André Simmert
@intellent
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Software engineer. Maintainer of @scrut_ch. Fond of privacy, resilience and clarity.
Stuttgart, DE
Joined March 2009
Haha, love the term “merchants of complexity”. We all need to try harder to resist. Not only when it comes to the cloud but to frameworks and tooling, as well. Have a nice weekend! ✌️.
The merchants of complexity will try to convince you that you can't do anything yourself these days. You can't do auth, you can't do scale, you can't run a database, you can't connect a computer to the internet. You're a helpless peon who should just buy their wares. No. Reject.
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Building a great product and a great company means a saying no to a thousand yeses. But, gosh, that is hard. There’s excitement in saying yes. There’s stress in saying no. You don’t have to explain yourself when you say yes. Saying yes keeps you out of tiresome discussions
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Great news! NGL: One of the reasons I love using @laravelphp is because they have taste and care about design.
Personal news… I'm thrilled to join @laravelphp as Head of Design. I can’t wait to work with this incredible team and help shape the future of Laravel.
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It’s the same when you build a house for your family. The second one is what you really wanted the first time.
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After a new piece of software has been in active use for about two years, every engineer should get the chance to rebuild it from the ground up. To get it right from inside-out this time.
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After using @TeamViewer for over 15 years, I removed it from all family computers today. A prime example of a company forgetting the soul of its product. What used to be simple got complicated. What used to be focused is now bloated. Avoiding this is a challenge for any dev.
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Does anyone at Apple actually walk these floors or work at these desks? Looks like Ikea.
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Today’s shower realization: I’ve been in web development for over 25 years, and have never owned a *.com domain.
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To the user, your front-end is your product. As much as I love thinking about UX, I dislike implementing it. Iterating over my back-end code brings me joy. Do the same with UX? Not so much. It’s tedious. It’s all about the sum of minimal tweaks. Each of which requires a lot of.
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Nobody:.Me in every programming language: Is value != 0 faster than value > 0?.
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Which (web)application do you know has the best release notes? Both in terms of information and design?.
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Sora by @OpenAI shows that AI is best at answering questions that have no right or wrong answers. That’s probably why AI won’t do your taxes for you, ever.
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Programmers should always keep in mind that they are writing code for other programmers and their future selves. Not for the machine, the greater good or their preset selves.
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Today, someone paid the one-time fee for @scrutch. This has never happened before. I have no words to describe my feelings. There is a fellow human being out there who voluntarily paid €50 + VAT just because she/he likes a product I’ve made. Which is free to use anyway. Wow! 💜
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If I could afford an all-electric Porsche, I wouldn’t buy one. Good quality mechanical products tend to gain value over time. Electronic products tend to lose value, regardless of their quality at launch. So would you spend 100k+ on an all-electric Porsche today? Especially if.
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Done it ten thousand times by now: It has never been and never will be fun to arrange input fields and design forms. 🫤.
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Pro-tip: Use a public ID that is cryptographically derived from.your internal primary key. Preparing a.small article about that ….
Do not use UUID for primary keys.
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I’m not going to post a picture of me wearing Apple’s Vision Pro today. But I can offer a picture of my disappointed face looking into the refrigerator.
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