Apparently, ‘We have a deal’ translates to ‘Let’s confuse the system’ Another story in the Kernel Panic series — once again set in my early youth. I still remember it clearly: it was late spring or early summer. I can recall the weather, the clothes I was wearing, and everything around me.
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?…
Backup stories — What was needed to get to NEVER again
Ever since I owned a computer, I’ve lost data. Those three moments got me to the point where I said: “This will never, ever happen again.” This story is about how I went from thinking that RAID is backup, to the backup setup I have today. And yes, I’ll sprinkle this story with the mistakes…
Reacher update 12th of april 2025
And now, time for the promised update! Weight: 114,3kg (-0.5kg) Chest: 110cm (no change) Waist: 112cm (-1cm) Belly: 111.5cm (-0.5cm) Body fat: No measurement this week. Not the best week. Not the best week — I didn’t walk as much as I wanted to and skipped Monday’s workout because of serious muscle soreness. But yesterday,…
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…
Kernel Panic #1 — The First I Know Of
And as I said earlier this week — it’s time to start the very first Kernel Panic post in this series. The earliest moment my brain crashed trying to make sense of a simple question. Honest answer, unexpected result — and the birth of my internal codebase. This is actually the earliest kernel panic I…
Your brain as a company
Imagine your brain is a company. It has a CEO who is constantly deciding what you do. Your company has different departments, located on different floors of your building — and some departments might even be in entirely different locations. And of course, all those departments are occupied by your co-workers: some work on-site every…
Reacher update 5th april 2025
And I just had my official appointment with my scales. Time for the update I promised a week ago. Weight: 114,8kg (-1,2kg) Chest: 110cm (-1cm) Waist: 112cm (+1cm) Belly: 112cm (-2cm) Fat: 31.1% ( -0,7% in 3 weeks ) This week’s drop looks big — 1.2 kg in seven days — but I’m pretty sure…
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…
I surprised myself — And then spent the night debugging it
An unexpected confrontation at our garden club’s assembly led to an avalanche of thoughts, introspection — and, ultimately, code-level debugging of my own behavior. Introduction I was planning to write — and publish — a blogpost every so often. Maybe 3 or 4 times a week at most. There’s just so much to write about!…