April 2020

The problem of the day, how can I help my daughter with her school material when she rejects my help and completely shuts down on the smallest struggle :-( It also does not help either that my own eyes are hurting and my focus is all over Oo

Yesterday, I finally started a new project in my new shop β€” a lamp for our living room.

Yesterday, I finally started a new project in my new shop β€” a lamp for our living room.

I just brought a car full of trash to the deposit. It feels like my head is now also a lot clearer of garbage.

How long should user generated data be kept in a web service

Should web services keep user-generated data forever? Or could it make sense to delete this at some point, for example, because it stops to be relevant? The thought came while watching an old Youtube video, which I already watched some years ago, and it was no longer marked as watched. I was irritated at first until I realized that I’d switched accounts in-between, and I’ve never watched it with my new account so far.

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Review of a crown of swords, The Wheel of Time, Book 7

Review of A crown of swords, The Wheel of Time, Book 7 audiobook πŸ“š. This book spans the shortest period over all the books in the series. Only 11 days pass. I like that when you have such a long series that you can do such things. Slow the flow of time and tell a story from multiple viewpoints in parallel. The following points I’ve observed while listening to the book:

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Zoom – better not

Last two weeks, a lot was written about Zoom. It is not the first time that this company is in the spotlight – at least in the mac blogosphere. The last time it was due to an web server installed (via Daringfireball) and never removed when Zoom was uninstalled. Now it is an abused installer, installing the application in the preflight step and not informing the user about this. Apparently, it is now fixed in the meantime (via Techmeme).

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Lord of Chaos, The Wheel of Time, Book 6

Review of Lord of Chaos, The Wheel of Time, Book 6 audiobook πŸ“š. In this book, we see how the Aes Sedai in Salidar make politic and manage to lift somebody to the stole in the hope to control here. But soon will learn that they miscalculated. On the other side, we also see how the Aes Sedai ruins the meeting with Rand, causing a lot of pain in the future as well.

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Review of 7th Sigma

I just finished reading 7th Sigma by Steven Gould.πŸ“š I found another book by one of my favorite authors, the perfect thing to read right now. The main character is a teenage boy living on the street due to an abusive father. His mother died some years ago. Kimble lives in the part of the USA called the territory. Due to a “bug” infestation, you cannot use any metal. The bugs are small replicating machines detecting and then eating the metal.

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