Discoveries

2025

• Das Flugsimulator 5 Buch

  A book from the golden times of PC literature.

  December 21

  • book
  • computer game
• Rock Star

  A rock star is not simply an effective employee.

  July 19

  • language
  • work
• Agentic LLMs

  Experiences with Claude Code

  June 19

  • llm
• Four sources of Open Source compliance risk

  What can happen if you misuse Open Source software?

  June 7

  • open source
• Myths about /dev/urandom, revisited

  Looking back at my most viewed article.

  April 13

  • linux
  • writing
• GPLv2 is not impressed by git

  A strange little problem with the GPLv2.

  March 28

  • open source
• SBOM-centric workflows

  Musings on SBOM tooling.

  February 23

  • sbom
• Open Source projects could sell SBOM fragments

  Musings on SBOMs and licensing woes.

  February 17

  • open source
  • sbom
• Community of Practice

  The Community of Practice: a misunderstood concept.

  January 28

  • learning
  • work

2024

• Calibrated Estimates

  What does it mean to calibrate your estimates?

  October 4

  • estimation
  • project management
  • psychology
• Triumph of the City

  Defending slums.

  March 27

  • book
  • urbanism
• The Inner Game of Tennis

  Learning motor skills without judgment.

  March 8

  • book
  • sports
  • tennis
• Venice's Secret Service

  A treatise on spy operations in Renaissance Venice.

  January 14

  • book
  • cryptography
• The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook

  Teaching urban planning through gaming.

  January 14

  • book
  • computer game
  • urbanism

2022

• London Review of Books

  The LRB is a great magazine!

  October 14

  • magazine

2021

• Repairing the Logitech MX Master 3 wheel mode switch

  Great mouse, bad hardware design problem.

  December 26

  • hardware
• Back pain

  An esoteric approach to back pain.

  November 26

  • book
  • health
• Setting up a free server in Oracle Cloud

  Setup instructions for a free Oracle Cloud server.

  November 12

  • linux
• Firewall in Oracle Cloud

  Opening up the firewall on Oracle Cloud.

  November 2

  • firewall
  • linux
• New WordPress installation

  A list of things I do when installing WordPress.

  October 31

  • linux
  • wordpress

2020

• Statistical Process Control according to W. Edwards Deming

  An Introduction to Statistical Process Control.

  August 5

  • process control
  • quality
  • statistics
  • systems thinking

2019

• Beautifully illustrated children's books

  I curated a list of beautifully illustrated childrens' books.

  August 11

  • book
• The Pyramid Principle

  The best business writing book.

  July 14

  • writing

2015

• How to Win Friends & Influence People

  An old book on social skills.

  April 6

  • book
  • social skills
• The Now Habit

  A systematic approach to overcoming procrastination.

  April 5

  • book
  • procrastination
• Influence – The Psychology of Persuasion

  An overview over persuading people.

  April 4

  • book
  • psychology

2014

• Wool

  A dystopian novella about people living underground in a metal tube.

  December 29

  • book
• The Deadline

  A project management novel.

  December 7

  • book
  • project management
• Myths about /dev/urandom

  Randomness, entropy, and the Linux kernel.

  March 15

  • cryptography
  • linux
• Harmonized standards and EU directives

  I explain the interplay between national laws and regulations with EU directives and regulations.

  March 1

  • european union
  • law

2010

• 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated

  Theology and Calligraphy.

  February 23

  • book
  • religion