@dtanzer
Programmer, trainer/coach, climber, #bonsai enthusiast Helping clients create better software and get better at creating software React, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin Pronouns: he/him https://www.davidtanzer.net https://www.devteams.at https://quickglance.at
Dass die Erde sich seit geraumer Zeit erwärmt, steht zweifelsfrei fest. Gerade die Jahre 2023 und vor allem 2024 waren die bisher wärmsten seit Beginn der Messungen. Die Erderwärmung hat sich seit etwa 2015 deutlich beschleunigt. Das zeigt eine Studie klar & deutlich:
science.orf.at/stories/3234...
The tree shows me when it is ready for a certain kind of work. Just like our code, architecture and team can show us that it is ready for some kind of #change or #improvement. Are we always getting those hints?
Two little larch seedlings (~ 2 years old) in a pond basket, their main trunk wired to the side and a small branch wired as new top.
Several pots with very small trees, in the front is a cotoneaster. The soil/substrate is white, red and black (from the different mineral substrate types used).
In the foreground, there is a small pond basked with a hornbeam that is just opening the buds, In the background, a larger pond basket with another tree and a meadow.
A freshly repotted weeping willow with some sacrificial branches wired out with silver wire. The background shows a blurry image of our garden.
#bonsai repotting season has started for me here in #Austria: Some trees started opening their buds and showing some green, which means they are ready for repotting. Did most of the current repots to improve the #nebari, not becaus the trees were pot-bound...
we need to ramp up the pressure to tax these companies and fund a UBI *now*. if we don't, by the time they've already eliminated these jobs it will be too late, and they'll hold all the cards.
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Für mein erstes Buch habe ich mit mehreren Ärzt*innen gesprochen – u. a. mit @marc-hanefeld.de , der (damals noch?) auch Pilot war und gewohnt, regelmäßig auf seine Flugtauglichkeit überprüft zu werden.
...talk about that and discuss mitigation strategies.
With this team, we decided to re-evaluate frequently, to listen to our gut feeling and to not give up too soon. Next time I do something like this, I will also use those four questions.
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...time with was "If we experience a downward trend, is this a temporary decline or are we on the wrong path?"
Improvement is not always linear. Sometimes, it's not easy to find out whether you are on the downward-part of a J-curve or on a genuine downward trend. I wanted them to think and...
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I love this. "How will we know we succeeded?" is a question I ask often, and it's usually not easy to answer.
estherderby.com/4-questions-...
Just a few weeks ago, I facilitated a learning hour with a team at a coaching client about exactly that. And one big part we spent our...
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Unser Journalismus orientiert sich oft an dem was und wie in den USA berichtet wird. Das muss schleunigst aufhören. WaPo ist eh verloren, einzelne Journalist*innen unter Druck und wenn CNN jetzt an Paramount geht wird das üble Konsequenzen haben. Wir müssen unabhängig werden. Auch journalistisch.
Wer kommt zum Code Retreat in Linz morgen?
Ich hab @socrates-conference.at Discount Codes für euch dabei 😁
coderetreat-linz.github.io/website/
Am Samstag findet in Linz ein #CodeRetreat statt - Ein ganzer Tag, um zu lernen, sich ohne Druck auf Details zu konzentrieren und neue Sachen zu probieren.
Ich werde dort sein, wer kommt noch?
coderetreat-linz.github.io/website/
Irgendwie schon interessant, wenn man sich denkt dass mit der damals völlig durchgeknallten "Pizzagate" -Verschwörungstheorie (benutzt gegen Hillary Clinton)-wo man glaubte dass aus einem Keller von einem Pizzarestaurant in Washington aus Kinder missbraucht und wegen "Adenochrom" getötet werden,
The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
Some tools I used for grafting: A knife, scissors, rubber tape and cut paste.
Closeup: First grafted tree, with black tape right above the soil and a short, thin twig sticking out from the tape.
Closeup of the two cuts, one on the seedling, one on the new branch. Both cuts are somewhat irregular, which is not ideal.
Close-up of the second grafted tree, black tape around the cuts, a short twig sticking out from that. There is cut paste on the top cut.
Tried to graft some #apple #trees for the first time - "Golden Noble" on a seedling I grew for 2 years now. I know the cuts are not good, but it was the best I could do.
Let's hope they grow - for future #bonsai or garden trees...
Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...
I found this video by @jovaneyck.bsky.social was a useful overview of where we are as developers with ai tools. Thanks for making it
youtu.be/6W_-YWHKwZ4?...
This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal
Wenn die Stadt Linz die Kohle, die sie angeblich nicht hat, statt in den Bau von Autobahnen, in die Stadtwache (wtf) und in Flüge nach Frankfurt (whattheevenfucker) in Vereine, die Integrationsarbeit machen, in Feminismus und in Öffi-Ausbau und Grünraum stecken würde, wie lebenswert wär diese Stadt.
Mir geht's auch gut! Wir haben uns ja lange nicht mehr gesehen... Ich bin aber auch nicht mehr so regelmäßig auf Meetups o.ä. - gehst du noch hin?
@tompson.bsky.social Happy Birthday! Wie geht's immer?
sein name ist
Wladislaw Heraskewytsch
dank der nur für ukraine-hassende Putinzäpfchen nachvollziehbaren IOC-disqualifizierung kennt ihn und seinen helm nun die ganze welt.
wenn erinnern zum verbrechen erklärt wird, ist als nächstes das denken dran.
They gave clippy the ability to lie and somehow that’s worth a trillion dollars and the entire economy is now based on it 🤷♂️
well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
Your must-read for today is from @tante.cc :
tante.cc/2026/02/06/t...
Ich hatte vor, meine Schwester in den USA zu besuchen. Das sind die neuen Einreisebestimmungen: Auskunft über Social Media, TelNrn (5 Jahre) Email Adressen (10 Jahre) Daten von Familie (Adressen, Telnr.)
und Fingerprint, Iris Scan, DNA.
Ich bleibe in Europa!
Did some quick winter pruning on some of my #bonsai (or, to be more precise, early-stage projects). But made no recordings, just a few quick cuts.
Maybe I'll shoot some new #videos in spring, when #repotting season starts.
Vergleichen wir diesen Jänner mit den 30 Jahren davor, wäre er als ganz normaler oder sogar leicht zu milder Jänner durchgegangen. Der Klimawandel schreitet so schnell und deutlich voran, dass wir unser "NORMAL" bereits signifikant verändert haben.
The slides for my (English) #agile #austria talk about growing bonsai and what software development can learn from it are now online. Spoiler: It's basically feedback, iteration, continuous learning and small, simple steps.
speakerdeck.com/dtanzer/grow...
Layoffs over the last year:
UPS: 48,000
Amazon: 32000
Intel: 27,159
Microsoft: 15,387
Nestle: 16000
Verizon: 15000
Google: 12000
Chevron: 8000
Paramount: 7000
Walmart: 7000
P&G: 7000
Estée Lauder: 7000
Your reminder that massive corporate tax cuts don’t create jobs, they create profits.
Gerade im Zug nach #Graz zur #Agile #Austria Conference - Mein Vortrag über Softwareentwicklung und #Bonsai is heute Abend um 17:45. Ich freu' mich schon darauf!
agile-austria.org
