Niklas Heer
whoami
Engineering manager at Tradebyte, building an internal developer platform. On the side I make small terminal tools, read a lot, and write about what I learn from both.
now
- reading
- The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
- listening
- 28 min of podcasts yesterday · stats
- writing
- There's an octopus in the corner
Selected Writing
My todo list lives in the repository tdx is a small terminal app for the Markdown checkboxes you already have, README included. There is no task system to sign up for.Latest Posts All posts
- There's an octopus in the corner Inky is the snarky octopus in the corner of this site. A small model writes his lines from tech headlines, the build bakes them into the page, and phones never see him. How he works, and how I found out he had gone quiet twice.
- Rust's compiler can yell at the agent now In 2018 the Rust compiler talked me out of Rust with a 24-line program. In 2026, with agents doing the typing, the same objections became the best review I have.
- Giving AI smaller questions How I use TypeSafe's Jev for notes, project names, shell commands and blog ideas, and what I still have to check myself.
