muscaw

Location: Switzerland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Python, Spring, Postgres, AWS cloud and more

Résumé/CV: https://muscaw.dev/page/cv/

Email: hello@muscaw.dev

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I am a software engineer with several years of experience developing backend systems as well as tooling for whole tech organization of the companies. I am quick to adapt and can easily identify problems and come up with good solutions. I am currently looking for new challenges. Hopefully yours :)

https://muscaw.dev

This is where I write about technical stuff. Need to write more frequently though

https://kevingrandjean.ch

I host photos I take in the form of a gallery.

For cli calls, I have been using a handy website called cheat.sh

Basically, just go to cheat.sh/git and you get a list of useful examples for how to use the git command.

I have it mapped to a small bash function so that I can just type ‘cheat git’ and I get the content right in my terminal.

Sometimes, I’m wondering about the value that a SAAS brings compared to a standalone application. In this case, it seems that the SaaS part requires to think about user separation, payments, emails, and more. This seems like a lot when the goal is to generate images from some text input.

A small standalone app that generates an image that can be hosted with the article itself would be much easier to do.

With that said, I find it great to have a goal, scope it to a level achievable in one weekend and actually reach it.

Congrats

I have been using duplicity so far and it does the job

The example in the introduction is a case of over-engineering and should be avoided.

But the article mentions when a project should be over-engineered and the examples used are for existing projects that need to scale.

This is not quite over-engineering IMO, but simply responding to the needs of your users now or in a foreseeable future.

Given SMSs bigger than 160 characters were sent as MMS, I wonder what will be the new UX in the SMS app when I reach the character limit.

Will my SMS be sent into multiple chunks? Will my system tell me it's over the character limit?