Martin Rauscher

My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence

🔥 The new “Gap Decorations” API allows us to add borders between grid rows/columns and Flexbox children. I spent some time playing around with it and it’s a lovely new feature. 😄 You can learn more on CSS Tricks:

This is how Brazil handles US attempts to interfere in their elections. Very different from the European approach.

I spoke about EU federalism, and how the story of India provides a valuable lesson to Europe on the choice between unity or vulnerable irrelevance, during my keynote address at the EESC summit in Bulgaria earlier this month.

They just should hand out EU passports. Always wanted one after reading Oscar Wild considering him a world citizen when I was little

The mid-1980s Soviet Union was famously dubbed a "gerontocracy." Between 1982 and 1985, three successive General Secretaries—Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko—died in rapid succession, their advanced age and failing health paralyzing the state apparatus. 🧵 1/3

While this is certainly good news, it’s perhaps good to put in perspective: European companies spend about 100 billion euros annually to reach European customers through Google and Meta. This is why we need European platforms. Also platforms with ads. So that we can stop forking over the margins

We heard you. We agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. gh.io/cd

Muve to the beat. Muve the conversation. Muve mountains. Today @eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new microblogging app to experiment with the future of social! 🪩💖

'The real surprise from the OECD’s subsidy numbers is that it cost China less than $18bn in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.' @adamtooze.bsky.social @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b6ca...

40 years ago today, the European Communities, which would later become the EU, officially raised the European flag for the first time.   The 12 stars have since become a symbol recognised far beyond Brussels.   Here’s to unity, solidarity and harmony among the peoples of Europe.

I had a passing thought the other day that if only Google Wave was open sourced, we could now finally translate it into a non sucky programming language and give it another chance af life. And then I saw this and realized it is, in fact, open source

Google be Google - my favourite line of the year so far is @wil.to (apologies for paraphrase) “Google participates in the standards process like a bear participates in the camping process”

OMG yes! When finally a dev with a sense for efficiency takes a stab at AI 😍

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

This is so good 😮

After reading @davekeating.substack.com 's book, this is now how I understand the US sees the EU.

@moritzclauss.de könnte man bei der SWP nicht eine Kolumne für gute Schreiber von Reddit einrichten? www.reddit.com/r/Normalverd...

Anybody got a good tip?

youtu.be/m8t4Bt5C9O8

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

DOOM.css is getting somewhere. Gameplay is pretty much done completely in JavaScript, but the whole rendering is 100% CSS. This map is 768 div's with 3D transforms. Added a nice spectator view as well which is literally just adding a couple of CSS custom properties override for the rendering.

Ever wondered why text never aligns perfectly? You set padding to 24px. You check it in dev tools. But visually it looks like 32px. The reason is invisible space above and below every text element. CSS includes it by default because of how line-height works.

" The United States is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad (53%) than as good (47%). " Canada is the complete opposite. Fascinating survey. www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

All Europeans will pay the price for their leaders' reaction to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran this weekend. European leaders (all except Pedro Sanchez) have now accepted the end of international law. The consequences of this will be felt not for weeks, not for years, but for decades

OUCH!!! 😂

That was a fantastic experience. I could kind of understand 1300 English because it resembled German and other languages even more

Why are 🇪🇺President von der Leyen and 🇬🇧PM Starmer both still clinging to their 'surrender deals' with Trump even after the Supreme Court took away the tariff threat? My piece on what this is really about: davekeating.substack.com/p/though-she...

Euronews is publishing op-eds from 🇺🇸lobbyists & pretending they're news articles. It blasts "decoupling fantasies & grandstanding" from those wary of 🇺🇸, and praises VDL's 🇺🇸🇪🇺 surrender deal. It was written by "EU Tech Loop", the blog of a 🇺🇸 lobbying group. But it's labelled as a normal news article

The syntax is simple: env(<environment-variable>, <fallback>) But what kind of environment variables do we have? The most useful ones: safe-area-inset-top, -right, -bottom, and -left Image by Roderick E.J.H. Gadellaa

The EU should have a merged public broadcast, and it could create the most awesome programme: manus.im/share/9CZA8a...

Just great. Probably half of parliament did a brexit-style "it probably won't matter but makes me look good" crap vote, and the last ten were bribed by Donald's thugs...

Parliament has adopted a series of recommendations to allow companies across the EU to thrive and expand globally. Learn more ↓

Imagine writing a pure C, dependency free, fast enough Flux 2 Klein 4B inference library. In a weekend. Thanks to AI writing the code, and the human steering it towards the right direction. github.com/antirez/flux...

That brings back memories!

Anthropic cut off xAI’s access to Ant models in Cursor

I ran 23 experiments watching AI models talk to themselves until they broke. The thing nobody tells you: it's not gradual. You're fine, then suddenly you're not. Here's what collapse actually looks like 🧵

Never seen a nav bar transition like this before. → nakedcityfilms.com

People will be basically the same as today

It begins. The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's first term has been banned from entering the United States, because the 🇺🇸 tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws. What will be the 🇪🇺President's response?

@ericmigi.com I didn't notice when I watched www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arxh... initially, but ... why didn't you show it off working lol? Aren't the prototypes already working?

That's a game changer for everyone working in sterile environments!

Maybe it's stupid, but I just had to preorder repebble.com/blog/meet-pe...

@moritzclauss.de apropos, warum gibt's auf SWP.de jetzt Washington Post Artikel. Find ich ziemlich unnötig ehrlich gesagt...