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Remembering Piotr “chastell” Szotkowski

Most of this blog post was written 8 months ago, between his passing and his funeral. I didn t find the strength to get back to it for a long, long time, but after talking and reminiscing with a good friend about Piotr I felt it was still worth finishing and publishing.I left most of it [ ]

Slides: Going Staff – CodeBEAM EU Keynote edition

Finally I did it I spoke at CodeBEAM EU not only that, it was a keynote! Which is a bit scary when the likes of Saša are just regular speakers as well as a cast of great speakers all around (including the other 2 keynotes, where I m lucky enough to know the speakers [ ]

Podcast: Deep Dive Ruby & Rails (German)

This is just a quick remark that I m on a podcast again! It s programmier.bar and I m talking with the hosts about Ruby Rails! You can listen to the episode on various platforms. It s meant to be a good listen for beginners and tech interested people as well. It s in German though, so sorry to [ ]

10 Elixir gotchas

No, I ve not gone to the click-baiters ( 10 tips that will change your life today!!! ), but I chose to limit myself to just 10 so that I don t pull what is considered a Tobi and spend days writing a blog post so huge no one wants to read it anyhow. I ll write a follow-up post [ ]

Looking for a Job

No longer looking for a job I m no longer looking for a job! It s not an easy market, the search was long and honestly included some blood, sweat tears. But I got the opportunity to join Screenverse and so am no longer on the market. Full post for historical reasons: It’s that time: I’m [ ]

Interviewing Tips: The Interview

Welcome to the last part of the interview series! In this part we’ll take a look at more general interviews – usually they cover a variety of topics. They also heavily depend on the company. For this purpose the following sections will be split into a bunch of broader topics of discussions (Employment History, Technical [ ]

Slides: Going Staff

And somewhat belatedly the slides I presented at the Ruby User Group Berlin February meetup almost 2 weeks ago 😅 I ve been extremely busy, so sorry for the delay. Going Staff seems to have been one of my most anticipated talks as it s an interesting topic that is still only picking up. It s also a [ ]

Videos & Slides: Stories in Open Source

Back last year in June 2023 I was lucky to speak at lambda days 2023 about one of my favorite topics: Open Source! And it s not just Open Source, but it s my story in Open Source and my journey throughout Open Source so far. As such, it s by far the most personal talk I ve [ ]

Tail-Recursive & Body-Recursive Function Performance Across Elixir & BEAM versions – what’s the impact of the JIT?

I ve wanted to revisit Tail Call Optimization in Elixir Erlang – not as efficient and important as you probably think (2016) for a while so much so that I already revisited it once ~5 years ago to show off some benchee 1.0 features. As a reminder, in these the results were: So, why should [ ]

Benchee 1.3.0 published – oh, save the memory!

As per usual you can check out the official Changelog for what exactly happened. This is a more personal look, featuring both the highlights of the release and some more musings. The highlights are: So let s dig in a bit. How did this release happen? I didn t want to release a new benchee version so [ ]