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✍🏾 Publish my probably most personal and reflective Year in Review post rathes.me/blog/en/revi...

There is no player who deserved to win the ballon d'or more than Harry Kane (except for maybe Lewandowski in 2020)

I have a question for all the designers out there: I feel like for someone who's not interested in the AI stuff or design to code, the Figma plan of $16 a month just to be able to organize my work in project and pages feels like a lot. What is the alternative? Moving back to Sketch?

Sunday night and already at 77%, side projects are going well, I would say 😅

Running a business in Germany is almost as much paperwork as it was 10 years ago. Digitalisierung hasn't really worked here yet, it seems

After almost 3 years working purely on my MacBook, I've finally got myself an external keyboard and trackpad. Such a weird feeling at the moment but it will definitely payout in fewer back and shoulder pains

Anyone else been dealing with this quite a lot recently on @github.com? When it's a stacked PR the experience is even worse.

Proud parent moment: Our little one is another 4 months away from turning two but he can already identify and name whenever he's getting angry.

Currently trying out Superset instead of Herdr. Still trying to figure out what makes it different. Anyone else using it?

I miss being able to make my espresso at home. I know have the money to buy myself my dream espresso machine but don't have the time in the mornings to actually make one. So I am right now waiting for my kid's settling-in phase at the nursery to finish

The Christiano Ronaldo drama is just ridiculous 😂

Reading so many "Got sick and tired of tool XYZ being shit so I build a version of it myself that fits my needs" 😅

Any other engineer who thinks that the pre-AI era feels like the pre-Covid life?

Random shower thought: Every SaaS/App these days should have an API and either a CLI or MCP

Clean and minimal looking code is not automatically the better option.

Being here at my son’s nursery during his settling in phase, I’m experiencing how hard the job as a teacher here is. All the different noises, constant chaos everywhere and then the number of kids for so little staff

Is designing for the iPhone Duo with the new camera and tab bar position a new UX pattern or is this already something that the other foldable phones have had already?

Does anyone else has a feeling Claude always tries to active avoid #CSS subgrids? Even if they make perfectly sense?

I would really love to have the iPhone Duo but I think it's best to wait for the next generation of these (if they even get a second gen)

There are days where I wonder if I will ever be able to keep pace with the speed of AI and its development. If I actually want to keep pace with it.

I need to make sure that I introduce everyone at @buffer.com to this lovely drink at the next retreat and see how each react to it

Whenever Nico Robin reads out some historical texts in One Piece, I wished my Japanese was better than just reading Hiragana and understanding some basic words and sentences 😅

I finally upgraded to @raycast.com 2 yesterday. The migration process was so smooth and today I had almost forgotten that the upgrade even happened. Perfect upgrade experience 😍

At this point Github Actions is more down than up, no? 😅

I am deep enough in iOS development that I'm currently trying to set up a deployment pipeline with Xcode Cloud. Would not have thought that I would do this at the beginning of this year 😲

Update: Even the owner knows my name, such an inspiring person, hopefully gonna get to chat to him more often! bsky.app/profile/rath...

Airports, especially arrivals, always show the worst in people.

Found the perfect coffee spot near our new apartment that we are about to move to. Next goal: The barista knows my name and what I will order. In a small town like ours, this should be achievable 😁☕

About to board our first long haul flight with our little toddler. Wish us luck 🤞🏾

Build Week at @buffer.com was such a great success 😍😍😍

Thoughtful async work isn't a trade-off against speed, but chat is a bad home for it. A sketch of what a wiki-first alternative could look like. rathes.me/blog/en/asyn...

Recently found this app called FlowTunes and it is just perfect to get me into focus mode. You might want to try this as well. www.flowtunes.app/c/a07f95d9-a...?

I've been away from the Laravel ecosystem for so long, I don't even remember what the latest version was that I used 🥲

My watch identified my call with the tax authorities as a workout. That’s how exhausting it is here in Germany 😂

Starting the day to 12 open PRs to be reviewed is nothing unusual (especially for someone who worked on remote teams for years) but I still need to get used to the fact that all those PRs are actually mine (by my coding agent) 😅

The next couple of weeks will be about us moving. After 4 months at crashing my parents place with wife and son, we are all excited to complete our move from 🇬🇧 to 🇩🇪 with our first night in our own apartment

Anyone convince me that the La Marzocco Linea Mini is absolutely fine and I don't need the Mini R. I am really struggling to convince myself 😅

I need to get rid of my Polar Loop again as it's been quite disappointing. So I am looking at alternatives: Strongest contenders: 1. Apple Watch Ultra 2. Fitbit Air 3. Garmin Centriq Anything else I should look out for? (For someone who used to use Whoop and the Oura ring doesn't work for me)

Yesterday, my WhatsApp account got restricted pending a review because I messaged two new numbers back to back (I am moving and had to text my new landlord and property managers) The whole day without WhatsApp made me realize how much I depend on it for so much of every day communication

Recently found this Claude Code plugin for SEO that I've been trying out on a couple of my projects and I have to say that it actually found some really good things for me to tackle github.com/AgricIDaniel...