Firesphere's musings
Simon Erkelens
I'm a professional web developer with extensive knowledge of Silverstripe, secure web development, Laravel and Symfony, as well as security engineer. I also work with Python, and MicroPython, on a pile of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. Most of my development work is publicly available on GitHub and Codeberg.
September 2026
October 2026
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Robert Birming wrote about a /photo page. And I like that idea. Just a photo, of something. And every now and then, update it.
September 19 is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, as well as Software Freedom Day. There was, for the first time in a while, here in Wellington the Software Freedom Day (un)conference! Organized by OpsDev.
Kiwi PyCon West Island (Known to some as "PyCon AU"), was on this past weekend. And, because I wanted, and kinda had to, go, I went to Brisbane for a week and a half. Mostly enjoying holiday, and have 3 days of conference in the middle.
Powershop is in the process of updating all their clients to their new mobile/web application. With this change, the old import Powershop data from downloaded CSV, does not work anymore. That needs fixing, of course.
A "program", "community", or "collection", and then the human can download a real badge, that says that the works are made by humans! Case is making the case against them. Kai is inviting you to sign up.
Another wee while has passed, and I've been reading more and more books. Especially with my XTEInk reader, it's so easy to squeeze in a few paragraphs here and there!
I'm not happy about it, but putting in a heatpump isn't cheap, so I have to make-do with what I have. In this case, a gas heater. And a gas supply contract with Contact Energy, as they were the only one that supplied gas-only connections. I didn't want to give up Powershop for electricity.
Yes. Again. More AI. Sorry, this stuff just won't go away on its own, so clearly, we need to help it along into its grave a little.
Where one would like to see less "meta posts", another starts a month of reply collecting... Gotta love the vibe there!
Joan writes about how they encounter people that bring an "AI Note taker" to every catch-up and meeting. Recording every word, and transcribing it. (Or is it mutilate? You never know with those things!). And they feel unsafe to say they mind.
As you may know, I read quite a few books. And when I saw Max' post about the Xteink e-reader, I was intrigued. Intrigued enough to want one too.
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