Richard Groß

@richargh.de

Software archeologist, web brutalist and health check expert. After 10 years in the business I'm about to become a teenage developer. I'm a conference speaker and enjoy mastering TDD, BDD, DDD, decoupled design and even practices that don't start with D.

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Apparently the future is that we all have LLM bots working on our behalf, to which I have two questions. The first one regards the messaging: Are you nuts?

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I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

Remember these? Well, we made them available online using some fun CSS transitions, and we made them available as free print-ready downloads too! Go play with them here: polypane.app/cheatsheets/

Cheatsheets | Polypane

A collection of handy sheets for web devs, covering CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, Anchor Positioning, and Invoker Commands.

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Polypane. For devs who care@polypane.app · 2mo ago

We’re still at @cssday.nl! If you haven’t swing by out booth yet, we have these cool cheat sheets on Flex Grid, Anchor positioning and invoker commands. Come grab some!

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Probably the best example of a rapid bottom-up energy transition: Pakistan imported more Chinese solar last year than any country on earth. No big subsidy, no rooftop scheme, no feed-in tariff. Solar is now around a quarter of electricity. More in my piece👇 www.thenewworld.co.uk/jan-rosenow-...

Pakistan’s solar miracle – how the hell did they do it?

Faced with constant electricity blackouts and a failing grid, people in Pakistan took matters into their own hands. The result is a lesson for the rest of the world, and also a warning

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Enthüllung: Wir werden von Echsen-Menschen regiert. Sie wollen den Planeten auf eine für sie angenehmes Temperatur aufheizen. Mich beruhigt das. Wäre reichlich traurig und merkwürdig, wenn wir von Menschen regiert würden die ihre eigene Lebensgrundlage zerstören.

Automation with LLMs is non-deterministic and jagged. Can that even be considered automation and is that useful? * Foto by Valentin Ivantsov at Pexels

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I am very happy with my remaining schedule 2026. Next week I can share some legacy insights. The week after it's all about Kotlin and Java duking it out via split-screen live-coding. After the summer break it's legacy code again. Then my new favorite topic, the S in Ai stands for security.

Shows the remaining conference schedule 2026 of Richard Gross. It starts with "Domain Rediscovery Patterns for Legacy Code" on July 1st, then "Kotlin kontra Java" on July 9th.