Matze Schmidbauer

@schmidbauer.dev

svelte • accessibility • ai • former PM into IT since long • can't code, builds things slave to a dog • proud member of the xBerg Cargobike Ökoschlunzen Gang • feared by houseplants based in berlin • https://schmidbauer.dev • https://navigator.berlin

My open data side project made the newspaper today! Berlin's taz tested my cool-places map against the city's official one: ~40 spots around Gendarmenmarkt vs. 2. With 34°C coming tomorrow, that gap matters. hitze.navigator.berlin – stay cool and check on your neighbours. taz.de/Kuehle-Orte-...

Kühle Orte in Berlin: Zuflucht vor dem Hitzeschlag

Die offiziellen Karten, die kühle Orte in Berlin ausweisen, liefern dürftige Ergebnisse. Ein Berliner hat auf eigene Faust etwas Besseres programmiert.

taz.de

📊 LayerChart 2.0 is officially released! After ~16 months of development and 67 pre-releases, the official 2.0.0 release has been published! 🎉 This includes the Svelte 5 rewrite, CSS framework agnostic, improved API and state, numerous new components and chart types, and so much more!

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Actually I think the quality of content on LinkedIn will rise dramatically once it becomes the only site 14 year olds can access

There are two ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance of being on Twitter while also caring about all the awful shit happening because of Twitter 1. Leave Twitter 2. Stop caring Profoundly disappointing how many people I like seem to have chosen the latter

Very interesting read on Mistral. “One advantage that neither Open­AI nor Anthropic can replicate: What Mensch terms “community solidarity” with Macron and other European leaders. He knows Mistral’s fate is inexorably tied to Europe’s. “If we’re successful, Europe will be successful,” he says.”

How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American

Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn...

forbes.com

I tried switching from Arc to another browser today... and failed miserably once again. Why are they all such shit? Even though Arc has only been receiving maintenance updates for the past 13 months, it is still the king.