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“Skip Level” Interview Questions

I recently had a final round “skip level” interview which was with high(er) level leadership folk; think directors, VPs, and similar. Those that you wouldn’t interact with on a daily basis but perh...

Trumps Sturmabteilung

Lange habe ich nur vorsichtig Parallelen zwischen den Nazis und dem Trump-Regime gezogen. Nicht mehr.

Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium

Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium appeared first on Palladium.

Weekly Notes 04/2026

I have a sore throat and a cold. I think I got it from Uma, and she got it from school. I have also been talking a lot in meetings this week, and that’s not helping. Also, it’s very cold.

Creating NLJ QR Code With QR Code Generator

I decided to create a QR code for The New Leaf Journal's homepage. After some research, I tried nayuki's QR Code Generator on GitHub.

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Avoid Losing Items - Assign Places for Them

I like to believe that everything has a place, especially for smaller household items that usually go wherever and “have to be found” later, leading to frantic searches.

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct i...

Cog in a great machine VS building one from scratch

Working in a big tech company feels like being a cog in a powerful, well-oiled machine, while launching your own startup means building a smaller machine from scratch and owning every decision. Bot...

CGMs Part 1 - Great FOSS tools for an OK Quality Consumer CGM

A Stelo CGM I had was expiring so I decided to try out xDrip+. One of those two things works really well. In this part I talk about CGMs in general.

Books: Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #16)

“Oh, no!” said Asphalt. “How long were you asleep?” “Same as I am awake,” said Cliff. Finished reading Soul Music, Discworld book #16. I like the idea of Susan as a character; she's a good addition...

Modern Solution: Good riddance!

Modern Solution, bekannt für Inkompetenz in der IT-Sicherheit und das Verklagen eines Entwicklers, der ihnen diese Sicherheitslücke mitgeteilt hat, ist wohl insolvent.

Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine

A short guide to adding the no AI version of DuckDuckGo to Chromium-based and Firefox-based web browsers as a custom search engine with shortcut.

Why there’s no European Google?

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is mostly a translation of a post I published in French three years ago. In light of the European Commis...

Podcast episode No. 0034: On speeding things up

0034: On speeding things up0:00/497.0241×Episode details: a reading and discussion of this, from 2023 ↓On speeding things upLearning from the hourglass & the snake.Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr...

Personal System Design: 10 Steps to Master Your Life by Design, Not Default

Here to find out about personal system design? Every successful person — from entrepreneurs to athletes — has one thing in common: systems, and that is why we are going to speak more about personal...

Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch

Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these d...

How to strengthen your immune system

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isolated(any) and #isolation: Letting Swift Closures Automatically Inherit Isolation

Swift 6 introduced many new features and keywords for concurrency. While many of these might be rarely used in daily development, encountering specific scenarios without understanding these new con...

Back to Basics on an old Bike

I often find something that still doesn’t feel 100% right. These days, it has been the cold start and the choke. After the bike came out of restoration, it had a cold-start problem. The usual solut...