Captain’s Blog

Personal blogs on a personal website, written on a personal computer that isn’t really mine

I don’t know what the future of software development will look like and what skills I will need, but at least I have concepts of a plan.

The 2024 retrospective has been either postponed or cancelled entirely, just like most of this year’s posts.

Sturgeon’s law states that ninety percent of everything is crap. It’s mostly true, except in this post where absolutely everything is crap.

I’ve published 250 articles on this website. All that work and what did it get me? Why did I do it? Let’s see if the page views justify it!

Another year, another retrospective, and also another excuse to discuss the past, the present, and the future.

Does it still make sense to write technical blogs when conversational AI like OpenAI’s ChatGPT can give faster and better answers?

I illustrated 200 posts on this website using Microsoft PowerPoint and all I got are these lousy colour bar code visualisations.

As 2022 draws to a close, I wanted to do a quick retrospective; what made me mad, sad, and glad this year?

This guide describes how I work. Useful for stalkers and future co-workers (current ones get access to a more complete version).

It’s the last day of the year, which means it’s time to reflect on all the things that have happened in the past twelve months.

I’m won’t be applying for a PhD any time soon, but if I were, my ~~short~~longlist would probably look a bit like this.

Now that Chuniversiteit has (more than) 100 articles, it’s time to reflect on the past three years and look towards the future.

For reasons that are no longer clear to me, I tried to name each of my computers after a space shuttle (and gave up after 22 years).

This page keeps track of my humble LEGO collection that I (passively) built up over the past decades.

Why I organise my books by colour, and why you should too.