Jonas Echterhoff

DDR-Kult-Moped Simson unter Strom: Rasender Erfolg durch Internet-Hass Carlo Schmid wirbelt mit seinem Berliner Startup Second Ride die traditionsbewusste Simson-Fan-Gemeinde durcheinander: Aufgepeppte Original-DDR-Mopeds erzeugen Hass und Bewunderung.

Ich habe ein sehr cooles Berliner Startup kennengelernt: Second Ride elektrifiziert alte DDR-Simsons, legt sich damit selbstbewusst mit einer ziemlich rechten Szene in Ostdeutschland an.
Gerade weil sie massiv angefeindet werden, sind sie recht erfolgreich. Wie das alles zusammengeht - lest selbst.

It is a Winther Cargoo, but not that relevant in this case, because I had the electronic components replaced with a different setup at a local shop, so it was not the stock battery. Battery was made by Reention, apparently. (The stock parts came with their own problems, but that’s not the point)

Disassembled the batter on our electric cargo bike, because it started to randomly stop delivering power. Fun fact: The “fuse” in that battery only there to make it look “safe”. It’s not actually connected to anything 😦

boltprompt can now take the context of your current terminal session into account and answer questions about it:

(github.com/jechter/bolt...)

But an interesting takeaway for me is that using tmux it is possible to capture the output of previous commands for context (which I don't have yet, but seems useful - i currently only have command history and directory contents as context).

GitHub - jechter/boltprompt Contribute to jechter/boltprompt development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm trying to build something somewhat similar here: github.com/jechter/bolt...

Difference is that mine lets you generate commands to choose to run from AI requests (instead of just explaining how commands work). Both are useful things to do.

GitHub - jechter/boltprompt Contribute to jechter/boltprompt development by creating an account on GitHub.

I came up with github.com/jechter/bolt...
Anyone interested in giving it a try? Would love to hear if it works for anyone but myself, and if anyone else thinks that this might be useful.

GitHub - jechter/boltprompt Contribute to jechter/boltprompt development by creating an account on GitHub.

I was never quite happy with the state of auto-completion on the [Mac] command line - since I had some time to tinker, I figured I could try spending some time building something more in line of what I think the experience should be like.

Like I, for instance, use Strava a lot, have tenthousands of logged kms, hold some KOMs, etc. But I am not a subscriber, because non of the subscriber benefits are worth it to me. But I pay for veloviewer and komoot, which offer functionality like Strava subscription - just, IMO, better and cheaper.

My guess is that they are losing money, as people don't subscribe enough, so they are trying to force people to use their paid built-in tools (rather than - often better or free - third-party tools), but in doing so, making the experience worse for everyone. Ie "enshittification".

The main value Strava provides (which others cannot simply replicate, because of user base) is the social networking aspect: bring clubs together, see other's rides, compete on segments. But they cannot monetize that without destroying its value (because the value depends on how many people use it).

The recent change to no longer allow links is similar - club rides would use it to link to routes on other apps like komoot, and this change makes it harder (to get people to use stravas route planning), but it is making the experience worse for everyone (including paying customers).

It appears to me that Strava is struggling to provide convincing value to get users to switch to the paid version, as most of the paid features (like detailed ride analysis or route planning) can be handled by third-party apps, which are often better at it.