kiko.io
kiko.io
Kristof Zerbe
I've been a passionate software developer for almost 30 years and currently a tech-savvy IT manager. In my spare time, I tinker with things like this blog, because creating software never lets you go.
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It was clear that Google’s unilateral abandonment of the quid pro quo principle of search—now effectively replaced by an AI-generated summary—poses a threat to the internet and will eventually backfire. Now there is a court ruling from...
Many, many years ago, my darling and I planned a long weekend in Hamburg, including a sightseeing bus tour, a harbor cruise, and all the other things you typically do in Germany’s northernmost metro area when you’re there together for...
The first settlement, known as Hammaburg, dates back to the 8th century AD. What developed over the following 1,200 years is what we know today as Germany’s second-largest city: Hamburg. My partner and I go there for two or three days...
It’s been 25 years since I first heard Chester Bennington growling into a microphone, and ever since then I’ve been a fan of both hard rock and crossover. My goodness, what gems these guys from Linkin Park delivered in the 2000s....
The mother of my sunshine has a beautiful garden behind her house, right by the river Ruhr, which her son tends with great passion. There are quite a few gorgeous flowers in bloom at the moment and it’s simply lovely. I had to made some...
Over the past month of May, I’ve collected 17 links for my link journal. 2026-05-07 Chrome secretly installs a 4GB AI model on Windows 11 – here’s how to stop it pureinfotech.com AI Browser Stop Chrome from silently downloading the 4GB...
Back in the day, there were only hunters and gatherers, and I would certainly have been in the latter group. Collecting things is satisfying. This month, I’ll be collecting links to blog posts as part of Robert’s Junited 2026 campaign on...
I’ve been asking myself for a while now, with all the hype surrounding AI, who’s supposed to pay for all the money being thrown into this technological meat grinder… or rather, when the enthusiastic managers will realize that it’s them....
This 20 minute video, I found today, illustrates impressively why AI and above all Generative AI is nothing more than worthless. The original (and best version) is in German, but the translation in English (YT AI?) does the job… Für Euch...
To me, my sweetheart is a phenomenon. With two needles and an indefinite amount of wool in various colours, she whips up all sorts of little marvels at a speed that would take me just to get my fingers back in order. Most of the things...
This year, I was late getting started with taking photos in Thomas’ garden. Whereas I’m usually out and about as early as March, I only managed to take the first pictures of his extraordinary plants this weekend, and I’ve probably missed...
Over the past month of April, I’ve collected 16 links for my link journal. 2026-04-03 Introducing view-transitions-toolkit .. www.bram.us CSS/Animation JavaScript Over the past years, I’ve published a bunch of View Transitions contents:...
Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz in my tech bubble about good old RSS/Atom feeds. Not only are people rediscovering them and making them available on their blogs, but new services are also popping up around this 30-year-old technology....
As I wrote recently, I Love Bubbles. The new blog post aggregator (based on the RSS feeds of a curated list of blogs) has become part of my morning routine: making coffee, browsing my blogroll, opening Bubbles, and discovering new posts...
Any new way of interconnecting websites and users on the IndieWeb is not only welcome but also vital for a stable counterbalance to Big Tech’s shitty walled gardens. Yesterday I stumbled across a really good and new one, that integrates...