Weeknotes 2023-10-23 Oct. 23, 2023, Jochen Open source AI models will soon become unbeatable. Period. --Yann LeCun
Home improvement is still going strong. Painting furniture is more tim...
Weeknotes 2023-10-30 Oct. 30, 2023, Jochen The adjective for metal is metallic.
Not so for iron, which is ironic. --Dgar
Peak Home Improvement! Got sick with a nasty virus, glad it did...
Weeknotes 2023-11-06 Nov. 6, 2023, Jochen The B in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot. Steve Lord
Home Improvement almost done π . Short work week, but didn't get much ...
Weeknotes 2023-11-13 Nov. 13, 2023, Jochen Iβm really into writing short fiction, mainly to-do lists. --Emma Willmann
Normal work week. Started looking into this whole responsive images...
Weeknotes 2023-11-20 Nov. 20, 2023, Jochen Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. --Carl Jung
Normal work week. Didn't have much time f...
Weeknotes 2023-11-27 Nov. 27, 2023, Jochen When you lock the laboratory door, you always lock out more than you lock in. --John Wheeler
I had an interesting work week as I spent two days...
Weeknotes 2023-12-04 Dec. 4, 2023, Jochen Itβs really a shame how Cyber Monday has become so commercialized. --Max Leibman
Christmas season is heating up. Work went well, no issues ther...
Weeknotes 2023-12-11 Dec. 11, 2023, Jochen
god: i have made a Single page webapp
angels: you fucked up a perfectly good website is what you did. look at it. itβs got dependency injecti...
Weeknotes 2023-12-18 Dec. 18, 2023, Jochen
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows...
Weeknotes 2023-12-25 Dec. 25, 2023, Jochen why concern yourself with "developer experience" when you ought to be concerned with "the human experience"? what is autocompletion in the face ...
Weeknotes 2024-01-01 Jan. 1, 2024, Jochen Don't work harder or smarter.Work darker.Use your knowledge of black magic to call upon the old gods.Turn all CEOs into newts & ferns.Cover a...
π Year in Review 2023 Jan. 4, 2024, Jochen
Reflecting on the past year π - what I find particularly fascinating is that even though I've spent most of my available time on work-related (...
Weeknotes 2024-01-08 Jan. 8, 2024, Jochen This year will be harder than last year. It will, however, be easier than next year. --Enver Hoxhaβs message to Albania in 1967
ποΈ Still on vaca...
Weeknotes 2024-01-15 Jan. 15, 2024, Jochen May type hints never overload you,
βAdam
First workweek of 2024. Recorded and published a podcast episode about Typescript and typing in gener...
Weeknotes 2024-01-22 Jan. 22, 2024, Jochen career Verb /kΙΛri(Ι)r/
> careers, plural;
> 1. Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction
> - the car careered a...
Weeknotes 2024-01-29 Jan. 29, 2024, Jochen The Web is the set of digital networked technologies that work to increase user agency. --Robin Berjon
Busy work week in between projects. Di...
Weeknotes 2024-02-05 Feb. 5, 2024, Jochen A priest, a pastor, and a rabbit entered a clinic to donate blood.
The nurse asked the rabbit: "What's your blood type?"
"I'm probably a Type 0",...
Weeknotes 2024-02-12 Feb. 12, 2024, Jochen IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE I'VE ALREADY BEEN ON THE FEDIVERSE FOR A YEAR. ONLY 999 TO GO UNTIL MY DISTRESS SIGNAL REACHES OMICRON PERSEI 8. --LRRR
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Weeknotes 2024-02-19 Feb. 19, 2024, Jochen it's pretty messed up that the Beatles released a song called "Help!" and then an album called "Help!" and then a movie called "Help!" and nobod...
Weeknotes 2024-02-26 Feb. 26, 2024, Jochen
unmuting my mic Hey everybody, sorry about my camera, but you all insisted on making this a morning meeting and, y'know, that curse the fortune...
Workaround for Paying OpenAI via bunq Feb. 27, 2024, Jochen tldr: The chatGPT app on iOS allows you to pay openAI using Apple Pay
Last week openAI stopped working for me and I got an er...
Weeknotes 2024-03-04 March 4, 2024, Jochen At one point as a teenager I did arrange a physical swap of βhackingβ software on floppy disks in a series of posts on a BBS using coded languag...
Weeknotes 2024-03-11 March 11, 2024, Jochen Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
- Having money
- Making close friends as an adult
- Trave...
Weeknotes 2024-03-18 March 18, 2024, Jochen Look, it's not our fault you people are made out of telemetry we can monetize --lcamtuf
Normal work week. Still catching up on my open source ...
Weeknotes 2024-03-25 March 25, 2024, Jochen Becoming an adult feels like slowly being pushed into a managerial position you didn't really want. --MostlyHarmless
Had some fun with unicod...
Weeknotes 2024-04-01 April 1, 2024, Jochen As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. β Dave Parnas
Last w...
Weeknotes 2024-04-08 April 8, 2024, Jochen Architecture is a property of a system, not a description of its intended design --Stefan Tilkov
Had a week off, yay! Spent most of the time v...
Weeknotes 2024-04-15 April 15, 2024, Jochen "Vendor lock-in"? They wish. All these vendors are locked in here with ME. --Forrest Brazeal
Still working on optimizing fetching stuff from ...
Weeknotes 2024-04-22 April 22, 2024, Jochen Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comf...
Weeknotes 2024-04-29 April 29, 2024, Jochen Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. β Rob Pike
For the first time I paid to have a work of art professionally fra...
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