Nikolaus Klumpp

It's kinda sad what could have been.

The very WIP beans web UI

fml I made a jira

“We have principles but they're negotiable.”
— Sam Altman

Another (small) milestone reached. This is running on an early version of Chatto Cloud, opening later this year. More news soon. Stay tuned, and do drop by and say hi :)

Agentic Conf Hamburg: Call for Speakers Software engineering is being rewritten. How we code, how our teams work, how we ship—it's all changing. And nobody has it fully figured out yet.Agent...

Last call! Submit your session to Agentic Conf Hamburg - the call for speakers closes tomorrow.

Already blown away by the submissions so far. March 22nd is shaping up to be a fantastic day - can't wait to meet you all 🚀

sessionize.com/agentic-conf...

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A screenshot of chatto

chatto sez hi

Incredible things happening in OSS right now. If you're about to release some non-trivial app into the open, I think you should sit things out a little bit to see where all of this lands.

Tests Are The New Moat | Daniel Saewitz As AI becomes better at cloning people's open source work, what ends up becoming most valuable are software contracts, tests, and API surface area. This clashes the incentives of clearly defining your...

An interesting approach for commercial OSS projects:

- Keep the core OSS (free to learn from & vibe-fork)
- Keep the test suite closed source

Quality is the only differentiator when writing code is cheap, and so tests become more valuable than the source itself.

saewitz.com/tests-are-th...

Strong "Call of Code-ulu" vibes!

Octarine - Take back control of your writing | Rajat Kulkarni When I launched Octarine at $50, I wasn't sure anyone would pay for a note-taking app from a solo dev. Then it went to $60 after 6 months of rigorous shipping. Now 6 months since then — a growing com...

Noch für ein paar Tage gibt es meinen bevorzugten Editor/PKM "Octarine" zum alten Preis. Keine versteckten Kosten, kein Abo. Super-engagierter Autor.

Das Ding ist sowas wie moderne Shareware und kann feature-eingeschränkt beliebig lange eingesetzt werden.

www.linkedin.com/posts/rajatk...

They'll hate you for building something they can't. They'll hate you for not including the feature they want. For using tools they don't like. For not immediately yielding ownership of your work. For not killing yourself for them.

And then they'll tell you you're the one who's destroying FOSS.

i'm a little chat app
stout and short
delete your slack
and your discord

So, this was a satiric reply, was it? Just checkin'

One thing that clicked: treating code as materialization of intent, not the primary artifact. I'm not writing implementations - I'm building specifications (ADRs, skills, epics and tickets) that guide the AI, often in collaboration. The design becomes the deliverable. (2/5)

Und heute wieder einen Mini-Artikel auf LinkedIn veröffentlicht, ironischerweise über eigentlich nicht ganz so versteckte Abhängigkeiten bei Sovereign Clouds.

Und jedesmal, wenn ich auf LinkedIn unterwegs bin, fühl ich mich ... wäääähh. Tja. Allerdings: Was muss, das muss.

Chatto Dev Instance The development instance of Chatto, the lean, self-hostable chat app. Come try the latest builds and hang with the team.

I love this amazing little app. It's matured very nicely over the past couple of weeks. Give it a try on the dev server (just be ready for missing features and bugs)

dev.chatto.run

Chatto Development | Chatto Dev Instance Straight from the kitchen.

Come drop by the Chatto Development space on my silly little test instance, we have regular development updates and also cookies!

(Actually just one; the session cookie. Chatto doesn't track you or phone home anywhere, sorry)

Meet me there as well. Come, join us. It's good.

So excited for this. Meet me and other venturing people on the ephemeral test instance of Chatto, an European lightweight chat/communications system.

If you want to give an early version of Chatto a try, you can do that this weekend. Stay tuned.

Screenshot of Chatto, my WIP Discordslacklike in a single ~45 MB executable that you can easily self-host.

ok so I made a discord in 45.7 MB

A screenshot of a dev instance of Chatto. A room with my buddy Carlo and me chatting about how great Chatto is (what else.)

Just in case you've been wondering: yes, #Chatto is real. A full self-hostable Discordslacklike in a single 44 MB binary that runs out of the box with no external dependencies.

(Well, there may be one or two missing features still. :b)

Es gibt auf der anderen Seite des Atlantiks nichts mehr zu gewinnen und auf unserer Seite alles zu verlieren.

Apropos, wohin gehen wir denn alle, wenn wir nicht mehr auf BlueSky können/dürfen?

Grant me the serenity to not use AI for art, the courage to use AI for stuff that is not art, and the wisdom to know the difference

VERY GOOD EMPLOYEE

People are surprised when I tell them Chatto doesn't use any existing chat protocols. They're even more surprised when I tell them that it doesn't try to establish any new protocol, either.

It's just a chat app for your friends, community, company. That's all. No decentralization. No federation.

Screenshot from the MatterMost website. All military. Title is "Mission in Motion". yuck.

Screenshot of the RocketChat website. "mission critical operations". Soldier duide.

One of the many reasons why I'm building a self-hostable group chat app is that this is how the top players in this space (both US-based) are marketing themselves now

"Relativ kompetent" bedeutet immer noch, jeden einzelnen Satz nachbearbeiten zu müssen. Und es ist unklar, inwiefern die Verarbeitung lokal oder entfernt stattfindet - oder beides.