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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 a topic. LogRotate […]

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 given rise to […]

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 for […]

Coding agents are becomming more and more popular (well – I guess). Yet the dependece to LLM providers is pretty obvious: Starting in June, GithubCopilot changed to usage-based billing. In April and June Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 being available, then not, then limited, … And since then I read more and more about […]

Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to people across a variety of companies, and one thing has become quite obvious: with today’s tooling, employees are eager and able(!) to build their own applications. Whether it’s a small script to automate a tedious task or a full-fledged web application to solve a very specific problem, […]

I’ve heard this claim now really often: at conferences, in keynotes, even in casual conversations: “With AI, we’ll soon only need to work two or three days a week.” The narrative is seductive, I admit: technology will finally liberate us from the grind, freeing up time for creativity, family, leisure, hobbies – who would not […]

End of May, I attended the TNG Big Tech Day (https://www.bigtechday.com/). TNG describes it as “a one-day conference on science and technology, with a focus on IT. The speakers often come from the field of information technology, but some also come from other scientific disciplines such as physics, mathematics, or mechanical engineering”. It’s a fairly […]

I just discovered that I had a >120 GB VHDX file in “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Docker\wsl\disk\docker_data.vhdx“). According to the description of Ahmed Moussa on dev.to (and some other articles), this is the virtual hard disk when using Docker for Windows and WSL. The Virtual Harddisk is dynamically increasing when needed. Unfortunately not decreasing. To compact and reclaim free […]

I just found this blog post from Rob Bowley in my RSS feed and one paragraph just so resonated with what I read and hear so much: For CEOs and founders hoping to benefit, the answer isn’t as simple as handing out Claude licences […]. It’s investing in the engineering culture and practices. Unglamorous, slow […]

I wrote a couple of times that I reduced my activity on #LinkedIn and put more effort into the blog here – and I did! And I’m quite happy about that. In parallel I had an anonymous account for IT related topics, but honestly, I missed posting as my true identity. Also as I couldn’t […]

In the context of the #DigitalIndependenceDay (https://di.day), I noticed discussions on whether Tool A or Service B is “sovereign enough.” But – the more I thought about it, the clearer it became: Digital sovereignty isn’t binary. What works (or is acceptable) for one person or organization might not fit another. Over the past weeks, I’ve […]