Sebastian Thoss

Closing Smest.it

I'm closing Smest.it after 2 years of trying to get the marketing for Smest.it right and still not seeing any opportunity to make this company profitable in the future. I was not an easy decision but even being a Top 20 Tech Startup is not helping today if the marketing is not converting. In the next days I'll regain some energy I put the last years into this project. Next year new topics will get my attention. It won't get boring with me. Promise. Ich wish you all a merry Christmas.

I'll speak @ ConFoo Montreal

I'm happy to announce that I got invited to speak twice at this years developers conference ConFoo in Montreal, Canada. The topic of both talks is testing of software and websites. Well, that's the topic I spend most of my time with. The fist one is called "PHPUnit in 4 parts" and the second is called "SmokeTests - The what, why and how". What makes me even more happy is that my brother is joining me on this journey. We'll take a few days ahead of the conference to visit Toronto and maybe the Niagara Falls.

Smest.it UG
(haftungsbeschränkt)

Today is finally the day. After more than a year of evaluation, calculation, prototyping, testing and questioning. Today finally I had the appointment with the certifying notary to sign the official founding documents. From now on, is every website owner invited to SmokeTest their pages and URLs for availability and speed. The overall goal for Smest.it is to get finally rid of error pages, once and for all.

Fun around recruiting
@ True Tech Talks

I'm very happy that I got the opportunity to give talk together with my colleague Misha Skyda regarding recruiting and apprenticeship. We had over 30 minutes of Questions and Answers session involving even our HR and CEO.

Git - basics @
Berufliche Schule ITECH Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg

This is a complete new talk I gave for teachers of Hamburg’s IT school. Not many IT teachers have side projects or other possibilities to do internships. So they don’t have many practical skills with version control systems. I want to get them a better insight of how git works. I'm glad to help.

Don't fear the walking dead
@ International PHP Conference 2016

Sebastian Heuer and me were quite happy when we got told that our talk about fury made it onto the well selected sessions-list of 2016s edition of international PHP conference in munich. There were quite some interesting talks and workshops. I spend 4 days of constantly learning new things.

Sebastian Heuer's and my session about our fast, reliable and beautiful architecture was packed too.

I wrote a blog post about the conference and one about our talk. Please see in Tech Blog for more details.

Don't fear the walking dead
@ code.talks 2016 Hamburg

This years code.talks in Hamburg was absolutely awesome. For me it was the first time joining this conference as a speaker. Code.talks was really big with about 1900 guests. Apart from regular annoying issues with Wi-Fi, was everything amazingly well organized. List of talks was well selected and all the other small events like speakers dinner or drone flying was great.

Our talk went quite well. We had a quite good filled hall and no one left during our session. Because of the fact that we held this talk before in a smaller group we learned that there will be probably a lot of questions and discussions. We planned to talk for about 30 minutes to have enough time afterwards for them but we were mistaken. Just one audience member was keen enough to talk into the microphone. Luckily after we finished our talk there were quite some people which asked their questions. In the end it was a great session and a great conference,