• Reclaiming my Music Decisions

    Readers of this blog know that I’ve been hosting my music albums in #Navidrome since this year. And I admit: I really enjoy it. I just read “Musikstreaming – Mein Weg weg von Abos und Algorithmen” and I resonate with a lot that’s been written there.

  • NextCloud on Hetzner is the OneDrive upgrade I didn’t know I wanted

    For years, I relied on Microsoft’s OneDrive — not for the Office 365 suite, but for its 1TB of cloud storage. It served me well for offsite backups and seamless syncing between my computers and phone. I even used the Personal Vault feature, though more out of curiosity than necessity. Later, I joined a friend’s…

  • Recommended Read: About the Fediverse

    Chris Zielecki from Sturmsucht.de has written a good blog post about the Fediverse. Luckily not focused on technology but on users and needs.

  • I underestimated my dependency to OneDrive

    If you’ve followed my blog, youknow that I’m trying to get rid of BigTech services — without sacrificing convenience (too much). Over the year I’ve replaced quite some services, but what I underestimated a bit was OneDrive.

  • Recommended Read: Self-Hosting for Everyone

    If you’ve ever wondered how to take control of your digital life without immediately diving into the deep end of server racks and command-line chaos, I want to recommend Laura Hargreaves’ latest post, “Self-Hosting for Everyone”.

  • Feeling Trapped by Big Tech? Just Take the First Step

    Do you feel that you are too dependent on Big Tech and overwhelmed by the number of services you use?

  • Recommended read: Frictionless – About Eliminating Development Friction

    I just read Martin Fowler’s blogpost and foreword to Frictionless by Andrew Harmel-Law. The book’s core idea is simple but powerful: How do we make developers truly efficient? Not by adding more processes, tools, or meetings, but by removing the friction that slows teams down and using smart metrics. I put it on my reading…

  • I break things … Google Veo

    Recently I had the opportunity to test the new Google AI-Video generator powered by Veo 3(.1). The demo was truley impressive and scary at the same time! And then we were able to test it ourselves …

  • A sentence about Data Quality that I missed for over a decade

    In Data Analytics, there’s one phrase I hear over and over—so often it’s become a reflex: “We need clean data before we can do anything.”

  • o365 “control plane” for AI Agents coming

    I just read an article on InfoWorld, that Microsoft rolls out Agent 365 ‘control plane’ for AI agents. The description sounds quite well what an enterprise needs in terms of compliance and security: