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Andreas
I’m Andreas, and this is the place where I write about all the things that catch my interest. It could be books, it could be music, it could be tech (especially retro tech), it could be random musings about society and philosophy or psychology… whatever comes to my mind.
Latest Posts
The web is getting worse, search engines are becoming more and more useless and AI crawlers are so greedy that by now they're almost indistinguishable from a DDoS attack. I had a few interesting discussions about this on Mastodon this...
I remember when I was a kid my dad told me that he watched the first moon landing in 1969 live on TV, which blew my mind because the moon landing did (and does) seem like ancient history to me, like something that happened in the distant...
Oh nice, a blogging challenge, sort of. I saw this post on David's blog titled "What is the oldest thing you own", which is a reply to someone else's post, and I thought I'd write a reply to that, too. Looking around, I realise I don't...
Man, following the news this week was exhausting. Everything has kind of this ugly orange tint... I think it might be time for another news diet. There are still interesting things happening though, they just kind of disappear under all...
Over the last few weeks and months I read a few books about the history of the early internet, so I thought why not talk about them here a bit. I haven't written a book review in ages, so maybe it's time to start doing that again. This...
This week I was a guest over on Hyde's blog. He has a series called "Over/Under" where he gives his guests a handful of topics and lets them riff on whether they think the topic is over- or underrated. The topics he picked for me were...
I started writing an intro about current world events, but you know what? I don't want to talk about it. It only puts me (and probably you too) in a bad mood, and I'd rather be in a good mood. So instead, here's a picture from a few days...
So here's a story I just thought about because I saw a link to the Italian post on Mastodon which triggered a memory in me. During my last year of University, in the winter of 2008/2009, I spent a few months in Italy, where I did an...
The other day I took apart an old smoke detector. I looked at it for a bit until I thought I'd figured out how it works, and then I thought, hey, why not write a quick blog post about it, maybe someone else will find it interesting, too....
Last month I've lived in my current apartment for exactly 10 years, which means it's now time to replace the smoke alarms, which you're supposed to do after 10 years. When I was a kid, I always took everything I could get my hands on...
Over the last few days I read a lot of end-of-year blog posts around the small web, and I noticed that by reading personal blogs you get the full range of human experiences. Some people are doing really well and are in a good place, and...
Last Linkdump of 2025! And maybe last post of this year too, I don't know yet. I just checked, and this is the 108th blog post I'm writing this year. I'm too lazy to do it now, but if I stitched them all together I would get at least a...
A few weeks ago a copy of Unix V4 which was thought to be lost was discovered on a storage tape at the University of Utah. It was then sent to the Home Computer Museum in California, and well, they managed to read it out and put its...
In 1981, a new TV station dedicated to playing music videos appeared in the US. It famously started its programme by playing The Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star. In 1987, MTV Europe began its broadcast with an equally fitting video:...
I'm currently trying to get a little deeper into Linux and understand more what actually makes the OS tick under the hood. I've been using Linux for almost 20 years at this point, but how the Kernel works and how everything is put...