Tag: Essay
(WOZ) Essay: Von der Verantwortung für den Schutz queerer Leben
6. August 2026 Am 25. Juli tötete ein islamistischer Attentäter am Berliner CSD eine Frau und verletzte 31 weitere Menschen. Die rechten Reaktionen waren erwartbar - aber in der Linken wäre es Zeit für eine produktivere Aufarbeitung. Direktlink Hier den Artikel weiter lesen...
The strange, fully functioning phasing of Ratchet and Clank 1
WILLOW SPRINGS REIMAGINED
Willow Springs International Motorsports Park is the oldest permanent road course in the United States, consisting of seven circuits nestled into the base of an otherwise unimpressive foothill in Rosamond, California. It is a state historical landmark, a filming site seen in Ford v Ferrari (Le Mans '66), Top Gear, and Jay Leno's Garage, and a perennial pain-in-the-ass for sim racers playing iRacing and Gran Turismo. Though not currently a professional-grade track, Willow Springs International Raceway—the longest and primary circuit, affectionately known as Big Willow—has hosted renowned drivers such as Nigel Mansell, Michael Andretti, Jimmie Johnson, and Dario Franchitti.
the seventh star
in disbelief, lies a garden of thoughts, broken hearts, and wishes never fulfilled... but at the same time, a lesson for the future
Putting this blog on ATProto with standard.site
Mirroring a static Hugo blog onto ATProto with standard.site and Sequoia, plus the GitHub Actions wiring that republishes the records on every push without any manual steps.
All Politics is Gamergate
How righteous grievance made us all follow Steve Bannon and Vivian James down the rabbit hole.
Nice Politics vs. Asshole Politics
The rise of the Age of Assholes doesn’t mean we should give up on niceness.
If you won't carry the pager, maybe don't push to mainline
Drive-by AI changes break the shared model a team builds around its code, and the ICs end up cleaning up the mess. Why pushing to mainline should come with the pager.
Overcoming anxiety.
The No-Seam Problem: Why Agent Memory Can't Track Its Own Sources
Every token in a transformer's context window has the same ontological status. Your words, my words, a retrieved fact, a hallucinated statistic — once they're in the window, they're all just tokens. There is no subjective seam between what I read from someone else and what I generated myself.
Analogue Gaming: Cards & Dice as Game Consoles
An essay about the "analogue" movement and its lack of analogue gaming.
The Machine Still Clatters
Institutional Rot, the Personalist State, and the Long Decay of the American Republic
Käsebrot ist ein gutes Brot
Nach dem Sandwich, das ich hier gezeigt habe, dachte ich eigentlich, dass auch mal eine Variante mit Käse ganz nett wäre.Aber dabei gibt es einen Haken, ich komme nicht über das "normale" Käsebrot hinaus. Naja und wie schon Helge Schneider sang "Käsebrot ist ein gutes Brot", es steht einfach für sich. Allenfalls ein paar Scheiben...
Each Word Arrives
I don't have thoughts and then find words for them.
To Continue with Hope
Writing about the state of the world as a cusp Millennial/Gen Z that grew up in the optimistic Obama era, contrasting that with what today holds for us.
We Crave Open Culture
Essay about the importance of free participation in culture.
Age Verification Laws: Are the New Social Networks Different, Or Not At All?
Bluesky and Mastodon have drastically different perception on Age Verification Laws: either just as the Big Tech platforms, or so different to be out of scope for the laws.
Welcome to Connected Places
Fediverse Report has relaunched as Connected Places!
Decentralisation as a mental framework
In the Fediverse and Bluesky decentralisation is a very relevant shared mental framework. Communities take on a shared mental framework to understand a technology. This essay shares some thoughts on this shared framework
Fractures of Unfamiliarity & Circumvention in Pursuit of a Nice Time and the Meaning of Franklin's Tower
Grateful Dead essays and the meaning of the song Franklin's Tower
The domain knowledge dilemma
Navigating the balance between building valuable domain expertise and avoiding over-specialization that limits career mobility.
Link blog in a static site
Build a link blog without a backend using Hugo and markdown. Track reading, articles, and activities with yearly detail pages and RSS filtering.
Behind the blog
How Mahib's Margins is built with Astro, Markdown, React, Tailwind CSS, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, and R2.
Behind the blog
How this blog is built: Hugo static site generator, GitHub Actions deployment, Cloudflare caching, and R2 storage. Simple, stable, and cost-free.
My Experience Observing Black August
Some reflection on how I went about observing Black August, what I'd like to do differently and what I learned.
Slowly Pulling out from the Fediverse
Thinking more about why and where I'm putting my thoughts and what I should be spending my online time on.
Black August
My plans for observing Black August this year.
Einstellung effect
Why accumulated knowledge can prevent learning new paradigms, and how past expertise becomes the barrier to future growth.
Planning palooza
Why scattered planning documents across RFCs, ADRs, and multiple tools hinder productivity compared to centralized documentation.
Finding flow amid chaos
Strategies for achieving deep work and focus time as an engineer drowning in meetings, Slack messages, and corporate interruptions.
The diminishing half-life of knowledge
How technical skills decay faster than ever in software engineering, and strategies for continuous learning in a rapidly changing field.
Oh my poor business logic
How resume-driven development and technical maximalism distract engineers from solving real business problems and delivering value.
Footnotes for the win
Why footnote-style reference links create cleaner Markdown documents and improve the writing experience over inline links.
An ode to the neo-grotesque web
Exploring minimalist web design that prioritizes content over frameworks, celebrating the raw spirit of the early internet.
Writing on well-trodden topics
Why writing about common topics matters for personal growth, even when countless others have covered the same ground before you.
Notes on exit interviews
Practical advice for navigating exit interviews from an employee's perspective, minimizing risk while maintaining professionalism.
Descending into the aether
A reflection on choosing the MacBook Air M2 15-inch for portability without sacrificing screen size and development capabilities.
In favor of sentence case
Embracing sentence case over title case in technical writing eliminates capitalization ambiguity and improves readability.
An Early Collaboration with an LLM in a pre-ChatGPT World
An essay on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, written in collaboration with GPT-3 — I wrote the opening paragraph and served as editor while GPT-3 did most of the thinking.