30 articles tagged with culture
24th of May, 2025 · Tagged with dev, culture
Reinvent the Wheel
One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to not reinvent the wheel. It usually comes from a good place, but is typically given by two groups of people: those who tried to invent a wheel themselves and know how hard it is those who never tried to invent a wheel and blindly follow the advice Eith… More »
13th of April, 2025 · Tagged with culture
No Matter What
As kids, our parents established a few simple rules that we would all follow, no matter the circumstances. One of them was that we’d always have dinner together in the evening, typically around 6pm. In almost two decades, they never broke that rule. We had dinner on 9/11 and when mom was at the hosp… More »
4th of April, 2025 · Updated on 18th of April, 2025 · Tagged with dev, culture
The Best Programmers I Know
I have met a lot of developers in my life. Lately, I asked myself: “What does it take to be one of the best? What do they all have in common?” In the hope that this will be an inspiration to someone out there, I wrote down the traits I observed in the most exceptional people in our craft. I wish I h… More »
4th of October, 2024 · Updated on 7th of October, 2024 · Tagged with culture, technology
So You Want to Start a (Tech) Podcast
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 »
7th of September, 2024 · Updated on 18th of December, 2024 · Tagged with culture, technology, trends
Follow the Hackers
Want to see tomorrow’s important technologies? Watch what hackers are passionate about today. Defining “Hacker” I’m using the term “hacker” in the spirit of the Hacker Ethic, as described by authors like Steven Levy and Pekka Himanen. In this context, a hacker is someone… More »
2nd of September, 2024 · Tagged with culture
Be Simple
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 »
20th of August, 2024 · Tagged with culture
What to Write
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 »
15th of August, 2024 · Updated on 17th of August, 2024 · Tagged with culture, dev
Move Slow and Fix Things
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 »
12th of August, 2024 · Updated on 13th of August, 2024 · Tagged with culture
Asking Better Questions
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 »
8th of August, 2024 · Updated on 26th of August, 2024 · Tagged with culture
The Dying Web
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 »