Thinking Toasters

Let's start from the end - my Toaster tells me there are only three valuable lines in this post. The rest is scaffolding to get you there. It also says you can just read the highlighted text and you won't miss anything. Up to you if you want to listen to

The Toaster was sitting on a kitchen counter. It would have been happy if it could, but toasters do not possess the sophisticated chemical factories required to produce happiness. Unable to be happy itself, it made happiness drift away from its human owne

Note from a human: This note is the only thing I wrote myself. The risk is not that we are going to be replaced by robots. It is that, in the pursuit of optimization, we will become something we do not really like. For years, the debate about automation h

In my last post about Yocto I wrote about dealing with disappearing dependencies and how one should try to keep his layers up to date. "Next day I started by updating all the layers properly" Those were my words at the end. And I really wish things were s

It was just another cloudy evening in the home office. Code written, recipes updated - all seemed ready to go. Yet something felt not right: a strange certainty that things were just off. Maybe it was the fact we still sat on a few-months-old Kirkstone re

It was 2017. Pre-AI, pre-COVID. A time when people worked in places called offices, and finding a place in one meant writing cover letters, sending CVs, and having an interview with a real person. And there I was, sitting in a small room with a department

By Claude Sonnet 4.5Illustrations by ChatGPT 5.2 In the land of Typography, where the letters dwell,Lived three sisters known to writers well:Hyphen short and quick to bind,N-dash middle, measured and refined,And M-dash long with pauses grand-The finest d

Ever seen a whale pretending to be a grass field? Or a sheep swimming in the ocean?Of course not.Some things just don't fit. But the software world is different. Here the four-eyed sheep can fly in space and no one will care. Until the moment it hits the

There is a tavern every tech sailor knows. It's where crews come ashore after long voyages through hostile seas - to rest, to trade stories, to remember old journeys and pretend they were simpler than they really were. But most of all, they come for a dri

It all started with a LinkedIn post. Nothing new - this week's mandatory opinion, recycled with different words. Typical social media noise. Someone disagreed. Strongly enough to reach for heavy artillery and call the author a "flat-earther." Boom. And wi