I cannot build frontend but I can build half decent backend. Since I have hired this guy, called Claude, building things is so much fun. I can focus on what I know and let him handle the UI. I need to write him a proper recommendation on LinkedIn. He has a bright career ahead❤️

"There are no shortcuts around quality and quality starts with people" Steve Jobs

Merry Christmas folks! I hope you will give your friends and family undivided attention instead of just checking from time to time if you agent finished implementation of next feature 😅

Found on the wall of Uber Arena in Berlin ❤️

AI just made programming fun again ❤️

I got bored by checking if my agent finished working and decided to implement some features myself... Like a damn savage!

We can now write code so fast that reviewing it becomes a bottleneck. Im looking forward to first company that will decide that AI based PR review is enough.

Writing code has never been this cheap

I just wrote: git stash poop How is your day going? 😂

Coffee with the view... Good morning!

This week I wrote an idempotent POST resource. Sue me!

So much of my liking a book depends on my schedule. I can read the most amazing book but if I got an important project I need to deliver there is no way I will like a book if I can read 1-2 chapters per week only.

Back in my days... Just joking, it's way before my days but it's pretty cool ❤️

Going for a run after sitting through the whole winter is such a pain 😰

I have enough of this winter... 🙄

All those companies that claim they will replace software engineers with AI are up for a nice surprise 😅

Just noticed @datadoghq is hiring Staff Engs in Germany. This is new, right? I havent seen engineering job offers from DD in Germany before 🤔

Have I mentioned that I will see @linkinpark this year? ❤️

My son infected me and my wife. Lovely end of a weekend.

I do not use Copilot or other Gen AI for writing code in my side projects if the purpose of them is learning. I will chat with ChatGPT but I need to write the code. Otherwise I do not feel like learning.

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I recently started to read some Go code which uses break instruction with labels to jump to a specific place in code. Thank god this is used mostly for getting outside of a loop but wow how unnatural for my brain this is.

Opening work Slack when on vacation is the worst decision ever 🙄

Oh boy... ❤️

New Pokemon Pocket expansion means more amazing art ❤️

This week, I decided to spice up my life... by going to the office twice! 🔥

Today I got defeated by Jira 🙄

Pokemon Pocket is a great simulation of what it means to collect real Pokemon cards. As of today there are 294 unique cards to collect plus around 30 promos and maybe 50 illustration rares. I have over 2100 cards and I'm still missing so many.

SRE topic I will have to talk with my teams for Monday: monitoring and alerting of crash looping K8 pods ⚠️

I'm excited for tomorrow as I have some really cool things to work on ❤️

What annoys me is that all the tutorials regarding implementing database of any sort on Github are either in Python or in Go.

What a beautiful Saturday to get paged for incident ❤️

Bing is indexing websites so much faster than Google

That feeling when you submitted last feedback ❤️

That moment when you implemented a perfect solution to a leetcode problem but you used maps instead of arrays and the checker rejects your solution as "too slow" 🫠

Friendly reminder 😅

I could be doing anything right now... ... but Im just sitting here writing sql lexer 😅 #MondayVibes

Today I attended a few meetings, wrote interview feedback and provided review cycle feedback for two of my colleagues. That's it. I really hope no one is measuring my performance by the number of lines of code 😅

Since the performance review season is here I would like to wish you all good luck! Fingers crossed for promotions and salary bumps! 🤞🏻

Over 10 years ago @peterthiel wrote this. When it comes to software engineering I believe this is still true.

A paradox in our industry: Every company wants to hire engineers who have infrastructure experience. Every company abstracts the infrastructure away from engineers so they can focus on a domain.

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Less talking more doing! Me 5 min later while reviewing a RFC doc: Oh no, please not like this. Can we talk about it? 😅

Wow, apparently the first thing is the logo! 😅

First thing to start a proper business is to buy a domain, right? 😅

German banks at their best For some time already I have access to instant payments. They work like a charm... during bank's working hours🤦🏻‍♂️

This year Im going to start a business.

There are over one trillion SQLite databases in active use

Will not name it but there are APIs that: - return 200 regardless of the request outcome - difference between success and failure is indicated by the presence of fields 'result' and 'error' respectively - inside 'result' there is a boolean field called 'success' 😅🫠

As a European I think we should pay close attention to what will be happening in US after the change in White House. There will be valuable lessons to learn—both from successes we can adapt and mistakes we can avoid.