olafurw

olafurw, 5 days ago to random

Programmers: "We have invented a confident bullshit machine"
Tech CEO's: "Finally, something I can relate to"

olafurw, 6 days ago to random

If anyone ever makes an Icelandic Taskmaster, then I'll be first in line to audition as the host.

olafurw, 10 days ago to random

I just saw a video where they refer to music artists from 2009 as "old school" and I can't anymore and I'm going to bed.

olafurw, 11 days ago to random

Dear Video Player programmers.

Skipping forwards on a video that auto-played does not mean you should un-mute it and set the volume to max.

Yours, Ears In Pain.

olafurw, 12 days ago to random

Eruption started again in Iceland near Grindavík.
Please be careful if you're traveling and listen to all warnings and travel suggestions. (https://www.almannavarnir.is/english/)

olafurw, 14 days ago to random

If you would quiz me on what year Queen Elizabeth died, I would confidently and without hesitation say 2023 and I would also be wrong.

olafurw, 15 days ago to random

Voice notes are phone calls with extra steps.

olafurw, 18 days ago to random

To quote the bard Shania of Twain. "That don't impress me much."

olafurw, 19 days ago to random

It's estimated that at 16:00 CET, the OPS-SAT satellite will re-enter the atmosphere.

Thank you for all the hard work. At least you had some fun playing DOOM.

Here's a live feed and simulation based on the telemetry. It's very pretty to watch.

https://live.opssat.esa.int/

olafurw, 20 days ago to random

I've open sourced my simple rust sudoku game. It's not great code and there are some tests missing, but enjoy.

https://github.com/olafurw/rust-sudoku

olafurw, 21 days ago to random

Browser Cookies are sometimes called "Footprints" in Icelandic (Fótspor) and I think that's a much better term.

olafurw, 21 days ago to random

Anytime English speakers talk about the Nordics having long weird words, I remind them of the word "Defenestration" (the act of throwing someone out of a window)

olafurw, 21 days ago to random

I love people that are passionate about their interests, no matter how niche it is. They always have fun stories to tell.

An icebreaker I do at programming conferences is the question "Tell me about "that bug" you fixed" and even the shyest people will light up and tell you a great story.

olafurw, 22 days ago to random

I wonder if the usage of words like "some, most, usually" spiked after the internet came along. To generalize what you're writing to avoid "um, actually" commenters trying to nail you on a technicality.

thephd, 26 days ago to random

Despite my best wishes,

I am back to editing this document.

ZachWeinersmith, 27 days ago to random

One of the weird things about writing a book called Bea Wolf is you discover the "Be a wolf" hashtag which appears to be a lot of large shaven men posting photos of themselves to each other?

kellogh, 27 days ago to random

i wish “type checking for infrastructure” was a thing

my code declares that there should be a S3 bucket that’s different from that other S3 bucket, etc. —> spin up the type checker, it reads APIs and verifies, “yep, this code should run fine”

olafurw, 29 days ago to random

I can't believe an Icelandic newspaper did this pun.

To explain it:

• Probably in Icelandic is Líklega.
• There's a common phrase that is used to mean "probably": "ef að líkum lætur" (in all probability can)

Also:
Lík means corpse.

An article about a morgue closing used that phrase as the title.
"Closes this summer in all probability"
"Closes this summer if all corpses can"