Tim Cadenbach
Creator of www.smoower.com, ex Head of community @DeepL, thinking about AI, DevRel, Code and Community
Latest Posts
DevRel Has Been Invisible for Too Long. That's Why I'm Building Smoower.
Every DevRel team I've watched get cut in the last two years was cut because nobody at the top could see what they did. Smoower is my answer to that. An index that makes the work visible, comparable, and impossible to ignore.
We Should Be Thanking Spotify
Ninety-six percent of engineers code with music on. Spotify, Apple Music, and the lo-fi streams of the internet are doing more for productivity than half of your wellness benefits combined, and nobody says it out loud.
Four Months of AI Chaos, Then a Hotel in Rhodes
Four months of AI noise, a layoff, and the entire tech industry rewriting its rules. Then I walked into a hotel in Rhodes and absolutely nothing was different.
Getting Laid Off from DeepL and What That Means Now
Getting laid off in 2026 is not a clean verdict on your talent or your work. It is often a collision between restructuring, AI leverage, capital pressure, and a market rewriting its rules in real time.
Recent Projects
Drop-in proxy to make any MCP server, LLM and any HTTP+JSON API speak multiple languages easily. Powered by DeepL..and it can do way more!
Desktop application for Windows and Mac that gives live, translated, subtitles and translated audio for ANY audio on your system. Youtube, Discord..you name it!
DeepL for Visual Studio Code
A library that turns your model into a fully working API, define your model as markdown (soon), json or c#.