PSA: The new Gorillaz album is out today and it is very good, indeed. Reply by email

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...

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. Reply...

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...

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...

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....

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. Reply by email

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. Reply by email

More and more I’m aware of people who talk to AI chat bots like they would with friends – about this and that, their life, just chatting. And while I begrudgingly while completely ignoring the environmental and moral issues see why (some) people actually get usable results for specific use cases, this is actually...

Another rather unremarkable week. For a quick moment I really got into collecting and posting links, enough so, that I documented my workflow.All of this is good fun but also feels like something is missing. And weirdly enough it seems to be a feedback loop. I know it’s a bit of a slippery slope towards social media...

My blog shows likes and reposts again. Nice. Reply by email

TIL: RTFM or rather RTFC – if you’re using DDEV for your WordPress project and you don’t want it to overwrite the wp-config.php every time it starts, just delete the whole comment block on the top. You know, the one where it tells you to do that. Reply by email