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Timo Reymann

DevOp. Fullstack Web-Dev. Agnostic Atheist. Human.

EU-Trip 2023 | Week 4 (18.03 – 23.03)

EU-Trip 2023 | Week 4 (18.03 – 23.03)

It's already week 4 of my trip, following the post about week 3. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. For the UK part, Gabriel, a friend of mine, joined. So expect him to be part of the stories and

EU-Trip 2023 | Week 3 (13.03 – 17.03)

EU-Trip 2023 | Week 3 (13.03 – 17.03)

It's already week 3 of my trip, following the post about week 2. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. For the UK part, Gabriel, a friend of mine, will join. So expect him to be part of the stories

EU-Trip 2023 | Week 2 (08.03 – 12.03)

EU-Trip 2023 | Week 2 (08.03 – 12.03)

It's already week 2 of my trip, following the post about week 1. Have no clue/context, then the original post, It's finally time for an adventure, is for you. 08.03 Zürich Today was the first day in Zürich where I could explore the city a bit more. Marco

EU-Trip 2023 | Prep & Week 1 (03.03 – 07.03)

EU-Trip 2023 | Prep & Week 1 (03.03 – 07.03)

Here we go, week one! As promised in the post, “It's finally time for an adventure” the first week of my kind of travel blog / diary. While writing this, realized that 7 days are too much for a blog post, so will keep it short and reducing to 5 days

Things that no one tells you when starting your first full-time job, but are so valuable

Things that no one tells you when starting your first full-time job, but are so valuable

So, when I started my first full-time job, everything was super exciting. I thought, okay, I will give 120% from the start. Hyped and ready to rock this show. But there are a few things that no one told me and I didn't expect. While my first job is already

Make frontend to microservice communication great again

Make frontend to microservice communication great again

Your frontend is still stuck on a monolithic architecture, while your backend seems to get increasingly distributed? Do you see yourself doing too many API calls in your frontend, maybe even worsening it with different structures? Then this is for you. Abstract it away The first and easiest way is

You should push your (IDE) config to version control — and here is why

You should push your (IDE) config to version control — and here is why

Many gitignore files are full of ignores, for our IDEs and editors. Is it Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, or even vim? But why are we excluding all files, many even consider it as a bad practice having them in the project at all! Make setup for new devs easier The

Will AI replace our jobs?

Will AI replace our jobs?

Recently, there has been a lot of news around ChatGPT and DALL-E. Both really impressive projects, pushing what's currently possible and for the very first time making it as easy as just writing a few lines of plain text. My fifty cents and opinion on the topic. Good enough to

It's finally time for an adventure

🧳 Travel Featured

It's finally time for an adventure

After years of COVID-19 and personal limitations that stopped me from finally start travelling, the time has come! What is it going to be? It's going to be a trip across a few different countries in March & April this year. To name them all: * Belgium * Luxembourg * Switzerland * France * England * Ireland

Build a self-contained shell installer

📄 How Tos / Tutorials

Build a self-contained shell installer

Have you ever had yourself in the situation where you want to have a one-in-all installer for stuff on *nix-systems or macOS? I got you covered. What are we going to build? The idea is simple, you have an installer, which also includes your files, what? Exactly! We will have

Remote work is cool – A few tips after working remote for almost 3 years to keep it that way

Remote work is cool – A few tips after working remote for almost 3 years to keep it that way

Remote work, for many of us the corona pandemic enabled us a complete new way of working and also living. I, personally, enjoy the freedom of being able to work from home. No struggle getting to work every day, and you just get so much more done. Don't forget about

“Have you tried turning off and on again” – Explanation for the non-techies

“Have you tried turning off and on again” – Explanation for the non-techies

Have you turned it on and off again? Have you tried to restart your device? — Chances are high, you already heard this before. Is it from your internet service provider or the helpdesk in your company? And in some cases this simple thing made it work again? Why is this

Living in $HOME – Some tips to make your shell more comfy

📄 How Tos / Tutorials

Living in $HOME – Some tips to make your shell more comfy

Do you use your shell every day or would like to be more efficient with day to day task by utilizing the terminal? Then this article is for you. Entrypoint(s) There are different configuration files for your shell(s) where you can configure and customize. * /etc/profile – Loaded for

The ultimate guide to DMARC

The ultimate guide to DMARC

DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting (and) Conformance. There are plenty of resources out there but no guide bundling everything you need to know, until now! In a nutshell DMARC is a set of standards making it standardized to detect and report abuse of mail systems across providers all

Best Practices for GitHub Pull Requests

Best Practices for GitHub Pull Requests

Pull Requests are there to save your day and your codebase! They are great and there are many features and best practices not everyone is aware of. To improve your work with Pull Requests for the future, I will give you a short overview of some best practices and hidden

Bookmarklets – Powerful and almost forgotten

📄 How Tos / Tutorials

Bookmarklets – Powerful and almost forgotten

What the hell is a bookmarklet? If you are not familiar with it and want to know more about it, then this is for you. We are going to go through the technical basics, why there are so useful and how to create one. In a nutshell As the name

JavaScript—it was never meant to be that way.

JavaScript—it was never meant to be that way.

JavaScript. Nowadays, it is everywhere. And when I say everywhere, take it literally. From the classical use case in the browser, over the server-side logic until you reach the low-level section with embedded devices. And like no other language, it is really polarizing. Some people who hate it, and people

Top 10 DevOps Best Practices

Top 10 DevOps Best Practices

There are plenty of best practices and things you should do out there, but some are essential and universal. I try to summarize them as the “top 10”. Of course, this is somewhat subjective. Pin your versions as specific as possible Software gets updates, updates might break things or include

Vom Full-Stack-Dev zum DevOp – eine lückenhafte Story ohne Pointe

Vom Full-Stack-Dev zum DevOp – eine lückenhafte Story ohne Pointe

Heute soll es auf meinem Blog mal um etwas Persönliches gesehen! Mal nichts ultra technisches (aber ohne geht natürlich nicht), sondern ein kleiner Auszug aus meinem beruflichen Werdegang. Wie wurde aus dem FullStack-Dev ein DevOps (aka Mädchen für alles). Aller Anfang ist schwer Angefangen habe ich meine berufliche Laufbahn naiv

SAP – Das Grauen der Technik hat einen Namen

SAP – Das Grauen der Technik hat einen Namen

Nachdem ich diesen Witz einer Aussage von Olaf Scholz bei heise gelesen habe, war mein Ruhepuls bestimmt um 40 erhöht. Lange überlegt, ob ich dazu wirklich etwas schreiben will, aber letztendlich hat der Hass gewonnen. Falls sich hier ein SAP-Fanboy findet, sollte er besser jetzt gehen. SAP – Ein Konzern, ein

Blog goes multi-language

📢 Announcements Featured

Blog goes multi-language

When I first started this blog I posted everything in german, since it was straightforward for me, and I thought my audience would mainly be speaking german. But as personally growth continues and also the blog grows (a bit), analytics show that most people don't speak german, or it is

Rollbacks von Deployments sind von gestern

Rollbacks von Deployments sind von gestern

Rollbacks im Deployment-Kontext bedeutet Änderungen "rückgängig zu machen", in dem einfach wieder die alte Version eingespielt wird. Doch das ist lange nicht mehr zeitgemäß. Warum das eine schlechte Idee ist, will ich heute etwas näher eingehen. Was macht Rollbacks so sympathisch? Klingt erst mal super: Was kaputt ist, davon hol

Wir bauen für Legacy

Wir bauen für Legacy

Legacy, Monolithen, historisch gewachsene Systeme, jede Software wird einmal alt. Meine Sicht auf die Dinge und Möglichkeiten damit zu leben.

E-Mail - ein Rant.

E-Mail - ein Rant.

E-Mails. Der Dreh- und Angelpunkt "moderner" Kommunikation. Egal - ob eine Bestellung bei dem Shopbetreiber des geringsten Misstrauens, oder der Anmeldungsbestätigung auf einer dubiosen Seite, bis hin zu Benachrichtigungen des Online-Bankings - sie ist einfach nicht mehr wegzudenken. Doch irgendwie ist nicht alles so super wie man jetzt denken mag.

Dokumentation in einer agilen Welt

Dokumentation in einer agilen Welt

Dokumentation ist ein wichtiges, gehasstes und eigentlich selbstverständliches Thema. Gerade in der agilen Software-Entwicklung gibt es hier einige gute Tricks.