Supermarket tourism:
Last year, I made the observation that getting to know a person can happen through their grocery list.
It turns out that this also works for getting to know a country, with more and more tourists flocking to supermarkets at their destination and exploring the local specialty aisles.
Practical acts of kindness in the Grand Duchy:
Reddit user mulberrybushes reminds us that there are good people everywhere.
Passion is contagious: Ash Parish, writing for The Verge, regarding The Game Awards 2022: But despite all the awards and announcements […] tonight’s winner by a country mile was a curly haired session musician by the name of Pedro Eustache and the infectious, ebullient energy with which he played his flutes. Passion is …
Google Maps moved to main google domain: In an interesting move, Google Maps is now served from the www Google subdomain. In other words, in Luxembourg, Google Maps is no longer hosted at maps.google.lu. Navigating to https://maps.google.lu redirects your browser to https://maps.google.lu/maps, which then takes you to …
This World Cup is 500 percent controversial: The most controversial World Cup in recent history is about to start. Gianni Infantino, Fifa president, recently declared: I feel 200 percent in control of this World Cup. I loved John Gruber’s reaction to this, writing in Daring Fireball: FIFA is 200 percent in control of the World Cup, …
Twitter didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment: Emma Roth, writing for The Verge, regarding Twitter reportedly cutting contractors without warning them. Twitter didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment. The company no longer has a communications department. Yikes.
Interviews are conversations: I have been preparing interview questions for prospective senior DevOps engineers (whatever that is) to join our team and realised that I just want to have a great conversation. I want to get out of interviews with a new perspective. I like to share some of our struggles and hear what they have to …
International songs on Apple Music: I live in a place where people are officially trilingual. French, German and Luxembourgish are all official languages of the country and a very large number of the population speaks all three, in addition to English. I am multi-lingual as well. I have been an Apple Music subscriber since the …