Technical inconsistencies blog

Insightful linked post from John Gruber on why the AI pin flopped.

I recently started using docker_isbg, a container bundling isbg and imapfilter to filter out spam from a remote IMAP server.

For more than 10 years, I’ve been a happy client of Tweak (how long will that link work?).

I am building a Telegram chatbot to remind me to take out the trash.

While using a static site generator is a low-maintenance endeavor, it also means that complex requirements need to be coded if nobody has done it before.

In the quoted toot, Lyz Lenz offers the wrong solution to a wide-spread societal problem: men who have remained children.

I’ve added a page about my public appearances throughout the years.

What’s happening in China is really interesting.

Today, I read Terence Eden’s article about the abundance of Microsoft’s safelinks systems.

I often listen to Apple Music in the background and sometimes I casually listen to a song I want to add to my favorites.

Too often universities reflexively try to mollify students rather than have them grapple with ideas they find unsettling, says Edward Hall, a philosophy professor at Harvard.

Lately, I’ve been playing around with helix, a relatively new modal editor.

By contrast the illiberal left put their own power at the centre of things, because they are sure real progress is possible only after they have first seen to it that racial, sexual and other hierarchies are dismantled.

I’ve been bitten by this bug since getting a new Apple Watch.

While reading Scaling People, specifically this passage: “The conversation then turned to how the person might mitigate these patterns in future meetings, which was the conversation we needed to have so they could thrive at work.”

Very happy to share that I’ve passed the Professional Communication: Business Writing and Storytelling course by The Economist, obtaining a final grade of 87%.

Superb article by the Economist on the success of super-strict classrooms in Britain.

Amazing new release of fish adding Control - R to open the command history in the pager.

If you have 2 hours to spare, read Nietzsche and the Nazis by Stephen Hicks.

Beautiful quote from Frans de Waal’s Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

A small utility to — unobtrusively — scan your macOS disk to remove caches and other files and folder that can be clean up.

Two years ago I replaced my Airpods with the Airpods Pro.

OpenAI has just open sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition.

Caddy is an open source web server that can be used to, among others, proxy other sorts of server adding https with valid certificates.

One of the features of my favourite email client, Mailmate, is the ability to copy a unique link per message.

I recently upgraded to a new M1 Pro Macbook Pro and the computer is managed by the company.

Have you ever thought why the flight attendants bother giving safety instructions?

Algorithms can have serious consequences on the lives of people around you.

The recent Monterey update (12.2), introduced a bug that drains the battery of my laptop while sleeping.

My password-manager of choice, 1Password, doesn’t care about the consumer market anymore.

If you work with Python on macOS and are trying to let your kids play with things like turtle you will encounter errors such as >>> import turtle Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "~/.pyenv/versions/3.7.4/lib/…

Since having changed my main business title on LinkedIn away from Shoe Designer, I got my good share of recruiters contacting me whether I’d be interested in the best data scientists and engineers I’ve ever encountered.

On Wednesday July the 10th, the Dutch website NOS broke the news that people employed by or through Google, listen to thousands of conversations Dutch people are holding in the proximity of Google Home devices (that’s the reason I keep the microphone of my

I love the job ad for the new Africa writer for the the Economist.

Today HBR published an article about some causes of burnout1.

Brent Simmons doesn’t mince words when he talks about algorithms to drive engagement, honed and “abused” by companies such as Facebook and Twitter: My hypothesis: these algorithms — driven by the all-consuming need for engagement in order to sell ads — are

I forgot to link to this very good article from David.

A couple of days ago I moved the blog and the website over to Netlify.

This is another post that is totally a note for my future self.

This is totally a note for my future self.

The Mac vs PC debate is practically as old as the youngest of the two platform.

I always hoped app.net would have become a new Twitter.

Yesterday somebody called my wife.

Sometimes, instead of using NeoVim, I do like to use Visual Studio Code (with Vim keybindings).

In case you are playing around with the Windows Subsystem for Linux and jupyter, you might have notice this error: Invalid argument (bundled/zeromq/src/tcp_address.cpp:171) The issue, which arises because Bash on Windows does not currently expose any netw…

Approximately a month ago I fell for the new Dell XPS 15.

Today I was sifting through the documentation for itertools.count Return a count object whose .next() method returns consecutive values.

I consider myself an advanced Vim user.

When searching for a good restaurant, I found Bij Brons in Almere.

It seems like, right now, I only write in this blog when a get a new child or when I speak at some public event.