rswk.ch

About

Me circa 2023, marrying the love of my life (not pictured)

Name: Christian chrswk Bühler
Birth name: Weisskopf
Gender: M
Adr: Winterthur, Switzerland
Bday: 1985
Email: chrswk@pꞅòṬꝌɳmaiĽ.com
Key: PGP
Job title: Software Developer
Org: Bühler Softwareentwicklung
URL: rswk.ch

Now

2026-07-03

🐥 Father of two 🌒☀️
⚒️ Toiling over Promontory aka you can't fail if you don't give up 👉👈
🎮 Wrecking in Forza Horizon 6
☕ Brewing Havelbohne 08 Costa Rica Tarazzu

Www

2026-07-01: Concurrency Is Not Parallelism
2026-06-21: He Won't Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place
2026-06-16: Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
2026-06-15: Extinction-level capitalism
2026-06-08: Merchandizing the Void

Brewing

Www

2026-06-03: Gumption Traps
2026-05-21: Bjarne Stroustrup
2026-05-11: MOOP Map 2025 [1]
2026-05-05: Let's talk about LLMs
2026-05-02: Backseat Software
2026-05-01: ARTEMIS II PHOTO TIMELINE
2026-04-17: The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
2026-04-08: Go Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.
2026-04-07: microgpt
2026-03-19: Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP
2026-03-10: The eleven laws of showrunning (PDF)
2026-03-09: Marathon, Reprise
2026-03-06: AI Deleted Her Inbox and They Want It to Replace Your Job?
2026-02-23: Magic
2026-02-20: Finding Comfort in the Uncertainty
2026-02-20: A Dialogue with Austin Walker
2026-02-14: On Brian Cantwell Smith and the Promise of AI
2026-02-10: Stardew Valley Turns 10: The Big ConcernedApe Interview
2026-02-06: Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
2026-01-31: Painless Software Schedules
2026-01-18: Reality has a surprising amount of detail
2025-12-24: Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025
2025-12-12: Reversing the technical interview
2025-11-24: The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake
2025-11-22: The Configuration Complexity Clock
2025-10-31: Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
2025-10-23: Computer latency: 1977-2017
2025-10-03: Hacking with AI SASTs
2025-09-30: Fixing the Biggest Problem With Mechanical Keyboards
2025-09-19: Dev Culture Is Dying The Curious Developer Is Gone
2025-09-09: Keeping Secrets Out of Logs
2025-08-24: Why Was Apache Kafka Created?
2025-08-02: Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor [1] [2]
2025-07-30: We need to reclaim software's wishing well from the cruelty of generative AI
2025-07-25: Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms
2025-07-16: WAF through the eyes of hackers
2025-07-11: Hackers and Painters
2025-06-26: Camels and Rubber Duckies
2025-06-24: Two billion people don't have safe drinking water
2025-06-13: Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art
2025-06-13: spurious correlations
2025-06-11: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
2025-05-28: The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo
2025-05-24: The Navy SEALs Allegedly Left Behind a Man in Afghanistan
2025-05-14: Reservoir Sampling
2025-05-14: Feature Flags vs Configuration Options - Same Difference?
2025-05-14: The Grug Brained Developer
2025-05-14: On Long Term Software Development
2025-04-27: Solar Orbiter's widest high-res view of the Sun
2025-04-14: Please don't use my name
2025-03-19: The High Heel Problem
2025-03-18: An Appreciation of Michael Barbaro and "The Daily"
2025-03-09: Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
2025-02-25: aposd-vs-clean-code
2025-02-21: How NOT to Measure Latency by Gil Tene
2025-02-11: Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook
2025-02-11: Chesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Thinking
2025-02-09: From C++ to the world of Java
2025-01-27: ATProto for distributed systems engineers
2025-01-25: Oil and gas jobs decline amid record-breaking production
2025-01-24: Usenet Organization and Etiquette
2025-01-21: Project MINI RACK
2025-01-15: SQLite: How it works by Richard Hipp
2024-12-15: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
2024-12-15: How big data created the modern dairy cow
2024-12-11: How do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture
2024-12-04: An exclusive look inside the restored Notre Dame
2024-11-27: Manna - Two Views of Humanity's Future
2024-11-16: No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains
2024-11-11: spatial poetics: Stalin's Atlantis
2024-10-15: HTML for people
2024-10-06: The Duct Tape Programmer
2024-10-06: The Rise of 'Worse is Better'
2024-10-06: THE BRUTALIST PROGRAMMING MANIFESTO
2024-09-11: How do archivists package things? The battle of the boxes
2024-09-08: How to stretch a cruise ship
2024-09-08: LackRack
2024-09-04: Magic Wormhole
2024-08-30: Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it.
2024-08-30: Glider - Open-source E-ink monitor
2024-08-30: Projekt-Audit ISS
2024-08-30: Library Genesis
2024-08-30: Putting the "You" in CPU
2024-08-30: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
2024-08-30: GPS
2024-08-30: How to embrace asynchronous communication for remote work
2024-08-30: Setting up containers with systemd-nspawn
2024-08-22: Conventional Comments
2024-08-18: Queues invert control flow but require flow control
2024-08-16: Nuclear Engineering Wall Charts

Gear

Audio: Aune Yuki ⥍ Beyerdynamic DT 900 PRO X ⥍ FiiO FT1 ⥍ FiiO K7 ⥍ Hart Audio Cables ⥍ Xenns Mangird Tea2
Coffee: Bialetti Moka Express ⥍ Comandante C40 MK3
Furniture: Vitra HeadLine ⥍ Steelcase Ology Desk
Internet: 1 Gbit/s Init7 Fiber7
PC: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D ⥍ ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi ⥍ Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite ⥍ Seasonic Focus Plus Gold SSR-850FX ⥍ 2x 16 GB G.Skill Trident Z 3200 MHz CL14 ⥍ 500 GB Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen4 ⥍ 500 GB Crucial P310 NVMe Gen4
Peripheral: 8bitdo USB Wireless Adapter 2 ⥍ AVerMedia PW513 ⥍ Caran d'Ache 849 Ballpoint ⥍ Dell UltraSharp U4320Q ⥍ Ergotron HX HD Monitor Arm ⥍ Logitech G Pro X Superlight ⥍ MoErgo Glove80 ⥍ Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SD ⥍ Sony DualSense Wireless ⥍ Thrustmaster Sol-R 1 Flightstick ⥍ Thrustmaster TPR
Server: Minisforum MS-01-S1390

Misc

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

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams

I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
Tony Hoare

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton

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.