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# Latest Stories

- [Markdown Web - Yes, you read that right.](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/engine-update-markdown.md): 2026-10-16 - Dave Winer asked for a web of Markdown, Andrew Shell built a browser for it, and my engine now publishes an llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every page.
- [COSMIC on Linux Mint](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/cosmic-on-linux-mint.md): 2026-10-03 - I run System76's COSMIC desktop on Linux Mint because it tiles when I want it to and floats when I don't - here is what it is, why I like it, and how to install and keep it updated on a distro that doesn't ship it.
- [I Ducking Hate This!](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/i-ducking-hate-this.md): 2026-09-19 - My car, the e-scooter down the road, and my phone keyboard have all decided they know better than I do, and the swear filter is the part that finally got me writing.
- [Why DevRel teams reorg every single year](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/why-devrel-teams-reorg-every-single-year.md): 2026-09-19 - Eighteen years in developer relations and not one year without an org change. The themes repeat though, and once you can name the four models the swings run between, you can usually see the next one coming.
- [The glass ceiling of 1:many (and how communities break it)](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/the-glass-ceiling-of-1-many-and-how-communities-break-it.md): 2026-09-13 - Marketing scales close to infinitely. Relationships don't, and the arithmetic of why is what decides how many people your DevRel team actually needs.
- [Your community isn't built from events (you've got cause and effect backwards)](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/your-community-isnt-built-from-events.md): 2026-09-12 - Active communities run a lot of events, so people assume running events creates communities. That's cause and effect backwards, and it's why so many 'communities' dry up the moment the budget stops.
- [Three things made me cry in the last 24 hours](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/three-things-made-me-cry-in-the-last-24-hours.md): 2026-09-12 - An octopus, a crime novel's afterword, and a woman in Newfoundland with a box of letters - turns out it is always the kindness of strangers that takes me apart.
- ["Mittäterschaft"](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/mittaeterschaft.md): 2026-09-07 - Germany voted a confirmed far-right party into power. The explanations people reach for - protest votes, media manipulation, politicians who didn't listen - turn accomplices back into victims.
- [A firewall made of German](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/a-firewall-made-of-german.md): 2026-09-02 - AI-flavoured sameness makes me tune out before I have really read anything, so my personal posts now start as a draft written in German - a language my prompts never touch.
- [July/August reading](https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/july-august-reading.md): 2026-09-02 - Three books across July and August, all of them Canadian, two of them excellent, and one a bit all over the place.

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