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Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:06:53 +0100

It looks like I’m back. I had homepage troubles (deployment stopped working) but now I think I have it working again.

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:07:01 +0100

I just started reading Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton & James Patterson.📚

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:35:14 +0100

🍿 Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience (2026) Featuring the global K-Pop sensation Stray Kids and a live performance from their record-breaking world tour, alongside exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and intimate interviews with the band, Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience is an epic concert film that gives fans both a spectacular front-row seat and unique access to their favourite band. ⤑ TMDB. In the cinema with my wife :-)

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:28:49 +0100

I just started reading Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft by Joseph Weizenbaum.📚

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:05:23 +0100

⤑ Expanding in three dimensions. Expected a build video got a maths video. And a lots of nice books mentioned — which I must not buy.

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:05:11 +0100

My project for today. I finally documented my ground rules when I write code. Now let’s see if this actually works and helps in reality.

Books read in 2025

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:11:00 +0100

📚 My reading year of 2025.

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:09:55 +0100

I just finished reading Children of Time (The Children of Time Novels Book 1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky.📚

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:09:15 +0100

I just finished reading How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball.📚

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:04:56 +0100

⤑ Heathers The Musical Proshot. Wow

Berlin TV Tower

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:34:46 +0100

I liked the tower more from the outside than from the inside.

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:09:55 +0100

Writing a blogpost draft in a coffee shop. And some postcards.

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:19:44 +0100

⤑ The story of how RSS beat Microsoft (via Moon samples, poetry, and community | Newsletter for friends #08). Just learned about something new in regard to RSS. I never heard of ICE before.

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:27:27 +0100

No TV Tower in Berlin today. The fog is too strong. But the visit to the Berliner Unterwelten (Tour 3) was cool.

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:10:45 +0100

Since when is HELLO_WORLD called screaming snake case? I’ve never heard it until today but I sort of like it. Writing this now I’m actually wonder how I was calling it at all, I think I never gave it a name until now. It was just the way how all uppercase constants are written.

Cal Gen Update

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:39:10 +0100

I made a significant update to my calendar generator.

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:16:16 +0100

From the fires of mount doom – ah no, it’s from my cousin oven, we were invited for pizzas and got told to bring bread dough with us as the oven is already hot :-). Tasty Pizza and tasty bread, love it!

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:57:29 +0100

I just started reading Children of Time (The Children of Time Novels Book 1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky.📚

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:11:01 +0100

A sketch from Tuesday I did at the hotel bar. I still have a lot to learn in regards to perspective. But I like the inception part with having the notebook I sketched in present in the drawing.

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:08:47 +0100

⤑ Indie Sci-Fi Gem: Prodigy (2017) | Full Feature Film. Wow. It reminds me of Firestarter.

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:34:37 +0100

My last morning at the hotel. I’m sad about going home but also glad to be back in my own four walls.

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:14:43 +0100

I’m in the mountains once more. This is an image from yesterday shortly before sunset.

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:14:32 +0100

Reading nook.

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:15:25 +0200

🍿 Breathless (2024)

A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where tensions — and romance — keep their pulses racing.

⤑ TMDB.

Did not hope for much. But after having watched three episodes I quite like it. It has different air compared to other medical shows.

A Well-Intended Idea, But an Impossible Execution: My Thoughts on the Environmental Responsibility Initiative (Vote on February 9th Weekend)

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:50:00 +0100

I’ve looked at the initiative text for the new bill, which was proposed and is up for a vote this weekend (“Volksinitiative
Für eine verantwortungsvolle Wirtschaft innerhalb der planetaren Grenzen (Umwelt-verantwortungsinitiative)”¹). Reading it leaves me feeling sad.

Books read in 2024

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:02:00 +0100

📚 My reading year of 2024.

📝 The Laptop

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:18:00 +0100

I’m still thinking about the password for the laptop – what secrets are you hiding? Why did my friend die today because of you?

Civil War 2024 And the blunting about war imagery

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:29:00 +0100

After watching the movie Civil War (2024), I wanted to write about what I thought of the film. But I was unable to find the right words. I only was able to write this: I watched this movie the other night and it is still with me. It is a long time since I had such a visceral reaction to a movie. And I can’t decide whether I liked it or not.

Another Fail with coding with ChatGTP

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 10:41:00 +0200

Here is another example of using ChatGTP for a simple problem, and it returns compiling code that is totally wrong. I needed to get all the neighbors in a spiral pattern from a given starting point. I initially forgot to specify that it needed to be a spiral and that I wanted the code in Swift (the first time it generated Python, which I have omitted1). I have a grid with a given amount of columns and rows.

CrowdStrike and the risk of using homogeneous infrastructure

Sat, 20 Jul 2024 14:21:00 +0200

With the whole CrowdStrike debacle12 yesterday3, I wonder how this could happen and why so many companies are using the same solution – automatically updated without any tests on the customer’s site. Why do you set up your infrastructure so it can deploy updates to your productive system without any (manual) tests beforehand? Or at least delay the deployment until a short grace period so you can see whether there is a big issue with it.

Cottage Life 📝

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:29:00 +0200

It’s another cool morning. The birds are singing outside of my cabin, and the frogs are quacking in the pond. I stock the fire and heat fresh water to brew some tea. While the water is heating, I start my morning yoga session. It warms me up and removes the last leftovers of the night’s sleepiness. Drinking my tea and eating the last of my bread for breakfast, I gather the energy to till my plot next to the cabin.

I've lost something

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 09:39:00 +0200

Three months ago, I stopped practicing my piano. I played nearly daily for over three years, but it’s over now. It looks like my brain cannot learn this instrument, which makes me sad. Since I stopped the lessons, I only sat once at the piano to play for myself. So why did I stop? And what is the issue with it? And what does it imply for me?

📝 A walk in the forest

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 08:47:00 +0200

With one additional step, I reached the border of a small clearing. The sun shines and lights up the moss growing in the showy region of the border, while in the middle, the grass stands tall.

How I use my computer: System Chaos

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:06:00 +0100

I don’t have much of a system. My general usage pattern is never quitting apps and seldom closing windows. I navigate via CMD-Tab to the applications I need to go to. Most apps that are not actively used will be hidden (CMD-H). What little of a system I have, I can summarise it in one word: chaos.

Reading about foreign politics

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:15:00 +0100

Inspired by the comment by @Miraz. I like reading about foreign politics from people actually living it as compared to reading about it in a newspaper (from my country).

📝 The Adult Child

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 05:57:00 +0100

As I traveled to the city, the house passed past the bus’s windows. The sky is grey and dull. The bus stops at the next bus stop, and another person enters. I stand up and block their way – I can’t explain how this happens. I get an annoyed look back. They move to the other side to circle me, and I follow. “Oh, come on, move out of the way,” they say.

📝 The Park

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 05:45:00 +0100

As I walk through the city, the sun rises over the ruins of an old skyscraper. I reach the small park where my assignment is today. Three mature trees greet me, but I first focus on the young pine tree on the left side of the park. It lost most of its remaining leaves since my last visit. “Come on, little buddy, you can make it,” I say to it. “I brought the special medicine I told you about last week.” I pour a whole bottle of a special fertilizer around the tree. I hope it will save this little tree. “Now drink it and get better; I will try to revisit you soon,” I say to it. And move on to the adult trees.

📝 Escape

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 08:34:00 +0100

“Duck, “I yell, panting, not a moment too early as the searchlight beam travels over us. “Did they see us? “No, I think we were lucky; let’s go, “I say.

Books read in 2023

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:54:00 +0100

📚 I had a strange reading year; at times, I was not reading. This was possibly caused by reading more nonfiction this year than fiction.

How I format my long form entries for my Micro.blog feed in Hugo

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 07:58:00 +0100

I got a question from pratik on how I make my entries appear like this in the Micro.blog timeline:

📝 A living computer

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:58:00 +0100

“Beep!”

“Beeep!”

“Ahhh!”

“Hello, who are you?” asked into the empty air.

📝 Why spend so much time on a note system?

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 11:37:00 +0100

This week, I was working on my notes again after ignoring them for most of the second half of this year. And I asked myself why I spent so much time on this.