Peter Jeschke

@thcipriani hey, I just noticed that the jsonfeed for your blog doesn't parse correctly, just fyi ;)

I think Microsoft Teams must have my favorite permission prompt. It just prompts "Yeah, I need more permissions, okay?"

No information why it needs more permissions

No information which permissions it's requesting

@NanoRaptor I didn't change my legal name, but I never use it (unless I have to) because it's longer than my "preferred" name and has a non-ASCII letter which annoys some systems. But even my parents have never called me by my full legal name.

Thought about changing it legally, but don't want to bother with it.

And then I thought about choosing a completely different name, just for fun. But I doubt that's a good reason for all the trouble

Weekend at Bernie's - Which of your dependencies are wearing sunglasses?

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/08/weekend-at-bernies.html

But will I then need another robot to get the second robot unstuck? When will it end?

I think I need another robot to get my vacuum robot unstuck from cat toys

Programming Still Sucks.

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

I wish the poor oncall engineers all the best

An entire TLD unavailable, that's new to me

Maybe that's why it's crashing all the time. Not a bug but a feature to hide other problems

Sometimes, it just displays different mails that the ones I'm selecting. Only works after a restart

I remain impressed at how bad Outlook is at just displaying emails. It's the one job I want it to do

A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

So biology is a monad, got it

https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito

@ceejbot this looks awesome! How? Is this some wrapper around maven?

@endrift I actually prefer this in GitHub, because Github's SPA shit breaks the back button all the time /s

So we got from "unusable" to just "awful". Yay, I guess? (Still, everybody: don't do this shit, just fix your damn website)

In the 1960s, the B-52 bomber could navigate by the stars. Celestial navigation requires spherical trigonometry, so an analog Angle Computer solved these equations electromechanically. Let's look inside...

#magazine #layout #design #space #planet #planets #science #humor #humour #fun #funny #astronomy #uranus #photo

It also updated all other office tools that refused any updates since 2024

But by some magic, Outlook just reinstalled itself while I was waiting for the download to finish(??)

Of course you can't download only Outlook, you have to download the whole office suite

It was wrong, of course. But the second attempt gave me a link that worked. I'm pretty sure that link was forbidden knowledge

I had to ask fucking Copilot how to download an installer

After uninstalling, I noticed that you can't "just install" Outlook on a corporate MacBook, apparently

In the end I had to reinstall Outlook, because of course there is no simple solution to these things

I created a ticket that my Outlook didn't work. Then I waited for a response ... By waiting for a mail notification

For fun, I tried some online LLM detector tools. They were pretty much split 50/50 between AI or not, even though it was really obvious. Also, it was either close to 100% or close to 0%. It's all bullshit

I actually feel a bit ashamed, because in hindsight, it was pretty obvious that this was slop (and not just because the response was plain wrong)

Today I spent half an hour researching and creating a response to WHO I THOUGHT was a maintainer of an open source project, before noticing that the account is actually rather new, has no contributions and has just copy&pasted some LLM slop as a response to my initial question

Today in a meeting:

"Okay, but we need to be careful with all these agents stuff, it's getting impossible to review that many PRs"

"Then we should spend less time reviewing and just pay less attention"

I wish I was making this up