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Not much to report on this week. It was mostly cold and rainy, I got lost in Captain of Industry (yes, again. No, I don’t learn from past mistakes) and rewatched the first season of True Detective.
I almost bought something online and about half an hour after I asked the seller to use the marketplace’s secure payment system, I got an email that the seller has been kicked off the platform for fraud reasons.
At least I saved some money this way.
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment.
This morning it was Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio
I’m thinking a lot about adding a blogroll lately. I’m considering everything from a simple list to a full-blown reader experience. My WordPress installation is old enough to still have the Links Manager, so I might just use that.
It is allergy season, fuck yeah. So while I spend both days of the weekend outside (which was nice, don’t get me wrong. We even had sun!) I immediately crashed on the couch when I came back, defeated by the battle that my body is trying to fight against the pollen. And I’m sure the antihistamines didn’t help, either.
Oh boy. The pollen allergy season is in full swing already. And of course I forgot to order my antihistamines.
It is a bit baffling. I’m working with a whole bunch of WordPress installations, every single one of them with the server time zone set to UTC and the WordPress time set to Europe/Berlin. It works fine in all of them – except with one client, where there’s always a weird mismatch of times.
I spend my morning watching reels from expats in Dubai and yes, you’re right, iOS. I have indeed reached my limit on Instagram.
Meanwhile I have fallen out of love with Wallabag. Mostly because it suddenly didn’t let me log in anymore and I don’t have the energy to look into what happened. Ugh.
While I already mentioned that I like the new Gorillaz album, I want to add that I also like the animated video they created.
Manuel was nice enough to contact me for his People and Blogs newsletter – I still don’t know why and I hope I didn’t embarrass myself too much with my answers.
PSA: The new Gorillaz album is out today and it is very good, indeed.
That was in many way a very surprising week. A spontaneous decision meant that on Monday afternoon I drove into Köln. On Rosenmontag no less. I reached the town late enough that there weren’t any road closures, but being not very Karneval-minded, slowly rolling through the streets towards the hotel parking lot felt a bit like that scene in Strange Days where Lenny rolls through the city while riots and parties are happening at the same time all around him.
I’ve slowly been chipping away at the technical debt the (by now very old) theme of this blog. At some point I might even start to make changes that someone can see in the browser.
I haven’t really heard any feedback on the link dumps, until that happens, there is more of the same:
This is a good overview on the upcoming video features in Apple Podcasts. It’s very disappointing how Apple is handling this and if their goal is to break the YouTube video podcast monopoly then this might be exactly the wrong way for that. Instead they try to route around RSS. Ugh.
“Trust is Being Manufactured Faster than It’s Earned”
I’m not sure what kind of person thinks this is a good idea. Ugh.
Something tells me I will be thinking about this blog post a lot in the coming days, weeks, years.
Sigh.
Same here. I’ll just hope that the hardware I have stays alive as long as possible and start a little savings bucket just in case.
The very last sentence sold me on the movie: “a marvellous sympathy for the whole cast” – which seems to be surprisingly uncommon in a lot of stories and media. I know it’s not quite in the spirits of the times but I actually prefer watching (or reading) stories about people I can tell the author likes and that I can like as well.
If you have seen memes of Tim continvoucly morging and didn’t understand what has happened, the answer is of course: AI Slop. Thanks, Microsoft
I really like the DS3, easily the prettiest Citroën in modern times and the same can be said of the rally version. What a car.
Now it’s already five days into lent and as the old and tired joke goes: this year for lent, I’m giving up.
I always like to try new ways of reading RSS, so of course Current seemed interesting at first. Alas, the first blog post looked a bit too wank-y and learning that while it proudly proclaims to respect a user’s attention it doesn’t seem to respect a user’s data management really put me off the whole endeavour.
I know this might be slightly controversial for my fellow developers, but: I tend to prefer a (good) GUI over the CLI.
Git? Please, hand me a pretty client with colorful lines and a few buttons and functions to manage my branches. Database? Yes, please. Give me tables! And options to write my own queries and hand them over in a human readable view.
I’ve been handling a lot of WordPress this week. At work, oh boy, and also around here on my blog. My database woes are documented, everything else doesn’t need to be mentioned and can get lost in the rivers of time. At least as far as I am concerned.
I found a book on my Kindle that I pre-ordered a long time ago and started to read it. I decided to reactivate my Bookwyrm account to document that moment and of course I’m now wondering how to get data out of that platform.
I finished my rewatch of The Wire. That last season is rough, oh boy. Many themes of the show are playing out in reality as well, which is not very encouraging.
And again, here are the links I collected this week. What do you think about this format? Too much? Too little? Too late? Did you see these anyway, either on my link blog or on Mastodon? Let me know
Very much this. And maybe start caring as well. This might be the main problem: many people just don’t care.
Of course he did.
Now that’s a very pretty monospaced font!
So would I. Just look at it!
I’m not really all that much into Formula 1 but at least I can say that the new rules seem to produce rather good looking cars
A plugin that collects ActivityPub posts and posts them on a WordPress blog once a week. Looks like worth a try.
I already stopped looking at Bluesky because of these shenanigans and I guess this means I’ll soon stop looking at Discord stuff, too.
This is pretty useful. I switch branches so much and sometimes I need to know what I worked on, so this command might help.
Great interview with Alex Horne and Greg Davies, it’s good to hear them on a format that gives them more time to answer and the questions are great as well.
I posted another short clip to Loops and me being me, of course I started to wonder if I could write a little single-user website that is compatible with it.
Just when I was about to go to bed my phone told me that my blog was down. Very inconvenient. So I poked around a bit, turns out: the disk was full and a computer with no space to work with doesn’t really want to deliver websites.
So. After a bit more poking around, I noticed that the main culprit seems to be MySQL. For some reason someone decided that keeping old binlogs around forever is a smart idea. Cleaned up a bit, changed the purge time to a few days instead of a few months and now I can go to bed. (Thanks to this helpful post on dba.stackexchange.)
I’m altogether thinking about Taskmaster too often. I don’t think there has been a timespan longer than two days in a row for quite some time when I didn’t rewatch single tasks or read/listen to/watch some secondary media.
Sometimes I think I could write a novel. I mean, how hard could it be, right?
And then I realise I don’t really have any stories in me. Best I can do is small vignettes and what’s the point there? It wouldn’t even be a short story. Oh well.