https://constantinsblog.eu/Recent content in Welcome to my blog on Constantin's BlogHugoen-usSat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://constantinsblog.eu/about/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://constantinsblog.eu/about/<h2 id="about-me" class="relative group">About me <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100"><a class="group-hover:text-primary-300 dark:group-hover:text-neutral-700" style="text-decoration-line: none !important;" href="#about-me" aria-label="Anchor">#</a></span></h2><p>I’m Constantin Ponfick, a software engineer based in Hamburg. I’m interested in cloud development, AI-supported software development (not vibe coding) and, outside of technology, basketball.</p> <h2 id="about-this-blog" class="relative group">About this blog <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100"><a class="group-hover:text-primary-300 dark:group-hover:text-neutral-700" style="text-decoration-line: none !important;" href="#about-this-blog" aria-label="Anchor">#</a></span></h2><p>This blog is a place for me to write things down so I don’t forget them. I’ll write about programming, software architecture, personal projects, and generally anything that catches my interest.</p>https://constantinsblog.eu/posts/debugging-a-waf-in-front-of-scaleway-serverless-containers/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://constantinsblog.eu/posts/debugging-a-waf-in-front-of-scaleway-serverless-containers/How I configured and debugged host-based routing, upstream TLS, and redirects between a public WAF and an IAM-private Scaleway Serverless Container.https://constantinsblog.eu/posts/before-chatgpt-what-my-masters-thesis-taught-me-about-meaning-in-text/Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://constantinsblog.eu/posts/before-chatgpt-what-my-masters-thesis-taught-me-about-meaning-in-text/A look back at my 2021 master&rsquo;s thesis on Gaussian LDA, word embeddings, and the surprisingly difficult question of whether a topic model has understood anything.https://constantinsblog.eu/posts/adding-shapes-my-bachelor-thesis-on-minkowski-sums/Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://constantinsblog.eu/posts/adding-shapes-my-bachelor-thesis-on-minkowski-sums/A practical tour of the algorithm behind my 2019 bachelor thesis: extracting the Minkowski sum of two simple polygons from their convolution.