Steffen Deusch

@steffend.me

Software Developer (mostly Elixir). Mainly here to read. Fediverse https://social.deusch.me/@steffen

"Hot" take: in Germany landlords are required to ensure proper heating, but I‘d say proper cooling should be mandatory as well. One problem is that many Germans are too stubborn to accept air conditioning.

Screenshot of HomeAssistant temperature readings. All rooms are 28°C+.

Since switching to Linux on my MacBook, I've been running Discord and some other apps as Chrome Web apps. It's nice that you can easily wrap any page into its own launcher icon. What's not so nice is that all apps' audio streams just end up as "Chromium" in the system.

Fedora audio volume manager showing an entry called "Chromium"

Last time I visited my parents, my father opened up a YouTube video of a "doctor" talking about medication you should not take if you’re aged above 60. I immediately had a weird feeling about it and after looking at it for a while I noticed a YouTube play button with clearly AI generated text on it.

At the beginning of February I used a Sunday afternoon to make some space on my MacBook's internal drive to install #Asahi Linux as a daily driver. Apart from some minor annoyances it's working quite well.

The KDE "About this System" page showing Asahi Linux running on my MacBook Pro M1 Max.

Today I woke up to my LiveView app on fly.io being completely broken as any WebSocket connections were unable to get established. No deployment, no code change. Since it’s an colder codebase, longpoll fallback was not enabled. Works now with long polling, but websockets still don’t 🤷🏻‍♂️

I maintain - anubis-mcp Elixir MCP SDK - supabase-ex Supabase SDK for Elixir - nexus, peri, exlings Developer tooling & learning resources Working on something interesting or looking to hire? Let's talk. 💜 Support my work:

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