Mark Gjøl

Coder, photographer, grump. Average Home theater nut.

Been at programming professionally since 2007, currently trying to get to keep doing it rather than getting stuck in meetings. Once was Java, dabbled in Android (Floating Image notable mention), now focused on C# and Azure. Clean, maintainable code and doing the right things right is my jazz (or techno or metal).

Posts in Danish if only relevant to Denmark, English if relevant generally.

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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • @AutoMod I morgen er der mgp. Vi har inviteret pigerne i ældstens klasse forbi til fest. Alle kommer! Plus to mindre søskende. Plus 4 forældre. Den ene er italiener og laver pizza. Det forstår jeg at jeg laver totalt forkert, så jeg glæder mig. Det gør pigerne også, de har lavet tegninger og andet pynt hele ugen, der nu pryder stuen.

    Det bliver så godt!



  • @spaghettiwestern The two that made me dive into the home assistant rabbit hole:

    1. When the rabbits are out around sunset (door sensor on their cage) lights turn red and my and my wife’s phone get a notification. Too many times we remembered that the rabbits were loose while it was pitch black. Not too good with black rabbits…

    2. Fixing the mess that is my Marantz receiver, communicating with my TV over hdmi and lately my wiim streamer. Turn it on and off depending on need, controlling zone 2 as well as turning on power for the zone 2 amplifier when it’s used in the receiver. The ridiculous part here is that it’s necessary - these things should just work!














  • @AutoMod I dag lærte jeg… At hvis man på en Grohe vandhane ikke får sat gummipakningen på efter man har afkalket den, så fungerer den fint når man bruger den, men får den ekstra feature, at den i al hemmelighed sprøjter alt til under vasken.

    Mage til idiotisk design skal man lede længe efter, og jeg kan kun antage at det er gjort så de kan spare 5 øre per vandhane ved ikke at lukke rigtigt for enden (så det kun er pakningen der står for at der ikke løber vand “tilbage” ud under vasken).




  • @AutoMod Jeg kan rapportere, at jeg i gang med bog 15 i The Wandering Inn-serien som lydbog. Jeg tror oprindeligt jeg valgte serien fordi den fik gode anmeldelser (altid en god grund) og hver bog var omkring 50 timer - så virkeligt meget valuta for pengene!

    Kort sagt er det en episk saga om en pige i tyverne, der pludseligt står i en RPG (rollespil) verden med mennesker, gnolls (en slags intelligent ulv), drakes (nedstammer fra drager) og en masse andre racer. Der er meget world building, og man følger efterhånden en masse forskellige karakterer hvis skæbner rundt omkring i verden på den ene eller anden måde rører hinanden, hvor end perifert.

    Den er spændende og sjov - og man skal have rigtigt god tålmodighed, forfatteren tager sig rigtigt god tid.


  • @AA5B So we got the best locks we could get from the supplier, which supposedly are hard to pick, cannot be picked and cannot be copied without a key card (not sure how that works). Our doors and windows are enforced. We had one person comment that he rarely saw houses that were this secure (but then he wasn’t a security guy, just a buildings guy). On top of that we have cameras, an alarm system and fog canons.

    It would be convenient to have a smart lock, and I would love to be able to detect if doors are locked or open (Having this as a read-only thing would be perfect), but being a software guy I don’t trust the lock to not be hacked or simply malfunction. The alarm system (ADC) is already obviously made by amateurs, but seems to get the job done…

    Overkill? Definitely! But my wife worked in insurance and is super coloured by the stories she’s heard.