“If you’ve never made a mistake, you’ve never tried anything new.”

Albert Einstein

Why Erlang? The Underestimated Strengths of a Proven Platform

Erlang is over 35 years old – and more relevant than ever. A look at the strengths that make this language so uniquely suited for modern distributed systems.

March 20, 2026


Elm – When the Compiler Is Your Best Friend

Elm promises no runtime exceptions – and keeps that promise. An introduction to the functional language for reliable web frontends.

March 20, 2026


Fahrrad-Wohnanhänger bauen – Was gibt es zu beachten?

Eine Übersicht der relevanten Vorschriften aus StVZO und StVO für den Bau eines Fahrrad-Wohnanhängers – von Abmessungen über Beleuchtung bis Ladungssicherung.

March 14, 2026


The Three Faces of Depression — and Why Psilocybin Matters

Depression is not one illness. It is many. And for those whom neither medication nor therapy can reach, psychedelic research is opening a door that has been closed for decades.

March 13, 2026


The Price of Individualism

How neoliberalism pushed the idea of the self-made individual to its extreme, brought us to the brink of catastrophe – and why we need to rediscover what it means to be a society.

March 8, 2026


AI Revolution or Downfall?

How Claude Opus 4.6 is changing software development – and what it means for society when machines take over the work.

March 7, 2026


The Power of Replication in CouchDB

Replication in CouchDB is not only useful for distribution. Together with filters it becomes a powerful tool for realizing business cases.

July 6, 2024


An Erlang Song

concurrency, distribution, fault tolerance

May 8, 2024


Is Erlang an OOP language?

Some thoughts about what Erlang is … and what it even means.

March 22, 2024


Hello World in RISC-V-Assembly

August 22, 2023


Templating in Erlang

Erlang is well suited for writing template engines, due to its pattern matching capabilities

April 22, 2019


Joe Armstrong is dead

Joe Armstrong – one of the inventors of Erlang – died today.

April 20, 2019


Decentralized Grid Control Using Mains Frequency — No Central Authority Needed

Every device on the grid can sense its load state — no internet, no server, no communication needed. Just the 50 Hz hum.

February 8, 2015