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Alexander Ptakhin

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Lead @ Prestatech GmbH, Berlin https://aptakhin.name/ Also here: https://hachyderm.io/@AlexPtakhin

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The whole week, I was trying to understand what the calendar event "Wrong ideas" I created. Now 5 minutes, how it's in progress. Still no idea.

01.08.2025 07:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Managers are always more responsible for all processes in the company including engineering. And culture and core skillset originate from the top. So, yes very good valid poiโ€ฆ oh wait, squirrel!:)

27.07.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bad advices only. Should be the same caliber, and the same turret just with level 2 guns without rotating. Cons: worse loading and maintenance, worse ship balance because of very high armor. Pros: what a gunship ๐Ÿ˜‚

27.07.2025 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great article Thierry! Thank you for the Socrates session also. I hope we are on the way to brighter future :)

26.07.2025 11:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was an amazing session to bootstrap more into security topic! Thank you @lisihocke.bsky.social

19.07.2025 16:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Value Added Thoughts

Iโ€™ve finally created a home for some of my scribbles: dorotaparad.ch

I will fill it out with my past and new articles in the coming weeks and beyond. (1/6)

07.07.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wrong answers only. We ask AI to review the code and another AI to fix the code by feedback! What an amazing CCR!

07.07.2025 06:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hypotheses mapping template

Sorry Aleix. Copying issues.
miro.com/app/board/uX...
And
hypothesismapping.com

30.05.2025 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for your talk again! Some links about hypothesis mapping I was talking.

Translated cheatsheet: miro.com/app/board/uXjVLhoB0S0โ€ฆ
Official: hypothesismapping.com/

30.05.2025 14:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some people from Berlin:) Would be awesome to hear your talk!

28.05.2025 13:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of the cartoons from Physics for Cats

22.05.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3113    ๐Ÿ” 937    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

We are practising very fast, 2 seconds thinking! Because 10 minutes of thinking will save us only from many days of rework

15.05.2025 13:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CLI Commands

They still mention static builds and docs.astro.build/en/reference... But I agree looks a bit tricky to configure

14.05.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I heard about recommendation of Astro. Not Hugo, they still didn't stabilize api and breaking things from time to time

14.05.2025 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe government decide they spend too much on healthcare and need some "optimizations". Also less care for pensioners, less pensioners, less pensions for the aging population. And no controversial political decisions in this area, which will kill their reelection.

This is sad:(

13.05.2025 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because UX of online hotel checkins is very very bad. Scan my id, give me key or two. Not 7 pages of touch screen interfaces with typing my email ahhwhy

05.05.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From one pov itโ€™s how we sell Platforms. From the other side non-cloud non k8s land wasnโ€™t easier: terraform for vps, ansible/Chef, iptables, systemd, nginx, and possibly I forgot smth.

01.05.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also their widget for communication setups dozens of script loads and dozens different cookies slowing down page load two-three times in our case. Classic:)

30.04.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*** why pictures work better than words when designing systems ***

25.04.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Except the rare cases I explicitly want that to be pasted formatted. But I can press 5 buttons for this:)

06.04.2025 06:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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NewCrafts Conference NewCrafts is a conference for software practitioners who want to improve the quality of their software. Writing coherent code is only the first step. The bes...

๐Ÿ“ข The NewCrafts Sessions are here! Dive into our curated collection of talks from past NewCrafts Conferences, now available on YouTube. Discover insights from leading software crafters and tech innovators. Watch now:

03.04.2025 10:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love it, Dorota. Thank you! I will also try to write organizers :)

30.03.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And/or wisdom with experience. And I'm thinking how much leadership could be in the conscious decision not to act in advance :) It depends, as usual

30.03.2025 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here is a friendly idea for conferences and meetups to add BSky and Mastodon handles as social networks in CfP in addition to X/Instagram.

29.03.2025 21:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After an excellent detective with good humor 8 episodes of the series "The Residence," with amazing Uzo Aduba, there is always a question of how to find the next TV series :)

29.03.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I see TDD as a threat not only from the outside but also from the inside. โ€œItโ€™s not obvious logic,โ€ โ€œIt will never work,โ€ โ€œItโ€™s weird.โ€ Applying all factors together, we are observing the average industry state

29.03.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The fresh orange color city/touring bike on the street

The fresh orange color city/touring bike on the street

I finally celebrated the reexamination of my auto driver's license by this 2 wheeler. It's orange, smooth, silent and light. Very healthy, not bad ecological impact.

23.03.2025 17:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Published systems lover in tech

Hello! #introduction I'm Alex, a tech lead and team lead with technical and engineering management experience. I love systems in tech, and I'm trying to embed more humanistic and practical processes into the work.

The bigger texts and talks are indexed here: aptakhin.name/published/

23.03.2025 07:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cosmic Distance Calibration xkcd.com/3066

21.03.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12065    ๐Ÿ” 1015    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 100    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43

They start write the code from Civ 7 without bugs. Because bugs are waste, we can just skip them

20.03.2025 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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