Writing

It's a comeback. And yeah, ugh... pop culture.

It's a beautiful comeback. The setup here is wrong. I have gone far enough with the most static setup. It is not really encouraging to ssh into the VPS to then find the writing.html file, to then copy and paste around some HTML to create a new article that only exists right here in this file. It's a bit silly. On the other hand, the introduction to web development I got, with churning out fully fledged RubyOnRails apps with 7000 things to break on the way, was a bit silly, too.

So coming back to this website also means, that I need to put some effort into it, so I come back to it more often. Half a year, thats a bit too long of a break between two blog posts. Some elegant Haskell App, that elegantly handles my loneliness twitter with unlimited chars. Probably need a few more specs. Eleganza will stay on top of the list, though.

At some point in the near future we (that is me) will present the first edition of "Ugh... pop culture" in which the pressing issues of the latest motions in our popular culture will be dissected, interpreted and misunderstood. That is: A review of some book I read or of a film I watched or something like that. Or fashion. Stay tuned!

It's a ... musical!

Reading about Gas Town and OpenClaw and Moltbook made me realize that I have not been up to date with the latest developments of AI coding agents. All this talk about orchestrating swarms of agents into hierarchies of workers that would take on anything. I felt like i gotta do some catching up. I not have the greatest interest in personal assistants that take over my banking or shopping or writing my emails for me. I will be able to do that on my own - for now. I am interested though in an agent that is writing code for me. And I believe a lot of people's judgement as well as my own judgement, that they are pretty good at it.

Having this (admittedly not very complex: its all static) website created for me within very little time and having it look pretty neat and having saved myself from having headaches form dealing with CSS, I gotta say: I am impressed. People have been talking big words about the changes these LLMs will bring into many jobs. A lot of it was hype. But what is beings said about the agents: I am going to listen to and start using them.

When the chatbots came around and delivered code the gain in productivity was debatable. With the coding agents it is not debateable. They write working code very quickly. Even though they do not produce good software all by themselves. I will start using them. And see where they take me. I am pretty sure that understanding the systems that you build will stay crucial and necessary. That is why I am happy to get the very formal education at university, studying my Computer Science as I go along.

It's a ... Follow up!

I forgot where Rainald Goetz said it, but I liked it: The majority of writing is bad. He was talking about literature. What an author can produce, how 99% of your (my) writing is bad. On work that the text needs. Which surely is a critique on bad pieces of text, but it is also an encouragement. You gotta write more! I will leave this just here, just as I will leave this first "article" I wrote (the one about the musical), just here. For the start. I did not write in a long time and I will need to write a lot more.