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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Should We Welcome Bots for Fact Checking?
In today’s digital age, we’ve all noticed how rapidly fake news can be generated, especially with the help of generative Generative AI. Just today, I found myself having to do a fact-check for something I posted — and I decided to leverage #GenAI to test it. And I have to admit, I was genuinely surprised at just how easy and efficient it was.
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