Mark
markbiegel.com
Mark
@markbiegel.com
Software Engineer to CTO and back. I mostly help people build startups, sometimes I build my own.
My workplace has become toxic.
An issue today came up.

The person who discovered the issue spent hours pointing fingers that there is a bug, gloating that they found a bug and making a nice big song and dance.

Could have just fixed it and had it in prod in 15 mins bro…
January 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Just had someone sign off their email to me with Hugs, Name.

Not “Warm regards”.
Not “Thanks”.
Not “Regards”.

Just “Hugs”…and I love it.
January 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
January 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I’m determined to become a day person. I’ve been a night worker for years now, waking at late afternoon, working all night and then bedtime at 8am…

Feels wrong to be tired at 11:30pm 😂
January 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I'm on my third week of "holidays". I'm bored.
Time to start work again lol
January 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Time to begin another round of “7 hours on hold with IKEA”.

The game is to guess how many times they will disconnect me and then try to beat it!
December 31, 2024 at 9:36 PM
I’ve decided to switch to PHP from Ruby.

Because I like to get paid.
December 26, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Not sure about the rest of you but the holiday season just drains the life and motivation out of me!
December 15, 2024 at 12:15 PM
The scene from Wordpress CEO Matt Mullenweg’s community slack channel…
December 12, 2024 at 6:46 AM
It's starting to come together. Logo is simple but effective for what I wanted 👌 🍒
#buildinginpublic
December 5, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Reposted by Mark
Rubyists, have you ever wanted more features from SQLite? I'm excited to announce the `sqlean` ruby gem!

github.com/flavorjones/...

packaging precompiled extensions from antonz.org/sqlean/ for things like unicode, hashing, regexps, time, fuzzy strings, math, and even CSV support!

#ruby #sqlite
GitHub - flavorjones/sqlean-ruby: Precompiled SQLean extensions for SQLite, packaged for the Ruby ecosystem.
Precompiled SQLean extensions for SQLite, packaged for the Ruby ecosystem. - flavorjones/sqlean-ruby
github.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Ikea, during checkout, said I was a dirty bot showing bot activity and should be ashamed 🥺 My feelings are hurt.
November 25, 2024 at 12:02 AM
I've hit a critical point with my project ChrryPick.
It now taking shape enough that I'm like "wow, I can't wait to actually use this" 🎉
#indiedev
November 23, 2024 at 11:06 AM
The next time a company says “if you get this impossible deadline done, there will be a huge bonus!” I’m going to ask for it upfront.

I’ll give it back if I miss the deadline.
November 21, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Today. Everything about today.
a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:46 AM