I have a habit of supporting the underdog. Every year I pick some non-profits to donate to financially: because even though this world is full of sellfish stupid and lazy morons, there are some good people out there. Unselfish and awesome people who do good not only for themselves but for many others too. In …
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I hate, hate planned obsolescence. Almost as much as I hate religious idealistic stupidity such as that described below. My wife spent about a month missing an application on a virtual machine that she needs for her job (Drill Draw). And I just spent an hour figuring out what the problem was. The application was …
Continue reading Certificates, againNot so long ago I wrote about how Google removed my app from Google Play, with no explanation. After that they also refused to delete my Google Play Developer account, because there might be people who still have my app even though it’s not in the store any more. And all along even though I …
Continue reading Finally, my Android phone is Google-freeI always liked the web. I see little difference between writing PHP and C. But the powers of the masses of stuck-up computer science graduates won’t let the web be as it should: an incredible ecosystem of the latest great stuff built on awesome, stable technologies. For the longest time I blamed only JavaScript – …
Continue reading I almost forgot why I hate web developmentFirst time for everything I guess. I’m still a little shocked that it happened. I just got kicked out of a store because… I had children with me. That’s right. I, a full-size male, with disposable money to spend on things that might be nicer than I really need, got kicked out of an office …
Continue reading Getting kicked out of a store kind of sucksSometimes I forget how many people open source software reaches. I was reading through my web server’s log analyser results and noticed a weird URL as a source of some traffic. Here’s a screenshot of what I found there: I don’t know whether it’s chinese or japanese or some other language, I just think this …
Continue reading Asunder in ChineseActually, not dream – I used to hope. No, not even – I used to wish (as in “wishful thinking”) that one day there would be hundreds of thousands of people using my code. Some of my code shipped with Firefox forever ago so technically there are actually millions of people using my code. ISO …
Continue reading I used to have a dreamToo many people I know have been telling me in the last few years how wonderful and beautiful markdown is. I never believed them, because I have quite a bit of experience with wiki markup, whose proponents have been saying exactly the same things about wiki markup for several years prior to markdown’s release. Just …
Continue reading Markdown is readable? Yeah, and my prose is gold.Standing in front of my new stand-up desk I’m experiencing an unexpected sense of freedom. I wanted to try a stand-up desk for years. Several people I know recommended them but the problem is: my desk is huge, it’s well organized, and I didn’t want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on something I …
Continue reading DYI cheap stand-up deskI did something terrible, something no sysadmin in their right mind should do to a server. I ran nmap. Once. And I got myself on some kind of blacklist, essentially into a hosts.deny I could no longer access the website I was working with. Requests would time out, with occasionally a half-loaded page which I …
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