Just for the records: The first morning of the year on which I had to turn on the lamp at my desk when starting to work. Reply by email

WebSub is one of those underrated technologies that quietly work in the background of the web and that I appreciate quite a bit. It’s not super hard to implement and at least in my experience it is super fast as well. (I think) WordPress has it by default, many of the feed-reading services use it as well and I often...

Just like everyone else in this part of the world, I wanted to see the eclipse last Wednesday. Given that my living room windows face directly toward the sun around the time of the eclipse, I decided to just do that from home. Alas there is a tree in the way and all I saw was a sunset.Turns out it was still a good...

I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was Go by The Chemical Brothers. Reply by email

I started something on an impulse. I realised after a while that while it might be a great idea, it would be an even better idea as part of something already existing. Now I’m ignoring it altogether and for some reason started Captain of Industry again, which is really, really bad. It’s crack. I should delete it and...

Another rather calm and warm week.Workwise I’m currently working on a big task with a technology I haven’t used before, so this takes up a lot of my mental energy and struggling with all the weird little mistakes one does when not fully knowing something is surprisingly draining. I’m learning a lot, though, which is...

This week we had two trailers for big Cyberpunk TV series: Blade Runner 2099 and Neuromancer. On the one hand: cool! On the other hand: hm. Let’s see if it’s a good idea to look at the future the 80s foresaw through a late 2020s lens. Reply by email

After the shenanigans of the last two weeks, this one is clearly one to recharge my social battery. I’m not sure if this is the reason but I also slept particularly bad. At least during the night. Daytime naps were just perfect but usually too short. And I think to celebrate those, I’ll take another one now. Reply...

Weird technology mistakes: on Saturday I just wanted to add one of our family gatherings to my calendar on the iPhone. I typed “Family gathering” and the phone helpfully used all the information from an old family gathering, (2019!) copied them into the new entry – and then sent out an invitation everyone who was...

20 years ago I joined Twitter. I miss the old days of the internet. Reply by email

It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times. The first two days of the week were being spend in Munich, a friend of mine had a stopover there and we planned to have dinner for a few months already. The time I wasn’t eating wurst with her, her friend and her brother, I spent at the amazing Deutsches Museum,...

A birthday, a funeral and a train journey that actually went just fine filled the week that was over faster than I could look around. Just like I mentioned last week, the current weather has a bigger effect on me than the one during the heat wave so everything has been a bit of a blur. I did do some touristy things...