https://wilhelmklopp.com/Recent content on Wilhelm's BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/world-champs-slot/Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/world-champs-slot/The half ironman world championship this year is in December in Taupō, New Zealand and back in January I decided that I really wanted to go. I had done only one half ironman (70.3) in the year prior and with 4h 52min got a time that was probably above average, but definitely not so good that I could just expect to enter a race this year and get a qualifying slot.https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/factorio-and-flow/Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/factorio-and-flow/I started my Christmas vacation by reading the Observer Effect profile of Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, where he talks about Factorio (a game where you build massive, complex factories). Tobi considers the game so profound and valuable in the lessons it teaches that any Shopify employee can buy and expense it. That sounded pretty intriguing so I decided try out the game and ended up getting hooked pretty quickly. I’m not actually entirely sure what pushed me over the edge.https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/slack-database-modelling/Sat, 23 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/slack-database-modelling/When I was setting up the database tables for my first Slack app, Simple Poll, I was more or less flying blind. I wasn’t entirely sure what Slack entities I needed to care about, or what data I needed to store and why. Database tables are easy to get wrong at the beginning, and then can become quite hard to fix up later. A lot has happened since those first lines of code in late December 2015!https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/building-a-university-api-why-and-how/Sat, 04 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://wilhelmklopp.com/posts/building-a-university-api-why-and-how/UCL API is a student-led project working to expose the functionality of UCL services via an API that is easy to use for students and staff alike. At present, it provides documented APIs for room bookings (with webhooks), the timetable, people search, library seat occupancy, desktop PC availability, and OAuth (Sign in with UCL). If you’re a student at UCL and want to start building with these APIs, you can dive right in.https://wilhelmklopp.com/ideas/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wilhelmklopp.com/ideas/I like dreaming about ideas. Ideas I’d like to see exist in the world, ideas for things that I might want to build, and other ideas that just broadly fall in the bucket of “oh this would be kinda cool”. Some of these ideas are really bad, some promising, some completely random, and some better articulated than others. Mostly they’re a collection of thoughts that my brain was (for some reason!https://wilhelmklopp.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wilhelmklopp.com/about/Hey there! I’m Wil and I love building stuff. Currently getting back into this blogging thing 📝 What I’m working on: Simple Poll Simple Goals Simple Decisionshttps://wilhelmklopp.com/problems/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://wilhelmklopp.com/problems/Problems are plentiful out there in the world, but we don’t document them enough. Below are some of the ones I’ve been thinking about. Discovery All things considered discovering stuff online feels vastly inferior to what we have in the physical world. Whenever I order groceries online, I’m shocked by how consciously I need to remind myself of the things I want to buy. It’s a lot of work! In a physical grocery store, I walk around and just throw the things I’d like in my basket.