It’s been already 10 years since I programmed much Perl, but I still have a soft spot for the language. Nowadays I write mostly Python and JavaScript and hardly ever write perl, but I still maintain a couple of Perl modules on CPAN and also I’m still a subscriber of the Perl Weekly newsletter. In […]
My son has a Lenovo Ideapad 5-15ARE05 laptop. We bought it in august 2020. Before he got it he did a lot of research, and happened to find this model with AMD processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD for a reasonable price. It’s still a nice laptop and he is still quite happy with it. […]
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 […]