Notices by Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel 🇪🇺🌹🌻 (alper@refactorcamp.org), page 2

All cats a bit of salami can have

“Drinking has to be against the rules for taking a drink to be breaking the rules. Only a Muslim can know how good that tastes.”

I remember the penchant of a certain kind of man to whiskey when I was a kid and how it would be used as an (expensive) present or bribe. I bet that in most of those cases it was also Black Label that they were going for.

https://theoutline.com/post/8280/how-johnnie-walker-black-became-the-house-liquor-of-the-muslim-world?zd=1&zi=dnzv3qcl

Being a member of a group rests mostly on sharing the hypocrisies of that group.

Figma's multiplayer support is fantastic and something similar should be a part of every creative application. Now they've also written a very understandable high-level overview of their implementation (with CRDTs).

https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology-works/

@ykgoon The type of people recommending the books. They struck me as naive.

@ykgoon I have read a ton of sci-fi but I haven't read a single Asimov book (not going to either).

It would seem that most of the people in our apartment building have some kind of behavioral issue that is hard to ignore.

@bkam I’m back on Things and the polish over the years has turned that into such a nice and fast tool!

I’m at an intensity now where I almost do nightly reviews (I hope to scale it back soon).

@bkam @kensanata I guess I then come at it from Building a Second Brain.

@bkam @kensanata My problem then always has been finding a notes application that is powerful and pleasant enough to use. The only thing that has had staying power is my personal WordPress.

@bkam Does an impure setup combining Bear, Things and WordPress count?

My colleague Jiro Minier is featured in the Dahrendorf Foresight Project on European Security with a scenario that is dystopian and scarily prescient.

https://www.dahrendorf-forum.eu/research-2017-2019-governance-institutions-and-policy-foresight-project/

@pl It doesn't get more enterprise than this… It also is a dire testament to the German IT landscape.

I'm looking at an ABAP file and now I want to soak my eyes in bleach.

Clean living under difficult circumstances, indeed.

I guess Loudon Wainwright is as good a place as any to start their musical education.

An excellent short piece about the various ways that power bends reality. It is well worth keeping in mind even^G^G^G especially if you are the person who has power.

https://honkathon.com/2019-08-18-power-bends-light/

“The role of the middle-aged white man is to put out the rubbish and if he is the rubbish then he should put himself out.”

https://storgy.com/2019/08/16/exclusive-the-role-of-the-middle-aged-white-man-by-benjamin-myers/

Berlin is instituting a rent cap which honestly is the only way the city will remain liveable for the majority of its inhabitants.

https://www.morgenpost.de/berlin/article226873469/Mietendeckel-in-Berlin-Mueller-distanziert-sich-von-Bausenatorin-Lompscher.html

@rixx Android Studio? Dafür soll es jede Menge Tutorials geben sogar schon bei Google.