As opposed to English?

English has a pretty heavy thumb on the linguistic unification scales via American and British cultural export weight.

If India and Nigeria kindly did the needful and exported more English-language cultural content, the situation would be more similar to Spanish.

I used Racket a few times, which is designed to write new languages. Well worth a look: https://racket-lang.org/#easy-dsls

It's not options either (that would be ESOPs), but actually a kind of bonus structure. If there is an exit event, as specified in the VSOP agreement, you get a bonus that should be the same as what real options would have been worth. They are taxed as normal income, but you do not have to pay tax when you receive them. In the past you would have to pay tax on real options when receiving them even though they'd most likely never pay out.

I have never worked as a pure PM, but I have worked with several. I would say that the most important thing is to build trust with your team and to be ready to adapt to the existing process. From there on you can start introducing small changes towards a better working mode, but do not get caught up in process over outcome. Remember why you are there.

But summertime is a (at least here) a separate timezone, e.g., CET vs CEST

The point is that humans want a meeting's clock time to change when they travel to a new time zone, but not when their local time changes (either due to DST or a legal change).

Unless of course not everybody invited shares the same DST patterns, in which case it has to change for some of the participants (how do you choose which?).

Also, the relationship between the datetime the user chose and the UTC time you store can be retroactively changed by legislation.

Timezones change.

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl, a explorer/anthropologist. He and a group of other volunteers sailed across the pacific on a raft built using ancient methods to prove that the pacific isles were settled by south americans (this turned out to be wrong based on population genetics). Great read!

I kind of agree, but I would also argue that of those who treat coding as a craft many are in danger as well. Code in the end is just a tool. Deep understanding won't be replaced any time soon, but I have worked with software artisans who were really effective and ones that saw the code and system as an end in itself. If you're in the latter group I'd be worried.

Really cool, but as a foreigner in Germany it also saddens me that there is a need for so many apps and softwares to deal with bureaucracy.

Same here. The German government is painfully effective at digitalisation and it is becoming more painful every year. That being said, things are meaningfully moving since around 2 years in Berlin, even though the 2025 budget cuts digitalisation by around 25%.

I didn't do it last year, but the years before I used Racket and Common Lisp. I might try Common Lisp again since I really want to rediscover the experience of programming w/ Sly (a fork of SLIME).

I'm also considering trying to solve everything with Z3.

And here you're assuming that making software engineers more productive would be a service to the world. I think the jury is out on that one as well. At least for the majority of software engineering since 2010.