Francesco Schwarz

Recent articles #

1. 15 months

   • death
   • dying
   • life
   • reflection

   My first assignment as a hospice volunteer came to an end this week.

2. Evolving My Self-Hosted Activity Tracking Setup

   • apple watch
   • data aggregation
   • data visualization
   • ios shortcuts
   • runalyze
   • strava

   A deep dive into the rebuilt architecture behind my personal activity tracking pipeline: smartwatch ingestion, iOS shortcuts, Strava synchronization, aggregation pipelines, and responsive data visualizations.

3. btconf 2026: beyond the talks

   • btconf
   • ramen

   All the stuff I experienced besides the conference talks.

   

4. btconf 2026: recap day 2

   • ai
   • btconf
   • community
   • music production
   • opendaw
   • typography
   • view transitions api

   Day 2 of my favorite conference beyond tellerrand, celebrating its 15th anniversary this year in Düsseldorf.

   

5. btconf 2026: recap day 1

   • btconf
   • community
   • creativity
   • imagination
   • oscilloscope
   • solar

   Day 1 of my favorite conference beyond tellerrand, celebrating its 15th anniversary this year in Düsseldorf.

   

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Recent links #

Hyperlinks that I’ve read or bookmarked:

1. “The Odyssey” Movie Review via newyorker.com

   • christopher nolan
   • movie
   • odyssey
   • review

   Psychologizing Odysseus like this lends “The Odyssey” a readily digestible modernity—ancient Greeks, they’re just like us!—but does so at the expense of the richness of detail and the societal complexity that makes reading Homer such a vital and immediate experience.

2. Christopher Nolans Film und Literatur über Odysseus: ein komplizierter Mann via sz.de

   • homer
   • literature
   • odysseus
   • odyssey

   Im Jahr 2017 hat allerdings die amerikanische Gräzistin Emily Wilson eine Übersetzung vorgelegt, die sehr schnell sehr berühmt geworden ist, was gleich mehrere Gründe hatte. Wilson war nicht nur die Erste, die in der englischen Übertragung die Zeilenzahl des griechischen Originals exakt beibehalten und den ganzen Text außerdem streng im fünfhebigen Jambus gehalten hat. Sie war vor allem die erste weibliche Übersetzerin ins Englische überhaupt. Der Streit, der in der Folge über die Frage entbrannt ist, ob das Geschlecht des Übersetzers für das Textverständnis überhaupt eine Rolle spielt, wurde gemessen am üblichen Umgangston in der Altphilologie geradezu heftig ausgetragen.

3. AI has torched the market for junior programmers via seldo.com

   The career on-ramp for professional software engineers used to work like this: you got hired to write mediocre code, a senior engineer reviewed it, you slowly absorbed judgment through repetition and correction, and a decade later you were the senior engineer. That chain is now broken. AI now writes the mediocre code, so nobody hires the junior developer, so nobody is in the queue to become the senior who reviews things.

4. Extremsportlerin Maren Schiller im Interview via sz.de

   Ich kann wirklich jedem empfehlen, die Laufuhr mal abzulegen.

   Gutes Interview.

5. The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music via theatlantic.com

   • ai
   • copyright
   • music

   What the datasets illustrate, primarily, is the scale and variety of music easily available to AI developers. Companies often claim to use only content that is freely available online, but the datasets reveal the quantity of downloadable music that developers can access even though it is not supposed to be free.

Webrings #

A webring is a human-curated list of websites organized around a specific topic. Here are the webrings this website is a part of. You can go to neighboring websites on each ring. Some also feature a “random” link, it takes you to a random website of the webring.