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Rolf Smit

@Rolf-Smit

Android engineer since 2010 · Kotlin Multiplatform · Mobile security · Tech Diving Instructor · Creator of abysner.app

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Sat, Oct 31

Rolf Smit@Rolf-Smit
"You know how to know things." Said my wife today, summarizing my entire software engineering journey in one sentence. ​Hasn't this always been the real skill of the job? Being curious enough and knowing how to figure out the next thing?
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Evan Edwards
My wife taught chemistry to college students, eventually being in charge of all freshman classes: non-science majors, science majors, and med students. Her big goal was to instill curiosity. Also, she developed a reputation as being a weeder course for med students. The reality…

Tue, Oct 27

Sun, Oct 25

Rolf Smit@Rolf-Smit
After working as a developer for years, it still blows my mind how companies spend months picking software for today, but don't spend a single minute thinking about how they will upgrade, maintain, or outgrow it in ten years. Nobody plans ahead, and to me that's nuts.
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Zied Ghalleb
I've seen this a lot and honestly it's not a fun place to be at. The cheapest decision today can easily become the most expensive mistake tomorrow.

Fri, Oct 23

Rolf Smit@Rolf-Smit
What did I ship? You can now preview your quotes before you commit them on /dev/null: https://github.com/dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh/pull/1029 Now waiting for a review. Someone get me some pastel in the meantime.
GitHubfeat: add a preview to the quote composer by Rolf-Smit · Pull Request #1029 · dev-null-sh/dev-null.shSummary The commit and reply composers both have a preview (⌘/Ctrl+Shift+P), but the quote composer didn't, so there was no way to check how code blocks, mentions or images would look before qu...
Rolf Smit@Rolf-Smit
What stereotype developer do you identify as? I I'll start: "A midnight purist who ignores your rules, hates your over engineered slob, yet happily applies Clean Architecture to a toaster."
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Nils Hitze
Good question. I've been a bit of a mix Gardening confluence, fostering linting, conventional commits, DoR and DoD. But I'm not an exceptional dev, more a Jack of all tracks. I'll happily apply duct tape, if it helps but don't ask me to explain design patterns

Thu, Oct 22

Rolf Smit@Rolf-Smit
My first PR to /dev/null: a small quality of life improvement. I was left searching for a profile sync option, so hopefully this is helpful. https://github.com/dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh/pull/966
GitHubfeat: sync from GitHub on your own profile by Rolf-Smit · Pull Request #966 · dev-null-sh/dev-null.shSummary Sync from GitHub was only available under Settings > Profile, which made it hard to find (I had to search for it after editing my own from the profile page). So this PR adds a sync butto...
Rolf Smit@Rolf-Smit
When writing a commit here on /dev/null, I noticed that on Android, whenever I try to apply spellcheck or switch languages using the keyboard (long-press space), the whole keyboard and IME popup are dismissed, extremely frustrating. Initially I thought this was a /dev/null…
issues.chromium.orgChromium

Wed, Oct 21

Rolf Smit@Rolf-Smit
Kind of glad the web is still as diverse as it is. Imagine if everything was built on just PHP, or any other stack for that matter. Having multiple languages and ecosystems is probably what keeps the web going, in a weird way? A split redundancy?
QuotingBRBrent Roose@brendt
PHP isn’t the most sexy language, I give you that. Where I live in Belgium, government, school, hospital, help line, media, news, and what not websites are down. It’s not because we don’t often hear about it that it isn’t big. Usually, PHP simply does the job. Nothing sexy,…
Rolf Smit@Rolf-Smit
Honest question: if you need this tool to prepare your standup, then what is your standup like?
QuotingCchristian@zangetsu02
I built chorei, a tool that helps me prepare my daily standup by collecting what I actually worked on the day before. It combines Claude Code session prompts, Git activity and Jira tickets into a single summary, grouped by thread, with a source for every line. The goal is to…
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GitHubGitHub - zangetsu02/chorei: What you did yesterday, with its sources: a daily stand-up assembled from your git history, your Claude Code sessions and your tickets.What you did yesterday, with its sources: a daily stand-up assembled from your git history, your Claude Code sessions and your tickets. - zangetsu02/chorei
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christian
Depends on the job. One project, a few repos, and you don't need any of this. I work on one huge system split across more than 30 microservices, and keeping track of everything I'd touched was getting hard. So I started leaning on the AI to help me remember. Now I have the whole…

Tue, Oct 20