engadgeted – assorted brain farts & half-formed thoughts

Whenever I skim my RSS reader (I use Netnewswire, in case you are wondering), I make vigorous use of its “starring” feature and then forget about most of the things that I marked as “starred”. Then, every couple of months I feel entirely overwhelmed...

I recently published a new lecture recording on Youtube: Beyond the Desktop – Designing Future Interactions.
This one is a bit special to me as it is probably my favorite among the dozens of lectures I’ve prepared and presented over the years. It is about the history of desktop GUIs, the promise of ubiquitous computing, the rise of mobile, technological innovation...

One of the more interesting side effects of the pandemic and lock downs was that as a researcher and lecturer it became almost a necessity to also be a Youtuber and video producer. At first I very much resisted this development, but over time I came...

Over the past few months I have been fascinated by machine learning and have spent quite some time trying to understand it better: figuring out what it can do, but also its limitations. I believe that ML is the most exciting thing in IT and CompSci right...