2019 was a shitty year. It was possibly one my unhappiest times, together with some of the shitty periods during my master. The first couple months of 2020 were even shittier. The second half of 2020 was way better though and I managed to get back to a way better state. There s a number of [ ]
I ve left the company I was previously working for at the end of 2018. In this post I want to reflect on some technical things I learnt there which I found really valuable. Have a style guide and enforce it with a linter A linter is a program which checks that your code follows certain [ ]
I have to say that 2019 was not my best year. Actually looking back on the last years it was a significant low. This is mostly because I got caught up in a lot of stuff and in the end wasn t in line with the way I would actually like to have my life. Kind [ ]
Dave Asprey Head Strong I read the book since I felt that I was entering a competitive job and I felt that I could improve in some ways. For example, I felt that my ability to concentrate or my working memory could be improved. The book is on different facets bio-hacking and extremely extensive. [ ]
Like in the last years here comes my yearly recap. Older flashbacks can be found for 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010. 2018 went by really fast. Faster than the last years. Probably because of having a routine, having a 5-day 40 hour workweek. Rough highlights were our trip to Sri-Lanka, another [ ]
Books I read in the last years: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014. This year: 13 books 11 in english, 2 in german. Albert Warnecke Was Sie über Vermögensaufbau wirklich wissen müssen There were two outstanding books I read this year, the first on the list and the last. This (first) book is basically a [ ]
During my time at mbr I wrote a couple of Slack Apps which I included into the internal company channels. I m quite happy with the way they turned out and how actively they were used. They all contributed to the great company atmosphere either in functional or entertaining ways. Weekly interview with a random [ ]
The idea for this post actually came from Markus. His idea was to post the individual points as an advents calendar, one item each day. I sadly did not manage writing this up in time, but I had written down some notes and so I thought I d finish this nevertheless. Since quite a while we [ ]
I spent a couple months of 2018 diving into Rust, a modern low-level programming language with high-level language features functional programming, asynchronous programming, closures, . The language is a bit out of the family of languages that I usually work with and so a lot of stuff had to be learnt. Also, I characterize [ ]
For the largest part of February I was backpacking in Sri Lanka together with Valerie. Before going there I didn t know much about the country and didn t have much of an idea what to expect always a very good prerequisite for travelling, I think. Sri Lanka is a small Island just below South [ ]