How I (Claude Code) remade this site
Writing techczech.net · 19 April 2026 · Blog post
The piece reports how Claude Code rebuilt a dormant WordPress blog as an Astro static site while preserving content, URLs, comments, and operational records.
Technology, media and the web
How digital technology, the web and media have changed how we live and work, and what the hype got wrong.
2026 1
2020 6
Predictions for the next decade: Hopes, dreams and reality checks: Part 6 of Tech That Reshaped…
Writing Medium · 14 January 2020 · Blog post
The piece evaluates predictions about the 2020s by comparing technological hopes with social constraints and previous experience.
Hardware Trends of the 2010s: Part 2 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade
Writing Medium · 9 January 2020 · Blog post
The piece surveys hardware changes in the 2010s and explains how they altered everyday activities and expectations.
Media and content consumption trends of the 2010s: Part 4 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the…
Writing Medium · 9 January 2020 · Blog post
The piece surveys changes in media and content consumption during the 2010s and relates them to changing forms of everyday life.
Software Trends of the 2010s: Part 3 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade
Writing Medium · 9 January 2020 · Blog post
The piece surveys software trends of the 2010s and describes how they changed the ways people perform ordinary tasks.
Technology trends that reshaped our lives in the 2010s: 10 years in 10,000 words
Writing Medium · 9 January 2020 · Blog post
The piece introduces a six-part account of 2010s technology trends by focusing on changes in people's lives rather than on technology alone.
The hype bubbles of the 2010s: Part 5 of Tech That Reshaped our Lives in the Last Decade
Writing Medium · 9 January 2020 · Blog post
The piece examines technology hype bubbles of the 2010s and distinguishes promised transformation from changes that actually occurred.
2014 1
Dvě tety, Airbnb a svět: Jak cestovat po světě jako domorodci
Writing FitStyl/Puls · c. 2014 · Journalism
The piece uses a family trip to explain how Airbnb works and what travellers should consider when choosing a private rental.
2013 3
Choosing an online and social presence for your interest group, project, event or organization
Writing techczech.net · 5 December 2013 · Blog post
The piece explains how groups and projects can combine websites, social networks, video platforms, and mailing lists to maintain an online presence.
Do we need a gaming literacy: Literacy metaphor hack
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 3 April 2013 · Blog post
The piece tests gaming literacy against reading literacy and argues that gaming may become necessary for cultural participation.
Čtenářky a čtečky: Knihy a bity
Writing FitStyl/Puls · c. 2013 · Journalism
The piece explains the benefits and limitations of electronic books and compares the main ways readers can access them.
2012 4
The Drupal/Wordpress choice: A guide for individuals, small organizations and the Internet
Writing techczech.net · 28 July 2012 · Blog post
The piece compares Drupal and WordPress and recommends each platform for different organisational needs, technical capacities, and maintenance budgets.
Character Assasination through Metaphoric Pomposity: When one metaphor is not enough
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 22 July 2012 · Blog post
The piece shows how an architectural comparison between Google and Facebook becomes misleading when its mappings and alternatives are examined.
Word 2013 Preview Accessibility and Usability Review - First Impressions [Update 2 on uninstall]
Writing techczech.net · 21 July 2012 · Blog post
The piece reviews Word 2013 Preview's accessibility, reading, editing, navigation, PDF, and installation behaviour against Word 2010.
Top 6 Drupal usability problems
Writing techczech.net · 28 January 2012 · Blog post
The piece identifies six recurring Drupal usability problems and argues for an extended core that can improve the product independently of the platform.
2011 3
There's more to memory than the brain: Psychologists run clever experiments, make trivial claims, take gullible internet by storm
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 17 July 2011 · Blog post
The piece argues that research on internet-assisted recall concerns familiar transactive memory strategies rather than changes to the brain.
The natural logistics of life: The Internet really changes almost nothing
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 7 May 2011 · Blog post
The piece argues that the internet accelerates communication but leaves most human institutions and activities constrained by human time and attention.
links for 2011-04-23
Writing techczech.net · 24 April 2011 · Blog post
The digest links to a URL shortener that presents linked pages in a more readable format.
2010 10
links for 2010-08-04
Writing techczech.net · 5 August 2010 · Blog post
The digest links to a bookmarklet search engine and a school platform for publishing audio, video, and podcasts.
links for 2010-07-25
Writing techczech.net · 26 July 2010 · Blog post
The digest links to a collection of user-interface design patterns.
URL Storytelling in the Age of the Semantic Web
Writing Researchity · 18 July 2010 · Blog post
This note presents a slide deck as an example of a URL that serves both machine-readable and human-readable purposes.
No Longer Mad with Desire: Exactly the anDroid I was looking for
Writing techczech.net · 13 July 2010 · Blog post
The piece reviews the HTC Desire after one day of use and records methods for migrating messages and contacts from a Nokia phone.
Friend or FOAF: The Building Blocks of Content and Identity Federation
Writing Researchity · 12 July 2010 · Blog post
This explainer surveys the protocols, services, institutions, and implementations that support federated scholarly content and identity.
Toward a Federated Academic Identity
Writing Researchity · 8 July 2010 · Blog post
This piece proposes a federated academic identity that joins sign-on, profiles, scholarly outputs, social connections, privacy controls, and professional review across services.
Spicy nodes of TechCzech on the Net
Writing techczech.net · 7 July 2010 · Blog post
The piece embeds an interactive SpicyNodes visualisation of the TechCzech site.
Presentation on the internet from 1999
Writing techczech.net · 2 February 2010 · Blog post
The piece embeds a 1999 presentation about the internet.
Na mezích virtuality
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2010 · Journalism
The piece argues that digital technologies extend ordinary human life and that debates should focus on access, preservation, privacy, and power rather than treating virtuality as a separate reality.
O čem si povídají hackeři
Writing A2 · c. 2010 · Journalism
The piece describes hacker conferences as communities organised around technical curiosity, digital freedom, security, and contested ethics.
2009 3
Starting the inhouse eGuides training process with a crash course in technobabble
Writing techczech.net · 10 December 2009 · Blog post
The piece recommends a slideshow that introduces key Web 2.0 terminology for an in-house training programme.
The knowledge delusion: What changes and what stays the same
Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 21 March 2009 · Essay
The piece compares competing accounts of how networked interaction changes the production and circulation of knowledge.
Twitter backlash exposes shallowness of modern psychology
Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 23 February 2009 · Essay
The piece criticises psychological commentary about Twitter as a shallow application of popular theories about personality and behaviour.
2008 2
Getting new technologies used
Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 29 March 2008 · Essay
The piece argues that technology adoption depends on user motivation as well as on software usability.
How critical should we be of Web2.0?
Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 12 March 2008 · Essay
The piece asks how educational discussion of Web 2.0 can balance enthusiasm for new tools with critical evaluation of their effects.
2007 4
Businesses replace email with RSS feeds for productivity! Common academia!
Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 1 November 2007 · Essay
The piece advocates RSS feeds as a way for businesses and academics to receive updates without relying on email.
Lol cats and conventionalization of semiotic systems
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 September 2007 · Blog post
The piece uses LOLcats to show how multimodal constructions conventionalise through both emergent patterns and deliberate human codification.
Networks of trust and the newspaper business
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that newspapers may persist as validators within social networks of trust even after printed news disappears.
Cognitive foundations of civilizations
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 January 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that electronic books will renegotiate civilisation's imagery of books without revolutionising information consumption.
2006 11
New societies and old societies
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 December 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that online collectives reorganise social connections without removing hierarchy, marginality, or human limits on maintaining relationships.
Image schemas blends and new technologies
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2006 · Blog post
The piece uses changing camera posture to show how new technologies alter visual expectations and habitual behaviour.
Wikipedia - the Original Encyclopedia
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 31 October 2006 · Blog post
The piece compares Wikipedia with the Encyclopédie as collaborative, contested, commercially divergent projects for organising and spreading knowledge.
YouTube of the 1890s
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006 · Blog post
The piece uses the Electrophone to argue that technological ideas can disappear for decades before infrastructure makes them viable.
Semantic prosody of web design
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece compares the halo effect of first impressions in web design with semantic prosody and other forms of rapidly formed prejudice.
Public interest, public interestedness and the self-organization of need
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece distinguishes public interest from public attention and describes news selection as a market-based form of collective censorship.
Social hypostasis of linguistic items
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece treats online pronunciation surveys as evidence that social internet participation can collect useful language data.
City as metaphor for visual aspects online design
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece uses an urban-planning metaphor to explain how coding methods constrain and enable visual web design.
Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece examines Pandora's genome metaphor and compares expert music classification with automated and collective recommendation systems.
Are printed books dead? God I hope so!
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that mature electronic-paper devices will eventually replace paper for most reading without radically changing literacy or information sharing.
Kopáči smrti: Nová virtuální společenství a staré skutečnosti
Writing Literární noviny · c. 2006 · Journalism
The piece uses Digg and online responses to death to examine how virtual communities reproduce status, conflict, and collective ritual.
2005 6
There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility' | The Register
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 December 2005 · Blog post
The post defends Wikipedia as a broadly reliable and correctable reference source while arguing that all encyclopaedias require source criticism.
Online scholarship
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 December 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that rigorous narrative scholarship can appear online and address popular culture without institutional approval of the subject.
Digitizing literature and styles of reading
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 December 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that digitised excerpts do not destroy literacy because readers use both fragmentary and immersive modes to understand texts.
Speed of technological progress and social effects
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 28 November 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that rapid increases in computing power do not predict social change because technical capabilities interact unevenly with cognitive and social constraints.
Possible cognitive and affective implications of the new media paradigm shift
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Blog post
The post weighs the access and flexibility provided by digital media against losses in accidental discovery and exposure to varied content.
Oral vs. written tradition and new technologies
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that new media alter the relative dominance and delivery of oral and written storytelling without simply replacing older forms.
2001 1
Internet a vzdělávání: Více než možnost
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2001 · Journalism
The piece shows schools how to use the internet as an information source, a meeting place, and a medium for teaching rather than as a symbolic acquisition.
1999 1
Czech and the Computer
Writing The Prague Post · c. 1999 · Journalism
The piece explains how to configure older computers for Czech fonts, keyboard input, spelling tools, and web pages.
1998 1
Jak na dovolenou bez cestovní kanceláře (ale s Internetem)
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 1998 · Journalism
The piece explains how to research, arrange, and pay for an independent holiday using internet services.
Undated 8
Digitální iluze redux: Iluze pokroku
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The column argues that the internet changes specific practices without removing the social institutions, trust, and human limits that shape communication.
Digitální iluze: Přelud rychlosti
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The column argues that faster computers do not automatically solve hard cognitive problems or transform society as technological forecasts claim.
Hackeři života
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece presents hacking as a collaborative ethic of technical curiosity, freedom, and creative problem-solving rather than an inherently criminal activity.
Jak USB klíčenky mohou zachránit svět
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece uses the replacement of floppy disks by USB drives to argue that durable solutions can change an entire system rather than improve its existing components.
Kam se poděla literatura?
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece argues that television series now perform many cultural functions once monopolised by novels and presents Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a canonical narrative work.
Krok stranou
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The review presents Katharyn Rosser's The Sidestep Chronicle as an accomplished online fan-fiction novel that exceeds the conventions of its genre.
Lesk a bída online davů: Od Twitteru po Creative Commons
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece reviews accounts of online crowds to examine how digital communities organise, create shared value, require governance, and support new economic models.
Literatura jako forma vyprávění: *Fanfiction* a narativní komunity
Writing Literární noviny · Journalism
The piece explains fanfiction as a form of participatory storytelling sustained by online narrative communities.
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