August 2019
Review of Rise of Gaia
I finished reading Rise of Gaia by Kristin Ward.📚 This book was hard to start and get into the story. The main protagonist of this story has a connection with mother earth. And she is angry because we humans destroy everything. The story spends quite a lot of time showing how the protagonist lives and get deeper into the connection with Gaia. Part of the book reminded me of the Princess Mononoke anime.Review of Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
I finished reading Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear.📚I liked this book quite a lot, and it is easy to read and written in an accessible style. The book is divided into four sections, each explaining how you can build new habits and improve your life. The main takeaway of the book is that you don’t need significant practices but just a lot of small good ones.
Autumn is creeping up on us. Ground fog near the river.
Xamarin and C# for the first time
I had the pleasure of working with Xamarin for the last two weeks. I was not entirely convinced at the beginning, especially learning another language, but after I’ve done it now, I’m quite happy with the experience. I prefer to use Swift to develop the App; but as we also need a Android version of the App, it is not feasible due to cost constraints. I’ve used an adapted version of the VIPER pattern for developing all the code.Review of A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet Book 2)
I’ve decided to read the next issue of the “A Wrinkle in Time Quintet”. And just finished A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet Book 2) by Madeleine L’Engle the other day 📚. The story was a lot easier to get into; I suspect this is because I already know the characters and the writing style of the author. We start back at the home of our protagonists, and Charles Wallace sees strange occurrences in the garden.I just started reading Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear.📚
I just started reading A Wind in the Door (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet Book 2) by Madeleine L’Engle.📚
The best toy for all ages! And a whole roll of it.
Review of Soul Jacker: A Science Fiction Thriller (Soul Jacker Book 1)
I ended reading Soul Jacker: A Science Fiction Thriller (Soul Jacker Book 1) by Michael John Grist.📚It took quite a while to get into the book and get used to the writing style of the author. But starting with the middle of the book, I was hooked. The story is set in the future in a world which was destroyed by tsunamis. The only habitable place is near the poles, which are no longer covered in ice.
I am working on a spreadsheet solution for plain text files. Not yet sure if this is a viable idea.
I just started reading The Blood Heir (The Tethering Book 4) by Megan O’Russell.📚
The first carrot from our garden.
I had a tiring day at work today. I’ve started a new project this week and have the chance to learn C# and Xamarin on company time. But learning a new language while still having to meet deadlines is exhausting. At least I had no migraine today!
My daughters drew a picture of the bug I was hunting down yesterday.
Two iPhones with the weather app set to the same location - showing different temperatures for the day.
First day of school.
River
I just started reading Soul Jacker: A Science Fiction Thriller (Soul Jacker Book 1) by Michael John Grist.📚
I just started reading Rise of Gaia by Kristin Ward.📚
Ich: „Wo ist denn die Schlange ohne Nacktscanner?“ Er: „Die gibt es nicht.“ Ich: „Aber das ist doch freiwillig, oder?“ Er: „Ja. Aber dann bekommen Sie eben das volle Programm.“ Ich: „Was bedeutet das?“ Er: „Körper abtasten, Sprengstofftest. Das volle Programm eben.“
⤑ NACKTSCANNER: „DANN BEKOMMEN SIE EBEN DAS VOLLE PROGRAMM“.
”Art-Installation” at work today. I dropped a juggling ball into my tee oO. Not sure how this could have happened - I’m usually not so clumsy.
Unlocked a new badge for using Grammarly every week for a year. Now if only there would be a service like this, which is not cloud-based.
Castle
Review of How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin' Days (The Tale of Bryant Adams Book 1)
I just finished reading How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin’ Days (The Tale of Bryant Adams Book 1) by Megan O’Russell📚. Another book by the same author as “The Tethering” series. I’ve quite liked her writing style so far. The main character finds a phone on his way home, and it happens to be magical. And unfortunately, the owner wants the phone back ;-) But it’s not as simple as it’s sounds, so the adventure begins.
- Ø Connect your code in any language, on any platform.
- Ø Carries messages across inproc, IPC, TCP, TIPC, multicast.
- Ø Smart patterns like pub-sub, push-pull, and router-dealer.
- Ø High-speed asynchronous I/O engines, in a tiny library.
- Ø Backed by a large and active open source community.
- Ø Supports every modern language and platform.
- Ø Build any architecture: centralized, distributed, small, or large.
- Ø Free software with full commercial support.
This Mac Mini spent to much time in my woodshop.
Review of Practical Microservices: Build Event-Driven Architectures with Event Sourcing and CQRS
I just ended reading Practical Microservices: Build Event-Driven Architectures with Event Sourcing and CQRS by Ethan Garofolo.📚 This book finally gave me an understanding of microservices I now see the value in this architecture. Before the book, my understanding was, that I split my monolithic data model into multiple smaller data models and connect everything back together. However, I was never so happy with this concept, as we now lose the capability to make SQL joins over the full data model.
Fire! 🔥
The 1th of August fire is ready. Now we need to wait for the darkness.
Clean up and packing output of today.