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About
chrswk Bühler
Birth name
Weisskopf
Adr
Winterthur,
Switzerland
Bday
1985
Email
chrswk@pm.me (PGP)
Job title
Software Developer
Org
Bühler Softwareentwicklung
Profile
Link
Bühler Softwareentwicklung
I think a large number of SMEs and public entities need carefully crafted business applications for the automation and digitalisation of processes, without relying on convoluted, expensive and proprietary AI or SaaS solutions.
Since 2013 I've been working on a free software [1] application development platform covering the full development life cycle. It enables me (and other solo developers) to rapidly develop, deliver and operate professional and robust applications.
I develop bespoke business applications for any kind of SME and public entity (with some exceptions [2]). I work fully remote, but on-site meetings/workshops are welcome. My hourly rate is CHF 150, based on the creativity, curiosity, experience and toolbelt that I bring to any project and the resulting quality and time savings.
If you have ideas, problems or questions and are considering working with me, please contact me via email for a free consultation.
[2] Exceptions:
- Advertising/marketing, alcohol/drugs/tobacco, fossil fuels/mining, gambling, military/weapons
- AI/blockchain/crypto/Web3
- Big business
«My best clients were those I could argue with. It wasn't about winning or being right, it was about doing the best work.» Erik Spiekermann
Hardware
Now
- Continue cycle of strength training until end of the year
- Look for a new and interesting work contract
- Play too much Factorio: Space Age
- Rewrite my free software, holistic, self-hosted application development platform made for solo developers to rapidly develop, deliver and operate professional and robust applications.
Down the rabbit hole
Quotes
«Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo.»
Epicurus
«The best proof of love is trust.»
Joyce Brothers
«Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.»
Robin Williams
«Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.»
Hunter S. Thompson
«We must all suffer from one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of
regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.»
Jim Rohn
«An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.»
Benjamin Franklin
«I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.»
Albert Einstein
«It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it
elsewhere.»
Agnes Repplier
«If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.»
Seneca
«Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend
unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend
a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be
destroyed, and tolerance with them.»
Karl Popper
«It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however
satisfying and reassuring.»
Carl Sagan
«It is right that we ask people to accept each of the things which are said in the same way:
for it is the mark of an educated person to search for the same kind of clarity in each topic to
the extent that the nature of the matter accepts it.»
Aristotle
«It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends
upon his not understanding it.»
Upton Sinclair
«Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose.»
Daniel Pink
«Once I thought that writing this book would be impossible. It was a skyscraper,
massive and complete and unbearably far off. (…) Everything grand is made from a series
of ugly little moments. Everything worthwhile by hours of self-doubt and days of
drudgery. All the works by people you and I admire sit atop a foundation of failures.
So whatever your project, whatever your struggle, whatever your dream, keep toiling,
because the world needs your skyscraper.»
Pierce Brown
«When you're working mostly alone that gets frustrating really fast, and when
you get frustrated you get impulsive, and those impulses lead to half measure solutions,
and those half measure solutions accumulate into a whole network of bespoke inefficiencies
that you just live with because the process of unravelling them feels just so... big.»
Dan Olson
«Sometimes I'm glad I'm old and don't have to take orders from gutless employed managers anymore.
My best clients were those I could argue with. It wasn't about winning or being right, it was about
doing the best work.»
Erik Spiekermann
«The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds
his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are
so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures...»
Fred Brooks
«We build our computers the way
we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.»
Ellen Ullman
«There are only two hard things
in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.»
Phil Karlton
«Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.»
William Ernest Henley
«Meine Sinne sind hier
Meine Füsse stehen fest
Die Seele ist frei
Die Flügel tragen mich weit»
C. S.
«A restless soul burns through the coldest nights.»
C. B.
Apollo 11 - Hasselblad 500EL 70 mm
Reads
«Slaughterhouse-Five» 📃
Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
«Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell»
Novel by Susanna Clarke
«Cribsheet»
Book by Emily Oster
«Snow Crash»
Science fiction by Neal Stephenson
«Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games»
Book by Sid Meier
«Komm, ich erzähl dir eine Geschichte»
Book by Jorge Bucay
«Four Thousand Weeks»
Book by Oliver Burkeman
«Fermat's Enigma»
Book by Simon Singh
«The Five Love Languages»
Book by Gary Chapman
«Das Kind in dir muss Heimat finden»
Book by Stefanie Stahl
«Blood Meridian» 📃
Novel by Cormac McCarthy
«Dune» novels
Science fiction by Frank Herbert
«There Is No Antimemetics Division»
Fiction by qntm
«The Forever War» novels
Science fiction by Joe Haldeman
«The Box»
Book by Marc Levinson
«The Three-Body Problem» novels 📃
Science fiction by Liu Cixin
«The Dresden Files» novels
Fantasy by Jim Butcher
«The Stormlight Archive» novels
Fantasy by Brandon Sanderson
«Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism»
Book by Anne Case, Angus Deaton
«Fake Facts: Wie Verschwörungstheorien unser Denken bestimmen»
Book by Katharina Nocun
«You Just Don't Understand»
Book by Deborah Tannen
«The Demon-Haunted World»
Book by Carl Sagan
«Our Babies, Ourselves»
Book by Meredith Small
«Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers»
Book by Robert Sapolsky
«Becoming»
Book by Michelle Obama
«Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind»
Book by Yuval Noah Harari
«How JavaScript Works»
Programming by Douglas Crockford
«Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure»
Book by Tim Harford
«Shattered Sea» novels
Fantasy by Joe Abercrombie
«Shape Up»
Software engineering by Ryan Singer
«Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams»
Book by Matthew Walker
«Red Rising» novels
Science fiction by Pierce Brown
«Broken Earth» novels
Science fantasy by Nora K. Jemisin
«Born a Crime»
Autobiography by Trevor Noah
«American Gods»
Fantasy by Neil Gaiman
«Thinking, Fast and Slow»
Book by Daniel Kahneman
«No Country for Old Men»
Novel by Cormac McCarthy
«Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software»
Programming by Charles Petzold
«Dirk Gently» novels
Detective stories by Douglas Adams
«The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable»
Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
«The First Law / The Age of Madness» novels
Fantasy by Joe Abercrombie
«The Way» novels
Science fiction by Greg Bear
«JavaScript: The Good Parts»
Programming by Douglas Crockford
«The Hobbit» / «The Lord of the Rings» novels
High fantasy by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
«Hitchhiker's trilogy» in five parts
Science fiction by Douglas Adams
«The Mythical Man-Month»
Software engineering by Fred Brooks
«Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming»
Programming by Peter Seibel
«Java Concurrency in Practice»
Programming by Brian Goetz
«Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code»
Programming by Martin Fowler
«Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship»
Programming by Robert C. Martin
«Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software»
Programming by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides