Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software

When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken. I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel placed on a motor shaft which threw many sparks when he sharpened some...

It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that is, but boy, did it sound cool?… I fondly remember how at that time we...

You just got a large, Ultrawide monitor for your MacBook. You hook it up and marvel at the amount of pixels. You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision. Closing the lid is not an option because you still use the keyboard and trackpad, maybe even the webcam and TouchID...

Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for all! Launch Xcode, open the rcmd project, check the launchApp...

Update: I finally found a way to go over the limit in Lunar v5.5.1 Exactly 3 months and a day after placing an order through a Romanian Apple reseller, I finally got my 14-inch M1 Max. Well, actually.. I first got the wrong configuration (base model instead of CTO), had to return it to them after wasting a day on migrating my data to it, they...