Stefan Wintermeyer

It's been about six months since OpenClaw burst onto the scene - are you still using yours? Did it become a daily driver? Any interesting lessons or anecdotes you can share?

Please have a look at vutuv.de/wintermeyer and tell me what is missing or can be improved. Think of vutuv as the open-source LinkedIn of the Fediverse.

@benwilsondev Not a Ruby on Rails application (Phoenix Framework) but vutuv.de sends a lot of emails too and uses just plain old local sendmail on a linux box. That is not everybody's cup of tea. But much cheaper and more control.

Ruby on Rails devs and entrepreneurs... what do/would you use for transactional and bulk (newsletter) email sending? Mailgun? Postmark? Other?

New in Claude Code: /checkup Run /checkup to: 1. Clean up unused skills/MCPs/plugins and save context 2. Dedup your local CLAUDE.md against the checked in CLAUDE.md 3. Break up root CLAUDE.md into nested CLAUDE.md's + skills 4. Turn off slow hooks 5. Update your Claude Code to the latest version 6. Enable auto mode by default 7. Pre-approve frequently denied read-only commands .. And a few other goodies. /checkup confirms with you before making any changes. Enjoy!

@krlvi did some pretty cool evals trying to determine how @gitbutler stacks up against Git and Jujutsu when being used by agents. While I assumed `but` would be better than Git since the CLI is optimized for that, I was surprised by JJ's benchmarks. blog.gitbutler.com/vcbench

In order to prevent stores from evading taxes, every receipt in Taiwan is automatically a lottery ticket, too, which can win up to $300k, turning customers into voluntary tax auditors:

@randulo Please try to use the same email address to login as the one you received the mailing to. And contact me in case you don't receive a PIN in your inbox/spam. Ideally with the time you did it. Thanks!

@wintermeyer Hey Stefan, I got a mailing from vutuv today. Is it real? The PIN email isn't getting to me if it is.

It is real! Thanks for reaching out. Are you sure you are using the correct email address? Because the system doesn't tell you if the email is in the system or not for security reasons but doesn't send the PIN in case it is not in the system. hmmm... please try it again. In case it doesn't work send me an email and I'll update the email address in the system. PS: Of course it can also be a bug. But you are the only person yet which indicates that all is good in the PIN system.

BTW: vutuv.de/wintermeyer has changed quite a bit in the last couple of weeks. Now I run into a chicken-or-egg-problem. I need more people to post stuff. So in case you are tired of X, LinkedIn or Facebook: Please do test it. And please send me feedback! Thanks!

@cooperx86 How does your calendar workflow work? Do you search everyday what happened in the past or did you set a reminder for the future on that day?

It's on my calendar that GitHub Copilot first went into preview 5 years ago today 😅 It was the first time I got to experience AI-assisted development. What a half-decade that has been..

@ZachSDaniel1 Reminds me of github.com/wintermeyer/he… Not the very same but similar ideas.

Welcome to the last shell command you'll ever need 😎 `plz` (as in "please") plz is a magical shell command that does whatever you want it to do, while magically composing with the commands that come before and after it. Also it runs claude in yolo mode to do that so uh...yknow. Probably don't use it.

Feature request to @bcherny: /rc is very useful! I would like to raise the bar by requesting a back and forth voice interface which can be used by phone. I want to be able to work with Claude Code via speaker phone while driving. I've given it some thought. It would involve new rules but is feasible and very useful. Bonus: A11y improvements.

Ohne gesetzliche Tokenpreisbremse wird die Allgemeinheit nicht die Früchte der KI ernten können.

@chacon @getqonto @mercury Years ago a big German bank made my life hell because they completely froze my new bank account because of a single > 100K wire transfer from a US bank. Took me several weeks to sort it out. Obviously my client wasn't too happy to proof that they weren't doing anything illegal.

Does anyone operating in Germany have a startup friendly bank they like? All of a sudden @getqonto is returning wires and there is no customer service to figure it out. Please don't say DB or DKB - is there a @mercury of EU?

@chacon @getqonto @mercury The answer depends on the kind of business the startup is acting in. Are the clients just in Germany? Or just in Europe? Or also in the US? That makes a big difference. What amount of money per normal wire transfer are we talking?

Ich habe einen Heise Artikel zum Thema Token Caching geschrieben. Ganz einfache Möglichkeiten, mit denen man viel Geld sparen und Geschwindigkeit gewinnen kann. heise.de/ratgeber/KI-Ko…

@cooperx86 @BenjaminHouy It takes me less than a week to found a small German company and 2-3 weeks for more complex ones.

@BenjaminHouy At the risk of triggering flashbacks: x.com/paolino/status…

@cooperx86 @BenjaminHouy It is not as bad in Germany to found a company as this post paints a picture of. I am pretty sure it would feel as complex for me as a German to found a company in the UK or USA as the other way around. If you are not familiar with a system everything is complex and strange.

@Klotzkette DM funktioniert nicht. BTW: Starke Arbeit! Und ich ziehe meinen Hut vor den 1.000 GitHub Stars.

Habe mit Codex-Loops eine Sammlung juristischer Vorlagen nach deutschem Recht aufgebaut: Verträge, Prozessuales, richterliche Schriftvorlagen, Sonstiges. Noch nicht öffentlich, Work in Progress. Wer schon reinschauen mag: kurze DM mit GitHub-Namen, dann lade ich ein. github.com/Klotzkette/vor…