A blog about mostly Software Engineering, science, and all things tech.
AI is eating the Software Engineering world, and it is doing so fast. When you compare the capabilities of Microsoft’s Co-Pilot, lauded to be state of the art only two years ago to AI agents of the caliber of Google’s Jules today, this becomes very apparent. While I worry for all of us, I worry in particular for folks who are about to take up programming or are just starting their careers.
Android Auto sucks, and it is just not getting any better. This is a continuously updated post where I will list whenever something is not working. I want to prefix this by saying that I am using the stable release trains of Android and Android Auto on my stock Google Pixel 5. One couldn’t have a more pure Android experience on the phone, and still, things do not work the way one would imagine…
Spritpreise erreichen weltweit im März 2022 neue Höchststände. Paradoxerweise ist oft sogar Diesel teurer als so manche Superbenzin Sorte. Aber auch beim regulären Benzin findet man mehr und mehr Preis-Unterschiede zwischen E10 und E5, oft 6 Cent pro Liter und mehr. Während E10 lange ein schlechtes Image in der Autofahrerliebhaber Nation Deutschland hatte, fragt sich der ein oder andere: Was ist…
By my very crude estimate, there are at least 15,000 reviews done every year in the top-20 Software Engineering conferences and journal alone to assess the quality of submitted manuscripts. Assuming that a review takes on average at least 2.5 hours on average (in reality, much longer!), this amount of work equates to a mammoth 27 full-time jobs.
While ESEC/FSE 2021 is in full swing over in the virtual clowdr world, I thought it’d be a good time to reflect on how it was to chair its Industry Track together with Miltos.
I recently received a 16” MacBook Pro for work. Shiny as it may be, it only features four USB-C sockets (and a headphone jack) to connect to the outside world. To not end up in adapter hell, I ordered one three USB-C hubs until I finally found one that worked. This is my review and the story behind.
Recently, I served in the Program Committee of the Artifact Track of ESEC/FSE 2020, a major Software Engineering conference. I agreed to join to help a friend and because I think that the Software Engineering community needs to strengthen the principle of open and reproducable science. Moreover, the idea of an artifact track sounds simple enough: You install a bit of well-documented software, you…