Arne Bahlo

Without going too deep into it, in light of our late-stage surveillance capitalism and political escalations, I do not want to depend on tech companies for my personal data, especially those from the United States.

I’m currently reading Dare to Lead (Brown, 2018) and this made me think: When worthiness is a function of productivity, we lose the ability to pump the brakes.

“Like fingers pointing to the moon, other diverse disciplines from anthropology to education, behavioral economics to family counseling, similarly suggest that the skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improv…

Here are my favorite things, digital and physical, of 2024!

This post is not about the Japanese martial arts Jiu-jitsu, it’s about a new VCS, or version control system.

It just works. — Steve Jobs If you follow this blog, you’ll know that I’m doing a series called “Emacs Config From Scratch”1.

This is Part 3 of my series, Emacs Config From Scratch1, where I create my perfect editor using Emacs.

The first project I used Zig for was a rewrite of a custom static site generator for the Fire Chicken Webring, you can read that post here: Thoughts on Zig.

Zig is a programming language designed by Andrew Kelley.

In this post, I describe how I’m hosting my own music streaming service with NixOS, Jellyfin and Manet on Hetzner for €6 / month.

I’m addicted to my phone.

This year I’ve read over 500 articles for my newsletter, Arne’s Weekly.

This is the second post in my Emacs From Scratch series.

Instead of setting a fixed goal as my New Year’s resolution, only to then not even make it through January, I’m setting Yearly Themes.

Welcome to my new series Emacs From Scratch.

I’m turning 30 this year.

The year is 1996.

Yesterday, while looking through a folder called old things lol glhf, I fell into a rabbit hole of old abandoned projects—mostly websites and graphic design, but I also found one or two Flash1 projects and compiled .exe files2.

In episode 097 of the Hemispheric Views podcast, the hosts discuss their app defaults, which has inspired some people to share their own1.

I’ve used a lot of static site generators in the past, and they all have their own features and quirks, but most importantly, you have to architect your website to match what the framework expects.

Have you every shared a link to a friend and wondered where the image preview came from?

You probably don’t like email, not a lot of people do.

A few weeks ago, the hard drive (yes, I know) in my home lab died.

I’ve had many blogs, but this is the first post on this site, so stay tuned

The last two weeks I’ve spent quite some time on evenings and weekends to work on an iOS app.

This is the second post of my series Automate.

This is the first post of my series Automate.

I listen to a lot of podcasts every day, e.g. when doing chores or commuting.

Yesterday we added unit tests for a component that uses the Intl API to a frontend project.

A good architect maximises the number of decisions not made — Robert C.

If you’re using Vim, you know that feel (if you aren’t, you can skip this article): Everytime you open a project, you toggle NERDTREE and Tagbar (or similar).

You’re deploying your Octopress blog via Git to GitHub Pages (or Heroku), but you don’t like Heroku and GitHub Pages are refreshing too slow and you really don’t want to use Rsync, do you?