Niklas Saers
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Spec-Driven AI Development

You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.

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August 15, 2004 • Music

New Harpsichord

The new harpsichord at school has arrived. Due to what's called a wormhole in the wood, I'm calling him (it's CLEARLY a male instrment) Grima. Weee!! He sounds great. :) Now we just have to put the old one into shape.

August 14, 2004 • General

Summer

Nik is back in Denmark. My trip was good. The weather has been good, my book (Peter Bastian's “Inn i Musikken”) is still interesting, my <div alt=”Nomad Jukebox 3 MP3 player>Nomad

is still filled with good music (now listening to Chominciamento di gioia – Ensemble Unicorn Vienna) and the weather has been fabulous. No turbulence (although I think the pilots were having fun flying slalom every now and then ;-) ), and the correspondance with my train was just great. Straight from the plane to the train without having to hurry or wait for ages.

August 13, 2004 • General

Cocoa#

The Mono project has a new member: Cocoa#. According to their site CocoaSharp is aimed at .Net/Mono developers that want to allow their users to have a native Mac OS X application experience.

August 13, 2004 • Work

Antispoof feature in ipfw

I should be sure to include the ipfw antispoof option,
implemented by Andre Oppermann in FreeBSD's ipfw, at work

August 13, 2004 • General

Gnome 2.6 on FreeBSD

If you are installing Gnome on FreeBSD right now, you should read this article. I expect it'll be outdated fairly quickly, so if you're reading this a month from now you can probably skip it

August 13, 2004 • General

Ink-jet printing creates tubes of living tissue

Ok, this is apparently old news, but still it was new to me. newscientists.com has an article on Ink-jet printing of living. This sounds like a wonderful idea. :) Canon is apparently doing the same thing in Japan

August 9, 2004 • Work

atacontrol panic

I've had a panic with FreeBSD's ata-raid under -CURRENT the last few days, collected it all and wrote to Søren about it. A little while later, a patch pops in. It all works. :) Thanks a bunch, Søren. :)

August 5, 2004 • General

Problem with photos

According to an US news site "You know the bands - their names, their music, their image - everything is licensed. And if somebody takes a photograph of the band, and that picture ends up on e-bay and somebody's paying money for it, the band's not seeing any of that revenue, then they have a problem with it," Barry Kohlus, with The Backyard, said. So let me get this right, if I take a picture of something and sell it, what's in the picture should get money for it? If I take a picture of the Eiffel tower, should I pay some Paris agency for that? If I take a picture of someone, should I pay them for it? Hmm.... I've been in the newspapers a couple of times, twice on TV and in various sites. Does that mean that all these places should pay me for the picture? ;-) Obviously, someone must have their licencing wrong. ;)

August 5, 2004 • Blogs

Kubrick

So, this blog now uses the Kubrick team, even though I'm having a couple of problems with it. So I did a quick google to see how many admitted to using it, and I thought I'd link up a few here. I won't comment on the ones that haven't made any real changes, but since I'm planning to I thought I'd see what other people have been doing.

August 4, 2004 • Music

Solheim

I was recommended to have a look at the webpage to Maria Solheim, singer & lyric writer. I'll have to listen to some of her music.