Sun Apr 26
I left the company where I had been working for the past (almost) year. There are various reasons for this, but they all boil down to two main issues. The first is related to my previous experience. Since I am still involved with my former company, I am working – together with the chairman of the board of directors,...
I have always been fascinated by photography, loved watching old slide films from my parents' youth as well as revisiting old photo albums from family trips. My active journey with photography started back in 2010 after graduating from university when I spent one of my first real paychecks on then brand new Canon...
The Higashi Ote-mon gate and moat at Nijo Castle, illuminated at night. ライトアップされた二条城の東大手門と堀。
There is, obviously and understandably, a lot of conversation online about AI and coding and agents and all that stuff. Much of it I get, much of it I agree with, I share the vast majority of the concerns. The impact on people, the impact on society, the impact on the environment, the impact on security... there's a...
After 10 years of loyal service, the motorbike jacket that I wear most often gave up the ghost recently and ripped. Being a piece of protective clothing, a rip isn't a good thing, so I've been shopping around for a replacement. But you see, motorbike jackets are complex, heavy garments that are littered with...
I keep researching to learn how to invest the 10€ I put aside every month. Everyone I asked tells me different things: real estate, funds, commodities, bitcoin, stocks, bonds, savings accounts, all are on the table. I keep thinking and reading. Yet, I still can't figure it out. The money is too tiny to turn into...
I’ve been thinking about speed which is why Chris Coyier caught my attention in his latest piece discussing how AI might be 10✕ing the speed with which we code, but it’s not making our software 10✕ better: Faster individuals don’t make a fast company My mind immediately went to the 4✕100 relay at the Olympics. (Not...
General happeningsThis week - especially the weekend - was one where I realised how rewarding getting up early can be. It felt like the days were so much longer! I went to an exhibition (about the Swiss painter Karl Walser, at Tokyo Station Gallery) and did another hike, with some work colleagues this time. I've...
To follow up from yesterday’s post, in Figma, object selection actually goes onto the undo stack. This is because in a professional tool with objects in multiple levels of hierarchy, it might take a while to construct a selection to work on – and since selection is always just one accidental click away from being...
Links I shared over on social.omgmog.net between 20 April and 26 April, mostly without comment, but worth a second look.
I’ve written about chronic illness being a second job before. I’m feeling it especially hard right now. I think of all the time spent in waiting rooms, all the time in appointments, the time spent getting to them and back home again. Getting referrals in time for the appointments. Inserting my insurance card at the...
I've been thinking a lot recently about my friends' parents. When you're in school and you go to your friend's house their parents are there. You see them all the time, they ask about you and about your family, they occasionally feed you and take you places. Some times you even spend several days together with them....
1. Optimization Some texts from Elad Hazan. Introduction to Online Convex Optimization Lecture Notes: Optimization for Machine Learning Introduction to Online Control Second order methods by James Martens et al. Deep learning via Hessian-free optimization On the importance of initialization and momentum in deep...
A lot happened this week aviation-wise. The most important news is that I've become a member of the Sindal Flight Club and its kind-of-official photographer. I spent every day this week — except Monday and Saturday — in the airport, enjoying the relatively good weather, equally good company of the club's members,...
Aprile per me lo vincono i Miserere Luminis con Sidera, Black metal atmosferico e francofono (ma dal Québec!)
If you’ve been on the Internet in the last fifteen years and change, you’ve probably heard of Soylent, whether you wanted to or not. Nutrition drinks as a category have been around forever, pitched in various forms to dieters or weightlifters or people who just frequently find themselves rushing in the morning....
An account of the bubonic plague in Italy — also called the Justinian plague — from "Historia Langobardorum" by Paul the Deacon.
Replied to It’s Noon in Israel: Schrödinger’s Ayatollah: Is Mojtaba Dead or Alive? by Amit Segal (It's Noon In Israel) The narrative has essentially frozen there. For the last month and a half, the regime has subsisted entirely on ventriloquism—statements attributed to the new Supreme Leader without a single visual...
Is it agent ready? by Cloudflare: Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents. We check multiple emerging standards — from robots.txt and Markdown negotiation to MCP, OAuth, Agent Skills and agentic commerce. How do I “perform”1? See perrotta.dev: Level 1 — Basic Web Presence Discoverability: 67/100...
How I try not to inject binge-watching virus into The Kid. Surprised that I hate even more things about the current thing? Well. I hate binge-watching. For sure, I've been there. 3 episodes in a raw? I have been there. An hour later in bed then I should? Sure. SG-1 certainly made my university a sleepier place. But...
A detail from another photograph from the shoot. Last weekend I worked with a model to produce a set of photographs based around the concept of the siren, a mythological character from Homer’s Odyssey. The subject matter had been suggested by the model when she was life-modelling for me some months earlier -...
2026-04-26Hello!Yesterday, my article on volunteering for Earth Day events was published late. There's a few reasons for that, both technical and personal, but they should be addressed now. I'm preparing for something awesome for Day 100, but my exams are coming up, so my life is yet again thrown into a chaotic...
Gigi Ibrahim, Consumerism. CC BY 2.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. In lieu of a real post this week, I’ll offer highlights from the past few days, which has involved attempting to keep up with class assignments while embarking on a work-related road trip. 1. Evidence of the fact that I’ve reached the end of my rope...
De la ultimul articol despre Pure Blog Discover au trecut câteva zile, dar am lucrat destul de mult. Încerc să rezum ce s-a schimbat față de cum arăta proiectul atunci. Descrierile blogurilor Cel mai vizibil lucru nou sunt descrierile care apar acum pe carduri. Când un blog este adăugat în director, serverul preia...
This movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism). It does what it says on the box. A solid movie about a troop of high-school students who fight the Red...
Over the decades, I've been a fairly loyal customer of my hosting providers. But sometimes something happens that requires me to move. My first real hosting provider for this website was MediaDesign. A small company from Leiden, owned by friends. At some point, they decided to sell the business. Immediately the...
April 2026. Staithes. North Yorkshire. One of the best stretches of coastline anywhere, I reckon. From Scarborough all the way round to the edge of Middlesbrough, with Whitby the big tourist draw and Staithes and Robin Hoods Bay the day trips. Not much has changed since our last Staithes stagger in 2017, they still...
Yesterday, I read Nicolas Magand's blog post, "Sidelining Safari," which I found interesting because I recently switched to Firefox from Safari. He, too, switched, opting for Helium, a Chromium-based browser. I decided to check it out and have since set it as my default browser. I have two issues with Firefox: its...
starting a weekly recap kind of thing where i'm reflecting on the posts of the week, but also other notable events - an incomplete, semi-random selection of things done, read, watched, listened, etc. not sure what the format is going to look like exactly, as i've literally just now decided to do it, and hopefully in...
Gerty surveyed the client. Military haircut and uniform. A smug smile even though he was just reviewing the waiver he was required to sign. High ranking; her superior on paper, though she had never seen him before. Obviously used to getting what he wanted---formalities and legalities small nuisances that he...
Ever since the concept of the penthouse became fashionable in the 1920s, New York City rooftops have hosted lots of creative domicile styles. There’s a pink fairybook-like cottage on the top floor of a prewar building on East 52nd Street (once home to John Lennon in the mid-1970s), for example. And what would the...
Forty years is a long time, and I am guessing that some of you were not even born all those years ago. For me, this year is my fortieth with technology. Hard to believe. One: that something captivates you for so long, and Two: that there was accessible technology all those years ago! haha I was inspired by a post by...
Una batalla tras otra ha sido la gran ganadora en la última edición de los premios Oscars. Estamos ante una película, dirigida por Paul Thomas Anderson, a la que no le falta de nada. Para empezar está inspirada en una novela, Vineland, la novela mezcla el movimiento hippie, el tráfico de drogas y la acción de...
I haven’t been able to make progress on my homelab. The setup was all local and I was mostly working on my own, so it wasn’t as fun to work on after a point. I also started overthinking parts of the setup, which is ironical since the idea of a lab is to experiment. Then I started seeing discussions around...
Ontem saiu o trailer de um jogo que eu estou muito animado pra jogar. .45 PARABELLUM BLOODHOUND é um jogo que me ganhou desde o começo. São dos mesmos criadores do VA-11 Hall-A, que eu não comento muito mas gosto demais de toda narrativa do jogo. Apesar de não ser a intenção, ou talvez seja, ele me lembra dois jogos...
I have never really flown Caldari Navy Hookbills that much. They're nice frigates with a lot of space for different kind of fits. Missiles, repairs, webifiers and tracking disruptor. Well I'm glad I have been flying one for a bit now, since it's been really good for me. 3 killmarks on this small ship already! (The...
Another calm week that went by very fast, not much to tell. I didn’t even take a single photo, that is all pretty remarkable.As I’ve written about on Thursday I started cleaning out my side-projects. Annoyingly enough it rather gave me more ideas instead of the motivation to delete (or at least consolidate) what is...
Sometime around February last year, I setup my comments system using ntfy. I think it’s actually pretty neat how it works and I’ve barely received any spam. I’ve kept it bare-bones since people rarely comment these days. Unless there’s an edgy or controversial post; there’s barely any exchange. And that’s perfectly...
In a recent conversation with my poetic physicist friend Alan Lightman, sparring over whether the creative spirit can be usefully divided into complementary arts and science (Alan’s view) or whether these are simply different side doors to our ongoing yearning to bridge matter and mystery in order to make meaning...
This blog is moving to another domain . Please update your feeds.This post is a part of my word-vomit series. Feel free to skip it.In those days when I have no fixed goal to achieve, my mind wanders a lot. As a result, I end up tinkering with my blog or doing random internet searches. I think it's not bad when there...
Everyone knows Wasm is a stack machine. Wikipedia says so, the official Wasm design specification says so, you get it. I thought so too. That is, until I started writing Wasm code – not compiling for Wasm, but writing the instructions by hand. And I found out that there exists a major difference between Wasm and all...
I abandoned graphical code editors years ago. Something that GUI IDEs like Visual Studio Code do really well is the diff preview. This is something I missed a little at the beginning, but since I started using Delta, I never missed the GUI again. I don’t remember how that happened, but over the years I also...
J’aime beaucoup cette photo de la nouvelle première ministre du Québec, Christine Fréchette, et de la nouvelle mairesse de Montréal, Soraya Martinez Ferrada. Christine Fréchette et Soraya Martinez Ferrada à l’hôtel de ville de Montréal, le 22 avril 2026. © Alain Roberge, La Presse Il s’y dégage une quasi symétrie,...
This week came and went in a blur. I hadn’t realized how much i’d missed being on the creative side of things. Don’t get me wrong — i love managing my team of designers and planning our overall strategy. But i missed being in the thick of it, thinking deep and hard about the tiniest technicality, and being...
In 199something, my parents bought their first computer. A 386 with a Turbo button! The thing was amazing, and I would play any game I could get my hands on.
20th April - 26th April There are few things more joyous than a small child's birthday party. I finally finished the mandatory training module on work's learning platform for "how to write good prompts for AI". Personally, I didn't feel the course addressed many of the inherent issues with LLMs nor the issues...
It's not only the poets who are getting older (spoiler alert: we all are). Last night, for some reason, I was looking up Michael Caine, and discovered that he is all of 93. I've always liked Caine, who seems to be that rare thing among actors, a proper mensch, a regular guy. I wondered if he'd made an appearance on...
A casual roundup of productivity tools, tips, and rabbit holes No deep dives today, just a list of worthwhile productivity related things I’ve come across lately. Some universal, most Apple flavoured. Clever (but unnecessary?) Apple Shortcut for lost iPhones Create an automation in Apple Shortcuts that fires when...