Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall
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Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall
@engelschall.bsky.social
52-year old computer scientist, executive manager, software engineer and software artist from Munich, Germany. CTO of msg Group, msg systems ag.
Check out one of my recent Open Source development efforts: Traits-TS, a TypeScript library providing a trait (aka mixin) facility for extending classes with multiple base functionalities, although TypeScript/JavaScript technically do not allow multiple inheritance. traits-ts.org
traits-ts.org
traits-ts.org
June 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
One of the most difficult virtues in IT is adequacy. For this one must understand the problem well enough and reflect on reason for the solution. Most people find both very difficult. — me
June 1, 2024 at 11:22 AM
On YouTube youtu.be/aSCpr17MPQU you can now find an interview (sorry, in German language only) with me, due to my new role as CTO of the msg Group. This interview is intended to allow people to better get to know and assess me personally.
April 17, 2024 at 8:24 AM
My current favourite locally running Generative AI building blocks: Mistral 7B LLM, executed on the awesome Ollama runtime and accessed through its new OpenAI API. The only essential thing now still missing is direct (non-WSL) Windows support in Ollama... ollama.com
February 11, 2024 at 3:08 PM
I get tired on the AI hype. Hopefully we soon get into a time where people really start to understand that Large Language Models (LLM) of this GenAI era are just clever token auto-completers and do NOT understand anything, even if their answers are always looking convincing.
February 11, 2024 at 12:05 PM
After 39 years of programming experience, I can only agree: "The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the OTHER 90 percent of the development time." — Tom Cargill, Bell Labs
February 11, 2024 at 10:47 AM
I would like security experts to understand that in practice the equation is “security = 1 / experience” and hence if you always just seek for ultimate security, nobody wants to — or even can — use it. So, security is not a boolean 0-OR-1 decision, it’s a gradual 0-TO-1 decision.
February 11, 2024 at 10:43 AM