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Short posts from my social feed.

• 2026-05-14 @ 08:20

  14 May 2026

  The Jevons Paradox says efficiency creates more demand, not less. Make legal work cheaper, more people use lawyers, you need more lawyers. Then I read his caveat: "AI is moving faster than all these previous technologies, and when you strain a system more than it's usually strained, you get weird behaviours and big disruption."

• 2026-05-13 @ 10:08

  13 May 2026

  We like Taylor Sheridan shows.

• 2026-05-13 @ 09:02

  13 May 2026

  Structured errors seems like a problem that should have long been solved in golang Unfortunately, I'm not finding anything that meets my needs.

• 2026-05-12 @ 08:01

  12 May 2026

  2019: Learn to code 2026: Learn a trade

• 2026-05-10 @ 10:50

  10 May 2026

  Our city’s football club, the VfL Osnabrück, just got promoted from the third league to the second, and the atmosphere here all week has been incredible. I love how effort is rewarded: you had a really good season, you can rise up a level; the owners chronically underfund the team, you can drop a level. That’s why I’ve never really understood the closed major leagues in the US (the old country 🙂), where the teams are basically fixed forever. Where’s the drama? Why monopolies in the land of free markets?

• 2026-05-09 @ 18:40

  09 May 2026

  I used to have a MacOS menubar app to do this but have been doing it manually for the last several years. I've been needing something like this for a while.

• 2026-05-09 @ 18:06

  09 May 2026

  Hi, I'm Karl Ostendorf — software developer in Osnabrück, Germany, originally from Chicago via 20 years in the German countryside.

• hurl HTTP tester

  15 Dec 2022

  Hurl is an HTTP testing tool written in Rust which can test http responses for status code, headers, and even content. Requests can be chained together to test multiple endpoints.

• go-flags

  13 Dec 2022

  TIL go-flags can read environment variables and supports the same option multiple times.

• Drill Load Testing Tool

  11 Dec 2022

  load testing tool written in Rust

• Geziyor Web Crawler

  14 Jun 2019

  Geziyor - a web crawler in Go

• Delta-V

  28 Apr 2019

  Delta-V by Daniel Suarez

• tchap

  23 Apr 2019

  The French government has adopted Riot for official instant messaging

• Mozilla Sync Server

  22 Apr 2019

  Run your own Firefox Sync Server

• Apple Item Tracker

  19 Apr 2019

  Apple rumored to be developing an item tracker

• Mozilla WebThings

  19 Apr 2019

  Mozilla WebThings has been released

• Iota Distributed Ledger

  19 Apr 2019

  Great podcast on the Iota distributed ledger technology and how it differs from blockchain.

• OwnTracks with Gladys

  19 Apr 2019

  Use Gladys as an OwnTracks server

• Headless Chrome Crawler

  07 Apr 2018

  Headless Chrome Crawler - a Javascript crawler using headless Chrome.

• Colly Web Crawler

  05 Apr 2018

  Colly - a web crawler in Go