I am using Obsidian for note taking and writing documentation. With Canvas-Feature you can create simple visualizations and link notes from the vault. Here is an example:
As simple as it seems, there was not builtin-way to export the visualization and f.g. publish it on a website. Luckily, the canvas file is a simple JSON document and therefore can be processed pretty easy. I build a render Method in JavaScript that takes the canvas content and returns it as a SVG image.
As the workspace for developers has moved almost entirely into the browser, browser extensions have become an integral part for customizing the workflow. Recently, I started to the use the Tree Style addons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
When using this extension, the native tab bar becomes obsolete. The following part of the post is an instruction on how to hide the native tab bar (which is a bit difficult).
I feel very uncertain about the near future. Climate change, migration, pandemics, rise of populism, oligopolistic capitalism i, post-fact, artificial intelligence, the list goes on. It is a lot to think about and to make sense of. However, I try to embrace what comes and avoid doom and gloom. Making up new words is one way into the future.
In 2022 I read 18 books. Some of them were good and some bad. Out of these books only two stuck with me: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm and Undinge by Byung-Chul Han.
There Is No Antimemetics Division deals with the idea of antimemes, which is the opposite of a meme or to put it plainly is non-information. qntm is a prolific writer for the scp wiki. Scp is a database of fictional anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. The idea of antimemes is very strange and difficult to grasp, however, qntm built a very engaing story with this subject.
Undinge is an exploration of paradigm shifts of things becoming “smart” things. Han is a contemporary philosopher and in this book he skilfully describes the problem of objects that suddenly produce data and dictate to us as humans.
Die E-ID ist ein staatlich anerkannter Identifikationsnachweis. Alle Informationen zur E-ID werden unter http://eid.ch publiziert. Ich verfolge das Projekt nur am Rande, bin am Thema aber sehr interessiert. Kryptographie, Politik und Wirtschaft treffen hier aufeinander.
Bei AdNovum war ich als Identity und Access Management (IAM) Integrator angestellt. Dabei habe ich viel über Zertifikate, Infrastruktur, Kryptographie und Systemtechnik im Allgemeinen gelernt. Mit diesem Wissen habe versucht eine E-ID zu skizzieren. Die folgende Grafik zeigt wie eine E-ID konzeptionell funktionieren könnte:
I am an (addicted) Magic: The Gathering player. I love the game, its complexity, the story and of course its art. The card in the header image is Abrupt Decay. Inspired by its caption and artwork I wrote a short poem about decay and regress:
Hyperscalers are cloud service provider such as Google, Alibaba, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. They provide infrastructure, computing power and a variety of services. Companies, states and organisations can use their services and are billed by usage.
The name hyperscaler implies that the more organisations are using their services the cheaper they become. This effect causes organisations to migrate their infrastructure and services to their hyperscaler of choice.
At first thought it seems like good practice, however, there a few issues that make these hyperscalers a menace.
As of 27th of October 2022 Elon Musk owns Twitter. With the $44 billion acquisition Twitter went private. As I am not a big fan of Musk (he is a megalomaniac) I think the time has come to quit Twitter. For me quitting Twitter is one more step to quit social media entirely.
Müdigkeitsgesellschaft von Byung-Chul Han ist ein präzis komprimiertes Essay. Es wirft einen Blick auf den Paradigmenwechsel der Disziplinargesellschaft zur Leistungsgesellschaft, welcher sich im letzten Jahrhundert vollzogen hat. Wobei dieser Paradigmenwechsel an sich bekannt ist, ist der Vergleich mit der Immunologie und neuronaler Erkrankung des Individuums eine gelungene Auffrischung.
