You like little treats, so do other people! Sometimes you gotta give your peers something to make them feel good too. Sometimes this is called the hairy arm technique, sometimes it’s a manifestation of Cunningham’s Law. What you do is this: present something obviously wrong or easily correctable when you make a...

It's been a while since I blogged about how I do all my academic work using free and open source software -- otherwise known as the "FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream." In fact, the last time I wrote about this was 2020!

New PC98 style artwork of a Shinto Shrine in the rural town of Sawara.

We have extensive discussions about our enormous dependence on American clouds, but what exactly are we talking about? And is Europe equally dependent on all types of cloud? This article is aimed at policy makers, but it may also provide some clarity about the broader landscape to actual cloud users. There is also a...

Our world of instant gratification and convenience has made us impatient and... kinda lazy.

Some music I found this week

Ganz so oft wie im ersten Monat habe ich es diesmal nicht ins Kino geschafft. Dafür habe ich mit der Filmpalette vielleicht Kölns niedlichstes Kino für mich entdeckt. Hundreds of Beavers (OmdU) Der richtige Film zur richtigen Zeit, der seine Zutaten—Körper-Klamauk à la Buster Keaton und Einstellungen, die eines Wes...

You can look at this site’s source code in the browser and find comments and explanations and non-minified code. I welcome anyone to read the source and learn from it!

I've been trying out Vibe Coding. There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists It's not been easy for me, as someone who