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  • AI vs. the Legacy Black Box Codebase

    If you want to see a cool example of how Generative AI can be used to tackle one of the nastiest problems in enterprise IT, you might want to invest some minutes in reading “From Black Box to Blueprint.” What it’s about: Large organizations often have to rely on systems that are both business-critical and…

  • It’s only AI if it’s cool!

    I guess I am not the only one who is quite annoyed that nowadays everything is AI. Literally everything that’s beyond an if/else is advertised as AI. Machine Learning doesn’t seem to exist anymore. Unless … Unless it’s not cool!

  • The Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI in Linux Troubleshooting

    I’ve recently been experimenting with how generative AI can support Linux debugging. The experience was both impressive and frustrating — depending on whether I was diagnosing or actually fixing a problem.

  • What Mountaineering and Teams have in Common

    In business, it’s trust. Aki Kärkkäinen’s piece “From Rope Teams to Remote Teams” asks the real question: would you trust your team enough to share a rope? I really liked this paragraph: “I’m reminded of the pandemic when social distancing was introduced—an unfortunate term, because what was meant was actually physical distancing. Most companies obsess over physical proximity…

  • Have We Left Web Radio Behind?

    Since my decision to #unplugTrump, I have consciously moved away from Spotify. Instead, I chose to use Navidrome as my personal music server combined with Symfonium as the client. This setup allowed me to rediscover my own MP3 collection — a treasure of gems I hadn’t listened to in years! And I can tell: I really enjoyed…

  • Goodbye Facebook

    Finally! My Facebook account is deleted. My Facebook-Exit is a long story. I never really used it a lot. I used it mostly to have the possibility to contact some people. Especially from university when they went to other countries or so.

  • It’s all about solving problems!

    I am running this blog since 2009. The majority of the time it is dormant, and I mainly use it to document a solution that was hard to figure out and when I wished I had found it earlier. And in case that I have to solve the issue again, I know that I wrote…

  • Bookwyrm — One Month In

    A month ago, I wrote that I would like to try Bookwyrm (#Bookwyrm: a social network for tracking your reading, talking about books. More on https://joinbookwyrm.com). Now, one month and three books later, it might be a good time to write about my first impressions.

  • The Future is Federated – but not necessarily (fully) Self Hosted

    It’s not a secret that I am quite a fan of the #Fediverse and getting more independent of a few Big Tech Companies and getting control back.

  • How to get the ‘<‘, ‘>’ and ‘|’ keys on a Dell Latitude 5300

    Since a while I am using a refurbed Dell Latitude 5300. I’m pretty happy with it. Just recently I was doing some stuff via SSH on my RaspberryPIs when I noticed that the Dell’s keyboard does not contain the ‘<‘ key. Not a big deal usually – just Linux Shell working is quite uncool without…