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The mandatory blog post about AI
It’s come to my attention that despite AI being the number one hottest thing in tech in the last couple of years, with everyone and their dog hyping it up to the moon and back, I haven’t actually written anything about it. With AI being everywhere these days (for better or worse), that simply will not do, so let’s quickly remedy that. read full post
Old School Code
While digging around some old hard drives the other day, I stumbled across an ancient software artifact. It’s a small program for the TI-83 graphing calculator that I wrote over 20 years ago when I was in highschool. Some real old school code, if you will. Let’s see what it does. read full post
How not to make money from open-source software
Building and maintaining FOSS software can be a thankless endeavour. Hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people could be using your software on a daily basis, including for commercial purposes, but without giving you anything in return except for complaints when something breaks. read full post
The Bluesky experience
I go to create an account on Bluesky, as desperate tech journalists have been hammering my newsfeed every day for weeks about how it’s the next coming of Christ or something, and I want to see if they’re right. read full post
It is literally impossible to make plans using WhatsApp
Here’s a bold statement: it is literally impossible for two people to make plans with complete certainty using WhatsApp (or any messaging service for that matter). And yet, people successfully use WhatsApp for this purpose every day. How is that possible? read full post
Donut
"[...] the only food which stands between them and Death is the donut... they must understand that their donut is their life..." — Major General William H. Rupertus, USMC read full post
The Galaxy Tab S5e is (still) the best way to read manga
There’s pretty much two ways to read manga: you can buy physical volumes, or you can buy digital editions to read on a phone, tablet, or laptop/PC. Whether you go physical or digital is a personal preference. I’m mostly indifferent when it comes to books, but for manga I prefer to read digitally, and in my opinion there is (still) no better way to do so today than on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e, released in 2019. Let me explain. read full post