Wouter Lindenhof

@DevWouter
267 Followers
545 Following
405 Posts

Software developer, architect, coach, trainer, etc
#csharp #dotnet #svelte #angular #docker

Also certified #tabletennis trainer 🏓

If you notice me following and don't know why, here are a few reasons:
1. You made me laugh or think
2. You share my interest in science or technology
3. You asked me to follow you
4. You give good advice

Chances increase when I notice you don't have many followers.

searchable

Bloghttps://poweredbydev.com/
GitHubhttps://github.com/DevWouter
My Companyhttps://MagusByte.com
My Producthttps://www.todo2d.com

I spend some time today to make certain that my integration with #github and #todo2d works and frankly I’m a bit annoyed with GitHub. Which is unfair because I made some assumptions which works fine in a single tenant system but not in a multi-tenant system.

The biggest problem is securing everything and not leaking “cross tenant”.

#programming #softwaredevelopment

In the 1700s, teens were accused of being
 addicted to novels.
Not alcohol. Not gambling.
Reading.
Across Europe, a strange fear gripped adults. Young people were devouring novels at a pace never seen before. They read at the dinner table, in bed, even while walking through the streets.
This wasn’t seen as a harmless hobby.
It was called “reading fever” or “book addiction.”
Some claimed it would rot their minds.
Others worried it would damage morals, ruin posture, or lead to dangerous daydreaming. Fiction was accused of causing everything from laziness to madness.
Moralists and educators sounded the alarm.
Pamphlets warned parents. Schools debated limits.
It wasn’t just what teens were reading — it was who was writing it.
Books like Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) or Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) stirred emotion, imagination, and independence.
They were often written by or for women — a major threat to the era’s social order.
But despite the panic, teens kept reading.
And quietly, something revolutionary was happening.
This “reading mania” helped fuel mass literacy, gave rise to the modern novel, and encouraged generations to explore new ideas through story.
The so-called crisis?
It laid the foundation for modern literature as we know it.
Funny how things change.
Today, we beg kids to pick up a book.
Had you ever heard about the 1700s reading panic?
What do you think society would say if teens got “addicted” to books again?

@ron_bodkin @rolle

I found it fairly effective to start by following hashtags of things that interest me. That vectors in interesting (to me) posts and from there I follow the posters that appeal to me for whatever reason.

Pretty soon there was more original content in my timeline than I ever have time to go through, and a lot more interaction than I ever saw after a decade on twitter.

Also: the "Explore" timeline (unfortunately called something different in every user app) is a great place to mine Mastodon for interesting accounts to follow!

At this point, it really does look like the key to keeping LLMs on the rails in your dev workflow is:

* Small feedback cycles, solving one problem at a time
* Prompting with test cases/usage examples
* Continuous testing
* Continuous code review & refactoring
* Continuous integration
* Effective separation of concerns in the design

LOL.

What you've got here is essentially the engineering practices of Extreme Programming.

It could even be argued this is a statistical case for their efficacy.

Open question: Do you have a tech industry recruiter in Amsterdam, or possibly EU-based specialising in remote, that you can recommend?

I'm trying to find more personable recruiters who have the patience to deal with a middle-aged frontender trying to find a career path.

Boosts appreciated

#getfedihired #fedhire

I hate the #npm website. Just spend a good 20 minutes trying to login because they want you to login with a username but the registration was done with email (which what is what gets autofilled since it is stored in my password manager). After four password resets (and receiving a too_many_requests) I finally noticed the issue.

Seriously, if you associate a username with email that hard you either allow both or inform if the user check if the login contains an username. 😡

Hey, #FediHire me! đŸ„ł
I'm looking for a decent #job, preferably remote.
Any help is appreciated.

I bring a ton of skills and more than a decade of experience as a #software #engineer, have been working mostly on #web #applications and some #mobile over the years, and done lots of #systems programming and #firmware in my spare time projects. đŸ§‘â€đŸ’»âš™ïž

My main languages are Rust and JavaScript/TypeScript.
I'm based in Germany.

More details and CV are at https://dan.orangecms.org/.

Please #boost, thanks!

Hi, I'm Dan!

So nazis starting “centrist” movements is all the rage now. Check.

TIL \ exists in ASCII literally so that ALGOL could write its Boolean operators in ASCII

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL

ALGOL - Wikipedia

Huh
 There is no chefs kiss emoji.