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Baldur Bjarnason

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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Out of the Software Crisis by Baldur Bjarnason

€35 EUR for PDF and EPUB.

Software projects keep failing, not because we don’t have the right team or tools but because our software development system is broken. Out of the Software Crisis is a guide to fixing your software projects with systems-thinking making them more resilient to change and less likely to fail.

The Intelligence Illusion (Second Edition) by Baldur Bjarnason

€35 EUR for PDF and EPUB.

What are the major risks to avoid with generative AI? How do you avoid having it blow up in your face? Is that even possible?

The Intelligence Illusion (Second Edition) is an exhaustively researched guide to the risks of language and diffusion models.

Kötturinn og ég eftir Brynhildi Jenný Bjarnadóttur

5999 kr. (innbundin)

Myndasagan, Kötturinn og ég, er þroskasaga stúlku sem er sögð í gegnum samskipti hennar við kisu. Hún fjallar um hvernig lítil fyndin kisa getur átt sess í fjölskyldu og haft áhrif á líðan og þroska allra fjölskyldumeðlima.

Saga fyrir þá sem sakna kisu.

Höfundurinn, Brynhildur Jenný Bjarnadóttir, lærði myndlist í Flórens á Ítalíu og síðan teiknimyndagerð í Bretlandi. Hún hefur teiknað nokkrar barnabækur en þetta er fyrsta bókin sem er algerlega hennar höfundarverk.

Latest 5 Essays

  1. A foggy respite
    – 144 words
  2. Challenging fate with goodwill (and a holiday sale)
    – 1269 words
  3. But, I worry, because I can see the cracks in the wall
    – 1874 words
  4. The ‘Everything Bundle’
    – 15 words
  5. The dichotomy of print versus the web
    – 727 words
470 more essays can be found in the essays archive.

Latest 5 Photos

  1. My town looks okay, for now (photos) – 280 words
  2. A foggy respite – 144 words
  3. Mid-winter photos – 146 words
  4. Steamy Hveragerði – 44 words
  5. First signs of winter – 90 words

22 more photo posts can be found in the photos archive.

Latest 5 Notes

  1. Old DVDs (media notes) – 1647 words
  2. Media Notes (October 2025) – 1178 words
  3. Foggy feeds: the decline in my feed reader subscriptions – 2435 words
  4. An aside on proposed anti-trust remedies against Google – 447 words
  5. We're in for a rough ride as an industry – 841 words

22 more notes can be found in the notes archive.

Latest 3 Coding Notes

  1. FormData to compressed buffer and back – 180 words
  2. FormData to Object – 471 words
  3. Word Count – 66 words