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A new report by the @kiel.institute shows that in March and April 2025, Europe surpassed the United States in the total value of military aid provided to Ukraine, for the first time since June 2022. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I have a new article out. It's about a better technique to create grainy gradients, without the big problem that layering a noise layer brings: altering the original gradient palette (to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the approach used). #CSS #SVG #filter

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Working with LLM agents is making me think about the old saying: 'be careful what you wish for'

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Funny, not funny.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Romania chose decency over dishonesty. A lot of hardships lie ahead, but right now it seems like we’ll make it.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

TIL `withLatestFrom` can accept multiple observables as its input

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Since today’s topic seems to be testing, I would like to bring a talk by J.B. Rainsberger into attention.

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone’s discussing Cursor or Windsurf, while I’m here rediscovering nvim and thinking it couldn’t get any better.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The lead that the Romanian populist candidate has isn’t small, but he keeps making stupid mistakes, as you would expect from someone with the personality fit for an autocrat. These mistakes, and the work done by good-natured people, are what will change the tide.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

It’s absolutely hilarious how most people say they’ve had enough corruption, but then vote for the most corrupt politician on the ballot.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

It's Friday, so I'm going to reshare Orbit! A fast-paced browser game, that I consider to be quite fun. Link in the quoted thread and comments.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Today we celebrate 25 years of the EU’s motto ‘United in Diversity’. More than words - it’s the heart of Europe. 🇪🇺

submitted 50 days ago • 18 comments

It’s absolutely hilarious how most people say they’ve had enough corruption, but then vote for the most corrupt politician on the ballot.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

🇷🇴 Exit poll romanian presidential election -19:00 (polling firm: CURS): 33.1% George Simion (far-right, pro-Russian, pro-MAGA) 22,9% Crin Antonescu (backed by the governing coalition, pro-European) 20,9% Nicușor Dan (independent, pro-European) 14,7% Ponta (met with Putin twice in person, pro-MAGA)

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" presents a stark historical observation for AI: progress seems driven less by encoding human insights and more by general methods (search, learning) that scaling with computation. This challenges where we assume leverage lies in system design. t.co/75vz1XUbu2

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

At a time when geopolitical trust is at an all time low, Microsoft is doubling down on its commitments (AI, cloud, data, security). Will it persuade European customers? blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Plans are a dreadful thing. While necessary, they ultimately are a prediction about the future. The best plan is adaptability.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

‘Legal chaos’ as Romanian court rules against annulment of presidential vote

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

❗No day without drama in Romania! Supporters of former presidential candidate Georgescu have decided to submit around 130 petitions to lower courts asking for the annulment of the Supreme Court's decision regarding the cancellation of the November 2024 elections. 🧵

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

Upgrading dependencies is a use case where LLMs aren't the greatest.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments