| Based in | Berlin, Germany |
| I make music | https://soundcloud.com/hannes2000 |
| Website | https://hannesstruss.de |
| Based in | Berlin, Germany |
| I make music | https://soundcloud.com/hannes2000 |
| Website | https://hannesstruss.de |
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.
Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!
Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏
I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.
If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.
If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.
This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.
🦌 *hands curling around coffee cup, worried expression, leaning across table and talking softly* Does your husband know about Home Assistant?
🐩 I dunno, HEY HONEY
🦌 shh! Don't ask him!
🐧 YEAH HON
🐩 NOTHING NEVERMIND
🐩 Why's that?
🦌 It's a cognitohazard. If you ask him about it he'll want to know what it is, and then he'll be doomed.
🐩 Doomed, you say?
🦌 Doomed. It puts your house on the computer. He'll spend three hours a night programming the lights and you'll never see him again.
🐩 Oh my, that sounds awful. *pulling out phone* But you don't seem to be affected by it.
🦌 It seems to mostly affect dads.
🐩 Mostly... *smiles, turns phone around, it displays a big red button* but not exclusively. *press*
🦌 My god
🐩 *presses again*
🐩 Sorry, this is supposed to play the Dramatic Chipmunk sound on the kitchen radio
🐩 sorry
🐩 one sec