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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 16/09/2026

Why can't every website with logins have such a button? Some websites and services turn an account deletion request into a huge drama. Others let me self-delete my account in 2 seconds, which saves the mutual hassle.

Screenshot from a website that has a "delete my account" button.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 30/08/2026

Google playing along with the Lake Bullshit renaming is just a reminder that Big Tech does not have an ethical or moral compass. They will make a deal with the 👹 if it suits them. The EU needs to bring the 🔨 down on Big Tech. 🇨🇦 🇪🇺

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 20/06/2026

Nobody has been getting more flak recently than @github.com for their continued outages. That's why I appreciate when they roll out small quality of life improvement like this little repository switcher.

Screenshot shows a red arrow that points at the new repository selector.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 18/06/2026

Double customer service anti-pattern: Step 1: Send me an unwanted customer satisfaction survey. Step 2: Tell me that my screen size is too small to see the unsubscribe page. It's wild what you can see in the wild.

Screenshot of an unsubscribe page on a mobile phone that says in Dutch that the screen size is too small to render the page.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 14/06/2026

I don't know how long this lasts, but OpenCode Go has temporarily increased MiniMax M3 usage limits. Great opportunity to test a non-mainstream LLM.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 02/06/2026

@zed.dev By default, the review diff can be sent to the last agent. But it starts a new conversation. Usually, I first want the agent to read the ticket into the context and then look at the diff. Is there a way to copy paste the branch diff into whatever agent session is currently open?

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 31/05/2026

I asked my agent to give me a Svelte example for something it suggested. And it whipped up a Svelte playground and gave me the link to it. 😮

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 19/04/2026

It looks like selling AI code completion for an editor is not a great way to make money any longer.

Screenshot of my edit predictions usage during my Zed trial. It says: "1 used of infinite".

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 17/04/2026

His Holiness punches back hard 👊

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 03/04/2026

Online winkelen in Nederland.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 25/03/2026

Uhm, @github.com, would you mind running some integration tests before updating your website?

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 25/03/2026

New video coming to my YouTube channel on Monday. Subscribe to get notified when it's published: www.youtube.com/@maiertech

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 24/03/2026

Inconsistent UI has been an issue with @github.com for years.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 12/03/2026

Handy to have a shiny new dashboard that helps me navigate to the changelog of an NPM package super fast. Well done, @npmx.dev 👏

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 13/02/2026

Dipping my toe in the waters of agent skills. The idea is to unclutter your context and let the agent decide when to pull more advanced stuff into the context. @vercel.com put together a site to discover skills: skills.sh Yet to be seen if skills improve my perceived agent experience.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 30/01/2026

If, hypothetically, I wanted to see the movie, I would have to look for a country nearby that screens it 🤣

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 19/01/2026

As much as I love Svelte(Kit), its job market has been bad and is not trending upwards. In NL, React and Vue dominate openings. Svelte is close to nonexistent. The screenshot from an opening in DE is a painful reminder that the stack most loved by devs, is perceived differently by decision makers.

Screenshot from a job opening stating that they use Svelte and SvelteKit but are moving towards React + TanStack.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 18/11/2025

It's bottleneck dependency day again.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 13/11/2025

Hi Kevin, thanks for reporting this. Can you reproduce this? And when it happens do you see anything in the console? You can reach the console via Chrome dev tools, see screenshot. I followed you back so you should be able to DM me with a screenshot if you see anything.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 13/11/2025

New trend in my inbox: SPAM emails wrapped in Google Calendar entries. Interesting approach to wrap crap in an email that will breeze through SPAM filtering. And a potential problem for any service that uses customizable transactional emails.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 08/11/2025

One of the few real world examples of a bookmarked PWA being promoted at a larger scale. This is what you see when you try to install the official emergency app in my area. Kudos to to whoever decided to opt for web standards 👏

Prompt to bookmark the Rijnmond veilig PWA on iOS.

Newspaper ad for the Rijnmondveilig emergency app.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 16/10/2025

While I wait for Apple to fix all the little things broken across devices, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that they had nothing else to do for a year other than focus on transparency gimmicks and rounded corners.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 10/10/2025

I give Vercel credit for transforming frontend dev with immutable deploys. Abstracting away servers was liberating. But as times change, the downsides of this model deserve more attention. I have switched to Railway as stepping stone toward a European hosting solution.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 09/10/2025

Vite Panel @viteconf.org with many of the amazing @vite.dev contributors and allies. #viteconf

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 08/10/2025

Has anyone building with #SvelteKit and `adapter-node` seen this type of error? Screenshot is a Railway build. Local build works fine. Happens occasionally. This is a Vercel to Railway migration. Never had this issue on Vercel. #Svelte

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 06/10/2025

Using `<enhanced:img />` in Markdown in a mdsvex file in combination with code fences that look like Svelte confuses the Vite plugin. Wrapping `<enhanced:img />` in a Svelte component and import that component into an mdsvex fixes this. But it's not pretty.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 04/10/2025

Shoutout to all @fronteers.bsky.social organizers for yesterday's #darkmode conference in Dordrecht. Great location, fantastic organization and amazing speakers. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #fronteers

Lanyard with name tag an program on the back.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 03/10/2025

Brecht @utilitybend.com talking about built-in component gems hidden in plain sight in all modern browsers, like popovers. So many great browser APIs that are waiting to be used by frontend devs. #fronteers

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 30/09/2025

Elevated failed build rates on Vercel today.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 22/09/2025

Besides the UX glitches there are so many visual glitches caused by liquid glass transparency behavior. It probably takes higher Math to calculate the distortion in the screenshot below but it’s visually unpleasant.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 22/09/2025

Ouch. That’s detrimental for a hosting business.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 21/09/2025

If you want a lot of hassle with OG images, auto-generate them like I do on my website. It's a moving target where one week it works with Mastodon but not on Bluesky and the following week it's the other way round. All that while the OG image testing website always manages to render it.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 08/09/2025

New favorite family game BombBusters. It’s a game where kids learn to deduce based on more information being revealed. And because it’s a cooperative game, they pick up team player skills on the fly.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 30/08/2025

Coat of Arms at Bouillon Castle in Bouillon in Wallonia this morning. And no, it’s not AI generated. It’s art.

The coat of arms looks like a medieval object but a closer look reveals modern brands from the US and Europe.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 19/08/2025

Two days ago, I struggled with permissions in `changesets/action`. Eventually, I figured out how to troubleshoot registry auth issues in a branch without messing up my PR history. Will probably do a write-up of what I learned.

Screenshot of closed pull requests whose title indicate that I had a bad day.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 12/08/2025

It's going great at Microsoft CoreAI.

Screen shot from GitHub's status page on 12 Aug 2025 showing degraded services.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 07/08/2025

Working on an improved color scheme for my website. Designed with CSS 🚀 #BuildInPublic

Screenshot of the new dark mode colors for www.maier.tech. Contrasts with the three different surface colors are calculated automatically.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 27/07/2025

Google Maps in NL is full of surprises, not only while you navigate. Amsterdam Centraal with the logo of Deutsche Bahn is hilarious. Transit directions work much better with www.ns.nl. And for car and bike navigation OSM-based www.magicearth.com rocks.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 01/07/2025

It's basically performance vs. Satori rendering quirks. For instance, I have generated attached OG image with Satori a while ago but the underline text looks weird. That's why I have not yet rolled it out. That's why I am trying to get a sense which trade-off I want to make.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 21/06/2025

This is a game changer for Copilot. But not a good one from a dev perspective. No more VC-sponsored unlimited premium requests. Curious to see if and how AI adoption shifts when people need to pay real $$$.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 08/06/2025

Great to see that uBOL now runs on Safari (both on iOS and macOS). This opens the door to using Safari as my main browser. github.com/uBlockOrigin...

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 19/03/2025

Got hold of the paper version of @sarahedo.bsky.social's "Engineering Management for the rest of us" book. Beside the invaluable engineering management lessons she shares, it's a joy for my eyes to read it. Proper typesetting and illustrations matter and are big reason why I dislike e-books.

Cover of Sarah Drasner's book "Engineering Management for the rest of us".

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 31/12/2024

Time for oliebollen, the traditional Dutch pastry for New Year's Eve. Amazing how obsessed people are with fried dough. This one did not sell the Dubai variant, though.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 27/11/2024

#Svelte 5 migration gotcha: When you use arrays or objects as with the `$state` rune, Svelte makes them magically reactive. But `Set` it's not reactive. You have to use `SvelteSet` from `svelte/reactivity` to make things work as expected.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 18/11/2024

Claude sounds like someone getting caught peddling fake information, who might continue peddling different fake information in their next sentence. This is maybe funny because it was a tech topic. But it's not difficult to imagine topics where the fun would end before you spelled hallucination.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 16/11/2024

And now for something completley different. Sinterklaas has arrived in my neighborhood.

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Thilo Maier @maier.tech · 05/11/2024

GitHub's choice to differentiate between Copilot chat and edits leads to a subpar developer experience. Why can't they be combined into a single chat interface? Though it may seem like a minor point, it adds significant friction. Copilot feels like a rushed imitation of Cursor.

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