The Fancy Job Title MadnessI do have a title on my (non-existent) business card. And I'm pretty sure you also have one (title, not business card). Titles are a normal part of our professional lives. They are everywhere. And my company is no different from most other big organi...Jul 23, 2024 路 10 min readblog.lars-richter.dev
How To Slowly Kill A Coding DojoHave you ever found yourself in a coding dojo with just you, your thoughts, and the lonely hum of your CPU fan? Yep, that's where I was last Thursday. Well, not really. I'm working on a MacBook with an M1 Pro, so there's no humming of a CPU fan. But ...May 26, 2024 路 4 min readblog.lars-richter.dev
The "Chatroulette" of the Business NetworksDo you know the "Chatroulette Song" by Jon Lajoie? I have never used Chatroulette, but thanks to videos like this, I have an idea of what is going on there. But this post is not about Chatroulette. It's about expectations and reality and how the two ...Jan 13, 2024 路 3 min readblog.lars-richter.dev
Training Journal: Week 2Welcome back to my half-marathon training journal. And yes, I said welcome back. This is not my usual "series of posts" consisting of just one single post. Yeah, you heard me. This is the second post. 馃コ Let's dive right in. In the last post, I wrote...Jan 12, 2024 路 2 min readblog.lars-richter.dev
Training Journal: Week 1A good friend of mine signed us up for the half-marathon in Frankfurt in March. We ran the half-marathon in Hamburg in June last year (2023) and it was fun. But I knew I would stop the training as soon as I hadn't scheduled an official race. And you ...Jan 5, 2024 路 3 min readblog.lars-richter.dev