Benedicte makes an investment. Benedikt and the Userlist team enforces password strength requirements.

Benedicte is currently enjoying life at a chill pace, which is a nice change for her. On the work front, she managed to get the auth working across Whee!’s two sites. Benedicte also made an investment at her friend’s company, Alfred.

After talking with a lead, Benedikt and the Userlist team enforced password strength requirements for their platform. They also implemented stripping URLs on certain fields during signup to take care of a challenging issue.

Mentioned on the show:

• Alfred

Benedicte talks about her recent bachelorette trip to New York City, a Celebration of Life, and 17th of May in Norway. Benedikt shares an almost week long debugging hunt with a happy ending.

Mentioned on the show:

• Userlist Training Videos
• Exhausterwhelmulated
• The Man Drawer

Benedicte shares the plans for her trip to New York. Benedikt handles customer support this week.

Benedicte hopes that her head cold goes away soon so she can have a fun weekend with her friends in New York. On the work front, she’s been doing janitorial work on the Whee! codebase and a strangler fig pattern roadmap for their public site.

With Mia on vacation, Benedikt’s handling support this week. They’ve also shipped their webhook node and built guardrails for various aspects of their app.

Mentioned on the show:

• Postpone
  
  

Benedicte is on vacation. Benedikt shares why he seriously considered taking a long break from Userlist last year.

Mentioned on the show:

• Benedikt’s LinkedIn post about almost quitting Userlist
  
  

Benedicte ends two big chapters. Benedikt shares how they did in Q1.

Benedicte’s mother passed away after a decade-long battle with early onset Alzheimer’s. She looked back at some of the fun memories they had and shared that she’s planning a celebration of life gathering at a bar where her mom used to frequent. Benedicte also marked her last day Outseta, realizing that she won’t have enough brain space for two roles when things start ramping up at Whee. She looks forward to giving herself a slow April.

Benedikt and the Userlist team reviewed their Q1 and while they got a lot done, they got a bit derailed from their original plans. He also took a week off from work but a database issue made it challenging to settle into vacation mode.

Benedicte is happy despite everything. Benedikt tests their new serializer implementation.

Even when life hasn’t been cooperating lately, Benedicte realized that she’s still grateful for a lot of things. At Whee, bike financing came through, they landed a 3-year grant for an IoT project, and AI will enable the team to tackle things they’ve been putting off.

Benedikt spent a good chunk of the week deep in a new serializer implementation for Userlist. The full test suite was green for a while but it broke again in an effort to improve things overall. He also recorded two videos on array filtering and got more intentional with his social media posting.

Mentioned on the show:

• Customer Bastien: your MCP server has a permission problem
• Postpone
• From Domain Authority to Entity Authority: 2026 Google Discover Update

Benedicte gives an energizing talk at the Oslo Claude Code Meetup. Benedikt uses AI to optimize their website.

Despite getting a bit chaotic, Benedicte gave an energizing talk about Jean-Claw at the recent Oslo Claude Code Meetup last week. At Outseta, the team decided to lean into enabling AI operations.

Benedikt optimized their website with the help of AI: adding more structured data, creating dedicated author pages, adding an “updated” date field, and more. And while he’s certain that a perfect Ahrefs health score is just a vanity metric, he’s taking that small win.

Benedicte and Benedikt also talk about how AI speeds up experimentation, why they think good taste and experience matters these days, and more.

Mentioned on the show:

• Is it Queen or AI?
• More and more social posts are drafted while interacting with AI agents

The OpenClaw bot asks Benedicte some “existential” questions. Benedikt ships their MCP.

Benedicte is working on Jean-Claw for her upcoming talk when things get a bit existential. In the middle of setting up the YAML file, the bot halts on the “Who are you? Who am I?” step. She also used Claude to create a Queen Raae voice skill to help her write more like she actually talks.

Benedikt shipped their MCP experiment, letting users generate broadcasts, use Liquid tags inside broadcasts, and somewhat create segments. And with Heroku’s recent announcement, he’s looking into alternatives once more.