P.S.: Kal och Ada

Today's göteborgsvits already starred Kal and Ada, so it got a P.S. of its own — one default card in göteborgska, one in English via the East End version.

Man and Machine

Was thinking of the title Agent Coworkers when this old album came to mind, and adding a Kraftwerk reference is always good in itself! Agent Coworkers Working with agents opposed to humans, rather well fit the idiom "same, same but different". You need to be able to communicate

No cow on the ice

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,

Game of Life

Conway's four-rule cellular automaton, rendered three ways: the classic hard-edged grid, a smoothed ambient variant, and a colorful lava-lamp take.

To go-goto or not to go-goto

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

Scaling the tail

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

Limerick

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:

Ghosting - the non scary way

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

Mandelbrot

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

oh no: Bun has crashed. This indicates a bug in Bun, not your code.

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

Othello

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

haiku

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

Regular Irregularity

.. 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.