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A Million Apps, Not a Single New Idea

AI can build almost anything in a weekend. But where are the new ideas? We are witnessing an explosion of software, celebrated as an unprecedented wave of innovation. Yet much of it is simply the reproduction of things that already exist. Have we entered an age of invention, or just industrialized imitation?
2026-10-30T22:10:26-04:00October 30, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Programming|

Prompts Are Programs

Andrej Karpathy's remark that "the hottest new programming language is English" has become one of the defining observations of the LLM era. I believe it is only half the story. The more interesting question is not whether English is becoming a programming language, but what kind of programming language it is.
2026-10-04T18:24:21-04:00July 23, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Programming|

Do We Still Need Software Architects?

If AI can generate working software in minutes, why does software architecture still matter? As prototyping becomes cheap and iteration nearly instant, traditional upfront design starts to look increasingly obsolete. Yet this shift raises a critical tension: while speed and experimentation improve, we may be trading away long-term structure, maintainability, and scalability in the process.
2026-07-26T11:20:49-04:00April 9, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Programming|

Generation Laid Off: AI’s First Casualties in the Job Market

AI isn’t just changing the workplace—it’s reshaping who even gets to enter it. A groundbreaking Stanford study reveals that the very workers once seen as the future—22 to 25-year-olds in tech and customer service—are now its first casualties. Entry-level jobs in AI-exposed roles have plunged by double digits since late 2022, while older workers hold steady.
2025-09-06T18:15:03-04:00August 29, 2025|Artificial Intelligence, Job Market, Programming|

Create Images from Text with AI and Python

It all began with DALL-E, a machine learning model developed by OpenAI to generate digital images from natural language descriptions. But it is closed source and not open to the public. Yet on August 22, 2022, the AI art community was shaken by the release of an open-source alternative, Stable Diffusion, which you can install and run locally using modest hardware. Within days, PCWorld described it as the new killer app. And it surely is.
2022-09-09T08:28:44-04:00September 6, 2022|AI art, Artificial Intelligence, Python|

Implementing Two-Factor Authentication

Two-​factor authentication using the time-​based one-​time password algorithm can be easily implemented with PHP on any web server. This standardized method is widely used as an additional security measure for logins and uses smartphone apps, e.g. the Google or Microsoft Authenticator, as a second factor.
2021-08-25T15:31:36-04:00September 11, 2020|Browser, HTML5, PHP, Web Design|

A minimal Web Push example

Web push notifications allow users to opt-​in to asynchronous messages from a server to a web application. The message can be sent at any time, even when the web application or the web browser is inactive. This W3C standard, based on the HTTP/2 protocol, is now supported by Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and Safari – but not by iOS.
2020-04-17T17:49:50-04:00February 8, 2020|Browser, Cloud, JavaScript, Progressive Web App, PWA, Web Design|

An Alexa skill for New York City transport service changes

Playing around with the idea of Alexa Skills based on live data feeds, I created an Alexa Skill which announces unplanned service changes of the New York City subway and bus lines, based on information provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). This skill, available in English and German, was now certified and has gone live.
2020-04-17T17:49:50-04:00January 21, 2020|Alexa Skill, Amazon Echo, AWS, Node.js, TypeScript, Voice Assistant|

What web can do: a mobile speech-to-speech translator

In the 70s and 80s, some people thought that you could soon travel the world with a portable computer, only the size of a backpack, that would translate any spoken utterance to any other language. Nowadays, with the Google Translate App, you can easily do this with any mobile device. But is this also possible using only HTML, CSS, and Javascript?
2020-04-17T17:49:50-04:00October 28, 2019|Device Independent, HTML5, Machine Translation, Progressive Web App, PWA, Speech Recognition, Speech-To-Speech, Text-To-Speech|
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