🔏 Matthias Wiesmann
thias@mastodon.social
<p>Generic IT geek with too many interests: languages, aikidō, trains, DIY, fixing stuff and bikes. Based in Zürich. Parle français. Spricht Deutsch.</p>
Posts
-
View post
RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j4l7csuiwkigczfevuyz4p4g/post/3myr7bpuqws2s La main rouge sur l&#39;image était la symbole de protestation et de solidarité avec les victimes de l&#39;écroulement de la station de train à Novi Sad en 2024.
-
View post
One of the side effects of US centrism in application, and the idea of bundling preferences like units with the language, is that &#39;en-GB&#39; does not mean someone from the United Kingdom, but someone who wants English display and non imperial units… #i18n #English #uscentrism
-
View post
Marrant de voir cette lignée pour Firefly/Serenity… #firefly #serenity #Stagecoach #BouleDeSuif https://anniceris.blogspot.com/2026/10/firefly-boule-de-suif.html
-
View post
Reportage intéressant d&#39;Arte sur les trains tchèques, un très bon réseau régional qui fonctionne avec une vitesse maximale de 160 km/h. Après, je trouve surtout intéressant ce que le reportage ne mentionne pas. • Prague est bien desservie par les trains de nuit. • Le réseau de l&#39;ancien empire austro-hongrois est massif et ancré dans les mœurs. #arte #train #RepubliqueTcheque https://youtu.be/PtpazFNIIs4?si=MJiD2nLS_KtCFgG-
-
View post
European Gen-X https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/42795 #Europe #GenX #USA
-
View post
The city of Zürich has a live camera of falcons nesting on a high chimney, the young ones just hatched. #falcons #webcam #birdwatching #zurich https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/umwelt-und-energie/natur/tiere-in-der-stadt/falkenkamera.html
-
View post
It&#39;s interesting to see a US perspective on the Almería greenhouse city. I certainly did not expect someone from the US saying European farming is something worth emulating. I did not realise they use insects instead of pesticides, don&#39;t know if that&#39;s a systematic thing. #farming #Almería #greenhouse #pesticides https://youtu.be/nKudMpBGC-E?si=NKThRwnSgQmuZNvo
-
View post
People are way too obsessed by big things, when a wall is about to collapse, the small pebbles falling out and the cracks are important. I find it fascinating how this is not a big headline in the US… https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260404-french-central-bank-nets-%E2%82%AC13bn-from-us-gold-sale-consolidates-reserves-in-paris
-
View post
The year is 2026, and i18n is hard… #fedex
-
View post
Better code… https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/42623 #AI #coding #Demoscene #kkrieger #Optimisation #SoftwareEngineering
-
View post
Sur Facebook, article de journal «le Temps» sur les accidents cyclistes à Genève, je regarde les commentaires (grave erreur), la boue habituelle, «les cyclistes ne font pas attention» et «les cyclistes ont un agenda irréaliste». Clairement le prix de l&#39;essence n&#39;est pas encore assez élevé… #cyclisme #genève #letemps
-
View post
«Un rare fossile de jeune dinosaure découvert par des scientifiques suisses» Marrant, on y est passé ce week-end – au musée de la vallée de l&#39;Aa – pas au Wyoming. #dinosaure #wyoming #sauriermuseum #Aathal #zürich #Camasaurus https://www.rts.ch/info/sciences-tech/2026/article/un-rare-crane-de-jeune-dinosaure-decouvert-par-des-scientifiques-suisses-29198597.html
-
View post
“ The combined effect of foreign competition and the loss of their protective exchange rate would have decimated the Swiss watch industry even if it hadn&#39;t been for quartz movements. But quartz movements were the final blow. ” #switzerland #watchmaking https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
-
View post
For me the most interesting part of the article is the fact that the Atlantic openly and clearly compares the US to other nations… #uspol https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/