<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>z3i.se</title><link>https://z3i.se</link><description>I mostly write here for fun, the stuff here might be of interest to someone else if they like the same things as me.</description><language>en</language><item><title>The value of whitespace changes</title><link>https://z3i.se/the-value-of-whitespace-changes/</link><description><![CDATA[I have a bit of a neatness obsession. I like code to be as clean and tidy as possible (of course based on my subjective view of what makes it that way). This leads to that I really like things like auto formatting because I strongly…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/the-value-of-whitespace-changes/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 1 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>From a Pebble to an Apple (Watch)</title><link>https://z3i.se/the-apple-watch/</link><description><![CDATA[Apple watch on the left, Pebble on the right To get this out of the way: I have the 42mm space grey sport edition Apple Watch and I have the original Pebble (not the Kickstarter edition, the retail edition). I was a Pebble user for almost…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/the-apple-watch/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Apple Music</title><link>https://z3i.se/apple-music/</link><description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Turns out that the album recommendations from Apple Music are algorithmically generated but the playlists are only human created. I also got some albums recommended now that were obviously algorithmic so it definitely works, so…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/apple-music/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 4 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>My work setup</title><link>https://z3i.se/my-work-setup/</link><description><![CDATA[A few years and five blogging systems ago I wrote a post showing off my home office setup. I've actually seen some interest in it even though it is far from unique so I figured that the same people would be interested in seeing what my…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/my-work-setup/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Learning to love the web</title><link>https://z3i.se/learning-to-love-the-web/</link><description><![CDATA[When I did my first web development back in the mid 90s it was fun. It was all just basic HTML which made sense and some stringing together of what I could find of Perl, PHP and ASP to do exactly what I needed to do. I had done very little…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/learning-to-love-the-web/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Thinking about scope</title><link>https://z3i.se/thinking-about-scope/</link><description><![CDATA[Scope is one of those things that is very easy to lose track of. The natural response from a lot of developers is to try to scope everything as globally as possible just because "you never know where you'll need access to something" Take…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/thinking-about-scope/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Work with new tech</title><link>https://z3i.se/work-with-new-tech/</link><description><![CDATA[Stagnation is a challenge. Regardless of how fun it can be to do slight variations and improvements on the same thing it is very easy to get stuck in one area of thought. I believe most people who read this know what kind of development I…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/work-with-new-tech/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Embrace your differences</title><link>https://z3i.se/embrace-your-differences/</link><description><![CDATA[Software development methodologies are many and very varied. If you take almost any two developers in the world they will differ in how they do things at least in some minor way, and quite frequently you will see major differences. In any…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/embrace-your-differences/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Finds of the week</title><link>https://z3i.se/finds-of-the-week/</link><description><![CDATA[For the third time these are the top things that caught my interest on the internet this week: gdocs2md - A script to convert a Google Drive Document to the markdown format: https://github.com/mangini/gdocs2md This is quite useful if you…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/finds-of-the-week/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Music and focus</title><link>https://z3i.se/music-and-focus/</link><description><![CDATA[I work in an open office space and because of that listening to music through big bulky over-priced headphones is a big part of my working day since we (software engineers) need to spend quite a bit of time inside our own heads to do what…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/music-and-focus/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Finds of the week</title><link>https://z3i.se/finds-of-the-week-2/</link><description><![CDATA[I haven't done this previously, but it seems to be all the rage among some of the bloggers I follow, so I wanted to try it out. These are the top things that caught my interest on the internet this week: Game on ladies:…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/finds-of-the-week-2/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Being fearless</title><link>https://z3i.se/being-fearless/</link><description><![CDATA[I do fear a lot of things, but not when it comes to software development. I’m not ever afraid to try something new, and I doubt that I ever will be. I have come to learn that this is less common than one might think, that some software…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/being-fearless/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Dropzone</title><link>https://z3i.se/dropzone/</link><description><![CDATA[I love Dropzone. I know I'm incredibly late to the party as it has been around for years, but I still want to profess my love for it. I think I first learned about it from some podcast that Brett Terpstra was on, and I bought it pretty…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/dropzone/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>IRC</title><link>https://z3i.se/irc/</link><description><![CDATA[IRC is one of those "ancient" things that have been around since way before most modern internet protocols even saw the light of day. To a lot of people it's heavily obscure, heck, most people haven't even heard of it, and a lot of those…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/irc/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Throw away more code</title><link>https://z3i.se/throw-away-more-code/</link><description><![CDATA[The title may sound a bit weird from the guy who thinks you should really re-use code, but I assure you that these things are completely possible to combine. You probably have had the same experience more than once. You build a quick,…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/throw-away-more-code/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 1 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Customisation vs over fiddling</title><link>https://z3i.se/customisation-vs-over-fiddling/</link><description><![CDATA[I use a lot of software, and I am very picky about how the software I use works. If something does not work the way I want it to then it will start bugging me really quickly. This is pretty typical of the type of user I am, I belong to the…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/customisation-vs-over-fiddling/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 1 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Porting as an exercise in code cleanliness</title><link>https://z3i.se/porting-as-an-exercise-in-code-cleanliness/</link><description><![CDATA[Porting code from one platform to another brings a whole set of interesting challenges. These challenges bring a whole set of opportunities for looking at your code with fresh eyes. The biggest challenge is most likely if you need to…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/porting-as-an-exercise-in-code-cleanliness/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Solving more interesting problems</title><link>https://z3i.se/solving-more-interesting-problems/</link><description><![CDATA[I love problem solving. There are few things I find as satisfying in software development as finding a creative solution to a complex problem. Because of this I've also kind of become “that guy who fixes the tricky stuff” around the…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/solving-more-interesting-problems/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>C++ is not going away</title><link>https://z3i.se/c-is-not-going-away/</link><description><![CDATA[I came across this post a few days ago: The Great Programming Language Continuum; or why C++ is dying As someone who programs in C++ frequently and who is fairly connected to the C++ community I think that this author really has no idea…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/c-is-not-going-away/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Don&apos;t ignore compiler warnings</title><link>https://z3i.se/dont-ignore-compiler-warnings/</link><description><![CDATA[I know some developers who see them as the bane of their existance, others who think that that they shouldn't even look at them and a rare few who think they are important to read. If you didn't guess from the headline this is about…]]></description><guid>https://z3i.se/dont-ignore-compiler-warnings/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>