Edwin Maldonado

MBA @ WHU

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I like tech products, software architecture, urban design, cycling, ruby, linux, startups, coffee & bread ☕🍞

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

Good morning Berlin!

Ready for some Content structuring katas?

@OReillySACon #SAConf

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

We're looking for engineers with 10+ years of "𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚠" or "𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚐𝚙𝚞" experience. DMs open.

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

Nothing special at this point, but it's cool to read how the reasoning part works in LLMs and agentic workflows.

`The user says: "no my dude, today is Thursday, not Friday". They are correcting me.` 🤣

gpt-oss-20b-GGUF running locally:

[Nico Wittenborn @ncsh]

Germany making moves

[Supabase @supabase]

all the ai note takers waiting to join a meeting

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

I still like static site generators. They make websites so easy to manage and deploy. There's no need for fancy pipelines. Just `build` the site and push the files, even to AWS S3. With Netlify, each deployment takes about ~10-15 secs

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

Oh look, iTerm 3.6 comes with an AI chat too!

[EU–INC @euinc_petition]

Europe needs unicorns without borders!🦄

Europe’s leaders - Von der Leyen, Draghi, Letta, Macron, Merz - all back a pan-European legal entity.

Now we must ensure it’s fit for startups: bold, digital-first & built to scale across borders. That’s EU–INC.

How you can help ⬇️

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

The Azure Data Studio is not too bad, isn't it?

I am running some local experiments with MS SQL and SAP B1 data, and I had to download ADS, I like that you can download extensions like in VS Code.

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

@dhh I've been living in Germany for the last ±8 years and I have to admit this feeling that, for lack of better terms, I will call "apathy" gets contagious in almost every aspect of life. About AI, the small % of people getting the hype are surprisingly more business folks.

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

@chrsaravia @dhh @lexfridman Ruby is still the bomb! 💎

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

Flashing this tiny radio for the first time. @TheMeshtastic here we go! 🤘

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

@dhh I got a Beelink a few months ago and I love it. Did you have any troubles with the drivers and Omarchy?

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

🎢 it's a long term game isn't it? ...

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

@jamessamsf hehe 😀 Are you using Cursor?

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

Vibe coding stops being fun as soon as the project becomes slightly complex. You start spending more time going to the code to manually fix stuff. It's good to create a baseline or a CRUD though.

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

@jamessamsf I guess complexity is very subjective, but say a webapp that reads/writes from different APIs and manages some business logic for different user roles. It constantly breaks the functionality for roles on 3/5 prompts.

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

I'm feeling like a kid again! Playing with Windows 11 and the WSL on a mini-pc 😆

[Edwin Maldonado @mcInside]

@dhh @iamJonasB I’m another dude with 18 years using Apple, my old MacBook died last weekend (hard drive failure), and I’m seriously considering a beefy Tuxedo laptop for running ML & LLMs locally for 1/3 of the price of the top of the lines of the MBPs.