I love email! Shocker, right? Especially in this day and age, that are dominated by social media and instant messengers. I’ve got my reasons for this and I’ve covered them to some extent in the pas...

If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. – Leslie Lamport I came across the quote above a few days ago on Twitter and it resonated extremely strongly with me. I’ve a...

That’s one article I’ve really struggled to write. For the past 2 weeks I’ve been totally consumed by the horrible war in Ukraine. For many years I believed that we’d never see another war in Europ...

Bitcoin reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said about fox hunting. He said it was the pursuit of the uneatable by the unspeakable. – Charlie Munger I’ve long been extremely skeptical of crypto1, r...

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about music and the role it played in my life over the years. I think I’ve been pretty passionate about music ever since I discovered MTV and VH1 on cable television...

Today I finished reading a book for the first time in a couple of months. As a matter of fact - I barely did any reading in the past couple of months. That rarely happens to me, as I’m the type of ...

Occasionally I need to figure out which Debian package some file comes from (e.g. because I want to remove a redundant package or find related packages). There are a couple of ways to do this in De...

These day almost everyone on Twitter seems to be playing the word game Wordle, including me. You’ve probably seen many people around you sharing images like this one: Most of the time the 5-lett...

Today I saw the news that Google are pulling on the plug on the G Suite legacy free edition (a.k.a. Google Apps for custom domains). If you don’t recall the story - originally the service was free ...

Ruby 3.1 was recently released and it features one major syntax addition - you can now omit values in hash literals and keyword arguments in certain cases.1 The release notes give the following exa...