Proposed diagnostic construct. Not recognized by any legitimate diagnostic body, though widely reinforced by social institutions. Diagnostic Criteria A. Persistent pattern of cognitive, emotional, and social functioning characterized by a strong preference for normative coherence, rapid closure of uncertainty, and limited tolerance for sustained depth—intellectual, experiential, or emotional—beginning in early socialization and present across multiple contexts (e.g. interpersonal relationships, workplace environments, family systems, cultural participation).

I recently fell into one of those algorithmic rabbit holes that only the internet can provide. The spark was a YouTube Short by @TechWithHazem: a rapid-fire terminal demo showing a neat little text-processing trick built entirely out of classic Linux tools. No frameworks, no dependencies, just pipes, filters, and decades of accumulated wisdom compressed into under a minute. That’s the modern paradox of Unix & Linux culture: tools older than many of us are being rediscovered through vertical videos and autoplay feeds.

Today marks exactly 25 years since I registered amedee.be. On 12 December 2000, at 17:15 CET, my own domain officially entered the world. It feels like a different era: an internet of static pages, squealing dial-up modems, and websites you assembled yourself with HTML, stubbornness, and whatever tools you could scrape together. 🧑‍💻📟 I had websites before that—my first one must have been around 1996, hosted on university servers or one of those free hosting platforms that have long since disappeared.

Or How I Discovered That Fusion Is… Fine, I Guess 🕺 Last night I did something new: I went fusion dancing for the first time.Yes, fusion — that mysterious realm where dancers claim to “just feel the music,” which is usually code for nobody knows what we’re doing but we vibe anyway.The setting: a church in Ghent.

When you move out of a cohousing, you don’t just pack your boxes — you pack your shared life.And in our case, that meant making an inventory of everything that lived in the house at Van Ooteghem:Who takes what, what gets sold, and what’s destined for the containerpark. To keep things organised (and avoid the classic “wait, whose toaster was that again?” discussion), we split the task — each person took care of one room.

After days of boxes, labels, and that one mysterious piece of furniture that no one remembers what it belongs to, we can finally say it: we’ve moved! And yes, mostly without casualties (except for a few missing screws). The most nerve-wracking moment? Without a doubt, moving the piano. It got more attention than any other piece of furniture — and rightfully so.

You know how you can make your bootloader sing a little tune?Well… what if instead of music, you could make it play Space Invaders? Yes, that’s a real thing.It’s called GRUB Invaders, and it runs before your operating system even wakes up.Because who needs Linux when you can blast aliens straight from your BIOS screen?

We hebben de sleutels nog niet, maar ik plan toch al een verhuisdag op woensdag 29 oktober. (To be confirmed, maar het komt dichterbij!) Waar ik hulp bij kan gebruiken 💪 Bananendozen verhuizen — ik zorg dat het meeste op voorhand is ingepakt.Ruwe schatting: zo’n 30 dozen (ik heb ze niet geteld, ik leef graag gevaarlijk). Demonteren en verhuizen van meubels:

So, you know that feeling when you’re editing GRUB for the thousandth time, because dual-booting is apparently a lifestyle choice?In a previous post — Resurrecting My Windows Partition After 4 Years 🖥️🎮 — I was neck-deep in grub.cfg, poking at boot entries, fixing UUIDs, and generally performing a ritual worthy of system resurrection. While I was at it, I decided to take a closer look at all those mysterious variables lurking in…

As a solo developer, I wear all the hats. 🎩👷‍♂️🎨That includes the very boring Quality Assurance Hat™ — the one that says “yes, Amedee, you do need to check for trailing whitespace again.” And honestly? I suck at remembering those little details. I’d rather be building cool stuff than remembering to run Black or fix a missing newline. So I let my robot friend handle it.

Sometimes Linux life is bliss. I have my terminal, my editor, my tools, and Steam games that run natively. For nearly four years, I didn’t touch Windows once — and I didn’t miss it. And then Fortnite happened. My girlfriend Enya and her wife Kyra got hooked, and naturally I wanted to join them. But Fortnite refuses to run on Linux — some copy-protection magic that digs into the Windows kernel.

🚪👋 Goodbye, Meta’s walled gardens Facebook and Threads now flag my own blog links as spam unless I pay to “boost” them. So I’m done posting new articles on my Facebook Page and on Threads. I’ll still use my Profile to check events and photos, but the Page/Threads era is over. If you want my writing without algorithms, takedowns or zuckerbots, subscribe via RSS, email, or follow me here. 🎻 I’d much rather play nyckelharpa or dance balfolk than argue with an algorithm. Full post 👉

Mood: Slightly annoyed at CI pipelines 🧨CI runs shouldn't feel like molasses. Here's how I got Ansible to stop downloading the internet. You're welcome. Let’s get one thing straight: nobody likes waiting on CI.Not you. Not me. Not even the coffee you brewed while waiting for Galaxy roles to install — again. So I said “nope” and made it snappy.

There comes a time in every developer’s life when you just know a certain commit existed. You remember its hash: deadbeef1234. You remember what it did. You know it was important. And yet, when you go looking for it... 💥 fatal: unable to read tree <deadbeef1234> Great. Git has ghosted you. That was me today. All I had was a lonely commit hash.

At some point, I had to admit it: I’ve turned GitHub Issues into a glorified chart gallery. Let me explain. Over on my amedee/ansible-servers repository, I have a workflow called workflow-metrics.yml, which runs after every pipeline. It uses yykamei/github-workflows-metrics to generate beautiful charts that show how long my CI pipeline takes to run. Those charts are then posted into a GitHub Issue—one per run.

Have you ever fired up a Vagrant VM, provisioned a project, pulled some Docker images, ran a build… and ran out of disk space halfway through? Welcome to my world. Apparently, the default disk size in Vagrant is tiny—and while you can specify a bigger virtual disk, Ubuntu won't magically use the extra space. You need to resize the partition…

Let’s talk about environment variables in GitHub Actions — those little gremlins that either make your CI/CD run silky smooth or throw a wrench in your perfectly crafted YAML. If you've ever squinted at your pipeline and wondered, “Where the heck should I declare this ANSIBLE_CONFIG thing so it doesn’t vanish into the void between steps?”, you’re not alone. I’ve been there.

When using Ansible to automate tasks, the command module is your bread and butter for executing system commands. But did you know that there's a safer, cleaner, and more predictable way to pass arguments? Meet argv—an alternative to writing commands as strings. In this post, I’ll explore the pros and cons of using argv, and I’ll walk through several real-world examples tailored to web servers and mail servers.

Not every day do I get an email from a very serious security researcher, clearly a man on a mission to save the internet — one vague, copy-pasted email at a time. Here’s the message I received: From: Peter Hooks <peterhooks007@gmail.com>Subject: Security Vulnerability Disclosure Hi Team, I’ve identified security vulnerabilities in your app that may put users at risk.

Ever wondered what it’s like to unleash 10 000 tiny little data beasts on your hard drive? No? Well, buckle up anyway — because today, we’re diving into the curious world of random file generation, and then nerding out by calculating their size distribution. Spoiler alert: it’s less fun than it sounds. 😏 Step 1: Let’s Make Some Files... Lots of Them…

If you’re running Mail-in-a-Box like me, you might rely on Duplicity to handle backups quietly in the background. It’s a great tool — until it isn’t. Recently, I ran into some frustrating issues caused by buggy Duplicity versions. Here’s the story, a useful discussion from the Mail-in-a-Box forums, and a neat trick I use to keep fallback versions handy. Spoiler: it involves an APT hook and some smart file copying!

A few weeks ago, I was knee-deep in CSV files. Not the fun kind. These were automatically generated reports from Cisco IronPort, and they weren’t exactly what I’d call analysis-friendly. Think: dozens of columns wide, thousands of rows, with summary data buried in awkward corners. I was trying to make sense of incoming mail categories—Spam, Clean, Malware—and the numbers that went with them.

Soms zit het mee, soms nét niet. Het herenhuis waar we helemaal verliefd op waren, is helaas aan iemand anders verhuurd. Jammer, maar we blijven niet bij de pakken zitten. We zoeken verder — en hopelijk kan jij ons daarbij helpen! Wij zijn drie mensen die samen een huis willen delen in Gent. We vormen een warme, bewuste en respectvolle woongroep, en we dromen van een plek waar we rust, verbinding en creativiteit kunnen combineren.

Lately, I’ve noticed something strange happening in online discussions: the humble em dash (—) is getting side-eyed as a telltale sign that a text was written with a so-called “AI.” I prefer the more accurate term: LLM (Large Language Model), because “artificial intelligence” is a bit of a stretch — we’re really just dealing with very complicated statistics 🤖📊. Now, I get it — people are on high alert, trying to spot generated content.

Heb jij altijd al willen samenwonen met fijne mensen in een warme, open en respectvolle sfeer? Dan is dit misschien wel iets voor jou. Samen met twee vrienden ben ik een nieuwe cohousing aan het opstarten in Gent. We hebben een prachtig gerenoveerd herenhuis op het oog, en we zijn op zoek naar een vierde persoon om het huis mee te delen.