Fabian's public notepad

Time really does fly.

I'm still figuring out what I enjoy putting on my website.

Can you spot the difference between bold, strong and a span with an font-weight bold?

Few things are certain in life, among them is the fact that you only get to create a finite number of things in your life.

Being a employed in some kind of role that could be classified as knowledge work implies a necessity stay on top of things.

We all have only a finite number of keystrokes left and should use them wisely.

I consciously setup my website as minimal as possible.

The amount of information which is thrust upon you is orders of magnitude larger than the capacity to absorb and make use of it.

On content-focused websites the prevalent pattern for the organizing content is the blog format: a list of articles/posts presented in reverse-chronologically order.

Every day we need to decide many things and many of those decisions are of minor importance.

I first experienced the web in the mid-nineties.

When I spot an idea for a non-trivial refactoring, I often add a TODO comment.

About twenty-five centuries ago Hippocrates of Kos famously stated that life is short, while art is long.

Every software system has its issues.

The following is an excerpt from chapter 5 of "The Mythical Man-Month" (1995 edition) by Fred Brooks.

I learned about the concept of two classes of disagreement from an anecdote in Michael Hiltzik's book Dealers of Lightning on the history of Xerox PARC.

I recently finished 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People.

Many, many years ago, I maintained a website.