For the past year, I’ve been hosting the Rust in Production, a podcast about companies who shape the future of infrastructure. This journey has taught me a lot about what it takes to create and maintain a successful podcast. Well, success is always relative; at the moment we have around 5k regular (… More »
This post offers personal insights on predicting tech trends by observing hackers. It’s based on subjective observations and should be read with critical thinking. If you’re looking for meticulously researched, data-driven analyses, you might want to check out an actual research paper instead! … More »
Last night I realized that my life is very simple. That’s not by chance, but by conscious effort. Life becomes complex all by itself if you do nothing about it. One day you’ll wake up and you have a mortgage, 10 on-demand subscriptions, 20 insurances, 1000 open browser tabs, a demanding job and a do… More »
People sometimes ask me how I come up with things to write. To me, it’s the same as asking how I come up with things to say. There’s always something to say. It might not be novel or interesting to most, but it’s important to me and hopefully to someone else. What people actually want to know is how… More »
Growing up as a kid in rural Bavaria, I always dreamed of moving to the US to run a startup. Many kids in my generation shared that dream. To me, it felt like the only way to combine my two greatest passions: writing code and building things. As I got older, I became disillusioned with the narrative… More »
Recently, I realized that I mostly get paid to ask questions. As a consultant, advising companies As a podcast host In calls with potential clients The curious thing is that, like most people in a similar position, I never had any formal training in asking questions! I basically just wing it and t… More »
I look left and right, and I’m the only one who still uses Firefox. At conferences and in coworking spaces, it’s always the same scene: people using some flavor of Chrome. Sometimes it’s Brave, … More »
One of the hardest challenges I know is how to sell to developers. This is NOT an article for developers. Today, I want to write for non-developers whose job it is to sell to developers. My goal is to help you understand how they think. Developers Hate Being Sold To We t… More »
In which I look at unconventional ways to print 'Hello, world!' in Rust as an excuse to teach some Rust concepts and foster curiosity. Seemingly simple problems can have surprisingly complex, often humbling solutions. More »
I’ve come a long way in my tech journey, from dealing with bare metal servers to exploring the world of cloud computing. Initially, it seemed so straightforward – spin up a server, deploy a container, and you’re done. But as I delved deeper, I realized that the ease of infrastructure is not as simpl… More »