Matze Schmidbauer

We have an open position for a senior engineer in the @storybook.js.org team again! 🏠 Fully remote 🤗 OSS work every single day 🛠️ Developer tooling and JS ecosystem 🌍 Europe ❌🎨 Not much UI work, mostly behind the scenes details like parsers, rendering, Node.js CLIs, web servers etc.

NYC Neighborhood Complaints. Tag yourself. I’m “Illegal Posting”. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

I keep seeing people mentioning how ai-generated code lets you spend more time thinking about what the app should do, but I think there’s a need to remember that there are large groups of engineers whose role hasn’t been redefined to include that level of control and trust.

It's *super weird* how a good night for democracies anywhere in the world is always a bad night for Vlad and Donny, personally and specifically.

Oh look, Opus created a new website rcllr.schmidbauer.dev

📊 LayerChart: Bin edition Aggregate dense point data into discrete shape-based bins to easily see data trends (ex. heatmaps)

Nature is healing. techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/p...

RIP Arc. Best Browser I ever had.

🙋‍♂️ what if one client worked on every forge? 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔰 is a new TypeScript library for issues, PRs, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges ✨ forges.link

PHP walks into a bar...

#GovDesign klaxon again 🔔 Germany’s Federal Office for Motor Traffic is hiring a graphic, communications or media designer in Flensburg. The person should have substantial web design experience and be knowledgeable about #accessibility More here: verwaltungsgestaltung.de#positionen

Building Vortrieb now

Switchboard 1.0 is out 🎉 Two weeks, 24 releases: all your Claude Code sessions in one window, across your accounts and computers, and on your phone. Free and open source, for Mac and Windows. Thank you to everyone who tried it and sent feedback! switchboard.struyfconsulting.com

Best money I ever overspent: a personal Mac. Now my weekends go to my own projects again instead of overtime on the work laptop. Mostly.

Bitte beachtet diese Mitteilung in eigener Sache. Kein Stellenabbau, sondern Lohnerhöhungen. Das kommt davon: taz.de/geno

I'm enjoying AI and find it useful, but the one thing that bugs me is that every! single! conversation! in my life is now about AI. Business calls? AI. Meeting friends? AI. Waking up in the middle of the night in a city I don't recognize, lying in a pool of my own vomit next to a dead goat? AI

Switchboard 0.0.18 is out 📱 Remote: follow your Claude Code sessions from your phone. Allow or deny what Claude asks, answer its questions, read along, and start a new session. Encrypted end-to-end. Plus a catch-up briefing when a session finishes. switchboard.struyfconsulting.com/remote-access/

TIL about github.com/estruyf/swit... Looks really helpful. The conversation search alone is awesome!

Throwing my brain in to the ring github.com/mschmdb/dumm...

Hit the usage limits of 2 subscriptions in basically the same minute today. That might be a sign.

Wohoo! At least I have a virtual ticket for Svelte Summit now.

We finally have definite guidance on how to name a service well in German. I wrote it over the summer, and it went live in the #ServiceStandard handbook this week. We still see a ridiculous amount of acronyms and animal names, so I had to write it. ⬇️ servicestandard.gov.de/handbuch/anl...

One of my favourites of recent years is ‘BZSt IBAN+‘. That are 2 acronyms in a row in an app’s name. The literal translation would be: ‘Federal Tax Office International Bank Account Number plus’. 😞 A plain-language name following the guidance would be ‘Share bank details with the tax office’.

What I like about this is how direct it is: someone sees a problem and decides to build a different model. NYC is opening five city-backed grocery stores with everything 30% cheaper for everyone. It’s such a simple idea. Which somehow makes it feel quite radical. Average shoppers save $1,000/year

it seems we caught the orange wave, which took me by surprise a bit. i didn't think anyone really cared about frameworks any more! warms the cockles news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992...

I'm at OpenAI's DevDay event in San Francisco today - as I have for the past three DevDay events, I'm running a live blog where I'll be posting updates during the keynote, which starts in five minutes simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/...

Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.

Delta is now in public beta. It’s a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build, with every code change linked to the conversation that produced it. Anyone can download it today on macOS, Linux, and Windows: delta.dev/download

🎉 Introducing npmchart.com Analyze npm packages (downloads, releases), Github activity (releases, stars, commits, issues, PRs), compare packages, user pages, download or copy any charts, and more!

imho one of the best articles about our profession right now - no matter if you agree with the assumptions or not seldo.com/posts/we-are... Well done, @seldo.com, thanks for writing this piece.

We have officially left the “hand transcribed by monks” era of software.

We need AI bots to take over for us when we're stuck on AI hotlines.

(via icy.wyvern.rip/notes/aqyu97...)

tazeins zum Krach in Berlin epaper.taz.de @taz.de @retepkire.bsky.social taz.de/Schwerpunkt-...

I promise it's worth it

If apple doesn't announce foldable iphones, we shouldnt let that stop us from folding them

Ordered a new camera. That means I also need a new domain and a new server and a new portfolio website with complicated upload automations so that I can switch to flickr after a month.

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.” (Blaise Pascal). @terriblesoftware.org explains that the time “saved” by a developer who used AI to make a decision and write code isn’t saved at all. It was just transferred to the next person, who now has even more review time.

Ein Erfolg für Engstirnigkeit, Desinformation und Wladimir Putin. #SachsenAnhalt

#KRITIS Sektor #Staat und #Verwaltung ca. 15.35 Uhr ist das Ultimatum der Erpresser von Berlin abgelaufen, gezahlt wurde nicht. Was kopiert wurde? ca 6 TB an Daten inkl. #Geheimschutz relevanter #Verschlußsachen! 🔥 Nebenbei: Darf ein US Konzern (Crowdstrike) dann eigentlich den Vorfall...