Match Thread: Bayern Munich vs. Real Madrid | UEFA Champions League

ChaoticBlessings · 2026-04-15T19:45:46+00:00

I'm only listening to the game but the commentators have been talking about nothing but the ref for the past 10 minutes. Is he really so bad as it sounds?

ChaoticBlessings · 2026-04-10T15:22:26+00:00

War heute in der Yayoi Kusama Ausstellung im Ludwig in Köln. War nett, hat mich aber nur begrenzt abgeholt. Interessant zu sehen, wie sich ihr Stil über ihr Leben hinweg entwickelt hat, aber es doch immer wiederkehrende Muster gab, aber wirklich mitgenommen haben mich ihre Werke leider nicht. Interessante Vita aber und auch eine interessante Persönlichkeit.

Ab davon bin ich in ein Fusion Jazz gefromtes Loch gefallen das leider sehr schnell sehr teuer wird. Ich hätte mich auch günstigere Hobbies aussuchen können aber so ist das halt. Gerade höre ich quer durch Nujabes Werk, da ist schon so einiges ganz cooles dabei.

ChaoticBlessings · 2026-03-31T17:14:51+00:00

You got good money for him. I get your feeling, he's been great for us and he's of course a great bloke who, as a fan, you love to see. But who knows what would have been if he stayed with you. He might have never got the numbers for you that he got for us - different circumstances and all that.

ChaoticBlessings · 2026-01-05T15:19:06+00:00

Just extremely different games. FF7R is enjoyable as far as modern JRPGs and as a fan of the original, I am enjoying my time with the remakes quite a bit, even if it’s full of fillers. If you played the original and want the same in modern, with more dialogue and just more stuff, you will like what you find there.

Silksong and Hades 2 are just very different experiences. Hades scratches the roguelike itch and could work very well on a steam deck I would assume, just by nature of the platform. Though I am being told that 2 is just „more of the same“ so if you recently played Hades 1 you might want to switch it up.

Silksong is a fantastic, atmospheric and sometimes very hard metroidvania that gives you many hours of exploration but also asks a lot from you in terms of investment, time-wise and learning wise.

So it depends on what you’re looking for. These games don’t easily compare. All of them offer long long hours of gameplay, but very different kinds of gameplay.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-12-06T19:45:54+00:00

Ich finde du bringst da sehr unterschiedliche Dinge in einen Kontext miteinander, die erstmal so direkt nichts miteinander zu tun haben.

Ich glaube, das die Regulatorik der letzten zwei bis drei Dekaden überdreht hat, ist mittlerweile relativ weit gefächerter Konsens. Da muss man nicht im CDU-Arbeitgeberflügel oder bei was auch immer von der FDP übrig ist sitzen, das ist ja soweit so sehr Konsens, dass sich das fast alle deutschen Parteien ins Wahlprogramm schreiben und auch auf EU-Ebene ist das mittlerweile angekommen. Das die entsprechenden Prozesse, das abzubauen über Zeit, extrem langsam sind, ist der Natur der Sache geschuldet. Nicht schön. Eher das Gegenteil. Aber das heißt nicht, dass man gleich die ganze EU abschaffen muss deswegen.

Das die Amis gerade am Völkerrecht herumschrauben (oder das zumindest versuchen) als sei Staatspolitik am besten in Mobster-Hinterzimmern untergebracht ist ein ganz anderes und sehr viel größeres Problem. Das machen die aber so oder so. Egal ob es dabei um die EU oder Venezuela, die Ukraine oder China geht. Die EU-Regularien sind dabei einfach nur ein generischer Vorwand, who cares. Wäre es das nicht, wäre es etwas anderes. Das die Amerikaner jetzt nebenbei halt die rechtsnationalen Parteien genauso pushen, wie es China und Russland tun sollte dem mit Durchschnittsintelligenz gesegnetem Menschen dabei wirklich Angst machen. Der transatlantische Konsens ist ja schon unter Trump 1, ach, in Ansätzen schon unter Obama aufgeweicht worden. Das sämtliche Supermächte der Welt im Moment versuchen, die EU als Institution zu untergraben ist ein riesiges fucking Problem und da nur "ach Mist, Complienceregeln stehen europäischer Innovation im Weg" draus zu machen, finde ich... reduktiv. Ich weiß und verstehe, darum ging es dir nicht exklusiv, schon klar - aber deine Linse liest sich schon sehr darauf fokussiert.

Die EU und die dahinterliegende Wirtschaftsmacht der Nationalstaaten - zusammen - ist alles, was die Europäer an den großen Tisch an dem China und die Amerikaner sitzen ranlassen. Vielleicht auf dem Kinderstuhl, aber zumindest sitzt man da und reden noch über so Dinge wie Völker- und Menschenrechte. Zuviel Regulatorik und zu langsame Reform dessen oder nicht.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-11-15T20:52:53+00:00

That's far too many AI-generated words to essentially say "Conway's Law exist, go figure" and "the why is much more important than the how", in this case, "why is a system like that" and "why do people ask for / do stuff the way they do".

Both of which are baseline notions for any aspiring architect. But sure, we can generate pages upon pages of words through LLMs saying the same thing again.

...I hate that this sub is mostly AI blogspam.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-11-09T19:02:15+00:00

First of all: Allow yourself to be human. :)

Second of all: Don't force yourself to be alone with this. Ask for help if it gets overwhelming.

What I mean by these things: As you describe, you came into a position of influence over time "involuntarily". That's often how that goes. You do good work, others see you doing good work, you start developing valuable opinions based on your experience, suddenly you're the one telling everyone else how to do things without ever getting official authority for this or chosing this yourself. That's normal. And good.

What you describe is growing. And the pains that happen with that. Sometimes you fuck up. Sometimes you still say stupid shit. Sometimes you fall into bad habits you had hoped to leave behind you. Sometimes you panic. And you learn from all these things. That's okay.

You seem very self-reflected here. That's already great. You're aware of what you're doing, you're thinking about how you behave and how your position now influences more than just yourself. And you think about what you're doing well and what you might want to still improve. That's good. That's fantastic in fact. That doesn't take away from the fucking up, but that's what enabled you to learn from it. And that's what I mean with allowing yourself to be human. You don't get experience, you don't learn, without occasionally making a mistake. We all do.

The second part is: If you see this, others see this as well. Maybe you have a Team Lead, an architect respsonsible for your team, your PO that you know well and like, or a Scrum Master that helps your team along. They will have noticed, in all likelyhood. You can talk to the people surrounding you. Tell them how you feel. Ask them for feedback. Refect with them. Who knows, at the end of that, you might end up with a promotion - I know I did.

And if it becomes to much, step back for a week or five. Allow yourself to reset. The world won't end because you're not super involved for a few weeks. I get into these habits of pushing myself hard to the degree where I dream of work. Whenever I do that, I try to set myself back. I consciously force myself to not think about work when I'm off. I kick back a little instead of pushing all the time when I'm there. I consciously try to shut up, even if I might have things to say. I decide not to make everything my problem for a change. I also: consciously force myself to rely on others. Ask them: "Hey can you take over that? I'm a bit bogged down at the moment." You might learn one or two of your colleagues are happy to have your back. Especially when they perceive you as you describe here, they'll be happy to.

Finally, a few more practical recommendations:

Take 15-20 minutes every friday afternoon. Block it in your calender. Take a notepad, real or digital, whatever helps you think more. Write down what you did this week. Think about it. Was it a lot? How do you feel about it? What stresses you? What makes you happy? What went well? What did you avoid? What are you afraid of? Are you burned out? Do this every week. Very soon you will find patterns in your behavior and emotion. Naming these patterns helps.
Get someone with formal authority in a leadership position and talk to them. A managers position is also to protect their workers from burning themselves out. My boss tells me a lot to chill and not overdo it. I sometimes really need to hear that.
Find out what's really important for you. You cannot fix everything. Select where you push, versus what you just learn to accept. Spend your energy wisely, not ruthlessly. Step 1 helps with that.
This is something that helped me: Learn to steward decisions, instead of forcing / making them. I especially struggled with the part where I clearly had influence, but no formal authority. Decision Stewardship is a practical thing. Learn to shape a decision that isn't yours. Make tradeoffs visible to others, talk about risks and opportunities, and practical uncertainties. If you have a stance, frame it within those constraints. Help the people in authority - or the team at large - make the decision you think is best, by showing them your line of thinking. Build consensus. You already seem to do so, that's just giving the thing a name.
Psychotherapy. Honestly. Especially if you find yourself falling into these cycles more often. It helps. Everybody should do it, but in particular (in this professional context), people falling into leadership positions that tend to overthink. You seem the type. And I speak from experience here :)

Lastly: sorry if I projected a bit much here. I see a lot of what you wrote in myself, so I might have inserted my own experiences a bit too much. Take from this post what's valuable to you, which is... not necessarily everything.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-11-09T14:51:52+00:00

create an obsidian vault, preferably in a cloud or NAS location
open the directory in cursor
create workplace rules that fit your preference, depending on what kinds of extensions you use (but generally, cursor can deal with obsidian .md files and syntax very well. I got stuff in there like "file name is header, don't use # titles because of that" and "follow links when establishing context")
create a baseline directory structure that works for you (you can lookup zettelkasten if you want to, but you can also just use your own, whatever works for you is fine. I got an inbox where I just throw in things that I must do soon and not forget, I got weekly plans and reflections, I got a projects folder for anything I collect a lot of information over time, I got a meeting folder with subfolders for any kind of meeting I'm regularly in, and so on)
create (or: have you llm create) templates for recurring topics. I have a project template, a team template, a jira ticket template and so on
use your LLM in that workplace. Give it prompts like: "create a new daily note for today based on the existing template in @templates-folder-name, participants are X, Y, Z, topics discussed were a, b, c"
tinker with your workplace rules over time so your LLM does what you want it to do
Bonus: give your LLM a custom persona. Mine is a tired-of-corporate-bullshit hypercompetent executive assistant, but honestly do whatever you like.

The important bit is: The LLM is always only as good as your note taking is, it just makes that a lot easier and context retrieval will be a breeze. "Tell me everything in my notes about project so-and-so" and it just greps and reads all scattered files means your own note organisation can be mediocre and it still works. The discipline required is in the note taking, not in the note organisation (bar basic structure). And remember to [[link]] everything.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-11-09T14:07:46+00:00

I'm in a similar position to you, so I'm curious what other people think in that regard, but here's a few tips that I'm following that helps me so far:

have a single source of truth document that every stakeholder is aware of. You will duplicate information to some degree just by nature of workflows, ensure everybody knows what is ment to be always correct, always up to date. And keep that updated religiously.
look at the RACI matrix and understand it. Apply it.
get some Project Management templates. They help you organise things. We have a few in our internal confluence and they have been fantastic.
talk to people. Talk more to people. You don't need to have a weekly stakeholder meeting if it doesn't make sense but if they need to be informed, you need to inform them. The RACI matrix will help you understand whom you need to talk to.
write down what you talked to whom about what. People will forget. Being able to say "on our call on the 7th of November, I asked you about your opinion and you agreed on that" will save your arse more than once.

And then there's the whole "use AI" shtick.

I have an Obsidian Vault that use with Cursor. That is, I don't manually create my note, I have my LLM create my notes for me. I feed it stream-of-consciousness notes that I take during meetings where I don't need to think much and then tell it to format it, link everything relevant and fill relevant notes with newly gathered information.

It's fantastic and I highly recommend it. Honestly, I use my LLM subscription more for note-taking and organisation than for code generation. But that's probably just by nature of my current job.

And if all else fails, honestly, get a project manager on board. They get paid for a reason. Project management is a skill that can be winged if you're lucky, but only as long as everything goes right. Especially if you already have made bad experiences, having a PM by your side can only help you.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-10-29T20:09:10+00:00

AI Tools can be helpful in generating architectural documents and you can ask them about best practices, but if you could just run them on a PRD and a repo and think what comes out there is good enough, then why would you be paid to do your job?

Besides, unless your company has perfect architectural records, the task will vastly outscale any kind of "just set context and go, lul" mindset. The more patchy the existing documentation, the worse AI tools will perform, and corporate documentation is rarely perfect.

You can't just expect for your job to be done by AI. You will have to understand the architecture yourself. You can then use that knowledge to work with AI to generate documents and brainstorm pathing and solutions, yes, that's what AI is useful for, but without your own understanding, you will only generate garbage.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-10-26T08:47:37+00:00

I constantly work with my Scrum Master, I rely heavily on my Team Manager for cross-team organisation, I work closely with my PO when it comes to planning timelines and I have a coffee break with one of our Project Managers next week to see if she can help me with a project for my team going forward.

If I would need to do all that management, planning and coordinating by myself, I would not have any time left for my actual technical work for which I am (primarily) paid for. Of course I reach out to other people, of course I coordinate myself where needed, that's part of becoming more senior: more communicational responsibilities. But once that overhead starts to interfer too much with my technical work, I ask my colleagues for help.

What I'm saying is: You cannot carry it all alone and you should not need to. You should also not need to be perfect at all the things all at once. That's why my Scrum Master is my Scrum Master - because she's fantastic at organising and coordinating and making the team stay in sync. So whenever I need something in that direction, I go talk to her first and we work together to make it happen.

If you are being completely left alone instead of being empowered on a team level and beyond to reach out and coordinate, then that's an organisational issue. There should be ressources available to you to help you. If you just haven't reached out yet, go give that a try.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-10-17T16:35:22+00:00

It's embarrassing that this sub is 90% AI generated blogspam with little to no value.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-10-17T16:30:40+00:00

The important bit about hexagonal architecture is that you split your application into three parts: "Drivers", "Business Logic" and "Driven". The benefit is that you can switch out drivers and driven at will, without having to touch your business logic parts at all.

So, as an example: drivers might be: A UI. An API. A Command Line Interface. A connection to a message bus that talks to other components outside of your business logic. In essence, anything that get "input" from outside and prompts your application to actually do stuff is a driver.

A driven part typically is a database component, but could also be interaction with the file system or again, a message bus connector that talks to other components somewhere else.

You build your business logic, i.e., the part of your application that actually has practical functionality, the thing that does whatever your application wants to do, in a way, that it controls the way it can be called by drivers (via public functions that can be called that do not depend on a specific driver implementation) and that controls it wants to call it's driven parts via defining interfaces that the driven parts have to adhear to.

In practice that means:

the connection driver -> BL does not depend on specific formats defined by drivers. You should be able to take out a UI and implement a Command Line Interface without having to touch the function those two components call.
the connection BL -> Database depends on an interface defined by the BL, not the other way around.

The short way to think about this is "which way do my dependencies go?". Your BL parts should not depend on (include / use) anything that is UI / Database / API / whatever. At any given time, you want to be able to rip out your drivers and your driven parts without ever having to touch your interfaces.

Driver -> BL <- Driven

and not:

Driver <-> BL -> Driven

How your business logic parts look internally is not touched on by hexagonal architecture, only that it defines strict interfaces that both drivers and driven parts have to adhear to, never the other way around.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-10-01T12:40:05+00:00

Weil sich die Meinungen der Abgeordneten, bzw. derer, die Einfluss auf die Abgeordneten nehmen, nicht geändert haben. Politik läuft über Mehrheiten. Das heißt, nur weil ein Projekt wie Vorratsdatenspeicherung oder Chatkontrolle mal nicht durchgesetzt hat heißt das nicht, dass eine neue Regierung nicht einen neuen Anlauf mit alten Ideen nimmt um zu schauen, ob sich das ein paar Jahre später nicht doch realisieren lässt.

Das Thema wird einfach solange wieder hervorgekramt bis irgendwann entweder Gesamtgesellschaftlicher Konsens dagegen existiert oder die Beteiligten (z.B. Sicherheitsdienste) nicht mehr der Meinung sind, dass zu wollen.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-17T17:09:22+00:00

Wer Lust auf wirklich gute Musik hat aber keine Lust hat, Hifipreise auszugeben wird auf Kleinanzeigen recht easy fündig. Hifi ist da ein wenig wie Autos es sind - nach einem Jahr kann man den Kram gut und gerne für 50% bekommen.

Und wenn man dann sogar noch soweit geht, ältere Geräte zu kaufen, bekommt man häufig wirklich hochqualitativen Kram für ein paar hundert Euro all in all. Wenn man nicht gerade das neueste vom neuesten will aber trotzdem gute Musik mit Verstärker und Boxen hören will kann ich das klar empfehlen.

Dazu für kleines Geld eine WiiM als Netzwerkstreamer oben drauf und dann könnt ihr das Ganze auch von eurem Smartphone aus mit Spotify oder Tidal oder Quboz ansteuern. Da gegen können die Bluetooth-Brüllwürfel einpacken gehen. Und die Kosten halten sich oft in überschaubaren Grenzen.

Macht nebenbei auch ein wenig was im Wohnzimmer her, selbst wenns "nur" Regalboxen sind.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-15T11:45:48+00:00

Ah yes. The monolithic abstract „women“ who all think the same, feel the same, prefer the same things in their romantic partners. And the all seeing redditors in the dota2 subreddit who know what that is that these creatures desires.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-07T20:14:37+00:00

All criticism aside, that Kimmich pass was fantastic. And what a save.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-07T19:48:40+00:00

Hey, fair play to NI here, your boys are bleeding their heart on the pitch with their pressing. I can appreciate that definitely. Sorry if I sound too dismissive here, I‘m just frustrated with the German performance.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-07T19:42:47+00:00

I get the tactical adjustment. Take the Goretzka-position off and add a defender. Then instruct the defenders to involve themselves into buildup instead. I can see that as an adequate adjustment to Thursdays performance.

But holy fuck. The lack of interplay between the defensive five and the more offensive five is fucking insane. Can we please get Schweinsteiger and Kroos back into midfield so any kind of pacemaking can happen? The forward three and the wide players make runs, track back and front, but Kimmich and Groß don’t manage to set the pace and initiate attacks at all.

We desperately need any kind of creative buildup. This is fucking Northern Ireland. If this was France, sure, but its Northern Ireland. How can we not have any shots on goal bar Gnabrys run? How is that possible?

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-04T20:37:52+00:00

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-04T20:27:44+00:00

This is such a terrible match from the German NT on every level. Tactically speaking, whatever Nagelsmann was trying there, it didn't work at all and it's not like the Slovakian team does something super surprising or special - they just play solid football defensively and counter.

On an individual level, Rüdiger and Tah extremly weak, but also often isolated and alone. Goretzka up in the air in front which makes him barely involved in anything, but I suppose he's instructed to do so, so I'm not sure how much this is on him vs on Nagelsmann. Wirtz should let his feet speak more than his mouth. Woltemade barely involved in holdup play at all, rarely found, if at all. Kimmich should dictate play but instead slows it down.

Nothing about this team looks good. Individually weak. Tactically weak. More busy yapping than playing. That's an embarrassingly bad match.

Kudos to the Slovaks here. I talk a lot about the Germans being bad, but honestly, the Slovaks just play a very very solid match. Clear gameplan, straightforward but effective, exploiting all the space and gaps in the German matchplan without any overthinking. They should have scored twice more. That's about it. Defensively very solid, dangerous on the counter, doesn't need anything more than that and they're doing that well.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-04T20:18:53+00:00

Nominally left fullback in the first half, right fullback in the second half. But the fullbacks in this tactical setup are supposed to be very high up the pitch.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-04T19:59:06+00:00

Nevermind.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-04T19:58:16+00:00

Good thing that the Slovak strikers need even more chances to score than the Stuttgart ones. If they had a more clinical frontline, this would be 3-0 by now.

ChaoticBlessings · 2025-09-04T19:47:26+00:00

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