Mike Engel

@munichmakerlab.bsky.social Hi! I’m in the process of moving, and have some spare Prusa MK3+ parts (motors, cables, Y axis guide rails, etc.) Would you all be interested in taking them? If not they‘ll probably go to the Wertstoffhof. Ciao!

Starter pack for folks building with @emberjs.com Where my ember peeps at, I'd love to add some more 💜 go.bsky.app/2uVJucq

FCK FDP

Americans opened up a history book to 1930‘s germany and said I’ll have one of those thanks

I think I’d be less anti-AI if it was still just called machine learning

Has anyone gone from front end development into something cool like writing software for rockets?

I can’t say I really feel like an elder, but I’ll take it

No one tells you how much superglue you’ll use when you have a kid

*eating healthy during the week and then absolutely eating a zillion calories of garbage on the weekend* it's called a cut/bulk cycle look it up

That feeling when according to the syllabus you could have your first solo flight in three more missions, but then the CFI tells you you need 100 landings to do a solo flight, but you’re only at 45 😭

Flight training progress during my sabbatical: Monday: sick Tuesday: recovering Wednesday: IFR weather Here’s hoping Thursday and Friday are better 🥲

federal background check: check flight log: check knee board: check plane reservation app login: check medical exam: check headphones: check theoretical test: practical test:

federal background check: check flight log: check knee board: check plane reservation app login: check medical exam: scheduled headphones: almost theoretical test: practical test:

Finally got my background check for flying (Zuverlassungsüberprüfung), so now I just have to wait for the invite to the scheduling platform and my flight book and I can finally start flying in a real plane

SCULLY: how much data is there TECH: enough to fill seven 10 gigabyte hard drives ME: so ME: 70 gigabytes

I’m pretty sure I’m learning just as much about flying from @kyracloudy.bsky.social as I am from my textbooks

The cool thing about being a bluesky user in europe is that all the bugs appear and are fixed while I’m sleeping

In germany it’s physically impossible for ups to find your address. Just can’t do it

has npm link ever worked?

German dentists are nicer than American dentists by far

There’s something magical about working with ASTs. I normally don’t need to use them, but when I do my power feels limitless

Really good UX on GitHub when creating a PR with lots of changed files and the inputs slow to a crawl. 11/10 great job!

Officially a part of the mushrooms, on shiitake no less, probably my favorite mushroom! plc.directory/did:plc:teyl...

Hi I wrote about my struggle to use variable fonts on macOS with SwiftUI and how I got it to work. Maybe you’ll find it useful, too. mike-engel.com/writing/vari...

Wrote my first rust macro today 🥹

I have arrived