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19.07.2019 09:31

JVM?

16.07.2019 17:10

I just saw some Perl 6 implementation being built on top of the JVM. I think that is a great idea for a lot of situations. Languages like Perl 6 or Python or Node or Ruby will in a lot of situations be used to do web stuff. That means that start up time isn’t that important, and you get access to all the JVM libraries. Which means that you just build on top of all them, instead of using a lot of time to do it yourself or get others to implement support for your new language.

Clojure did it, and it is awesome, and makes it much more viable in the enterprise. Before all of you start time Nazi start commenting. The JVM or .NET CoreCLR are slower to start, but have better throughput (Go sometimes perform better, but that is a lot harder than most C# or Java code). What does this mean? It means that instead of starting fast it can deal better with a lot of requests.

This makes it a lot better fit for services and web stuff.

A retrospective look at ditching Google and Facebook.

16.07.2019 17:09

During easter of 2018, I decided to delete all my Facebook accounts, and so I did. After reaching out and finding other ways to keep in touch with the very few people from there I cared to keep in touch with. Then I continued to get rid of all the Google stuff in my life after that. I still have my Email account, but it have been forwarding all e-mail like it have for 6 years or something.

If you want to get ditch Google and Facebook it will be hard. Some stuff you simply can’t participate in. Other times you need to accept that you have less choice or that you need to use a worse solution.

At this point, you really need to want to do so to succeed. At least once a week since I ditched them, there have been a situation where the easy and convenient solution would have been to go back in.

I wish it was easier and less of a sacrifice to do so. We are not there yet, but I think the only way to get there is to stick with it and hope for to become easier.

Some Pen / Ink combinations just dones't work.

15.07.2019 11:08

I’m mostly a one ink in all of my pens kind of person. But I have slowly been accepting that some of my pens just don’t work with all inks. Like my two Pilot pens in rotation (Metal falcon and Vanashing point) aren’t the best unless the ink is really good lubricated. So I have more or less given up using them with anyhting but Iro inks.

While all my rest have good enough flow through the feed to handle most inks.

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12.07.2019 10:10

Patreon

07.07.2019 21:35

Patreon is fucked. The moment you take in investors, and especially VC investors. You are expected to give them a return on their investment.

This means that Patreon will have to get more people on board, they will have to make more money off everyone.

This is probably not great new. Either the creators have to eat the increased fees or the supporters; the former means less money for the creators and the latter means that a lot of people will drop off, and less money for everyone.

Also: remember that patreon bought memberful last year.

The Pen Addict Ink

07.07.2019 21:33

I’ve been using the Pen Addict ink for a while now. It looks great. Both with a finer nib and with broader one. This is something I always look for in a ink, because some inks doesn’t look that great both.

I’ve been enjoying it a lot. But it doesn’t work the best in my Pilot pens, their feeds doesn’t flow as good as my other pens. So I use my regular Iro ink in them instead. But I use it in all my other pens.

This means that Rober Oyster migth be another ink brand that works well enough for me to get some of their inks.

But I’m not a huge of the bottles, they are not as horrible as the one Noodlers use. Still not great.

If you’re looking for a great orange ink, I’d give the Pen Addict ink a shot.

Lists for everything

04.07.2019 12:31

I’m a list person. I write them for everything, and I mean everything.

If I’m going to do anything I start by writing it out as a list, and this includes watching movies, tv-shows, reading books, my instapaper queue and so on.

The reason I do this is that I’m a procrastinator, and having a list of items I do not have to think about makes everything easier for me. Also it feels great to cross out items. And it feels great to see some kind of progress.

It is a total productivity hack, but some hacks are actually good.

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04.07.2019 12:30

The iPhone 8 Plus after two years

02.07.2019 20:50

I have had the iPhone 8 Plus for close to two years now.

One of problems with the iPhone prince increase with the release of the iPhone X was that my experience with owning an iPhone is that after about a year and a half the battery go to hell and they slowly become slower and slower. This was a big problem with the iPhone 4s (my favorite form factor by the way), and also the 5s; but to a lesser extent the 6s Plus, even though the battery got pretty bad like the previous models.

The iPhone 8 Plus is not slow in any way, and the performance feels more or less like it did when I got it. That means that we are beyond the days where software was limited by hardware performance. The battery on the other hand is a lot worse than it was, but still not as bad compared with previous phones.

As iPhone slowly becomes as expensive as a MacBook I expect them to be useful for as long. And at this point it seems like we are there. I can’t see much of a reason to upgrade every year or every second year. My current phone is perfectly fine, I’ll wait until it becomes too slow to be usable or until it breaks as always._