Carlo Zottmann

Yeah, hi, Carlo here.

I’m having a good time with pi, a lovely minimal agent harness made by thoughtful Austrians.

My man Hendrik over on Bluesky: How can we reach people like this and show them that their understanding of AI coding is fundamentally wrong, and that the reason they’re not finding a job is not that AI has killed the job market, but that they’re demonstr…

TL;DR: Most in-app purchases got more affordable, biggest price drops outside the Euro zone.

If you’re EU based and need a GDPR compliant LLM router for legal (or ethical) reasons, don’t sleep on Cortecs.

I gotta say, as a place for getting undifferentiated and breathless “ALL AI BAD” takes, Mastodon as a whole remains peerless.

TIL a neat Xcode trick!

83% aller deutschsprachigen Kommentare zu jedwedem Thema sind “Das haben wir noch nie so gemacht”, “Sie können hier nicht parken” und “Hier wird nicht gerannt”, nur halt mit Hut und Trenchcoat und aufgeklebtem Schnauzbart.

Quoting Craig Mod, on the correct way of handling the garbage we create: A funny thing happens when a Snickers bar goes from whole to eaten — the wrapper transmogrifies from useful to toxic.

Das Essay Tolerance is not a moral precept von Yonatan Zunger ist eines, das ich regelmäßig auf Mastodon teile, denn es ist sehr gut.

An interesting question posed by Sam Holden: Robert Macfarlane’s Is A River Alive?

Quoting Jon Worth from a Bluesky thread: After […] Musk’s statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let’s ask ourselves simply: HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?

Quoting Louis Rosenberg: In other words, we are not watching a bubble expand with blustery vapors.

I recently released updates to both my contextual macOS Shortcuts launcher, BarCuts, and Browser Actions, which let you automate Google Chrome, Vivaldi, Microsoft Edge, and other browsers. 🚀 And since it’s November, I’ve also decided to join the fray and…

I have this setup: XLR mic → ext.

Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa: What’s happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it’s not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums.

After updating both my Mac and iPhone to the latest OS 26 versions, Continuity/Handoff wasn’t working anymore, meaning no more cross-device copy-n-paste etc.

Yesterday, I released Linearis v2025.11.2, a new version of my CLI tool1 that lets you (and your LLM) work with the very good project management and ticketing system, Linear2.

Quoting HN user yanhangyhy’s comment about Kimi K2 Thinking: […] China’s open-source strategy has many significant effects—not only because it aligns with the spirit of open source.

Wild Wild Space: “HBO Original Documentary that chronicles the fierce competition to tackle humanity’s next great frontier and the dark side of capitalism’s insatiable appetite for profit” YouTube Video YouTube Video A cool documentary to watch if you’re…

BBC Radio 5 Live - Bugzy Malone’s Grandest Game A loving look at the GTA series by BBC’s Chris Warburton and UK rapper Bugzy Malone.

Peter Leyden: Why 2025 is the single most pivotal year in our lifetime YouTube Video YouTube Video That was an interesting 15 min watch.

Anders Thoresson came up with a good addition to LLM system prompts (Claude, Codex, GLM et al).

Quoting Craig Mod once more: Everyone was uniquely nuts.

Ein wirklich interessantes Interview mit dem Autoren Thomas Chatterton Williams beim ZEITmagazin: “Ein Klima, in dem viele lieber schwiegen.