Imagine a parallel universe where KGB is secretly alive, Trump is a KGB agent and his goal is to destroy all the American heritage, defile all its symbols, lose all the allies, ruin the reputation of and trust to the US — what an astonishing sci-fi that would be! Happy 250!

🇩🇪 German news TLDR: die Bürgergeldbeschränkungsdiskussionorgie (loop video).

And here we go — the recession in the US begins yesterday. PS: US10y-US02y, the yield spread of 10yrs and 2yrs treasuries.

🇪🇺🇩🇪 6 years of #Weltpolitikfähigkeitsverlustvermeidungsstrategie. Finished formulating the problem statement. Starting the brainstorming of the action items.

If you ever wondered what happens in the US politics, watch the TV series “BrainDead” (2016) — it makes everything crystal clear. That’s all, that’s the whole tweet. You are welcome!

Surprise-surprise! The author discovered what we all the potential “talents” knew for decades: H1b is a hoax. What the author has NOT yet discovered, is that H1b is a slavery visa: you become too dependent on the employer, cannot quit & change jobs. Here, EU’s Blue Card wins.

Meanwhile, 45. Wheee! — the sound that I make as I fly 220 km/s on this spherical piece of stone in vacuum for so long. The life is so good that I have an urge to destroy something beautiful and build something new. What will be the next country to immigrate into?

Meanwhile, it is 3 yrs at @datafoldcom — what a ride! Startups are so startupy, you know ;-) And on this occasion, we make a huge extension to our products with lots of new functionality. Now we can do even more for your data! Wheee! get.datafold.com/LI-Monitors

Hot take: Europe (and slightly the US) now has a whole GENERATION of young employees who never saw inflation until recently. They save in cashing accounts. They don’t know that a salary raise of 2%/yr is actually the salary decrease. What a wonderful time we live in!

Visited Reddit. Thought a lot.

🇩🇪German government: "businesses are suffering, de-regulate all the things!" 🤦‍♂️Also the German government: mandates obligatory time sheets for =ALL= employees in Germany since March'24, which nobody asked for, even the employees. 30 mins breaks, max 10hrs/d work — or €30k fines.

The 1st time is always unexpected. But we all knew this would happen sooner or later. After 2.5yrs in the company & 25+ yrs in software engineering, I have finally implemented one of those “interview algorithms”, but for real. Reservoir Sampling, it is. Life-scale achievement —✅ – at Berlin, Germany

The “free” elections of the Putin of the Russian Federation — and what happens if you tick the wrong checkbox. – at Berlin, Germany

Okay, here we go — 2014 & 2024 :-)

Fancy worries of the 🇩🇪naturalisation — name changes: • Sergey → Serge? Sergio? Siegfried? Keep as is? • Vasilyev → Wassiljew? Vassil? Waßil? Vaas? Vaaß? Keep as is? • Turn a patronymic to the 2nd name or remove it? Sergio Jürgen Vaaß? Hm… What does sound the most fancy? 😅

Remind me please, why do we name #Python classes in CamelCase while all built-in classes are lower-cased: str, int, bool, dict, list, type, range, slice? Who did say that this is the best practice, once again?

🎂 And here we go, 44! As usual, my life map (1cell=1week (a sprint), 52w/yr horiz., 80+ yrs vert.). It helps seeing the whole life in perspective and deciding if I’m on the right track and need a correction. So far, so good — the track is right, moving on by inertia. – at Berlin, Germany