Hendrik Erz, PhD
@hendrik-erz
Political Sociologist, studying discursive dynamics and democratic lawmaking. Program Chair MetaCRiSP 2026 (IEEE S&P) Website: I develop @zettlr.com, a free academic writing app.
What studying U.S. Congress for six years does to your political stance.
Dark times are upon us. I just received a bunch of perfectly valid and useful PRs for Zettlr from what I could gather, but the descriptions don't follow the template, and reek of LLM-speak. I really don't want to close them prematurely, but I really also don't want to talk to an LLM.
Most companies will send you an email a few weeks in advance when they update their terms. Apple, on the other hand, does not send emails. They send HTTP error codes. (P.S.: the terms update that triggered this error goes into effect TOMORROW.)
Not gonna lie: the left hand driving in the UK messes with some hard wired connections in my brain more than I’m willing to admit.
It’s Reddit, so not at all authoritative, but allegedly the first engine operators are able to register in the radio network again. We’re grasping for straws here
One of the oddest pieces of Swedish culture that I will never understand is why even self-service coffee machines have a summer break here.
For no particular reason at all, I decided to figure out how long I'd have to apply for grants until it would be quite probable to receive at least one (assuming independent review and solid applications, that is). The result is not confidence inspiring.
Yes, in Sweden, it is customary to receive a crown of bay leafs as a graduated doctor. Anybody can be a king while shopping, but when do you get to be a Caesar?!
Yesterday, my doctoral journey was finally completed with receiving my official diploma and crown from Linköping University in the traditional ceremony.
The Barbecue my friend has started looks like a critique of society.
I can’t remember asking you whether I want any of your slop, Microsoft. Shut up. The only reason I use Outlook is because your proprietary stuff doesn’t work with normal email clients.
Dear Deutsche Bahn — are you ill? Do you need help? Why are you ten minutes EARLY?
Currently attempting to try out "agentic coding" for coding. And OpenCode is such an odd project. It's a terminal app that also has some "debug info". Now, what should it contain? Well, for example settings. What does it ACTUALLY show? Frames per second. In a terminal.
We’re currently running a study, testing whether a bunch of sociologists can fix the inherent UX problems of our office door. Currently trialing version 3.0, results pending
Every time I walk past this graffiti I wonder: did it ever go away …?
Today is the first day in almost a decade that I have the sole responsibility to teach some students new knowledge. It’s exciting, but I’m also a bit nervous, to be clear 🙏🏼👀