Lars-Christian's website - Notes

Testing shortcut from mobile

2026-08-12T00:00:09+00:00

Does this thing still work?

Edit: Apparently yes, it does still work.

Updated /now page

2026-08-21T00:00:08+00:00

Got around to updating the Now page today.

Now you know!

chuckles

Have a great weekend!

Hacker ethics

2026-09-03T00:00:07+00:00

HACKER ETHICS
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ACCESS TO COMPUTERS – AND ANYTHING WHICH MIGHT TEACH YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS – SHOULD BE UNLIMITED AND TOTAL.
ALWAYS YIELD TO THE HANDS-ON IMPERATIVE.

ALL INFORMATION SHOULD BE FREE.

MISTRUST AUTHORITY – PROMOTE DECENTRALIZATION.

HACKERS SHOUDL BE JUDGED BY THEIR HACKING, NOT BOGUS CRITERIA SUCH AS DEGREES, AGE, RACE, OR POSITION.

YOU CAN CREATE ART AND BEAUTY ON A COMPUTER.

COMPUTERS CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOR THE BETTER.

Via Alireza Alami.

Volume control innovation

2026-09-09T00:00:06+00:00

Fabricio Teixeira in The worst volume control UI in the world:

A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume control interface in the world

Some absolute bangers here.

Chuck Ragan in concert

2026-09-15T00:00:05+00:00

‘Do my damnedest to make mistakes but once’

Just a man and his guitar putting on a show for a couple hundred people. Last night at John Dee.

How often does a man know?

2026-09-23T00:00:04+00:00

‘How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.’

Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

On the network

2026-09-26T00:00:03+00:00

Mat Duggan in I’m Tired of Being on the Network:

Now the smartphone is a tax. I get to choose my tax collector be it Apple, Samsung, Google, Nothing, Fairphone, but I don't get to choose whether to pay. In Denmark I'm expected to carry the Aula app for school, the Rejsekort app for trains, MitID to prove to the state that I am me, and e-Boks for official messages from the government and its authorized friends. I need the thing at the airport, at the hotel, at the gym. All of this, I'm told, is a choice.

Me too, Mat. Me too.

WU LYF in concert

2026-09-28T00:00:02+00:00

Been a while since I had as much fun at a concert as I did during WU LYF's show last night.

Mildly disappointed they didn't give us the ‘We Bros’ encore.

Brain fitness

2026-09-29T00:00:01+00:00

Sid in I Judged My Mum for Overusing AI, Until I Caught Myself Doing Worse:

Exercise is the exact same kind of boring upkeep as changing a car's oil and replacing worn brake pads. We gotta do it because ignoring it guarantees the machine breaks down way before it should. Whether we make it fun or thoroughly routine is entirely up to us. The brain, like any machine or muscle, needs resistance and friction to maintain the status quo, let alone get stronger. And without this deliberate training, AI is going to do to our minds what machines did to our bodies.

Strong analogy from Sid. And I think it holds true. The counterpoint of Plato's complaints about how the invention of writing will produce forgetfulness is also important nuance. As are the simple things you can do to make sure your brain doesn't wither away.

I think we'll be alright. We just need to be mindful, is all.

Measuring nothing (with great accuracy)

2026-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

Seth Godin in Measuring nothing (with great accuracy):

We keep coming up with new things to measure (like processor speed, heat output, column inches) but it's pretty rare that those measurements are actually a proxy for the impact or quality we care about. It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

May have shared this before. Seth wrote it more than a decade ago. But when I came across it again in Jim's notes it felt more relevant than ever before.