André Becker

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Building the future of game server hosting at Nitrado. I post about #SoftwareEngineering, #Leadership, and spending too much time playing Satisfactory.

You can find useful Software Engineering tips under #SoftwareEngineering101!

I'm going to put this on my CV.
This post is brought to you by me researching 2D lighting algorithms for JavaScript because I dislike every virtual table top solution out there.

Most people will encounter situations in which they realise that all available software for a given purpose is bad. These people will be frustrated, but there's nothing they can do about it. So in the end, the only option is acceptance, and with that, peace.

But as a Software Engineer...

Programming languages should not be made by people who want to make them.

Why do I keep seeing videos of Americans PAINTING THEIR LAWN?!

Please tell me that's not actually a real thing.

I accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.

If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

I've been doing a lot of project/product management and architecture work the last 1-2 years, and it's almost scary how rusty my programming skills have gotten.

Programming requires a certain state of mind and focus to be effective. It's easy to underestimate how quickly additional responsibilities can dilute that focus.

I can finally mention that my team and I have been supporting the launch of Last Epoch!

The crew at Eleventh Hour Games are a blast to work with, and I'm incredibly proud of what we've built for them over the last year.

Who made the rule that every Infrastructure-as-Code technology has to be this bad?

Wasted 3 or 4 days to learn that cloud-init has a bug first reported in 2017(!) that straight up prevents network from functioning on a Ubuntu machine.

Closed in 2023 as "Not Planned".

cloud-init is the "industry standard". Apparently our standards aren't very high.

Terraform is one of those fun technologies that everybody uses because it's the best available tool, but at the same time everybody just absolutely hates it.