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Fredy Künzler (Init7-CEO) spricht in der IT-Woche einmal mehr Klartext, wenn’s um’s «nicht kaputte» Internet (in der Schweiz) geht.

I finally tried this beer yesterday. It only just occurred to me that it would have been (almost) perfect for today’s St. Patrick’s Day.

“JON & AOC”, two of my favorites on The Weekly Show.

I love how Robert De Niro does not hold back on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Even though nobody will see my admin interface, I couldn’t help designing it with equal attention to detail. With the added benefit that it motivates me to use it.

Today is the day I ordered a pumpkin spice latte for the first time. Just to confirm: Now I can definitely say I won’t do that ever again.

Traveling Salesperson Problem cont.:
Amazon spending more than a billion dollars in compute time on delivery estimates.
(once again via Grady Booch)

Nothing can replace what has been lost twenty years ago.

John Siracusa’s take on Microsoft’s Teams Mac app. I couldn’t agree more.

«Eines, das fällt auf, haben alle gemeinsam – die Lehrer, die Schulbehörde, der Schulleiter, die Polizei: Alle hatten Hinweise, dass etwas vorging. Aber niemand wollte wissen, was wirklich passierte […]»
(Kevin Brühlmann im Tages-Anzeiger-Magazin über Mobbing und Rechtsextremismus auf dem Land.)
Wir als Gesellschaft dürfen nicht länger wegschauen!

Leider erstaunen mich solche Berichte über Teile der Armee überhaupt nicht. Zum Glück gab’s damals noch keine modernen Smartphones.

Ha! «Und der Kenianer Eliud Kipchoge, der beste Marathonläufer der Welt, wird in seiner Trainingsgruppe gerne mal gehänselt, weil er bei gestreckten Beinen den Boden mit den Fingerspitzen bei weitem nicht berühren kann.» (Sport-Mythen im Tagi)

Dear Netflix, if you’re emailing me about a rating of a movie, you should at least give me the option to rate it neutrally.

Listening to some of the press conferences and hearing about the voting and counting processes in some of the US states I can’t stop shaking my head.

Only putting unsubscribe links in the plain text version of the email and not also in the HTML version is very user hostile.
(Fortunately, I’m using an email client that can easily display both.)

“There’s an intellectual inconsistency in the Trump argument.”—John King
Yeah, no … kidding. What a euphemism!

Is Desktop Zero a thing?

Pet peeve: When an app just sends a response/message when a line break was intended. When is it Return, Option+Return, Shift+Return, when is it not?
If you ever just get a “Hi,” from me, that variant wasn’t the line break.

Follow-up: The cable is replaced and works. Now, it’s just the usual macOS flakiness.

I have many spare cables. But—of course—it’s the one I don’t have an alternative for that breaks.

How about making the HomePod devices available in more countries?

Reading about improvements in solving the traveling salesperson problem, a classic in theoretical computer science, is the kind of reading I love doing on such a Sunday morning.

Grady Booch’s take on it also teased it perfectly:

The traveling salesperson problem reduces to extreme simplicity when no sales people travel anymore...

I have ambivalent feelings about cookies.

Apparently, Chrome selects images from srcset differently, doesn’t recalc the sizes attribute the same way, and ignores loading="lazy" in version 85 (on the Mac).
At least AVIF support seems to work.
What fun did you have this weekend?

I’m glad I have backups, so that I can recover from them once in a blue moon.

On a related note: Make sure you fully understand copied commands to “cleanup” your repository before applying them. I nearly lost work-in-progress stashes.