Android: Trying to break free
Though I generally am into privacy and trying to cut down on using Google services for these reasons, it’s also a somewhat pragmatic approach: Do you want to…
28. Januar 2021
Tweaking elementary
After following the project ever since its early days, I’ve been using elementaryOS for more than a year now, almost continuously, on my day-to-day working laptop and several…
11. Juni 2020
Between sales and technology
Haven’t been in a tech workshop with external sales persons for quite a while. Still confusing, from many perspectives. Short notes from scratch, not that sorted: (1) There…
10. Juni 2020
Edge, Chromium and web monoculture?
The last few days it made the news that apparently Microsoft is about to ditch its latest browser approach, “Edge”, in favour of developing something new for the…
5. Dezember 2018
Apprentice days online: 1998 – 2000
Moving on browsing through my online history. At some point, my days started filling up with learning new things, and boy were there plenty of new things to…
19. Juni 2018
SAP MaxDB on Docker
Using containers for development and testing environments is pretty much state of the art these days. This way, developers and operations guys alike are able to gain speed…
8. August 2017
Shipping containers: Lessons learnt from adopting Docker
tl;dr: We started dealing with Docker in Q3/2016 pursuing the goal of adopting it for an existing system infrastructure. By now we do have several production applications deployed…
24. Juli 2017
Windows 10, GNU and actual “open-ness”?
Business as usual, one could say… All along with the announcement of Microsoft Windows 10 being released, I found an FSF statement on Windows 10 in my inbox,…
7. August 2015