TIL the United States has no transit zone, so you need to go through US immigration for a connecting flight.

The german in me thinks this is very inefficient.

I fell asleep while a Vsauce YouTube Short was playing on my tablet.
I woke up over 6 hours later. It looped fucking 400 times.

the arrow between buckets and services has landed

Bought some melatonin today to combat jetlag next week.

I had to try one out. idk why but it always fascinates me that medicine actually works. i’m so fucking sleepy

Just imagine how much time and money has been wasted on reimplementing shitty versions of iOS’s wheel picker.

I just released Buckets on Railway. This is huge for me.

I came to Railway because I want to give developers truly great experiences. And this is exactly the stuff.

A rush of adrenaline, relief, and positive feedback. No idea how I should be able to sleep now. It’s 2:15am.

Replica Metrics (one of my first projects at Railway) is now in GA! You can check how your replicas are doing, spot hot or underutilized regions, and catch replicas going wild.

choo choo 🚅
https://docs.railway.com/reference/metrics#replica-view

TIL there’s a german PhD thesis from 1978 about guys injuring their junk by sticking it into a hoover. It lists 16 medical cases.

Case 14 is about a guy cleaning up and curiosity got him.
Case 15 is about case 14’s father who wanted to prove his son lied.

He did not lie.

It’s mindblowing what’s possible within a week.

I started adding Buckets to Railway on Monday. Today, 5 days later, I can create a Bucket in a project, click deploy, copy the credentials from the frontend, and upload files to it.

That’s kinda crazy.

Infra as Code doesn’t gift you confidence.

You’re only as confident in your changes as you are in the tool.

If it feels like magic and you don’t understand it, it makes you less confident, not more.

devs when they implement permissions

There comes a point where a 3rd party API is just so ill-designed that you can’t think of any way to abstract it nicely, and you just add a big comment block to explain what the actual fuck is going on.

i’m cooking rn 👀

more like yeetest amirite

You call it a memory leak. I call it unlimited caching, baby.

In other news: I’ve set up cross-posting to Bluesky and Twitter. I’ll be happy if you read my shit here, but you can also read on Bluesky and Twitter. I really like the idea of having my own place, where people can come and read what I’m up to, outside of a big social media platform.

This post should be crossposted to my blog, to Twitter and to Bluesky. Poggies if this works. (edit: it did!)

I started adding storage Buckets into Railway this week. It’s Day 2, and I can already create and deploy a Bucket.¹

I’m excited af about this because I’ve always experienced Buckets as this boring table UI in some cloud console, and to create a Bucket you had to fill out a huge form. But look at this! Right-click, Bucket, boom, here you go, now build stuff with it!

¹ right now the Bucket is just an empty shell and you can’t yet do anything with it. But tomorrow is the day where I will turn it into something usable

Share every small win. When you’re on a roll and have one small win after another, just share them. A big win is just a collection of many small wins over time. It helps you notice the progress you’re making, and as a nice side effect, others will notice too.

I can now post images! I can just send sent them to my Discord bot and ✨ they are here. Discord even supports alt text which is really handy.

To verify this works, here are two DALL-E images I recently generated.

Most of the code I’ve written today could’ve been written by Claude, with some manual intervention and guidance in between. Because it was a lot of work where you look at similar implementations in the codebase and do roughly the same, which AIs are generally good at.

But

Then I would’ve only learned a tiny fraction about the existing code, and I likely wouldn’t understand half of it. By doing everything by myself, I learned so many things about the codebase that will be massively helpful in the future.

I also built a small Discord bot with n8n to automate posting. I added it to my private Discord server (which I use for various stuff), and whenever I post into a specific channel, it creates a new post here!

Tomorrow: crossposting to other socials. I think. Or maybe images first.

I added short posts as a new post type. Basically as an alternative to posting on Bluesky or Twitter. Like in the old days.

It’s scrappy, there’s a bug in timezones with relative times, and I want to add a bunch of stuff. But I can use it.

I still don’t feel like I want to open Bluesky or Twitter. It pulls me in too much and messes with my inner peace. But I’ll definitely set up some cross-posting in the future, and I also want to pull in likes (and maybe comments? dunno yet) from socials.

Test Test

Hello?

Is this thing on?