I was thinking about my Famlab project this morning—the "homelab for busy families" idea where you reclaim data ownership (dare I mention #TechSovereignty?) without becoming a full-time sysadmin. Specifically, I was thinking about the maintenance of the base system and all services: the update path. It is an old…
Friday morning I read Jenny's piece on how the ultra-rich make the world worse. Friday evening I attended a rationality meetup about If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. Sunday afternoon, an on-site PauseAI meetup. Three events, one weekend. Some clarity in the end. If you haven't read the book mentioned…
I read a book that said AI might kill everyone. I'm now using it as a daily tool and enjoying it, and I don't know what that makes me.Two weeks ago I read "If Anyone Builds It, Everybody Dies". I could follow the reasoning. There's no surprise in the…
I'd like computers to help me more with some tasks I'd rather not do, so I tried something today: I instructed an LLM to draft paragraphs for an upcoming conference presentation. It worked…
I attended a Python meetup last week. The main presentation was a showcase of an "Event System", or how they used messages to share customer data between their ERP and their CRM. Eventually the presentation showed a few actual domain events they use in production. They had German names…
Two weeks ago, I received an e-mail telling me I had been accepted in the Framework Mainboard Developer Program. Framework has a very interesting approach to sustainability in electronics that reminds me of Fairphone, though I don't want to compare them directly. I worked at Fairphone for more than three…
Ah! The joy of looking at a clean slate. Scary. Wondrous. A clean and uncluttered editor helps focus on what matters: the prose. I might come to like this. Surrendering to the thoughts that come to life while keyed on the computer. It is a form of meditation. Enough for…