Hendrik Erz, PhD

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Researcher at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS).

Political Sociologist focusing on Economic Policymaking Processes in U.S. Congress.

Websitehttps://www.hendrik-erz.de

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On my way back from the @dvpw methods section conference, and I have a new weekend read for you:

Can we still trust our software? On the fragility of our contemporary software ecosystem.

https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/can-we-still-trust-our-software

Can We Still Trust Our Software?

In the past months, the software I use daily has started to get less and less reliable. While mostly anecdotal evidence, I believe this to be a …

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It's Friday, and this means it's time for a new article! Read the second-to-last part of the big WebGL series. Next week is going to mark the completion!

Afterwards, it'll go back to sciency stuff, I promise :)

https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/webgl-series-part-7-adding-a-bloom-filter

WebGL Series, Part 7: Adding a Bloom-Filter

In the second-to-last installment of my series on WebGL, I explain how a Bloom filter works and how I added it into the processing-pipeline of the …

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Today, not much happens to our WebGL study, but we are setting up post-processing for our little indicator. Next week then follows the implementation of a bloom filter, so stay tuned!

www.hendrik-erz.de/post/webgl-series-part-6-post-processing

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It's Friday, and you know what this means: A new part of my series on WebGL! Today, I'm walking you through how to programmatically calculate color gradients using a huge amount of circle math: https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/webgl-series-part-5-computing-colors

WebGL Series, Part 5: Computing Colors

In this fifth article on WebGL, I explain how I procedurally generate colors and animate them to convey changes in the state of the iris indicator.

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After some theoretical planning and creating some triangles, today we move to actually animating them! Read on for part 4 of my series on WebGL: https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/webgl-series-part-4-animating-things

WebGL Series, Part 4: Animating Things

In this fourth article of my eight-part series on WebGL, I explain how I animated the rendering and ensure that it conveys a sense of motion.

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After two theoretical exercises to understand and set up OpenGL and WebGL, this week it's finally time to draw something!

If you always wanted to generate your own sun in a 3d rendering engine, read on!

https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/webgl-series-part-3-drawing-things

WebGL Series, Part 3: Drawing Things

In this third installment of my 8-part series on WebGL, I explain how I finally was able to draw triangles onto the screen, based on the previous two …

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This week is part 2 of my WebGL series. We're still not drawing anything, but talk instead about state management. I promise it's getting more hands-on next week!

https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/webgl-series-part-2-setup-and-the-opengl-rendering-pipeline#fn-ref-2

WebGL Series, Part 2: Setup and the OpenGL Rendering Pipeline

This is the second part of my eight-part series on WebGL. This article introduces the basic architectural design of the iris indicator and provides a …

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Over Christmas, I embarked on yet another journey into some weird niche topic. It turned out to be extremely exhausting, so I wrote down what I did. Brace for an eight-part article series on WebGL!

https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/a-rabbit-hole-called-webgl

A Rabbit Hole Called WebGL

Over Christmas, I made another little side project. But this time around, it turned out to be a rabbit hole of galactic extend. So read this article …

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Academic Christmas: Last-minute paper submissions.

It's 11:34pm on December 23, and I just hit "Submit" on a paper submission. Finally, no more work, just in time for Christmas!

Happy Holidays! ;)

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Recently, I had my first encounter with a “vibe coded” PR. Vibe coding is performative production for the sake of production, detached from community and social norms. I argue why vibe coding is harmful from a social perspective.

https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/vibe-coding-the-final-form-of-hyper-individualism

Vibe Coding: The Final Form of Hyper-Individualism

A few days ago, I had to deal with the first "vibe coded" PR to my software. In this article, I reflect on this encounter, and analyze the social …

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