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  • Don’t promote your most talented technologists into people management

    I just attended an event where Casey West also demoed some stuff. Just now I found his blog at https://caseywest.com as well. And scrolling through, I saw his post A Call for More Tech Leadership from 2015 where he writes: Don’t promote your most talented technologists into people management. Promote them into technical leadership roles…

  • How to guide your teams to use GenAI effectively while avoiding the pitfalls

    We often see and hear a lot of hype and – unfortunately – enshittification when it comes to GenAI. Despite knowing that there are indeed some valuable use cases for the application of AI to solve some issues, I rarely read about a employee friendly adoption of GenAI. The article AI for Network Managers: Leading…

  • A Vacuum Robot should not Require a permanent Internet Connection

    Today morning I read a really nice article / blog post “The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me“. The whole story is about a guy who disallowed his smart vacuum cleaner to access the internet. After a while it failed, got repaired, failed again, got repaired and after all stopped working.

  • How to fix: Windows automatically goes to Dark Mode (after Oct 16th 2025)

    Problem: Windows automatically goes to dark or light mode, no matter what is set in the system settings. Even worse: when you change the mode in the system settings, windows switches back after a few seconds.

  • Github Copilot is the Coach I always Wanted

    We hear a lot about the bad side of AI Code Generation etc. But there are also quite some good sides that should not be ignored.

  • How to get RSS feeds for Releases / Tags on GitHub

    With growing amount of running selfhosted services, it becomes a bit tedious to keep track of new software releases. Luckily, GitHub offers RSS Streams for Releases and Tags (and some more). By adding those streams to the RSS reader, I see it in my RSS feeds when I have to take action.

  • Open Source Resilience: Forks and Kindness

    For a while now, I’ve been considering running my own RSS aggregator … for a couple of reasons (that don’t matter here). In my shortlist were two popular candidates: Tiny Tiny RSS (ttrss) and FreshRSS. Due to lack of time and other priorites, I had not made a decision, which one to follow ..

  • Mistral – the European ChatGPT

    OK, I admit that I’m sometimes too focused on technology to realise that not everyone is aware of all the different AI services out there. — This week, I mentioned Mistral.ai to a colleague and was surprised that he hadn’t heard of it. But, as I said, you can’t know everything.

  • Those Who Forget the Dotcom Crash Are Doomed to Repeat It — with GenAI

    A friend recently recommended Craig McCaskill’s article “The Bubble That Knows It’s a Bubble” with a disclaimer “it’s quite a read”. After forgetting it and coming back to it later I can say: it’s so worth reading it!

  • “Six hard truths for software development bosses” also applies for Project Management!

    I just came across “Six hard truths for software development bosses” on InfoWorld. Ah well – a quite catchy title. But it’s worth a read for everyone who manages / leads people in the area of Software Development.