--- title: Konrad Hinsen's blog | daily.dev description: A computational scientist reflects on 30 years of experience with convivial technology in scientific research, drawing on Ivan Illich's framework. The post... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/konrad-hinsen-s-blog-jugbtx5zq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Konrad Hinsen's blog | daily.dev og:description: A computational scientist reflects on 30 years of experience with convivial technology in scientific research, drawing on Ivan Illich's framework. The post... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/konrad-hinsen-s-blog-jugbtx5zq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/juGBtx5zq.png og:image:alt: Konrad Hinsen's blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Konrad Hinsen's blog **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A computational scientist reflects on 30 years of experience with convivial technology in scientific research, drawing on Ivan Illich's framework. The post traces how early scientific software (Fortran programs, early Python) was convivial — understandable, modifiable, and community-owned — and how the scientific Python ecosystem progressively lost that quality through growing complexity, corporate influence, and the Python 2-to-3 transition. The author describes the Python 3 Wall of Shame as particularly destructive to domain-specific research software. Two personal projects are introduced as attempts to restore conviviality: Leibniz (a formal specification language resembling mathematical notation) and HyperDoc (a hypermedia publishing system integrating code, data, and papers). The post concludes by connecting conviviality to degrowth and warning that large-scale AI/ML risks establishing a radical monopoly over knowledge management. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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