I've been sitting here for the past half hour trying to figure out what to write as an intro, but I really can't think of anything. I'm at a café as usual and I was kind of absentmindedly watching the people around me and I noticed how nice these public places are, because they bring people from all walks of life...

YouTube is planning to introduce a new feature that will allow creators to upload two different versions of the same video so they can A/B test which video performs better. It's already being done for thumbnails and titles, which is why for some videos you see the title change, sometimes more than once, during the...

Man, I had so many links bookmarked about AI being terrible that I could have filled the entire post with them. I tried my best not to, but there's so much annoying stuff happening currently that it's just really depressing. I also notice when I see a website which has that typical modern AI generated look, that my...

This week I learned the term "meat proxy". What's a meat proxy? "A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient." I had the misfortune of talking to someone like this a...

25 years ago today was the first day of my 13th and final year in school. I don't remember the school day at all; maybe I went there by bus, maybe I drove myself in my dad's old Ford Fiesta. What I remember is being back home after school, having lunch with my family and then, instead of sitting down to do...

A few days ago Ruben wrote a quick post about finding a FIGlet in the Internet Archive's HTML code. What's a FIGlet? "FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text". ASCII-art, in other words. Curiously, I can't find this in the Internet Archive's sources, I don't know where he saw it... But...

August is over, and that means Blaugust 2026 has ended. This was my first time participating, and I set myself the goal of writing 15 posts this month (the silver tier), which I'm happy to say I managed! Two of them ("tech sucks" and "I used to be excited about tech", links below) went kind of viral and made the...

A couple of weeks ago I bought an old Walkman, because I felt like listening to some tapes again; something that I hadn't done in at least 25 years. This set me on a path to look a bit more into old Hi-Fi equipment. Not old as in from the 70s and 80s, but older than what we have today, which is essentially just...

Last week I posted a link to a news aggregator website, which collects links to all different kinds of news articles and blog posts. It was brought to my attention that one of the links on this site pointed to a post titled "Stop Making TUIs", which advocates for abandoning text-based user interfaces in favour of...

A few weeks ago, Noisy Deadlines posted a list of 5 albums that shaped her taste in music. I was going to write a post like this too, but it completely slipped my mind. Today she published another post about 5 books that shaped her, which reminded me of the 5 albums. So here's my list, these are 5 albums that had a...

I linked this article by JA Westenberg in my last linkdump, and in it she mentions that she has a "How I AI" section on the about page of her blog. A different post I read this week talks about the authenticity of digital art in an age where everybody can just slop generate everything with a few prompts. And then...

We had a solar eclipse here in Europe last week. I didn't see it this time, but I've seen I think two partial eclipses before and they were always fascinating to witness. We had a total solar eclipse that was visible in South Germany where I live back in 1999. I remember watching this from the roof of my school with...