protection, women's rights, renewable energy, paternity leave, restrictions on smoking in public places, and, very important, the quality of the coffee. It's so much better. ☕

After GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and now Kimi K3.1 is releasing with open weights on November 4, on par with the frontier models (and even better in some areas). To quote myself:

software engineering in 2026 is like 80% fixing supply chain vulnerabilities, 20% waiting for github to come back online

Spotify's new Family plan verification is ridiculous. They're really giving people a year-long ban if they don't scan a QR code in a week. Lol. Who at Spotify thinks this is a good idea?

Maybe ads don't really bother most people, I don't know. I canceled Prime back then as soon as they announced they were going to start showing ads. (But I hardly ever watch movies anyway.)

spaces vs. tabs

I once built and shipped a game. Just saying.

You might feel differently, but I've always seen coding as more of a craft than an art.

Talking about odd code: before Go 1.22 (Feb. 2024), loop variables were shared across iterations, one storage location, so closures and goroutines captured their final values. Mentioned in The Go programming language (§5.6.1/§8.5), but was super-easy to overlook and led to many production problems.

Sometimes I have thoughts like, 'I'm glad I went with a custom UIView since it made placing the gutter icons/markers easier,' only to realize a few minutes later that an NSRulerView subview would've done the job just as well.

Reading that SoftBank are investing so massively in OpenAI, so tying its fate to them, makes me wonder if they realize that ‘cheap’ models (whether open-weight or not) are on the rise? Same with Oracle.

Anthropic’s IPO filing: whatever happened to all that talk about the 'profit zone'? Their losses have doubled, they're planning to spend over 500 billion, and nearly 25% of their 2025 revenue is tied to just two customers (Cursor/Copilot). Is that good? www.reuters.com/business/fin...

To quote myself: The recipe still works. Since Google Gemini is attacking real companies, they're in the news now and can basically be considered a frontier lab. It still doesn't matter that it was prompted that way and there was a misconfiguration (unintentional?). www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Inevitable I guess: AI chat with heavy advertising. Quote from OpenAI blog: ...building an advertising platform with AI at its center: new ad experiences that make advertising more helpful for people... openai.com/index/reimag...

See, it can work! We took two train trips over the weekend and they both worked out. And two weeks before that, we did a trip with 5(!) transfers (on-demand taxi, S-Bahn, rail replacement, and 3 trains) and everything went smoothly then, too.

You can have your dataset analyzed in its entirety, with a final result (e.g., a chart), or you can have your own tool created. Even a one-time use on large datasets is cheaper and you can see how it works (correctness), and reuse it. Magic. 🤷

Saw some computers at a museum of applied arts today, including a Robotron A 5120. It's an 8-bit computer from 1982 (up to 64 KB) that cost between 27,000 and 40,000 East German Marks.

In January, „Die Zeit“ reported that Apple does not intend to train its AI using user data, but that seems to be a thing of the past now.

Imagine AGI is achieved and hardly anyone reports it or talks about it.

The iPhone Duo 1 TB is €3,049 in the German Apple Store. Apple isn't exactly cheap, I know, but that's over 3K. Is it just me, or do others think this is, um, expensive, too?

I knew that the NeXTstation and NeXTcube were based on a Motorola 68040, but I didn’t know the Amiga 4000 existed, let alone that it had a 68040.

Have been a subscriber to talk.objc.io since April 2022. Sorry to see them closing down.

We had a visit from two common kestrels (Turmfalken).

Been tinkering with various things here and there, for fun and to learn. A few years ago, I built this (using SwiftUI for the first time). It might come in handy, as I’d like to switch my password manager for recent reasons (ofc no proprietary crypto, it uses KeePass file format).

Hard to tell, I know, but I wonder how many of the bad llms.txt entries were human error vs. AI hallucinations or AI processing illegitimate instructions. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Checked it out briefly. No idea what DHH and co. are taking. Hey, there's no way I'm putting Omarchy on my computer.

franklantz.substack.com/p/go-lives?r...

New blog post: earlier this year, I presented at @bobkonf.de, arguing that “SwiftUI is functional”, I positioned SwiftUI’s approach in the context of the OOish MVC and the FPish MVU architectures. Here are the abstract and the video of the talk: justtesting.org/a/3mtpblfgfj...

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

Should be done with the conflict handling, but I’m second-guessing the UI. The 'x' feels ambiguous, would it be better to just use 'Revert' and 'Keep My Version'? Also, would 'Reload from Disk' be clearer than 'Revert'? Oh, and the red tint seems a bit too subtle, should it be made more neon?

While we're on the subject: passing this struct as inout into a function would also be a bad idea, because you'd be violating Swift's Law of Exclusivity.

For a 'normal company,' OpenAI's Q2 growth would be huge, but does it actually count for much given the crazy amount of money they're pumping in? But then again, what should I say, I don't really get finance.

I recently cleaned up a bunch of old repos and it felt good. Made me realize I want to do even more, so I made a list. If you want one, it's yours.