Essential Links in April 2026

Damn, I wanted to blog much, much more. So many things are happening, I just don't find the time. There is so much to do. Well, maybe I need to journal here on this website. Let me try that for the month of May. One post every day. Let's see what happens and if I am able to make it.

It's funny, I enjoy software engineering and creating assistive systems with LLMs, but I can't credit using AI for blogposts. I find it terrible to read them and to skim for information. No surprises, no inspiration, it's as if you can predict the words and the paragraphs that are there to come.

Tools & helpful websites

• bahn.expert is a lightweight alternative to the Navigator (with a different usage approach) and pretty helpful if you are travelling a lot and you are looking for info that the Navigator does not simply give away.
• Matt Mochary, is a co-founder and CEO coach and he has a public digital mindgarden (/cc David Cummings).

The Internet

• I went away from Github quite some time ago. Made no sense to stay there with the change of business model after being taken over by Microsoft. I just keep forks there so I don't break the internet. Now here is a post on Github's decline.
• Say hello to the super-villains of the web

Working with A.I.

• Archon tries to harness (new vocabulary - note it, please) the reliability and repeatability of results in AI-infused software engineering. Its concept provides, that scripts and prompting dialogues co-operate during the engineering process.

• About building a personal knowledge management with Obsidion, Markdown and (of course) an LLM.

• Are you just a .MD file? Find out!

• Analyze token usage and conversion with the TikTokenizer

• Here's a full open sourced workflow video at the CCC media area, where Harald Nezbeda sets up a video processing engine.

• Here's a full article on the history of Ollama - and why (according to the author) you should not use it or what you could use instead. Read it to at least check your bias.

This month I watched 2 talks by Matt Pocock on YouTube: Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever and Full Walkthrough: Workflow for AI Coding. Matt is another YouTuber focussing on AI at the moment, but the way he presents and teaches somehow fits to my learning discipline. He's touching the basics in his videos and if you are starting out or sorting out your next steps into AI-infused software engineering, you should watch these videos, too.

• Matt has its own website on aihero.dev where he is offering courses and training.