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With the recent hype around Clawdbot Moltbot OpenClaw, people have been posting about its exploits (real or imagined) and projecting all sorts of human capabilities into this admittedly clever piece of technological plumbing.

Late November Changelog published an interview with Werner Vogels.

Today I found myself debugging a mysterious log message flooding the output of a small tool I have built to make the life of my colleagues easier.

More than ten years ago, I bought a MAINGEAR Potenza mainly for gaming.

Sometimes I host things that I don’t want to be readily available on the open internet (or at least not easy to discover).

Recently I have been getting into Podman as a great (rootless) Docker alternative and its neat integration into Redhat based Linux distributions, rekindling my decade old love affair with Red Hat Linux.

Using a Cloudflare Tunnel and connecting to a local service serving via self-signed certificates forced me to enable No TLS verify in that tunnel’s TLS settings.

For the past 15 years, I have been a customer of GoDaddy.

Recently I started to use the built-in (paid) AI assistant of my IDE of choice: JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

This morning, still a bit sleepy, morning coffee in hand, I came across a Hacker News post about Beg Bounties.

With the recent news of OpenAI’s web crawler respecting robots.txt and the ensuing scramble by seemingly everybody ensuring their robots.txt is blocking GPTBot, I was thinking if there wasn’t a better solution to help our future AI overlords make sense of…

With the update to Python 3.11, we ran into a subtle change in how Enum’s behave.

A friend of mine recently showed me his curl-able business card inspired by this Cloudflare worker template.

One member of the ever-growing stack of old laptops is my wife’s old Macbook Pro (Mid 2010).

I just joined a new company.

I registered my original eBay account on April 1st, 1999 in Germany.

A while back, somebody asked on the ExperiencedDevs subreddit about how to work with a large codebase.

I recently applied for an engineering management position at a maturing startup.

Recently I came across a issue with the <button> element in Firefox.