Nicolas from All About Berlin has done so much to make living in this administrative nightmare bearable for people. It’s a very clear example of what kind of 10-100x improvements are there to be had.

Turns out I hadn’t noticed my hosting provider Vimexx has their MySQL databases on latin1 coding and this blog was running on that happily corrupting data.

It’s much healthier for Germany if digital issues have an answer that goes beyond “Let’s see what the CCC has to say!” The CCC is a shady organization which is good at taking things apart but does not have that much constructive to offer.