April 2022

246 tweets

Moved to a new office space, because our team is growing and I'll have a junior
cloud engineer starting in May, so I needed a place where I can sit next to
them. Whiteboard is incoming!
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Replying to @tdpauw

@tdpauw Buy a new battery (usually around 30 EUR)
and then you can donate it later once the new one arrived! So many migrants and
asylum seekers can really use a laptop.

Replying to @coderbyheart

#CellularIoT revenue last year was ~3%, it's cute. But this is going to grow
rapidly; after all Nordic invested USD$100M+ into this new product (the
#nRF9160), and launched it in 2018. It takes a while for hardware products to
reach production maturity, but it's starting now.

Replying to @coderbyheart

We have quite a few cloud, frontend, and mobile roles which you might not
associate with a chip manufacturer. My more experienced colleagues especially
enjoy the deep focus on solving those challenging technical problems, which we
can't google, because we see them first.

Replying to @kmelve

@kmelve
@sanity_io Yeah, there is no other obvious
solution then releasing it and seeing how it performs.

If I were interested in an email, I'd love to get a hello world walkthrough with
pre-filled API keys and TypeScriptsample, so I can start building withouth
needing to dig through the docs.

Replying to @LeaRosema

@lea_rosema I've seen friends leave tech, because it's hostile and arrogant. So
you are not alone in your experience. I think it's a good idea to take a step
back and reflect.

Replying to @NicolaLindgren

@NicolaLindgren I try to create a very low
barrier to opt out. I literally ask them to "please say no or ignore" my
request. OTOH I also invest in scoping the request clearly.

I personally have no problem with saying no. I have to be in charge of my time,
nobody else can do this for me.

Replying to @kotzendekrabbe

@kotzendekrabbe You need a significant
amount (good amount is more than 20%) income from other contracts and need to
maintain marketing efforts to promote your services. It's still pretty
problematic in Germany for solo consultants.
@VGSDeV offers great resources and support.

Replying to @maaretp

@maaretp Yes, but keeping track of the important
milestone yourself is still necessary. Makes for great input for the performance
feedback, because you will discover what's important for you, and what they
might not even have on the radar. And sometimes managers leave.

Replying to @web_goddess

@web_goddess I'll be back at work in May,
happy to have a chat about it! Working on cloud solutions at a Norwegian
semiconductor manufacturer who does not support remote work creates some unique
challenges for me, when it comes to hiring seniors.

Replying to @martinjuhasz

@martinjuhasz Thank you for the feedback!
The pictures don't tell the full "picture". Check out my Insta stories where I
have videos with sound. It's just amazing how varied the nature here is. We
totally love it, even in rain.

Replying to @coderbyheart

@_francied In general we are doing quite well,
we hired around 200 people last year, which is roughly +20%. And most are
engineers. I have some special challenges, which I think boil down to the
missing track record my employer has for cloud solutions.

Replying to @coderbyheart

@_francied And most seniors can find work at
established cloud solution providers which gives them a higher chance of success
and basically a guaranteed career path, because they already have huge revenue
in cloud services. My employer hasn't yet reported any revenue from cloud
businesses.

Replying to @AdharaIT

@AdharaIT
@jrosaproenca When we left Monday two weeks
ago we still had snow outside of our apartment. Going from that to beach weather
and fresh orange juice is a stark contrast. It's not our first time in Portugal
and we really love it here. Working remotely from here sounds super amazing!

I'm working with a codebase where #GraphQL queries are shared and reused between
components. And some even include "all fields from sub-entity" fragments. Isn't
this an anti-pattern? Shouldn't every component request exactly the fields it
needs?

Ich bin hier in einem Yoga Retreat in #Portugal, und alle anderen Deutschen
Gäste kennen dieses Sprichwort nicht: "Kein X für ein U vormachen".

Bin ich der einzige, der das kennt?!

Replying to @coderbyheart

Das kam auf, weil wir einem Holländer versuchen Deutsche Sprichwort
beizubringen, die er auf Holländisch nicht kennt. Bis jetzt haben wir nur "Mit
den Hufen scharren" gefunden.

Replying to @liran_tal

@liran_tal
@pati_gallardo There must be a step where
repo owners approve the bounty (to signal that they are welcome for the given
issue). And it will also be important to communicate what an acceptable solution
should be to claim the bounty, and that a solving PR may not be accepted by the
repo owner.

The unsupervised biological experiment we ran in our dishwasher for three weeks
now hopefully dies a steaming death at 70°C.