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About

Name Christian chrswk Bühler Birth name Weisskopf Adr Winterthur, Switzerland Bday 1985 Email chrswk@pm.me (PGP) Job title Software Developer Org Bühler Softwareentwicklung Profile Link

Now

2025-06-21

Rewrite the rewrite of my rewrite of my FLOSS software development platform.

Down the rabbit hole

Software

Dev Platform for software development Gaming Factorio ⌑ OpenTTD ⌑ RimWorld ⌑ Starsector ⌑ Terraria Hosting Hostpoint for email ⌑ METANET for domain/DNS services ⌑ Vultr for servers Misc HandBrake for video transcoding ⌑ HWMonitor ⌑ OBS Studio for screen recording and streaming ⌑ ScreenToGif ⌑ WizTree for analyzing disk space Office LibreOffice ⌑ PDF Arranger ⌑ Proton for calendar/cloud storage/email Secrets Keepass2Android ⌑ KeyPassXC ⌑ FreeOTP Web Init7 Fiber7 ⌑ Firefox with Dark Reader, uBlock Origin ⌑ Kagi for search

Hardware

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D GPU ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi Mainboard Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite PSU Seasonic Focus Plus Gold SSR-850FX RAM 2x 16 GB G.Skill Trident Z 3200 MHz CL14 SSD 500 GB Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen4 Audio Aune Yuki, Beyerdynamic DT 900 PRO X, Hart Audio Cables, Xenns Mangird Tea2 Furniture Vitra HeadLine, Steelcase Ology Desk Peripheral 8bitdo USB Wireless Adapter 2, AVerMedia PW513, Cortex Sidekick, Dell UltraSharp U4320Q, Ergotron HX HD Monitor Arm, Google Pixel 8, Logitech G Pro X Superlight, MoErgo Glove80, Philips Hue Play Gradient, Samsung Odyssey OLED G60SD, Sony DualSense Wireless

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

«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