AI moved the bottleneck
AI makes it easier to produce work, which makes coordination harder to ignore.
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Writing and projects from Simon Schraeder, a software engineer in Stuttgart.
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Why being fast is important
Speed is not about rushing. It is about shortening the path to feedback, learning sooner, and keeping work cheap to change.
Books - Difficult Conversations
To get better at management is to get better at conversations. And sometimes the conversations you need to have are not easy. This book gives a lot of valuable pointers.
Book - Chris Voss: Never Split the Difference
Never Split the Difference is a useful book for engineering management because it treats negotiation as finding the real constraints in a conversation.
Checking the Canteen Menu with Claude using MCP
I got tired of hunting for our canteen menu on Confluence every day, so I built a quick MCP server that lets me ask Claude what's for lunch instead.
Books - HBR - Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership
Sometimes we are on, sometimes we are not. This classic HBR title was a great read.
Connecting your Steam Deck to WiFi with WPS
Typing in a long password is annoying and the KDE UI doesn't make it easy to use WPS.
🤓 Quick note: Easy rebasing with GitLab
It's annoying to rebase your branch. But GitLab makes it super simple to do so.
Using Puppeteer on Hetzner ARM machines
Hetzners new ARM offering is quite attractive. I recently used it in a Puppeteer project, but struggled with one small thing.
How to Build Products Users Love
atarimae hinshitsu vs miryokuteki hinshitsu. How to build a product that your users will talk about.
Self-hosting Bitwarden behind Tailscale
LastPass was hacked and user data was stolen. This inspired to move my Bitwarden data from the cloud to my network. In this post I'll describe how to do that with vaultwarden, Caddy and Tailscale.