Earlier today I was trying to upgrade a piece of software on my somewhat ageing iMac at work. During the upgrade a message along the lines of “your version of OSX is no longer supported” flashed past.

Perhaps there should be something along the lines of a “Dogme 95” for programming. Perhaps there is. I must admit that before writing this I didn’t check. And there is a reason for that (as you will see later).

From a recent conversation about edge computing. What is this edge computing thing? Think of the cloud Yes? Now move that computer into your house Yes? Tadaa! Wait, so you mean….

In the early days of the web building a search engine was mostly about completeness and recall. To make sure you had the content and help users find it. Now, 30 years later, we have the opposite problem.

A while back I was visiting the local university (NTNU) to pick up some surplus lab equipment. While there the dungeon keeper gave us a tour of the basement storage rooms.

This is an adaptation of the MIT PACT contact tracing scheme where we eliminate BLE and use a central server to facilitate communication between devices. This is more a thought experiment than a serious suggestion since this introduces privacy problems PACT was specifically designed to avoid.