Nick De Cooman

After more than 7 years working at Homegate/@smg_marketplace, I decided to go my own way. Last Friday was my last day on the job. Earlier this year I realized that AI is an opportunity of a lifetime. Potentially even bigger than the birth of the internet. So many things will have to be rebuilt (and reinvented) from the ground up. Now is not the time to be on the sidelines. At SMG, I was part of the Real Estate business unit. For the past 3 years I was in the role of Tech Lead in the Developer Experience (DevX) team. Our goal was to deliver internal tooling and standardize the development platform for ~120 engineers. SMG was formed in 2022 and consolidated major marketplaces across Switzerland. Before, I was part of Homegate and with the merger, we joined forces with Immoscout24 and later also Flatfox. Last year we IPO'd. I genuinely have no idea what will come next. It's exciting yet also scary. A former colleague called it a `midlife crisis without the crisis`. First I will take some time off. Next week, I’m starting a one-month solo trip to China. Will share my experiences and reflections along the way!

Wished @matrixdotorg was more adopted as a messaging standard. [Matrix] is an open and decentralised communication protocol. Basically like Slack or Discord, but you can self-host and use any compatible client to message others (or built one yourself!). Ofc for most users hosting a Matrix instance is too complicated, but you could just choose a provider and seamlessly communicate with others, regardless of their provider or client. You would be in full control of your data and easily switch to a new provider if needed. I spawned my own instance now and using @element_hq as client. Using it for my @openclaw agent instead of Discord or Telegram. Works great!

Avoiding the temptation to over-engineer personal projects is a constant battle. Having worked in professional environments with mature tooling and processes for over a decade now, I have become so accustomed to a certain way of building software. When building personal projects, it is so natural to try to replicate those ways because obviously they are proven and battle-tested. It’s hard to break out of this tunnel vision and realize things can be much simpler. Ofc simplicity comes with trade-offs, but for personal projects, those are usually perfectly fine.

AWS FIFO Queues with Message Groups for Atomic Processing at Scale link.medium.com/pUgf0OZWbmb

Hey @JoviDeC, I started working on @effectiv_app again and want to give Hooked-Form a try. Which validation library would you recommend? Before I used Yup (with Formik), but looks like this is no longer desirable? Nice work btw, looks clean and easy 🙌

Interesting series on architecting resilient back-end systems and how to embrace failure at the heart of it medium.com/@adhorn/patterns-…