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philip @heltweg.org · 16h

One big effect of AI on my life is that I actually use VoiceInk for just talking to my PC and then transcribing into text areas quite a lot nowadays. Even this is posted from talking to the PC. Wild. The future is here.

philip @heltweg.org · 23h

Google is in your corner research.google/pubs/sql-has... ;)

SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL

research.google

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philip @heltweg.org · 3d

a woman interviewed in a reel. her sister is her best friend, she likes flowers, flower smell reminds her of her, how does she feel about perfume X? loves it, she just bought it, perfume X is amazing! wait is this an AD? it is an AD, oh no oh no what have we done this is all wrong what have we doing

philip @heltweg.org · 5d

Very classic looking kodo, reminds me of first leveling a Tauren walking up to thunder bluff 😌.

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philip @heltweg.org · 5d

Apparently weird thing to say, but: I want to review some papers, someone put me down as requested reviewer pspspspsps reviews where are you?

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philip @heltweg.org · 7d

I spent ~6h today just speaking with my computer using text to speech into Claude. Weird way to work, but really interesting 🤔. And felt quite productive as well.

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philip @heltweg.org · 7d

Ah true, how would they fix it without being able to pay for Claude :/. Is this the AI bubble popping? 😬

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philip @heltweg.org · 7d

Trying to pay Anthropic for a Pro plan only to get Internal Server Errors. Please, Claude, fix your backend 😭.

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philip @heltweg.org · 8d

Had a great time running some dungeons in WoW with a new player on Sunday, just explaining mechanics in a relaxed atmosphere. Nice to be reminded that that is what multiplayer games are all about instead of running after the gear 🙌.

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philip @heltweg.org · 8d

+1 and I'd consider shortening seconds there as well. So: "16:32 - 16:56 (Focus, 24m26s)" would become "24m Focus (16:32 - 16:56)" or "Focus, 24m (16:32 - 16:56)".

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philip @heltweg.org · 8d

Mandatory mention of www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/f...? :D

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software

Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.

www.kalzumeus.com

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philip @heltweg.org · 10d

I've done some app and react native dev recently and man is fun to build on the web in comparison 🙌.

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philip @heltweg.org · 12d

I have reimplemented my personal homepage (www.heltweg.org) using Astro. Hopefully this enables me to add some react-based enhancements for my blog in the future.

I've seen others do cool stuff with that, looking forward to building something similar :).

Philip Heltweg

Hi, I am Philip :)

heltweg.org

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philip @heltweg.org · 13d

Just got notified that our paper was accepted at EMSE 🥳. Kind of funny to think that, depending on their background, that will mean nothing to a large majority of people 😅. But to me, it is "the happy end" of ~2 years of work.

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philip @heltweg.org · 14d

Travel reimbursements by the university now take more than a year. I should start charging interest 😬.

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philip @heltweg.org · 14d

clinging to the last days of summer like the leaves, desperately holding on to the tree

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philip @heltweg.org · 15d

Putting my thesis into NotebookLM by Google and generating a video podcast is a wild ride of cringing about the US-marketing hype framing and awe at the technology 😬. But I appreciate the AI telling me the work is groundbreaking, big hype woman energy.

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philip @heltweg.org · 22d

I have been quiet recently, but for a good reason: Last week, I successfully defended my dissertation on open collaboration during data engineering with open data 🎓🥳. Honestly, stressful times, but now there is only waiting for the German bureaucracy left 😌.

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philip @heltweg.org · 24d

Wow, neat that something like that exists. Thanks!

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philip @heltweg.org · 24d

Disable it in settings myaccount.google.com/connections/...

Sign in - Google Accounts

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philip @heltweg.org · 24d

How are you creating those videos? They look very slick 🙌

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philip @heltweg.org · 25d

How do I disable the slow reveal animation on the Android lock screen after the recent Pixel update? Why would this be changed 🤦 .

philip @heltweg.org · Sep 14

Imho 1, but you would get better answers if you put the icons in a real context instead of the colored background imho. Logo 2 looks terrible to me, but largely because it clashes with the background colors.

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philip @heltweg.org · Sep 9

What's that? 👀

philip @heltweg.org · Sep 6

Could also consider a small hint at the top as in "answering to <name>". But do share if you come up with something good :).

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