It’s super easy to clone a repository from GitHub, you just clone the HTTP URL for the repository and you’re done. If you want to clone your private repository it gets a little more tricky, because you have to mess around with SSH. This can be fun, for a certain definition of fun. But typically, […]
I brought a mechanical keyboard into the office. This lead to comments from co-workers. I saw the Logitech SilentTouch keyboard recommended by a Hacker News commenter, and I decided to buy the MK295 Silent Wireless Combo keyboard. When I started using it, at first sight it seemed fine. However I noticed that a couple of […]
Recently I purchased a Philips FW332 mini system from 1996 second hand. It’s not a particularly great system; it’s a low quality set and was never really desirable. It’s not completely terrible either though. It has a CD-player, an FM/AM radio with digital tuning, and a dual tape deck. The remote can adjust the volume […]
Today I attended the Python Conference NL in the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It was super-well organised by Ordina. Thanks!! One of my colleagues was not able to make it to the conference. My colleague sent him this picture in our developer chat: Eagle-eyed as he was, he commented: oh I did not know […]
Today I finally picked up the new Chemical Brothers album “For That Beautiful Feeling”. I was a bit disappointed to see that it came in a very slim cardboard case. I do not like cardboard packaging. And especially the type the industry calls a ‘digisleeve’, the cardboard version without a tray for the disk, which […]
The Wii U was one of the least popular platforms by Nintendo. It never saw much sales, probably partly due to its confusing name and its strange ‘not-a-tablet’ controller. I still own one. I have Mario Kart for it. When I got a Nintendo Switch some years later, it had the same Mario Kart game […]
For years I worked in an open plan office, for five days a week, where my daily commute was more than an hour single journey by train. After much hesitation, I finally decided to treat myself to some nice noise canceling headphones. I settled for the Sony WH-1000XM3, very popular headphones at the time, and […]
You probably know that Pop!_OS is the strangely named Ubuntu-based Linux distribution from System76, the company that sells mostly rebadged Clevo laptops tested & supported for Linux specifically. You might have read on your favorite Linux news site that there will be no Pop!_OS 22.10 because their team is ‘focusing their development time onto the […]
Recently, my Google Pixel 3a phone started to have a faulty USB-C port. Luckily the device is also able to charge wirelessly (in fact, it’s the first Google phone that does that!) but it’s still rather inconvenient. My employer provided me with an iPhone SE which I think is a rather great little device. I’m […]
Words on my favorite Chinese shopping site From time to time I buy stuff on AliExpress, mostly electronics. It has such a huge amount of items available which amazes me every time. Lots of quality stuff and lots of lesser quality stuff. Today, I found that it has rather strange text in the placeholder for […]