iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my FB + Bsky + google-Adverts timeline suddenly contains a lot of Croatia / Istria / Rovinj / Balkan / Adriatic. Internet knows... Look forward to visiting #HrOUG

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Days since last sabotage of hotel fridge: 0. (Reset counter, and... Fridge was empty...)

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Fuel stations in "older europe" Please Take Note. In a station deep in rural Poland, I can charge at any table (and Yes, the sockets are actually under power)

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Getting closer to Poland.... #poug (and this German "Landhotel" can get an +/- OK mention for wifi)

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This title... so many use-cases

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Warm day, sitting in evening-shade. Just had a rabbit hopping up to me. At abt 2m it realized "oops, a human" and turned around....

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Sitting in a metal barn, just underneath that big red Thunderstorm area W of Middelburg. Noise ! But the wind and rain are very welcome after the heatwave-days we just had.

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

It worked on my machine... Not even the in/famous "rosetta warning." Thanks !

Yep.
First test Positive: it took my additional pluggable databases without blinking.
ORCL is there for historic reasons. Nowadays, I either add pdbs or services names ORCL and FREEPDB1 just about everywhere...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

once you got the wifi.... Whoooos !!

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I only go to events for the food, the drinks, and the stickers.

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Fixed by AI: Custom software stopped throwing errors in the category "Exception"... AI-supported developers laughing their heads off: The silly human had a query : reason like 'Exception%'. Hence Easy to eliminate those Errors...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Brag moment: new macbook isnt quite quite top-of-specs (M5pro, not M5max). But the extra money for nano-texture screen makes this 1st laptop I can truly use in garden. Let s see how she holds up...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Who else gets a small kick out of running xeyes.. kids loved it 20yrs ago and still.... In my case, on a container-image, enabling it was... # dnf config-manager --enable ol8_codeready_builder # dnf install xorg-x11-apps

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

hey, Can Never Resist a new Toy. I got it (downloaded, X11-installed...) Then tested it (trivially....) Sometime I feel like holding a shiny new tool, looking for a use-case. Will try more when time... Nice job by @toonkoppelaars.bsky.social and @chrisrsaxon.bsky.social

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Gets better at every iteration...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

New table added to Schema ... No jokes about Devs creating tables. And having 7 columns with actual names, well, it Is an Improvement over key-integer + payload-varchar2...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

...up and running. Thank You for maintaining those !

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Remember these stickers... (the Croatian variety is "Meni Radi" )

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I suddenly have a much higher opinion of ChatGPT..

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

ZeroGPT agrees with Timor, but ChatGPT leans to "human".. I'm neutral.. a lot of medium etc, especially when the topic is AI, smells "marketing", "clickbait", "must-produce-for-boss". A lot is just BS.. But even in the BS there can be some nuggets.. lot of AI is trained by BS. AI-in = AI-out.

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Here I am researching my talk for a Conference later this autumn. And this code, ready to copy + run, pops up. (it IS one Good Sounding number...)

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

And Thank You ! Also : Congrats with you recent career-moves. I'm now running an image provided by an Oracle-VP... (and using microdnf to tweak it a bit...)

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

@pougorg.bsky.social is in a month. I got my "concept" for prez accepted, but,... They turned it into a "workshop". Been thinking about it. I'll try to make it interesting, with "audience participation" (BYODatabase!). Image of me thinking...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Brilliant. Why didnt I know this... (I know, I know.. RTFM... and then some...)

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Thx! my test in screenshot. pl/sql funct and sql-macro. col1 and col2: funct-calls. col3: sql-macro col4: systimestamp. Note how the function-values vary, increase, per cell, and start slightly newer than the systmst and sql-macro. Macro is atomic and == systimestamp. maybe blog soon.

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Ditto with Devs asking their ChatGPT to write code...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

although, if you get payed by the hour...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Data-processsing the #SmartDB way. Any processing that can take place "inside the database" should be done Right There. Bring your code to the data, do not drag the data out to the code.

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Friday Thought: This movie is 25 years old...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

this meme stolen from nixCraft.. but I can relate.

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

local provider is "out to lunch" ? #deltafiber ?

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Another Year. With Thanks to #Oracle and the team from @oracleace.bsky.social . Hope to see you at several conferences and online...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

You just "invalidated" a series of my test-cases, some dmp-files going back as far as 90s and v8.1.7. Unsable on Autonomous. But I could still import one into 23ai (free-version 25.7.0.25.01)(docker image from @gvenzl.bsky.social ) Have to revert to SQLcl and/or dp for saving testcases.

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

All Good Answers so far. Thx! Specific case: q+d test where python-function spits out mystats after each test/loop/run, in style of autotrace (screenshot). Those nrs accumulate in session, unless either re-connect, or subtract, or ... re-Set => 0. okok, I may code a subtract. #instrumentation

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

ok, but I prefer the "original", the Buick GNX, in FBI-edition...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Maybe 2 out of 20 shots worked. Next time bring tripod... Also: slight cloud cover gave best results

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Save to Disk. (IYKYK, or in that language: WSWSW)

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

And .. The Making Of.. /cc @oracleace.bsky.social (We love a good curry)

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This morning, I heard a familiar "Croack" from a desk nearby.. Blast from the past...

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Piet de Visser @pdevisser.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Xtwit.. 23 unfollows in a week. All but one are suspended by Xtwit or by user... eXodus or Cleanup ? The new followers (9), are nearly all Good Looking crypto-traders.

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