Martijn Engler

Hi, I'm Martijn and I'm an addict

I’m 82% addicted to Apple, if we should believe the results of this test,

I'm the crow

Just so you know, I’m the crow.

You are The Crow. Brought back from the dead to avenge the death of your beloved wife/husband/kitten, you have most of the skills of a ninja, but lack a few essential ingredients. Let’s start with a real mask and work from there.
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58 html elements in 5 minutes

Update: tumblr doesn’t like the HTML code.

Anyway, I scored 58 points in this test. 

Do you know that feeling where you have to do all this things to finish up (in my case: write tests for my code) some work and everything is going well? Too well. You just know something has to be wrong…

And there it is. Right out of nowhere. You’re working on your last test, it’s almost the same as the five before this one. It’s just three lines of code. You write it, run your test and don’t even really look at the output. Just as you’re about to check it in to your version control system you notice it. It can’t be. You run it again. It’s really true…

Your test failed. It actually failed. Your last test failed. The one that was going to set you free of all this work.

I still can’t believe it. After hours of searching and debugging I’m still not sure why it fails. I’ve got somewhat closer, but I still don’t really get it. I’m missing something, that’s for sure. But what it is? I have no idea….

Will be continued… (I hope)

This morning I had a, somewhat unexpected, keynote about a website we’ve been developing. Everything was working fine, I got the attention of most of the people and started talking (not having prepared anything by the way).

And then, after just a few moments, the screen went black.

Just, totally blank. The laptop was still showing us something, so we knew it had to be something with the beamer. I knew I had to do *something* to keep their attention so I just started talking about that screen.

It went something like “Well, at first there was nothing. Just black. An idea.” etc.

Than there was a blue screen (we found the problem, but it takes a while for the beamer to “start up” and stuff) so I started talking about that. It was really an interesting experience to improvise like this again. It’s been a while.

When everything was working OK again I think we did it pretty fine.

It’s always the little things…

A (female) friend just told me that she thinks I’m (and I quote) “always a gentleman”.

I like that. Really. 

Thanks friend, who I will not name here. 

Give your remote control a logical place

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. Why do people place there TV remote next to their TV? Their PC remote next to their PC? etc.

It just doesn’t make sense! Really, think about it. You’re not going to use your remote if you’re standing next to the thing.

My MacBook remote is next to my TV. And my TV remote next to my MacBook. That’s because I’m probably working on my MacBook when I need my TV remote. And when I want my MacBook remote I’m probably in bed or at my door. Both are next to my TV. It makes sense in my opinion.

Now, the thing is: other people think I’m weird. Why? It just makes perfect sense. Right..?

If somebody has some good arguments why I am weird (for doing this) I would love to hear them. 

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