Asides

  • Spring is coming

    daily, 02.02.2020

  • Minga

    Minga, mal wieder. daily, 01.02.2020

  • Product First Step Feedback

    Product First Step Feedback: Having worked in customer facing roles most of my career, I have experienced first hand how important it is for clients to get quick impressions of a product. Opportunities to leave that impression are often limited. The other night, a colleague argued most products don’t even need a UI. And a…

  • Privacy in the Platform Economy

    Privacy in the Platform Economy: In the tracking business, access to the customers desktop was in firm hands of Google and Facebook. Until recently! SnakeOil promises people security to get them install software that’s capable of eavesdropping ssl and all other access to a computers interaction. Quite obvious to see this is a good source…

  • Project SearchWing

    Project SearchWing is aiming to build an autonomous drone. It’s leveraged to find castaways in the Mediterranean. The device is in use in Missions by Sea Watch. Daily, 27.01.2020

  • City Streets

    Draw all streets at once. Probably qualifies as generative art, which exists way too little in this blog. Even though the author has some roots in it.

  • Upcycle Windows 7

    Upcycle Windows 7 : Microsoft announced support for Windows 7 would end Janury 14, 2020 with plenty of lead time. A regular procedure in the world of enterprise software. The idea behind such a process is fairly simple. The software won’t stop working, nor are users unable to use in any other way. Only the…

  • Olympiaturm

    daily, 24.01.2020

  • People recognition

    Only days after Clearview hit the news, The Economist runs an article on how the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO), an agency of the US defence department, has developed another dystopian tool to identify people by their heartbeat.

  • 7 Minuten ziehen lassen.

    Daily, late, 18.01.2020