SigmarStern

I work for a kind of data provider/dashboard/planing tool for energy grid providers. There is an issue with the “sudden” rise of solar panels and heat pumps and electric cars. Our grid isn’t made for this and there needs to be modernised.

That being said: Yay abundant clean energy!

Lived in Berlin for over 20 years. I will never call a Berliner a Pfannkuchen.

Please tell me what a Berliner is to you.

TIL that https://steelseries.com/ is danish? If you are a Gamer, they make decent gaming keyboards.

Switzerland already has twint and I don’t see them switching to a new system. Maybe that’s where it will lead to: multiple regional services. Not great, but also not a giant corporation.

What we really need are alternatives to US credit card systems.

A lot of clothes in specialized web shops like avocadostore.de are produced in the EU.

Left Germany for Switzerland and while I never really felt unsafe in Germany, it’s so much more relaxed here. And I start to really appreciate direct democracy.

Oh yeah, I remember the good ol’ “Our whole business Logic is within this 30 tables spread sheet, that only one person can read, and don’t you dare restarting that computer” times.

One person. Sitting in front of three monitors. In front of a spreadsheet that maxed out every resource of that computer. It was glorious.

It led me to think about Spotify’s politics and ethics and ultimately leaving it as well as a paying customer.

As someone speaking German, a brutally gendered language, let me tell you, they/them is awesome and I’d love to have something similar in German. There is so much fighting and discussions about “gendern” and it consumes so much energy that could be better spent elsewhere. And conservatives are having a field trip with this.

Looking for a new word is equally as hard if not way harder than using what already works fine.

I recently found out about this and I love it! Used to use paperwork for my scanning and archiving but paperless ngx is so much better.

The question is, why does it run on Linux and not Apple

And here I am with my brand new niche zero that I was so proud of until like three minutes ago.

I want that on a t-shirt! And I’m definitely going to steal it for my slack tagline.