Building digital products for newsrooms & publishers. Founder nowmetrix.com, a real-time dashboard for editorial teams. Past: @Blickch @20Min @Swisscom

Joined September 2011
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Indie Hacking for 6 years from this desk✨🧑🏻‍💻🏡
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Notice that they haven’t said Siri won’t continue to be a massive pile of garbage on HomePod.
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Programming was deeply satisfying work to me. Work for hours/days before getting the payoff of the code working well on your machine. I’m feeling so much friction now to open the editor and do this kind of task by hand, but also increasingly depressed with the nature of work in an AI assisted dev workflow. Back and forth prompting seems to eat at my soul. Need to find a balance that brings back some of the toil.
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Alright interns, we need to have some real talk here I am tired of vibing on stream. I dont really like vibe coding unless its a tool i have no desire to build (how i manage things on my stream / how i write my youtube videos are great examples of things i would never build but i have). I dont like vibing the things i care about. I hate the code it generates, i hate the feeling of getting everything i ask for and nothing i want. I hate the subtle offness around vibe coded things. It is just driving me nuts. So for the next while i am going to be done vibing on stream. I genuinely have been trying my hardest to make this work and i cannot quite put a finger on why i hate it, but i do. And i just feel so horribly guilty and wrong because i am not getting the results of "everyone else on twitter." How am i, someone who prides themselves on making youtube videos that i think are actually good for people. To make videos that help people laugh at the silliness of tech or learn something new. But here i am not able to keep up with all these people claiming the sky is literally coming down. I just feel horrible and guilty about it. Now i know the world is changing fast, and i want to be able to understand that change super well, be able to talk about it, be able to give really accurate opinions about it so for the last 3 months i have vibe coded an absurd amount of things. But now... i am just tired of it. I dont want this any more. I want to be a tradcoder. I dont know why i told everyone this, but i just have this growing sickness that is just eating me alive around vibing and i dont know how to express it. You all are fired, CEO ThePrimeagen
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keep your chin up, king
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2 Büroplätze in Prenzlauer Berg frei! Es gibt: nette Kollegen, Küche, Kaffeemaschine, Mikrowelle, Monitor, Drucker, gelegentlich einen freundlichen Hund. Außerdem: Extra-Raum mit Schreibtisch und Sofa für ruhiges (oder lautes) Arbeiten, auch als Podcast-Studio geeignet.
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23 Jan 2025
Google is testing the exclusion of journalistic content from Google search results in 9 EU countries. This affects 2.6 Mio users in Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Croatia, the Netherlands, Poland & Spain.
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21 Dec 2024
This is false, but it might be a good thing if belief in it became moderately widespread, because then all the remaining programmers would be in it for love and not just for money.
19 Dec 2024
If you are a software engineer who’s three years into your career: quit now. there is not a single job in CS anymore. it's over. this field won't exist in 1.5 years.
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27 Jun 2024
I had been using Datadog 4 years for free Today, I received a call from them, and they said they want almost $400/month if I want to continue using it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ To which (easy to set up) open-source alternative should I switch? I don't need logging features, etc. I mainly want to see CPU usage, load, etc from all my servers in a single dashboard.
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24 Jun 2024
The first customer of my startup will always have a special place in my heart 💙
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“If our new product can eliminate your career, maybe you should never have had that career” is an absolutely wild position to take. The sheer arrogance and inability to read the room.
20 Jun 2024
OpenAI's Mira Murati: "some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place"
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19 Jun 2024
NEW: Perplexity is ignoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt), using a secret server to regurgitate news articles and investigations that take reporters years to create, often without giving us credit. W/ @timmarchman wired.com/story/perplexity-i…
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10 Jun 2024
The best OpenAI wrapper I've ever seen 📠🇩🇪 "Fax AI is an experiment that uses artificial intelligence to respond to your fax requests"
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Petition for Vercel to be listed as an online casino as going viral can result in major financial losses
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3 Jun 2024
Replying to @arnavsahu341
None of us in cool software land want to believe it but: UI really doesn’t matter *that* much, esp if the software works.
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16 May 2024
🖤🧡🤎 🇯🇵
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i did it 🇯🇵🗾
28 Sep 2023
"You need to go serverless, ANYTHING can happen!" OR, I can just use 2 PHP VPS with Cloudflare and a LoadBalancer, and I'll be able to fly to Japan next year with the money I save 🇯🇵🗾👋
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Two months ago, @ThisHouseFresh sounded the alarm about Google killing independent sites. I wrote an update on things I’ve learned and things that happened after publishing that article: housefresh.com/how-google-de… SPOILER: We have lost 91% of traffic from Google since then.
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This is why we need regulation. This is dumb, harmful, and will mostly hurt exactly those that would benefit from professional help.
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