iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I consider adopting the principle that any service which when accessing it by a direct link to a resource, if it sends me on a detour, e.g. to log in or anything else, and afterwards it fails to proceed to the resource I was initially navigating to, I will completly abandon using this service.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 19/09/2026

If you run a video platform, any time you put this in my fyp, I will click and watch it to the end. Every. Time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q_7... @gamegrumps.bsky.social

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Literally crashing planes | Crazy Plane Landing

YouTube video by GameGrumps

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 27/08/2026

Opening Spotify to control Spotify already running on another device. When selecting the other device, it will immediately start playing. Just from selecting where to play. The digital products we hail as best of breed, look up to and emulate are so fucking bad, and we need to call that out more.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 19/07/2026

So tired of AI advocates from the basis that a dev works by picking a feature request, then builds it, and AI is good b/c it largely decreases the cost of that activity. That is not how to build software products, and if you do follow this workflow, coding is certainly not "the most expensive part".

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 06/07/2026

The last week I discovered Ask Hank Anything on @complexly.org, and I am loving it so much. My favorite episodes so far are the ones with @simonegiertz.bsky.social and @dailyangelagia.bsky.social, and for totally different reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOA... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irh...

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Do You Think I'm Talented? | Angela Giarratana Asks Hank Anything

YouTube video by Complexly

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 01/07/2026

With streaming services you can do stuff like play, pause, skip, and queue up stuff. Basic stuff that Winamp managed to get right in the late 90s. Functionality a CD-player managed to handle before that. Which makes it very adorable that @youtubesupport.bsky.social is a paid service.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 14/06/2026

With tokens getting more expensive, there are efforts put into automating use of different models for different tasks to optimize costs. More moving parts, more things to fail. Our profession has potential to contribute to good, but as engineers we keep solving problems created by engineers instead.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 16/05/2026

I just searched one half of a now defunct duo, wondering what he's currently doing. The summary given by Google informs he works as a music producer, and also currently serving a 2 year jail sentence. Had to do a second search to specifically “ask” if this is the same person. It is not. I hate AI.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 07/05/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the solution to product teams enjoying "enablement" from any "enablement" teams, but still not able to deliver value at a desired pace, is _not_ to scale up any "enablement" teams.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 05/05/2026

Omg, slutt å bring inn YtRiNgSfRiHeT hver eneste gang noen kritiserer utsagnene dine! Ingen nekter deg å si det du sier, du blir ikke fengslet, du blir ikke forfulgt. Du er bare et rasshøl. Argumenter gjerne hvorfor du ikke er et rasshøl selv om du sier ting som rasshøl sier.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 28/04/2026

I think we are now at the point where we don’t need to qualify AI with “slop” anymore, this can safely be assumed to be the case when referring only to “AI". I propose instead to further qualify the cases of AI actually providing positive effects, shouldn’t wear down your keyboard too much.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 11/04/2026

Så på spørsmål om videoer uegnet for barn som blir tilgjengeliggjort på YouTube Kids, så svarer YouTube at disse videoene NRK har sendt screenshots av fra YouTube Kids har aldri vært tilgjengelige på YouTube Kids. Nei, da så 🤷 www.nrk.no/vestfoldogte...

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Slik sjekket vi YouTubes algoritmer for hva de foreslår for barn

NRKs undersøkelse viser den korte veien fra barnevennlig innhold til noe helt annet.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 20/03/2026

So with AI we managed to shift the focus from "how can we ensure our output creates most value, and if our output actually solves problems in the best possible way" securely back into "we must measure how much output we produce".

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 09/03/2026

I get the praise for Excel. It's a remarkably useful software. But we don't talk enough about it being 2026, Excel still associates itself with the *.csv extension, even though it never manages to properly read CSV without any user intervention, which it doesn't offer on double-clicking such a file.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 10/02/2026

It really should exist some hacker activist group or something which one could report online harassment to, and they would then track down the harasser and make their life miserable.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 23/12/2025

I thought I "got" product development, and it being the next evolution of iterative development/exploring/learning, always work on the right problem. Then I learned it can be simplified to agile development, and _include_ corporate interests, and suddenly it makes sense why all software become shit.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 26/11/2025

Den norske varianten av QED etter en litt middels forberedt argumentrekke er “sååå…. Ja."

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 28/10/2025

Youngstorget med den opplyste orange fasaden bak buene ved Basarhallene langs den ene siden ser veldig fint ut i høstmørket. Hvor ligger avgjørelsen om at å gjøre det om til telt- og parkeringsplass i store deler av oktober er fett? Sånn med tanke på fremtidige kommunevalg.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 16/10/2025

The reason you need to measure and collect feedback on the most trivial things, and be ready to improve the UI, is that even though you prominently display a button on your landing page, without need for scrolling, which says “Do X”, users will still complain they are not able to find where to do X.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 03/10/2025

Would be refreshing if instead of answering questions by _not_ actually answering, politicians instead said something in the line of “you are now touching on a dark and unfortunate consequence of our politics and values, so I am not comfortable to give an honest answer on this matter”.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 26/09/2025

The ideal with flat, “clean”, no texture, no illusion of depth, “Material Design” UIs emerged because of corporate need to be spend less money on building visuals. Not from any wish to build better and more intuitive UX for end-users.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 25/09/2025

If anything referring to existing or potential software appears in your OKR, you are probably not doing OKR, but instead upfront enumerating tasks you plan to do over the coarse of few next months. I.e. old-style planning you have probably acknowledged to be sub-effective since you attempt at OKR.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 12/09/2025

Your irregular reminder that, even in languages where nullability is not captured by the type system, using an empty String as the absence of a String is worse than using null.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 04/09/2025

So a colleague ordered some stuff, and discovered that the carrier was UPS. Instead of struggling with UPS failing their core business (a.k.a. delivering) she just immediately opted for the return fee for the store. Imagine delivering a service in such a manner people would pay to avoid it.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 21/08/2025

The main problem with Jira is not that it is bad software, although it is enshittified beyond belief. The issue is focusing on tasks _in a development and innovation context_ and using tools that enforce and/or make it hard to leave this mindset, and Jira excels at this.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 10/08/2025

Er det så ekstremt å ønske død over noen som utfører folkemord? Ser at det spørres retorisk hva man ville gjort om man hang opp et hakekors. Sannsynligvis ville folk forlatt konsert før arrangør vil t.o.m rekke å stoppe den. Ville mosaisk trossamf. reagert om man ønsket død over nazister fra scenen?

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Mener Øyafestivalen burde stoppet Israel-kritikk

Artisten Musti brukte slagordet «Død, død over IDF» på Øya lørdag kveld. Arrangøren sier de ikke visste om stuntet på forhånd.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 26/07/2025

So many SoMe apps I wouldn’t care if were regulated into oblivion by consumer rights laws. But it also fascinates me how many people are genuinely surprised and outraged when the apps they use for free use dark UX patterns to try making their income source (typically ads) more effective.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 22/07/2025

The smartass who came up with the brilliant idea to make localized versions of Visual Basic and spreadsheet formulas, is today working in the company who makes the search input field in emoji selectors 💀

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 08/07/2025

So I (re-)signed up on Instagram. Exploring viable alternatives to Facebook to follow artists and bands to reliably catch when they are playing and other updates. Almost instantly regretting. You can tell IG is owned by FB, as their app is on a similar level of shittyness.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 27/06/2025

Det begynner å klare seg litt nå med antall #dax18 hvor KrF(U) sitter og argumenterer på formen “det må jo være lov å støtte grunnleggende rettigheter for alle og samtidig kritisere at når noen spesifikke får de samme rettighetene som majoriteten, så blir de som ikke liker dette lei seg”.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 01/05/2025

Had a @cinemassacre.bsky.social “Just walk over it” moment. Revisited a 3yo hack I used PowerMock for some weird test conditions. Want to get rid of PwrMock, tried to adjust my approach, other reflection hacks, no avail. Then it dawned how I could just used regular language facilities all the time 🤬

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 23/04/2025

One of my Java pet peeves is the method names for _empty_ Lists and Sets are just “of” with no args. “Oh, if not applicable, just pass a list of.” “Of? OF WHAT??” Would prefer either List.empty() or even List.emptyList(). I tend to statically import Collections.emptyList(), because it reads better.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 16/04/2025

If devs were given the tools and facilities to model their data with the exact shape required for each context the data is used, instead of encouraging one single model to rule them (the often misunderstood "core domain"), LazyLoadingExceptions would not even be a thing.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 04/04/2025

In an act of desperation, today I reached for JDK dynamic proxies to solve a "frameworky” problem. Last time I did this was 2013. Got the proxy to work as intended, but luckily it was still not quite applicable for the problem, so had to abandon it. Eventually solved with regular static facilities 😮‍💨

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 28/03/2025

Upgraded production to Java 24 today! #deploy-on-friday

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 20/03/2025

Jeg kaster alltid litt opp i munnen min nå når jeg hører politikere innlede et svar med “Dette handler om”. Kan man ikke gi argumenter og resonnementer i stedet for å ty til å sette en slags følelsesmessig kontekst? Dette retoriske grepet er noe som har kommet de siste årene, er det ikke?

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 19/02/2025

Når du tror at NRK ikke kan bevege seg lenger bort fra vedtektene om å være bl.a. "kilde til innsikt, refleksjon, opplevelse og kunnskap gjennom programmer av høy kvalitet” og “bidra til økt kunnskap om internasjonale forhold”, så smeller’em til med med å ha Ole Asbjørn Ness som deltaker i Debatten.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 05/02/2025

It may just be that my first muting frenzy on @bsky.app will be people using X screenshots to seed their posting here like "oh, look at this stupid thing they say on X". I know X is stupid. I know the X owner is a fucking numbnut. I am not interested in X content. That's why I stopped using X.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 25/01/2025

I use @googleyoutube.bsky.social a lot. Say I play a video on Chromecast. I then want to play another one after the one I am watching, so I add it to the queue. Then I must manually start the next in queue after the currently playing one is done. To me it would be absurd to pay for such crippled UX.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 09/01/2025

Hva er bra tjenester i norsk kontekst for å oppdage konserter som skjer? Helst med registrering av deltagelse/interesse og tilhørende iCal-feed til egen kalender. Vil erstatte den ørlille gjenstående nytten jeg har av Facebook. Songkick? Bandsintown? Andre? Vet kanskje @mollerse.bsky.social om noe?

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 02/01/2025

Spent an hour debugging a ClassNotFound because a library changed its Maven GAV scheme (artifactId) in a patch version. Solvable, it is just a little bit surprising, and takes time to track down. Is this a case where a relocation POM would be applicable and helpful? maven.apache.org/guides/mini/...

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Guide to relocation – Maven

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 24/12/2024

Couple of years ago I made a score sheet of "Silent Night", downloadable as PDF: github.com/runeflobakk/... It is my own arrangement, though heavily based on from memory a MIDI file I had many many years ago. If you happen to play the piano, or just interested in sheet-music-as-code, give it a go!

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GitHub - runeflobakk/silent-night: Piano arrangement of Silent Night, written in LilyPond

Piano arrangement of Silent Night, written in LilyPond - runeflobakk/silent-night

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 22/12/2024

So many other issues to solve before providing localized text search for emojis. And when even fucking that up by removing support for English names, that's why software is enshittified. It has actually nothing to do with "software is complex". We can just not enshittify it. But we still choose to.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 05/12/2024

It’s really the best feeling (with a small sprinkle of embarrassment) when you iterate on your code, encounter a candidate for simplification, and suddenly you get this wild cascade of fancy patterns and other “engineering efforts” which just annihilates.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 23/11/2024

Dette er årntli gammal surpomp, men det er når du selger ting på Finn at du virkelig merker at folk er oppdratt forskjellig. Folk synes det er ok å avtale, for så å plutselig ghoste. Kommuniserer vagt fremfor entydig. Det er såpass slitsomt at jeg ofte kaster brukbare ting fremfor å selge/gi bort.

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 20/11/2024

Random music tips: Sirintip I have found myself coming back to this video multiple times since it was released couple of months ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxhG... Music is incredibly tasteful, lovely audio and production.

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Sirintip - Plastic Bird | HIDDEN SESSION #3

YouTube video by GroundUP Music NYC

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 17/11/2024

Suggested a small PR to BouncyCastle today, intending to fix a 3 1/2 year old issue github.com/bcgit/bc-jav... asking to add a Maven BOM. But I really don’t know anything about Gradle, so if anyone want to improve on my Gradlibberish, feel absolutely free 😅

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Add BOM by runeflobakk · Pull Request #1915 · bcgit/bc-java

I have taken a stab at trying to fix #899. This will add a new subproject to produce a BOM which includes all the other subprojects and their versions. The published BOM can be declared in <depe...

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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 14/11/2024

There is no such thing as "interrupting", or "bringing a dev out of context" in a proper autonomous team, all working towards same goal. If you talk to, or have a meeting with a dev, it will be relevant to the work you both are doing, and valuable for both of you individually, the team, and product.

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