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Nikolaus Klumpp
@nklumpp.bsky.social
Ich war hier und da.

Somewhere else: https://saptodon.org/@nklumpp
As a consultant for Enterprise Architecture, I am someone who has an eye on Business Continuity Management (BCM) and operational resiliency topics.

All the more reason to be excited for Chatto. Lightweight, easy to self-host, easy to spin up.

And: Bonus points for data-at-rest encryption. <3
It's been a couple of busy weeks for Chatto: emoji reactions, DMs, replies & threads, encryption-at-rest with per-user crypto-shredding, message editing & deletion, Markdown formatting (with syntax highlighted code blocks), and more.

Pretty good progress, hope to get this into your hands soon!
Introducing Chatto
I'm building an Open Source group chat application that's simple to self-host, familiar to use, and easy to customize.
www.hmans.dev
January 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Unpopular Opinion: Arc Raiders has a thin cover of background story that thinly veils cynical design choices.

Somebody designed it, somebody gametested it, somebody published it.

I wonder who thought it nice to play out players giving other players a coup de grace after they tried to crawl away.
January 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
In our conversations about how software dev is evolving, @nklumpp.bsky.social refers to agentic AI as "engineer power armor", something that we wear to extend our capabilities; not an automaton that we stupidly interact with until it either deletes our hard disk ~or~ makes us obsolete. I like this.
December 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
I want to build something that works both for business as well as community/gaming/casual use cases. Gunning for the "typical" UX as a base and then try some things on top of that (particularly around threading, room types and the likes.)
December 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
👀 Some words about Chatto, my BIG project. It's a group chat app that

- is incredibly easy to self-host
- has very modest hardware requirements
- scales really well
- apache-2.0 license
- hosted platform launching in 2026

Looking forward to writing much more about this soon.

Let's do this. 🚀
Introducing Chatto
I'm building an Open Source group chat application that's simple to self-host, familiar to use, and easy to customize.
www.hmans.dev
December 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Fühle mich nach einem Blick in/auf LinkedIn immer so schrecklich angestrengt.

Benutzt jemand noch XING? Ist ja die einzige offensichtliche Alternative. Wie ist es dort gerade?
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
It's really nice already! I've been kinda …midwifing that thing, so to speak. (My man Hendrik was kind enough to bounce ideas off of me. Fun!)
It's my birthday, but today *you* get the presents!

Introducing "Beans", a CLI-based, flat-file issue tracker designed for humans and their robot friends. 🫘

Track your work right in your repo, using the CLI. And if you work with coding agents, supercharge them with a full picture of your project!
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
#enterprisearchitecture

But, to put it in a German's eloquence:

Tja.
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:

The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
French authorities report that five drones have been seen over l’Ile Longue last where the French nuclear submarines are based. Reports are that anti-drone measures were taken (!). More infos to come, I expect.

www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
La base sous-marine de l’île Longue, qui abrite les sous-marins nucléaires lanceurs d’engins, survolée par des drones
Cinq drones ont été détectés techniquement jeudi soir, vers 19 h 30, au-dessus de la base, qui borde la rade de Brest.
www.lemonde.fr
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Bemerkenswert, wie im fünften Jahr der Pandemie die Leute in den Bahnabteilen fröhlich vor sich in den Raum hinniesen.
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
The participants in this HN thread are going to enjoy the thing I've been cooking up.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610...
Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
This is as good a day as any to announce that I'm leaving my job early 2026 and starting a company around this thing.

Open Source

No AI features or other iffy bits

Trivially easy to self-host on very modest hardware (but it can *scale*)
Having a grand time working on █████. Haven't decided what's more exciting; the app itself, or the architecture behind it. This is going to be fun =)
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Und dann, Bluesky so..

social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/11...

(Passt gut zum unsensiblen Moderationsverhalten der Plattform.
Ich erinnere mich, wie ich als junger Mensch über den Kampfbegriff "kulturelle Hegemonie" gelächelt habe. Tja.)
Fedi.Tips (@[email protected])
Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (https://cyberplace.social...
social.growyourown.services
October 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
LinkedIn auf.

"Ein weiterer Meilenstein auf meiner agilen Reise" -- SAFe-Zertifizierung.

LinkedIn zu.
September 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Überlege, wie ich zukünftig meine Social Media-Sachen organisiere.

Vielleicht so?

Saptodon - "beruflich", öffentlich
Mastodon - persönlich, privat
BSKy - persönlich, öffentlich

Allerdings, wo ist der Unterschied für einen Freiberufler zwischen persönlich und beruflich?

Bleibt noch LinkedIn.
September 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
What we do and how we do it matters. In real life, in tech, at work.

Money amplifies character. Don't be like DHH if by fortune and good decisions you're getting affluent enough. Your success never is your success alone. You're standing on the should of giants. Don't make them regret lifting you.
Heartbroken to see what a terrible place the Ruby/Rails community has become after spending the better part of two decades working with and teaching that framework.
DHH, instead of writing Rails because, y'know, he doesn't ever do that, is threatening people.

Stand up and say no more fascists in Ruby. github.com/Plan-Vert/op...
September 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
Okay, I'm going to help you understand what's going on here. The big tech companies aren't going to have a problem ponying up the extra $100k/year; what will happen is that smaller companies are going to have an even harder time competing. It's *exactly* what FAANG wants.
President Trump plans to add a $100,000 fee to H-1B visa applications in the administration’s latest crackdown on a system it says is used by tech companies to avoid hiring American workers.
Trump to Add $100,000 Fee to H-1B Visas
The move, expected as soon as Friday, would upend a program for foreign workers that the president says tech companies overuse.
on.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Ingrid und Peter Gerstbach und ich verlosen meine Karte für das BA Camp 2025 in Wien, diesen Freitag, den 12. September.

Die Verlosung richtet sich an alle Nachwuchskräfte im Bereich Business Analysis (das ist definitiv sehr breit gefasst ^^)

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

#bacamp2025 #wien
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September 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
@galaxus.de Ich bin nicht Kunde bei Euch, aber jemand hat mit meinen Daten mit Klarna bei Euch eine Bestellung aufgegeben. Da ich kein Konto bei Euch habe und nirgendwo eine Telefonnr sehe, habe ich an [email protected] geschrieben. Wenn Ihr hier aktiv seid, würde ich mich über einen Ping freuen.
July 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Freunde einladen von
> Steam
> Episch"

Yo, Geiz ist geil usw usf
June 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Wenn ich mir so die Komplexität von "Azure DevOps" anschaue, sind die Erneuerungsbewegungen der letzten 40 Jahre im Bereich der Softwareentwicklung alle gescheitert.

Krachend.
June 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Reposted by Nikolaus Klumpp
Julia Klöckner hat angewiesen, dass zur diesjährigen Pride Parade in Berlin keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag weht. Nun wurde auch die Teilnahme der Bundesregierung an der Pride zurückgenommen.
Ich sag’s nur, damit am Ende von euch niemand sagen kann, ma hätte ja nichts ahnen können.
June 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM