Matthias Polman-Wilhelm
kertal.bsky.social
Matthias Polman-Wilhelm
@kertal.bsky.social
Reposted by Matthias Polman-Wilhelm
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Ready, set, build. Hello, world.
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
To prevent loosing another hand again, the Flaky Test Monster got an upgrade. A steel skeleton and weapons. Beware ! Meat the Flakinator! Colored by my daughter.
August 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Elastic DataDiscovery party in Las Vegas, 3D printed. This way also folks that were not abled to travel to Vegas, were part of the team foto.
May 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
From Text/Image prompt to 3D Print: The Flakinator
May 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
When you ask AI to render a Fantasy Barbarian, autocorrect objects, and you get a .... Bavarian 😂
May 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Most wanted suspect in our CI pipeline.
Introducing the Flaky Test Monster
May 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
@syntax.fm @wesbos.com @tolin.ski Great episode about 3D printing! One thing that I found useful to convert 2D pics into printable 3D www.tripo3d.ai
With a bit of pre-preparation (convert pic to playmobil, lego, Minecraft ), the results are pretty good IMO, and one can export to many formats.
May 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Prompt: "Show the DataDiscovery team preparing for their annual Elastic offsite. Take the GitHub/LinkedIn images of those fine folks, convert them to roleplaying figures ready to print out on in 3D"
There's a gap! Fill it by applying as JavaScript full stack wizard: jobs.elastic.co/jobs/enginee...
May 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Matthias Polman-Wilhelm
Die serbische Polizei setzte die illegale Schallkanone bereits im November 2023 gegen Geflüchtete ein – jetzt wohl auch gegen Demonstrierende in Belgrad. Ein Lehrbuch-Beispiel, wie Gewalt und Repression, die zuerst gegen „Fremde“ gerichtet wird, später nach innen schlägt. birn.rs/srpska-polic...
Srpska policija koristila zvučno oružje protiv migranata | BIRN
Srpska policija je u novembru 2023. koristila zvučno oružje protiv migranata kod Sombora, prilikom njihovog presretanja, otkriva istraživanje BIRN-a.
birn.rs
March 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
ES⚡QL token POCs

Spent the evening at the Happylab in Vienna practicing 3D printing tokens with my ES|QL logo variant. Was testing manual color changes with the Prusa MK3s . Every POC had flaws, but that’s how you learn. Test early, learn fast. And have fun!

#MakerSpace #ESQL #Happylab #POC
March 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Matthias Polman-Wilhelm
What’s the opposite of a Nobel Peace Prize?

I think we have a winner.
February 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
@davesnider.com ! It‘s been a while since you’ve been fixing some CSS in Discover code. Now I know why. You’re building something nice! 🎉🎊🥳🐲🗡️🤺
February 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Struggling to find team-owned files in a large GitHub repo with certain keywords? I prompted a simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript tool for VSCode & IntelliJ to generate filters & scope using a CODEOWNERS file. Some lovely feedback I got:
"I wish I had known this weeks ago. This will save countless hours!"
CODEOWNERS Filter Generator
kertal.github.io
February 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Where do software engineering folks meet on weekends to brag when they switch from fighting bugs to fighting monsters?"
I bet "The Linked Inn" has good coffee and Wi-Fi!

Posting recycling to test the sky
December 3, 2024 at 7:53 PM