Geocities, fragile data and ephemeral web
Some random musings on Geocities and its heritage, triggered by listening to podcasts that are more culture than tech in itself...
14. März 2023
Herbstlich(t)
Der neunte Monat endete, und mit ihm schon wieder drei Viertel dieses denkwürdigen Jahres. Und der zehnte, der dem Namen nach der achte sein sollte, folgt ihm, noch…
27. Oktober 2020
Februarschnee
Der zweite Monat des Jahres sieht in Dresden den ersten richtigen Schnee des Winters. Die Straßen sind matschig, die Autofahrer nervös, die vereinzelt auch in dieser Jahreszeit durchhaltenden…
5. Februar 2019
Changing networking behaviour, two weeks later
In light of #deletefacebook, I spent the last two weeks trying to change my behaviour in working with social networks and online media to make less use of…
10. April 2018
Wrap-Up: Tech Summit 2017
Earlier last week, my team and I attended the thinkproject! group technology summit. Taking place in Berlin during November 13 to 15, this event focussed on getting technical…
23. November 2017
Small-scale microservices in the wild (1): Anachronistic monoliths
Microservices are all over these days. So are frameworks to build different “microservices” from scratch, and so are infrastructure and runtime components to help getting real-life application environments…
18. September 2017
GNOME: 18 and moving
Well, what do you know: The GNOME Unix desktop project is about to celebrate its 18th ‘birthday’, anniversary, … by tomorrow, August 15, 2015. I guess there’s more…
14. August 2015
JavaScript Library Hell
After being into software development now for almost 20 years, counting in student days, these days I have to admit I spent most of this time, and especially…
11. März 2015