[eval : recruiting]

Since I went solo with my own company after staying an employee for more than 15 years, I thought I bring some light into the job offers that pop up. I took the last weeks and mainly LinkedIn requests into account. Let us examine the data and see where there is potential for improvement. Why…

[explain : legacy system]

In a recent project I had the chance to rebuild an older backend from zero. I was able to deliver on time and budget after 240 hours. Furthermore, all closed-source dependencies got removed and even functionality improvements were made. Let me explain and summarize what was done. what came before war in a Tomcat 8…

[plan : smart book]

Since the Amazon Kindle, born roughly 15 years ago, and e-books in general, I have been waiting for the revolution that brings books finally into the digital age. After over 500 years of printed letters, one can set bookmarks and search through text, but that feels little compared to all the possibilities a digital medium…

[explain: Beta]

Beta? α? Why "Beta solutions"? Join me for a quick journey about computers, rocks and the desire to get better at what you do. Back to the 80s El Capitan - by Patrick Scales [4] With the first shoes for rock climbing getting manufactured and sold in the United States, new difficulty levels were being…

[b : software architect]

Was it not just enough to be a software developer? Where did the need for complexity come from? Are you an architect if you know about patterns, microservices, and dependency management?Here I want to address what it can mean and which topics I see as important in the awesome, ever-changing environment of software creation. What…

[smartics : respond!]

After finally getting some frontend and visualizations done, I would not want to stop there. The logical next step in my opinion is to invest a little bit into the responsiveness of the application. Especially since an app that has a browser fontend is going to be opened on a mobile some time. In the…

[smartics : d3]

Where to start? Besides work and being sick, I got some d3 visualizations done over the last weekend and follow-up nights. What's my take? I thought it will be more complicated in general, but less complicated for myself. So all in all it was quite some effort to get some specifics with axes, scaling and…

[smartics : react]

This weekend it was time to finally start on some frontend work. I'm staying with react and webpack as I wanted to get into those for quite some time now. Major other points I take into account are staying flexible and keeping the load on the raspberry pi low. I'm starting by showing how the…

[smartics : charging smart]

In German there is this saying - freely translated: 'firstly it will be different, and secondly than you think'. The translation might not fit it so well but in general the idea is that even when you know it will come differently, the outcome will quite often be even more different than predicted. This, of…

[smartics : charger]

To apply some smart logic for getting excess energy into the car I need to set some data on the charger. Like I wrote last time, since I own an go-e charger I will build a service to access its API. I will keep it simple and just add methods to read the chargers current…