The IT Blog (locked.de)
The IT Blog (locked.de)
Franz Graf
I'm blogging about IT and Technology in general. Also I publish all kinds of "how to-solutions" that took me a while to figure out - and I hope that it might help other's as well
Latest Posts
It seems like I’ve earned a reputation at work for hating Excel. We recently had a workshop with different statations and flipboards about how to improve some processes etc. And well – I added a lot of “less spreadsheets” sticky notes....
I am an information hoarder. I am somehow unhappy if I don’t get new information, new insights, new aspects. That’s not limited to technology but to literally everything. And since I do more and more self-hosting, I have two services on...
Since a while I noticed that when I double clicked an MP4 file, VLC took really long (like several seconds) to open and show the file. Actually really annoingly long. But as I don’t watch a lot of movies, I never really bothered...
Actually, I just posted this on Mastodon, but I so agree to all those points that I want to reference them here on the blog as recommended reads as well. Generative AI is reshaping software engineering—but the narrative has gotten ahead...
Yesterday evening I just quickly wanted to change something in my crontab .. I was tired, I was distracted, I just SSH’ed into my machine and typed crontab -r. Ahh typo! I obviously wanted to crontab -e which is just ONE key away from...
Depending on which social bubble one is into, people are drawn to letting LLMs do everything. Latest tools promise to fully configure or even manage entire server setups. While that sounds amazing (and I want to try it out some time)...
Coding agents are becomming more and more popular (well – I guess). Yet the dependece to LLM providers is pretty obvious: Starting in June, GithubCopilot changed to usage-based billing. In April and June Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5...
Over the past few months, I’ve spoken to people across a variety of companies, and one thing has become quite obvious: with today’s tooling, employees are eager and able(!) to build their own applications. Whether it’s a small script to...
I’ve heard this claim now really often: at conferences, in keynotes, even in casual conversations: “With AI, we’ll soon only need to work two or three days a week.” The narrative is seductive, I admit: technology will finally liberate us...
End of May, I attended the TNG Big Tech Day (https://www.bigtechday.com/). TNG describes it as “a one-day conference on science and technology, with a focus on IT. The speakers often come from the field of information technology, but...
I just discovered that I had a >120 GB VHDX file in “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Docker\wsl\disk\docker_data.vhdx“). According to the description of Ahmed Moussa on dev.to (and some other articles), this is the virtual hard disk when using Docker for...
I just found this blog post from Rob Bowley in my RSS feed and one paragraph just so resonated with what I read and hear so much: For CEOs and founders hoping to benefit, the answer isn’t as simple as handing out Claude licences […]....
I wrote a couple of times that I reduced my activity on #LinkedIn and put more effort into the blog here – and I did! And I’m quite happy about that. In parallel I had an anonymous account for IT related topics, but honestly, I missed...
In the context of the #DigitalIndependenceDay (https://di.day), I noticed discussions on whether Tool A or Service B is “sovereign enough.” But – the more I thought about it, the clearer it became: Digital sovereignty isn’t binary. What...
Finding the right AI tool can be overwhelming. With new solutions emerging constantly, it’s easy to get lost. KI-Katalog.de offers an alternative: an independent, German-focused directory that compares over 1,000 AI tools. Including...