Posts by Tim Wehrle
I'm a huge movie fan. I'd even call myself a cinephile . The films I enjoy most are the ones that leave me thinking afterwards. What I don't want to think about beforehand is where I can actually watch them. These days, movies are spread across what feels like a hundred different streaming services. I still don't understand why there isn't a better built-in solution for this. Or maybe I just don't…
Lately, since I've started listening to more music again, I've noticed that I almost always end up replaying the same song over and over. I'll find a song I love, listen to it until I can't stand it anymore, and then move on to the next one. That's the cycle. I know I'm not the only person who does this, so I decided to spend some time figuring out why it happens… while listening to the same song…
A while ago I wrote about storing two bytes inside my mouse's DPI register. It wasn't useful. It wasn't practical. But it did something unfortunate to my brain. Once you've successfully hidden data somewhere it doesn't belong, you start looking at everything as potential storage. A monitor is storage. A keyboard is storage. A BIOS splash screen is (maybe) storage. A favicon is storage. And yes,…
Some time ago, a colleague from another team asked me if I was actually good at my job. The question caught me off guard and I don't remember what I answered. It feels uncomfortable to me to say that I'm good at my job. It feels like bragging. It makes it seem like I'm trying to make myself sound more important than I am. At the same time, it wouldn't have been honest to talk down my work. I stood…
Today I saw a familiar little software moment: someone suggested introducing another microservice. It had its purpose and I would've made the same choice, maybe. But I recognised a pattern where systems introduce a new responsibility, and then, "new responsibility" started sounding suspiciously like "new service". I like microservices. Which is probably why this stuck with me. Once a team has a…
It started with a dumb idea. I have a Logitech MX Vertical, which travels between my home machine, work laptop and other devices constantly. At some point I looked at it and thought: this thing has a flash memory. It has to, otherwise how does it remember the DPI setting between plugs. So what if I stored something in it? Yea, I was bored. The idea was to treat the mouse like a little USB drive.…