Hi there!

I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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• play some of my poorly explained puzzle games like Block Machine or Patterna

• You don't have an IC career path

  Posted on June 5, 2024

  If you want to know whether the company you work at has functioning career paths for individual contributors (ICs, as compared to managers), look at whether anyone has walked that path. If no-one ever gets promoted to the highest IC levels and it is instead just where VPs go when... [Read More]

• Simple vs. easy

  Posted on June 3, 2024

  A common theme in my circles is that of complexity, and that the code that powers software shall be “simple.” I share the general sentiment. This topic has recently become very personal again as I found myself debugging a failure on Windows running in Wine inside a Linux docker container... [Read More]

• Making WebApps

  Posted on May 25, 2024

  This is a report on my ongoing field trip to create WebApps. [Read More]

• How to connect a Roland FP30 piano to a phone via midi bluetooth

  Posted on April 24, 2024

  I recently tried to connect a Roland FP30X piano to my Android phone via bluetooth to use it as a Midi input device. All guides I have found online either suppose that you only want to connect the piano’s speakers to your phone, or only want to use the official... [Read More]

• Running out of memory

  Posted on February 1, 2024

  I have recently spent a good bit of time with code running inside a (Windows, for now) docker container that would really benefit from knowing how much more memory it can allocate. This question turned out to be more difficult than I thought it would be! This article is partially... [Read More]

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