What I use

Why I abandoned Twitter and moved to Bluesky

December 9, 2024 by Jesper Nielsen • 8 minutes to read

In recent years, Twitter has become a shadow of its former self. Once a bustling hub of real-time news, vibrant communities, and genuine interactions, it now feels more like a platform dominated by bad marketing and controversial decisions. The “rocket man”, seems to be running Twitter to the ground, pushing away many of its loyal users. This decline in the quality of experience prompted me to seek a new digital home, and I found it in Bluesky.

How to remove trailing spaces in Visual Studio Code

July 29, 2024 by Jesper Nielsen • 6 minutes to read

I really do not like trailing spaces. Trailing spaces are any extra spaces or tabs at the end of a line of code or text. They may seem harmless, but they can cause problems for developers, editors, and users - and they somehow burn my eyes :)

Trailing spaces can affect the efficiency of the code or file in several ways. First, they can increase the file size unnecessarily, which can slow down the loading and processing time. Second, they can interfere with the version control system, which tracks the changes made to the code or file. Trailing spaces can create false differences or conflicts, which can waste time and resources to resolve. Third, they can cause errors or bugs in some languages or tools, which can affect the functionality and performance of the code or file.

A Newbies Guide to the Galaxy - Part 2

January 28, 2023 by Jesper Nielsen • 18 minutes to read

This is not a guide, it is merely a collection of blog-ramblings, a collection of things I found to be useful while building this website from the ground up, a to-do list, and a list of things I want to accomplish in my quest building this blog and over time become a blogger.

I have not been posting many posts since I initially created the first version of this blog. I have kept this blog unannounced, and it has been living a kind of secret life. In many ways, this blog is defining who I am and what I do daily, I love the technical part of all this. I always been more of techie than a writer and found I was spending a lot of time building, tuning, and customizing various sites, and the whole thing kind of stranded halfway through, becoming too complicated as ambitions was outrunning skills - it was time for a change.

My favorite tools

January 31, 2022 by Jesper Nielsen • 8 minutes to read

Everyone has their own collection of favorites tools and utilities; most people I know have a list of tools they feel are essential.

This is my favorites tools and utilities; I use every week or even every day and others are in the category nice to know about. I strive to use free tools only; I might have added one or two non-free tools to the list as they are essential to me and worth the money.

A Newbies Guide to the Galaxy - Part 1

November 19, 2020 by Jesper Nielsen • 5 minutes to read

This is not a guide, it is merely a collection of my blog-ramblings, a collection of things I found to be useful while building this website from the ground up, a collection of to-do’s and a list of things I want to accomplish in my quest building this blog and over time become a blogger.

I have always been a serious person, with a well proven procrastination issue and often too preoccupied with other things and I had a rather halfhearted go to get a blog going. I have been talking about ‘my blog’ for years, I had several domain names, several ideas and pretty much all of them never got airborne. Thinking about it, I always been more of techie than a writer and found I was spending a lot of time building, tuning and customizing various sites, and the whole thing kind of stranded halfway through, becoming too complicated as ambitions was outrunning skills.

Why I abandoned Facebook

August 1, 2018 by Jesper Nielsen • 3 minutes to read

I have not put any updates on Facebook for more than three months, and these days I often get text messages complaining I am not replying on some “Messenger thing”.

Reason: I have abandoned Facebook!

Basically, I reached my bullshit limit and realized Facebook did not give me anything useful and all I was doing was wasting my time - Do not get me wrong, I really like stuff from e.g. How It’s Made  , but I found I was watching some dude casting a miniature knife from an old tractor, fascinating but not exactly energizing.