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 Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
- listening
- 41 min of podcasts yesterday · stats
- writing
- Giving AI smaller questions
Selected Writing
My todo list lives in the repository tdx is a small terminal app for the Markdown tasks you already own—even when they live in your README. No central task system required.Latest Posts All posts
- Giving AI smaller questions How I’m using TypeSafe’s Jev for reusable notes, project names, shell-command experiments, and blog ideas—and where its judgment fits.
- The repository between my repositories Why I built a home base for scattered projects: somewhere to get my bearings, start a new repository, and carry useful context into the next piece of work.
- My homelab has users. They are my parents. An AI family plan became a small platform: Talos, declarative DNS with KDL, private networking with NetBird, and a home for my other projects.
