Writing
Notes from fifteen years of running engineering teams: leadership, infrastructure, and the occasional strong opinion. I publish when I have something worth saying, not on a schedule.
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Alert Fatigue and Fuck Bingo
A CTO who treated every problem like a SEV-1 taught his team to keep a "fuck bingo" card. On profanity, power, and alert fatigue: how leaders quietly train people to stop telling them what's wrong.
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GitHub is turning into a toxic relationship
I grew up on GitHub. Now it wants to charge developers a toll for not using its servers, and that says more about neglect than about pricing.
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Automating Real Estate Listings with Terraform: Introducing the Immobilienscout24 Provider
Apartment hunting in Berlin convinced me real estate needs IaC. So I built an open-source Terraform provider for Immobilienscout24: here's why, how it works, and what got in the way.
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