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Why I'm stepping down as Head of Engineering
Four years after founding the company, I’m stepping away from executive management at LocalStack. It was not an easy decision, but came after months of reflecting, and the honest realization that I was drifting away from the kind of impact that gives me energy. I’m now moving back into a cross-team IC-focused role, and it’s a good opportunity to tell this story, in the hopes it might help others in similar situations find the courage to make a change!

Syncing Notion databases into Tinybird using notion-objects
In this blog post, I want to show you how you can, with just a few lines of Python code using the notion-objects library and the Tinybird API, synchronize data from Notion databases into Tinybird data sources.

Streaming Lectures at TUW using OBS and YouTube Live
During the summer term 2020, the first COVID-19 related shutdown of universities caught us a bit off-guard. I was teaching Distributed Systems Technologies at TU Wien and had to postpone the first lecture. It was unclear what the TUW standards for distance learning would be. The common practice at the time were recorded slidecasts, which I didn’t find to be very engaging. So we decided to instead stream our lectures at the dates we had scheduled to YouTube live and then provide recordings of them. Because the model was successful, and I’ve been asked a few times about the setup I used, here’s a short post about it.
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