I just found this UUID: f583647d-2758-4e35-a11a-15842e4c51b0 . If it’s yours, please reach out so I can give it to you.
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Sorry to disagree with you there… but the Berlin office is definitely nicer!
Do you have a traditional office where everybody works or do you guys do remote work too?
We have multiple offices around Europe! But everyone can work wherever they can deliver the best outcome. Often that has to be in an office (access to hardware / other people), other times it’s at home.
Can you share (I don’t know if you are allowed to talk about this) a little bit about the company culture? How does it feel to work there?
It’s a very dynamic company! A ton of talented people, being hired and treated like adults, working on a very important mission.
I’ve been at companies where you have leadership try to micro-manage everything and everyone, and be paranoid at all stages.
In Helsing, for now, there is a ton of trust and everyone is given a lot of autonomy to deliver what needs delivering. It’s extremely refreshing, because it also means I can go on holiday and not worry that stuff won’t get done.
There’s also so many products we’re working on, each and every one of them super interesting and with its own challenges.
Is it difficult work? Yes.
Is it rewarding work? Yes.
Is it sometimes difficultly rewarding? Also yes.
Also the London office is better than the other offices and right now nobody can disagree with me.
Also a little bit about where I work.
youtube.com/watch?v=gJcO-7J6ztM
“The CA-1 Europa is taking shape. In Bavaria, inside a manufacturing facility with its own airfield, our team at Helsing and Grob Aircraft is building the first autonomous combat aircraft designed and produced in Germany, for Europe.
We announced CA-1 in September 2025 and our partnership with HENSOLDT in February 2026. The program is on schedule. Maiden flight comes next year.
Today we’re showing you the initial construction phase: the wings.”
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Hmm… wondering if a Youtube thumbnail feature would be useful. I’ll create an issue soon (TM).
Also a little bit about where I work.
youtube.com/watch?v=gJcO-7J6ztM
“The CA-1 Europa is taking shape. In Bavaria, inside a manufacturing facility with its own airfield, our team at Helsing and Grob Aircraft is building the first autonomous combat aircraft designed and produced in Germany, for Europe.
We announced CA-1 in September 2025 and our partnership with HENSOLDT in February 2026. The program is on schedule. Maiden flight comes next year.
Today we’re showing you the initial construction phase: the wings.”
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Just had a LinkedIn connection add me and say “my co-founder, \<redacted>, just walked over to my desk telling me we should connect with you”.
I am both amused and impressed at the novel approach.
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What do you do immediately after getting married? Wait, you don’t fix 2 issues in your public repos? That’s just me?
Unrelated:
v0.6 of gathers.cards is out with many improvements to the Scryfall integration
v0.9.0 of HA London TfL is out as a pre-release version to test a massive change to how bus times are reported.
People never want to tell you the secrets to long-lasting relationships, or to long-lasting software.
But getting married has unlocked both of them for me.
In this essay I explain what marriage taught me about SaaS software development.
A good relationship, just like good software, needs maintenance. Take care for vulnerabilities, identify and tackle issues together, do some periodic health checks.
“It just works” can only last so long without a bit of care.
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People never want to tell you the secrets to long-lasting relationships, or to long-lasting software.
But getting married has unlocked both of them for me.
In this essay I explain what marriage taught me about SaaS software development.
Consider what your most important data is. If you can’t filter your users quickly with a DB index, or you can’t recall your anniversary, that will make everyone unhappy, even if you eventually end up getting the correct result out.
People never want to tell you the secrets to long-lasting relationships, or to long-lasting software.
But getting married has unlocked both of them for me.
In this essay I explain what marriage taught me about SaaS software development.
Always be exclusive with your partner, just like objects need to be exclusive to the thread currently writing to it. Race conditions will ruin both relationships and software.
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People never want to tell you the secrets to long-lasting relationships, or to long-lasting software.
But getting married has unlocked both of them for me.
In this essay I explain what marriage taught me about SaaS software development.
Ich habe in 7 Tagen Namibia 12 GB Datenvolumen auf dem Handy verbraucht. 12 GB! Das muss man sich mal durch den Kopf gehen lassen. Und dabei war ich sogar ganze Tage offline. Ich habe in den 1980ern mit einem Akustikkoppler angefangen. Danach ein analoges Modem. Irgendwann die sündhaft teure ISDN-Standleitung. Tausende hat die im Monat gekostet und ich kam mir vor wie ein König, weil ich meinen persönlichen RedHat Linux Mirror aufgesetzt habe. Diese ISDN-Leitung hatte 64 Kilobit pro Sekunde (kBit/s). Und heute haue ich in der Woche 12 GB einfach mal so mit dem Handy raus. Krass.
Ha, I remember doing a brief audit of what was using all my data over a longer trip and I found so many background apps that were just happily talking to random servers for no benefit to me, but quickly taking up entire GBs of data.
I also soon after discovered Shizuku and Canta to start forcefully uninstalling various packages from my phone. (Use with care)
As a Rustacean, looking forward to the full Rust rewrite of Vutuv in the far far future.
Everything will one day be Rust.
Your first born child will be Rusty.
Birds truly are an inspiration. We’ve set up a tiny bird feeder near one of our windows. It’s designed for small birds, like finches.
But pigeons contort themselves and balance on one foot and manage to access the food too.
Truly inspirational.
Let me tell you what that taught me about B2B sales.
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A couple of days ago @morosanmihail ask me to tackle the language problem for posts. It is deployed. Please give it a try at vutuv.de/settings/feed_languages
You can define the languages of posts you want to read. In addition you can get an auto translated version of every other language.
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Haha, I don’t think it was me, but I will happily take the credit if nobody else does.
Ich habe bei vutuv einige WebPerformance-Optimierungen vorgenommen. Würde mich mal interessieren, ob man das auch in Deutschland spürt. Für mich - heute hier in Windhoek - ist das ein Unterschied wie Tag und Nacht.
The age of stupid, hyper-personalised homepages must return.
Many have returned already. I’m trying to join them.
Many leaders, CEOs, CFOs, CPOs, etc, are always curious about the best way to raise team morale and foster increased productivity.
Today, I discovered the best answer to this conundrum: BBQ boats.
Yes, take your team on a BBQ boat in the middle of Canary Wharf (London), sail around and cook delicious BBQ.
After thorough investigation (2 hours with a wonderful team of 6), I can attest to the brilliant value proposition to the business.
Be part of the future.
Go on a BBQ boat.
Not sponsored by the Canary Wharf BBQ Boats. _yet_
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Yay for me - a new platform to Soapbox on!
To start with - Interview pro tips.
“Oh shouldn’t my work speak for me?”
Ordinarily, yes, absolutely! In an ideal setting, over the course of your work in a company, your work should shout about you from the rooftops.
I’m talking about in an interview setting.
I wasn’t there, I don’t know what you did!
So help me understand: who you are, what you did, what you know. This is your moment to show off and real expertise comes with the ability to explain it. Help me help you! (Not a puff piece - I will know)
Call me a Feynman maximalist, but if you claim to know something, you should be able to explain it (better yet - teach it, but that is a topic for another time)
Ground rule - no keyword spam. One sentence with four technologies, three frameworks and two abbreviations doesn’t overwhelm me. I will just go back and ask you about each one and we’ll be there all day.
I’ll be posting a few more standout techniques and tips and tricks that hopefully can actually help your next interview (with me or not!).
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Time to bring my high-brow, super intellectual posts from LinkedIn here. You have been warned.
So, how many engineers does it take to change a light bulb at Microsoft? None, the light socket itself is down for maintenance.
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Time to bring my high-brow, super intellectual posts from LinkedIn here. You have been warned.
So, how many engineers does it take to change a light bulb at Microsoft? None, the light socket itself is down for maintenance.
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6.000!
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Got @mariya_hristova to join as #6000. The Jobs page looks mighty empty and I think she might want to start populating that.
Mihail, the datetime locales format feature is online at vutuv.de/settings/preferences
Please give it a test drive. Thanks for the idea/input!
Random bit that I would like for #vutuv : datetime locales. Right now, posts show up as MM/DD/YY, which is very USAian. Making that configurable (or defaulting to sensible) would be nice.
I appreciate your help! It is a long way till we reach the tipping point.
It will definitely be an uphill journey, but at least the competition is actively imploding itself with trash. So there’s always hope that people will go towards consumer-friendly platforms.
The single-key shortcuts pause while you type, and are off on phones and tablets.
Much much better, danke!