The best thing that happened this week It's been a really productive week with a lot of meetings (yes, those can be productive) and work done. I'm currently moving slowly on the migration of our production cluster to use Envoy Gateway. So far so good. It's almost suspicious how smooth the migration is. My iPhone...

There's roughly a billion videos on YouTube about how great a device the Steam Deck is, so I'm not going to sell you one. I'm also not going to tell you about its specs, because spec-for-spec it's already long been beaten by the likes of the ROG and the MSI Claw. What those other devices have in common though, and...

After CalAction I wanted to experiment a bit with SpriteKit and try to make a small game for iPhone. I don't usually play any games on my iPhone myself, because most are overrun with garbage like ads and loot boxes. With Burst I wanted to do things differently. The bubble shooter genre (if you can call it that) has...

Almost exactly a year ago I wrote about my new Garmin Forerunner 570 and how it compared to my previous 255. I partly bought it for some new features and metrics, but also because I was experiencing some rather annoying bugs on the 255. Chief of which was the fact that my alarm wouldn't go off most of the time. The...

Version 1.6 marks the biggest upgrade to CalAction since its release in March, adding additional ways of ingesting and managing events in your calendar. Of course, in the meantime some bugs have been squashed and some rough edges have been fixed, but this release adds some, I think, meaningful features. Photo and...

The best thing that happened this week This week we had our quarterly offsite with the entire tech team. Of course we talked a lot about AI, visited the Google offices in Amsterdam, and had a ton of fun. We've got such a good team going and the momentum never stops. 10/10! It's also been a busy week on my website as...

A couple of days ago I published Life is too short for a slow terminal. It got quite a bit of traffic, and someone sent me the kind of feedback you actually hope for. The gist of it: A stripped-down config isn't the only way to a fast shell anymore. I simply didn't know about a lot of this stuff, I just worked with...

I'm sorry, but we have to talk about AI. Especially AI use in engineering teams. It's all everyone's talking about right now. It's the hype du jour. LinkedIn thought leaders won't shut up about how not using AI will put you at a disadvantage. If you're left behind even a little bit, don't be surprised when your job...

Practically all of my work happens inside a terminal. Git, kubectl, tmux, ssh'ing into a server, open practically the entire day. Something I use that much has to be fast. Any lag in opening a new tab, typing a character or hitting tab for a completion is something I feel hundreds of times a day. It's death by a...

Practically all of my work happens inside a terminal. Git, kubectl, tmux, ssh'ing into a server, open practically the entire day. Something I use that much has to be fast. Any lag in opening a new tab, typing a character or hitting tab for a completion is something I feel hundreds of times a day. It's death by a...

I don't enjoy editing my photos, never have. The part I like about photography is being out with my camera. The part I don't like is coming home to Lightroom and having a billion options to make my photos look a different way. For years, that made me use my Sony camera less, because I knew that every photo I took...

If you have a multi-cluster EKS deployment for your development, QA and staging environments, those generally don't need to run at 3AM. No one is using any of that, except for maybe a few cronjobs to refresh data. Everything else is wasted idle compute. The math is simple. A dev cluster running 24/7 bills for 168...