Since late 2025 I had the feeling that I am losing my shit. While I did publish “Kann KI verschlafen werden” (Can AI be slept away) in September, the people of the church of AI got louder by the day. And at some point, that leaves marks. I don’t doubt my skills and abilities, I […]
Introduction Sir Antony Hoare[1] introduced the concept of Null-references or a Null pointer[2] back in 1965 with the release of ALGOL W. In 2009 he spoke about it as his “Billion Dollar Mistake”[3]. Dereferencing a Null pointer will address an invalid memory region, usually leading to runtime errors or complete crashes. Despite many efforts, this is still […]
Things used to work, things had been quite nice for a while even. I usually felt being the owner and in charge of my electronic devices for the better part of my life. There’s been a lot of stuff that used to just worked. One such feature was the fact that my first iPod classic […]
Update: The plugin is now hosted on Mojohaus, has a new artefact id and thus is automatically available in Maven without to having to supply the group id. I updated the snippets below. The latest version displays also the versions of the plugins being used. I recently stumbled upon the buildplan-maven-plugin and I find it […]
“Oh please no, Michael, not Sport content here”… Well, sorry, it’s my blog and right now I don’t have a much better place for it. Bear with me, though, there will be some cool database querying later on. In late 2024 I stumbled upon No Rest for the Wicked 2025 and the idea is simple, […]