World geography gotchas
Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzerland: Campione d'Italia and B眉singen am Hochrhein, respectively Italy and Germany. Both are enclaves of th
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AI-assisted genealogy
My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn't learn anything new, as it stopped at my grandparents. I was never very interested in m
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Solving Gradle metadata and Renovate integration
My current company has settled on using Gradle. It doesn't make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints. Plus, I must admit that the developers who actually implemented the build
Aug 20, 20267 min read
GitHub agentic workflows and Renovate
I've been a big fan of Renovate for a couple of years already. Renovate scans your repositories, detects outdated package versions, and opens pull requests to automatically bump them. It's similar to
Aug 6, 20264 min read
Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant's config
Last year, I motorized the rolling shutters on the southern fa莽ade of my apartment. My idea was to manage them via Home Assistant. I had a couple of automations in mind: In the evening, roll down the
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On programming languages, targets, and platforms
I started as a Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I thought about how early languages were dedicated to a single target and platform, and now they are broad
Jun 25, 20266 min read
AI gateways: why and how
Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It's only by working with them that I understood their value. Decoupling the client and the server
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Seasons time-lapse - alignment
In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years. The hardest challenge wasn't taking the pictures or ass
May 28, 20266 min read
Designing a team of agents
I continue to experiment with AI in the context of software engineering. I'm fortunate that my team supports me in exploring different ways to improve our daily work. This week, I designed a team of a
May 7, 20266 min read