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First things first: Carolyn Chen’s book “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley” is an insightful analysis of what happens when corporations encroach into the spiritual space of their employees, a phenomenon any tech worker will be familiar with.

I’m starting a new series of posts where I’m gonna highlight my favorite gravel routes in The Netherlands. Today, it’s Sallandse Heuvelrug, a great route in one of the national parks in the eastern part of the country.

tl;dr: It’s easier than you think. A few weeks ago I decided to take a short trip from The Netherlands to France.

I’ve been testing Apple Music recently and I discovered that it still supports uploading local files to iCloud Music Library. The interface of Music app is indeed somewhat atrocious, but look:

Yesterday Karolina and I took a longer route than usual, and did a 100 kms over gravel, fire roads, and bike lanes around National Park Veluwezoom and Hoge Veluwe (Arnhem/Ede area).

Update Dec 7, 2022: Apple scrapped the plan of CSAM-scanning iCloud Photos libraries. My wife is pretty tech-savvy. While not a software engineer and not a computer scientist, she has a good understanding of computing technologies, statistics, formal methods, and an intuitive (but quickly growing) grasp of machine learning.

First time ever: gravel ride on a frosty New Year’s Day morning! Happy 2021! 🎉

Remember the days when you had to look for plugins for your editor to support your favourite programming language? Or even the language that isn’t your favourite, but which for some reason you need to write in?

Yesterday I read Rutger Bregman’s excellent opinion piece in The Correspondent, and today is Tuesday. Tuesday, in my household, is the recycling day.

Planning I’m gonna read a book a day. I’m gonna go through SICP (including all the exercises) and Kurt’s new Haskell book.