I just read Anil Dash’s post about some internet jargon. And, I first thought “yeah well, that’s the algorithm game”. But then, it became — once more — apparent to me, what it actually means. And Anil nails it quite well with this: “One of the things that’s most concerning to me is that an […]

The internet we know isn’t gone — it is being hidden under platform noise. And it seems like big platforms want to make us forget that this internet still exists. But while platforms rise and fall, the real internet is built on simple, open protocols like email, chat, and feeds — and they remain. Terry […]

One thing I’ve seen a lot is how we love to debate whether Tool A is better than Tool B — especially when we already have Tool B in place. Or we ask if Tool A, which might be 5% better, is worth the switch. Yet, the problem we often like to ignore? We forget […]

Finally I took the time to read OpenAI’s post about their GPT-Live Realtime system. If you’re interested in how to build such low-latency systems, I definitely recommend to check it out. But what I also had in mind while reading the article was the “no one needs programmers anymore in the age of AI” … […]

Whenever you have a regular process, you definitely want to have some proper logging. But the very next thought after mentioning “logging” should be “LogRetention”. Especially when the process is executed automatically. No matter how often — as soon as the execution isn’t a one off, log rotation & log retention are...

As a lot of people, I had most of my code published on GitHub. During my #unplugTrump (reduce the amount of US services), I decided that I want to move my code somewhere else. Codeberg came totally handy and was recommended a lot. Before I even really arrived there, Codeberg reacted to the increased resource […]

It seems like I’ve earned a reputation at work for hating Excel. We recently had a workshop with different statations and flipboards about how to improve some processes etc. And well – I added a lot of “less spreadsheets” sticky notes. After a while someone approached me and asked what my problem with Excel was […]

I am an information hoarder. I am somehow unhappy if I don’t get new information, new insights, new aspects. That’s not limited to technology but to literally everything. And since I do more and more self-hosting, I have two services on my candidates list: Readeck and Linkwarden. Then, with the rise of AI, the whole...

Since a while I noticed that when I double clicked an MP4 file, VLC took really long (like several seconds) to open and show the file. Actually really annoingly long. But as I don’t watch a lot of movies, I never really bothered debugging it. BUT recently I came across on itsfoss.com and a tweet […]

Actually, I just posted this on Mastodon, but I so agree to all those points that I want to reference them here on the blog as recommended reads as well. Generative AI is reshaping software engineering—but the narrative has gotten ahead of the evidence. Marketing claims, anecdotal wins, and misread studies have...

Yesterday evening I just quickly wanted to change something in my crontab .. I was tired, I was distracted, I just SSH’ed into my machine and typed crontab -r. Ahh typo! I obviously wanted to crontab -e which is just ONE key away from -r. But … no error, no “unknown option”? This left me […]

Depending on which social bubble one is into, people are drawn to letting LLMs do everything. Latest tools promise to fully configure or even manage entire server setups. While that sounds amazing (and I want to try it out some time) that approach has some downsides: So, while these tools are impressive, they’re not...