Ingen ko på isen! — "No cow on the ice!" The Swedish idiom for "no worries, everything is under control," or, literally translated into everyday consolation: nothing is stuck, nothing is about to slip into the water. I have often thought that, well that seems all good,
Conway's four-rule cellular automaton, rendered three ways: the classic hard-edged grid, a smoothed ambient variant, and a colorful lava-lamp take.
I once inherited an awful mess of VB6 code, still a bit of shivers thinking of it.. A too common pattern was: on error goto hell In a way a bit fitting. using goto has lead to spaghetti code or goto hell. Is it pure evil to use it? Not
My home-office network is really heterogeneous * Windows 10 * Windows 11 * Debian And a Macbook Pro to rule them all. All computers are connected to a Cisco 19 inch router, so the network surely has growing potential! For me, that mainly has been in the soft aspects of computing ,thought this
Named from the Irish city on the River Shannon, the five-line AABBA verse form has been delighting and scandalizing audiences since at least the 18th century, when the Maigue poets gathered in the taverns around the city of Limerick. Legend credits the form's name to a party game:
When it comes to writing code, agents can handle the bulk work, if not all. What about writing blog posts? I started in full manual mode, then asking the agent for font suggestions and such things. Then we discovered the Ghost admin API and got a process up so that
When at Uni, it where quite some competition around the world, who could create the most efficient algorithm. Come to think of it and wondered how an agent would perform today. * Mandelbrot — the escape-time fractal, panned to the seahorse valley by default. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom. If your
Seen it? I think its among the funniest error messages I've seen, and it is reassuring that its a Bun fault and not mine! I see it sometimes in a claude terminal window that I have left without having an active task running, so it seems to be
Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if 't be your pleasure, and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o' the night, transported with no worse nor better guard, but with a knave
the grass grows greener summer evening sun amber light wind gentle touch haiku, unrhymed poetic form consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively. Normally the current time of year should be reflected. The traditional way to write a haiku, is to reach
.. is about the only things that A Modest Context warrants. If I stumble upon something interesting and deem the world ready for my insights, they may end up here.. In the opposite corner of publishing posts, you can find one of my favourites; The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen.