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> I’m increasingly convicted there is inherent value in humans doing things regardless of whether an algorithm can produce a “better” end product. That question already existed a l…

Something similar happened close by my old neighborhood. The river was highly contaminated by close by industry. In the 80s a new initiative started to improve the quality of the r…

> Sequences felt like a good use case for this when we started, [...] We’ve since moved to a different approach which enforces the behaviour we want more explicitly when creating i…

Why there is no lockdown in Sweden? One of the reasons is how legislation works in Sweden: "Sweden cannot legally declare a full state of emergency to deal with corona, says an exp…

Many interesting learnings. One of them is how much the level of abstraction has been pushed up thru the years of technological improvements. A graphic designer in 2020 does not ne…

> "Pippi and the Moomins remind us that madcap humour and imaginative storytelling can convey humanistic ideas at least as powerfully as a more literal approach. " "Moominpappa at …

> Drawing helps me bring back many other emotion-related things because I begin remembering emotions I’ve implicitly stored (i.e., when the person was angry, happy, loud, etc.). I …

I have done that in my previous two jobs. And I find it easier to do as soon as I join a new company than later. Once I get involved in projects it requires more effort to get the …

It is fantastic how far we have gotten. I had a web in Geocities before the Yahoo purchase. It allowed 150 Kilobytes of storage and no CGI (Common Gateway Interface). I do no see m…

I loved the Computing History museum and highly recommend a visit. I had the opportunity to write some Basic code in an old machine and play old video games. I went walking from th…