The Power of Understanding

This post describes my personal approach to software development. It highlights different aspects that are not strongly connected but all affected by generative AI – a topic I’m not particularly keen on writing about, but here we are. The Power of Understanding Shortly after I got internet access, I came across a free documentation: “SELFHTML – create your own HTML files”. Established in 1995, Selfhtml was one of the first German webauthoring tutorials. Its influence on the early German-speaking web cannot be overstated. Selfhtml was founded by Stefan Münz, who studied literature and philosophy and trained as an application developer. His fascination for Hypertext systems brought him to the web. Münz aimed to establish a welcoming, sustainable community that contrasts with the toxic sysadmin culture that still dominates technical discussions. Selfhtml not only explained web technologies, but always came with a critical commentary on common practices and the booming internet economy.…