Posts on Lexi's Blog

Jobsuche als Software-Entwickler*in im Jahr 2025

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:02:22 +0200

Note for my English readers: This post is available only in German, since it describes my experiences specifically with job searching in Germany, and under German bureaucracy. I invite you to read it through a translation service of your trust,¹ but please note that it’ll probably not be helpful or particularly insightful to you. Enjoy reading!

So kriegst du einen Job als Software-Entwickler*in!

Okay, stopp. Ich wünschte, ich könnte dir mehr bieten als diesen Clickbait-Titel, und es gäbe das Zauberrezept, und hurra, wir sind fertig! Leider ist es nicht ganz so einfach. Das Jahr neigt sich allmählich dem Ende zu, und ich selbst habe noch keinen Job gefunden.² Allerdings kann ich dir hier ein paar Tipps dazu geben, was mir geholfen hat, zumindest entsprechendes Selbstwertgefühl (wieder) zu entwickeln, meinen Lebenslauf und mein Anschreiben ein bisschen zu optimieren, und was ich erfolglos probiert habe. Mit etwas Glück hilft dir, liebes Lesy³, mein Post damit weiter, deine eigene Suche ein bisschen erfolgreicher zu machen.

Using UTF-16 Files in git – or How You Teach Linguists the Basics of Version Control

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:45:00 +0000

Intro

This post is a bit of a story about how I came to know quite a lot about git, the version control system. The intended audience for this post is two-fold: Both technical folks like developers, who will likely be interested in the detailed section How To Actually Handle UTF-16 Files In git, and not quite as technical folks, who might be just generally interested in technology/IT topics, who might work as project managers but have no deep technical knowledge, or are just generally interested in whatever I write.

Intro

Thu, 28 May 2020 14:36:04 +0200

Hello, welcome to my blog!

It is currently under construction. I’m still having some issues with setting up and configuring Hugo, which I use for the HTML content creation. I hope to resolve the issues soon, so stay tuned for content!

(Also I want to import my posts from my blog previously hosted at wordpress.com, which is a fun project but a bit of work in itself, so maybe soon there are going to be lots of interesting reads here!)

The hammer that turns every problem into a nail

Wed, 27 May 2020 09:31:02 +0200

Recently I asked a question on GitHub about some detail in the code of spaCy. Their founder of all the people, honnibal, called me condescending and presumptuous in return. I took offence at that at first, was irritated, but before I retorted with a snarky remark, I took a moment to breathe, and think about what he was actually saying. I realised that he was right. While I don’t consider myself to be condescending and/or presumptuous normally, my wording certainly had been: My question suggested I was telling the spaCy developers how to build an API for a complex python package – people who do this for a living, and whose code is recognised as one of the best NLP toolkits in the world.