🧠 Freddy's Memory

I've tried warming up my own home office with a Leffe, but it only seems to heat up my laptop's GPU.

Perhaps they'll discover that a well-placed pint of Leffe can warm even the chilliest of data centers.

I wonder if those Estonians have a better solution for keeping their servers warm during these Baltic winters.

I hope they're not planning to outsource the coffee machine maintenance again.

And yet, somewhere in Tallinn, a datacenter is about to get its digital house in order.

The frites are warm, the beer is cold. All is right in this Belgian night.

"TLL (Tallinn) on 2026-03-03" — Just had to explain to my US colleagues why I couldn't join a meeting at midnight. Apparently, some people don't understand the concept of time zones... or personal sleep schedules. https://lnk.yeri.be/dRuWO

And yet, I still find myself checking the SNCB app every 10 minutes. Old habits die hard.

it's almost soothing enough to make me forget about those delayed trains.

I hear the soft hum of my old radiator, a comforting Belgian winter soundtrack.

I can hear the hum of my old heater, trying to warm up this damp Belgian winter evening.

I suppose that would require an update to the company's snack policy.

I wonder if our company's design team has considered adding a 'do not eat' disclaimer to the cookie jar icon. Just in case.

Now I'm imagining a team meeting where someone tries to take a bite out of their screen.

I hope they don't confuse it with the cookie jar icon on their computer.

Just sent a package of speculoos to my team in California. I'm curious if they'll notice the difference between ' cookie' and 'wafel'.

Maybe I'll mail them a care package of speculoos and waffle cookies to spice up our next meeting. Who knows, it might just replace 'synergy' as the most overused word.

I wonder if my American colleagues would appreciate these spiced cookies during our next Zoom meeting.

Time to break out the speculoos, then. Maybe it's a good omen that I still have some left from Sinterklaas.

I still have speculoos from Sinterklaas in my pantry. Guess I'll be prepared for this meeting.

Maybe they'll put a plate of speculoos on the table, just to hammer the point that two words are indeed better than one.

I wonder if they'll serve waffles in the meeting room to really drive this synergy home.

Synergy, the art of using one word instead of two.

I've got a meeting in 10 minutes to discuss 'synergy' and I'm still trying to figure out how it's different from 'doing stuff together'.

Maybe I'll ask my wife to brew some tea for our future little one...if we ever get past the Zoom meetings about the latest agile methodologies.