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Reminds me of my current customer. We (another freelancer and me) built an application that replaced an Excel sheet, which was the foundation of the business until then. So the usu…

I'm usually first in line when talking shit about the German government, but here I am absolutely for this. I was really positively surprised when I had my apprenticeship at a publ…

Ha, I've written a lot of these Makefiles and the "make dev" command even became a personal standard that I added to each project. I don't know if I read about that, or if it just …

I have a paywall there :(

Absolutely! I have used Copilot for a few weeks and then stopped when I worked on a machine that didn't have Copilot installed and I immediately struggled with even basic syntax. N…

I guess it totally depends on the specific use cases. Just yesterday, I asked Gemini 2.5 for how to test a Laravel artisan command that internally calls another artisan command usi…

I have met several of these leaders. Problem is, that very few of them are also very successful. Most of these "leaders" that I met, based a lot of their success from basically bei…

> Concord is that the game was poorly marketed, had bad character designs, and also one of the developers made some ill-considered tweets 4 years before the release of this game. Y…

About Concord: There is a lot of discussion about why Concord failed. Some say that the price was too high. But at the same time, games with the same or even higher prices sold jus…

I think that wokeness is increasing racism. The woke people tend to throw around "-isms" a lot. It is sometimes enough to not be on the extreme left-wing view to be called "racist"…

I agree. I still have to rely on my car for basically everything because the same government also fucked up the rail system so severely that it barely works in my region. When I mo…

I don't get why you would write your first two sentences. It is very obvious how the automobile lobby has a direct influence here. Here is an excellent documentary (in German) that…

I agree it's not a black-and-white problem, but I don't fully agree with your statement about collaboration. I am a senior software developer who was entirely against working from …

Hah. One of my clients is in German insurance tech. They thought the same as you and started recruiting from around the world. They said that German employees are just too expensiv…

I think that this is true, and I hate it. In a previous job, I had to work with the worst (shop)-framework I have ever seen. It is very expensive, over-engineered in the worst ways…

In our region, some people have devices to repel moles or marten using "Sounds that are inaudible for humans". I have yet to come near to one of these devices that I can't hear. An…

Well, I know several experienced software developers with good software ideas, but no clue how to sale them. It sounds like bringing them and you together would basically be a guar…

Same for me. I got here via pushbullet and I was at first confused about the comments here until I saw yours ^^

I am currently sitting at my gaming PC, which does have a Blu Ray drive. I use it about one or two times a year. Just today I threw in a CD with the driver of my newly installed tp…

It is really hard to read this for me. How can anyone think that it is harder to write a proper monolith than implementing a distributed architecture? If you just follow the SOLID …

Yes, I completely agree. If your team doesn't have the skills to use a proper architecture within a monolith, letting them loose on a distributed system will make things a lot wors…

Ah yes, the great fun of bug-hunting. Probably most people in working IT have some stories to tell about this. One thing that comes to my mind happened in a company where they used…

That reminds me of my last query to ChatGPT. A colleague of mine usually writes "Mop Programming" when referencing out "Mob programming" sessions. So as a joke I asked ChatGPT to r…

This is the first time that I saw this blog and I've now read a bunch of those posts. There is so much gold there, it's incredible. So much is going wrong in all those companies, t…

I remember when I had to use Jira for the first time, which had this "n days ago" display for the tickets. I don't remember if that couldn't be changed or the person in charge just…