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@markbiegel.com.bsky.social

Software Engineer to CTO and back. I mostly help people build startups, sometimes I build my own.

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My workplace has become toxic.
An issue today came up.

The person who discovered the issue spent hours pointing fingers that there is a bug, gloating that they found a bug and making a nice big song and dance.

Could have just fixed it and had it in prod in 15 mins bro…

20.01.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just had someone sign off their email to me with Hugs, Name.

Not β€œWarm regards”.
Not β€œThanks”.
Not β€œRegards”.

Just β€œHugs”…and I love it.

19.01.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m determined to become a day person. I’ve been a night worker for years now, waking at late afternoon, working all night and then bedtime at 8am…

Feels wrong to be tired at 11:30pm πŸ˜‚

04.01.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Being and owner….staying out of the weeds.

If only 90% of CTOs did this instead of meddle πŸ˜‚

01.01.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm on my third week of "holidays". I'm bored.
Time to start work again lol

01.01.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to begin another round of β€œ7 hours on hold with IKEA”.

The game is to guess how many times they will disconnect me and then try to beat it!

31.12.2024 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve decided to switch to PHP from Ruby.

Because I like to get paid.

26.12.2024 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure about the rest of you but the holiday season just drains the life and motivation out of me!

15.12.2024 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You get to a senior enough level that you know when NOT to code

12.12.2024 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The scene from Wordpress CEO Matt Mullenweg’s community slack channel…

12.12.2024 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rebuild 5 times and it passes for no good reason

09.12.2024 06:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well that’s awesome because that’s what I was going for πŸ€“

05.12.2024 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's starting to come together. Logo is simple but effective for what I wanted πŸ‘Œ πŸ’
#buildinginpublic

05.12.2024 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of people are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying " hooray he 's kicked the ball ALT: a group of people are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying " hooray he 's kicked the ball
01.12.2024 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s not often you get a chance for a new beginning.

26.11.2024 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We do!?! I’m shook!
They are the best πŸ˜‚

25.11.2024 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - flavorjones/sqlean-ruby: Precompiled SQLean extensions for SQLite, packaged for the Ruby ecosystem. Precompiled SQLean extensions for SQLite, packaged for the Ruby ecosystem. - flavorjones/sqlean-ruby

Rubyists, have you ever wanted more features from SQLite? I'm excited to announce the `sqlean` ruby gem!

github.com/flavorjones/...

packaging precompiled extensions from antonz.org/sqlean/ for things like unicode, hashing, regexps, time, fuzzy strings, math, and even CSV support!

#ruby #sqlite

24.11.2024 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Dude, nice! I love this ❀️

25.11.2024 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ikea, during checkout, said I was a dirty bot showing bot activity and should be ashamed πŸ₯Ί My feelings are hurt.

25.11.2024 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Quick let’s rename all the functions so nobody gets offended!

23.11.2024 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've hit a critical point with my project ChrryPick.
It now taking shape enough that I'm like "wow, I can't wait to actually use this" πŸŽ‰
#indiedev

23.11.2024 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s just amazing. I appreciate the idea of a bonus and I’m going to get it done anyway because it’s my job.

But after 6 months and passing PCI DSS it’s β€œwhat’s a bonus?” πŸ˜‚

22.11.2024 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately we’ve now had two :(

21.11.2024 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The next time a company says β€œif you get this impossible deadline done, there will be a huge bonus!” I’m going to ask for it upfront.

I’ll give it back if I miss the deadline.

21.11.2024 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m simple, just put on Sleep Token and Spiritbox and work away.

21.11.2024 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anything Metalcore or Deathcore just clears my brain 🀘

21.11.2024 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .

Today. Everything about today.

18.11.2024 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hello πŸ‘‹

17.11.2024 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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