How to start a good story? Uh oh. I used to actively maintain DNS infrastructures from 2009-2012 at the University of Vienna, only ops troubleshooting since then. Ok ... let's see. I am located near Nuremberg, Brendan joins from Maryland. Dummy check in the browser - works for me. Probably not…
This week we welcomed 3 new guests into our lovely German coffee chat: Michael, Marcel and Niclas! everyonecancontribute 2.0As we want to make everyonecancontribute.com our home as well as keep the lovely demo with Tanuki, Clippy & Rainbow-Octocat, we talked a bit about website hosting and organisation. The…
Lately this iterative conversation happened in our technical evangelism team chat: Let's do a hangout on the latest tech!We have so little German content, let's try this language to break the barrier and insecure feeling English may cause.Record and stream it for everyone.Make it a social event,…
I'm busy. Too busy to read the news today. More work than I ever anticipated when joining GitLab. #allremote works for me, and I am not doing extra hours or going weekend routes. "Work" provides me with satisfaction and fun, I invest passion and energy and get so much back…
This is a German coffee chat virtually hosted by me. Inspired by https://www.everyonecancontribute.com/ Wann: Jeden Mittwoch, 17:00 Uhr CEST. Vielleicht auch mal später, einfach auf Twitter folgen und fragen. Wer: Du und Michael Friedrich, Nico Meisenzahl, Carsten Köbke, Moritz Tanzer, Nicolai Buchwitz Wo: Zoom bei Michi.…
When I started my job at GitLab on March 2nd, I had made great plans for my all remote environment. Thanks to the GitLab handbook with many tips included ...…
The Web IDE is fully integrated into the GitLab workflow: Edit/upload a fileWrite and code with advanced syntax highlighting & tools tipsCommit the change, create a branch and Merge RequestCI/CD feedback on the right, no context switchesThis really works well and has improved my workflows ever since. The…
Why dotfiles When I first started working on Windows, Linux and macOS many years ago, there was this steep learning curve. Not everything on the system had a good default for improved productivity, often tools were missing to create your own work environment. At first glance, I started writing blog…