It begins tomorrow, and I'm really excited because I've been FUP'd by SLT for the last few days. It's been painful going, as vnstat attests:

         day         rx      |     tx      |    total    |   avg. rate
     ------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
     07/22/2016   410.55 MiB |   54.48 MiB |  465.03 MiB |   44.09 kbit/s
     07/23/2016 …

Yesterday, there I was, minding my own business, when Facebook "memories" or whatever threw this curveball at me:

Turns out it was exactly 5 years ago that I hacked together a small piece of PHP, with a liberal amount of SQL logic thrown in, and it became sort of popular …

Todoist reminding me that my Last.fm analysis is overdue

I downloaded my Last.fm scrobble data a week or so back using this excellent online tool. It contains almost every song I listened to on my PC (and some from my phone and iPod) between March 2011 and November …

Boy oh boy, this is something I deal with quite often. I rarely have problems with people in my life, because I've learned to respect boundaries and not get involved in other people's shit. But I hopelessly fail sometimes at keeping myself detached from people, and it leads to endless …

I've been meaning to write something cohesive about my thoughts post-attempted coup in Turkey, instead of having a half-dozen status updates with cryptic captions that, when analysed together, gives someone an idea of where I stand on the issue.

Writing for Foreign Policy, retired American 4-star admiral and supreme NATO …