Well, another week. This one completely without any trains, so there’s that. Messed up sleep schedule, again. All my life I heard that with age people go to bed earlier and get up earlier. I cannot confirm. While my natural sleep rhythm was midnight to eight for almost all my adult life, lately it seems very much...

The Mastodon instance on which I’m almost the only active user has been offline with a 503 for about 16 hours now. Given that “Opening Ivory” is the first thing I do after unlocking my phone, even before thinking what it is that I actually unlocked the phone for, this is a rather distressing state of affairs. Reply...

It feels like bragging but this week I took long-distance trains again and once again, everything went smoothly. (Well, except that my original train was canceled but at least I knew that early enough. And I’m not going to mention the groups of retirees who celebrated their train trip with sparkling wine and liver...

I made the mistake of having a big breakfast before sitting down to write and now I’m lethargic and rather want to take a nap. I traveled for work this week, which was all nice and dandy. The trains were on time and pretty empty, taking them during the less busy hours makes quite a big difference.The hotel was a bit...

Same week as every week, except yesterday I went to a small comedy show with my brother-in-law. It was okay, I guess – four comedians. One was good, one was very obviously at the very beginning of their career, one was okay-ish and one was an ex-cop who joked about bullying teenagers when he was in uniform because...

There are many, many reasons to be angry at the AI crowd. One of mine is that they took the term vibe coding – how else am I going to describe the flow state when I have some repetitive music running in the background and am just breezing through some programming work? (And don’t get me started on the sparkles...

Oh boy, running your own website(s) is tedious, isn’t it? I’m in the middle of moving stuff away from Digital Ocean. (We all know why.) I wanted to do that anyway but well, procrastination.Object storage is especially annoying – of course there’s rclone and it does what it should but it doesn’t clone the visibility...

After last week’s sleep deprivation I decided that this week I’ll force myself to go to bed at nine every day. That didn’t exactly mean that I’d sleep at nine but I magically managed to read more than usual and still sleep earlier than usual. Who knew.Alas, more sleep just means I’m less sleepy but it does not mean...

Oh no. I should not have seen those “day live-blogs in timeline format” posts today. Like this and this. Very nerd-snipy, now I want to play with a format like that as well.(Old-school readers might know that I used to have something like that a few years back, showing the aggregated posts from my blog, microblogs...

I had plans for this weekend and I had to do some planning for future endeavours to do, instead I am paying the price for all the revenge bedtime procrastination I did this week. So knackered, good god. The one thing I managed to do is to switch my “photo blog to fediverse” thing from Mastofeed to a direct...

A short (work) week – I had the Monday off and went to Basel for some shopping and lunch with my sister. Of course the Tuesday was very much a condensed Monday then, so that was great. In other news – we finally got some rain, but that seemed to have been a short-lived blessing. I’m looking at the blue sky as we...

I like to geo-tag all my “stuff” so of course I also like to geo-tag my blog posts. I just wrote a tiny little plugin to do that. I looked at a whole bunch of plugins, I used Simple Location for a while until I realized that all of them are doing way too much. All I need are two input fields for latitude and...