Matthias Erche

Software Engineer @SumUp

[Matthias Erche @matterche]

@pierremouchan @obsdmd No issues so far. I don't use a Git plugin. Just sync manually. On mobile using Termux.

[Matthias Erche @matterche]

I'm also super happy after switching to @obsdmd. I use it on several devices including mobile and sync via Git.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Love letter to @obsdmd to which I very happily switched to for my personal notes. My primary interest in Obsidian is not even for note taking specifically, it is that Obsidian is around the state of the art of a philosophy of software and what it could be.

- Your notes are simple plain-text markdown files stored locally on your computer. Obsidian is just UI/UX sugar of pretty rendering and editing files.
- Extensive plugins ecosystem and very high composability with any other tools you wish to use because again it's all just plain-text files on your disk.
- For a fee to cover server costs, you can also Sync (with end-to-end encryption) and/or Publish your files. Or you can use anything else e.g. GitHub, it's just files go nuts.
- There are no attempts to "lock you in", actually as far as I can tell Obsidian is completely free of any user-hostile dark patterns.

For some more depth, I recommend the following writing from CEO @kepano:
- "File over app" https://t.co/SigWj8uCrf . If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
- "100% user-supported" https://t.co/2qDJXub7cs . On incentives alignment.
- "Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash" https://t.co/qfNjSEwbLf

TLDR: This is what software could be: private, secure, delightful, free of dark patterns, fully aligned with the user, where you retain full control and ownership of your data in simple, universal formats, and where tools can be extended and composed.

[Matthias Erche @matterche]

@jehrhardt_ I am currently learning Elixir and am very curious to see how the language can be used and how good the frameworks and libraries are.

[Matthias Erche @matterche]

@jehrhardt_ What really convinced me about Go is the very short time it takes to get onboarded and become productive.

The code is usually very easy to write and understand. There are many very good libraries with clean APIs. For me, it is a language that is suitable for many use cases.

[Tobias Pfeiffer @PragTob]

The anti-patterns guide in the most recent @elixirlang release are an absolute joy to read and should be mandatory reading for everyone!

Love elixir's strong game when it comes to documentation!

https://t.co/2iZrzNGnx8

[Matthias Erche @matterche]

@pvblivs I did not mean you in particular. Rather, people who have significantly more reach than we do in our bubble 😬.

I sometimes get the impression that Musk is deliberately bullying around on Twitter to increase his reach.

[Matthias Erche @matterche]

@pvblivs Still wondering why so many people complain about him and Twitter on ... Twitter and supporting him this way.

[juliettech @_juliettech]

most problems were once a solution

[Khalil Lechelt @khalillegacy]

How to get completely overwhelmed and burnt out as a manager

- Don't do weekly 1-on-1s
- Join every meeting that gets thrown at you
- Do lots of hands-on stuff
- Don't delegate
- Don't prioritize, do everything
- Don't block focus time in your calendar

[Matthias Erche @matterche]

@tdeekens Sounds like it was worth the try 👍

[Paul Jocelyn @PaulJocelyn]

“The role of management is to change the system rather than badgering individuals to do better.”
W. Edwards Deming

[Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH]

A lot of managers, especially those from an engineering background, think that management is about doing stuff: defining rules, policies, and procedures; assigning tasks; creating external incentives; fixing problems.

[Matthias Erche @matterche]

@pvblivs @fmueller_bln Since when do you need an IDE in your role? 😝

[Gonçalo @goncalossilva]

We need to shift our mindset from “estimates” into “forecasts” in software, even if only to explicitly acknowledge the imperfect and continuously updating nature of it being totally fine and expected.

[🍳 ./tdeekens 🥫 @tdeekens]

In general: tell me that you managed to keep e.g. a Frontend maintainable over 5 years while being able to add customer value. Then I am impressed. Tell me you spun up five projects non of which are used with five funky tech stacks. Then I am less impressed.

[🍳 ./tdeekens 🥫 @tdeekens]

Software Engineering journalism is oddly amusing at times. While most content is around crafting Green Field projects quickly, 90% of actual work is Brown Field. The challenging piece is not creating new things but maintaining and building upon existing things without stopping.

[Sandro Volpicella @sandro_vol]

Did you ever want to build an event-driven use case with DynamoDB?

DynamoDB streams give you the opportunity! You can listen to file changes and act on those.

Let's see how they work and how to connect DynamoDB & Lambda

A thread 🧵

[Felix Müller @fmueller_bln]

A good failure culture is a key to organizational improvement.

This also explains why many companies are not so good at improving.

[mpj 💛 @mpjme]

@drboolean I've been pushing for this at Mindler for some time actually (think Maggie Siffs character in Billions). The best Agile Coaches I've met have effectively been amateur psychologists.

[marais @slightlycode]

Signs of a maturing developer; being okay with deleting something you're proud of making.