Tech, life and everything else
A few days ago, an OVH data center went up in flames and was completely destroyed. This reminded me that it is important to store backups in another place on earth if possible, so better not in the same data center as the server that might burn down.
I mean. Fuck. Is that really what we’ve been reduced to? A set of eyeballs (or earballs??) to be squeezed until every last tear of attention is drained. The image of human batteries powering the simulation is barely a metaphor at this point.
If you’re running a personal blog, then it doesn’t matter how often or how much you blog. I think these points are much more important:
Just a small comparison to show that many websites are completely obese: My bachelor thesis in PDF format (which I handed in yesterday) has a size of 1.4 MB. It contains several images and 85 pages of text. With a high information density, this is a much smaller size than most websites have. And it would have been probably also possible to compress or optimize the PDF further.
What I like about Deezer compared to Spotify: They don’t do those A/B tests where only a small group of users receives new features. They just release them for everyone. In other words, they just added an option to the Audiobooks app to adjust the playback speed. I can finally listen to audiobooks in 1.4x or 1.6x speed now.
I am all for using a custom domain for email addresses. I mostly use @jlelse.de, but I can also be reached via email addresses with @janlukas.de, @jlelse.blog and a number of other domains. Recently I bought yet another domain, but now I’m questioning if that was really a good idea. Well, maybe I will still find a practical use for this domain.
Sometimes the problem with programming is that you can’t turn off your mind as easily as you can turn off your PC. Practically, you don’t program anymore. But the brain still continues to program.
Sometimes I like to take a look at the commit history of various open source projects, applications I use myself or dependencies I use in my applications. Today I was scrolling through the commit history of chi, the HTTP router I use for my blog software.
DHH makes a few valid points as to why smartphones are general computing devices and why Apple and Google want them to be just phones.
This week is the final spurt for my bachelor thesis. I want to submit it on Thursday or Friday. Then there’s my presentation two or three weeks later. And when I pass that, I’m no longer a student. I’m excited, but it’s also a strange feeling after more than three and a half years of working towards this goal.