Matthias Endler

Someone recently asked me what advice I’d give to a young developer today.

With GitHub down once again, I decided to write this long-overdue blog post.

After I published Five Years of Trying to Add Recursion to lychee, one reply I got was a very fair question: If recursion is so hard, how do other link checkers do it?

Recursion has been lychee’s longest-standing open issue.

I had a newsletter on this blog for years, but I didn’t send a single email for a long time.

I’ve been refining this blog’s design for two decades now.

I was listening to a podcast recently where someone pointed out something curious: machines have been better at playing chess than humans for three decades now, and nobody cares.

Over the years, I’ve gravitated toward two complementary ways to build robust software systems: building up and sanding down.

Since my professional writing on Rust has moved to the corrode blog, I can be a bit more casual on here and share some of my personal thoughts on the recent debate around using Rust in established software.

I’ve been reviewing other people’s code for a while now, more than two decades to be precise.

One of the most repeated pieces of advice throughout my career in software has been “don’t repeat yourself,” also known as the DRY principle.

I watched the Champions League final the other day when it struck me: I’m basically watching millionaires all the time.

Paolo was a plumber.

One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to not reinvent the wheel.

As kids, our parents established a few simple rules that we would all follow, no matter the circumstances.

I have met a lot of developers in my life.

For the past year, I’ve been hosting the Rust in Production, a podcast about companies who shape the future of infrastructure.

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Last night I realized that my life is very simple.

People sometimes ask me how I come up with things to write.

Growing up as a kid in rural Bavaria, I always dreamed of moving to the US to run a startup.

Recently, I realized that I mostly get paid to ask questions.

I look left and right, and I’m the only one who still uses Firefox.

One of the hardest challenges I know is how to sell to developers.

There is a famous story about a physicist during an exam at the University of Copenhagen.

I’ve come a long way in my tech journey, from dealing with bare metal servers to exploring the world of cloud computing.

Yesterday I couldn’t help but feel a sense of awe at all the conveniences modern life has to offer.

Reader showing an article in light and dark mode. tl;dr: I built a service that takes any article and creates a pleasant-to-read, printable version.

Every once in a while my buddies and I meet for dinner.

A few years ago I visited a friend in Gdańsk, Poland.

Source: Cozy attic created by vectorpouch and tux created by catalyststuff — freepik.com As the day is winding down, I have a good hour just to myself.

One of the best decisions I made in 2020 was to open my calendar to everyone.

One day I had the idea to make a print of my Github timeline.

I earned 0 Euros from maintaining OSS software for years, and I thought that’s the way things are.

Did I mention that this website is fast?

Yesterday we launched analysis-tools.dev, and boy had I underestimated the response.

A while ago, I read an article titled “What Happened In The 2010s” by Fred Wilson.

This post has moved to my other blog.

Here’s a test to show your age: Do you still remember that funny JavaScript gravity effect, which Google used on their homepage ten years ago?

Some computer terms have a surprising legacy.

Timelapse is a little open-source screen recorder for macOS.

Repository Stars analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis 14757 ★ mre/idiomatic-rust 7852 ★ lycheeverse/lychee 3878 ★ tinysearch/tinysearch 2965 ★ mre/the-coding-interview 1743 ★ analysis-tools-dev/dynamic-analysis 1103 ★ ReceiptManager/receipt-parser-legacy 854

I wrote a basic search module that you can add to a static website.

A woman riding a scooter Source: Illustration created by freepik, Nomad logo by HashiCorp.

Rust allows for a lot of syntactic sugar, that makes it a pleasure to write.

I never was a big fan of internships, partially because all the exciting companies were far away from my little village in Bavaria and partially because I was too shy to apply.

For the first three decades of my life, I’ve exclusively used a German keyboard layout for programming.

Lots of people asked me to write another piece about the internals of well-known Unix commands.

Photo of my office with Github’s octocat on the wall over my couch So I’m in a bit of a sentimental mood lately.

When I opened Vim by accident for the first time, I thought it was broken.