Hausgeist

Strong opinions loosely held

Moin.

That’s how people say “hi” in my neck of the woods.

I’m hausgeist and this is my little corner of the internet. Thank you for being here.

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The Peter Principle [describes how] people tend to rise through organisations through promotions until they reach a level of respective incompetence. (…) And because we are now incompetent, we no longer get promotions. We’re stuck. Our career has reached a dead-end because we’ve been promoted into incompetence. We’ve become bad at our jobs through no fault of our own.

And that is, as the essay goes on to explain, an apt principle to apply to developers who are embracing “agentic software development”, too.

The season 4 finale of The Diplomat (season 1 trailer) was potentially one of the best hours of television I’ve ever seen. Just the right balance of parallels to current geopolitical events, drama, and captivating character development. 10/10.

Artemis

by Andy Weir Science Fiction

Jfc, r/menwritingwomen would have a field day with this.

Edit: turns out they already have. What an absolute cringefest.

Note to self: here’s the list of privacy-focused Firefox extensions endorsed (and renounced) by the Arkenfox project..

I should add a /bookmarks page to this site …

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe

Time to find myself a new password manager, I guess.