Undertow

The „Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter“ translates posts from Akira Tanaka, a former mechanical engineer at Sony, in which he explains why Sony cannot bring the iconic device back.

In most developed countries, the railways have struggled since the rise of the automobile in the 1950s.

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” This phrase will slowly kill your company and I’m here to prove it.

Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich.

Corey Quinn on the design of the new „S3 filesystem“: They didn’t just bolt a POSIX layer on top of S3 and call it a day.

The OVH datacenter fire exposed serious gaps in operations and failover design: no sprinklers, wooden ceilings, generators that kept the building powered while it burned.

Year 2000: Software developers: ~639,000 Database administrators: 108,000 Ratio: 6 developers per DBA May 2023: Software developers: 1,656,880 Traditional DBAs: 76,140 Ratio: 22 developers per DBA Software developer employment increased 159% over 23 years,

The internet known within China is a very different internet to the one known by the world at large.

I know that sounds simple.

Meine alte TK-Krankenkassenkarte ist abgelaufen, also habe ich automatisch eine neue zugeschickt bekommen.

The Prof G Media team about the hidden $1.6 Trillion in US tech and that everyone in America seems to be an entrepreneur.

People today are extremely vocal about what they think is real or not, and in doing so I think they’re missing the trees for the forest.

I got my Clicks Power Keyboard today and i have to admit, i am whelmed.

Heise setzt sich mal mit den Ideologien hinter der Klimaanlagen-Feindlichkeit auseinander.

The thing that wasn’t obvious at the time (but I can see clearly in retrospect) is how much of good old SRE toolbox applies to AI systems and it makes me giggle when the industry “discovers” them.

The world is bigger, much more complex and constantly changing and evolving.

Another season in World of Warcraft has started.

Ben Werdmuller’s comprehensive look at Mastodon, Bluesky, and the growing ecosystem of open, interoperable social networks.

After years and years I finally pulled the trigger and bought a soundbar!

Damn, today I learned that the tools used by gynecologists today were invented in the civil war era.

Matthew Green with a deep dive on Anthropic’s latest two cryptoanalysis results.

It looks like Textual has now been sunset and is essentially dead : Please take notice: Textual has been formally sunset and this is likely to be the last update to be made available.

Hendrik’s superb summary on how he is using agentic engineering to develop his Chatto application and underlying infrastructure.

I initially wanted to cancel this trip, but eventually decided against it.

Gert Scobel über das Gehirn, Erinnerungen und wieso wir so viel vergessen – gerade aus der Kindheit Permalink →

This progress is just amazing!

With very shitty timing, shortly after CVE RELEASE 2025-10-15T17-29-55Z, MinIO decided that the MinIO community version is “source only” from now on, you have to build the docker container yourself.

It looks like I got lucky and Midea Support has already reached out to their field service partner, which have already received my support case.

I guess I bragged too much with my new AC unit and the universe did not like it very much.

To prepare myself for “Final Destination: Bloodlines”, I decided to rewatch all existing “Final Destination” movies.

Manuel Schmitt hat Manitu verkauft .

I’m becoming increasingly reluctant to renew my Spotify Premium subscription for another year.

Due to recent events, I decided to start limiting the use of US services for my IT needs.

In addition to my 404 Media subscription, I also just subscribed to The Verge .

Woohoo!

I decided to clean up the blog, touch up some articles, remove Twitter references, make it more readable etc.

Die Bahn hat es wirklich geschafft, die Riedbahn wurde erfolgreich saniert – sogar in der vorher veranschlagten Bauzeit.

Overwatch , watch out — Marvel Rivals might just steal all your players – and they might even manage to keep them!

Inbox Zero achieved in Outlook, desktop and OneDrive cleaned up.

It’s interesting and shocking that so many young voters only now seem to look more into the candidates and what they stand for!