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Konstanz, Germany
Joined June 2008
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I've rebuilt Vandelay in Swift, and the native iOS version is now on the App Store. It's the architecture app I make with my wife (it was her idea). Nearly 200 buildings to explore, with their stories, architects and photos. Open the map or use AR (yeah, baby) to see which buildings from the collection are around you and how far away they are. Give it a go, folks, and let me know what you think apps.apple.com/de/app/vandel…
I also gave the website some attention: better guides and photo grids for browsing architects and styles. vandelayapp.com
I loved the music on Korn's old Flash site from the first listen. It's popped into my head every so often over the years.
So I brought the site back, mostly for that track. I still love it.
Enjoy fellas sashathor.com/korn/
German bureaucracy is a pain in the ass, which I'm sure comes as a shock to absolutely nobody, no sir.
I often didn't even know where to start. I'd have to piece together what had happened before, dig out the relevant documents and work out what someone wanted from us. Just getting ready to deal with it felt like a whole separate job. My heart would skip a beat every time I checked the mailbox, expecting yet another letter from someshit-Amt.
At some point, I decided to strike back. That's how I started building FamilyBoon. I've posted an intro to the system on my blog.
Family memory beyond the chat: sashathor.com/writing/family…
This is my attempt to stay sane during high-churn, AI-assisted development. You can't lovingly review every diff when the codebase is growing faster than your coffee gets cold. Unit tests and classic E2E still matter – they're brilliant once you know what you want to keep stable.
But in the everything changes daily phase, I'm experimenting with something else: scenarios + a judge that demands evidence.
I'm exploring scenario-driven agentic E2E: the spec is deterministic, the execution is flexible. And I'm using rubric-based, evidence-only judging with a confidence-scored verdict. The intermediate results are amazing and very promising!
More soon, folks.
The weird part is: the state can be super "efficient" when it comes to fines. But when it comes to delivering what it promises, suddenly everything is manual. School place delayed? Good luck. You can spend months pushing and still end up with no compensation, just the thing you should’ve had in the first place.
Because Western European governments suck you dry, take all your money and then spend it on non-natives who don't want to work and leech off the system, instead of natives who deserve it
I'm an immigrant myself and all I've done in the many countries I've lived is be a net contributor, that's not the majority in W-EU now, I don't think I should get any money as a non-native
A rewrite is tempting because it feels clean. In practice it often stalls a team.
In 2016 I needed to move a production app from Backbone + CoffeeScript to React + GraphQL, and we had to keep shipping. The only way that worked was a gradual migration with a clear boundary.
We created a Backbone base class, ReactView, that still looked like a LayoutView but rendered React components. Backbone updated Apollo local state, and React re-rendered the right part of the UI. That gave us a stable interface between old and new.
For a while we lived with two build pipelines: Grunt for CoffeeScript, Webpack for React. Same repo, same page. Not elegant, but it kept the feedback loop alive.
Feature by feature, over months, we moved across. Users never noticed – which is exactly what you want.
I've just entered this Paradise Lost contest and you can too, here: toneden.io/paradise-lost/pos…
Me after seeing how many tasks still remain, even though I’ve completed A LOT!
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Deutschland, wir haben ein Problem! Hier lesen Sie das BILD-Manifest. bild.de/politik/inland/polit…
Thanks @chilipeppers for spending 7,438 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to One Way Traffic. #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/artist/0L8E… 😝
More cool disco gothic stuff from Nick and Greg of Paradise Lost! 💀💀
HOST - Tomorrow's Sky (Official Music Video) youtu.be/pActIe_Ca0k via @YouTube
Silvana Mangano who acted Reverend Mother Ramallo in Lynch's Dune has obviously some more gorgeous characters to enjoy
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This hits on multiple levels
ALT A line drawing of a bed and the bed is labeled laptop RAM then there is a dog which is taking up 3/4 of the bed and the dog is labeled Chrome and finally there is a person sleeping next to the dog and they are labeled everything else
For those who are interested – The German Vaccination dashboard with the most actual stats and info.
impfdashboard.de/
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