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
The AI hype claims that LLMs will make everyone a coder. I say: that’s pretty much BS. Most people don’t want to build software. They want their problems solved, preferably without lifting a finger. Joan Westenberg nails this so well in...
Since I am moving more and more away from BigTech (see here…), I was wondering if we need a Fediverse alternative for LinkedIn. I don’t even want to go into the details but LinkedIn shows the same bad symptoms as all other big “social”...
I just saw that the StaffEng Podcast is coming back! We’re rebooting the Staff Engineer podcast with a specific focus: practitioners using AI to deliver valuable outcomes with specific examples If you don’t know StaffEng, its About Staff...
The world is complicated. I like the #DID campaign – regaining your digital independence step by step. Like changing from X to Mastodon or from Chrome to another browser. For me, the next logical step was reconsidering my browser choice....
This is a practical how-to on moving email from Gmail to another provider. The main challenge is Gmail’s label system: one email can have multiple labels and all mails also appear in “All Mail”. Most other providers use folders instead,...
I see a lot of AI skepticism in the dev community — and some of it is fair (okay, maybe “a lot”). Vague bug reports, monster commits, untested code … We’ve proably read it all, and maybe even seen it all. Even Mitchell Hashimoto whose...
I just saw a post on Simon Willison’s blog where he linked to “Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype”. And I pretty much agree on what antirez writes there: Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can't control it by...
What do you do an Saturday when you don’t feel well to go out for some activities? Right! Let’s read about Software Engineering and AI! Yesterday I read the complete series of the 22 blog posts listet on The AI-Ready Software Developer –...
I just read Walking Skeletons, Delivery Pipelines & DevOps Drills and came to the paragraph about “throwing s.th over the wall: DevOps – the marriage of software development and operations – means that the team writing the solution code...
Not even two weeks ago I wrote about “Reproducable Vibecoding” and that the specification as a permanent context to document all decisions is important. I just stumbled across the article “Notes on Six Months of AI-Enabled Building” by...
I am still watching the recordings of talks given on the #39C3 Chaos Communications Congress (see the talks here). Katharina Nocun gave a talk titled Doomsday-Porn, Schäferhunde und die „niedliche Abschiebung“ von nebenan where she shows...
I want to wish all of you a Happy 2026! I thought about writing a recap of 2025 but … naah :-D There are so many ideas waiting. I wish you all the best.
I just watched Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents from Johann Rehberger on the #39c3. He shows quite impressive how the future threat model looks like, the more AI Agents are deployed. In his talk he demoes a...
The 39C3: Power Cycles, the 39th Congress of the Chaos Computer Club has finished. I followed the congress via the #39C3 Hashtag on Mastodon which was quite interesting. I’ve never been there myself but at least I got some impressions...
I just read Influence Without Authority: How to Get People to Listen Without Being the Boss from Bri Chapman. Most people think influence comes from a title. From being the person who approves budgets, signs off on decisions, or sits at...