What started with a YouTube video about a transformer quickly turned into a backup audit, a near-disaster involving rm -rf, recovering missing inverter data, fixing a broken NAS backup, and unexpectedly finding voltage logs from the 2022 150kV grid incident.
Month: May 2026
Congratulations, your motherboard is now modern art
Liquid metal as cooling solution, an accident waiting to happen. I do understand why manufacturers use liquid metal instead of MX-6 or another traditional thermal paste as a cooling solution. The thermal performance is amazing. Usually a machine runs a few degrees cooler compared to its non-liquid-metal counterpart. That means longer boost clocks, less fan…
Cafeine: Relapse
A while back I wrote that I had quit caffeine. Yeah. Ehmm. I fell off the proverbial wagon 😛 I’m drinking caffeine again. Some subtle changes though. I’m limiting myself to two mugs of coffee in the morning, before 11:00 AM. After that: zero caffeine. Brain, caffeinated, out.
Dear VodafoneZiggo: NO really means NO!
TLDR! Yes, I am absolutely burning VodafoneZiggo to the ground in this rant of an article. Yes, this is an extremely long rant. And yes, if you ever suffered through HorizonBox PTSD, unstable coax internet, telemarketing, packet loss, bridge-mode roulette, or support engineers replacing random objects in your house while praying to the DOCSIS gods……
My factory prefers balance
I was planning on writing another rant, this time aimed at “haute couture.” But while tinkering with the idea, the post slowly started shifting into something else entirely: an internal reflection about how my own factory, and my CEO Bob, seem to respond to everything “haute.” Analogy I think I finally found the perfect analogy…
Chocolate and liver do not share the same zipcode
Reader warning: Before reading this post, I highly recommend reading Kernel Panic #3 first for some additional context. After years of undocumented internal food protocols and culinary short circuits, I have come to one unavoidable conclusion: My Brain Factory was absolutely not designed for haute cuisine or Michelin-starred restaurants. Still, that doesn’t prevent me from…
Kernel Panic #3, Food Mayhem
It has been a while since my last Kernel Panic! post. This one dates back to my very young self. I must have been around five years old at most, as I don’t remember my younger brother being in the picture yet. The background of this kernel panic is set at the house of my…
Punching through the cigar myth
I recently talked to a co-worker who liked smoking a cigar every once in a while, especially during poker nights or after major events, almost as some sort of reward. And somehow the YouTube algorithm dragged me towards videos of people handcrafting cigars. Yay! lucky me 😛 Besides the fact that I find the whole…
AI Feels Like 1995 Again
I can’t remember exactly when we got our first computer anymore. I must have been around 10 or 11 years old. What I do remember is that it was an MSX 1. Oh boy, did I spend a lot of time on that machine. Typing in program listings from magazines. Using PEEK and POKE commands…
Sudo shutdown -h now
This weird title? Well… apparently my body decided to test that theory yesterday. In 30+ years of school and work, I had never once fallen asleep: not at school not at university and definitely not at work Not even a micro-nap. That is…. Until yesterday. Apparently ferritin at an all time low + a bad…