A short while ago I saw this post on LinkedIn and found it funny. Everyone talks about GenAI and ChatGPT but few people use it. Now I wanted to understand more of the capabilities of ChatGPT and thought I could build a small product from it. In this blog post…

I would call myself a minimalist. This wasn’t the case 10 years ago. So I want to share my story of becoming a minimalist and what it means for me. Maybe you can find some inspiration here yourself. How it began For me, it began around 6 to 7 years ago, when I…

Currently, I have to travel quite a lot for work. In the beginning, I used a suitcase and a backpack. This was annoying as hell since you have to get it up and down stairs in airports, in and out of caps and if you take a walk in the…

The Ivy Lee method is a way to be more productive. At the beginning of the 20th century, Charles M. Schwab was one of the richest men in the world. he was president of Bethlehem Steel and was trying to achieve constant improvement in his company. when he was not…

Yesterday I really wanted to do something with Python. Also a friend sent me a link, which contained many currently free computer science books from Springer. Now I didn’t want to downloading each book separately. So I thought to myself, how hard can it be to download the books automatically…

Germany organised the hackathon #wirvsvirushack on 20th March. About 42 thousand people from all over Germany took part in the hackathon to help in the corona crisis with new digital ideas. The goal was to create a prototype or an application that can help in the crisis. But this article…

Every time I get a new Mac, I get upset that I have to set it up again. Yeah, I could just use the time machine mackup. But this would bring me a lot of files and data on the new fresh Mac, which I don’t need there. A script…

Als Minimalist ist es nicht das Ziel so wenig wie möglich zu besitzen, es ist das Ziel, dass jeder Gegenstand, den man besitzt einen Zweck erfüllt. Hierbei geht es darum, unnötige Dinge aus dem Leben zu verbannen und nur das zu behalten, was man benötigt, was einen voran bringt. Das…

HATEOAS steht für Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State. Einige bezeichnen es für REST-Schnittstellen als unverzichtbar. (heise) Das Prinzip wurde von Roy Fielding erstmals in seiner Doktorarbeit beschrieben und später in seinem Blog weiter vertieft. Doch warum findet man es so selten in REST Schnittstellen? Bisher sehe ich fast…