A pacifier for the mind We have all had that moment, either while on a bus, in a cafe or just along a random street. We look up, and we see a world of hunched over people. Staring into their screens, unaware, unthinking. I'm not wondering how we got here. I'm wondering why.
Security The mystery "Deloitte"-blog While seaching the web for information on a camera I have ordered, I stumbled upon a suspicious site hosted on deloitte.com. It turned out the be a malicious site. This is the story of how it was taken down, and the path to writing about it.
Security Large scale exercises for your dev team We need to run exercises in order to be prepared for the worst. Whether your team runs safety critical or business critical systems, it is the responsibility of the team to be able to respond if there is a disaster.
So long Apple Music In late 2021 I bought a pair of Airpods Max on black Friday. With this move, I was deeper into the Apple ecosystem than ever before, and going further seemed like the next natural step. The Airpods came with a 3 months free subscription to Apple Music, so I decided
Technology I think I just rediscovered the internet! Elon Musk bought Twitter, and it turned out - well - great! Oh, not Twitter, that ship is sinking fast, but switching to Mastodon has shown me where the internet I thought I lost years ago was hiding all along! I can't really remember what I thought when
When was the last time we checked the backups? If you want to make the CTO or ops-team shiver, there might be no better question. That's because, usually, no one has the answer. And that is terrifying! So, do you know the answer? If you do, I'm willing to bet you are the outlier. Unfortunately,
Productivity No, this meeting couldn't have been an email – and we're all to blame Another meeting where everyone feels like this is a waste of their time. Why could we not just have done this over email? Do we have to get everyone into a room (or even worse, a zoom room) to figure out whether or not to start on this task next
Security Schrems-II – At what cost? With more than a year since the Schrems-II verdict, I am wondering if it has really left us with any better privacy, or if it has actually been a net loss for European citizens.
Privacy GDPR - It's working! The confirmation emails and checkboxes for consent show one thing: GDPR is working as intended!
Privacy There is no need for consent You don't need consent for processing of personal information to be legal. It can even be highly problematic to rely on consent.
Privacy Privacy for your passion project Do you really have to think about privacy in a passion project? Are there other rules for you, and if not – where do you start?
Security The case for off-cloud backups With modern cloud solutions offering multi-zone and multi-region replications and backups, is there a need for additional backup solutions, and if so, what are the options? I will make the case for backing up to a different cloud provider, and talk about which features can increase the integrity of your
