Foundation – Building in Public

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I am building software since 2006. 10 years of that professionally. For me, creating software means solving problems and creating opportunities for real people. This is what keeps me going.

Most of what I build lives in the proprietary domain, solving specific problems for a business or product of that business. There is at least one notable exception, which serves anyone who likes to use it.

While building, I must learn. A lot.

in public

Fortunately, building software for 10 years in a multitude of roles, domains, programming languages and architectures made a lot of that work feel ‘ordinary’. Nothing worth talking and certainly not writing about. Only when speaking to other developers about my ‘ordinary work’, I realised that this work may very well be novel from other people’s eyes.

Thinking about how I acquire new skills and knowledge it is through the ‘ordinary work’ of other people. You might have guessed it: the ‘ordinary work’ of other people seems extraordinary to me.

That’s what this blog is about: sharing my ‘ordinary work’ and taking you along when learning new skills.

Join me building stuff in public!

You can expect learnings and stories about Crypto, cloud native software development, infrastructure and keeping things running in production. All from the perspective of a software developer and technical founder.