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Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 10/09/2026

Problemet for min del er at å rydde opp etter andre er ufattelig uinteressant arbeid. Men jeg innser mer og mer at det som foregår er en vanvittig jobbsikring for meg, paradoksalt nok og i all beskjedenhet såklart.

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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 · 08/08/2026

Got it (and Cack Salad and Star Bride) on Bandcamp years ago. Love it, and highly recommend!

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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".

Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 09/07/2026

This is something I find so interesting! The move to having software on general purpose OSes handling RT audio. Not because I am anywhere near that level as a SW engineer, but as a user who has been along in this transition; it becoming actually possible. Curious about all "enabling facilities"!

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

Because that is a topic for conversation explicitly disallowed in the preamble of any management initiated AI competency workshops. It distracts from learning how emplyees can use AI to benefit their employers.

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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.

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

Jeg bare jazzer altså 😅 Jeg resonnerer veldig med ditt opprinnelige svar.

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.

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

Jeg tenker at Tangen sikkert har skrevet denne meldingen v.h.a. av AI, og tenkt “dette er jo enormt mye bedre enn jeg noen gang ville fått til for egen kapasitet” før han fornøyd har sendt den.

Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 10/06/2026

Yes, but can ALWAYS interpolate from data on adults that younger people are obviously worse, because they are young, and I am an adult, and I say so.

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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.

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.

Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 18/02/2026

Agreeing with everything! And I also cross my fingers for the teased piece on (or yelling at) JPA, because it sounds like even more I would keep agreeing to 😁

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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.

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 · 28/10/2025

Going by divide as "separate", as in separately defined processes & tools dictates individuals and interactions instead of individuals deciding this themselves, I am taking a guess at current state-of-the-art peak enterprise software-based product development. The stuff you hear about from Gartner.

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.

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 · 30/09/2025

Siste act jeg oppdaget var Emma-Jean Thackray. Funky og rart! Og fett! Kom over det da jeg handlet nyeste Galliano-albumet og browset litt på labelen brownswood.ochre.store, og det ble dermed med i shopping-carten. Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo: emmajeanthackray.lnk.to/weirdo

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Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo

Listen to Weirdo by Emma-Jean Thackray.

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.

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.

Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 26/08/2025

Er det en slags variant av supertrikset med “forsinket” tam-fill? Altså at fillet som tradisjonelt brukes som overgang/oppbygging til neste periode, spilles faktisk ikke før enern i perioden det skal lede til, også lander man typisk på crash (og skarp) på toern, og grooven fortsetter således derfra?

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This really strikes a chord with me, because it is just yet another variant of the same pattern all over again. And it fascinates me how some gets really emotional when I propose that product teams may benefit with also having ops/platform experts as actual team members.

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Sounds familiar? Not that many years ago, developers needed to be "shielded" from the business and their users and customers, because that world is so chaotic, and development is complicated, expensive, and time-consuming enough. We must optimize for developers to focus on their craft in isolation.

What I am curious about, and also open to being an issue, is that the tooling offered by the big cloud platform providers, is so bad, and so low level, that you need this extra layer of protection and "abstraction" from them before your runtime environment is exposed to devs on your product teams.

Years and years ago we had teams to make Web frameworks on top of Web frameworks. Eventually we figured out that it is harmful to base applications on badly designed in-house tech scaffolds. Now we make platforms on top of platforms instead.

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

It is equally possible to use arguably “better” tooling that may be more aligned with modern and effective software/product dev practices, and still be task-oriented. The difference is in to what degree a tool “drives” status quo of obsolete practice. No tool is neutral in affecting human behavior.

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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 · 03/08/2025

Awesome talk, thank you! I admittedly haven’t read the book, but on numerous occasions I have thought “Wait, what?” when being presented with arguments citing this book.

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 · 20/07/2025

Har lagt til meg vanen å bare ta med flaskepant fortløpende på så og si alle turer på butikken. Senest i dag pantet jeg 2 flasker. Det er ca 0 mer effort enn å ikke ta de med, og da slipper jeg følelsen og tidsbruken av "pant som aktivitet" fordi det bygger seg aldri opp store lass med flaskepant.

Rune Flobakk @rune.flobakk.org · 09/07/2025

Been following Alveus Sanctuary for a while on YouTube. Really relaxing faith-in-humanity-restored type of content.