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Nach Preiserhöhung im Januar: Deutschlandticket verliert eine Million Nutzer
Das Deutschlandticket gilt als ein Erfolg. Jedoch hat die Preiserhöhung auf 58 Euro klare Auswirkungen auf die Nutzerzahlen, wie eine Marktforschung aufzeigt.

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 1770 nodes and 3997 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Dredging up recollections of my experience as R6RS editor for my PLSS talk tomorrow.
https://2025.ecoop.org/details/plss-2025-papers/8/Do-Programming-Languages-Fulfill-Requirements-Should-They-

Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valuable Than Ever
https://cekrem.github.io/posts/programming-as-theory-building-naur/

I DIDN'T make any PROGRESS with him – TRUMP on Putin's call #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/i-didnt-make-any-progress.html

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) #JavaScript

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

"The destruction of the climate by industrial processes is a real-world problem. If programming language selection has no impact on it, then maybe we’re all just wasting our time, creating shiny consumer distractions to make the last few years of humanity that little more palatable for the richest 1% of the world’s human population."

Choosing A Programming Language
Selecting the correct programming language for a particular task often feels like a bunfight. Suggestions are thrown around based on the individual's preferences and desires. The experience is very likely to leave one feeling that programming is an art, rather than a science.

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Vorwurf: Hinter KI-Chatbot steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 indische Programmierer

KI oder nicht KI, das ist hier die Frage! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
Builder.ai, ein einst hochgehandeltes KI-Start-up mit Sitz in London, sorgt für Schlagzeilen.
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