2022-12-11

For some reason my watch can no longer show negative temperatures. No idea what’s going on.

Apple Watch showing the Weather app forecast for the next few days, above an iPad showing the Weather app for the same days. The iPad shows all-minus temperatures, while the watch shows the same temperatures, but without minus sign.

2022-12-11

My neighborhood, february 1944.

Black and white photo. A corner of a five-floor residential building with a large piece of the wall missing and several windows blown out from an explosion or bomb

2022-12-10

Nobel prize eve!

A TV showing the Nobel Prize ceremony, highlighting Svante Pääbo

2022-12-08

“We regret to inform you that your flight is delayed” my airline kindly informs me 23 minutes after the original departure time. Oh wow I hadn’t noticed!

2022-12-08

Cold morning

2022-12-07

That mixed feeling of when ~all unit tests are failing, and then you just restructure your code to make it easier to understand, and after that, all unit tests pass again. I mean, I’m glad I obviously fixed the problem, I just wish I knew what it was I actually fixed.

2022-12-06

A Stockholm suddenly appears!

A view of Stockholm city hall on a clear morning. There are rail tracks in the foreground.

2022-12-06

Every time I travel abroad I’m afraid I’ll have to pay with chip & PIN because I have no idea what my PIN codes are.

2022-12-04

Respect the Midas

Control panel with lots of knobs and buttons. Text that says “MIDAS automation system”.

2022-12-03

Now ChatGPT is confused about Finnish and Swedish the other way around

Screenshot: "Language: The official language of Sweden is Swedish, while the official language of Finland is Finnish. Swedish and Finnish are both Germanic languages, but they are not mutually intelligible. Finnish is more closely related to the languages of the Baltic region, while Swedish is more closely related to the languages of Scandinavia."