Matthias Dittgen 

@[email protected]
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agile, developer (javascript, nodejs, svelte, react, php, swift, kotlin) living in offenburg / black forest, germany with his wife and three sons. searchable
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/matths
Webhttps://matthias.dittgen.name/
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/matths77/
Matthias Dittgen May 13
Hacker NewsMay 13
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
L: https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121717
posted on 2026.05.13 at 09:34:51 (c=0, p=5)
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

404 Media
Matthias Dittgen May 13
Jorijn SchrijvershofMay 13
One of my articles managed to get to the frontpage of Hacker News. Steady 40RPS since then. Very cool.
Matthias Dittgen May 12
Hacker News 100May 12

Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room

Link: https://thenoisyroom.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105297

The Noisy Room

Only 3% of social media users post toxic content — but Americans estimate 43%. An interactive essay about what algorithms hide.

The Noisy Room
Matthias Dittgen May 11
Jens Oliver MeiertMay 11

Tech blog monetization (for lack of a better term):

If you’re running a website and are generating income through it, what’s your main method?

(If several methods apply, select the one with the best results. If your method isn’t listed—can only provide 4 options—, please comment. If interested in results, please reshare for extra reach—thanks!)

#blogging #monetization #devrel

Ads
30%
Affiliate marketing
30%
Newsletter (upselling)
10%
Subscription
30%
Poll ended at .
Matthias Dittgen May 11
3D Print 🧵 3Dable.ITMay 11
MIT CSAIL has revived a rejected 1985 invention to create the Y-zipper, a three-sided 3D-printed fastener that can switch camping gear, medical braces and robots between soft and rigid states in seconds. Using PLA or TPU plastic, the fastener bends into primitives like straight, bent, coiled or twisted shapes. Testing showed 18,000 open-close cycles durability. Pitching a tent drops from 6 minutes to 80 seconds with Y-zippers. https://3dprinting.com/news/mit-researchers-3d-print-a-three-sided-zipper-concept/ #3Dprint #3Dprinting #Materials
MIT Researchers 3D Print a Three-Sided Zipper Concept - 3D Printing

MIT's "Y-zipper" is a three-sided fastener that can snap camping gear, medical braces, and robots between soft and rigid states in seconds.

3D Printing
Matthias Dittgen May 9
Hacker NewsMay 9
All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
L: https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072720
posted on 2026.05.09 at 03:23:40 (c=0, p=4)
All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot! | Adële's blog

Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech

Adële's blog
Matthias Dittgen May 9
Natasha 🇪🇺May 9

Oh my, this is spectacularly to the point -

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived
Matthias Dittgen May 8
Jorijn SchrijvershofMay 8

Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/

#GitHub #OpenSource #SelfHosted #jorijncom #Forgejo

Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo | Jorijn Schrijvershof

I left GitHub for self-hosted Forgejo on a hardened NUC. The reason is digital sovereignty, not reliability outages. Here's the thinking and the architecture.

Matthias Dittgen May 7
Hacker NewsMay 7
Show HN: Full Python GUI apps in the browser – no JavaScript, no server
L: https://github.com/pthom/imgui_bundle
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052290
posted on 2026.05.07 at 13:36:26 (c=0, p=4)
GitHub - pthom/imgui_bundle: Interactive Python & C++ apps for desktop, mobile, and web - powered by Dear ImGui. Stop fighting GUI frameworks. Start building.

Interactive Python & C++ apps for desktop, mobile, and web - powered by Dear ImGui. Stop fighting GUI frameworks. Start building. - pthom/imgui_bundle

GitHub
Matthias Dittgen May 7
Hacker NewsMay 7
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives"
L: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozilla-says-271-vulnerabilities-found-by-mythos-have-almost-no-false-positives/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053816
posted on 2026.05.07 at 15:36:45 (c=1, p=4)
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have "almost no false positives"

The developer of Firefox says it has "completely bought in" on AI-assisted bug discovery.

Ars Technica