This year, the German Research Software Engineers met at the KIT in Karlsruhe for their annual conference from the 25th to the 27th of February. Also the Software Engineering conference of the German Informatics Society ran in parallel with some shared sessions. I arrived late on Monday evening. I did …

I am running introductory courses to programming and digital literacy for students, both as one-off Software Carpentry workshops and, soon, part of an international master course. During the last few sessions questions of using generative AI for programming have come up. The Carpentries have started to consult the community on …

The Museum for Communication Berlin currently runs the New Realities. Stories of Art, AI & Work exhibition. I went to the opening on April, 25th. The opening started with a chat with the curators Dr. Annabelle Hornung and Maren Burghard (the third curator, Stephanie Müller, could not attend the opening). The …

This year, the German Research Software Engineers met in Würzburg for their annual conference from the 5th to the 7th of March. It was quite a busy conference with 190 participants and 130 contributions. As always it was quite difficult to decide which session to attend. The first keynote by …

Unfortunately, I missed the RSE conference last year year in Newcastle because I was moving jobs and country. So, it was really nice to be able to attend this year's German RSE conference in Paderborn. Day 1 The keynote on Engineering Software Ergonomics was given by Reinhard Keil. I have …

We are well into the process of rearranging our lives. It is now also time to work on my digital migration. I have never used facebook and see no reason why I ever would. I do have a presence on linkedin which I don't really use. I don't quite see …

In the small town where I grew up there were essentially two places where you could buy records and CDs. They also sold personal stereos, TVs and washing machines. They had a pretty good selection but nothing unusual. I had to go to the city for a specialist record shop …

After I published my last post on how our world has become smaller during the Covid-19 crisis I was asked about how this compares to previous years. Well, I have all the data and with some python scripts this question can be answered. The histogram shows the percentage of blips …

We don't own a car. So during the Covid-19 crisis our world was reduced to places we can walk or cycle to. Given that I geotag most of my blip journal entries and I tend to collect GPX tracks for my photo walks it seems quite a natural idea to …

I have decided to wean myself off google services and migrate my blog to pelican. Pelican is a static website generator written in python with theme support. There are many advantages to using a static website. From my perspective the main advantage is that there are fewer things that can …