Recently I came across a video on Youtube titled “The end of the good guy tech company” (via lazybear.io). In it, the author argues that by now tech companies have screwed over their customers so often and so consistently that people simply stopped trusting them altogether, even if these companies start out genuinely having the interests of their customers...

May was a slow reading month for me again, nevertheless I read three books (two and a half, really), so let’s have a look at them. Astrid Lindgren: Ronja Räubertochter (Ronja the Robber’s Daughter) Every once in a while I’m in the mood to read a children’s book, either one that I’ve read back when I was a kid, or one that is a classic but somehow...

AI is all the rage now, but like most people in my tiny little tech-bubble on the internet, I’m fairly critical of it. And the recent onslaught of news doesn’t really help to change this, there’s everything from hilariously terrible products, totally not using Scarlett Johanssons voice to telling you to put glue on your pizza. At least they’re doing...

I recently got an old Compaq Evo 410c Laptop from 2001, which is actually a very nice laptop for the time, but it is suffering from the same problem all old laptops are suffering from: its battery died a long time ago. So I started thinking about what to do about this. My first thought was to crack open the battery case and replace the cells inside....

It’s time again to take a quick look at the books I read in April 2024. Brian Moran, Michael Lennington: The 12 Week Year A book with a very clickbaity title, but actually a message that resonates a lot with me. Their general idea is to “redefine” a year as having only 12 weeks, and then only planning out this 12 week year instead of the whole calendar...

I think we’re fast approaching a world where it doesn’t matter in what language you post your content (blog posts, Youtube videos etc.) in, because everything can just be translated on the fly into every other (major) language in reasonable quality. I started this website last year, and I initially started posting only in English, because my first...