2023-11-18: Unser Bad Renovierungsprojekt dauert länger als gedacht. Immerhin sind wir heute voran gekommen. Die …
2023-11-05: Port Askaig im Whisky Sour 🥃 😍
2023-11-03: Bin den halben Weg zur Arbeit gelaufen. Der Herbst ist da.
2023-11-02: On my way to the barbershop yesterday. I liked how there’s such a clear vantage point.
2023-10-31: Guter Artikel! Debatte über Migration: Warmes Herz, kühler Kopf - taz.de Wir müssen uns ehrlich …
2023-10-30: I was 94% accurate! ✅⬜️⬜️✅✅✅✅✅ Can you do better? www.brilliant.org/challenge… Great game!
2023-10-30: We did a little walk through central Berlin on the weekend.
2023-10-30: My current desk setup. Went back to one monitor + laptop screen.
2023-10-28: Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚 I liked this a lot. …
2023-10-27: This is new (to me) in Apple Music. Animations!
2023-10-21: Das war der Beginn…
2023-10-21: So sehen vier Stunden Arbeit aus. Gut voran gekommen, aber noch viel zu tun.
2023-10-21: Eben waren wir im Baumarkt und haben die Fliesen abgeholt. Außerdem Fliesenkleber und anderen Kram. …
2023-10-20: Dev note for catalog 2023-10-20 What I was able to achieve Today I continued work on the catalog. I streamed for about 90 minutes to …
2023-10-20: Starting my stream now. Be gentle I am a beginner with streaming twitch.tv/holgerfro…
2023-10-19: Really happy that I’ve discovered Lofi Girl for background music. Their streams really hit my …
2023-10-18: I went to YouTube with the goal of finding and watching a video for a specific topic/question. Then …
2023-10-17: Developing React Native apps really is a major PITA.
2023-10-17: I use Macs since ~2008. I work as a professional programmer since ~2011. Since then I wasn’t …
2023-10-16: I hate computers. Maybe I should become a baker.
2023-10-16: And now cache.ruby-lang.org is down for me. But only me it seems. I just want to go back to bed. …
2023-10-16: I really hate what they did to MacOS. Everything is so confusing now, you have a bazillion system …
2023-10-13: I switched from using Docker Desktop to Colima. Won’t look back. Really happy with …
2023-10-13: It took a few days (no idea why!) but now I can use ChatGPT-4’s browsing feature. This changes …
2023-10-13: Yesterday I tried my hand at something new: Streaming on Twitch. You see I started developing …
2023-10-12: Safari profiles. A nice start but not done well enough I tried to use Safari for a week now. The new PROFILES feature lured me in. Unfortunately it is …
2023-10-12: Reviving and working on an oldish MacBookPro with Touchbar. The fan noise is really loud. Almost …
2023-10-11: Love Marc Martel‘s shirt tonight
2023-10-09: Currently reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚 Habe ich mir …
2023-10-06: Currently reading: Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb 📚 Lese dann lieber den zweiten Teil weiter. Der …
2023-10-06: Gestern angefangen zu lesen: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson 📚 heute aufgehört. Hat mich …
2023-10-06: Ich habe meine Website umgezogen, komplett vom iPad aus Bisher ist meine Unternehmens-Website mit fly.io auf AWS gehostet. Das ist nicht grün und nicht gut. …
2023-10-06: Hey @vincent on iPhone 13 mini if I create a new post with the latest version of the micro.blocg app …
2023-10-06: Visuelle Markierungen im ebook Reader Als ich gerade diese Stelle markiert habe, fiel mir auf, dass die Trennungsstriche, (wie heißt das …
2023-10-05: Closing Keynote heute von @claresudbery@mastodon.social mit Katzen!🐈 Super.
2023-10-05: Teenager Wlan Seit ein paar Wochen spinnt unser Wlan daheim. Vielleicht zählen Wlan-Jahre doppelt oder so. Wir …
2023-10-05: Heute auf der Konferenz Agile meets Architecture in Berlin.
2023-10-04: Monotype hat Fontshop nun fast komplett kaputt gemacht. So traurig das Ganze.
2023-10-04: Currently reading: This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See by Seth Godin 📚
2023-10-04: Finished reading: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb 📚
2023-10-03: Feiertagsnachmittagsbeschäftigung mit der ganzen Familie. Habe mit der kleinen Tochter angefangen. …
2023-09-27: Ich habe die Bestellung meines iPhone 15 Pro storniert. Clickbait 😂 Tatsächlich war mir beim …
2023-09-26: MacOS Sonoma macht das Nutzen von AirPods wirklich deutlich besser. Das Pairing klappt schneller und …
2023-09-21: Wann ich das letzte Mal etwas zu ersten Mal gemacht habe? Heute! Und morgen. Ich bin heute mit dem …
2023-09-21: Heute unterwegs!
2023-09-20: Worin der Vorteil von Micro.blog (o. eigenen Mastodon Instanz) liegt? Wollte gestern …
2023-09-19: Wisst ihr noch? Früher, als @Buddenbohm@fnordon.de noch Rezepte bloggte? Jetzt kocht er nur noch. 🫣 …
2023-09-13: Heute hab ich weiter Spaß mit der Implementierung eines OAuth Flows für eine mobile Applikation. In …
2023-09-11: Wir haben am Wochenende unsere Garage ausgemüllt, aufgeräumt und neu sortiert. Deutschland wurde …
2023-09-06: Bei der Physiotherapie gibt es WLan in Flaschen.
2023-08-25: Mein aktueller Status? Ich habe mir eben einen Kalendereintrag für heute Nachmittag gemacht, mit …
2023-08-23: Der Morgen startete ohne die Kinder, da sie beim Opa sind. Dadurch konnte ich eine Stunde auf dem …
2023-08-18: Mein Git ist gerade unschön langsam. Commits, Rebases etc dauern viel länger, als sie sollten. …
2023-08-18: Jetzt gleich fertig mit diesem Arbeitstag. Vorhin 2h Pause zum Abendessen gehabt, danach noch mal …
2023-08-18: Moin. Heute arbeitarbeitarbeit. Hoffe, die Last geht bald zurück!
2023-08-17: Habe mich gerade in Twitter eingeloggt, um sämtliche Connected Apps und Dinge zu deaktivieren. Das …
2023-08-17: Blödsinn, TikTok und mein Schlaf Berlin, 17. August Kennt ihr das, wenn ihr irgendwo etwas lest/seht und euch das die nächsten Tage …
2023-08-13: Heute Geburtstagsfeier! So groß schon.
2023-08-11: Ich kann ein Abo bei Apple nicht löschen. Wirklich großartig. Es wurde mir nicht angezeigt als …
2023-08-11: Jetzt wartet die Arbeit wieder auf mich. Das wird heute ein langer Freitag, mit viel zu tun. …
2023-08-11: Ältere Damen im Wartezimmer Heute erneuter Kontrolltermin im Krankenhaus für die Schulter, inkl. Röntgen. Die Frau an der …
2023-08-09: Seit Ewigkeiten heute mal wieder allein ins Kino. Muss mindestens 13 Jahre her sein. Mal sehen, wie …
2023-08-07: Warten auf die Physiotherapie.
2023-08-03: Gestern wieder etwas Radtraining und heute das erste Mal Fitness seit dem Unfall/der OP. Tut gut …
2023-07-29: Currently reading: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb 📚 Gerade angefangen. Bin gespannt.
2023-07-29: Finished reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚 Ein ruhiges Buch, bewegend und …
2023-07-20: Currently reading: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 📚
2023-07-20: Finished reading: Recursion: A Novel by Blake Crouch 📚 Habe lange nicht mehr ein so fesselndes Buch …
2023-07-14: Currently reading: Recursion: A Novel by Blake Crouch 📚
2023-07-14: Finished reading: Dust (Silo Trilogy) by Hugh Howey 📚 What an amzing series this has been. …
2023-06-22: Currently reading: Dust (Silo Trilogy) by Hugh Howey 📚
2023-06-22: Finished reading: Shift (Silo Trilogy) by Hugh Howey 📚
2023-06-14: Finished reading: Tennis - Das innere Spiel by W. Timothy Gallwey 📚 Habe jetzt nach 2 Dritteln das …
2023-06-07: Finished reading: Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir 📚 Inspiring, sometimes slightly …
2023-05-01: Ausklang
2023-04-19: Am Wochenende waren wir bei Radhaus und haben neue Räder für die große Tochter Probe gefahren. Ich …
2023-04-18: In seiner Übersicht über andere Blogs schreibt @Buddenbohm@mastodon.social, dass er auf TikTok viel …
2023-03-22: Why I opened a pull request to Rails (again) It’s been a few years but I finally opened a PR to Rails again. github.com/rails/rai… …
2023-03-16: moin
2023-03-11: StarTrek Picard season 3 is the finest StarTrek I’ve seen in 30 years. So back to the essence. I …
2023-03-11: StarTrel Picard season 3 is the finest StarTrek I’ve seen in 30 years. So back to the essence. I …
2023-03-03: The meaning of life is to live it, as wholly as we can, as abundantly as we can, as bravely as we …
2023-03-01: Ich nehme an der GitHub Feature Preview „New Code Search and Code View“ teil. Das verbessert das …
2023-03-01: Day 1: Secure
2023-02-28: Testing Micro.blog Bookmarking Feature blog.numericcitizen.me Read: blog.numericcitizen.me Numeric …
2023-02-28: Tagebuchblogggen 28.2.2023 Arbeit Beim Kunden bin ich heute endlich wieder gut voran gekommen. Die letzten Sprints haben sich …
2023-02-28: Habe heute mal ein bissel mit SketchyBar herumgespielt. Herrliches Tool. Jetzt fehlt nur noch die …
2023-02-16: Currently reading: Tennis - Das innere Spiel by W. Timothy Gallwey 📚
2023-02-16: Finished reading: Weniger Steuern & mehr Vermögen by Alexander Keck 📚
2023-02-10: Regarding the new Walden… there is a flash sale until 1 pm tomorrow, February 11 (EST). It’s $25 …
2023-02-10: Wenn ich Termineinladungen wahrnehme, dann mittlerweile nur noch mit einem Kommentar: „Voll gerne!“ …
2023-02-10: Just found this @Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social and thought it was funny
2023-02-09: moin
2023-02-03: Moin!
2023-01-31: I don’t like all-dark websites. My eyes cannot read well in the dark and I struggle to adjust …
2023-01-27: Wisdom from Sandi Metz „The verse method is getting simpler, but it still has more than one responsibility. This problem is …
2023-01-26: I just used this project to migrate my DayOne entries (over 3000) into Obsidian. Some small issues …
2023-01-24: I’m done with closed services by @rknightuk is spot on! I really like this shift as of lately …
2023-01-24: Want to know what my day is like? I am snoozing Slack to find enough headspace to think and am glad …
2023-01-20: Tschüss Hamburg
2023-01-20: I will try to use Readwise and their Reader app for my RSS reading for a few days. Ususally I use …
2023-01-20: My post about an article by @tomcritchlow appear weired on micro.blog but fine on my own website
2023-01-20: Anyway. There’s no real point here. But isn’t the web amazing? …
2023-01-20: idea for a low-fi solution to subscribe to keywords on the fediverse So today I read this interesting conversation by @rknightuk. The topic isn’t “finished” and he …
2023-01-20: Honest question: Am I paranoid or too worried? People leave their stuff all alone on their desk in …
2023-01-20: So, heute arbeite ich beim Kunden in Hamburg. Immer wieder schön, diese Stadt.
2023-01-17: Ich habe heute dieses Video gefunden Happiness by Steve Cutts und das passt ganz wunderbar zum …
2023-01-16: Moin. Der Tag und die Woche begann mit mehreren hysterischen Wutausbrüchen der jüngeren Tochter. Fun …
2023-01-14: Training ✅
2023-01-13: Tonight we’ll have freshly made pitas with homemade fresh Tzaziki 😋😋😋
2023-01-13: Utility tool to help migration from Gatsby to Micro.blog I wrote a little tool yesterday to help me normalize my markdown files from the Gatsby site to be …
2023-01-12: After four days of drinking regular coffee the new espresso beans finally arrived. I’m surprised to …
2023-01-12: Finally made the migration I finally made the migration to micro.blog with my personal site https://holgerfrohloff.de All the …
2023-01-12: Dear @heymichellemac@pkm.social is there an RSS feed for your website/articles? I couldn’t …
2023-01-12: Oh I am beyond happy! My copy of The new Walden by Steelbrothers just arrived. Let’s put this on my …
2023-01-12: Moin. Erste Meeting des Tages ist fertig. Jetzt Fokuszeit!
2023-01-10: Back to using Firefox as a default browser! My brief stint with Arc is over. I liked it for the …
2023-01-09: Last week on Hacker Newsletter I found this article about a better way to use your function keys on …
2023-01-09: Since around three weeks I transfer one todo to each next day. Somehow don’t take the time to …
2023-01-09: Moin. Staying home with the little one today as she is sick once again. 😷🤒 Trying to get some client …
2023-01-06: An advanced phishing scam for Apple IDs Warning: Advanced phishing attack. Got a pop up on both my …
2023-01-06: Moin. (Das Bild ist aus Dänemark vom 29.12.22)
2023-01-06: Finished reading: GmbH gründen by Alexander Keck 📚
2023-01-05: Tiny “game”: Who can tell me what that is?
2023-01-05: Moin
2023-01-04: I just found an empty note in Obsidian with the title “Haruki Murakami and Ursula …
2023-01-04: I have a list of 30+ book recommendations saved from people whose opinions I value. What I have not …
2023-01-04: The one who opens espresso beans like this is a bad person.
2023-01-04: Mach dem Radtraining ist vor der Prophylaxe! Moin vom Zahnarzt
2023-01-04: Guten Morgen. Jetzt gleich wieder auf das Rad, trainieren!
2023-01-03: Started reading yesterday: Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir 📚 I am on page 44 right now, …
2022-12-22: Finished reading: The Art of Gig 1: Foundations by Venkatesh Rao 📚 I liked the book and learned …
2022-12-17: So I managed to buy a ticket for RadRace Tour de Friends 7 in Italy in September. I already rode it …
2022-12-16: Last night I had a dream where I was searching for a song. I heard the melody in my head and tried …
2022-12-12: I started December thinking I would find the time to do the Advent of Code challenges but no. It …
2022-12-12: If your work isn’t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, don’t …
2022-12-11: Heute Rückfahrt. 🗺 Als ich am Bahnhof ankam fuhr direkt ein Zug ein, den ich nehmen konnte. …
2022-12-10: Schreibpause
2022-12-10: Kurze Unterbrechung des Schreibens.
2022-12-10: Schreiben mit Blick auf das Wasser. Dazu eine entspannte Jazz Playlist im Hintergrund. Danke fürs …
2022-12-09: Rückblickend Ich schrieb ja, dass ich Bahn fuhr. Ich war unterwegs nach Werder (Havel) zu einem kleinen Hotel. …
2022-12-09: www.buddenbohm-und-soehne.de Was schön war […] Aber jetzt gerade, jetzt ist es still. Die Kinder …
2022-12-09: Wenn ich mal Bahn fahre… Bin mit der Bahn unterwegs statt dem Auto. Will gar nicht weit fahren, nur ein bissel Regio. Aber …
2022-12-09: My wonderful wife just brought me a bowl of delicious oatmeal. Thank you! Heaven. 👻🫶
2022-12-09: With all the updates to Micro.blog that @manton pushes out (what a pace!) I am considering shutting …
2022-11-30: I am slowly getting into a xmas mood. 🎄 Looking forward to ending this year and starting over. 😁
2022-11-30: Got two tickets for Metallica in Hamburg next year. Thanks to being a legacy-status member for many …
2022-11-29: I have a little bug report for the MB client app on macOS for @manton
2022-11-29: poklegame.com Worlde for Poker 😍
2022-11-29: This is your reminder that this performance will make you feel better regardless of how you feel …
2022-11-29: Thanks to the detailed instructions provided by @manton and @jean I just enabled my custom domain …
2022-11-14: What’s the matter? My mad magnetic matte PenMat materialized, mate! Thanks @pentips!
2022-11-07: und immer, wenn der Mond scheint, dann ist Showtime, dann ist Showtime. 🦉
2022-11-02: It was a feast
2022-11-01: Für #mbnov müsste ich jetzt englische Beiträge schreiben. Heute am 1.11. wäre das Wort figure dran. …
2022-10-31: Viele Halloween Kostüme in der Upper West Side heute. Großartiges Spektakel
2022-10-30: So sah es heute aus. Von Liberty Island 🗽
2022-10-27: Ein Foto vom gestrigen Tag
2022-10-27: Ich bemerke wie relativ gleichgültig ich werde, wenn es um neue updates der Apfelfirma geht. Neu und …
2022-10-22: Wenn dein Wasserhahn eine Anleitung benötigt, läuft was verkehrt.
2022-10-19: Soul food für den heutigen Tag 😋
2022-10-19: Heute morgen auf dem Weg ins Büro kurz angehalten und ein paar Fitnessübungen gemacht. Ich liebe …
2022-10-17: Milchreis
2022-10-15: Heute: Hecke schneiden
2022-10-14: Posted on Friday, 14th at 4:13pm in Berlin A day in the Life
2022-10-07: Mehr Herbst
2022-10-07: Tri Tra Tralala der Herbst ist da.
2022-10-06: I am really torn between sticking with the existing, working GatsbyJS site and continuing to write …
2022-10-05: Heute mal ein neues Büro probearbeiten mit Sicht auf den Amazon Tower
2022-10-05: Maintaining custom software Jeena writes about the challenge to maintain a custom blog software. I've neglected my rails …
2022-10-04: Was möchte mir der Autor damit sagen? Ich verstehe es wirklich nicht.
2022-09-27: Christian Heilmann @codepo8 giving a talk in front of 🚢 in Hamburg at web-developer-conference 🥳
2022-09-26: Ich lasse seit drei Tagen einen Snowflake Proxy in Docker auf meinem Rechner laufen. Bisher bewirkt …
2022-09-23: Nachher gibt es endlich mal wieder Baked Oats zum Mittag. 😋😋😋
2022-09-23: Den Morgen mit Radeln in der Garage beginnen. Eine Stunde Grundlage 😍😅
2022-06-27: I left my iPhone out in the sun yesterday. Once I realised and took it away, it said that it …
2022-06-10: This morning I was able to gather quite a few strawberries 🍓 from our garden. 😍
2022-06-09: Really made my day. What a wonderful comment.
2022-06-02: It was supposed to be plural. Rails apps. 😉
2022-06-02: I am migrating my Rails app from Azure App Services to fly.io It isn’t perfect, yet. But it is …
2022-06-02: Just discovered a bug in the newest releaes of the Microblog for Mac app @manton (let’s see if …
2022-06-02: I just played WWDC Bingo and you can too! 😉 docs.google.com/spreadshe…
2022-05-25: Sitting in bed not able to sleep. 😣
2022-05-23: MacOs 12 makes it harder to know the selected keyboard layout MacOS 12.4 changes the display of the selected keyboard layout. Before 12.4 it used to be a …
2022-05-16: I am very impressed by the exhaustiveness and attention to detail put into the guide for Rails’ …
2022-05-13: During the day I usually switch between 1-2 client projects. For that I need different tabs in …
2022-05-13: And this is how it looks:
2022-05-13: I just found the setting how to use TailwindCSS css classes autocompletion in html.erb files. Now I …
2022-05-12: I appreciate the Dracula theme (https://draculatheme.com/). But… is there something like a Whiteula …
2022-05-12: Thoughts about measuring input vs output and displaying measurements in dashboards by …
2022-05-11: Do I know any React freelancer who would like to take over a small project from me? I’m doing …
2022-05-10: Netlify let’s you play a little game of matching Emojis while you wait for your deploy to …
2022-05-10: 😭🤬 bad code is bad 😩
2022-05-09: I really like this game. Had a rough start and didn’t get it at first. Then tried it again sitting …
2022-05-09: This morning I quickly set up an installation of FreshRSS to manage my RSS subscriptions. It syncs …
2022-05-04: I’ve listened to the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album for a few times now. It feels good to her …
2022-05-04: Riding on Zwift (aka commuting to the wfh office) and reading @manton’s book (at book.micro.blog) on …
2022-05-03: Staubsaugerroboter sind gar keine Roboter, sondern Saugetiere.
2022-05-03: I just signed the web0 manifesto and you can too! web0.small-web.org
2022-05-03: I brought an external display to my new desk in setting.io’s office. I really dig the change of …
2022-04-28: My micro.blog timeline is pretty empty during the day as I mostly follow people from US timezones.
2022-04-28: I just spent more than 60 minutes reading up on Arel and trying a bunch of different things just to …
2022-04-28: Spatial audio with AirPods Pro when listening to music on my laptop is really confusing sometimes. …
2021-11-01: GitHub Codespaces port errors GitHub codespaces is a great feature by GitHub that let’s me work on an iPad way easier than …
2020-09-24: Something new Changes! I joined my last client, Edeka, in April 2020. Since then I am not freelancing anymore. My …
2019-11-18: Onboarding new team members Tomorrow I will help a new team member onboard at my client. I am the acting tech-lead for the …
2019-11-15: Opportunity cost Today I heard a recent episode of the Akimbo podcast by Seth Godin. The topic was opportunity cost. …
2019-11-15: Why ist software so bad? A couple of days ago I talked about the Akimbo podcast by Seth Godin. It was an eposide about …
2019-08-16: Time to say goodbye to Drip This will be the last email that you’ll get from me sent by Drip. My account will be …
2019-08-09: When is the right time to break something? Please excuse this sensational headline. I am referring to classes in your software and to their …
2019-08-02: Speaking into a microphone Work On Tuesday I did something new for the first time. And I feel like I failed miserably. I hosted …
2019-07-24: Jouraling I am writing again. Mostly for myself. As a journal. In the future I’ll try things a bit …
2019-05-21: Well this is confusing. I am a web developer and still have trouble getting this sorted. I want to: …
2019-05-20: I just read Paul Jarvis‘ latest email mailchi.mp/pjrvs/own… Now I am (again) motivated to …
2019-05-18: On my way to Leipzig by train. Once I get there I will head back to Berlin. On my bike. I heard …
2019-05-15: Using css modules the right way, I got it to work. 🎉 In the end I had some naming clashes where I …
2019-05-15: I am working on my first React component library for my current client. Doing lots of things for the …
2019-05-14: This morning I took some detours on my way to my client by bike. I rode through some parks, chose …
2019-04-12: From my friend Ian, I learned the value of putting a clear; in front of your test runs in the …
2019-03-21: Inspecting changes locally before pushing If you work on your branch you run into the situation that you would like to push your changes to …
2019-03-19: Avdi Grimm's view on deleting tests A few weeks ago I wrote about deleting your tests. Yesterday I received the weekly email from Avdi …
2019-03-15: My submission to Euruko was rejected. ☹ That’s a pity, would have loved to visit Rotterdam. I …
2019-03-15: External forces I am occupied with learning these days. Learning on my own about visualizations of data among other …
2019-03-13: You probably know AC/DC. But have you heard of MC/DC? If you need to test a complex conditional, you …
2019-03-13: Today I am working on a new visualization of fragmentation of ownership for Git repositories. The …
2019-03-13: Complex conditionals The other day we dealt with code coverage and gnarly conditionals. I promised to offer a way to be …
2019-03-12: I am reading the new edition of Refactoring by Martin Fowler these days. I am preparing a new …
2019-03-12: I am now using Micro.blog for my microposts. I will crosspost my newsletters there. And whatever I …
2019-03-11: Code coverage can be misleading During the last week, I had two discussions about code coverage. Code coverage is the metric of how …
2019-03-07: Quick wins, part 4: YAGNI We refactored some code yesterday, to move knowledge about an implementation of a function back to …
2019-03-06: Quick wins, part 3: Keep it local Yesterday I closed with this idea: Spot places where knowledge about something does not belong. …
2019-03-05: Quick wins, part 2: Method names revisited Yesterday, we had the first part of this series on quick wins and simple steps to improve your code …
2019-03-04: Quick wins and simple steps for improving the quality of your code Good software needs good code. If you want to achieve a high quality in what you ship, you need to …
2019-03-01: Power Laws My work as a consultant offers me the opportunity to accompany a team for a certain amount of time. …
2019-02-28: Refactoring without a care Before I get to today’s topic, I would like to say thank you, to you. My little poem yesterday …
2019-02-27: A neverending story Back then; I did it; I liked it much; Found it a necessary touch; Never it challenged, I; then saw; …
2019-02-27: A neverending story Back then; I did it; I liked it much; Found it a necessary touch; Never it challenged, I; then saw; …
2019-02-26: Computer says no […] we do have formal rules that we should obey when writing code. A team has rules, and new team …
2019-02-25: Driving on the left side of the road We don’t have rules of the road for software development. You don’t have to stop at …
2019-02-22: Coding license Every country I know has an obligatory driving license before you are allowed to drive a car by …
2019-02-21: Software rewrites - Does it make sense? I came across a very interesting article written by Herb Caudill, on different perspectives on …
2019-02-20: Answering a comment about 'Delete all your tests' Matthias Berth is a German expert on software delivery and software quality. He politely disagreed …
2019-02-20: Answering a comment about 'Delete all your tests' Matthias Berth is a German expert on software delivery and software quality. He politely disagreed …
2019-02-19: Motivation, or: How to get your coworkers to write better code How can I get my coworkers to write better code? We closed with this question, yesterday. If you …
2019-02-18: Confidence, or: How to assess your coworkers Today I’d like to answer a question. As a (project or product) manager, how am I able to …
2019-02-15: 2018 State of Code Review Study 81% of respondents who were satisfied with their code review process were also satisfied with the …
2019-02-15: 2018 State of Code Review Study 81% of respondents who were satisfied with their code review process were also satisfied with the …
2019-02-14: List of programming principles List of programming principles This is a nice list of principles you could (or should?) follow in …
2019-02-13:
Delete all your tests!
Sorry for not writing yesterday. My schedule did not allow it. I refrained from posting anything …
2019-02-05:
Testing strategies - Test management
You don’t need test management. You develop web applications. Your job is not rocket science. …
2019-02-04:
Testing strategies - Back to start
On Friday I gave you a very quick intro on how you could increase your test coverage and confidence …
2019-02-01:
Testing strategies
In an earlier email I asked you on your opinions as to what you would like to read more about. A bit …
2018-12-12:
A story about a feature gone bad
Chad clicked the button and created his pull request. He had worked on his feature really long — it …
2018-10-26: Only two rules There are only two hard rules when doing code review with your coworkers: Keep it professional. …
2018-10-22:
Indentation as a Complexity Metric
If you want to measure the complexity of your software, there is a lot of software, tools and …
2018-10-19:
Show your work
I wanted to add something to the topic from two days ago: Quality in the eyes of your users. There …
2018-10-18:
Interfaces
In computing, an interface is a shared boundary across which two or more separate components of a …
2018-10-17:
Quality in the eyes of your users
I bet that most people reading this won’t have UAT or QA. So what could you do to still achieve …
2018-10-16:
Two views on quality
During the last months I wrote a lot about quality and how to develop high-quality software. These …
2018-10-11:
Fundamentals
I am an expert in writing and working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. But today I was in a fortunate …
2018-10-10:
Taking note
Today I want to share a small little idea with you. An idea that can have grave consequences if …
2018-10-09:
Evolve
Since I strongly believe that you can only achieve high-quality work if you trust your teammates, I …
2018-10-08:
Frustration
Over the weekend I had (kind of) a conversation with a good friend. The topic revolved around doing …
2018-10-05:
How to train for a marathon
If you want to run a marathon, you have to train for it. Very few people can do that without …
2018-10-04:
Measure it
I believe in improving the quality of your software projects. If you want to improve something, you …
2018-10-01:
Code quality & security audit
I spent the day at a new client’s office. They hired my to do a complete code quality and …
2018-09-28:
One metric
From the feedback I got for my questions and letters regarding the quality of software projects, I …
2018-09-27:
Let the computer help you with that comment
Commenting code and documenting it has been a topic in these letters already. I linked to resources …
2018-09-26:
Time well spent
Yesterday I went to an exciting event. The topic was “Can Artificial Intelligence synthesize …
2018-09-25:
Don't build a five-star hotel
When you want to go on vacation, somewhere far away, where you haven’t been… How do you …
2018-09-24:
Risk list
Imagine you are doing a software project. It is mostly going like planned. Things happen. You …
2018-09-21:
Cyclomatic complexity
To achieve high quality in your team’s code, you should use tools like a static analyzer. …
2018-09-20:
How to paint a fence
If you paint a fence, you need to make sure to prepare the wood. Take coarse-grained sandpaper and …
2018-09-19:
Planning for technical debt
Do you know the term technical debt? Wikipedia describes it as “a concept in software …
2018-09-18:
Standing in for quality
If you read these letters for a few issues, you might have already noticed that I like quality in …
2018-09-17:
All your data are belong to us
The latest Chrome beta (version 70) introduces changes to the Shape Detection API and the Web …
2018-09-17:
All your data are belong to us
The latest Chrome beta (version 70) introduces changes to the Shape Detection API and the Web …
2018-09-14:
Again, why are we doing this?
Imagine you have a team member that always criticises your work. You make commit after commit and …
2018-09-14:
Again, why are we doing this?
Imagine you have a team member that always criticises your work. You make commit after commit and …
2018-09-13:
Art
The other week I went on vacation with my family. We flew to Switzerland and had a really great …
2018-09-12:
Where's your GPS
Imagine you are about to go on a trip. Perhaps with your partner or some friends. You want to take …
2018-09-11:
The four types of documentation
You probably already noticed from the title of this letter, the topic of documentation is still …
2018-09-10:
Stardom (continued)
I received great replies to my letter last week. I want to quote two for you today. First is Jacob …
2018-09-07:
Stardom
Do we have software development stars? I was wondering. We have people like David Heinemeier-Hanson …
2018-09-05:
Code Quality through high-quality docs
Hi friend. I am going to drum the quality drum again. This is a big topic and I know for a fact that …
2018-09-04:
Teamwork
Hi friend. You might remember that I told you about my “type”, the INTJ (Architect). …
2018-09-03:
Processes for achieving quality
Hi friend. So I’ve been busy at my client’s today. I had to implement a sidebar …
2018-08-31:
Quality (continued)
Hi friend. My brother reads these emails as well, and responded with some interesting thoughts re: …
2018-08-30:
Quality
Hi friend. If you buy a piece of furniture, like a chair, you can compare it with all the other …
2018-08-29:
Trade-offs
When developing software you usually optimise for some aspect of the creation process. There are …
2018-08-28:
Lazygit
Today I want to share a small utility with you. I am a heavy user of Git, for years now. I am …
2018-08-27:
What am I doing?
My freelancing since January couldn’t go any better. I am happy, I am learning and I am …
2018-08-24:
Daylight saving time
Did you hear about the European Union polling its citizen about whether DST is really necessary? …
2018-08-23:
You get to decide
Yesterday I got my hair cut. The hairdresser was rather chatty and told me all sorts of things. When …
2018-08-22:
The Inner-Platform Effect
“The Inner Platform Effect is an anti-pattern that occurs when a software system is designed to be …
2018-08-21:
Why are our estimates off, always?
As I previously mentioned I freelance for a nice client right now. I am embedded into a great team …
2018-08-20:
Formatting dates
When was the last time you needed to display a formatted date somewhere in your applications? Since …
2018-08-17:
Reading Code
_ This is another email I am sending while being happily busy with our newborn._ Two days ago I …
2018-08-16:
Surprises when starting out as a software developer
_ This is another email I am sending while being happily busy with our newborn._ My first job was …
2018-08-15:
Big Nerd Ranch
This is another email I am sending while being happily busy with our newborn. Sometimes things …
2018-08-14:
Livable Code
First of all, sorry for not writing to you yesterday. I spent the day in the hospital with my wife. …
2018-08-10:
My automated publishing workflow
A week ago I mentioned my Automation project: Factory 0.1. During the last week I managed to get it …
2018-08-09:
Books I enjoyed reading
Since I love reading I thought I switch things up for today and share a small list of books I …
2018-08-08:
Maintenance and janitorial activities
You walk into a room. You haven’t been here before but you need to find something. Your friend …
2018-08-07:
Premature optimization
Yesterday I told you about our struggles with the new door bell. While, sadly, this state is still …
2018-08-06:
Spaghetti wirings no-one knew about
Over the course of the weekend we tried to install a new door bell for our house. The old system is …
2018-08-03:
Let's practice together
Where I sit writing this email, today is Friday. So tomorrow the weekend starts. Do you already have …
2018-08-02:
The bullshit web and our responsibility
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum …
2018-08-01:
When do you know enough?
“When did you reach the point where you didn’t need to read another research report, …
2018-07-31:
Professionalism
This morning I was visiting the hospital with my pregnant wife. She’s in the 39th week and over the …
2018-07-30:
The 4-day workweek
In this enlightening article from the New York Times, Charlotte Graham-McLay reports about a company …
2018-07-27:
Sorry to say, but you’ve been hacked
Please excuse this email’s subject line. Did you receive an email like that before? As I wrote a few …
2018-07-26:
Things happen for a reason
I am currently reading a very interesting book: “Principles” by Ray Dalio
It was recommended to me …
2018-07-25:
Test driven development
Test-driven-development. There’s no other way to do this.
2018-07-24:
Software development on construction sites
A few days ago, a friend told me about the construction site that is located right outside the …
2018-07-23:
Did you just click the link?
perhaps you remember one of my last newsletters, back when I wrote them from the 5minutenpause.com …
2018-07-20:
GDPR, or: How I stopped worrying and love my users
A few days ago I received an email from my bank where I keep my business account (n26 if you want to …