Timo Mämecke

Modeling Actions as Resources timomeh.de/posts/modeli...

Trying to get back into latte art and doing something that's not just a simple heart! A feather is still pretty close to a heart though.

Good news: Software engineering isn't going to be replaced by AI. Bad news: You still have to deal with cross-team dependencies and alignment meetings. I've collected my thoughts on the future of engineering, and it's surprising how many of our problems need to be human. timomeh.de/posts/softwa...

1989 but feels like today

Just landlord things 🙄

Waffle House's "Magic" Marker System is the most unhinged thing I've seen in a while. timomeh.de/posts/waffle...

When contractors tell you they'll come on a Saturday at 8:30 am (!!!), then they actually show up at 11:30 am and do nothing except say they want to come again next Saturday at 9 am

sad story in 6 words

A people sceptic. timomeh.de/posts/a-peop...

I've wanted the ability to do some cable management in my Railway projects for a long time.

I've written a new library, Vla 🚀 github.com/timomeh/vla Vla is a data layer that integrates into any TypeScript framework (Next.js, SvelteKit, Express, Koa, Tanstack, etc) and provides structure to write smooth, clean, scalable and testable backend codebases.

CS degree but defeated by pairing a vtech kiddie walkie talkie

Really looking forwards to drive home to my parents for christmas, but procrastinating a lot having to carry stuff downstairs into the car four times.

Intentionally left ugly: an homage to my favorite way of building software. timomeh.de/posts/intent...

I wish dependabot were a tiny bit smarter. Like: biome's config has the version in its schema URL. So if dependabot updates biome, the schema version doesn't match the installed version anymore, and it will complain. Just do it for me, pls.

If your crons on Railway were running a bit late recently, they should be better now. I rolled out a few updates between 18:30 and 19:30, and there are clearly some significant changes in cron timing. A few late stragglers here and there, but we'll catch those too.

I dreamed about a @techconnectify.bsky.social video where Alec explained that the Advent wreath was invented to improve TV remote signal strength in winter. You would aim through the candles, and it helped to turn off the TV during cold winter nights.

I tried cutting pizza with scissors today because I heard only good things about it and holy fuck I hated it, there wasn't a single good thing about it.

Regular Friday morning: make coffee reboot the light switches

Pro-Tip: using BigInt() in your code makes it look 10x more important. I was juggling storage sizes today. 9 petabytes in bytes already hit MAX_SAFE_INTEGER. 9PB is a lot but also isn't.

What my dentist thinks I'm doing in the hour before my appointment vs. what I'm really doing

Some popular hosting platforms taught developers the wrong assumption that every hosting-adjacent feature must be built into the platform or bought as another SaaS, when in reality, you often just need to run a docker image. Gotta reeducate.

Had my first unproductive day in 3 months. Thanks to MacBook issues. One day. In 3 months. Just because of tech problems. Not because of meetings or calls or metawork. Actually I'm not even mad, that's amazing.

me: blocks ntp in firewall on homelab vps tunnel vps: time drifts out of sync, google oauth breaks me: surprised_pikachu.png

work this week be like

me when getting paged and pods are restarting

good season for some evening piano

That's probably how I sleep on a plane, judging by the back pain I now have.

MEX 🛬 FRA 🚄 CGN I thought I can escape jetlag, but I just slept for 12 hours.

I just waited 2 hours for my bag at FRA airport until I was told it's in a separate baggage claim near the train station, because I have a connecting train. Who tf designs this crap. A train is not a plane, don't treat it like one. Against user expectation.

TIL the United States has no transit zone, so you need to go through US immigration for a connecting flight. The german in me thinks this is very inefficient.

I fell asleep while a Vsauce YouTube Short was playing on my tablet. I woke up over 6 hours later. It looped fucking 400 times.

the arrow between buckets and services has landed

Bought some melatonin today to combat jetlag next week. I had to try one out. idk why but it always fascinates me that medicine actually works. i'm so fucking sleepy

Just imagine how much time and money has been wasted on reimplementing shitty versions of iOS's wheel picker.

Buckets meets @railway.com 🪣🚅 I just pressed the release button. I've read every single feedback. I hear y'all. Obviously, can't do everything at once, but this is a banger start. S3-compatible buckets with a single click in seconds. On your canvas, right next to your services and databases. Wild.

Replica Metrics (one of my first projects at @Railway) is now in GA! You can check how your replicas are doing, spot hot or underutilized regions, and catch replicas going wild. choo choo 🚅 docs.railway.com/reference/me...

TIL there's a german PhD thesis from 1978 about guys injuring their junk by sticking it into a hoover. It lists 16 medical cases. Case 14 is about a guy cleaning up and curiosity got him. Case 15 is about case 14's father who wanted to prove his son lied. He did not lie.

It's mindblowing what's possible within a week. I started adding Buckets to Railway on Monday. Today, 5 days later, I can create a Bucket in a project, click deploy, copy the credentials from the frontend, and upload files to it. That's kinda crazy.

Infra as Code doesn't gift you confidence. You're only as confident in your changes as you are in the tool. If it feels like magic and you don't understand it, it makes you less confident, not more.

There comes a point where a 3rd party API is just so ill-designed that you can't think of any way to abstract it nicely, and you just add a big comment block to explain what the actual fuck is going on.