A bold statement, but the math checks out, assuming that the average reading speed is around 250 word per minutes (wpm), which is probably a bit high, and the average book length is around 90’000 words per book (wpb), which really depends on what kind of books you’re reading, this gives you: (30min * 360d […]
Category: Thoughts
Thoughts about tech, life, the world, and anything in-between
Black Holes of Information
Over the last decade or so, we’ve witnessed a continued ramp up of the information age. Social media has become the “social” place. These days, YouTube publishes 3.7 million videos a day, that’s 271’000 hours every single day. We’re bombarded with information from all directions day in and day out, so much so, that we […]
Discussions Around log4j and FOSS
Unless you’ve been disconnected from any digital or analog media in the past few days, you must have heard of the zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability detected in log4j, one of the most popular open source logging library for Java. Not running much or developing any Java application, the most interesting part about this […]
Another Year on Twitter
Last year I wrote about my eight year anniversary on Twitter and how I’ve been using it. Since then another year passed and while my usage hasn’t really changed, there are a few small things I want to talk about. The Dissident I don’t remember how I came across the documentary in the first place, […]
How Not To Rebrand – Toggl
On the 9th of September Toggl, my then time tracking app of choice, rebranded the company structure and … the design. On that morning, I noticed that the icon of the Toggl Chrome extension suddenly had a pink background. My through was, that someone had mixed up some image formats and the pink color was […]
Eight Years on Twitter
Today I got a notification that it’s my 8 year anniversary on Twitter and it made me think back a bit when it all started and how I’ve been using the platform. It all started in 2012… I don’t particularly remember, why I created an account, most likely just trying out what everyone has been […]
Top 5 Podcast I Listen To
It’s interesting how things develop. I remember quite well how my brother used to download and listen to interesting podcasts 10 or so years ago, yet it felt like podcasts lost on popularity over the past years and only now is again gaining some major uplift. There are many YouTubers out there who noticed the […]
When Fitness Tracking Reveal Bases
The other day I stumbled up on a thread in my Twitter feed, where people have located army bases based on fitness tracking heat maps released by Strava. Here’s an example of what the data looks like: Drone base in Djibouti Soldiers running around the perimeter or just a simple patrol? Nice drones!
Greenlight Has Been Broken for a While
Usually I tend to stay away from news that just broke, mostly because it seems so click-baity to write about it and often people are just panicking for no reason until a few days later when things are explained to them again more clearly. But this time, I just had a thought and wanted to […]
Thoughts: Social Media Customers
This is the first post of a new “category”. Every now and then I find myself thinking about some topic I find interesting. Usually I just tweet about it, but the space there is always limited, so for the future, when I have to say more about a topic, you’ll find a blog post here. […]