• Too old for fun and modular startup furniture
    Nov 14 2024

    Benedikt is in productive mode. Benedicte plays around with Xano.

    • Benedicte is done with fun and modular furniture
    • A fun fact about the world’s first 4G network

    To cope with the stressful events in the world, Benedikt went into productive mode these past week. They’ve made great progress with their company triggers, built some command line tools to help with debugging workflows, and more.

    Benedicte recently attended a startup program by Telia with the Whee team. She’s also been playing around with Xano and met someone who’s currently using the tool for a large real estate business.

    Benedikt and Benedicte talk about coping with the overcast, minimizing the bus factor, AI, and more.

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    46 mins
  • Pushing boundaries
    Oct 31 2024

    Benedicte is winning at her quarterly goal. Benedikt makes great progress with company triggers.

    • Benedicte makes the Twitter-viral butter chicken recipe

    With only two months left in the year, Benedicte is crushing her quarterly goal: to have an enjoyable everyday life. At Whee, she’s pushing the boundaries of their Make plan, and will be testing out a tool for their customer SMS.

    Benedikt and the Userlist team are making good progress with the company triggers feature. While there’s still a long way to go, Benedikt shares that they’ve now got a rough idea of how they can streamline this feature with everything else.

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    29 mins
  • Do we really need an app for everything?
    Oct 17 2024

    Benedikt comes back from MicroConf. Benedicte returns from their fall vacation.

    • Benedicte’s view while coding on the boat
    • Benedicte and tech are in a situationship

    Benedikt is feeling a bit drained after having an eventful time at MicroConf. While the conference itself was great, he experienced interesting things along the way: from getting flights cancelled to being in the same hotel with a world leader.

    Benedicte and her Pirate family spent a nice fall vacation on a boat with Captain Ola’s friend. But with the Framer Plugin launch happening in the middle of the vacation, she had to do some last minute changes because of a Framer API change. Benedicte also shares their summer plans for next year.

    Benedikt and Benedicte talk about cache busting, if we really need an app for everything, and more.

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    36 mins
  • Get up off the desk
    Oct 11 2024

    Benedicte and Benedikt talk about how taking breaks actually help your projects, and more.

    • The power of breaks, a story in three parts
    • Leo’s talk at EmberFest

    Benedicte’s excited for the wins at her fractional roles: they’ve just launched their Framer plugin at Outseta; and she discovered the wonders of Make.com while creating a Stripe webhook for Whee. But despite doing a lot of stuff at work, Benedicte now makes sure she has time to take care of herself.


    Meanwhile, Benedikt is enjoying the conference season. He just returned from EmberFest in Dublin where he met Leo in person for the first time. He’ll also be going to MicroConf Europe. The Userlist team’s also making great progress on company triggers.

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    34 mins
  • No perfect solution
    Sep 12 2024

    Benedikt comes back from a short vacation. Benedicte talks about their struggles with estimated arrivals at Whee.

    • EmberFest

    Prior to his vacation in Munich last week, Benedikt and the Userlist team pushed a few of their upcoming features into production. He’ll also be meeting Leo for the first time in person this week at EmberFest in Dublin.

    With so many factors that might affect the estimated arrivals of their rented bikes, Benedicte and the Whee team are looking for better solutions to this roadblock. She also shares her observations while she watches Lillian and the other neighborhood kids work on their lemonade stands.

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    43 mins
  • Lovely Everyday Life
    Aug 29 2024

    Benedicte and Benedikt talk about their hobbies.

    • EmberFest
    • Cards Against Artisans

    Now that the school year has started, Benedicte is enjoying a freer mental space. With this, she decided that her focus project for next quarter will be “Lovely Everyday Life” so she can do activities that make her everyday life lovelier. Benedicte also recently attended Laravel Live Denmark where she talked about the Joy of Side Projects.

    Benedikt is making great progress with his drumming and is thinking about signing up for in-person lessons to further improve his skills. Leo will be talking at EmberFest in Dublin this September and will also be the first time that the two of them will be meeting in person.

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    32 mins
  • A not so slow summer
    Aug 8 2024

    Benedikt and Benedicte talk about this year’s unusual summer pace, bug fixing, and more.

    With most people going on vacations during the summer, businesses usually anticipate things to slow down a bit for the season. But unlike previous years, it looks like businesses are not seeing much of a summer slump this year.

    Benedikt and the Userlist team have been chipping away at some small improvements on the product, dealing with weird bugs, and have an upcoming database maintenance.

    Benedicte is also dealing with bugs at Whee and is plowing through dependency hell. She and her Pirate family are also preparing their rustic Airbnb property for the first guest who’ll be staying with them this week.

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    29 mins
  • A summer of heat waves, tropical storms, and everything in between
    Jul 26 2024

    Benedicte shares stories from their summer at the cabin. Benedikt talks about their latest product improvements.

    The summer brought nice summer nights and tropical storms in Scandinavia, giving Benedicte and her pirate family some memorable cabin office life experiences. She also shares that they’ve fixed up a part of their property and listed it on Airbnb.

    Meanwhile, It’s a hot and humid summer in Benedikt's part of Europe. Despite the heat, Bendikt and the team got a lot of things done: finishing the exports, improving imports, and now have a nicer overall batch operations architecture.

    Benedicte and Benedikt talk about two-factor authentication, content repurposing, and more.

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    34 mins