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Mechanical keyboard in a wooden resin case with a wood/resin wrist rest.

On personal knowledge management systems

Are you supposed to use the tool you're being told you should be using? Are you comfortable not using that tool? Where does your discomfort come from?

Mural of David Hasselhoff in the Hasselhoff museum in the cellar of one of the hostels in Berlin.

MERGE Berlin 2024

MERGE Berlin 2024 was a very useful developer expiernce conference! Here are my 7 takeaways from it. Number 5 will surprise you!

Inside of a well lit museum showing off anthropological finds from the ancient world.

Anthropology and the mundane

How much of your day to day life is possible because everyone shares in common knowledge that's not written down? Can that be lost?

Picture of a page from a dictionary with the word “technology” being in focus.

Shorthands

Shorthands are useful to communicate lots with few words, but assumes that everyone has the same understanding of the shorthands.

Photo of a guy doing an ollie at a skate park with a crowd of people in the background.

Your authentic self at work

Something I learned later than I should have about bringing your whole self to work.

Neon sign that says "Go up and never stop" with a neon arrow pointing right under it.

Going from nothing to $200 is harder than from $200 to $5000

Going from 0 to 200 is harder than 200 to 5000 even though the differences would imply the opposite.

A very old encryption machine with typewriter keys and rotary dials built into a really wide suitcase.

“Encrypted” emails

I went to a cybersecurity conference, and turns out encrypted emails aren't encrypted at all. They aren't even emails any more!

White guy on beach looking into a camera with a microphone on a tripod explaining something for a recording.

I don’t think I can be a content creator

Hi guys to my channel! Don’t forget to like and subscribe and hit that bell icon to receive all notifications! This is not going to happen.

Two men looking at a laptop in a brightly lit modern art gallery. One of them is explaining something to the other.

Take care of your non-customers

How you treat people coming into your store who aren’t going to buy anything from you is super important to how you’re viewed. Take care of them.

Couple at a table, guy is angry at woman.

Boomer humour

I hate boomer humour. Why do folks think it’s okay to joke by bullying someone else, or telling them they’re trash? Seek help instead.

Photo of a picnic. Woman is sitting on a blanket, a water bottle rests on the ground, she's writing a signature on a phone.

Back to signing git commits with GPG

Decided to move back to GPG for commit signing from SSH. Here are the steps I took and why I took them.

Man and dog sitting on stone overlooking hills and valleys together.

Dads and the pet they didn’t want

They will take care of it anyways and do a good job, because not doing that would make them a bad person. Doesn't mean they wanted the pet.

Red mug with yellow writing on it that says go get'em! It has steaming coffee in it. Pot of plant next to it.

Side projects and The Internet

Business advice is weird, they are often conflicting. So what do you do with it? Which one do you listen to?

Photo of a meeting room in a corporate office behind glass walls. Four people are sitting at a table with laptops.

Side projects and corpo job

If you’re thinking about side projects, and you have a full time job, are you even allowed to do your side projects?

Photo of a polar bear on an ice sheet looking at the camera standing on its hind legs waving.

Say the Weird Thing

Be who you really are to help people looking for you to find you. Let out your nerd side, embrace knowing weird things!

Upside down part of a rollercoaster loop with the coaster right there and the name Turbo on top.

Watching videos at speed

I watch videos at 2.0x speed. That is all.

School cafeteria looking setting, people talking to their friends in the background, with a woman looking into the camera.

(not) making friends as an adult

Making friends as an adult is hard, especially for those who have lines in the sand.

A night photo of a sphere made up of rectangular monitors with screens and silhouettes of people in the background.

Renaissance Internet

Where do we go from the current state of the internet that’s full of AI and bots?

A green snake coiled on a tree branch.

Why is it so hard to install latest python on Linux?

I tried installing a recent version of python in a linux based docker image. It did not go as well as I wanted.

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Some of the services I use to make life easier

Short list of the services and tools I use to get stuff done in my professional life.

A bicycle on a repair stand, a mechanic is taking out the crank shaft.

I’m fixing a bicycle

What do fixing bicycles and software engineering have in common? In my experience, quite a lot.

A large tree lying across a dirt road with a broken trunk in a forest.

If a tree falls and there’s no one around to hear it, it does not make a sound

You that read wrong. You read that wrong too. How much that you sincerely believe is not actually true?

Man, annoyed, on the phone while looking at the laptop screen.

Customer support is customer retention

How is your customer support? Do you intentionally try to flip customers from annoyed to delighted? Does it happen accidentally? Not at all?

A group of people sitting around the table having a conversation in an office kitchen or recreation area.

I hate that sometimes I agree with non–remote work practices

I am pro-remote working. It gives tremendous flexibility for the workers, but occasionally I recognise the business has needs for in-person work.

Photo of a book of a theatrical play. The only text visible is “act one, scene one.”

An experiment in microSaaSes

It’s about time I start doing things for myself. I hope they pan out.