Die Telekom schafft künstliche Engpässe an den Zugängen zum Telekom-Netz. Finanzstarke Dienste, die die Telekom bezahlen, kommen schnell durch und funktionieren super. Dienste, die sich das nicht leisten können, werden ausgebremst und laden oft langsam oder gar nicht.

End-of-life (EOL) and support information is often hard to track, or very badly presented. endoflife.date documents EOL dates and support lifecycles for various products.

endoflife.date aggregates data from various sources and presents it in an understandable and succinct manner. It also makes the data available using an easily accessible API and has iCalendar support.

Die Werbeaktion direkt auf den Geräten der Mobilfunknutzer kommt aber offenbar nicht gut an. „Hallo, diese Smartphone-Anzeige ‚Im besten Netz‘ statt ‚Telekom‘ hat mich heute früh extrem verunsichert, dachte an einen Hackerangriff, der alle Daten abgegriffen hat und dann diesen Hinweis hinterlassen hat,“ schreibt ein verwunderter Telekom-Kunde unter der Ankündigung zur Änderung der Netzkennung der Telekom.

Most of what apps do is wait. Fetch data from a server - wait for the response. Read a file from disk - wait for the bytes. Query a database - wait for the results.

Before Swift's concurrency system, you'd express this waiting with callbacks, delegates, or Combine. They work, but nested callbacks get hard to follow, and Combine has a steep learning curve.

async/await gives Swift a new way to handle waiting. Instead of callbacks, you write code that looks sequential - it pauses, waits, and resumes. Under the hood, Swift's runtime manages these pauses efficiently. But making your app actually stay responsive while waiting depends on where code runs, which we'll cover later.

I sometimes read commentary about large software companies and notice a recurring pattern. People correctly identify real characteristics of large organizations, criticize them, but show little appreciation for why those characteristics exist in the first place.

i was at bombay airport. some dude was watching reels on full volume and laughing loudly. asking nicely doesn't work anymore. me being me, didn't have the courage to speak up.

so i built a tiny app that plays back the same audio it hears, delayed by ~2 seconds. asked claude, it spat out a working version in one prompt. surprisingly WORKS.

Just the Browser helps you remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. The goal is to give you "just the browser" and nothing else, using hidden settings in web browsers intended for companies and other organizations.

This is a comparison of popular Android "ROMs" (better term: AOSP distributions or Android-based OS).