Niels Stubbe 🇧🇪

An hour and a half of cursing and frustration, summarized in one image.

Luckily there was nothing fragile in the package. It's the first time I've had a delivery guy actually throw things over. There's a large enough gap under the gate so he could've just used that. But why do things the easy way when you can do them the destructive way?

Every week I get multiple messages from some kind of coach offering their services. Buddy, you just left school. What are you going to teach me about life?

Also, what the fuck even is a life coach?

Life coaches, job coaches, business coaches, etc... Whatever you can think of, there's someone who can coach you. But when you look them up, they have zero relevant experience to what they're supposed to be coaching you on.

Quote from Peter F. Drucker: There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.

Lately I've been giving trainings to developers on how to responsibly use AI. Managers always ask: "How much productivity increase will we see?"

Usually they just mean speed. But productivity = speed + quality. AI makes you faster yes, but without validation? You just ship garbage faster.

Any tech talk with two people on stage just ends in them rambling to each other and ignoring the audience.

Every duo tech talk I have attended so far would always have been better with a single person on stage.

Just switched my talk up about AI. I'm going to launch a software startup with my audience in 45 mins. They're going to provide the idea, and we're going to use AI tools to generate everything: analysis documents, market research, designs, code, etc. I anticipate shenanigans and lots of weird stuff.

I'm giving a presentation this tuesday about using AI in any part of the SDLC and I'm still looking for some use cases I might not be thinking of. So if anyone reading this has any tips for cool tools or use cases I'd love to hear them. Credit will obviously be given 👈 #ai #softwaredevelopment

Found this pretty cool website to help people navigate the recent license changes in .NET libraries: dariusz-wozniak.github.io/fossed/

Something about her expression tells me she’s sick my shit 😅

I've been playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Only now, after more than 10 hours of playtime, I've discovered your character gets perks that makes him stronger.

I was wondering how I was ever supposed to beat even a single bandit.

Don't be like me, read the tooltips 😅

Sounds like a steal!

Same thing for FluentAssertions 😅

Lovely! We have one of those fluffy Norwegian beasts at home as well.

I'm thinking about using concepts from works of psychologists, that can provide useful handles to help teams. Like for example helping along the personal development of juniors, maps well on the "Zone of Proximal Development" by Vygotsky.

So I actually have a bachelor's degree as a teacher, even though my entire career so far has been spent as a developer.

I'm thinking about creating a new session about what devs can learn from educational science. Like supporting self-organizing teams and how to create a learning organization.

So protein bars sounded like a good idea to get to my protein goal. But then you learn about sugar alcohols and their effects the hard way.

And that’s the story of how I temporarily got banned from my own living room.

Wolverine 3.6: Modular Monolith and Vertical Slice Architecture Goodies Wolverine 3.6 just went out tonight as a big release with bug fixes and quite a few significant features to improve Wolverine’s usability for modular monolith architectures and to further imp…

From last night, big new Wolverine release:

Wolverine 3.6: Modular Monolith and Vertical Slice Architecture Goodies jeremydmiller.com/2025/01/12/w...

Just had an intern for the last 3 months, awesome junior developer. Takes the initiative, tries first by himself but not afraid to ask good questions, great problem solving skills, ...

Sadly no room at the company to hire him. If you're looking for a junior developer in Belgium, hit me up!

These are the types of AI use cases I can get behind:

took a screenshot of a list of questions I needed to answer for some mind-numbing administrative task, added the source document the answers can be found in and just asked it to "please answer the questions using the provided pdf".

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Passwordless logins suck. Change my view.

I'm already using a password manager with a unique password for every site. How is having to switch to my damn mailbox every time I want to login a better way of doing things?

It's terrible UX, that's what it is.

I've been getting into speaking more and more, and although I don't use AI generated abstracts, this video is full of interesting insights. Thanks for sharing.

Nothing like touching a 10 year old code base once for a small fix, and subsequently becoming the expert and go-to person for any and all questions about it.

Finished up a series of sessions about GitHub Copilot at a customer today.

Cutting through all the sales bs and just showing what it’s good at and especially what it’s NOT good at, works way better for adoption at companies than just pushing AI on your development team.

It's a fairytale town, isn't it? How can that not be somebody's fucking thing, eh? #inbruges

Friend cooked an amazing meal yesterday. Ate so much I’m convinced I won’t be hungry for two straight days.

Anyway, happy new year to anyone reading this!

In my quest to get enough protein I just mixed two scoops of protein powder with 200g of Skyr yoghurt. Someone on Reddit apparently really likes this combination.

It turned the whole thing into a pudding-like consistency and my stomach feels like I ate a brick.

Do not recommend 🤢

Two Notepad Windows on a large screen :One with the text “Bestellung abholen” and “Ready to pick up” and one with a list of numbers.

Not all businesses are run by Excel.
Some are run by Notepad.