I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was Sailor, Sail On by Atarashii Gakko! Reply by email

The last three episodes of Roderick On The Line (607: Buffalo Sober, 608: Texting Bitch Face and 609: A Mule with a Checkbook) work great as a trilogy. The conversations and thought technologies in them are good examples why I love this podcast so much. (I’m not too sure if they’re good starter episodes, though....

A few things as long as they’re still fresh in my mind: Labubus are still everywhere in Bangkok. It felt like every mall had a Pop Mart experience and there were long queues in front of all of them. The Peak Design travel backpack is annoying. I’ve had this thing for a long time now and there hasn’t been a single...

Happy New Year! (It’s still okay to say so until the 6th, right?) Anyway – I have already gotten some feedback on the very pink look of this website and it was mostly: maybe turn it down a little. I might just do that – not by changing the pink but by tweaking other elements to make it a bit more harmonious. Anyway...

To be quite honest: I could use roughly two to fifty-two weeks for my own code. Reply by email

Eagle-eyes visitors of this blog might have noticed that I have different colors here every year. I might or might not have used colors that a certain company deems to be the color of the year.Alas, that color of the year for 2026 is white. I can’t do that. Not only because my blog would look like the corporate...

Here we go, the final week of the year.As I pondered already all the way back in June I wasn’t near any family on Christmas for the first time ever. Instead I was near a beach with friends, having BBQ at a resort while a band played Modern Talking cover songs. Ho-ho-ho. I had a great time, but let’s see if the...

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This was a week of a lot of travel and not much sleep. I was in Köln and had a great dinner with da boys (sans Dino-Dominik, sadly) and just now I had a phở on a little plastic chair next to a busy intersection in the middle of Saigon. Fantastic end to a very weird week. Reply by email

Sleep review, December 14th to December 15th 2025: (Note to self: Don’t only write these when something was wrong.)What a weird one. I woke up three times from strange nightmares. This morning I still feel well rested. I don’t understand. 🤷🏻‍♂️/10 Reply by email

The end of the year is rapidly approaching.As expected this week was a bit busy, but I think I’m more or less on track with my tasks. Still more busy days ahead. (Of course it didn’t help at all that instead of doing anything useful I looked into POI categorisation in OpenStreetMap data all day long yesterday. Good...

Another week done. No, I haven’t gotten all the Christmas gifts, yet, so next week will be a bit busy.Besides this, not much to tell. I finally managed to cut together a few clips from our family hiking weekend in October and I was a bit weirded out by how much faster and more enjoyable that was on my old gaming PC...