Blog Posts from Daniel Freytag

about 15 or so years ago my father had an apple xserve for his business (remember back when there was a server version of mac os?).

i’ve had this thought for a while to fully migrate my cloud VPS to the homelab. i got into the whole #homelab bubble in early 2025 when i bought a GMKtec G3 Plus mini pc. it’s been a great nerd playground setting up NixOS and k3s. last year i added a Leno…

if you’re working in a decently large organization, one common phrase will be “ask XYZ”. this may have worked on old hierarchical in-person teams, where you could walk over ask the person at lunch in the cafeteria. however, i’d argue it’s a really bad anti

how are we feeling about Cursor moving to Space xAI?

if you go back and remember sports in school, it was highly unmotivating – at least for me. i wasn’t particularly “good” at whatever they were trying to make us do. being in the early to mid-30s, it’s now easy to connect the dots looking backwards: it cou…

these weeknotes are a great thing because they force me to think about the past week. which trends happened, what did i learn, what’s going on?

The backstory GitHub seems to be beyond its peak i feel.

is a weeknotes blog post actually late, if you can just backdate the article?

this week i attended käpsele innovation festival here in freiburg. käpsele is a word from south-western germany for a clever person, someone with a smart mind. apart from the self-realization of most panelists that germany is over-engineering the future w…

depending on how deep you are in the tech and ai bubble you may have heard of the term “ai-pilled”: “The transformative moment when someone fully embraces AI’s capabilities, often after a mind-opening, sleepless deep-dive.”

Q3 is here!

i loved the idea of reoccurring weeknotes from other blogs like mijndertstuij.nl. disclaimer: do not expect this to be overly regular. if there’s nothing to note (or no time) i won’t post :) atproto & the fediverse ⁂ i’ve spent some significant time readi…

Getting to our last stop in Suriname was a bit of a more interesting journey… A shuttle dropped us off in Atjoni – the local “harbour”.

To get to the most magical sunrise that Suriname had to offer, we had to board several buses that continuously got smaller and more off-road.

Departing for this stop, it wasn’t clear if we’d make it.

Further along our route, we landed in Peperpot, where we joined a bunch of Dutchies for a night walk through the Peperpot Nature Park – a place where having a guide makes total sense.

A short, but interesting boat tour brought us from the capital Paramaribo further out to explore the historic plantations of Commewijne.

Looking back, Suriname has been a very interesting holiday.

Hi there, it’s been a while… I set up this blog at the end of 2024 with the ambition of writing regularly about my work and personal projects.

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