This month my boy friend and I made a trip to Prague and we visited Cafe Slavia. This made me think (again) of how a vibrant environment former coffeehouses must have been. Today they only server as touristic hotspots. But throughout history, coffeehouses have been central to the creative and intellectual lives of writers, artists, […]
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Building an Erlang-like compiler/VM
Here I share the log from my first successful run of my new compiler/VM written in C. It’s all based on the book about Clox (https://craftinginterpreters.com/) by Robert Nystrom. You can see the processing of three pseudo-parallel processes in Erlang style. Printed it out straight away to hang on the wall because it was really […]
AI and the degeneration of human intelligence (German)
Maybe these are real problems in the next decades…
Billion dollar mistake – null reference and types
(Video from 2009: “Null References The Billion Dollar Mistake”) History Programs in the days were written in machine code. The positive things was, that you could exactly analyze and diagnose, why things go wrong. Designing the language Principle 1: The result of a programmer’s mistake in the code should be predictable by looking at the […]
First demo development for Apple Vision Pro
VR/AR/XR examples in the browser
Working in Apple Vision Pro (3/2024) 3D Image, Athens – 360 image viewing Back to the Future – DeLorean at the church, only beaming around. WebXR Dragging – Look at things and move it with your hand AFRAME Examples – the only example which shows some interesting stuff is “Hand Tracking”. The others don’t really […]
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Containers in containers in containers
“In a design sense, templates are meaningless” Boris Müller, Professor for Interaction Design at FH Potsdam, co-director of Urban Complexity Lab, thinks the internet is too boring because all the websites look the same. They use the same simple designs and don’t really show any creativity. He says this happens because people use templates from […]
EU: €1.8 billion fine on Apple
The European Commission has imposed a €1.8 billion fine on Apple for abusing its dominant market position through its App Store by restricting app developers from informing users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services. This decision is based on Apple’s practice of requiring the sales of subscriptions within apps downloaded from its App Store […]
Be careful with GitHub repositories!
The Israel and US-based security firm Apiiro has extensively reported on a malware distribution scheme observed over several months, involving compromised clone repositories on GitHub. At its peak, this scheme resulted in the creation of 100,000 infected repositories on the popular coding platform, growing so rapidly that GitHub struggled to remove them promptly. The method […]