Bastian Allgeier

I've been to the first @btconf@mastodon.social in 2011 and then to almost all following events in the last 15 years. It's no secret that it is my favourite conference and one of the most important drivers for my creative energy and career.

Conferences are expensive to visit and it's hard to tell how much effect they can have on you before visiting for the first time. But @btconf@mastodon.social is 100% worth it and such events are now more important than ever: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2026

Our merchant of record for @getkirby@mastodon.social Paddle had a fantastic support team for years. Then they switched to a chat bot that served as a firewall before you could still reach them. Then it got significantly harder each time to get through that firewall. The AI chat bot was absolutely horrible and zero useful. Now they've completely deactivated the chat bot and you can only reach them by email. It's incredible how much you can fuck up your professional support in a matter of months.

Sora lasted 0.5 Google Waves. Good riddance!

We use 32 million ha of land globally (ca. 1 Germany) to grow plants for biofuels. This equals 1.400 TWh per year, or 4% of our global energy consumption for transport.

If we'd use the same area for PV, we could produce 32.000 TWh per year, already considering the potential yield for the areas where we grow bio fuel plants.

For comparison: the entire world consumed 31.000 TWh of electricity in 2024.

I love such comparisons.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQBgNpooCEo

How good is https://walkman.land? 🥰 It's the most amazing trip down memory lane to find my old model from when I was a teenager: https://walkman.land/sony/wm-dd33 I can still feel the push of the buttons when I see the pictures and I hear the motor fast-forwarding, while sitting in the bus to school.

A lot of websites nowadays need to be measured by their First Contentful Pain

OMG, one of my closest friend groups moved entirely from WhatsApp to Signal. Hell just froze over and I like it.