I have been quiet recently, but for a good reason: Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation on open collaboration during data engineering with open data 🎓🥳. Honestly, stressful times, but now there is only waiting for the German bureaucracy left 😌.

How do I disable the slow reveal animation on the Android lock screen after the recent Pixel update? Why would this be changed 🤦 .

Cheering for #mouz in the #EWC from their headquarters in Hamburg :) 🙌

How can I tell my bluesky that I don't speak German? I don't want my whole discover timeline to be German 😬.

ITU Copenhagen looks very nice from the inside :). Much better than the 70s style office buildings computer science gets in Germany 😬.

Very far up and very far away 👀.

test

Long day traveling to Hamburg today, tomorrow onward to Copenhagen for our annual work retreat. Hyped to see the city and ITU 😅.

live footage from my office, anxiously pressing F5 to find out if the reviews for my phd thesis are in

Is there a way to actually train the Bluesky discover algorithm in a useful way? I just spend 10 minutes clicking "show less like this" on posts and keep getting more of the same topic, often on the same stories or even exactly the same posts I've disliked. Genuinely baffled by how bad it is.

If you are a remote worker in Paris and up for a shared lunch next week, let me invite you. They say to do things that don't scale, so: I pay and in turn you're forced to alpha test my app by signing up here: kindred-space.com/lunch/qwpzu... #buildinpublic

Recently wanted to send a GDPR request and found www.datarequests.org again. Really great and snappy service to manage it :).

Any recommendations for a transactional mail provider using SMTP? Ideally, alternatives to e.g. AMZN SES that are focused and worth supporting, similar to Plausible or Buttondown? #buildinpublic

I've been really into LinkedIn games lately (Zip and Queens) and I am as embarrassed about me as you are. What happened to me.

Okay, stream is done, and we actually got work done as well. Went through all the screens of our app and noted what was confusing or didn't work (using excalidraw, very helpful!). If you want to be notified about future streams, follow along at www.twitch.tv/philipbuilds... :).

And we're life for some #buildinpublic test streaming, sadly only on Twitch because of course YouTube takes 24h to verify you 🤦 www.twitch.tv/philipbuilds...

Still happening today, an exciting time figuring out streaming and a roadmap for our social game rankmeifyoucan.com :)

I am lonely 😭. So I coded an app to find other remote workers for shared lunch breaks. If you are in Paris, maybe you want to eat with me this Thursday? 🥺👉👈 kindred-space.com/lunch/ha5ffl...

I will try to stream some indie making this Wednesday at 6pm CEST (React Native game playing, testing, binding bugs). If that floats your boat, you can follow www.twitch.tv/philipbuilds... or www.youtube.com/channel/UCZL... to be notified :). #buildinpublic

I played around a bit with claude code and text-to-speech, truly wild experience to talk "the computer"™️ through implementing a feature and getting really useful results back. On the other hand, tried my luck with spec-based development using agent-os and found it didn't work for me at all.

I have been a bit quiet because I am very busy, but we've also had the chance to travel ✨. Any guesses where we ate this food? 1 point for the country, 2 for the city and 3 for the actual restaurant :).

i am still alive

Our paper on managing technical complexity with microservices has been published at EMSE ✨. We interviewed experts about their experience and describe trade-offs + best practices (a good read for practitioners as well) www.heltweg.org/posts/balanc... #Programming #SoftwareEngineering #academicSky

@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com is there a way to only get emails about new free issues of the pragmatic engineer? I think it's great work, but currently not in a position to subscribe and unfortunate to get so many subscriber only mails.

For my thesis, the hardest page so far was the cover. Trying to learn about the requirements, the university branding, how to embed a LateX template... time well spent. Also, there is no pre-submission feedback, so I can enjoy the anxiety of not knowing if I did it correctly until the day itself ✨.

With registered reports, peer review is done for an experiment design, before data collection and analysis. I was theoretically aware this has an effect on publishing of null results, but interesting to see numbers: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... (via mas.to/deck/@lakens...) #academicchatter

Had a totally not weird date night yesterday, learning about quantum computing from Prof. Cirac, all the way from the Munich quantum valley 😅.

I love seeing websites like this, great design and fun to browse ✨.

Some more #buildinpublic work over the weekend on the game app and landing page, settled on the name "Rank me if you can" 😅. I hope it makes sense with the theme and the pun with catch me if you can makes it memorable ✨.

Played some more sessions of the game we're building for fun earlier this week, really fun to see it working and coming together :D. #buildinpublic

The energy I want in my life.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Positively surprised by Nextcloud's cookie notice, feels respectful and contains information why and how information is gathered. Weird that it stands out to me that much, but earned my consent for tracking my visit 😅.

Last week, in a show of true German culture, I unceremoniously got the diploma for my Master's degree in Data Science in the mail ✨. Exploring the data ecosystem and working with open data has been fun, but I've always felt a bit like an imposter without formal education. Now, a little bit less ;).

applying for jobs again

Had a good time yesterday driving through Paris with a fancy Restaurant bus (?). I was pretty skeptical, but it turned out it was a really nice setup and as always great views 🤩.

Making tiny dinosaur nuggets for dinner like the grown adult I am. 🦖🦖🦖

Slight differences in performance between Claude vs ChatGPT image generation for a airship floating into a solar punk inspired valley.

Scored 300 points in the first ever game of "Rank Right!" (which might be a working title 👀) after battling react-native, kubernetes and websocket ingresses. Hard battle, but we did it. ✨. #buildinpublic

I've been reading a nice article summarizing and adding to the writing on finding fulfillment from @asmartbear.com: longform.asmartbear.com/fulfillment/. Trying to work on being less externally driven and following more of a self-defined path... we'll find out how that goes 🧘.

It seems weirdly hard to find 2D #TTRPG tokens to create top down maps of taverns, houses, caverns... anything that have a license that allows commercial use. Is there some treasure trove out there I don't know about? I want to pay money once to have clearly licenses assets 😬. #dnd

I am sure it is not as exciting for anyone else, but as of right now I have a first completed draft of my dissertation 😱. I am sure there are many rounds of improvements in my future, but it is always easier to edit and rewrite than to stare at a blank page ✨.

Data engineering (and of course AI) is also a big-stage topic in infectious diseases research (from #ESCMIDGlobal) :).

Back from a stupid walk for my stupid mental health. Hard to stay sad in this place.

One more #zine page with public domain art. What a great resource for artistically challenged people like me 😅.

Spent some time on Sunday getting a Zine front page to look okay. Sadly I am no designer, but I like how it looks so far using typst and generously licensed art and fonts ☺️. I wonder if there is any ttrpg zine community out there: #zine #ttrpg #dnd #buildinpublic

ESL Play is finally closing its doors. I will miss my 20 year award by a few days, the first time I logged in was 2005-07-28 :(. It has been years since I've contributed, but I am proud of what we built and the team always kept a special place in my heart. Farewell, we tried our best.

Slowly played with react-native with a friend over the last few weeks, chipping away at building a small game. So far I am hating the react-native theming experience, but am impressed on what is possible on native. Also enjoy working with websockets again, I should do more of that 😅 #buildinpublic

We had a small walk today and it is incredible how our quarter has changes for the better. We now have a park with a green pedestrian only street, Cafés with wooden sidewalk extensions cover half the normal streets, there is a square with more tables and Café visitors on it... ☕🌳 :).

Today, I set up a VSCode plugin (github.com/ltex-plus/vs...) to fix my writing and... it feels somehow fitting that it uses the language server protocol to fix English, in the same way we use it to fix program code. Not sure why, but that tickles me 😅. #AcademicChatter