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June 2018

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Hei @klm (and other airlines), we live in the age of fanatical customer service,
so here is what I expect today from an awesome airline when my baggage is
delayed:

The moment my flight departs you know already if my baggage did not make it. In
that case how about this: >

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:11:21 UTC♥ 1
Replying to @coderbyheart

Send me a text right away, so I don't need to way at the baggage claim to
discover after a substantial amount of time, that my baggage did not make it.

In that text, prefill my lost baggage report with what you know about me. >

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:11:21 UTC♥ 1
Replying to @coderbyheart

Ideally this defaults to: "We will deliver you bag to your hotel as soon as
possible."

All this can be automated and reduces my wait time (which has a exponential
effect on my satisfaction), reduces costs for you, since I don't have to speak
to a service desk.

Win-win!

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:11:22 UTC♥ 2

This week I'll be staying in #rheinmainnrocks land and I'm happy to meet for a
coffee ☕ if you want to learn more about how are building the next generation
of cellular #IoT solutions @NordicTweets and
why Norway 🇳🇴 is a great place to work, especially for Germans! >

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 06:38:46 UTC♥ 10↻ 1

I met a few people today who wanted to get to know me, because they still work
with PHP code I wrote 7 years ago. Nobody wanted to hit me. I think that's a
good sign. 😌

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 19:44:27 UTC♥ 27
Replying to @_Tomalak

@_Tomalak I have been earning money writing PHP
for 15 years. I will never forget that. Impressive web applications are built
using PHP (Wikipedia, Facebook, YouPorn, ...). It may be an ugly language, but
it's a seriously valuable tool.

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 20:42:21 UTC♥ 1

"How much energy do you have left, when the workday comes to an end?" - a very
powerful question to determine whether you are prone to burnout.

Tue, 05 Jun 2018 08:19:00 UTC♥ 5↻ 4

Trainrides in Germany 🇩🇪: no cellphone signal and the train WiFi also does not
work (because, duh, it's using LTE).

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Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:23:48 UTC♥ 1

@instagram I'm getting nagged by the phone
number screen, but I'm not receiving a code to my Norwegian phone number. When I
try to change the country code, it crashes:
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Sun, 10 Jun 2018 08:53:29 UTC
Replying to @coderbyheart

It also offers drastically improved chances of increasing salary.

For some companies it might simply ok to not offer a career path: the best
organizations are clear about what they can and cannot offer to their employees.

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:39:40 UTC
Replying to @rradczewski

@rradczewski @jezenthomas I want to see the
first one, because the opposite is worse.

The second one, I don't like. Why not use prose in the words of he domain. If it
needs a longer explanation, it also should go into a accompanying technical
document, because that one can be omptimized for reading.

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:43:34 UTC
Replying to @coderbyheart

It's fascinating to see how "modern" concepts like loose-coupling,
edge-computing, provide enough resources for developers, was already state of
the art 50 years ago.

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:08:04 UTC♥ 1
Replying to @mirjam_diala

@mirjam_diala Im also not a "pen&paper"
person, so when I want to "be done for now" with thinking about something
(especially during the weekend) I will write myself reminders in Slack for
Monday. So I know that I won't forget a thought, but it's on hold for now.

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 04:34:08 UTC♥ 1
Replying to @coderbyheart

"This approach gives you a simple, and robust way for collaboration, without a
single point of failure (which you would get with centralized queuing systems).
But it's slow, and needs both services to be up at the same time."

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:27:48 UTC
Replying to @coderbyheart

In practice it puts the burden on the victim. Offenders have nothing to fear,
since they can always say: "Oh, I was just being nice!". Bystanders, too, have a
hard time pointing out offensive behaviour when it's happening, removing support
from victims.

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 06:49:20 UTC♥ 5↻ 7

I played around a little with Twilio, and the features are impressive, but their
UI is a total mess. It's a good reminder how hard it is to design complicated
workflows in a browser app. Hug a web-designer today!

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 11:20:56 UTC♥ 1
Replying to @coderbyheart

@kolencherry This menu is scarily huge. Since
I need to scroll I don't have all options visible, makes it harder to navigate.
Especially for beginners, if I'm looking for an entry and don't yet know where
it is located.
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Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:00:40 UTC♥ 1
Replying to @coderbyheart

@kolencherry I was doing some Quests, and
using the API explorer is hard because parameters are not explained, I was
constantly switching between the console page and twilio docs to figure out what
fields like e.g. "Identity" means in the context of the endpoints and how a
value looks like:
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Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:07:27 UTC♥ 1
Replying to @ConfBuddy

@ConfBuddy It did not happen. NDC is a big,
established conference with worldwide events and I got the impression that there
were a lot of groups/teams there. Also very low activity on Twitter compared to
other events I know. Don't let this be a negative signal!

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:15:27 UTC♥ 1

Writing #BDD tests in Gherkin sounds strange to you? Give it a try!

Yes, the underlying implementation that needs to be build will blow your mind.
You need to handle state between and map a linear model of test execution to
something which used to be hierarchical.

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:19:01 UTC♥ 2
Replying to @coderbyheart

And the best part: it is completely decoupled from any API and implementation,
so you get to refactor without having to keep track of all the corner cases you
had in your test suite.

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:19:02 UTC
Replying to @NicoleRauch

@NicoleRauch This is close to something I
have been building recently: the core domain logic needs to run entirely in
memory so you are not arguing about "storage" and can focus on
correctness/behavior. I can see how I can use your work to extend that approach.
Will tell more @SoCraTes_Conf!

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:44:15 UTC