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I got inspired by this post to add a sushi belt to my Japanese learning website: tokidoki.meertens.dev

Whether it's actual creativity or not, it is a lot of fun to have an idea and see it executed immediately!

Yep! Fixed it already!

> are wondering who is at fault? It's you I know, that's why I wrote it down.

I did not expect that Github facilitates other accounts creating scam pages under the domain I own...

I wrote it down and posted it for others to learn, and to see if Github can make it harder for scammers to abuse the mistakes of others!

I very much agreed to the "build your own tools for learning" route they took. I made my own site to practice Japanese grammar as it was hard to get feedback on that. tokidoki.meertens.dev -> it's open source so anyone can adapt it to their needs as well!

> To be sincere, I have a strong preference for written content.

At the InfoQ podcast we always create a transcript of the whole episode. It takes quite some time to turn the spoken content into written content, but it's amazing how many people come to me to tell me that they only read the podcast, but never listen to it.

Makes you wonder why one would not immediately write an article rather than spending the effort to create the spoken content.

You might think "who is Christopher Hohn, and what is the TCI Fund", but this guy has a history of making money in weird ways. Just before the banking chrisis, in 2007, he managed to force one of the biggest banks of the the Netherlands (ABN Amro) to either be taken over or to be split up. He has a history of suing the boards of companies if he thinks they can be worth more to investors in some way or another.

You can read more about what happened with the ABN Amro bank back in the days in the super thick book "The Pray" (https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Prey-Wrong-Banking-Industry/d...). I read it last summer and it is surprisingly interesting for a book which follows the board of a big bank...

Both my father and uncle had acute leukemia three years ago. Their brothers went in for a check, but were not a match for stem cell transplants. Luckily, for both there was a match with a random stranger who went through the effort to donate their stem cells such as what happened in this blog post.

I can absolutely recommend everyone to register as a stem cell donor. Thanks to these random matches my father lives on.

As a random fun fact: he got to write one letter to the donor, who got to write one letter back. You never get their contact details, and don't even know in which country they live. Needless to say, tears were shed over the short letter conversation back and forth.

I used CoPilot last Advent of Code and really liked it.

This year I recorded most of my days and uploaded them to youtube. So if you want to get a realistic view, take a look here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOqPGQCzgieAOL6iOJjj8hg.

The earlier days you can see it speeds you up a lot. The later days (such as today) you still want to wrap your own head around difficult computer science concepts so it is kind of useless.

Let me know if you have any questions!

A while ago I gave a presentation at the chaos computer conference looking into this topic for those spinners you encounter everywhere.

Turns out, you can't win anything: https://youtu.be/DstR4mdG2MU

Would love to know this as well! Are you using an official API or did you reverse engineer it yourself?

InfoQ's QCon conference frequently has an "architectures you always wondered about", which frequently has good talks. You can find them here: https://www.infoq.com/architecture-design/.

A great day to read upon my old article on building the most complete palindromic sentence: http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/worlds-longest-palindrome...

Wait, did the site go down again??

Does LinkedIn actually allow this? I thought they didn't allow bots on their platform...