Hello Mac (again)

Having the perfect machine for development and also for stuff I’m doing besides development (Web browsing, online banking, Netflix, …) is always a thing I strive for. As most of you will do.
A special thing about the “dev machine” (and also about my mobile phone) is something that is very hard to explain, but I will try nevertheless.

The social factor

I always try to have a setup that is achievable by “normal” people. Being gifted with a hobby that I’m quite good at that I can do as a full time job and is also payed very well I can afford almost any setup (dev machine, mobile phone, infrastructure) that I want to have.
But I always try to find the best setup that is not dependent on having much money to spare still considering things that are important to me like privacy and robustness.

Hello Internet (again)

This is my nth attempt to start something like a blog.
The last attempts all ended with me not writing anything. This time I try to force myself to do so every week.

Regarding topics here I think you can expect mainly software development related stuff. Embedded SW development (If this can be called like that nowadays), .NET stuff, Android development and whatever is engaging me currently.

My name is Michael Lamers (also known as Devmil in the internets) and I work for B/S/H/, a Bosch company creating household appliances of different brands. The most known ones are Bosch, Siemens, Neff, Thermador and Gaggenau. My job is defining the SW architecture of the UI software in those appliances. I also work in the UI Framework team providing all those UI projects a basis to create their UI software on.
As a technology stack we use C++ and Qt but even after 10 years of doing C++ I still don’t like that language. It is messy, error prone and leads to very long development cycles (change - build - test - repeat takes really long)
So a hobby of mine is to look out for alternatives that we might be able to use at work.

We recently moved to Linux as operating system which opened a huge door for alternative technology stacks.
At our current stage we are still very limited in hardware resources so currently most of the alternatives have no chance because of the size of the compiled binary + the framework needed to run it.