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Wolfgang Kaufmann @datentyp

I help teams and organizations to build things that last.

Joined May 2008
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'The world is fucked and we're all gonna die anyways so why not do the thing that makes you happy? There is no "later", "better" life, because the life you're living now is the only one you have.' -- 105246833-paul on "Mediations for Mortals" by @oliverburkeman
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"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." -- @TonyRobbins
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"The ordinary human being does not live long enough to draw any substantial benefit from his own experience. And no one, it seems, can benefit by the experiences of others. [..] I know we can teach our children nothing. Each must learn its lessons anew." --Albert Einstein, 1929
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"An LLM can be instructed to just figure all that shit out. Often, it will drop you precisely at that golden moment where shit almost works, and development means tweaking code and immediately seeing things work better." --@tqbf
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"The compounding nature of failures increases the importance of maintenance for every critical component." --Daniel Puttick
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"Adding features wins games, but bug fixing wins championships." --@hypercritical
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"The path is clear: we are no longer just using machines, we are now working with them. We'll look back at this decade the way past generations looked at electricity or the printing press — not as a curiosity, but as the moment when everything changed." --@mitsuhiko
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"Most of your thoughts are not actually yours: they arose and grew and evolved in many other brains before they infected you." -- @aureliengeron (or GitHub's Copilot) in "Natural Language Processing with Transformers"
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"Interesting and significant software is beyond the capacity of any one person to build alone in a reasonable time frame. This means that the fundamental, crucial, core skills in building software are communication and collaboration." --@LarsWirzenius
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"Data is the most critical part of your infrastructure. You lose your network: that’s downtime. You lose your data: that’s a company ending event." --@JackLindamood
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"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice there is." -- Benjamin Brewster, Yale Literary Magazine, 1882
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"Planning is not a substitute for testing." --@CaryMillsap #HowtoMakeThingsFaster
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"Testing? TESTING? Why do you think I do open source? I like the programming part. I even like the debugging part. But testing - that's what users are for. No?" -- Linus Torvalds
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"But since I can't really test them myself, I'd really like that. I did these patches just by looking at the source code, and while I think that's an excellent way to do development, I do think that testing is _also_ required." -- Linus Torvalds
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Wolfgang Kaufmann retweeted
Gregor@ghohpe
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Microservices architecture
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“Quickly resolving bugs critically depends on being able to examine the problem while the original intent is still fresh in the original author’s head. (1/2)
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It will never again be as easy to debug a problem as it was right after it was written and shipped. It only gets harder from there; speed is key.” (2/2) #ObservabilityEngineering
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” — Carl Edward Sagan
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"In a sense, all understanding is compression." --@ryanatmention #LightbendDataEngineering
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"It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself." --Charles Robert Darwin
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