Matthias Bohlen

Matthias Bohlen

@bohlenlabs.com

SW-engineer who made https://customerping.ai, an AI that finds customers for your business while you do something else. Now working on eliza.money, a social network designed for private stock investors. I love "Matrix".

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Do you feel especially lonely or have FOMO when you see how many friends your friends have on social media? It's true! On average, you are less popular than your friends are! 😳 But it's not your fault because... 👇

Mathematically speaking, in any connected graph, the average degree of neighbors tends to be greater than the average degree of nodes. So, the only mistake you made is *not* to ask the rest of the people in the social network. Isn't math wonderful? 🤔😀

Today I heard that Pocket, the bookmark manager, will be shut down. 🥲 Does anyone know an open source, self-hostable alternative? I want to run it inside a Docker container on my NAS. It should work similar to Instapaper, with a nice browser extension for Firefox.

OMG, I have been refactoring a monolith into 35 separate TypeScript projects! Took me 2 weeks until every package had the right name and the package graph was free of cycles. Now I need to break the UI into several components as well. Afterwards, I can start to deploy again. Phew!

Today, I tried to have an AI convert my Eslint configuration from V8 to V9 format. It failed spectacularly although I gave it the migration guide to read. I am not convinced about coding aids, yet.

Me, while I’m breaking up a monolith today: “Let’s pull this stuff out as a separate package.” “Oh, it needs that other stuff, well… let’s pull out the other stuff, first.” (repeats the previous sentence ten times…) #indiehacking #notfun

What I do on a Saturday morning: 😂 One AI (Eliza) is watching me and summarizes what I said to another AI (Dividend Dan, my future expert for good dividend stocks) – all inside my social network for stock investors. I must say, she's right:

Tomorrow I will try something new: Writing a Drone script to package a Python program into a single executable, including all dependencies. Wish me luck! #buildinpublic

TIL that a Python program compiled on one Linux machine doesn’t necessarily run on another Linux machine because the target runs on an older version of glibc. 😳 I ended up running an Ubuntu:22.04 Docker container on the target machine that runs Ubuntu 20. #buildinpublic

Adding more metrics to my stock screener. Found some interesting stocks by screening for a negative price change in the last 12 months but a positive price change in the last 6 months. Combined this with some metrics for undervalued stocks, and bingo: 😮 #buildinpublic

After some time that I have been using the Kindle Scribe, I decided to return it: - mathematical formulas in books are displayed as gibberish - handwritten notes cannot be read on my other Kindles - the web browser’s quality is ridiculous Now I will try the Boox Note Air4.

Good! The refactoring is over and everything works again. Want to find stocks that are comparatively cheap these days, so you could buy them at a good price? Using the stock screener in "Eliza and the Moneymakers", you would do it like this: #buildinpublic