Martin Stellinga, Author at Martin Stellinga

Economic depression

We’re in a global economic depression right now, due to Covid-19. Logical, right: lockdowns around the world, businesses completely shut down, people not working. But did you know economic depressions have a lot less to do with cold hard numbers than you might think?

Quarantine Dad: the unlockening

It seemed like a year, but it was only eight weeks. Eight weeks ago the lockdown in the Netherlands came down, and this week it was eased. My daughter went back to school… well, back-ish.

Generating a Starscape

Do you like the starry sky picture with this post? Guess what, it’s a generated image. I’ve repeatedly needed cool pictures of stars, and real ones are often copyrighted. So I cobbled some software together to generate starscapes. Have a go if you want.

Dracula

The men who created the British television show Sherlock created a series based on Dracula. OMG, Squee, WTFBBQ, that’ll be neat….

Covid Apps

I was kind of fed up with the fire hose of Covid news items. Then the worship of Covid apps as the way to redemption came along, and, well, I had to write something. I’ve been developing software for over twenty years, and guess what, I fear Covid Apps are a pipe dream.