max.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Building fullstack systems & untangling real-world complexity.
Based in Germany.
- now
- ex
- beforestealth.
FDE Excellence Award
Once a year only. I’m proud this one sits on my desk.
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spotlight
- How I manage my dotfiles
GNU Stow links shared and machine-specific macOS dotfiles in order, with explicit overrides for SSH and Git while private keys stay outside Git.
- Ambient request context in Node.js
A shared request ID breaks under concurrent Node.js calls. Runnable examples show how AsyncLocalStorage keeps each log in the right context.
- Small web and macOS tools worth keeping
A visual index of SVG, diagram, screenshot, image, and database tools that solve one job well.