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Alper Cugun

@alper.nl

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Doing Platform Engineering in Berlin Now: Uiua, Iceland 14/8-2/9, road cycling, Claude Code, Cuppin.gs, 十一月日本にハイキング旅行を計画しています, Gleam, mountains

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · Jan 30

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

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 1d

This is the energy that culture criticism should bring. Also, I’ll cut it short for you: Puzzles are bad period.

Smartypants @smartypantsshow.bsky.social · 2d

What's the WORST puzzle from NYT Games?

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 1d

Zo ziet de gemiddelde 4chan edgelord er ondertussen uit.

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 1d

Der Bezug zu Realität war schon immer sehr dünn in Deutschland („German idealism“) nur jetzt machen alle mit.

Ich denke dann an Venkat (“multiverse of personal subjective realities”) hier ab 11:30. Das war eine gute Voraussage: youtu.be/tSE8VdaZNuY?...

Programmable Reality - Venkatesh Rao

YouTube video by Thinking Digital Conference

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 2d

One of my favorite phenomena on TikTok is the “collective bit”. Where everybody is kinda in on the same joke.

Currently there’s one with the Bananenfrau, a woman who supposedly eats absurd quantities of bananas and other produce while others react on her behavior.

TikTok - Make Your Day

20.8K likes, 261 comments. ““Schatz, ich hab Mealprep gemacht” „Oh für wie viele Tage?” “Für zwei Portionen Eis” 😅 Johanna hat eine besondere Art und Definition von „Mealprep“ Mealprep...

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 3d

Yeah pretty much. We won’t get better in Germany.

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 5d

Kids’ swimming lessons cancelled until after the fall break (lack of transport, dressing rooms being renovated etc.). Berlin never ceases to disappoint.

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 5d

Kann passieren. Nur in Deutschland scheint es unmöglich zu sein Fehler nachzubessern.

Ist das was gemeint wird mit „Fehlerkultur“?

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 5d

Apparently in Berlin it is now possible to use this app to report misparked cars and something will actually be done about it.

So everybody get out your phones and start reporting!

weg.li @weg.li · Jun 11

Nach einem hin und wieder produktiven Austausch, wurde uns versichert, dass alle Anzeigen über unser Portal von der Berliner Ordnungspolizei bearbeitet werden. Dort haben wir nun einen direkten Ansprechpartner.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 6d

Any Dutch speakers I know who might be interested in supporting some friends of mine here in Berlin run their non-profit?

Part-time, remote-friendly position with Dutch required

Help Wanted: Operations Assistant - Green Web Foundation

We’re looking for a freelance Operations Assistant to join our small, ambitious and friendly Green Web Foundation team on a part-time basis. We work together on one clear mission: to transition to a…

www.thegreenwebfoundation.org

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 6d

Nick Land

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 6d

Bratton probably doesn’t even know that without Europe many of these chips would not be fabricated.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 6d

Everybody knows what the solution is as expressed here by Dr. Jane Goodall.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 8d

‚Er ist kein Liberaler.‘ Das stimmt weil er ein Faschist ist.

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 9d

Entering my bento mom era. Now to turn these into cute little animals.

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 10d

It was obvious long ago that DHH is a problem for the Rails community. After recent events the situation seems to have finally become untenable.

tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

The Ruby community has a DHH problem

The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.

tekin.co.uk

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 10d

An explanation of the AT Protocol and how it could be the open layer that allows everybody to own their data.

overreacted.io/open-social

Open Social — overreacted

The protocol is the API.

overreacted.io

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 10d

Every programming language has to strike a balance when it comes to abstraction and none of them get it right. Rust is written in a way that is often too abstract for the things that you want to do with it.

corrode.dev/blog/simple

Be Simple | corrode Rust Consulting

The phone buzzes at 3 AM. You roll out of bed, open your laptop, and see this in the logs: th…

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 10d

Github is over and many leading edge developers have already moved off or are seriously considering it.

www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/20...

"GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software - The Future Is Now

I’ve used a lot of tools over the years, which means I’ve seen a lot of tools hit a plateau. That’s not always a problem; sometimes …

www.mistys-internet.website

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 11d

We should have more histories of software. There are lots of things that have been tried out and learned which if they aren’t captured will disappear entirely.

mergify.com/blog/the-ori...

The Origin Story of Merge Queues — Mergify

From Bors and Homu to Bulldozer, Kodiak, Mergify, and now GitHub and GitLab, merge queues have shaped how we keep main branches green. This article traces their history, why they emerged, and how…

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 11d

The guide to sqlite query planning and tuning is cool, but what’s even better is that this kind of scale and optimisations are possible at all with sqlite.

emschwartz.me/subtleties-o...

Subtleties of SQLite Indexes

Understanding query planner quirks yielded a ~35% speedup.

emschwartz.me

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 11d

The situation described here where AI writes 90% of the code is almost entirely the same as how any software engineer works already. The only thing that’s changing is that instead of code you’re writing instructions to the LLM.

lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90...

90%

AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of

lucumr.pocoo.org

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 11d

One of the richest people in the world, who got so rich by not letting his employees take bathroom breaks, felt demonised and had to have a cry about it.

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 12d

Is this guy shorting his own company?

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 12d

Whenever I hear anybody mention Acemoglu and his work, I roll my eyes. The FT does a good job tearing it down: "a treatment of early modern institutions so selective it functions as a bedtime story for capitalists. The good institutions produced prosperity. The bad ones produced misery. "

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This week economists have been congratulating themselves on following Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson into institutions. They are, in effect, proud to have discovered the rest of the social sci…

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 13d

Waarom mogen er mensen die hersendood zijn de politiek in?