A few months ago I wrote about my first steps with Vim. Now I can finally say: I am faster with Vim than I ever have been with RubyMine 🎉 As soon as you get used to the Vim key bindings you demand them from every other program as well. In my mail program for example I try doing the most things with shortcuts now, too.

The store2be team is happy to announce the first public release of Papers, an HTTP service that receives LaTeX templates, variables and assets needed for the generated LaTex file, and generates good looking PDFs. It is designed to be stateless, safe, reliable, easy to use and to deploy. We even have a second binary to test your templates locally before deploying them.

This article is just a selection of things I found helpful when switching to vim. So when someone asks for help because he or she wants to switch to vim, I just pass him or her the link to this article. Some of the links in this article also describe why you should switch to vim. So I won’t get into this here.

This post is part of a series about our Git setups. In this series we will focus on the Git aliases we use the most, particularly the ones we find interesting (i.e., not c = commit) and that have increased our productivity using Git.

When you start a company, setting up a business intelligence (BI) solution is not the first thing most founding teams implement, I guess. Now that I’m past the step of implementing such a solution, I think it is something that should be implemented in the very early days to build a culture of measuring everything.

TL;DR Read the last paragraph for the most recent way of implementing HTTPS with an nginx ingress controller while letting ELB handle the certificates.

At the moment we are setting up Kubernetes at store2be. We are a company from Germany and most of our business is taking place in Germany. Therefore, we want our AWS servers to be in Frankfurt.

Hub is a command line tool to interact with the Github-specific features of a repository, one of them being pull requests. We use it extensively at store2be and it is the natural way to create PRs for us. It has a Homebrew package for OS X users, so it’s completely straightforward there, but it is not packaged even for the most popular Linux distributions.

This is where the store2be tech page started …