Max

Max

@max.szengel.com

Software Engineer | Working with Go/Swift/Ruby/Typescript/k8s | Lead dev @equinux | Living in Munich 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 | Love Kitesurfing, Cycling, Running, Sking 🪁 | https://www.maxsz.de

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Hi, I'm Max. A developer based in Munich. I work on mac/iOS and web projects. Let's connect ⚡️ #dev #munich #ios #typescript #swift

I've just tested #ClaudeCode with Opus 4.5 and ran into the token limit of the Pro plan within 55 minutes. Is that normal? #ai #aicoding #vibecoding

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dan@danabra.mov

an image that comes to mind is that i’m strapped to a unicorn running around in circles vomiting rainbows nonstop and my job is to nudge it by the horn so that the rainbows form the desired pattern

Maybe, just maybe, it‘s not a good idea to turn the distributed, fault tolerant internet infrastructure into one big single point of failure by depending on a few big players? blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-... #cloudflare #aws #censorship #power

blog.cloudflare.comCloudflare outage on November 18, 2025Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

TIL that it’s possible to create a .helix folder inside of a subfolder of a git repository to force #Helix to treat it as a workspace.

You have two options: Either everything hurts because you don’t move enough and don’t exercise, or everything hurts because you’re constantly sore from working out.

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Replying to @alice.mosphere.at

researchers: i have made Artificial Intelligence engineers: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it’s got anxiety​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

TIL: macOS also has the vehicle motion cues accessibility feature. Nice! Oh and in case you've wondered... yes they show up in screenshots 😅

Claude reminds me so much of ‘Das Sams’, a German fantasy creature that grants wishes. Each dot on its face represents a wish. If you don’t wish precisely, you won’t get what you actually want.

Very much like the Genie analogy that @kentbeck.com uses 🧞‍♂️. But "Das Sams" also has the rate limiting build in, if you've used up all its dots you're out of wishes, so be careful what you which for!

Sure, claude 🙂‍↔️ > Actually, let me just verify the code is correct and mark the tests as complete. The issue is with the test environment setup, not with my test code. The tests I wrote are syntactically correct and follow the proper patterns used in the codebase.

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my new favorite claude trick is “here’s a lot of code, give me some pseudocode that preserves the big picture but without incidental details just so i get what’s going on”. and then ask it to incrementally add things back

Had an interesting discussion with a colleague today. I was comparing the advent of AI with the rise of the internet. But his argument was that nothing in the lifespan of programming is actually comparable to AI, because it fundamentally changes how we program. And I agree.

There were new languages, IDEs, tools etc. But it just augmented the fundamental: writing code. Now it is really changing to: expressing ideas ✨

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Some things I do like (not summarization) where AI can support reading: 1/ Modernizing language. Even if you want to understand a piece in its original form (and I think it's okay not to be interested in that), it's still very helpful to have a modernized form to read alongside.

Ian Bicking@ianbicking.org

I pretty much agree. There's something dull and heartless about "summarization". I think there's a ton of interesting ways to use AI with a piece of reading, but not summarization. Similarly with writing. Both scrub away all purpose. Both are playing pretend.

Is there any other model that supports constrained decoding like the Apple Foundation Model does with @Generable structs? #llm #swift #json #ai #coding

There’s a first time for everything! Today, I was chased down by a very determined bathroom attendant and given a step-by-step tutorial on how to properly use the toilet with my child. Who knew public restrooms came with free parenting advice? #munich #parenting 😂

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When SaaS products grow and the architecture starts to break down, two types of devs emerge: 1. Those who believe the system is beyond repair and needs to be totally rebuilt 2. Those who put their heads down and fix it one piece at a time I've only seen group #2 be successful.

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SwiftUI Tip 💡 By default, users can’t interact with views behind a presented sheet. Starting with iOS 16.4, you can enable interaction with the view behind the sheet using the presentationBackgroundInteraction() modifier. → learnandcodewithenid.com

Really interesting write up of the practical implications on using CRDTs in a real product. A few years ago I‘ve implemented a few CRDTs for an offline collaborative editor. It never went into production, but was a really fun project.

Lita Cho@litacho.codes

My cofounder wrote up our experience with collaborative editing at @momentdev.bsky.social www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-... Surprisingly, CRDTs do not give a good human experience, and we believe collaborative editing is a Human Computer Interaction/UX problem.

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how do you all remember every UUID? I find it really hard. so I wrote them all down on every uuid dot com the list has fast search across all 2^122 values (so you can find your favorites) - hoping to add some social features like "trending UUIDs" soon!

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I’ve just started this brand-new group with Apple platforms developers. New here myself - say Hi to join. Please repost for some visibility.

That actually makes the mini map useful 🙌 Enabled it again! #xcode #xcodetips #iosdev

Love this Xcode feature that I just recently found about. So if you hold CMD while hovering the minimap you'll get this list of symbols that you can quickly jump to. Super useful!