For years, whenever someone asked me what I do, I described my projects and activities, like “I worked on a cloud migration, reduced technical debt, refactored systems to be cloud-native, designed environments for scalability, cost effectiveness and security, …”. But I could never express in a TL;DR what I really did. My official title “Senior Process Manager” wasn’t very helpfull as well.
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Why Your Favorite AI Tool Might Be Isolating You
AI chat tools are a remarkable invention. Their rapid adoption speaks for itself: instant access to information, tailored feedback, and the ability to explore ideas or discuss one own thoughts or questions without friction – never before did we have such opportunities. But this power can come with a risk.
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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 instead.
Casey WestWell it’s 10 years later and still just true!
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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 Teams in the Age of Intelligent Automation was a quite refreshing read in that regard!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ..
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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.
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