If you have to defend yourself against allies, they’re not allies.

Thinking about how AI is currently used as deus ex machina by middle managers in every walk of life to support every hare-brained scheme they come up with.

Has Vimeo killed off a lot of old links to content?

Oh yes the great Finnish movies "The unnowon solider", "The man without a pist", and "The whïte Reinbeer".

Are there any funny movies without constant overacting and where the punchline isn't "and then the vicar's pants fell off"? That is, any funny movies that could actually make you laugh?

Am I right to understand that the US is banning Plato for being too frivolous about categories?

In our house, coffee also goes by the name "life's sole comfort".

I’m going to do a talk on goodified architecture. It’s like architecture but the outcome is good as opposed to bad.

Discussing abstracts for a conference and everyone loves these "the worst way to do X" talks but I'm like, aren't we all fully versed in that from our day jobs?

I just learned there's an AI code platform called Brokk, which translates to Hernia in Norwegian.

"Journey with us as we dive deep down to the bottom of the evaluation heap."

Developer, pointing to their giant brain: "But what if, hear me out, we made a good monolith instead of a bad one?"

Content is for someone else.

For a while now I've been feeling that my talks and blog posts are gravitating towards the topic "I'm tired".

Going to do more to shelter myself from idiot radiation in 2026.

Clicking on a blog post to read, but upon being greeted by slop, I instead open my old copy of Hagakure and read "The Way of the Samurai is found in death."

Funny with all this talk about test-driven, behaviour-driven, domain-driven etc, when everyone knows that developers are driven by shame and vanity.

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"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" HAHAHAH OMG www.office.com

Jacob og tekopp.

The "what else" argument is really something quite bizarre. The brain is a computer, because what else, a magic box? Like a cat must be a horse, because what else, an elephant?

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

LLMs midwifing blog posts that should never have been written because the author had nothing to say.

Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Let's play Who Said It, AI Hyper or The Borg? "Embrace the inevitable." "Knowledge is irrelevant unless shared." "We are the future." "This is the next stage of evolution." "Your resources will be repurposed." "We are the sum of all species." "Your technology is obsolete."

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It's the time of year for Narcissean mirrors, when the double agents that faithfully record our behavior to sell prediction products behind our backs, use a little bit of that data to bequeath upon us an image of ourselves that we can admire and share among our friends.

David Parnas famously said that "one bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year". Now imagine what one bad programmer with Claude Code can do.

This is a great video on JSON serialization, DTOs and domain objects by @einarwh.bsky.social that I recommend to watching again (and again) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWlL...

OKRs are ripe for disruption as strategy theater.

I once again urge authors to get professional voice actors to record their audio books.

A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them archive.ph/r0u2r

It's hilarious how everyone's strategy for getting an edge over others is to do exactly what everyone else does.

It has never been easier to be an idiot.

This entire weekend

There's a kind of writing I hate where a coffee is never a mere coffee, but a cappuccino, and a cappuccino is never a mere cappuccino, but a frothy one.

Visualization of Day 9 (Movie Theater), written in Elm #AdventOfCode einarwh.no/aoc/2025/day...

Visualization of Day 7 (Laboratories), written in Elm #AdventOfCode einarwh.no/aoc/2025/day...

Visualization of Day 4 (Printing Department), written in Elm #AdventOfCode einarwh.no/aoc/2025/day...

Visualization of Day 3 (Lobby), written in Elm #AdventOfCode einarwh.no/aoc/2025/day...

"The agile mind is pleased to find what it was not looking for." -- Lewis Hyde

The nearest cat may be behind you.

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...

Et hendig tips for å overleve kvasifilosofiske diskusjoner om AI i julebordsesongen: ta med deg et støykansellerende hodesett. 1/3

AI enthusiast, looking at a Magritte painting: "LOL sure looks like a pipe to me." Human: "It's just a painting though." AI enthusiast: "Maybe all pipes are just paintings."

So the people buying the fewest devices are the hoarders? Got it.

What are ten things about yourself that big tech doesn't explicitly know that they can use to fill out their profile of you?