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bastianallgeier

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Designer & developer. Creator of Kirby CMS

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matuzo, to random
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As developers, we deal with practical challenges every day. Often, we’re so focused on the technical part of development that we forget the real purpose of our jobs. It’s not solving technical issues; it’s building products for human beings. What we do is very technical at its core, but the consequences of our decisions are very human: they strongly affect people’s lives, their access to information, and their participation in society.

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@matuzo To be able to zoom out and put yourself in the shoes of the users – or when writing docs in the shoes of the beginners – is almost like training a muscle. It's never happening automatically and the longer you spend time on a project, the more you have to put effort into training that muscle. That's why we IMHO see so much focus on DX instead. It's the lazy option that feels good and you expect it to have the same effect but it simply isn't true.

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Our son is currently learning about recycling in their science class. He brought home this bar chart about unrecycled raw materials and rare-earth elements in old phones and the numbers are pretty mind-boggling.

I double-checked them and – no surprise if you know the German school system – they seemed to be pretty outdated but still mostly correct.

More recent numbers say that we are already at roughly 220 million unrecycled phones in Germany. (translation in the alt text)

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I don't know the exact rate at which those materials can be extracted. Would be very interesting to know. But it's still a huge potential of reusing what's already there. Also keep in mind that those are just phones. Laptops, TVs and other devices come on top of that.

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Book recommendation (German only so far): "Männer, die die Welt verbrennen" by @ChristianStoecker

https://www.ullstein.de/werke/maenner-die-die-welt-verbrennen/hardcover/9783550202827

The Spiegel author collects decades of research about the unbelievable connections between the fossil industry, global right wing movements, investors, banks, media publishers and more. It's like a giant puzzle and suddenly a lot of pieces fit together like never before. I enjoyed it a lot. The title is provocative (Men who burn the world), but it's also pretty spot on.

bastianallgeier,
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@miles_leif Hahaha :) I enjoyed it because it reads almost like a thriller to connect all the dots.

grimm, to random German
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Das macht mir Bock auf die Zukunft.

Solar und Wind sind die am schnellsten wachsenden Energiequellen der Geschichte.

Gerade die Geschwindigkeit ist der Schlüssel.

Fast alle unterschätzen, was diese Geschwindigkeit wirklich bedeutet.

Kurzer THREAD 🧵

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@grimm ich mag deine threads hier sehr.

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    bastianallgeier,
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    @sarajw 💯

    bastianallgeier, to random
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    Great start of by Chris Campe with the perfect sticker

    bkastl, to random German
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    Bahn Level: Kulanzleistung erreicht. Wegen Überfüllung

    bastianallgeier,
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    @bkastl ICE 518?

    bastianallgeier,
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    @bkastl ich gehöre leider zum bösen Team Flur irgendwo in der Mitte

    tbaldauf, to random
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    Journalist: "So what do you think long-distance air travel is going to look like in 2050?"

    Climate Scientist laughs derisively: "By 2050, most long-distance holiday destinations will be uninhabitable, so I expect the majority of long-distance air traffic to be non-existent by 2050."

    Phew. Hadn't heard it THAT bleakly during a live interview yet.

    bastianallgeier,
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    @tbaldauf from which interview is this?

    bastianallgeier,
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    @tbaldauf tbh I’ve read many times how bleak the outlook for 2040-2050 really is, but there are still not many public interviews where this is openly stated. Schellnhuber had that very drastic schoolbus analogy on TV once. I sometimes wonder if we need even more of such brutal honesty in public or if it still won’t change much.

    bastianallgeier,
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    @tbaldauf the scientific frame sometimes feels like a cushion to me. With such statements, that cushion is ripped away and I personally think it’s good

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    @oliphaunt @tbaldauf this is the quote https://twitter.com/visevic/status/1431012057143463937

    „We are putting our kids in a schoolbus that has a 98% chance of a fatal accident“ - meaning the climate crisis.

    bastianallgeier,
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    @amberfirefly @tbaldauf yes, I posted the quote here: https://mastodon.social/@bastianallgeier/112430235688540882

    bastianallgeier, to random
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    Starting my @btconf journey via the scenic route from Oberstdorf today. Some exciting train connections ahead.

    bastianallgeier,
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    @the_re_phil @btconf Yep, I'm in the RE75. I'm in the first part of the train.

    bastianallgeier,
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    @flogehring Kurzurlaub. Also Zu-Kurzurlaub

    bastianallgeier,
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    @Luke the refreshing version today was a super packed train with more than an hour of delays and an hour of standing next to the door because no seats were left 😂

    bastianallgeier, to random
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    Aurora pictures from last night. My old iPhone 8 vs the more recent iPhone 12 of my wife …

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    bastianallgeier,
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    TBH it looked more like my picture to the naked eye. Still super cool 😍

    bastianallgeier,
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    @marcthiele yeah, it was somewhere between hers and mine but a lot darker than hers. I read that they are visible in parts of BW and being in Bavaria right now we just still gave it a shot and it was pretty cool.

    bastianallgeier, to random
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    The development of PV in Germany has been a mind-blowing rollercoaster in the last years and is such a great example of political decision making and its consequences. https://energy-charts.info/charts/installed_power/chart.htm?l=de&c=DE&year=-1&expansion=installation_decommission&legendItems=cw1

    bastianallgeier,
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    @Lippe @leonoverweel exactly! Since 2023, new installations are also VAT-free which gave a pretty drastic immediate boost. The big drop in 2012/13 is also related to a policy change that dropped feed-in prices significantly

    matthiasott, to random
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    Please read this as what it is: anecdotal evidence. But it tells you a lot about the current status of computer science education in Germany.

    My son’s teacher insists that an if statement always also needs an else.
    Always.
    Empty, if need be.
    He wrote an empty else { }.

    😐

    bastianallgeier,
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    @matthiasott 😱😱😱 at least he can code. I don’t think that’s something you can take for granted for informatics teachers. But still 😱😱😱

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