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Alper Cugun

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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.

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

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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 · 2d

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

Ist das was gemeint wird mit „Fehlerkultur“?

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

Nick Land

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 3d

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 · 3d

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

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 6d

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

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 7d

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

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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 · 8d

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.

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Subtleties of SQLite Indexes

Understanding query planner quirks yielded a ~35% speedup.

emschwartz.me

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 9d

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

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 9d

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 · 9d

Is this guy shorting his own company?

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 9d

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 · 10d

Waarom mogen er mensen die hersendood zijn de politiek in?

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 11d

Listening to this episode on the trial of John Brown I gasped several times. It’s a wild story of deep moral conviction and powerful oratory.

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Politics on Trial: John Brown vs Slavery

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Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 11d

Because Germany failed to establish its own platform to do digital payments, everybody doing some kind of collaboration is stuck using Paypal.

Paypal has never been good and never will be good. For instance after sending money to the class fund, the "Fertig" button here does not work.

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 12d

The contradiction is the point as long as there are no consequences.

Alper Cugun @alper.nl · 13d

China schooling the West in real SCALE.

That list of uninvestable assets that we have here in Europe may be uncomfortably long.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...