Matthias Bohlen
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Matthias Bohlen
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SW-engineer who made https://customerping.ai, an AI that finds customers for your business while you do something else.

Now working on eliza.money, a social network designed for private stock investors.

I love "Matrix".
Do you feel especially lonely or have FOMO when you see how many friends your friends have on social media?

It's true! On average, you are less popular than your friends are! 😳

But it's not your fault because... 👇
May 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Today I heard that Pocket, the bookmark manager, will be shut down. 🥲

Does anyone know an open source, self-hostable alternative? I want to run it inside a Docker container on my NAS.

It should work similar to Instapaper, with a nice browser extension for Firefox.
May 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What does the code name K-12 stand for in the context of education in the United States? Why is it named that way?
May 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Today I learned interesting things from history about the origin of the 2 words

- algorithm
- algebra
April 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Wow, I split my big web app into 15 little backend servers and one reverse proxy. I felt it was difficult to observe 15 servers at once.

Everything became a lot when I began to use kitty sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

Screenshot of the kitty with three of the 15 servers:
April 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
OMG, I have been refactoring a monolith into 35 separate TypeScript projects! Took me 2 weeks until every package had the right name and the package graph was free of cycles.

Now I need to break the UI into several components as well. Afterwards, I can start to deploy again.

Phew!
March 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Today, I tried to have an AI convert my Eslint configuration from V8 to V9 format.

It failed spectacularly although I gave it the migration guide to read.

I am not convinced about coding aids, yet.
March 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Me, while I’m breaking up a monolith today:

“Let’s pull this stuff out as a separate package.”

“Oh, it needs that other stuff, well… let’s pull out the other stuff, first.”

(repeats the previous sentence ten times…)

#indiehacking #notfun
March 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Watching Blues Brothers again, tonight. Makes you feel great! 😊
March 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
What I do on a Saturday morning: 😂

One AI (Eliza) is watching me and summarizes what I said to another AI (Dividend Dan, my future expert for good dividend stocks) – all inside my social network for stock investors. I must say, she's right:
March 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Oh. My. Gosh!

Should you ever be depressed, watch and listen to THIS:

youtu.be/3KsF309XpJo
Jacob Collier - The Audience Choir (Live at O2 Academy Brixton, London)
YouTube video by Jacob Collier
youtu.be
March 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Wow, lots of planets are “on a string” tonight!
February 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Today is Sushi day for us. Yum! 😋
February 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The last few days, I replaced Node Express by Hono, and I must say that the DX is so good! And wow, it’s fast, so the name is just right.

eliza.money runs like a breeze now.
Eliza and the Money Makers | eliza.money
The social network for independent stock investors.
eliza.money
February 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trigger warning: Large amounts of profanity inside! 🤣

(I don’t know who made this but it’s sooo hilarious).

motherfuckingwebsite.com
Motherfucking Website
motherfuckingwebsite.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Reposted by Matthias Bohlen
What happens when LLMs train on code that's popular but wrong? zdimension.fr/everyone-get... explores this, with interactive diagrams exploring the error
Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong
People really need to stop blindly copying code from the Internet.
zdimension.fr
February 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Eliza (eliza.money) had her sarcastic day today. I had to LOL when I read what she had to say about Cisco stocks: 😂
January 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Working on eliza.money again this morning. Eliza is happily commenting on current developments in the stock market. Got this gem from Eliza a few minutes ago: 😂
January 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Hmmm... is chatgpt.com not responding today? Does anyone else have this problem?
chatgpt.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Taking down the Christmas decorations in the New Year takes more time than I thought.
January 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Tomorrow I will try something new:

Writing a Drone script to package a Python program into a single executable, including all dependencies.

Wish me luck! #buildinpublic
January 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Why it is not a good idea to install the Honey browser extension: youtu.be/EAx_RtMKPm8
an explainer video by @mkbhd.com
The Honey Scam: Explained
YouTube video by Marques Brownlee
youtu.be
January 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Had a severe GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) attack this weekend:

- Thunderbolt 4 dock for my Mac
- Onyx Boox Note Air 4c for better reading and note-taking
January 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Adding more metrics to my stock screener.

Found some interesting stocks by screening for a negative price change in the last 12 months but a positive price change in the last 6 months.

Combined this with some metrics for undervalued stocks, and bingo: 😮 #buildinpublic
January 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Happy New Year everyone, from Germany 🇩🇪!
January 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM