“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up? Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech!

there is a difference between wanting the capability to do something, and enjoying the activity itself

for a long time, i've been thinking about what the difference between good and bad explanations is - now i took some time to write down some thoughts: hellmayr.com/blog/2025-09-0…

tech that feels like a 2011 warehouse rave

sorry of course i meant, tech that feels like a 1992 gasometer rave ( cc riccardo busetti ☻ ) youtu.be/LLFSf4WnSrY?si…

gemini, you‘re great, but i don‘t need to be reminded of your existence every single time i open any kind of google page

It can be quite hard to figure out what to do with your life when you're starting out, and how to align your interests, skills with what the world needs from you - I wrote down what I wish I knew when I started out: hellmayr.com/blog/2025-09-1…

want to share some stats: a bit over a month ago, i started blogging again after many years - just putting things out into the world has consistently been the most rewarding strategy in my life. looking forward to the work I get to put into this in the coming months and years :)

if you're looking for a way to make your mark in the world, you need to take initiative. but don't be surprised if the downstream effects are very different from what you expect them to be! hellmayr.com/blog/2025-09-2…

very much lines up with my experience - the strongest application of LLMs at the moment is to unstuck otherwise proficient professionals on tricky but fairly irrelevant subproblems (irrelevant because eg SA does not intrinsically care about the math, it's merely a tool here)

two contradictory points: 1. impressed by the stylistic coherence 2. i could never watch a longform version of these

for a while, i've been thinking about this idea of the village. in the end, i think it comes down to this: if you want a village, you have to be the village hellmayr.com/blog/2025-10-0…

janet jackson and merge conflicts

what is mundane to you, may be special and unique to others

as john adams said: i must study c and rust so that my children may have the liberty to study python and typescript