I haven’t posted much lately, partly due to me working too much, but also that there are so many conflicts everywhere - I’m...

I haven’t posted much lately, partly due to me working too much, but also that there are so many conflicts everywhere - I’m getting seriously tired of seeing this. I don’t know how many conflicts I’ve seen in my timelines, different “sides” claiming that their interpretation of something is the only correct one, no gray zones, only black and white (“if you’re not 100% in agreement with my opinions then you’re against me”).

I deleted my Facebook account 7-8 years ago when people started to be really weird (in my opinion), of course FB being FB didn’t help in convincing me to stay. I deleted my mostly dormant Instagram account this winter. I never bothered with Threads. I’ve mostly stopped posting to Mastodon. My Bluesky account is pretty much dead (I think I posted last year), etc.

I’m seriously considering quitting everything (would probably keep my website and some way of getting some news), but no postings at all. I haven’t decided yet but I’m seriously considering it.

To be perfectly clear:

• Yes, if you think something is wrong, you should try to fix it
• No, I don’t want everything to be the same forever

The simple reason is that I see conflicts, conflicts, conflicts, everywhere in the news, on the web, in reality. And I just see way too many conflicts for my poor little brain to handle, I need to limit the conflicts to the important ones.

It’s still a bit early to say anything definitive, but it might be that the M4 MacBook Air is the best laptop I’ve ever used....

It’s still a bit early to say anything definitive, but it might be that the M4 MacBook Air is the best laptop I’ve ever used. But so far it feels fantastic.

It’s one of those days

It’s one of those days

It might not come as a surprise to anyone, but the low-light capabilities of a 45.7 megapixel camera from 2018 is worse than from a 24.5...

It might not come as a surprise to anyone, but the low-light capabilities of a 45.7 megapixel camera from 2018 is worse than from a 24.5 megapixel camera from 2024. Who could have guessed?

Springtime

Springtime

I wonder if someone took the chance to clean their clothes

I wonder if someone took the chance to clean their clothes

Where does this end up

Where does this end up

I’m loosing all of my CS credibility, in the list of processes on my machine I read “codesign” as “co-design” not “code sign”....

I’m loosing all of my CS credibility, in the list of processes on my machine I read “codesign” as “co-design” not “code sign”. I’m getting old.

Shit happens 😝

Shit happens 😝

Time to leave work

Time to leave work

On Friday, I went to an event to take photo. I asked people if someone didn’t want to be in the photos and then “can I take a photo of...

On Friday, I went to an event to take photo. I asked people if someone didn’t want to be in the photos and then “can I take a photo of you so I remember that you don’t want to be in the photos” 😁

The irony of a company selling “from EU” but shipping from outside EU … that’s the part I want to avoid.

The irony of a company selling “from EU” but shipping from outside EU … that’s the part I want to avoid.

Where did things go wrong??? Total number of chars in email: 13653 Headers: 11666 chars, 85.4% Message: 54 chars, 0.4% Cited content: 1933...

Where did things go wrong???

• Total number of chars in email: 13653
• Headers: 11666 chars, 85.4%
• Message: 54 chars, 0.4%
• Cited content: 1933 chars, 14.2%

Notion and I have a very different interpretation of the word “wiki”

Notion and I have a very different interpretation of the word “wiki”

Photographed a PhD defense today. Quickly went home to make a print for the party, my plan was a strong portrait. But when I viewed the...

Photographed a PhD defense today. Quickly went home to make a print for the party, my plan was a strong portrait. But when I viewed the photos I ended up with a sequence of photos showing the different stages of a defense

• ohh no, I’m gonna fail and die here
• ohh no, why did they ask that question
• ok, I’m not going to die
• that was interesting/funny
• relief
• ohh god, I passed

I hope they liked the photos

Sigh, sometimes there isn’t much you can do ☹️ My task was to take some photos from a course at the university that wasn’t...

Sigh, sometimes there isn’t much you can do ☹️ My task was to take some photos from a course at the university that wasn’t boring photos of students doing presentations … well, it turned out that the only photos that could be taken was boring photos of students doing presentations ☹️

The toilet for those who have extra long arms

The toilet for those who have extra long arms

Warm up

Warm up

I love hi-tec solutions

I love hi-tec solutions

Is “forced use of Microsoft Teams” a valid reason for early retirement?

Is “forced use of Microsoft Teams” a valid reason for early retirement?

Many years ago, I wanted to become an independent software developer. It never happened … for which I’m very grateful. Reading...

Many years ago, I wanted to become an independent software developer. It never happened … for which I’m very grateful. Reading different user forums just makes me sad/angry, some users seem to have no perspective of life.

Here is a hug for all independent software developers.

Om Malik In simplest terms, Teams is a perfect encapsulation of a bureaucratic, archaic, and outdated 50-year-old company that is trying to...

Om Malik

In simplest terms, Teams is a perfect encapsulation of a bureaucratic, archaic, and outdated 50-year-old company that is trying to reinvent itself as an AI leader.

That was interesting, I cleaned out my bookshelves a bit and put the books I didn’t want in the corridor. It was mostly books on software...

That was interesting, I cleaned out my bookshelves a bit and put the books I didn’t want in the corridor. It was mostly books on software engineering, object oriented programming, databases, a surprising number of books on operating systems, realtime programming, computer architecture, C, Java, Python, HCI and UX, etc. Sent out an email and after 1h it look like this, most books on operating systems are gone.