Nils Adermann

@naderman

Co-Founder of @packagist / packagist.com and Co-Creator of #composerphp - he/him - @[email protected]

Berlin, Germany

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Nils Adermann
@naderman
Sep 29
Packagist turns 15 🥳 And what a ride it's been! Check out our anniversary blog posts with some fun anecdotes and quotes from old emails (remember when HTTPS was considered a CPU/performance issue? 😉)
Packagist
@packagist
Sep 29
Packagist turns 15 years old and has served more than 200 billion package installs 🎉 A look back at how Composer and Packagist started, 15 years of milestones, 2026 AI growth and what comes next. blog.packagist.com/15-years-of-pa… #php #phpc #composerphp
Nils Adermann
@naderman
Sep 17
Takeaway from @robertlemke at a brief AI doom tangent at dinner: Gustav Mahler is known for saying "When the world ends, I'll move to Vienna. Everything happens 50 years later there" Vienna School of Agentic Engineering goal to ward off the apocalypse for 50 years? 🤣
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Nils Adermann
@naderman
Sep 1
reminded once more that if you train models on annoying human behavior, you get annoying AI behavior 🤦
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Nils Adermann
@naderman
Aug 30
Hate this too, but isn't the cost basically a government mandated insurance fee on the correctness/applicability of the contract and saves companies much higher litigation fees common in US? It's not really for the notary's time or reading, I think a lot of what they receive here
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Aug 29
Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German
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Nils Adermann
@naderman
Aug 28
Curious how well this works. So far only tried charging a really low fee like €5, which already improves RSVP accuracy a huge amount over entirely free events, making it higher and simply returning the money when they show up, may work even better. Only caveat: with both
Jason Fried
@jasonfried
Aug 26
$5300 in $100s please. That's what we said at the bank this morning. See, whenever you have a free IRL event, you tend to get a lot of no-shows. Plenty of people sign up and RSVP, but ultimately far fewer show up. This isn't a big deal if you have unlimited space and anyone can
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