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Yesterday everything that involved automation by a computer was “robotics”. Robot Process Automation was the solution to every single human process problem ever in any business, and it was the only solution. You may as well have renamed the computer to the “Robotic Process Machine”, because everything it did was reduced down to that. Well times have changed, and the hot new…
The age of AI is here! We’re all so excited for the machine to finally generate an incomprehensible amount of garbage, but just imagine if all that garbage was actually useful. Well I refuse. I’m not interested in imagining how useful you could be to me if you did anything I actually wanted. If you want me to be excited, then maybe do something interesting 1 . Inexplicably I’m…
Discussions around Software engineering as a profession is often framed as objective, focused around absolute truths, rules, and hard guidelines. Don’t repeat yourself, You ain’t gonna need it, the SOLID principles. All of these are discussed as absolute truths, and when a dissenting opinion is voiced people rush in to either disagree or point out how actually the claimed dissenting…
I had some time this weekend to look back at my frametime project from last year. Drawing inspiration from an article on lwn from 2018 called A look at terminal emulators I figured it could be fun to dive into the relative performance of terminal emulators is 2022. The lwn article used an application called Typometer to asses the relative latency of the different terminal emulators. Typometer…
Faced with over 100 Word VBA macros and a request for information about which macros call a certain webservice. How do you get that information without going insane? With a lot of python, some Windows black magic, and a couple of open Microsoft “standards”. Recently a team came to me to ask if it was possible to figure out who called one of our old applications. The application is a…
I am a huge believer in latency as an important part of UI feel . I am also a believer in optimizing against what you can measure. In this regard I see a hole in the open-source ecosystem: We have no structured ways to measure GUI lag. Lag When I say lag I mean the time between you pressing a physical button on your keyboard/mouse, and a change becoming visible on screen. I worry that this…
I recently obtained the keypad section from a Reuters 3000 Xtra keyboard. I’m a fan of tiny keyboards like the planck. These keyboards usually don’t have a numpad, so an external keypad is appealing to me. Discovery To start of with we will take a physical overview of this keypad. Both to learn what we have to work with, but also just to document it. Description of the keypad On the…