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Oh its not coldplay concert photos

The dispossed is stil the one book which had the biggest impact on how I see the world and its flaws.

Le Guins books and voice is more relevant than ever, she would have absolutely hated this

Unclear if your question is in regards to agent-based developer tooling, or stack for building agent-based applications?

Containerising the application or running locally with devcontainers wculd be one way to standardise on something which works across different developer configurations.

Author could have boiled this article down to his conclusion at the end and saved everyone alot of time:

"Ergo, I don’t use Docker and containerization, I’m annoyed by them and I don’t do tutorials on them. They are not for me or for people who want to do basic personal sysadmining. I think enterprise sysadmins would definitely do better doing more for their personal life outside of things like Docker, but again, there are reasons people use these things for many professional use-cases."

Hatred of untied shoes, must be a regional danish behavior then, I think I've encountered it more in the US then in denmark.

Well, more wondering how I go from having local models into a production app with the model available - I guess swap it with a cloud offering?

How has the engagement / response been to content posted using this tool, compared to human editors? Do you have any comparable metrics to share?

The big question is still - how will the models reach production?

Started using LLMs to do semantic testing of website content, not just the site works functionally, but that it works as the user would expect, given an intent and use-case description

http://plo.ug/llms,/typescript,/testing/2025/06/26/LLMs-for-...

This project demonstrates how to use Testcontainers for Golang to create a seamless development environment for building Generative AI applications.

As a dane I can confirm this is absolutely made up, neither the behaivior of danes in regards to untied shoes, nor the HC andersen story is true.

True, fun fact about HC Andersen though: he had enormous feet for the time, sporting a size 47 shoe.

Jason van Zyl interviewed at Chainguard Assemble 2025

Hey, just some background from someone who took part in a couple of privacy compliance projects at large platforms in the past:

For companies doing this the right way, the banner was just the tip of the iceberg, loads of work went into ensuring compliance behind the scenes, so customer and employee data was not shared with 3rd parties unknowingly. In one case the list of 3rd parties went from +400 to about 70, this is in my opinion a win for privacy, the culture around sharing your data went from casual to cautious.

Secondly, the culture around trusting meta and google blindly with behaviour data changed drastically. Businesses became aware of how much valuable data they share with these platforms, which actually puts them at great risk, should you really give these platforms detailed data on what customers browse and buy on your site, so they can use the data to sell targeting for competitors, or direct users towards their own shopping platforms?

So, yes the law is not perfect, we all hate the banners, but at least what happened in those early implementation days when the banner became law, was a change in culture around how data was shared and a better understanding of the risk for the business of using 3rd parties.

Am I the only one who read the title as "app gestures" - oh so my kids have inherited my ability to pinch to zoom?

As a european, there is no way I would host anything remotely critical with a company who cannot even create a compliant cookie consent banner (clicking deny sends you to google.com...)

I was in the same situation years ago, and went with Germany (berlin) over SF. I have kids as well, and my priority was to have time to actually be with them. I can always invest more in my worklife when they are teenagers and want to avoid me like the plague.

I see a couple of people suggest working for a US company from Germany, I would advice against that. Work is a big social driver, so being disconnected from that, will make your time in Germany harder.

The policy is not the only thing provided, work time, resources, promotion etc is already available to employees.

And no, participation does not require a policy - except for those groups that worry about potential harassment - and these groups are drastically underrepresented in OS.

This policy is exactly that, an act of support to the employees - they are already granted work time and resources to participate in open source.

The policy was not created to shield the company - it is already covered by contracts and local law, this policy is made for the benefit of the employee to know what help and support is available.

Zalando Research is an internal team of researches, their work is primarily shared with the research community through publications: https://research.zalando.com/welcome/mission/publications/

In the case of Flair, research led to a reference implementation, which was then matured through internal use and open sourced to further mature it and get external feedback. While employer branding is a nice benefit, it is a positive side-effect, not the motivation in itself :)