Living the aperativo life
Living the aperativo life
Software architecture does not always solve technical problems. Micro-services and micro-frontends exist to create small, independent and agile teams. If applied for technical reasons, they create more problems than they solve.
Sundown in Piran, Slovenia.
The best part of my job as a manager is telling people that they got a raise they haven’t asked for.
I finished reading The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. A sad, but beautiful historic novel about multiple generations of a family during the wars in Vietnam.
📸 New blog post with photos from my trip to Trieste in May
Watched the first episode of Prehistoric Earth on Apple TV+ and this is so well made. Perfect mixture of interesting and relaxing.
Klarna used a prerecorded video message to lay off 10 percent of employees
Filed under Classy.
How it started: I want to play a sound effect during a video call
How it ended: I have an overcomplicated system that involves StreamDeck, Audio Hijack, SoundSource, Farrago, Keyboard Maestro, and Shortcuts.
But: it works 🎉
When a Google Meet preview page is open in the background, the sound quality of the music I’m listening to is super bad. How are these connected? It took me forever to figure this out.
The Smile at Gasometer, Vienna
I received my Mark Two. Such a nice pen, the magnetic snap is glorious.
I’m going on my first ever business trip to visit my colleagues in Barcelona 👔🏖
Lola Marsh at Arena Wien
From last Saturday: Julien Baker live at Arena in Vienna. My first concert in months.
📝 New blog post: Post to Eleventy from iOS with Drafts, Shortcuts and Working Copy
After nearly 20 years 🚭
Released a new version of remark-images, my responsive images in Markdown plugin for remark. It now produces an AST instead of raw HTML, which should allow for better integration into the remark ecosystem.
Prism Music is a music player for iOS that can be connected to Plex and Apple Music. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Accidental Charmander
I listened to the new live album from Zola Jesus and I miss live concerts so much. I was supposed to see Nilüfer Yanya, but I had Covid and the Lucy Dacus show was cancelled. Now looking forward to Julien Baker.
The quaking of the duck is a nice change from the pigeon sounds we normally hear.
We got a taste of spring, but winter is not yet done with Vienna.
I used this occasion to update the Apple Touch Icons for my site, but I’m still not super happy with them.
📝 New blog post: Generating Apple Touch Icons with Eleventy