Like many people I'm growing increasingly wary of "The Stacks" growing influence, Google being one of them. Recently I decided trying out Duckduckgo which has as its basic ideals it doesn't track you. That's nice, but it cant be as good as Google, can it? Turns out its amazingly good, and so far I'm not …

Our open landscape office environments, as they are today, are pretty sub-optimal constructs. They seem deliberately designed to minimize creativity by maximizing unwanted distractions and disturbances. On top of that, the arguments for the open office landscapes are dishonest. Open offices are mostly implemented …

I'm now trying out ox-hugo. I still like o-blog, but i felt like trying something new! During the conversion I had great support from Kashual Modi, the author of ox-hugo. It is an interface between org-mode and hugo, the static web site generator. I also had support from the author of hugo-bootstrap-premium mode, and …

I needed to make a rpm from various bits and pieces, some of them java, some of them native. I thought this was a job for Gradle, rather than Maven, because there was a lot of fiddling with files back and forth. nothing complicated, but still, maven isn't really good at that sort of thing. After some hacking, I got …

The way I work with my blog is that I write down a number of unfinished notes. Eventually I get around to finish them, and when I do I usually finish a bunch of blog entries at the same time. This is why the emacs org-mode based o-blog blogging system works well for me. Since org-mode changes frequently it can lead to …

The principles of Tao can be applied to almost anything, as evidenced by for instance Fritiof Capras "Tao Of Physics" and Benjamin Hoffs "The Tao of Pooh". Tao applies well to DevOps because who knows what DevOps is? It is an idiom as hard to define as quality, and indeed DevOps is closely tied to …

There are many parts of the Free Software movement. Like mercury, you can split it in many tiny droplets, that can seamlessly reform to a larger whole. The noble goal of the GNU project is to protect the Free Software movement from unknown, orwellian entities, seeking to destroy it by various nefarious means. That is …

Many developers complain about Maven, how it is slow, and how it complicates life instead of making it easier. These developers might not remember how life was in the ancient days before Maven. That said, Maven still has practical shortcomings, and one is the snapshot versioning scheme, when used in Continous Delivery …