Emilian Bold's blog

There are people that easily sell and swap computers.

Sven Nordqvist's Pettson and Findus series is beloved for its cozy portrayal of rural Swedish life.

Or: When applying for a job becomes a technical interview you didn't sign up for TL;DR: Microsoft's job portal had a bug that prevented me from submitting my application.

Days ago someone reached out on LinkedIn claiming to represent Koinos Finance's hiring team.

For years, the developer community has been locked in a quiet arms race over who has the most powerful laptop.

I'm excited to share dxform, a side project I've been working on while searching for my next role: a Dockerfile transpiler that can transform containers between different base systems and generate FreeBSD jail configurations.

I've started working on a personal project to integrate Claude Code directly into the NetBeans IDE.

Working with multi-gigabyte LLM and diffusion model files presents a practical challenge: local storage is fast but limited, while network storage is capacious but slow.

I saw The Trouble with Harry (1955) a while back and it didn't have a big impression on me.

The JChoice Global Ecosystem Report 2020 is looking good: Apache NetBeans at 50% of the free Java tools, Eclipse at 45% and vi / Emacs and Notepad++ at 5%.

Discrimination based on social skills and social groups exists and geeks experience it a lot.

There was a lot of buzz a while back about Open Source sustainability.

It seems not a day goes by without another open source supply chain attack.

On June 15th 2017 the EU launched "Roam Like at Home", a set of rules that removed roaming charges.

Source.

Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is a gift to the world.

There's been some uproar about the MongoDB Server Side Public License which tries to prevent cloud vendors like Amazon take all the money in the MongoDB market.

As Apache NetBeans became a top level Apache project and finished the incubation process I was asked for an interview and my photo.

What shocked me most during my involvement with NetBeans, now an Apache Software Foundation project, is that The Apache Software Foundation is a record label not a rock band.

I'm exploring NetBeans Web Toolkit with the articles here NetBeans Web Toolkit is the new name I'm trying to give to Jaroslav Tulach's HTML/Java API, a rather impressive library that deserves more use.

Haskell functions have this nice concept called 'guards' which allow you to define a condition and return a value when that condition is true.

As part of the Apache NetBeans IP clearance we are combing through all the code and dependencies.

I had an interesting Haskell problem the other week: work on columns and rows of a Data.Array i e.

These past months I have done a NetBeans patch for the Apple Retina Display and also made a small Wiki-like site to help me and anyone else interested with finding matching font icons for the NetBeans icons: https://nextbeans.com/retina The nextbeans.com…

Samsung announced a while back that they used a "Neural Net based predictor" for their CPU branch prediction.