LastPass was hacked and user data was stolen. This inspired to move my Bitwarden data from the cloud to my network. In this post I'll describe how to do that with vaultwarden, Caddy  and Tailscale.

Self-hosting Bitwarden behind Tailscale

AI makes it easier to produce work, which makes coordination harder to ignore.

AI moved the bottleneck

Speed is not about rushing. It is about shortening the path to feedback, learning sooner, and keeping work cheap to change.

Why being fast is important

To get better at management is to get better at conversations. And sometimes the conversations you need to have are not easy. This book gives a lot of valuable pointers.

Books - Difficult Conversations

Never Split the Difference is a useful book for engineering management because it treats negotiation as finding the real constraints in a conversation.

Book - Chris Voss: Never Split the Difference

I got tired of hunting for our canteen menu on Confluence every day, so I built a quick MCP server that lets me ask Claude what's for lunch instead.

Checking the Canteen Menu with Claude using MCP

Sometimes we are on, sometimes we are not. This classic HBR title was a great read.

Books - HBR -  Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership

Typing in a long password is annoying and the KDE UI doesn't make it easy to use WPS.

Connecting your Steam Deck to WiFi with WPS

It's annoying to rebase your branch. But GitLab makes it super simple to do so.

🤓 Quick note: Easy rebasing with GitLab

Hetzners new ARM offering is quite attractive. I recently used it in a Puppeteer project, but struggled with one small thing.

Using Puppeteer on Hetzner ARM machines

atarimae hinshitsu vs miryokuteki hinshitsu. How to build a product that your users will talk about.