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  • OpenClaw - Not AGI, But Still Pretty Cool

    Feb 5, 2026 • 6 min read

    What happens when you give an AI agent actual tools, persistent memory, and the ability to take action in the real world? Not artificial general intelligence, but something surprisingly useful.

  • Samuel’s Last Wish

    Jan 31, 2026 • 4 min read

    This text discusses severe chronic illness (ME/CFS), intense physical suffering, and assisted dying. Please read this text only if you feel stable enough to do so. When you are reading this text, Samuel is dead.

  • Part 2: Why ME/CFS and Long COVID Activism in Germany Has Been Relatively Successful

    Jan 29, 2026 • 5 min read

    Media Visibility Became a Key to the Success of PAIS and IACC Activism in Germany. One of the central reasons why activism around post-acute infectious syndromes (PAIS) and infection-associated chronic conditions (IACCs) such as ME/CFS and Long COVID has been comparatively successful in Germany is **media visibility**. Public attention did not emerge by chance it was the result of sustained, strategic, and often patient-led efforts to bring these illnesses into the public eye.

  • Part 1: Why ME/CFS and Long COVID Activism in Germany Has Been Relatively Successful

    Jan 28, 2026 • 3 min read

    For Patients, This Was Nothing New. When Long COVID began to receive broader public attention in 2020, it was widely framed as a new and unprecedented condition. For many patients, however, it was anything but new. In Germany, patient advocates, ME/CFS activists, and leading researchers quickly recognized familiar patterns that had existed for decades.

  • The Five Percent

    Jan 25, 2026 • 3 min read

    There is a number that comes up again and again in conversations about ME/CFS. Five percent. The estimated chance of fully recovering from the illness. At first glance, it sounds like hope. Like a small light at the end of a very long tunnel.

  • Coming Back to Code in the Age of LLMs

    Jan 24, 2026 • 2 min read

    After almost three years of only partially following developments in flied of software engineering, returning to active development feels like stepping into a much faster paced workflow. This long pause was not intentional.

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