Category: Personal

Those Who Ask Questions Drive Quality

I work with a colleague who finds something in almost every code review or text proofread. Almost every time. At first, that was exhausting – not because the remarks were wrong, but because they cost time. Time I hadn’t planned for. In hindsight, that was exactly the point. Many of the detailed improvements turned out

Democracy Requires Attention – Which We’ve Long Since Sold.

8 seconds. That’s supposedly the average human attention span today – shorter than that of a goldfish. The number is largely made up. That the attention span has noticeably decreased, less so. This has direct consequences for democracy. Democracy is not a passive state – it requires that people weigh complex issues, evaluate sources, tolerate contradicting

Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Context Engineering.

I stopped optimizing my prompts. Not because it doesn’t work – but because it’s the wrong question. The right question is: What’s in the context when the agent starts working? The Problem with Long Conversations Anyone who works regularly with LLMs knows the pattern: at the beginning of a chat, everything runs smoothly. After twenty,

Why Writing Still Matters – And Is Becoming More Important

“I’ll just have an LLM generate that real quick.” I hear this sentence daily by now. And I get it – I use AI myself, have code generated, run my own [[02-Projekte/OpenClaw/Übersicht|OpenClaw]] node, have images generated. That’s not the problem. The problem is what gets lost in the process. Writing Is Thinking – Not Just

Philosophical Exchange with an AI – Part 1

In this series, I want to test an approach to discussing philosophical and social topics with an AI. My goal is not only to reflect on big questions, but also to use AI to find facts that can either support or challenge my own ideas and observations. This post is part 1 of an ongoing

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Einführung die Balena Cloud (german)

Project 364, year 2023, day2 can be found at https://entwickler-gilde.de Follow this link: https://entwickler-gilde.de/2023/01/02/einfuehrung-in-die-balena-cloud/

Fixing nix Setup on MacOS Catalina

With MacOS Catalina (10.15), Apple decided to decrease the possibilities of system users to install software applications within the system. That means, that it is not possible anymore to install software at specific location in your system, since most system folder ware mounted read-only at boot to improve the overall system security. That leads to

Blog Design update

After endless years of using the old classic WordPress Theme, i started to creating my own Theming. So it might be a little bit edgy round the corners during the next days :-). Thank you to falkh for giving me a basic start with the nice Post-Caption-Thingys :-).

Counter Update

Before i will do the great update of my counter script (i plan to switch to Java/Play with some basic DWH Features), i just added some dynamic webpage screen rendering based on thumbalizr (have a look here)

Bitcoin Vortrag beim Chaos-BBQ 2011

Im Juli des letzten Jahres habe ich beim Chaos-BBQ in Dortmund einen Vortrag über Bitcoin gehalten. Da ich heute darauf angesprochen worden bin, stelle ich die Slides hier online. 2011-07-10-Bitcoin

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