Merlin FuchsSoftware Engineer · Germany

11 — Posts

Writing

Notes on the systems behind my side projects: scaling Discord apps, squeezing databases, fighting compilers, and the occasional detour into hardware.

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2026

01

Reverse engineering Rausgegangen

How I reverse engineered the Rausgegangen app, found an API that documents itself, and started building an archive of what Germany is doing next month

02

AI in a Box

I put an AI assistant inside an old Intercom system from the 80s and made it debate with itself.

2025

03

The Art of Software

Embracing the creativity in software development

04

Switching from Patreon to Paddle

Why I switched from Patreon to Paddle as my payment processor and what I learned along the way

05

Scraping the biggest rental bike provider

How I reverse engineered the Nextbike app, scraped their API and built a tool to visualize bike movement across Europe

2024

06

Building a No-Code Platform

From the idea to the launch of Kite, a no-code platform for building Discord apps

2023

07

Asking the right questions

Why the way you ask for help decides whether anyone can give it.

2022

08

Cross-compiling Rust From Mac to Linux

A journey through the issues I encountered

2021

09

90% less disk space

How we reduced the disk space usage of our database by almost 90%

10

Handling Discord Rate Limits at Scale

How Xenon handles Discord rate limits at scale, and how we avoid getting banned by Cloudflare.

11

1 Million Discord Servers on a Raspberry Pi

How I'm running one of the biggest Discord bots in the world on 2GB of RAM and one CPU core.