This morning I got downstairs, opened my laptop and checked out my Bluesky account. First symptom.. Bluesky loaded slowly, seemed DNS resolving was slow as well. Tried to access my DNS / PiHole instance. Unreachable…. I decided to check my new Uptime Kuma console to verify network issues. Huh, site unreachable too?! Tried to ping…
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Dear UK Cabinet: Criminals Don’t Use iCloud
But thanks for breaking privacy for the rest of us. This morning I came across a story about the UK government demanding a backdoor into iCloud — not just for UK users, but globally. The plan was dropped, not because it was a bad idea, but because the US threatened higher import tariffs. Not ethics….
A blast from the past – Outdoor gaming!
Outdoor gaming? But computers — and their owners — “hate” the outdoors. With all that moisture, dust, and glare, it sounds like a terrible idea. So why do it? Yet I did! Not once, not twice — but more than twenty times. And honestly, I don’t think it’ll ever happen again.
Coffee, Can I just have only one?!
Coffee has been one of my best friends for decades. Let’s face it: computers run on sparks, and programmers run on caffeine. At the start of my workday — usually around 7 AM — coffee is the go-to drink. But it’s not just the liquid. It’s the ritual. Walking to the coffeemaker with the team, live-debugging…
Thinking of fat, getting into the weird!
From kilocalories to kilotons, a journey through belly physics Even though human fat is one of the most studied topics in biology and medicine, I honestly believe that up to 98% of the population has no real idea what it actually is, how much energy it stores, how it was gained — or how to…
Travel is a Pain. Period.
Everyone loves vacation, right? Not me. Here’s why travel stresses me out, annoys me, makes no sense and also wrecks the planet while we’re at it.
Dead Symbols, Living Systems — Why Some Knowledge Won’t Compile
Why information sometimes is very hard to digest and save As long as I can remember, I’ve had this weird issue with learning new things. Take high school, for example. Subjects like history and geography were a breeze. Even the statistics and probability part of math came naturally to me — but algebra and calculus?…
Agilemania 2025
I started working in the IT industry in 1999 — not counting my three internships. I first encountered Agile and Scrum around 2007, and in 2008 I got officially certified. My training was under the inspiring guidance of Jens Østergaard and Bas Vodde, two early champions of the framework. Since then, I’ve seen my fair…
A blast from the past – Chaos! (57:130/0)
A blast from the past. Thirty years ago — yeah, I’m that old — I didn’t even know the internet existed yet. As far as I knew, cable internet didn’t exist either. But there was a vibrant community of people running Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes), which you could dial into to get your daily fix…
Door to door sales, the new “lying” standard
For the past few years, we’ve had a sticker next to our doorbell that politely reads: “No door-to-door salespeople, please.” It works — 99% of salespeople (yes, even the polite ones in suits) see it, turn around, and leave us in peace. But then there’s a special breed of door-to-door sellers. The kind who think…