Eurobloat #0152 • December 2022
The month Brussels caught a suitcase of Qatari cash, voted to tax your petrol and your boiler, and lectured Hungary on corruption with a straight face.
Eurobloat
2022
110 posts
Reflecting on the year 2022
Reflection on the year 2022, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Eurobloat #0151 • November 2022
The month Brussels invented three brand new taxes for itself, set a gas cap so high it could never trigger, and ordered every boardroom to hit a quota while two member states screamed at each other over a single rescue ship.
Eurobloat
What is a Wildcard Person?
You know that person on your team who seems to be good at everything? I mean the literal definition of the word good. Not master. Good. When a problem comes up that nobody else has any experience with, this person volunteers to jump in head-first.
Gems
Merry Christmas
Each Christmas I return to the core message. Jesus was born to live among us and save us.
Christianity
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Viktor E. Frankl’s Man's Search for Meaning recounts his survival in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and introduces his psychological theory, logotherapy.
Books
The Future of Foundation
Apple announced a new open-source Foundation project, rewritten in Swift to eliminate C code wrapping, improve performance, and simplify contributions.
Development
Monthly update #0391 • November 2022
Monthly update 391 • November 2022 • 2022-11-01 - 2022-11-30
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0196 • November 2022
November 2022 brought record regulator action against Big Tech, a run of mass scraping and ransomware breaches, and fresh fights over surveillance and encryption.
Privacy
No Plan B by Lee Child
No Plan B, co-authored with Andrew Child, witnesses Reacher a 'suicide' that's murder, leading to a prison release scheme and organ harvesting.
Books
Eurobloat #0150 • October 2022
The month Brussels mandated your charger, banned your engine, taxed the gas companies and discovered, with a gasp, that its own border force had been ignoring the border. Ever-closer union, one missing port at a time.
Eurobloat
Sync podcasts to iPod
So, I do not have have a smartphone anymore. After a while I missed listening to music and podcasts; therefore, I bought an iPod Classic.
Mac
Love Divine III by Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder's 2016 release, calm and patient instrumental writing. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
What is backgroundtaskmanagementd?
If you see backgroundtaskmanagementd running on your Mac, here is what this login item management process does.
Mac
Swift project in 2023
The Swift Core Team has shared a roadmap for the next year, highlighting plans across workgroups, though these are not tied to specific releases and may evolve.
Development
Pure Chants II by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2022 album Pure Chants II is calm choral crossover, hymns and pop reworked as gentle chant.
Music
System Fonts CSS
System fonts used on this website...
Development
Permission request guidelines
A good user experience for a permission request is important, because often permission request are the first thing the user sees.
Development
Monthly update #0390 • October 2022
Monthly update 390 • October 2022 • 2022-10-01 - 2022-10-31
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0195 • October 2022
October 2022 was dominated by sprawling data breaches, a wave of Australian hacks and regulators reaching for record fines against tracking, scraping and lax security.
Privacy
Rin Tin Can's Ark by Jul
An animal-loving idealist named Ovide Byrde takes in Rantanplan and tries to turn a cattle town vegetarian, until a Mexican bandit twists his cause into a scheme to seize the place.
Books
Baraye
A beautiful song that is now the soundtrack of the protests in Iran.
Music
Eurobloat #0149 • September 2022
The month Brussels declared a windfall tax that was definitely not a tax, told a member state it was no longer a democracy, and then dreamed up a fund to make sovereignty itself a federal competence.
Eurobloat
Oxymore by Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre's 2022 album Oxymore is a bold instrumental work of immersive, spatial electronic sound.
Music
Sound
Invisible and relentless, sound is seemingly just there, traveling through our surroundings to carry beautiful music or annoying noises. In this article I’ll explain what sound is, how it’s created and propagated.
Gems