Zwillingssterns Weltenwald

For Ace Maths I searched for unicode icons to mark progression: show that you’re getting better. Since I found a lot of different options (from simple sparklines to a huge list of animals), I’m collecting them in this article.

→ anderes/unicode-icon-progressions.html

Small Tips & Tricks for Python development. I’ve been programming a lot with Python until 2017 but took a long break. Now I’m more and more stepping in again because I’m using it at work. In this article I gather useful snippets I find along the way.

→ software/python-snippets.html

I read a lot about new technologies. Technologies for health, the energy transition, the future of mobility, or mobile phones. And for many engineers, legal or societal issues are "non-problems." I used to see it that way myself. But when I look at the world, it is actually the opposite: Every technical challenge we currently face can be solved if we, as a society, decide to take it on together. The real problems, however, are not technical. They lie in deciding what matters most to us. Which challenges we want to solve.

→ politik/challenges-technical-social.html

Gedankensplitter zu Rollenspielen und verwandten Themen wie Science Fiction und Fantasy. Wie die Kommentare, aber für Rollenspielzeug.

→ rollenspiel/ideen.html

Denk daran, dass ich auch nur ein Mensch bin, der im Netz schreibt, was er denkt, und versucht, durch Erfahrungen und Lesen Gelerntes weiterzugeben, von dem er hofft, dass es stimmt und anderen hilft, aber bei vielem nicht sicher sein kann.

→ ich/nur-ein-mensch.html

Every day I sketch the best thing of the previous day. This video shows the sketches from the days when Baldur’s Gate 3 was the Best Thing of the Day in my first two playthroughs.

→ kreatives/bg3-plotsketches.html

I’m deeply annoyed by the sorry state of decision making in programming. It’s OK to rely on intuition in a creative field like software development, but given how critical software is for todays society it is horrible that we don’t even know fundamentals like whether types improve quality enough to warrant their cost or whether parentheses are less readable than Pascal — beyond anecdotal evidence, the effect of funding, and feelings influenced by what you already know.

→ software/language-empiric.html

If Baldur’s Gate 3 stops working because Wine updated to version 10, you can try to hack something together or find a flatpak someone else maintains for you and keep playing. Or you can learn about Guix inferior packages and gain a tool for truly eternal package definition. There are tons of reasons why you may want that, but “my game stopped working!” is as good as any other :-).

→ software/guix-specified-package.html

To follow along, install Guile and try the examples as you read.

→ software/programming-scheme.html

This 90 minutes talk describes how peer-to-peer networks managed to interactively search 4 million computers with the bandwidth of 2004, which goals they failed to reach, and what information the networks expose as part of their operation.

→ software/p2p-talk.html

🇩🇪 Gute Neuigkeiten sind Nachrichten, die Mut machen, selbst aktiv zu werden, um etwas zu verbessern. Zum Teilen: www.gute-neuigkeiten.de

→ politik/gute-neuigkeiten.html

To follow along, install Wisp and try the examples as you read.

→ software/programming-basics-wisp.html

Das Klimageld ist die zentrale Maßnahme, um Klimafreundliches Leben zu fördern.

→ politik/anspruch-klimageld.html

The Alphabet in names, but not the standard names, but scientist names; with colors and usable for plantuml. Created because Names are easier to follow than saying “A, B, C”. That’s especially true for lecture slides and other graphics.

→ anderes/alice-brian-carol.html

Feuerschwanz hat ernsthaft Gangnam Style gecovert 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0U769v6acU

Vielleicht wird der nächste Eurovision Songcontest ja einer, den ich schaue: wenn sich jemand traut, sie wieder zu fragen.

(und das Lied ist klasse! Nur ob ihr Koreanisch gut ist, kann ich nicht beurteilen)

Making of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTNBGsVxdzE

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Kopieren rettet Wissen

https://www.draketo.de/deutsch/politik/kopieren-rettet-wissen

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/114388296927814544

How to Handle Toxicity in Gaming and Be Non-Toxic Yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7F-hxca-Pw

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/114386070381263820

USPOL, Russia

Coverage of alleged Musk/Doge/Russia collusion to enable foreign access to government systems:

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/whistleblower-org-says-doge-may-have-caused-significant-cyber-breach-us-labor-2025-04-15/

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000266327/sensible-daten-der-us-arbeitsaufsicht-sollen-von-doge-abgegriffen-worden-sein

https://www.fr.de/politik/datenklau-bei-doge-trump-nichte-warnt-vor-unglaublicher-macht-93690521.html

https://www.merkur.de/politik/doge-vorgehen-enthuellt-trump-nichte-illegal-und-verfassungswidrig-zr-93690460.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLPL0MZ7aVQ

Have you seen more? Please share the links!

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"MUST SEE: Schüler Stellt Sich ALLEINE AfD Querdenkern Entgegen!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOtzYpEfWQ

Größten Respekt — ich hätte verdammt Sorgen gehabt.

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