A rantbox
Posted by Michiel Scholten in conferences
(Needs editing after I get some sleep and more time)
This post also appeared on the Sanoma Technology weblog.
After a rather pleasant flight on Sunday morning, where out of 80 passengers, I sat next to the only other EuroPython visitor, I took a nicely …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in thoughts
"I have said that this new development has unbound possibilities for good and for evil. For one thing, it makes the metaphorical dominance of the machines, as imagined by Samual Butler, a most immediate and non-metaphorical problem. It gives the human race a new and most effective collection of mechanical …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
I mentioned in a recent post that I was working on a new gallery, based on some project I started in december. This project grew out of an increasing dissatisfaction with other gallery software (gallery2 has been out of my system for quite a while, zenphoto keeps bugging out on …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
It has been a few days since I relaunched this weblog and I have been doing some tweaking to make things even better.
Apart from resurrecting images from the dead (my gallery2 instance has been gone for quite some years, for example, and I have been digging through my backups …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
This weblog has always been a self-built affair.
It started off in 2003 as a PHP website, and continued in that form for over thirteen years. I open sourced it a while ago (in March of 2014), with a colleague promptly finding a security issue in the admin code. Frankly …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in life
I'm keeping a journal, was helped with this method and it makes me feel better about my life
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
The year 2017 has barely begun, but somehow it is already looking up. At least in my personal bubble.
Son is suddenly confident enough to try a lot of new words, with mixed success in pronunciation or even correctness, but he is leaping forward amazingly. I am really happy with …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
2016 was... interesting. Globally, it was overshadowed by some almost-disastrous events, and a lot of great and/or famous people left us (I won't even speak about the political... issues the world is having).
Personally, the year was challenging. Having a second kid eliminates all chances of getting some decent …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Er, weblog. Lots happened this year, lots of good and some less good things. We enjoyed our little girl growing from baby to toddler. We less enjoyed the continuing broken nights.
The world is a weird, scary, but also a wonderful place. Let's make 2017 great.
Posted by Michiel Scholten in howto
A while ago I wrote about getting notified on battery low. It is quite useful when you leave your laptop unattended for a while, to get a notification on your phone and/or smartwatch when that laptop is about to run out of juice. It has saved me a few …