fkr - exploration is key to excellence

FOSDEM 2026 is already more than a week old, currently tons of stuff going on. Like every year FOSDEM was a blast. Before heading to FOSDEM another “like every year”-experience was on: Univention Summit. It was the 18th Univention Summit and once again increased in size of attendees. The UV Summi...

Through some conversations in the last few weeks, it became important to me to write a few sentences on principles. While often people differentiate between work and private life, I’m in the camp that when it comes to certain things there is no business or work side of things. It is the same pers...

Every now and then situations require a slim way of introducing documented processes to assure reproduceable outcomes and to achieve a certain quality. Yes - this is a discipline for which there are tons of frameworks, even more books and you can hire highly certified consultants ;) If the scope ...

This was the first complete work week of 2027 for me. Last week we had our (from within the OSBA ECO:DIGIT Team) green coding workshop with the BMKUKN and University of applied science of Bremerhaven. A comprehensive summary in german by the HS Bremerhaven is available here. Listening this week ...

Since my (almost) seven-year-old son has enjoyed listening to stories that I make up on the run while giving him choices on how to continue the story, I started considering introducing him to the world of pen-and-paper roleplaying games. While at 39C3 there were RPG sessions for kids (without any...

(Update from 2025/11/22: I came across this post by Drew DeVault regarding FUTO, the company behind immich. No conclusion from my side yet, but as an fyi.) I’m lazy. And over the years, I grew very comfortable with certain features and services. One of these is Apple Photos in combination with i...