The airplane descended for landing, through the clouds the monotone landscape
of small villages, farms, lakes and rivers slowly revealed more and more details.
At first only white cars seemed to drive on the highways. Followed by red cars.
Until eventually cyclists, of which there are many in Holland, could be made out
from the airplane windows.
We touched down a few minutes later. The screen in front of me that was
displaying flight information such as the direction of flight, the speed, also
s…
I am a college dropout. But not in the Alicia Keys, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, or
Kat Cole way. For starters, they all went to very respectable universities and
colleges. I went to a vocational college. Secondly, they all had a goal and dreams.
I did not. The only thing I knew is that I really, really did not like the concept of
school.
I’ve never been a good student. I went to a vocational high-school where
teachers described me as “ambitious, if only he tried”, which I think was the
descript…
I’ve deleted my tweets. I’m deleting my favs. I’ve reset my profile. The only thing that makes me not delete my entire
account is the single sign-on I have for a few websites, required access to the developer APIs, and the few friends I am
contact with now and then via their direct messages.
Why? Because Twitter stopped being fun. 8 years and now 65,000 deleted Tweets later I decided to call it quits. All
because it stopped being fun. My timeline was overrun with inappropriate ads, news that the…
The other day I was casually browsing the internet and was reading about how thousands of MongoDB databases were exposed
to the internet. Unauthenticated for the world to use. Bandits encrypted databases and held them for randsom. A randsom
payable in your favorite crypto currency. This all happened a few months ago, and surely we’ve all learnt not to expose
our services for the entire world to use? Right? … right?
Well, if you’d assume that people never learn you’re right on the money, my frien…