Welcome to The Observatory, the place where I reflect on autism, ADHD, masking and how to survive as a robot between meat puppets.
Development hell is a place of legends, where developers are punished with working on never ending projects. But did you know there’s also a pre-development hell? It’s a place where you get stuck if your project doesn’t manage to take off. That’s where I have been last week (and a little bit before that) with […]
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A week before the new year, my dad who’s also my employer caught me lingering in the Apple section of a well-known electronic retail store. I was admiring the new Macs and had wondered into a wonderland of “I bet these would be so fast if I would start developing Apple apps”. That’s mostly what
Macbook Pro. Because I’m worth it. Read More »
This post is the script for the Podcast Episode “Inside Me, There Are Two Wolves” which was posted to my YouTube channel on 19/12/2025. The content of the episode might be slightly different in places. I have been struggling with making content for a long time. For years, I didn’t understand what the problem was.
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I was deep in my thirties when I realized that some people are definitely different than me. Most of the times I feel like I’m in the “wrong” because of my autism, but this time I felt like they were definitely in the wrong. I was looking for some videos on YouTube, when I ran
You know the drill, but it still sucks. Read More »
It has been more than a year since I started developing CATS, which is the in-house ISMS platform for Qfirst. When I first started on the project I searched “How to develop ISMS?”. The answer was “You don’t, you buy ours for thousands of dollars!”. That obviously wasn’t an option to server SMB’s so development
