I used to spend a non-negligible amount of time on YouTube - listening to podcasts, watching product reviews and learning things. And I used to do that on my laptop - in the browser - when I lived by myself. And I did what any normal person with technical background did - blocked all ads. It was a reasonably pleasant experience, except for the occasional shell-shock when I tried to open YouTube on a different device that did not have ad blocker installed.

It is usually good practice to show a map when dealing with location-dependent data. However, the biggest real estate portal in Slovakia, nehnutelnosti.sk, does not do this. So I built one myself

You are a city planner. You need to schedule trash collection. You ask yourself: when would be the best time to collect trash? You visualize the garbage truck - big and noisy. You immediately think how to minimize the truck’s disturbance. All the noise. When would it bother the least amount of people? Probably when most people are already awake. When are most people awake? You gather everyone from the city board. You hire a bunch of consultants from your friend’s company. You look at the research. You run the simulations. You ask the chatbots. The answer is clear:

Today marks 549 days since I reported a bug to Raiffeisenbank regarding account transaction notifications. The oldest email from Raiffeisenbank I could find regarding the bug Since then: I spoke to four different people at Raiffeisenbank Last interaction is public on linkedin Received multiple assurances that it would get fixed Got a 300 CZK (~14 USD) voucher for the “inconvenience” Yet the bug remains unfixed. And my patience is wearing thin.