This week felt like it was nothing but drama about AI slop everywhere and then every single tech journalist and Youtuber losing their minds over the latest Apple laptop. It's exhausting. Thankfully personal blogs are still a thing and are actually thriving, so there's always something great to read, whether it's...

It's been a while since I've done one of these! But I think it's time again. After listening through all albums from two 70s bands from the UK and the US last year, I felt like some change was in order, so I picked a German band from the late 80s/early 90s. Gamma Ray is a power metal band from Hamburg. The band was...

It took a surprisingly long time, almost three years, but now it happened - the email address I have published here found it's way into the hands of spammers and now I get half a dozen spam mails every day. I guess it was bound to happen eventually and it was always just a matter of time, but it still makes me sad....

It's been forever since I changed something on this site, but I finally sat down and implemented something I already had in the past and wanted to bring back for a long time: A links page. It's still very much a work in progress. For now it contains a blogroll (more blogs to be added soon), a list of my favourite...

A few days ago I replaced the battery in an old iPod classic I bought a while ago, because the original battery only lasted for about an hour or so before it gave up. So I decided it was time to give the iPod some TLC and treat it to a new battery. These iPods are a nightmare to take apart because the housing is all...

We're exactly one month away from linkdump no. 100. If this were a social media channel I would now have to start drumming up hype for that... "Hey everyone, welcome back! Today's linkdump is a special one as we gear up for Number 100! Can you believe it? A huge milestone is just a few short weeks away! I don't want...

I don't know about you, but I'm at the point which I seem to reach every year around the middle of February, where I'm just done with winter. It was grey and dark and snowing all day yesterday, and today it's freezing cold and I'm just ready for spring now. Six months from now in late August I will of course say the...

This weekend and until Tuesday it's carnival over here in Germany and maybe where you live, too. I was never a big fan of carnival, but we had one tradition back home which was a lot of fun: Rußiger Freitag (sooty Friday), which is today. On this day the carnival people try to smear soot in other people's faces. No...

I mentioned a few times in the last few months that I'm dealing with some health issues, and I thought long about whether or not I should write about them... but I always feel inspired when people talk about the challenges they're facing, because it shows that everybody has something they have to deal with. So I...

Did you know you can 3D print a guitar? There are some amazing models online, like this one for example, or this. Printing a neck is probably not feasible (though I've seen it done), but a guitar body is really not that complicated (the body of an electric guitar is literally just a block of wood) and can easily be...

Nowadays when you turn on the radio in Germany, you'll hear mostly songs which are currently in the charts or hits from past decades, which are almost all in English. Occasionally you'll get a song in German like "99 Luftballons", but most pop music these days is sung in English and that's what's on the radio (there...

My friend Dom wrote a long post yesterday about his feelings around coding with AI over on his blog titled "Vibe coding a Gemini Capsule and learning a life lesson in the process", which I highly recommend reading. As it happens, I needed to solve a problem a few days ago and decided to give vibe coding a try, and I...