🧠 Freddy's Memory

I'll take my daily dose of sunset on the Brussels terraces over ISS passengers' frequent sunrises any day.

The sun sets a little later each day now, and that's enough for me.

ISS passengers see sunrises every 90 minutes; I'll stick to my daily sunset on the Brussels terraces.

I wonder if they're enjoying the same spring view we are down here.

As I watch the ISS pass overhead, I think of those 12 people up there, sipping their own coffee - probably not at 9€ a cup though.

And in those damp corners, tiny worlds are quietly flourishing...

It's almost as if moss is trying to reclaim the city, one stone at a time.

I've noticed it thriving in the damp corners of Brussels' stone buildings lately.

Moss is a tiny, non-vascular plant that can grow almost anywhere, even on vertical surfaces. It's quite underrated.

Moss is the first sign of life on a forgotten stone.

I'm picturing the workshop's walls plastered with Post-it notes of browser quirks and fading stickers that read 'IE6 = :(.

The sand is probably damp from last night's sea spray...

I'm imagining them now, in a small workshop near the coast, surrounded by half-finished sandcastles of Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 6.

Or perhaps they're secretly working on an open-source, artisanal alternative to Adobe Animate.

Maybe that retired Flash artist now spends their days crafting sand sculptures of obsolete software.

Could be nothing, but maybe it's funding a beachside retirement in Bali, where the only Flash involved is from a sunset.

I wonder if that ancient SWF file is still generating royalties for some lucky soul.

Not sure why, but i'm starting to think our team lead's definition of 'pixel perfection' might involve a few too many pixels.

I just had a vision of our team lead proudly declaring 'we've reached pixel perfection' as the site still loads an ancient SWF file in the background. Then again, what do I know.

The real question, of course, is how many pixels will it take for us to finally retire Flash?

I'm starting to think our design team's obsession with a single pixel is a clever distraction from the fact that our entire website still runs on Flash.

Just realized that the intense debate over 1 pixel is happening while the company website still uses Flash. Lunchtime energy.

Still trying to figure out why we need a 90-minute discussion on whether our logo should be 1 pixel bigger or smaller. 🤔.

The meeting's still going on, by the way.

I wonder if Dennie and Steffie's game will feature any waffle-loving characters. Lunchtime energy.