That was 2024! I will remember this year as the one in which I fell apart. So the 2025 will be a lot about re-inventing myself. Welcome, 2025! I wish you all a happy, healthy new year!
In the upcoming months I will explore more ways to compensate for not being able to run anymore. I stick to my 10-year goal of staying as healthy as possible.
A.I.
MCP is all the rage and extends your local AI with filesystem and other capabilities. Here are some links around get MCP-based extensions running and learning about them.
- https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
- https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol
- https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
- https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
But there‘s more - not just tech, but stories too:
- Here is a story about Apple working on Apple Intelligence
Working with python
- I have been working with Python in the last months and here is an interesting, blazingly fast feedparser that I use often
Keep the web open
- Are we losing the term podcasting? Here are some OpenWeb ideas around how podcast publishing needs to change to not get swallowed by Google, Apple and Spotify
- If you are trying to find other interesting blogs take a look at this classic Webring UberBlogr (containing mostly German blogs).
Security
- This is how it is like to talk to a ransomware actor
- The news around the new e-Gesundheitsakte do not sound good. Here is the German's CCC take on it.