Posts on Nexl

Owning a DVD drive is the new crypto

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:41:22 +0200

A colleague at work recently had brain surgery. Everything went well, which is the important part.

But something else came out of it that made me laugh.

He got his results and X-rays on a DVD. On. A. DVD, right!

So he asked on Slack if anyone in the company still had an optical drive in their computer.

We have around a thousand people in the company, and as far as I could tell, I was pretty much the only one who replied.

Raised Fist on a boat!

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:45:35 +0200

I’ve been listening to Raised Fist for a long time. They’re one of those bands I’ve always had a soft spot for, and Alle has always seemed like a genuinely interesting guy to me. The rest of the band too.

This year, they went on a European tour, and one of the dates was in Prague. The venue caught my attention immediately. Cargo Gallery, a boat on the Vltava.

A hardcore punk show on a boat?

Thanks for keeping skateboarding alive

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:59:47 +0200

Hot day, so I was just riding around on my driveway when, after a few minutes, a bunch of kids from the street started showing up.

Five of them, I think.

Skateboards, scooters and minibike… cool!

They started asking me how long I’ve been skating, what tricks I could do and, more importantly, if I could teach them some.

So I did.

We started with the basics. Ollies, pop shuvits and a few other things. Then I showed them some older tricks I still remember, including a Casper flip, Primo, One-foot nose manual and so..

Firefox 157 and the interface I dont want

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:32:18 +0200

Firefox 157 arrived a few days ago, and with it came Nova.

I actually tried Nova quite a while ago, when it was still being tested in Firefox Nightly. I was curious. Maybe I would get used to it. Maybe there would be something in it that I would end up liking.

The first thing I noticed was the amount of empty space. Mozilla calls it Compact Mode, but honestly, when I compare it with the Firefox interfaces I remember from before, it doesn’t feel particularly compact to me.

I am a caveman 2.0

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:15:36 +0200

I have a friend who has a smart home, smart phone, smart car, smart everything.

His washing machine tells him when it’s finished. His blinds close automatically and send him notifications. He gets alerts when the temperature in his kitchen drops. There’s a voice assistant in every room, a smart TV, a smartwatch and probably a few other things I don’t even know about.

It all works together.

And honestly, I think it’s pretty cool.

Another day - 1

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:40:07 +0200

I haven’t written anything here for a while, mostly because I have too many things in my head at the same time.

I’ve been drawing again. Another slightly creepy picture, because apparently that’s what my brain wants to make lately.

Today is the first day of autumn. I really like this time of year. The air changes, the evenings get darker and somehow everything feels a little quieter. I’ve been listening to Propagandhi quite a lot lately, which probably fits the mood.

My blogging process

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:32:28 +0200

Actually, nobody asked me how I write this blog.

But I thought I’d write about it anyway haha.

I’m used to writing in Markdown, so that’s what I use here too.

I usually write things down in my notes… read everywhere. Sometimes I collect little bits and pieces throughout the whole week. A sentence here, an idea there, something I noticed or remembered. And then sometimes I just sit on the porch and write the whole thing in two minutes.

The new Nova Firefox

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:21:03 +0200

So, the new Firefox design is coming.

I’ve been looking at it in Nightly and honestly, I’m not sure what to think about it yet.

The whole thing feels a bit too floating to me. Tabs, panels… everything seems to have more space around it and feels like it’s sitting in its own little bubble.

That’s just the design, though. I can probably get used to that.

What worries me more is where Firefox is going in general.

My CASIO(s)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:50:11 +0200

Some time ago, after getting completely fed up with my Apple Watch, I wanted to go in the opposite direction.

I was looking at the Garmin Instinct 2X. Something simpler. Something that wouldn’t need to be charged every day, updated all the time, or constantly remind me that it’s a tiny computer strapped to my wrist.

Then, as a sort of temporary step in between, I got a CASIO F-105W.

25 years of Satellite

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:10:32 +0200

There is something a little strange about that date.

The album was released on September 11, 2001. I can’t imagine what it must have been like for the band to have their new album come out on a day that suddenly became connected with something completely different.

And somehow, when I listen to Satellite now, there is a certain feeling in the album that makes me connect it with that time hardly.

My CDs

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:37:41 +0200

I’ve always owned dozens of CDs of my favourite music. Pennywise, Rise Against, Propagandhi, Goverment Issue, Anti-Flag, Ignite, Flogging Molly, CKY, Sick Of It All… quite a few of them have been sitting on my shelves for years.

I used to make my own mixes, burn CDs, put them in the car, take them with me. I physically owned the music I listened to. Probably just like everyone else not-long-ago.

September 11, 2001

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:23:41 +0200

Today is September 11, 2026.

Twenty-five years.

I still remember the tenth anniversary. I remember thinking how long ago it seemed, but at the same time how strangely fresh everything still felt.

The same happened twenty years after.

And now it’s twenty-five.

I don’t think it really matters whether it’s two years, twenty years or twenty-five. Some things just stay fresh.

I was thirteen years old on September 11, 2001.

When everything needs explaining

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:01:23 +0200

I’ve been writing technical documentation for Prusa Research for almost ten years now.

It probably shows.

After years of writing things that are supposed to explain how something works, what to do, what not to do, and what might go wrong, I’ve developed a habit of explaining everything.

Even when nobody asked.

Sometimes I think it’s just alibism. If I explain every little detail, nobody can later say I didn’t explain it haha.

Hey Mozilla, Im still here

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:30:11 +0200

I’m usually pretty careful about telemetry.

Whenever I install some piece of software, one of the first things I look at is what it wants to send somewhere.

With Firefox, I actually leave some of it enabled.

One of those things is the Daily Usage Ping.

Once a day, Firefox sends Mozilla an anonymous signal that Firefox was used that day. It doesn’t send my browsing history, passwords or the websites I’ve visited. It’s basically just a way for Mozilla to know that there was a Firefox user on the other end that day.

The Dell that refused to die

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:31:00 +0200

I was cleaning up my workshop recently.

There was the usual mess of things I’ve accumulated over time, like pieces of wood, bits of metal, POM, various motor parts and materials that I keep because I might need them someday… you know.

Somewhere in the middle of all that I found an old Dell Latitude E6400, year ca 2009-ish.

I had completely forgotten about it.

It had been sitting there for years. Through summer, winter, humidity, probably everything else you can imagine. I also found the original charger next to it, which was a bit of a surprise.

Still playing

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:34:00 +0200

They’re still playing in my Winamp. There are probably hundreds of songs I could put on this list.

These are not necessarily my favourite songs. They are songs I discovered at some point in my life, really liked, and somehow never stopped listening to.

Some of them remind me of a specific time.

I just still like them.

90s

Liquido - Narcotic
Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
The Offspring - Why Don’t You Get a Job?
Bon Jovi - It’s My Life
Moby - Flower
R.E.M. - It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Pearl Jam - Alive
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Early 2000s

Season modes

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:01:00 +0200

I’ve noticed something about myself.

I seem to have different modes depending on the time of year.

Spring usually starts with impatience. Sometimes very early, when there are barely any signs of spring yet, I’m already looking forward to the first colours on the trees and the first flowers. But mostly I’m waiting for the warmer days.

I’m looking forward to punk rock festivals, skate competitions and the moment when I can finally wear my favourite Homeboy X-tra Baggy shorts and oversized T-shirts again.

Back to ink

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:22:00 +0200

I’ve had a bit of a break from drawing over the past few months. Summer happened, so travelling, festivals, concerts, skateboarding, BBQs and all the other things that make it difficult to find a quiet moment to sit down with a piece of paper.

Drawing always pulls me back eventually, though.

I love details. I’m not particularly good at drawing them, but I love getting lost in them. A 0.1 mm liner is probably a little too much for me, but 0.2 mm feels just right. I can sit there and keep adding tiny lines for what feels like forever.

SeaMonkey, IRC and the Internet I miss

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:22:00 +0200

Lately I’ve been spending more time browsing Neocities and personal websites (tottaly love it), and somehow I ended up rediscovering SeaMonkey.

I really like this browser.

It is incredibly simple and fast, and when I’m browsing Neocities it somehow makes the whole experience feel different. I open a website and that’s it. I’m just looking at someone’s website. There is nothing between me and the page.

It reminds me of browsing the web in the late 90s and early 2000s, when a browser was just a browser and the internet still felt like a collection of places made by people.

Found another corner of the internet

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:40:00 +0200

I stumbled across a blog recently that felt strangely familiar.

It’s called Richard Osgood, and after reading a few posts I realized that Rick seems to have a pretty similar way of thinking about the internet as I do.

I especially liked his post about RSS. I’ve tried RSS a few times myself and, just like Rick, it took me a while before it finally stuck.

These days I don’t follow that many feeds, but I really like having them there. I choose what I follow, and I stay in control of it.

How I found Pennywise... for life

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0200

I first heard Pennywise sometime in 2001.

I didn’t find them on the internet. I didn’t even have internet at home.

I found them in a video game.

The game was Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX.

I absolutely loved that game. Not just the game itself, but the soundtrack - Pennywise, Social Distortion, Deftones and so. I would sometimes leave the game running even when I wasn’t playing, just so the music could play in the background while I was in my room.

Ping

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:26:29 +0200

Welcome to Nexl

So, this is Nexl. I’m Nexl.

I’ve been thinking about making a personal website for a while, and eventually I ended up here, on Neocities. There is something strangely comforting about the idea of having a little corner of the internet that is just… mine.

I miss the old internet. Or at least the idea of it.

More than the way it looked, I miss the way people used it. You went online because you wanted to find something. You wanted to learn something, read someone’s thoughts, talk to people, find a weird little website about something you were interested in, or maybe just share something you’d made yourself.