One advantage to leaving out the last dot in instant messaging messages is that the dot gains meaning. If my usual messages are "Hey", "I see", "Seemingly", then a message like "Oof." may stand out by having the dot purposefully added.

The :stib: in Brussels is opening a Christmas presents store in metro station Rogier ( :bruxelles_2: :bruxelles_4: :bruxelles_6: :bruxelles_10: :bruxelles_25: :bruxelles_55: ) in December, from 11 December until 24 December every day from 10 to 18. You can buy :stib: gifts and collectors items […]

In Belgium, this weekend railway 35 between Aarschot and Hasselt will get ETCS. The following weekend railway 161 Bru-Schuman - Ottignies will get ETCS. With the exception of the HSL1 towards France all passenger railway lines in Belgium from that moment will be on ETCS. Which is a very big deal.

We need this in Edinburgh!

Went on some 9 km of hiking. Not necessarily a challenging one but definitely a nice refresher.

@[email protected] Is it possible to change the dark/light mode based on the browser preference, instead of (or in addition to) a dropdown in settings?

This post makes me think: nobody at any educational institution I have been taught at so far has taught me about accessibility. At no point, when I was asked to create an application, was the accessibility a criteria for the grade. 😕 RE […]

This is an amazing video about being kind, smart, getting rid of shame, and making AI optional. https://youtu.be/R-edYoZZosg

As a reminder, the notion that people should be able to maintain "a clean, well-organized household" came from the 19th century Western "upper classes" where the wife was expected to stay home and do this full time - and this was used as a status symbol and status marker to distinguish the […]

Where else could I find three litres of sugar free Bulgarian lemonade but in a Turkish supermarket?

#oh: "I love losing my virginity to C++"

#oh: "I don't like streamers. There's a particular kind of streamers I don't like: gstreamers."

tom scott used to be wild https://web.archive.org/web/20110426103554/http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/

"I think it's more acceptable in this country to be gay than to play Tetris over D-Bus"

I don't like it when people ring at every apartment. If I can't ask who the person is (because they ringed someone else after ringing me), I'm not opening the door.

[photo of spider] Safely evacuated one more spider from the premises

"Technically, if you count the comment section, YouTube is like Reddit but instead of posts you have videos"

I have a song stuck in my head since 2 days ago and it's just not leaving

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked grok" well I asked a stray cat and she told me "mrrewowpp"

I once again want to contribute to a project, I am once again put off by Perl.

This is, in my opinion, one of the evil things to write in Terms of Use or Privacy Policy: "We will update this privacy policy as needed so that it is current, accurate, and as clear as possible. Your continued use of our Services confirms your acceptance of our updated Privacy Policy." It is […]

when compiling C code, enable the -fPIE option to compile to Proto-Indo-European, for maximum compatibility with all CPU architectures developed on the Eurasian continent

Help, I'm having fun torturing compilers and computers

Something that often leads to my frustration is that I like talking about "what if" s, "I wish this were different, then we'd have that". Where the frustration appears is that a surprising amount of people are rejecting my ideas and putting them down, telling me they're impossible, and using […]

So what does one do when their sleep schedule is borked and they're awake at 3? Many thing probably, but this is what I did two nights ago: https://www.kbruen.ro/blog-posts/2025-10-31-Wikipedia-diving.html

I failed to be aware that today is a holiday, so I'll have to do some NL shopping

Uuuuu, just noticed that @[email protected] now has a pride-themed bar on the footer, me likey :D

This is so cursed, wow RE: https://f.duriansoftware.com/users/joe/statuses/115459710047325624

I am loving this art. The topic however is why I will never go skydiving. RE: https://mastodon.social/users/derekvanvliet/statuses/115447598447927756

Websites that show an empty page when JavaScript is disabled are a little bit evil

I'm not buying this. I would be way more fine with this explanation if text messaging was unaffected. RE: https://mastodon.world/users/Mer__edith/statuses/115445704481528090

[snippet of terms of service translated from Chinese] Should you find any part of these Terms unacceptable, you must immediately cease using this Website and promptly depart.

I need to stay awake until 3 to see what the DB clock does to undo DST.

I would really like an EU law that would tell banks "no, you can't actually discriminate on users who don't want Google Play Services by either abandoning them or forcing them to buy separate devices for authentication".

This is informative and unfortunate.

Sometimes it sucks that my favourite colour is yellow. If you try to darken red, you get dark red. If you try to darken purple, you get dark purple. If you try to darken yellow, you get brown...

JavaScript :')

There is no single central signal server. Signal uses #aws cloud, next to Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and Cloudflare, all under US legislation. If any of these clouds goes down or becomes otherwise problematic, chatting degrades or fails. With #deltachat you can choos #chatmail relays ( […]

Did some silly travels today :D

Is there any good FOSS online map app? CoMaps is nice, likewise for OsmAnd. But both are useless if I don't download maps to use offline.

In de categorie #straatnaamparels presenteer ik u vandaag: het A9om!pad in Badhoevedorp. (Dit is de enige straatnaam in Nederland met een uitroepteken erin! Het fietspad is genoemd naar 'A9om!', een van de acties die werden gevoerd om de A9 om Badhoevedorp heen te leggen.)

It's funny what you can find in API docs sometimes

[small sad thought] It is a bit sad to me that my memory often only works in recognition mode when it comes to people. If I see or hear someone, yes, I remember it's the same person. But it's been a couple of weeks since I've last heard someone close to me and I couldn't remember how their […]

A web service I am very frequently using is written in Perl. I want to extend it. That means I need to learn this wretched language.

So I slept for 11 hours. Yay? I do feel well rested and had a nice dream, so yay

So I wrote my first blog post https://kbruen.ro/blog-posts/2025-10-11-_Bool-in-C.html

spotted "plant based" nutella in my local grocery store, my next question is, what the hell is "meat based" nutella????

I just thought of talking about something in a Fedi note but it was quite long and I then thought "this most likely fits better in a blog post". My first blog post coming very soon?

[probably flawed analysis of new SNCB/NMBS pricing for youth tickets] Welp, SNCB/NMBS is making youth tickets more expensive for frequent travellers. Previous pricing: 7,50€/ticket or 62€/bundle of 10 tickets. New pricing: 32€/year + max cap of 5,50€/ticket. I put this into Desmos and came up […]