Jérôme Le Gal

Site Reliability Engineer👨🏼‍💻 | He/Him

[chan is on vacay ✌️ @chantastic]

fuck logitech

[MacLesggy @MacLesggy]

Excellente nouvelle : le sous-sol alsacien regorge d'un élément stratégique : le lithium.

✅ fluorine, tungstène, antimoine, cuivre, zinc, germanium… l'exploitation de nos ressources peut réduire notre dépendance à bien des ressources, si notre pays en a un jour la volonté.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇵🇹 If you have ever dealt with any Portuguese business (and I have with many in my 5 years here) you know why

Portuguese in Portugal simply do not care about work, some foreigners find that refreshing, but it results in a country where you can't find anyone to do work because nobody wants to work

And when they do work, the work is generally bad, like imagine stepping into a time machine back to 1970s bad, they also can't follow the spec you agreed upon beforehand, and then when it's 60% done they disappear and ghost you

When we did home renovatiom, you hire ppl, they arrive late at 9am (you agreed 8am), they then drive away to get materials, come back 11am, do actual work for an hour, then at 12noon announce they go for lunch, come back around 2.30pm, walk around a bit, do some work, and then leave early at 4pm

It's not just construction workers, it's almost every interaction you have here with a Portuguese business, the quality is just low, the service non-existent or customer-hostile, and it's not the language, I speak fluent Portuguese, I'm respectful and friendly which is why I never ever had this amount of issues elsewhere in the world

And I know it's not just my experience, it's everyone I know here, even Portuguese complain about Portuguese!

It's not completely their fault though, the hostile tax system for both people and businesses literally gives you an incentive to never ever scale your business beyond I believe around €150,000/year, because you end up in a completely different category and tax tier that decimates you with more taxes and more bookkeeping

So every business tries to stay small, and doesn't want more customers (how many times have I walked into a Portuguese cafe or shop and the staff or owner *sighed* "not another customer")

Add decades of socialist governments that hand out free money to 50% of the country (and even the right wing parties here are socialist btw, they have to be or they don't get votes) and you don't have any incentive to work left

Why work when you don't need to work?

The majority of the young smart Portuguese people with actual ambitions understandably move elsewhere, because if there's no incentive to grow a business, there's also no jobs for them, and the whole thing becomes a vicious cycle of increasing poverty

Which is why I said Portuguese in Portugal at the beginning of this tweet, because Portuguese outside of Portugal are ambitious, want to work, want to improve their lives!

Bringing in lots of foreigners like me by the government as a way to pump money into the system, we spend a lot and it pays for the welfare, healthcare and retirements of Portuguese now, but it's not a structural solution (and we also instantly became the scapegoat for the government's decades of mismanagement)

It'd be relatively easy to fix this though if people in Portugal would put on their thinking hat:

💡 Make Portugal a great place to start and run a business, model yourself after Singapore but with extremely low taxes (maybe 5-10%) for companies/startups and make it easy for them to hire (and fire) people, the money you lose in taxes you will get back in increased economic activity over time (but it will hurt for a little bit)

Because even the foreigners who move here and start businesses get caught up in the reverse incentive spiral of Portugal:

Why even work?

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

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[Le PLOUTOS @leploutos]

Cette nuit, le plus gros tracker torrent francophone a été détruit.

6,6 millions de comptes. ~10 millions d'euros de revenus en 2 ans. 54 776 cartes bancaires volées en clair.

Et le pire : c'est ce qu'on a trouvé DANS les serveurs qui enterre YGGtorrent. Pas la justice. Pas la police.

Un favicon.
Fil complet. 🧶

[Powlisher @powl_d]

https://t.co/eQXtiHxlVe

[Justin Schroeder @jpschroeder]

We're open sourcing dmux.

Our internal tool for running Codex and Claude Code swarms.

- tmux + worktrees + claude/codex/opencode
- hooks for worktree automation
- a/b claude vs codex
- manage worktrees
- multi-project per session
...more.

➡️ https://t.co/ImLyLY82pL

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I'm so done with real estate agents

What an absolutely useless profession in 2026

Nowadays when I go visit houses to buy you get the construction company guy tell you everything anyway, and they actually know their stuff

And then you have some literally low IQ shady car salesman guy hovering around you in the back with NO added information and NO added service

"Yes this house is great because it's north-facing"

And then for doing absolutely nothing zilch nada, they deserve 5% of the house price in commission???

And you can't visit the house direct because real estate agents cover each other asses so the selling agent will tell you to find a buyer agent to be able to visit it

A complete racket 100%

[Jason R. Williams, MD, DABR @jasonwilliamsmd]

People ask me all the time if we'll ever cure cancer. Studies like this are why I say yes.

Barbacid's triple combination eliminated pancreatic tumors completely and prevented resistance, in one of the deadliest cancers we face.

Add this to what we're seeing with immunotherapy, with intratumoral approaches, with combination protocols. The pieces are coming together. We are closer than ever.

[Powlisher @powl_d]

THREAD SHANGHAI 🇨🇳

On est aveugles sur la Chine.
On fantasme Tokyo/Seoul… et on parle de Shanghai comme si c’était “le tier monde + en retard”.Je reviens de Shanghai : c’est pas un voyage, c’est une claque.

⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Marc Lou @marclou]

Why I'm leaving Bali after 6 years:

- Far from everything
- Not cheap anymore
- Air is polluted
- Food chain is polluted
- Ocean is polluted
- Not walkable
- Too hot all year
- Wife gets catcalled often

I want mild weather, walkable areas, organic shops, clean air, tax-friendly, and young vibes.

It's a utopia, of course, but I'll choose the place that ticks the most boxes.

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Your startup doesn't need Kubernetes. You need 2 EC2 instances and a load balancer, but your CTO read a Netflix blog post and now you're debugging CrashLoopBackOff at 3 AM.

[Kritika kumari @kritikatwtss]

Someone just said it

[Guillaume Lample @ NeurIPS 2024 @GuillaumeLample]

Very happy to announce the release of our latest Mistral OCR, which significantly outperforms existing solutions!
A lot of effort was done to improve handwritten content, low quality scans, and complex tables & forms commonly found in enterprise documents.

[Zed @zeddotdev]

Dev containers are now in Zed Preview 🎉

Open a project with a `devcontainer.json` and Zed will offer to spin it up. This lands in Stable on 1/7/26. It's a V1, with more coming in 2026 🎆

Try it today: https://t.co/MWnLHI6VCy

[DHH @dhh]

Losing half a century's worth of nuclear progress and proliferation to Greenpeace hippie hysteria will haunt the west (and the world) for a long time to come.

[Powlisher @powl_d]

Je suis choqué des commentaires 🤯

Mais vous vivez manifestement dans un monde où :

le kebabier fait ses pains à 5h du matin
le pizzaiolo fabrique sa mozzarella
les steakhouses élèvent leurs vaches
Chez McDo quelqu’un épluche les patates à l’aube

Réalité : la majorité des restos se fournissent chez Métro ou d’autres grossistes. Nous aussi. Plats frais. Normes sanitaires. Coûts optimisés. On déporte la cuisine…

Vendre un produit + prendre une marge = scam ?

Mauvaise nouvelle : vous venez de découvrir le concept d’entreprise.

[Drizzle ORM @DrizzleORM]

how he looks at you when you sleep for 5ms every 50 chars

[Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner]

Why is pasting into VSCode Terminal slow? Because it sleeps for 5ms every 50 characters.

[Daniel Lockyer @DanielLockyer]

omg what