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Benedikt Deicke

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πŸ’» Co-founder / Engineering at @userlist.com πŸŽ™οΈ Co-host at slowandsteadypodcast.com πŸ› οΈ Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, PostgreSQL ❀️ Loves music, food, and cooking πŸ₯ Plays the drums benediktdeicke.com

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Userlist is the best solution for all SaaS email needs ✨

This has been our vision from day one. This is our north star we continue to keep chasing πŸƒ

It informs what we decide to focus on and what to say "No" to, as well as our marketing and positioning.

What's your product's vision?

11.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Added a new feature I absolutely love that shamelessly copied from @benediktdeicke.com 's @userlist.com is to let the user customize the columns on a table.

09.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Push API Reference Learn how to use the Userlist Push API to create and update users, companies, relationships, events, and send transactional messages.

A couple of months ago we redesigned our API documentation. It includes examples in various languages, detailed descriptions for all properties, and is (hopefully) pretty scannable.

I think it turned out quite nice. What do you think?

userlist.com/docs/developers/...

09.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
TOOL's Discography in One Take (Drum Cover) - Tyler Visser
TOOL's Discography in One Take (Drum Cover) - Tyler Visser YouTube video by Tyler Visser

I have to admit something: I'm not super familiar with Tool's discography. For whatever reason, they haven't been on my radar properly until recently 😬

However, stuff like this 7h one take (!) drum play-through makes me finally appreciate their music 🀯

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kO0S...

08.03.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No, I’m not saying that. I was also using a JavaScript framework back then. Just not all of them πŸ˜…

08.03.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Building your own bespoke git worktree tool is the new build a blog of the late 2000's.

06.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our Forms feature just got an improvement. Form submissions now live in a proper table. Customizable, like any other table in @userlist.com. Woot!

06.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Over the last couple of years, I realized that I'm not an early adopter. I'm totally fine with ignoring the hype for a while πŸ™ˆ

This served me well through the JavaScript framework craziness of ~10-15 years ago… and hopefully it'll serve me well for the current AI craziness, too πŸ˜…

06.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Benedicte gives an energizing talk at the Oslo Claude Code Meetup. Benedikt uses AI to optimize their website.Despite getting a bit chaotic, Benedicte gave an energizing talk about Jean-Claw at the recent Oslo Claude Code Meetup last week. At Outseta, the team decided to lean into enabling AI...

In today's episode of Slow & Steady we discuss @raae.dev's recent talk at the Oslo Claude Code Meetup, as well as my work on Userlist's website πŸ’ͺ

We also talk about "taste" and "experience" in today's new reality as a software engineer πŸ€”

share.transistor.fm/s/66aa325a

05.03.2026 11:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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INSERT ... ON CONFLICT ... DO SELECT: a new feature in PostgreSQL v19 This article discusses INSERT ... ON CONFLICT with a focus on the DO SELECT clause new in PostgreSQL 19 and use cases for the new feature

Ok, calling it already: This will be my favorite new feature in PostgreSQL 19.

www.cybertec-postgresql.com/e...

04.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We just launched a new onboarding flow at @userlist.com featuring Susie and her adventures in the email land 😊

04.03.2026 08:10 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I started replacing our serialization library (ActiveModel Serializers) with our custom build solution πŸ”¨

Your predictions please: How long until I'll regret this? πŸ™ˆ

04.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

But you know what…? It helped us build more confidence about publicly launching small improvements πŸ’ͺ

By now it's a recurring thing on our minds: "What small thing can we launch next week?" πŸ€“

02.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In the last couple of weeks, we shipped a ton of small improvements to @userlist.com πŸš€

People kept sending us messages like "Wow, you're shipping fast!" 🀯

In reality, we were just announcing things that had been behind feature flags for quite a while (years in some cases) πŸ™ˆ

02.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Discussion on leadership pressure affecting team speed and responsibility. Emphasizes flow over heroics in organizational systems.

Discussion on leadership pressure affecting team speed and responsibility. Emphasizes flow over heroics in organizational systems.

This is a great insight from TestDouble and it is even more true with Gen AI about how speed comes from flow and flow is a systems concept.

Source: testdouble.com/insights/sp...

27.02.2026 08:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Slow & Steady | In A Relationship With AI And It’s Complicated The OpenClaw bot asks Benedicte some β€œexistential” questions. Benedikt ships their MCP.Benedicte is working on Jean-Claw for her upcoming talk when things get a bit existential. In the middle of se...

I appreciate when folks put into words/emotions what I'm experiencing, like Benedikt's ( @benediktdeicke.com ) conflicted "too easy to start", "too many balls in the air", "not finishing". AI gets you 80% quickly, but the last 10% / 20% is the real work. slowandsteadypodcast.com/episodes/in-...

23.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It worked πŸ˜‚

23.02.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are we getting rid of the other months? πŸ€ͺ

23.02.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Get Started with Userlist on Make Make helps you connect Userlist with thousands of other apps and automate your workflows β€” no coding needed. It’s a powerful way to integrate Userlist seamlessly into your existing toolset.

The Make integration for @userlist.com just got an upgrade πŸŽ‰

You can now trigger scenarios in Make when things happen in Userlist πŸ€– For example, you can update your CRM when a user joins the "Trialing" segment.

Check out the full list of available triggers at userlist.com/docs/integra...

19.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, got it. Was planning to break things up into multiple services that all use the same container image, but start different processes.

18.02.2026 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Not sure I follow. You can specify the number of desired tasks per service, no?

Was planning to use @judoscale.com for this…

18.02.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing! I've heard about this approach, but wasn't sure how reliable it is. Seeing it in the wild at least gives me some confidence it might be a solution.

18.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok, that at least confirms my experience. During testing it took 3 minutes to just confirm that there are no pending migrations πŸ™ƒ

18.02.2026 11:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Any one of you all running their Rails application on AWS ECS? How are you running your database migrations?

18.02.2026 10:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Stylelint with the stylelint-order plugin should do the trick.

17.02.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot showing Excellent 100 Health Score in Ahrefs

A screenshot showing Excellent 100 Health Score in Ahrefs

If only this would magically fix everything πŸ˜…

16.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The xlsxtream gem made this super easy.

11.02.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Want to know the main reason why we built this? Excel doesn't reliably recognize ISO 8601 formatted date/time values when importing CSV files.

ISO 8601 has been around since 1988… πŸ€ͺ

11.02.2026 10:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A white slide saying "Awesome work, team!" in a black serif font next to a black line drawing of a goofy character

A white slide saying "Awesome work, team!" in a black serif font next to a black line drawing of a goofy character

My favorite slide of @userlist.com's presentation about the past year for multiple reasons πŸ˜‚

09.02.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Having the (tiny) community and the implied accountability of a fixed call on my calendar made all the difference.

A few weeks ago, I upgraded my kit to this one, and I absolutely love it 😍

07.02.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0