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  • (Fun) EuroVision Song Contest (#ESC) fact of the day: In the last 8 years #Germany finished last 4 times. There is a joke in there somewhere …

    → 12:57 PM, May 14

  • The other day I had a Gyros in Yeeros (recommended) and walked down memory lane back to the car at Griffith Park: Iona Road, Iona Drive and then Iona Cresent. #iona @chrisjhorn

    → 4:56 PM, Apr 9

  • An augmented blog post about Augmented-Blogging … #chatgpt #nlp #machine-learning

    → 11:48 AM, Apr 9

  • A good friend of mine likes to say: Be kind. Be strong. Be happy. And we all know about Radical Candor (which is applied kindness (not niceness)). Here is a guide to engineer kindness. Well done. Well structured. Good read.

    → 5:39 AM, Mar 28

  • One of the most famous/impressive cases of: Be careful what you ask for!

    One of the most famous/impressive cases of: Be careful what you ask for! In 1973 Focus was asked to perform Hocus Pocus on NBC’s Midnight Special. The song is 6:43 mins long. But NBC told them that their slot is only 4:30 mins. Instead of butchering the song in any other way, they decided to play the full song … just faster. Much faster. And did not miss a beat. What a performance!!! And I can only imagine the satisfaction they must have felt after sticking it to NBC that way.

    → 8:52 AM, Mar 24

  • The Pillars of a Sustainable Energy Future

    Over the weekend I was thinking about The Pillars of a Sustainable Energy Future. Two conclusions: First, I like Organic Flow Batteries and second, I think that the nature of blogging will change from articulating good answers to asking good questions (the art of prompting). #energy #sustainability

    → 12:04 PM, Mar 16

  • Finished reading: The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism

    Finished reading: The Beginner’s Guide to Stoicism by Matthew Van Natta 📚 - Putting a good, nice, initial structure into what stoicism is. All concept are clearly expressed and explained. And some good thoughts and tools on how to be(come) a stoic are introduced. Next step: Turn the book into a mindmap. Stay tuned … #management #leadership #philosophy #stoicism

    → 12:28 PM, Mar 5

  • Meet Slidev: My new presentation development tool of choice

    This is a real find: Was looking for the best way to have a lot of slides with a lot of source code on it (for the training @ ElixirConfEU). Normally I would use reveal with the org-mode pre-processor, but this time I needed something more simple/basic and after a little bit of googling and searching I stumbled over/on slidev and I am totally excited. Very easy to use. Maybe not as powerful as reveal, but definitely good enough for my purpose. Here is the reveal version of my presentation about The power of Why. And here is the slidev version. The source code is available on Github.

    → 5:58 PM, Mar 3

  • Just finished the Python masterclass. Had some fun implementing a bubble-sort visualiser … #python

    → 2:11 PM, Mar 1

  • Getting reading to deliver a training at ElixirConfEU. Bought a new pointer to make spotlight work on my Ubuntu laptop … #elixirconfeu #lisbon

    → 1:55 PM, Mar 1

  • Here is a question I haven’t heard in a while: “Chicken or Beef?” … #digitalnomad #aerlingus

    → 1:08 PM, Mar 1

  • Benthos v4.12.0 is out. Contributed an asdf installer. Looking good … #opensource #benthos #golang

    → 12:47 PM, Mar 1

  • On my way to St. Cloud (EI 133). Good enough band-width. “Interesting” latency. Let the pushing and pulling begin …

    → 12:31 PM, Mar 1

  • Had a little bit of a blind-spot there. Just finished: The Complete Python Masterclass. Blind-spot fixed. - www.udemy.com/certifica…

    → 8:28 PM, Feb 17

  • Implemented a simple perftest tool to understand the maximum through-put of a given AMQP/RabbitMQ cluster. Enjoy … #elixir #scaletesting #rabbitmq #amqp - github.com/rolandtri…

    → 7:01 AM, Feb 13

  • This is old (2006), but still worth-while reading: In a sense there's just one mistake that kills startups: not making something users want.#management #leadership #startups

    → 6:14 AM, Feb 12

  • Having a good day in the office. Just helped one of our customers to turn statements and messages into meaningful, impact-full conversations. #smsmarketing #politics #softwaredevelopmentcompany #elixir #saassoftware

    → 1:59 PM, Feb 10

  • Musings on The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Ideal Team Player and how I make the concepts for me … #management #leadership #softwareengineering #remotefirst

    → 10:05 AM, Feb 10

  • Listening to [RAILMOTOR][]. Recommended (if you know what a [railmotor][] is) … #music #downunder #spotify [RAILMOTOR]: https://open.spotify.com/album/7nKwq0fNBzQ6xxNSX0UytP?si=B9nygKwyRgm-oNKuULob2Q [railmotor]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railmotor

    → 9:30 AM, Feb 8

  • Climate Change. War in the Ukraine. Reverse the [Brexit][]. Who wants to win a Nobel Price for cuting through Gordian [Knots][]? Anybody? #leadership #politics #brexit [Brexit]: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/11/02/growing-majority-of-britons-think-brexit-was-a-mistake-new-poll-shows [Knots]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot

    → 3:07 PM, Jan 31

  • Finished reading: An Elegant Puzzle: Systems Of Engineering Management by Will Larson 📚 - Not a book per-se. More like a collection of tips and tricks. Which does not make it less valueable. Just pick and choose the stuff you like. Hint: The reading list at the end of the book is worth it’s weight in gold. #management #leadership #softwareengineering

    → 1:42 PM, Jan 17

  • One tool that I like to use, when I do team-building with a group of managers while we work through the concept of The First Team (and the art of being a member of two teams: Your team and this team) is to play the Game of Trust. Highly recommended. #management #leadership #teambuilding

    → 3:34 PM, Jan 15

  • The current TEDN-Van and the next TEDN-Van #digitalnomad #remotefirst #sustainableenergy #solar

    → 11:39 AM, Jan 15

  • A couple (more) thoughts on climate change (and how we as individuals can and should and need to get our head around it) - tedn.life/2023/01/1…

    → 7:36 AM, Jan 15

  • Community has built a SaaS platform based on a sophisticated shared-nothing microservices architecture that uses an event-bus for state-propagation. But are micro-services & events friends or foes? - twitter.com/ElixirCon… @erlang_discussions@mastodon.social #elixir #elixirconf

    → 3:22 PM, Jan 14

  • Just found out that you can study Climate Change in Maynooth. Tempting/Tempted …

    → 3:20 PM, Jan 14

  • Finished reading: The Art of Being Remarkable by Yann Girard 📚 - Short/fast read. Second half becomes a little bit repetitive. But … the essence/the key points are worth while thinking about.

    → 9:02 AM, Jan 10

  • Watched Avatar 2. Not sure I want to watch/see Avatar 3 (I guess next we will meet the cloud/air people or the desert/sand people or …). To me it feels like the objective was to start/build a franchise and to create an opportunity to milk this cow 2-3 (more) times. Not to make a good, inspiring, though-provoking movie (again). Why are (good) sequels so hard to make? #movies #sequels #avatar #opinion

    → 7:04 AM, Jan 9

  • Something to think about. Sleep well tonight … #joke #funny #messingwithyourhead

    → 2:46 PM, Jan 6

  • I am moving to the FerdiVerse … and 2022 was a great year! - tedn.life/2023/01/0…

    → 12:24 PM, Jan 4

  • Finished reading: Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Weir, Andy 📚 - Good entertainment, but (also) … just another astronaut who is sciencing the hell out of it to (get out of the) escape (room). #books #reading #sciencefiction

    → 11:27 AM, Jan 2

  • Looking forward to deliver a training on How to test large-scale #elixir systems at #elixirconfeu in April in #lisabon #portugal #functionalprogramming #digitalnomad #tedn - https://www.elixirconf.eu

    → 6:41 PM, Jan 1

  • Happy new year. Just moved my micro blogging to Mastodon. Follow @tedn@micro.blog from any Mastodon instance. - tedn.micro.blog

    → 6:10 PM, Jan 1
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