Firesphere's musings
Firesphere's musings
Simon Erkelens
I'm a professional web developer with extensive knowledge of Silverstripe, secure web development, Laravel and Symfony, as well as security engineer. I also work with Python, and MicroPython, on a pile of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. Most of my development work is publicly available on GitHub and Codeberg.
Latest Posts
Where one would like to see less "meta posts", another starts a month of reply collecting... Gotta love the vibe there!
Joan writes about how they encounter people that bring an "AI Note taker" to every catch-up and meeting. Recording every word, and transcribing it. (Or is it mutilate? You never know with those things!). And they feel unsafe to say they...
As you may know, I read quite a few books. And when I saw Max' post about the Xteink e-reader, I was intrigued. Intrigued enough to want one too.
Rishabh asked some questions about bloggers' AI usage, or not-usage.
Ooooh and Aaah at the new KDE release, KDE 6.7! With PlasmaLogin instead of SDDM...
But, I mean, if you want to buy me a coffee...
I've had my old website since... 2006 or so. And this website now since 2023. And I've been writing articles on both since. I figured, it's time to look back at some articles, especially the ones I still enjoy.
Junited is a little blog-adventure invented by Robert Birming, writers of e-logs (or... blogs), share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way.
The Holy Sea published the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first Encyclical letter. And to my surprise, he speaks of how the world, humanity, should deal with AI, in great detail, and with great care. And clearly not a simple "AI bad,...
As Jan Lukas wrote, and as Patrick wrote, and as Kev Quirk wrote, it really does look like BitWarden, the go-to password manager since LastPass screwed up, is starting to sink. After LastPass, 1Password, and now BitWarden, it really...
I see a lot of posts on e.g. Bubbles and PowRSS. And that's awesome! Every now and then, there's a certain writer I would like to see more from, but they haven't posted in a while. And then I realise that I haven't either.
You have a light switch for that. Right? Or, if you use Philips Hue/Tradfri/Etc., you might have an app for that. I have Philips Hue. Disconnected from the internet. But I still have to turn on the lights that I can't automate, such as...
Every email address in existence. And every non-existing email address, probably, gets spammed. If it was possible to die from too much digital spam, we would probably have a lot less people on Earth.
We have bought a house recently. Our fist one, yay! But a house isn't really a home, until hit has all the necessities! WiFi, coffee, games.
As I have mentioned before, I do quite some reading. And as I'm about to move house, I have packed up a lot of my books. But I wanted to highlight some that I've been reading, or am planning to read.