Agile frameworks are like morning routines
Last week I saw a post on LinkedIn describing Hal Elrod’s ‘Miracle Morning’ routine. The...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on February 03, 2025 ·
3 mins read
Tuning the Operaton (or Camunda) Job Executor with SQL
I am part of a group of people who decided to fork Camunda 7, an...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on December 15, 2024 ·
7 mins read
Unit testing with LocalDateTime.now() in Java
When writing unit tests, we expect the classes under test to be in a certain...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on August 15, 2024 ·
10 mins read
Large Language models - A Street Full of Wrong-Way Drivers?
If you follow me on social media, you know I am deeply sceptical about the...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on May 05, 2024 ·
20 mins read
Rock Stars are male and old - Fun with data
This week I read a (German) article about female rock musicians age discrimination. It made...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on March 23, 2024 ·
8 mins read
Work like nobody is watching
In the last months (I started this as a draft in February) there were a...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on June 02, 2023 ·
8 mins read
Clickbaiting Mastodon instances
If you visit this site, it is possible that you fell for some clickbait! No...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on December 18, 2022 ·
4 mins read
It's about time - Approaching Bitemporality (Part 1)
In the past I was part of a project with rather specialized data. It was...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on November 03, 2022 ·
25 mins read
Deleting AWS Glacier vaults with babashka
Before moving everything to the cloud, a QNAP NAS in my office was my central...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on July 23, 2022 ·
16 mins read
Getting started with Virtual Threads
This week JEP 425: Virtual Threads (Preview) was moved from Draft status to Candidate status....
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on April 12, 2022 ·
7 mins read
Testcontainers in the REPL
I have already written some posts on this blog about using clj-test-containers, my Clojure wrapper...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on March 17, 2022 ·
11 mins read
Data Readers and Leiningen
For an internal REST-API we are currently experimenting with tagged literals. Creating custom tag readers...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on January 08, 2022 ·
6 mins read
Finding my inner Wes Anderson with Babashka
I have found a new toy, and its name is babashka. Babashka is a “Native,...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on October 18, 2021 ·
15 mins read
Lasagna Driven Development - Thoughts on Layered Architecture
In the past years, I presented a lot of talks in different environments, in front...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on October 16, 2021 ·
16 mins read
Migrating a JPA application from Oracle to PostgreSQL
If you followed this blog for some time, you might know that I am a...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on September 18, 2021 ·
11 mins read
Enterprise Software Projects killed the Software Developer
This post was inspired by a comment on HackerNews that I am not able to...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on August 30, 2021 ·
12 mins read
Book giveaway
I skimmed through my growing collection of tech- and other non-fiction-books and realized, that it...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on August 11, 2021 ·
6 mins read
Calling Clojure code from Camunda
Since the beginning of the year, the parts of my daily work that are related...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on August 07, 2021 ·
15 mins read
Tracing Clojure code with alter-var-root
Tracing - again! Yes, I admit I already published a post about tracing Clojure code:...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on May 29, 2021 ·
8 mins read
Leaving Twitter
So long and thanks for all the fish Earlier this year I took ~6 weeks...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on May 20, 2021 ·
1 min read
A rant on bad leadership
Why am I angry? Earlier this month I ended my time away from Twitter with...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on April 07, 2021 ·
13 mins read
APM with honeycomb.io in Clojure
I am still in the process of founding my own company, lambdaschmiede GmbH, currently struggling...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on January 30, 2021 ·
32 mins read
Efficient JSON with Oracle Database
While working with a customer, a usecase came up that was hard to implement with...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on January 17, 2021 ·
30 mins read
My focus
In this post I am writing down some thoughts I had for the past days...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on October 18, 2020 ·
6 mins read
Video: Building an interface with Clojurescript and Rum
Another video from my Twitch stream, this time on the topic of writing a Hackernews...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on October 10, 2020 ·
1 min read
Video: Talking about clj test containers with Kevin Wittek
This Friday, Kevin Wittek, one of the maintainers of Testcontainers, joined me on Twitch to...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on September 19, 2020 ·
1 min read
Video: Functional Friday 1
Today I started a small streaming series on Twitch: Functional Friday. Every Friday at lunch...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on August 28, 2020 ·
1 min read
Cloudready Clojure Part 5
This is part 5 of a series in which I will show some of my...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on August 23, 2020 ·
9 mins read
Cloudready Clojure Part 4
This is part 4 of a series in which I will show some of my...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on August 23, 2020 ·
14 mins read
Starting self employment
This week, after 6.5 years, I handed in my resignation at ilum:e informatik ag. I...
Posted by
Tim Zöller
on August 19, 2020 ·
1 min read