Who of us does not know that. At the end of the money there is plenty of the month left, and is usually used by the Gasworks and the goldfish breeders' club to collect their annual fee (including the price increase) from your account. I also had a time when I had to do a lot of financial juggling to live from month...

One of the problems of all text editors is that they actually have to reconcile two different functions, capturing text, and editing of text. That we are seldom aware of how different these two tasks are is also part of the problem. Our mind tends to switch seamlessly between these two tasks. We write a sentence,...

Twice a week I compile a shopping list, mostly for our local supermarket, but also for some smaller stores. Getting the finished list the easiest way to my phone was a thing that I wanted to automate for a long time. The normal way to communicate between my mobile phone and the computer is via...

When I have been to the 35c3 in Leipzig I saw a pretty firefox addon that became very handy when we wanted to share the URL to a freshly created pad. It was [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxqrl/?src][FxQRL]] a Firefox add-on that turns your URLs into QR code images without the need of a network...

If you have read my earlier articles about my search for the perfect keyboard, you may have got an idea of what I was looking for. Namely a mechanical keyboard with a decent keyboard layout, optimized for my use case. I mostly do my writing with [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs]], and a lot of it is...

At the end of February, the sun shone beautifully through the window, and Cuban [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_cubano][Son]] music played through the headphones. In such an atmosphere, even a programmer can feel sociable in front of their code. So, on 27 February, a group of people met at the...