Posts from @alex@social.alexschroeder.ch

A reason to block clew.lol – but now that I check with my browser the whole server seems to be down. https://clew.lol/objects/ebc4f36c-faed-49db-8b44-2f06a3a76201

99% Invisible podcast with Anthropic/Claude advertising.

“Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 428 ppm in August 2026” – but when I recalibrate my CO₂ detector it just assumes that the air outside is 400 ppm.

Yesterday I went on a walk along the lake with friends and we had something to drink and eventually I needed a toilet.

I’ve seen a YouTube channel calling itself a podcast with no audio-only option and no RSS feed visible.

“The Greater Zurich Area AG, a nonprofit organization, is the marketing association for the Greater Zurich Area business region.

Too much Switzerland when you own eight knives.

Today we went for a hike from the canton of Glarus to the canton of Schwyz.

I maintain a feed aggregator that is used to generate a static web site.

I just realised that a project being undecided about AI made me more unwilling to contribute bug reports, tests or anything at all, really. 😓 I don’t want to spend my free time potentially fighting chat bots.

I ended up spending a few hours on an Oddμ rewrite that would replace the cheapo "open all the files and search them" search with "index all the files in a SQLite database using full text search" and I'm still not done.

@trashheap has the best workplace stories in my feed.

Studying the program of the animation festival Fantoche in Baden this week.

Yesterday, we went to see the Rosenlaui gorge.

Reading about niënor, the "optimizing compiler for a lisp dialect targetting uxn vm" by @kpm because an Internet friend was looking for "the most literal and eclectic tech stack out there" and when I suggested uxn they agreed but added "I need myself some…

My mom started listening to a podcast about Sam Altman’s and Open AI’s story.

This cactus is making me do unspeakable things.

Saw a caterpillar of cossus cossus, the goat moth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossus_cossus

Yesterday I had turned on Do Not Disturb on this phone and today I was shocked to discover that all the red bubbles had disappeared.