Janik von Rotz

Dividuum und Dialektik

Schon länger lese ich den Blog von Kulturwissenschaftler Michael Seemann. Er strickt neue Ideen und Werkzeuge um unsere Gesellschaft besser zu verstehen. Insbesondere gefällt mir das Dividuum. Ein guter Einstieg in die Thematik liefert dieser Beitrag.

Bestimmte Aspekte des Dividuum sind mir aus der Dialektik bekannt. Dazu ein paar Kommentare in eigenen Worten.

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100 Days to Offload

I stumbled upon https://100daystooffload.com/ and I am thinking of taking this challenge.

Blogging always helped me to shape my ideas and filter out unnecessary things. But before starting the challenge I want to collect some ideas.

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Setup opencode with Infomaniak AI Tools

No Aprils fool here. Instead you get the instructions to run opencode with Infomaniak AI Tools.

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Working with LLM agents

In the last few days I tinkered with Cortecs and OpenCode. It seems LLM agents are here to stay and I need to deal with them. I admit that I am very skeptic of the AI hype. However, I see a lot of benefits when working with LLM agents in a controlled environment.

People have built great tools and practices. There are many providers that host LLMs or route between multiple providers. The ecosystem as matured and this led me to explore more and put in more effort to understand what is going on.

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Goodbye Soundcloud, Hello Bandcamp

This post is about enshittification and the decay of the creative web as we know it. It is also about owning and paying your fair share to music artists. I try to recall my last 20 years of listening to music and give some advice for the future.

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2025 Book List

In 2025 I read 9 books and 4 Mangas. As we move towards a more federated and decentralized internet, I now track my reading habits with Bookwyrm. Please join the fediverse and follow me via Bookwyrm.

My favorite book was Unsong by Scott Alexander.

Here is the full 2025 book list:

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Forgejo action to update Kubernetes deployment

In the last post I showed how you can build a Docker image in a Kubernetes cluster using with Forgejo runner. One missing step was the actual deployment of the new Docker image.

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Deploy Forgejo runner to Kubernetes cluster

In my post about migrating from GitHub to Codeberg I was not able to find a suitable alternative for GitHub actions. With GitHub actions I built and published Docker images. Since the migration I was able find solution.

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Too Big to Care

Wenn Hyperscaler zum Problem werden.

Für einen Anlass des Digital Cluster Uri durfte ich eine kurze Präsentation zum Digitale Souverenität halten. Die Präsentation fokussiert sich auf die sog. Hyperscaler und zeigt auf warum diese ein Problem sind.

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AI is not abstraction

The concept of abstraction has been applied to software engineering. But it never made sense. Software is flexible. Software can be changed even after it has been put into production.

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