CEO/Principal Consultant at INNOQ, he/him, software architect, RESTafarian, conference tourist. Works at innoq.com. Fediverse: @stilkov@innoq.social

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Joined April 2007
This is a fantastic resource: bloomberg.com/features/2022-…
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NEW POST Conways Law has been an important part of my thinking for years. Important enough to affect every system I've come across, and powerful enough that you're doomed to defeat if you try to fight it. martinfowler.com/bliki/Conwa…
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Did you know about Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund? sovereigntechfund.de/en.html It's finally doing something about the problem illustrated in this xkcd: so much of our digital infrastructure is reliant on open source tools that are only kept going through good will.
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I had to work hard to convince people that we weren't trying to make our product into one giant SPA. They started from a place of assuming that was an obvious goal. When I asked why, the answers were so frustrating.
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Interesting thread that carries with it the implication that all those people writing tweets for VCs might soon find themselves replaced by a GPT-3 logon.
24 hours ago, I tried an experiment - I tweeted a thread with 15 productivity hacks. It’s become one of my highest performing tweets of all time, with over 1 million impressions and 23,648 engagements. The truth is - the entire thread was written by an AI. Let me explain… 1/
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It's funny, working in the industry, how often you can smell some dickweasel's little OKR in the inexplicable frustrations of someone who just wants to use their laptop, phone, tablet… but they're derailed by a popup, unnecessary login or other waste of time Truly an affliction
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Breaking: The lettuce won
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A very thorough article, setting out what happens when you try use one technology to do another technology's job. CSS-in-JS, which was created to improve the DX of some very specific kinds of developers, is bad for UX and bad for DX too. dev.to/srmagura/why-were-bre…
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This aged really well.
The act of describing a program in unambiguous detail and the act of programming are one and the same.
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you need certain amount of tomatoes. quantity not important. needs to be ripe and in season. then take the recommended garlic and double it. now drink wine, which will inform the rest of the decisions.
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My grandma grew up in Nazi Germany. My mom grew up in socialist East Germany. I grew up in democratic reunited Germany. To this day, politics in our family diverge widely, which caused a lot of heat at family gatherings. Until I tried something new. ellenkoenig.de/blog/how-i-le…
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Wer morgen (19.10.) in Nürnberg ist, sollte sich dieses Meetup nicht entgehen lassen: @Teapot4181 spricht über #Sketchnotes in der IT und @gernotstarke berichtet, welchen Einfluss "Brain Bugs" auf die Architekturarbeit haben. Jetzt noch anmelden 👉meetup.com/de-DE/Software-Ar…
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Für das Meetup bringe ich einen kompletten 55 cm / 50l großen Trolley mit Material für euch mit! Das wird ein Fest! Ich freue mich schon auf euch! meetup.com/de-DE/software-ar…
Nächste Woche ist wieder Software Architecture Meetup in Nürnberg!🤩 Gernot Starke spricht über "Hirn im Weg - Wie das Unterbewusstsein uns die Arbeit erschwert" und Lisa zeigt uns, wie wir alle gemeinsam dazu Sketchnotes erstellen :) 📝 meetup.com/de-DE/software-ar…
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This will be a nice complement to the services offered by @DanaSchwartzzz boredpanda.com/funeral-plan-…
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This guy did more due diligence on a free bottle of water than anybody at Softbank or Tiger Global did for any investment in the past 5 years.
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