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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.

  • 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.

  • Handling 3,500 drones to recreate Michelangelo’s masterpieces in a huge Lightshow

    Thanks to the Fediverse integration of Flipboard I just saw the post from National Geographic where they link “Grace for the World: Recreating Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican“. At first I thought it was mainly about how impressive the show itself was. But there’s also another topic: the technology and the team behind the scenes:

  • Is the GenAI Revolution over already?

    Just recently I saw the article (that probably most of us already noticed with a gentle smile), that AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19% (on InfoWorld). And just now I came to another article on Futurism, that “AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies”. Heise.de picked up the article as…

  • Farewell to my 11.5-Year-Old RaspberryPi Weather Station

    Eleven and a half years ago, I built my first RaspberryPi weather station using sensors from Tinkerforge. Today, I shut it down for good. Not because it failed — but because its job is done. It’s been replaced by a Netatmo setup, and unfortunately, I don’t need it anymore. But admitting that a project’s lifespan…

  • The Difference Between DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering

    DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering — those three terms that often and quickly get mixed up. But they describe different roles. And I think it’s good to know the difference — at least if you’re somehwere working in modern software development.