Lars-Christian's website - Notes

Tracking my workouts circa 2012

2026-05-14T00:00:09+00:00

A couple years before I got my first GPS watch, this was how I tracked my workouts:

This was a ‘10k’ (ish) run. Based on my understanding of what someone had told me was the course of a local 10k race.

To be honest, it worked just fine. I'm not sure adding GPS and other sensors for a multitude of advanced metrics has made me any fitter than I would've been if I'd just continued running with my old iPod Nano in hand. But it does make my workout log look a little better, so there's that.

Cruel irony of addiction

2026-05-20T00:00:08+00:00

Caffeine's negative effects on me are never clearer than when I'm under the influence of caffeine.

(I rewrote that sentence 13 times to get it ‘right’. It still doesn't feel right, but perfect is the enemy of good.)

Time for a new printer

2026-05-23T00:00:07+00:00

Signed up for updates about Open Printer. Hopefully this project sees the light of day, and soon! Right ready for a printer in the house, and this looks perfect.

Via.

Love at first listen

2026-05-26T00:00:06+00:00

Sometimes you come across a tune and you instantly know. It will be a combination of the melody, the instrumentation, the vocals and the lyrics. And everything else that makes music unique.

Came across Rattlesnake Milk today and it was love at first listen. Both their albums (from Bandcamp and Qobuz).

While listening I looked up their upcoming tour dates. Was mightily disappointed discovering that they're coming to Norway in the fall, but won't be playing in Oslo! Can we get someone on this asap?!

The economics of AI explained

2026-06-12T00:00:05+00:00

Andrew Singleton in AI Economics for Dummies at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:

Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit. Goldman Sachs builds an altar to Benjamin in their lobby and cuts out the heart of a junior analyst on it every Friday. They call it “Blood Sacrifice Friday.” The name isn’t catchy, but the event becomes a management favorite nonetheless.

I try to keep it light on the AI stuff these days, because oh my god it is everywhere and it bores me to death, but this it too good.

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How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music For Airports

2026-07-22T00:00:04+00:00

Dan Carr in How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music For Airports:

In this article, I’ll discuss how Music for Airports was created, and I’ll deconstruct and recreate the tracks 2/1 and 1/2. Hopefully, the article will demystify some of Brian Eno’s techniques, and give you some ideas about how to adopt some of his ambient music techniques yourself.

Wow! This was a fantastic write-up of how Brian Eno went about creating the ‘first’ work of ambient music. Seeing it written down like this, it seems a lot less mysterious than I would've thought.

End of the day, it seems to me that Eno was a guy who fucked around, and found out. And boy am I glad he did, because Music For Airports is still my number one choice for when I'm working and writing.

Via.

Testing shortcut from mobile

2026-08-12T00:00:03+00:00

Does this thing still work?

Edit: Apparently yes, it does still work.

Updated /now page

2026-08-21T00:00:02+00:00

Got around to updating the Now page today.

Now you know!

chuckles

Have a great weekend!

Hacker ethics

2026-09-03T00:00:01+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

2026-09-09T00:00:00+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.