Thu Apr 10
One of the things I miss the most in my software engineering job is being able to close the computer and stop doing the work. The work needs an external tool that you depend on. The manager’s job is different. You rarely need an external tool, and you can’t really turn off your brain, especially when you have a...
Started on: Mar 26th, 2025 Finished on: Apr 8th, 2025 Also published on Goodreads Memoirs are by definition biased, which means you have to always put things in perspective and exercise caution while forming judgement. However, it is seldom that you get an insider look into the dirty underbelly of Big Tech, partly...
Ich erhielt heute überraschend einen Brief von unserem Gast D. Eigentlich ein Hochzeits-Dankeschön, nur waren wir auf der Hochzeit krankheitsbedingt gar nicht. Die Dankesbriefe haben wir lieberweise trotzdem bekommen und zwei Sätze haben mich besonders berührt: Es macht mich wirklich glücklich, dass Kathi in dir...
OK, not quite, but close enough: it has a horn after all. Last night, I noticed that a Falcon 20E-5 operated by Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) was scheduled to depart next day. Based on the wind direction, I made an educated guess that the airplane will depart from RWY 28, so I made a trek...
An extremely tiny family posting site (lets a handful of people post text and images and that's it!). Written in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and SQLite. About 1K lines of source combined! Stupidly simple. The only interesting thing about it is that it's mine and it uses my RetroV JS library for virtual DOM UI rendering...
Ernest Hemingway was given a white six-toed cat by a ship’s captain and some of the cats who live on the museum grounds are descendants of that original cat, named Snow White. Key West is a small island and it is possible that many of the cats on the island are related.We were there about a year ago, I wish I would...