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Okay, ich hab’s ernsthaft ausprobiert: Einen Tag lang Code Engineering mit Roo Code.
Fazit: Ich kehre zurück zum klassischen Vibe Coding über die ChatGPT-Eingabezeile.

Warum?
– Vergisst laufend Kontext
– Loop-Schleifen im Prozess
– Ahnungslos bei Library-Nutzung
– Und teuer: Viele API Calls, 20 $ später noch kein lauffähiger Code.

Also wieder: Terminal, Kaffee, Promptfenster. 🧑‍💻☕

#AI#Coding#RooCode

🎙️ New episode 29 of the #TalkingPostgres #podcast is out!

Shireesh Thota (CVP of Azure Databases at Microsoft) once dreamed of driving a bus. 🚌 Instead, he fell for math, BASIC, and engineering—and now leads all database work at Microsoft.

We talk about:

➕ The shift from developer to manager (if only people came with documentation)
➕ Why databases are a microcosm of computer science
➕ Why Microsoft must contribute to #PostgreSQL open source—not just consume it
➕ Whether Shireesh has a favorite database?
➕ A new #VSCode extension for Postgres

You should listen! You will enjoy it:

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/h
📺 youtu.be/jP8a_S2MjtY?si=d9USWZ

Please boost so your Postgres friends will discover the episode 🚀

And if you subscribe, you'll never miss an episode: talkingpostgres.com/subscribe

Also: Big thanks 🙏 to @asw of Microsoft who co-produces this show with me and is amazing to work with!

Why there is pretty much no real innovation in tech industry?

Beacause there is no real Research & Development being done - tech industry is so much less than Bell Labs and so much more like Microsoft, Google and Apple. Crapload of money doesn't generate innovative breakthroughs if talented people are micromanaged and squeezed into Jira boards and deadlines, also scared to be randomly hit by another "optimization" layoffs :blobcatjustright:

This is why the best the industry has to offer is the new iPhone that doesn't differ from the previous, synthetic parrot that repeats scraps of texts without any sensible context for enormous amount of energy (LLMs), and tech jobs that sucks the soul from enthusiastic geeks to exhaustion and overburn :blobcatheadinitshands:

Read an excellent post by @fabio :blobcatreading:

manganiello.socialFabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a qu...

I hate JavaScript so much I developed an app with it :blobcatgiggle: :javascript:

Wrapped it as :androidalt: application to run in a WebView, but it also runs on a normal browser :ablobcatwobpatted:

Being web application it is visible source, but also published as real open source :ablobcatbongokeyboard:

Give it a go - I find those old-school :dvd: screensavers soothing - and let me know your thoughts about it.

Bouncing Logo is pending inclusion into Samsung Galaxy Store, next will be adding it to @fdroidorg :blobcatcheer:

Oh, and it's on self-hosted @forgejo instance :forgejo:

bouncinglogo.comBouncing Logo - classic screensaver app for smart devices by Inretio

Attention server admins! Yesterday I've read a post by @simon_brooke how nasty AI scraper bots are attacking his self-hosted @forgejo instance. Soon after I'm seeing unusual, periodic traffic spikes on mine and again - dominated by OpenAI, but some other freeloaders too:

20.171.207.41   GPTBot/1.2
85.208.96.211   SemrushBot/7~bl
54.36.148.64    AhrefsBot/7.0
114.119.139.53  PetalBot

With GPTBot and SemrushBot attacking hardest :blobcatscared:

They've been hammering my little server periodically today as well, slowing down my instance dramatically as if I was experiencing malicious DDoS attack :blobcatfearful: Well, in a sense it is one :blobcatnotlikethis:

Watch out - it seems corporate AI techbros learned to scrape :forgejo: content and starts doing it on a massive scale :blobcatoutage: Remember when @Codeberg was (and repeatedly is) hit?

For now blocked IP ranges and User-Agent combinations, not sure for how long that will be enough :blobcatumm:

Please boost for visibility and be prepared!

🎉 Karakun @ JCON EUROPE 2025

Besucht uns an unserem Stand im Cinedom Köln! Holt euch eine Spitzgugge mit Basler Läckerli 🍬 – im Tausch gegen ein paar kurze Fragen 🎤. Mit Euren Antworten erstellen wir die grosse #Community-Story für den Karakun #DevHub.

Andreas, @madmas , François & Marcel sind für euch da – und coole Sticker gibt’s natürlich auch 😎

Kommt vorbei & feiert mit uns 30 Jahre #Java! 🎈

🎭 NATS: When Your Digital Child Becomes the Prize in a Custody Battle

Reminder to all companies:
If you build your empire on open-source and contribute nothing back, don't be surprised when the ground starts cracking.

NATS, one of the few messaging systems that actually works without summoning ancient demons, now finds itself torn between its creators at Synadia and its adoptive guardians at CNCF. Like any good custody battle, it’s about one thing: Money. 🤑

As a tiny contributor to NATS, it fills me with childlike glee and existential dread to witness what happens when open source ideals collide headfirst with cold, hard business reality.
It’s a classic story:
A vendor generously donates an open-source jewel… only to demand it back when the math stops adding up.

Synadia, the ever-devoted parent, wants to put NATS under the Business Source License (BSL) to secure its survival. Meanwhile, CNCF holds the project in a loving but legally fortified embrace, refusing to let go.

CNCF, clutching its righteous torch of community ownership, refuses to hand over the toys, reminding Synadia: “You gave it away. There are rules. Also… you signed things.”

As a microscopic speck in this universe of giants, I have one simple emotion: sadness.
Sadness that the best technology can still be crushed under the weight of human greed, misaligned incentives, and tragic irony.

OSS survives because we believe in it. OSS dies when we monetize belief.

Whatever happens, little NATS deserves better than a lawsuit. It deserves a future.

Will I stop contributing to NATS?
No. I'm far too stubborn for that.
Will I trust it the same way?
Ask me again when the lawsuits stop.

⚡ Still contributing. Still dreaming. Still worried.

Sources:
* cncf.io: cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protec
* thestack: thestack.technology/we-want-it
* Nats.io: github.com/cncf/foundation/blo
#opensource #natsio #cncf #synadia #foss #techdrama #softwareengineering #NATS #OSS #BusinessSourceLicense #DeveloperLife #SupportOSS #coding #programming

All developers I've met in my career in IT, who insisted code is self-documenting were exceptionally bad in documenting anything :blobcatreading:

While their code usually ran just fine, they could hardly ever explain how it worked or why it was structured that way to someone else, especially junior developers.

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