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Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots What I like most about teaching "Open Source Strategies" at École Polytechnique de Louvain is how much I learn from my students, especially during the exam. I dislike exams. I still have...
Ne bih nikad bio middle menadžer osim kada sam "raja" (čitaj: imam zajedničku viziju kako voditi firmu) sa vlasnicima (u startup okruženjima) ili generalnim direktorom (u korporacijama).
January 2025. Liverpool. Ten minutes after leaving the Red Cat I was standing next to Sir Ken. Nothing brings happiness (geddit ?) like being in a great pub city with a £24.99 Travelodge booked and a Chinese takeaway recommendation from...
…The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated aluminite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply...
In this ~15-minute video I demonstrate a package of mine called tmr (pronounced as an acronym or as “timer”). It uses a simple notation to set the duration of a timer at the minibuffer prompt. Once the timer elapses, Emacs shows a...
Percaya deh, sekali kamu udah terbiasa dengan Vim keybinding, rasanya apapun ingin dipetakan kepada Vim keybinding, termasuk navigasi di browser. Pertanyaannya, emangnya bisa???Jawabannya? Oh, tentu saja bisa.Kenalin Vimium. Plugin sakti...
Die Mediatheken der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen führen regelmäßig richtig starke Film- und Serientitel in ihren Sammlungen. Alle, die ich selber auch wirklich schaue und als empfehlenswert erachte, sollen in dieser Notiz einen Platz bekommen....
Some people hate “would you make your mind up?” February, some people can’t stand “hurry up Christmas is coming” November, but i despise this sorry excuse of a month that is January. I particularly loathe the third week of January – the...
Eu não esperava que em pleno Janeiro de 2026 eu iria entrar em um novo fandom. Pra quem nota as diferenças no post de entrada do blog, deve ter notado que eu tenho escutado bastante QWER recentemente. Eu pra ser bem sincero, não ouvi...
I just started doing this recently, and I’m kicking myself for not starting earlier! It’s easy, at least on my cars. Search YouTube and you’ll probably find a video of someone showing you how to do it with your specific vehicle. I just...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. I love working with data, for fun and at work — and sometimes they overlap. Whenever things get hectic at the day job and I need to clear my head, I’ll often prioritize a data project and spend a...
New links… The Sorites Paradox isn’t just about concepts, the Problem of the Many isn’t just about objects — and there is an underlying commonality to these two classic puzzles of vagueness, argue Isa Kooiman & Robert van Rooij What...
You might have noticed that I did a big design refresh on my entire site… unless you’re on RSS I guess. I’ll talk about aspects in detail, but at a high level there’s been three big changes: A monospace font Named CSS grid lines Juicier...
You might know about my fascination with ancient Rome. I mentioned it in a few posts (here and here) about my visit to Rome in May last year. I love to read about it in books or to see it materialized in movies or in TV series. This TV...
Learn how to disable the annoying pager for apt search results on Debian-based systems, and find the best permanent solution.
I follow a lot of traditional artists and photographers online, and I have to say: when I see them, in between posts of their actual human-made illustrations and photographs, starting to post images they've created using AI--even when...
Unlike some, I’ve been building, hosting and maintaining small personal apps for years. Games, productivity tools, little calculators for specific things. I’m an experienced software developer with years in the industry and good...
Inspired by the weekly and monthly recap posts by other bloggers, I decided to start writing such form of blog posts myself as a way to share what I have been up to, and interesting things I have discovered. Quarterly School Gathering...
Mrs. Columbo—she who is my tiny wife1—is the funniest, smartest, quickest person I’ve ever met; she says wonderful, hilarious, ridiculous, adorable things on a daily basis, and as part of a secret resolution I spent 2025 recording them...
Over the last few weeks and months I read a few books about the history of the early internet, so I thought why not talk about them here a bit. I haven't written a book review in ages, so maybe it's time to start doing that again. This...
I have been getting a lot of newsletter responses, DMs, and emails in general saying that people have discovered my work not via traditional SEO, but via LLMs and AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and even GitHub Copilot. So, I...
I “borrowed” this from a place far, far away ... and tweaked it to make it even more applicable. Bored? Read the Bible. Stressed? Read the Bible. Rainy day? Read the Bible. Can’t sleep? Read the Bible. Had a bad day? Read the Bible....
Va a ser raro escribir este texto mientras tengo de fondo la TV con el especial informativo por el acontecimiento trágico de hoy. Mucho ánimo a todos los afectados por el accidente en Adamuz, no puedo imaginarme la tragedia que tienen...
If I’m completely honest, I’d really like to be one of those people who build little dioramas in H0 scale. I just know I’m not even remotely patient enough for that. Reply by email
Today was my good friend Erik's birthday and we were long overdue for a chat. There was much to discuss. He's got a book coming out in a few months and I'm excited to hold a copy and dig in. ⊕Currently Listening: Yo La Tengo “Autumn...
On a photo walk to test out my new Minolta SRT303, I clocked this composition out of the corner of my eye. The 53mm Rokkor lens does not connect to the in built light meter so this whole walk was metred by eye. I don't think I did too...
When I start my timer to write these entries, a small fear likes to return. I'll sit down and start writing, but then realize that I have nothing to say. I'll realize it, the timer will keep going, and then it'll stop. I'll see the...
New Art - Leaving Chiark I managed to find some time this weekend to do a little art and so finished off a piece I started back in May last year allowing me to tick off January for goal 1 of my creative goals for 2026. Next month might...
Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web. ¶ Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World – Excellent column from Om Malik, on how algorithms, among other things,...
soundtrack: 'Fractals of Ruin' by Apocryphos & Penumbral Aethyr. Heard on The Dark Zone you used to be the golden child. the prodigy, the bookworm, the bright one. resilient one. the one you didn't have to worry about. "she'll be right"...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sat 01/17/2026 - Phanpy In the past I've criticized the pokemon company for some of their seemingly odd choices for pokemon typing but you know what? I think it's brave...
Clare Armstrong writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): More than 4.7 million accounts on platforms like Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat were deactivated in the first two days of the ban that started on December 10,...
Added a new section for festivals and rituals, but it's still under construction. Also added a page for Kärehetär.
Hello there! 👋 Here I am with the first Weekly Thing of 2026! Yes it is a bit later in the day than planned, but better late than never, right? I had a great Christmas, wonderful time over New Year's, celebrated my Birthday, and wished...
To have a strong feeling about anything is to discover something about the poles of your own mind, some potent charge reason can’t touch that electrifies life with an energy you don’t fully understand yet can’t and often don’t want to...
Dear Ciara, Well, I’m home. After four weeks down south, soaking up the temperate blue and spending days exploring rockpools, I have returned to Tropical Queensland. It is good to be home again, to feel the sweat drip down my forehead...
Shiramine Shrine is dedicated to deities associated with sports, especially soccer and Kemari, an ancient ball game depicted on the (ema) (votive plaque) in front of the shrine. Shot on Kodak Ektar 100 film....