Writing
2026
Vierzehn, bitte warten
Österreichs Social-Media-Verbot unter 14, gelesen als Informatiker: was wirklich im Entwurf steht, was Australien, Großbritannien und Südkorea gemessen haben und wo die Ausweise landen.
Ich glaube immer noch an ein vereintes Europa
In jedem Klassenraum meiner Volksschulzeit hing ein Plakat. Ein Globus in der Mitte, drumherum Kinder mit verschiedenen Hautfarben, die sich über den Planeten die Hände reichen. Keine Ahnung von welchem Verlag das kam, UNICEF vielleicht, irgendein Schulbuch-Beilagen-Ding, aber es hing überall. Beim Werken, in der Pause, über der Tafel in Mathe.
Nobody Wants to Burn Out Anymore
Man hat es schon unzählige Male gehört: "Nobody wants to work anymore ("Niemand will mehr arbeiten"). Der Satz taucht überall auf, in lockeren Gesprächen, in Schlagzeilen und in Social-Media-Posts.
2025
Democracy, But Make It a Pop Quiz
One late night a colleague and I were tossing ideas around. Most of them vanished with the beer. This one stuck. It started as a dumb joke, then it got oddly sharp, then I realized it was sharp in the wrong direction.
Playing with Kids All Day (And Other Lies About Kindergarten Teachers)
Ask people what kindergarten teachers actually do all day and the answer is usually some version of "play with kids." Not "real" work in the way an office job or trades are real work. Glorified babysitting with arts and crafts. Pleasant if you like kids, easy if you don't, paid accordingly either way. But spend a few months actually inside one and that picture falls apart pretty fast.
Surviving Modern Life with a Flip Phone (Barely)
Mama was right: Smartphones are frying our brains. App locks, screentime reminders, digital detoxes: we've tried them all. Nothing sticks because honestly? We're just too good at tricking ourselves. (Even if it means pretending chess.com counts as "productive screen time.")
Österreich will Messenger knacken und nennt es Sicherheit
Österreich diskutiert gerade die Idee, Messenger-Dienste zu verpflichten, Backdoors einzubauen. Natürlich alles nur, um die "Sicherheit zu verbessern" und Kriminalität zu bekämpfen. Klingt auf den ersten Blick sogar halb vernünftig. Wer will schon keine Banausen fangen? Aber lass uns kurz einmal wirklich darüber nachdenken.
Rethinking Open Source Responsibility
For a while now, I’ve been playing with a thought experiment: what happens when your code is used for something you completely disagree with?
2024
2023
The first digital nomad
Digital nomadism feels like a 2020s thing. Coffee shops, laptop stickers, the inevitable Instagram of the laptop in front of a beach. Most of the people doing it now think they're living something new. They aren't. Someone was already doing it forty years ago, on a bicycle.
The internet has become soulless and i hate it
The modern web is the most efficient version of itself that has ever existed. Pages load fast. Sites are accessible. Everything looks consistent across devices. Every interaction is optimized. By every measurable metric, the web in 2023 is the best the web has ever been. And most of it is unbearable.
Should it really be Telegram?
Telegram has done a remarkable job convincing people that it is the privacy-friendly alternative to WhatsApp. Open source. Encrypted. Founded by people with a story about defying state surveillance. The branding writes itself. But take it apart for a minute and most of it doesn't really hold up.
Daten über Daten
Nicht unbedingt, weil Zahlen unbedingt “die Wahrheit” sind. Sondern weil sie einem eine zweite Ebene geben. Eine, die man gern übersieht, weil sie so banal wirkt: Wann passiert etwas? Wie oft? Von wem? Wie gleichmässig? Wie plötzlich? Wie rhythmisch?