Did you ever hear the story about how Van Halen didn’t want any brown M&Ms in their dressing rooms? It’s often held up as an example of diva behaviour. Rock stars making ridiculous requests ju...

I saw a joke post today about making someone write a bubble sort implementation on an interview. Companies asking to write that kind of stuff on a white board has become a bit of a standard joke, a...

I just spent 9 days riding my bike around the Netherlands. I ride alone, fully loaded as it’s often called. I carry camping gear and some basic cooking supplies so that I can sleep at camp sites m...

There is something immensely satisfying about doing your own bike maintenance and then feeling the smoothness of the ride afterwards. I didn’t write about it here, but at the start of Covid I got ...

I love working from home, I really do. Before Covid hit I had just worked fully remote for 3 years, with 1 in person meeting a week to touch base but all coding work being done in my home office. ...

When I took on a management role some time ago I ran into my own limits in a big way. I was juggling way more than I could fit into my head, and I was trying to cope by taking notes. My note-taking...

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth It’s been a while since I last worked in Java, and now that I’m on a Java project again it’s once aga...

I’d like to share some thoughts I had about the Gillette Commercial. For those of you that have missed it: Gillette recently released a commercial in which they call out toxic masculinity, which I...

This is the story of how I tried to upgrade my owncloud, got it wrong and then spent a few hours fixing it using Docker. I’m documenting it here to share the solution I came up with. Warning: If...