Notices by Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel 🇪🇺🌹🌻 (alper@refactorcamp.org), page 4

As a 50% parent weird seeing all those moms in the park with a dog and kids. I guess their husbands come home from work, play with the kid, play with the dog, play with their wife and then go to bed to do it all again the next day.

@octesian I go to playgrounds in gentrified areas because the kids are much quieter.

There is another dirty secret behind the German switch to alcohol-free beers: German beers just aren't that good. I prefer any major foreign beer (Heineken, Carlsberg, 1664, etc.) over most beers you can buy here.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/14/germans-thirsty-for-alcohol-free-beer-as-brewers-boost-taste

Reporting back from the playground: if people like us didn't have children, you do not want to know what kind of people would be left to procreate.

I asked somebody from India about the extreme temperatures. They weren't too worried about it and said that people just need to stay out of the heat.

If democracy won't prevent this from happening, frankly I don't see the point.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/12/indian-villages-lie-empty-as-drought-forces-thousands-to-flee

A frankly amazing piece by Monica Lent using her experience to debunk seven commonly held truths about programming with verve. Programming consists of folklore and beliefs are often just beliefs. That indeed makes most learning in this field a question of unlearning.

https://monicalent.com/blog/2019/06/03/absolute-truths-unlearned-as-junior-developer/

Set aside all of the obvious outcry, I haven't seen a single argument yet that explains how encrypted communications are compatible with state power.

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/horst-seehofer-will-messengerdienste-zum-entschluesseln-zwingen-a-1269121.html

I'm pretty sure too that designers do not deserve a seat at every table: ’When “design” means any important problem to be solved then it loses cohesion as an industry and practice.’

https://twitter.com/MargoDunlap/status/1094073270910046209

“Admittedly, this neat combination of worshipping totems while pursuing practical benefits is quintessentially Chinese.”

A critical but hopeful treatment of Chinese and wider tech culture as seen through the radical lens of Burning Man.

https://logicmag.io/07-the-chinese-burner/

A lot of very salient thinking on books, metacognition, double-loop learning and the deliberate design of new forms by Andy Matuschak.

I've been thinking of doing a talk about how to get the most out of your reading both quantitatively and qualitatively. Many people do not even know how much is possible, let alone that they would have an inkling of how to get there. I think anybody can easily get to at least a doubling of reading quantity and conceptual retention.

https://andymatuschak.org/books/

Seriously considering a vote for DIEM. Change my mind.

From this summer on, when asked for directions and the likes, my answer will be: "I don't support tourism."

Stark to realize that vegans with their behavior so very much poisoned that term that people are resorting to call it 'plant based' now. A bit similar to how Accenture used to be called Andersen.

I don't like to think so very often, but maybe I am actually quite good at this programming thing.

@dries I asked Linux people why they don't push the results of all their tinkering upstream, but I guess it's not that easy…

An article about forecasting that dovetails nicely with the book about measuring cybersecurity risk that I just read. The scientists makes the case for foxlike thinking, something which nobody here should need much persuading for.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/how-to-predict-the-future/588040/

It's exciting to see the Emirates government put design front and center. Unfortunately though in a closed context such as that, it is more than likely that design will be instrumentalized and deployed only for material gain.

https://design.gov.ae/

Usually it's not for a nice occasion but still, it's good to see my grand-boss Dror on television regularly explaining cybersecurity to the German public.

https://www.daserste.de/information/wirtschaft-boerse/plusminus/videos/daten-gefahr-unternehmen-video-100.html

@bitboxer The last iteration of the keyboard is working fine for me. Haven't reports of dead keyboards died down now?