We are social creatures. Alone and locked away in solitary confinement is worse than death. All very strange. All our dark feelings of guilt and shame. Moral feelings, we are born with a moral compass. This feeling of
Photoshop has been with us for over 30 years since its launch in 1990. The industry standard, and will be with us forever. Or, maybe not. The story of the publishing software Quark XPress serves as a cautionary
Building on the Wireguard protocol Tailscale enables something truly extraordinary: effortless GAN Global Area Networking point-to-point across firewalls and routers on any network. No firewall configuration, no fiddling with port forwarding, no bandwidth limits, no external VPN server
The Franco-German team Hillebrand & Ghillebaert invented SMS, Short Message Service. Most likely they were unaware of what was ahead. Battery operated wireless phones with global coverage? Done. Why would anyone want to send a 160-character text message?
The paths covered with yellow leaves, a roughness in the air, cold and damp. Love the smells, feel the warmth of the jacket and the cold on my face. Autumn is my season. Everything is preparing for winter,
There are books of fiction which changed my life. The Diary of Malte Laurids Brigge, Sleep's brother, Neuromancer. Some non-fiction books have similar impact; Tor Nørretrander's The User Illusion, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's
Insanely great things can be done with a Raspberry Pi for $40. For audio on the home-LAN the challenge is to get the digital stream of ones and zeros over to the analogue amplifier in best possible condition.
Western Hollywood dramaturgy has been extremely successful. While some films skillfully subvert traditional storytelling, like Memento with its protagonist's amnesia driving an unconventional narrative, they still must engage with audience expectations. Even in breaking from convention,
