Last year when I updated my overview of common software options there was this moment where I felt that ”wait, a minute – its not very useful, not even for myself. So fast forward a few months. Two things happened, first I started to see this amazing charts and guides from Tuta that suggested what […]

It happens that I talk about the Wizard of Oz method with our students, but even more interesting is the phenomenon where you experience that exact feeling of for the first time seeing the world for what it really is (plural intended). This has happened a couple of times now over the past two months,

Every year I make a list of ”good” software alternatives for myself based on a few metrics: Open Source and future proof, UX and simplicity, Privacy and Security, and Broad OS Support. This year I took it to the test and even surprised myself with the result. From a Linux perspective most things just work,

Already last year in January I had the ambition to switch to Linux again after a few years living in MS world. Didn’t have time to actually convert thinking into doing back then so I muddled along. Its nice, it works and it doesn’t give too much of an headache. Fast forward a year and

Tonight I connected my old Commodore PC20, a dusty 8088 machine running MS-DOS 5.0 to Claude via a null modem RS232 cable. No internet on the Commodore side, just a serial port and a QuickBASIC program I and my friend Claude wrote to shuttle bytes back and forth. The setup is simple in principle: a

Around 1993-1994 (when I was 13), in school we went from a typewriter machine to the educational workhorse COMPIS computer to a 486 PC within a year. One nice thing about the 486 was that it ran DOOM – the pinnacle at the time of what gaming had to offer. But that is not the

This is just a test mainly, but it seems entierly possible to show code written in dartpad on blogs etc. This example is based on the original theme tutorial on https://docs.flutter.dev/cookbook/design/themes#apply-a-theme