In my home town, being a salesman is the easy way to get rich and gain respect. 1 But this was exactly the job that I wanted to run away from when I was young. Not because I don’t like money, but because I don’t like convincing people. You might h...
On 1 May 2005, Open Document Format (ODF) was recognized as the open standard for office applications. The Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice, recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of ODF. Before ODF, there was de facto on...
I love to watch documentaries, on Netflix, on ARD Mediathek etc.
In a previous post, I mentioned a bug-ish thing of Emacs Speaks statistics (ESS) of flymake integration.
You see a stream of ChatGPT-generated Ghibli-style images. I see a bunch of Little Eichmanns.
Well, now I am the “Quarto guy” in my work place, thanks to the decision made by the previous Quarto guy, who has left. And therefore, I will need to deliver workshops to my colleagues on how to use Quarto. For the workshop, I thought it would ...
Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11.
In 2021 and 2023, I wrote about how I prepare my ICA papers. This year, 2024, I wrote three papers 1. Interestingly, all three were prepared in different ways: One was more or less the same as what I described in 2023, one was Microsoft 365, one w...
I’ve read a paper recently and got some weird interpretation of this almost standard data availability statement written in English: The data underlying this article will be shared on reasonable request by the corresponding author. Of course, u...
Let me chronicle a random discovery of a bug and in my opinion, its impact; and the fixes (or lack thereof).
I went through a small predicament and I thought it’s nice to note it down. Also, it coincides with the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu Linux.
A month has gone since the last post about logging out of Mastodon, my last narrowly-defined social media.
I logged out of Mastodon on September 07. I do not remove my account. I will just let it die. And I know that day will come.
The game MASHINA G, my second game, has been released on itch.io as Alpha. It is available for free. Except the physics engine, the whole game was developed in 96 hours for GMTK Game Jam. There is no hope that the game could win 1. But I think the...
Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10.
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