Kore Nordmann

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Veteran CTO who built successful companies through empathic leadership and mastery of software delivery - from sustainable code to stakeholder trust. Now exploring the future of empathic and sustainable tech.

I acknowledge my position of white male privilege and the historical legacy of oppression it represents, and I actively commit to using this position to support underrepresented groups and advocate for equality, while maintaining healthy boundaries necessary for sustainable advocacy.

Websitehttps://kore-nordmann.de
Githubhttps://github.com/kore
Commissioned by my daughter, I finally painted something once again.
XML (1998): ancient
JSON (2001): modern

We use 32 million ha of land globally (ca. 1 Germany) to grow plants for biofuels. This equals 1.400 TWh per year, or 4% of our global energy consumption for transport.

If we'd use the same area for PV, we could produce 32.000 TWh per year, already considering the potential yield for the areas where we grow bio fuel plants.

For comparison: the entire world consumed 31.000 TWh of electricity in 2024.

I love such comparisons.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQBgNpooCEo

Flächenverschwendung: PV gegen Raps im Realitätscheck

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RE: https://sunkencastles.com/2026/03/22/who-defines-culture/

I would never call myself a German patriot (why should random borders from past wars matter after all), but otherwise this one is quite on spot about the current German government:

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

After 15 years building tech companies (Frontastic, commercetools, Qafoo), I'm now a software architect at FernUniversität in Hagen, helping build a Learning Analytics platform that supports students with data-driven insights.

Modern Data Stack (ClickHouse, dbt, FastAPI, DataHub), consent-first design, highly sensitive data, and real societal impact. And BCM@university :)

I love the diverse team, the spirit, the meaningful work, and finally having time for my family: https://lead.fernuni-hagen.de/usecases/

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I realised something recently, that just about all the advice my parents gave me about education, careers, housing and finances has been flat out wrong. All the advice they gave me about relationships, friendship, grieving and supporting someone grieving, has been really useful to me over the years. And I think that says something about what's important and unchanging about the human experience really, and how what current society tells us to focus on will become unrecognisable in a generation.

A new blog article, purposely non-technical, so you could share it with your manager.

"Why frontends fail when you approach them like a backend."

https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2026/03/16/why-frontends-fail-when-you-approach-them-like-a-backend/

#WebDev #UX #Accessibility

Why frontends fail when you approach them like a backend / Marijke Luttekes

Frontend and backend development are not the same, but we keep conflating them. An explanation of what makes them different.

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116236694189600394

Changing an established open source project’s license is a year-long effort requiring consent by all contributors, not an afternoon of prompting an LLM.

A computer cannot be held accountable, therefore the administration is making all management decisions by computer