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…
Piggy #4: The Overengineered House
We all know the story. Piggy #1 built with straw. Gone. Piggy #2 built with wood. Also gone. Piggy #3 built with stone. That worked. And then there’s me. Not a piggy. Just… thinking a bit further. What if I had to build a house from the ground up? Not the usual way. But properly….
The SoapUI Hellscape: how HTTP 500 became 200
I ran into one of those bugs that makes you question reality. Everything looked fine in SoapUI. The endpoint was correct, properties were set, requests looked clean. Yet in Jenkins, the same testcases kept failing with ModelItem errors, dreaded NullPointerExceptions, and HTTP 500 responses. So I did the usual: checked connectivity → fine tested with…
Ferritin deficiency
No, this is not an academic lecture in some healthcare university semester. This is about a letter I got from Sanquin, the Dutch blood donation authority. Ferritin deficiency? It turns out my serum ferritin is too low. It is below the 30 µg/L threshold. The “normal” range sits somewhere between 30 and 250 µg/L. Mine…
4 Days, One Error, Zero Clues
[ERROR]: + CannotCommit Invalid JCA transport endpoint configuration, exception: BINDING.JCA-11043 [ERROR]: Invalid Interaction parameter. [ERROR]: Invalid Interaction parameter. [ERROR]: Interaction parameter Authentication Type has invalid value {PUBLICKEY}. [ERROR]: Please correct the value of the interaction parameter and redeploy the process. This exact error has haunted me for the last four days. “Interaction parameter Authentication Type…
The fog has lifted, oh crap and it’s back again
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the fog and the Grand Canyon. Well… the fog lifted for a spell. And now it’s back. With a vengeance. Fuck. After a good meeting with someone from work, I won’t mention names or go into details, the fog started to lift. I felt lighter. My…
The cable across the canyon
What my brain feels like when you’re autistic, and why I haven’t been writing much lately. I haven’t been writing much lately, as you’ve probably already noticed. Like I said before, my battery is nearing empty. Last night I was thinking about it, and I came up with a metaphor that describes what’s going on…
Help, low battery
For people who play, or have played, LaserQuest, this phrase will probably sound familiar. It comes from the packs themselves when the 7.2V battery pack is nearly empty. The pack reminds the player to return to the airlock to get another battery. But in my case, my battery is nearing empty. And I can tell…