Tim Hinkes

Passionate Kotlin(Java) Developer at @TradeRepublicDe focused on Security and ObjectOriented Design.
Tweets are my personal views
Second account: @timmeeyyy

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

How does Meltdown/Spectre work? Explanation for non IT poeple.

A story of how the customer Eve uses Meltdown to trick our office clerk Alice into leaking confidential documents.

https://t.co/BlbykeFloD

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

Struggling with serialization conflicts in PostgreSQL? Implementing HASH indexes on foreign key columns can alleviate index page contention, reducing conflicts and enhancing throughput. Discover how: https://t.co/VQYxQy3Qmg

[Tim @Timmeeyyy]

Diagrams directly from markdown in GitHub ReadMe files etc. without any preprocessing and rendering them to svg and "include" the SVGs. Great step forward in usability and for having fun documenting your stuff.

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

@github in your PRs. I’m oftentimes reading a file from top to bottom. But after having read the file I have to scroll up again to click the „mark viewed“ checkbox. How about improving UX by making this Checkbox available where my viewframe is when I finished „viewing“ the file?

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

I‘m trying to get a regular lunch break. Cook smth quick (upgrade convenience food w/ fresh veggies) or heat up yesterday’s leftovers and then watch some YT/Podcasts. I actually make a point of trying to ensure that my team takes a break+proper food, and then come back fresh

[Ali Spittel @ASpittel]

People who work remote but are alone during the day, do you take a lunch break? If so, what do you do during it?

[Tim @Timmeeyyy]

Just got news that a Product is entirely dropping mobile support, as data shows that only very few ppl are using it on mobile. Congrats for data driven decisions. BUT you have to interpret the data. The mobile app was really shitty before and was lacking many core features.

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

@bryanl @_precompiled Turns out, just always adding new fancy stuff that the users want, leads to a whole mess in architecture that leads to bugs, outages and bad user experience. Because I’m sure most users would prefer a working app with a few less features, as a lot of features that don’t work.

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

PkgManager prefer the newest version of a dependency. Regardless of if the old version was in a private repo. Company creates private library. Someone creates library w/ the same name and higher version on public repo -> PackageManagers pull the potentially malicious version 🔥

[Igal Tabachnik @hmemcpy]

Holy. Effin. Shit. https://t.co/udzvMyfpSa

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

Can someone explain to me how it is possible that a few simple(awesome) GIFs
https://t.co/XUZ3yj45W3
are not running smoothly on my 13" 2018 i7 MacBook Pro in Safari?
This causes the Fans to spin up.

I really thought we could easily display a few Gifs in the year 2021

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

Been there. Done that. When nothing makes sense anymore. My ultimate idiot check is, to actively break the whole thing and see if it still starts. If yes, I know I have to take a step back.

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

What are your favorite metrics/indicators etc. to track for a growing software engineering team/department? From engineering process efficiency/viability (bus factor) to operational metrics like api error rates?

Bus factor
Pullrequest flow ratio/lead time
api error rate
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[Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. @informatikradar]

„Als weltweite Forschungsgemeinschaft fordern wir, ausschließlich Tracing-Systeme einzusetzen, die durch #Dezentralität ein Höchstmaß an Datenschutz gewährleisten“, so GI-Präsident Federrath zur Debatte um #PEPPPT und #DP3T https://t.co/5lPI0YdJJb

[Polizei Berlin Einsatz @PolizeiBerlin_E]

@florian16681883 Tinder Dates laufen nach unserer Erfahrung in der Regel zu zweit ab. Und meist geht es dabei ja auch nur um's Reden.

[#DerApotheker 🥷 @ApothekerDer]

Typ sitzt mit FFP-Maske im Bus.
Es juckt ihn unter der Maske.
Er nimmt sie ab, kratzt sich mit den Fingern am Mund und an der Nase und setzt sie wieder auf.
Er fühlt sich geschützt vor dem #Coronavirus.
SCHUTZ = 0
Diese Maske hätte ein Arzt dringender benötigt.
🤷‍♂️
#DerApotheker

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

I managed to run WireGuard inside of a docker(compose) env together w/ other services. Now i wanna upgrade to a home-user docker-swarm (e.g. portainer). Unfortunately Wireguard requires cap-add NET_ADMIN). Cap-add is not supported by docker-swarm (yet). Any ideas? Wireguard-go?

[Tim @Timmeeyyy]

How many non time critical requests should be prefetched and put on an event-loop that is also responsible for time critical processes?

I don’t know the answer.
But I know with absolute certainty that “ALL the requests” is not the correct answer.

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

Looking for a really simple micro task time tracking solution. Two buttons/cli commands. StartTask (asks you for task name), EndTask. If a task is already running, end it when starting a new. No fancy bells and whistles. Just for myself to keep track of time sinks. Please RT

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@Fruzenshtein @geowarin 🤣🤣🤣 I really hope you are joking. This is not how it should be done.( but it’s quick’n’dirty and works) When a service needs to be accessed from the outside regularly, it should get exposed via the ingress or similar techniques

[Tim Hinkes @HinkesTim]

@Fruzenshtein @geowarin I need this backend service available on my local machine and the port-forward always dies once the machine goes to sleep mode or the vpn drops