A little family trip to Strasbourg crowned a week that was otherwise similarly mundane as the last couple of them. The city is well worth a visit, it’s very pretty indeed. I started reading a Japanese whodunnit on Saturday which so far is very intriguing and quite different from the usual European ones I read....

human.json is exactly the kind of nerdy metadata silliness that is designed to amuse me. It’s a protocol to vouch for people’s websites created by Beto Dealmeida.It basically works by offering a little json file with a list of websites one trusts to be human who doesn’t use AI to write their blog posts. It’s nice...

The constant urge to keep a grievances.md file while knowing fully well that this would be extremely silly. Reply by email

So, it’s already Monday and here are my notes for last week: Nothing to report, carry on. I know this is a bit boring to read. At the moment my brain seems to be in the same mode as my Wallabag installation, (which I did manage to get going again, for those keeping score) things go in, to be processed at a later...

Three K-pop(-ish) songs I enjoyed recently: Hypnotize by XG, Catch Catch by Yena and Bang Bang by Ive. Reply by email

Not much to report on this week. It was mostly cold and rainy, I got lost in Captain of Industry (yes, again. No, I don’t learn from past mistakes) and rewatched the first season of True Detective. I almost bought something online and about half an hour after I asked the seller to use the marketplace’s secure...

I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio Reply by email

I’m thinking a lot about adding a blogroll lately. I’m considering everything from a simple list to a full-blown reader experience. My WordPress installation is old enough to still have the Links Manager, so I might just use that. Reply by email

It is allergy season, fuck yeah. So while I spend both days of the weekend outside (which was nice, don’t get me wrong. We even had sun!) I immediately crashed on the couch when I came back, defeated by the battle that my body is trying to fight against the pollen. And I’m sure the antihistamines didn’t help,...

Oh boy. The pollen allergy season is in full swing already. And of course I forgot to order my antihistamines. Reply by email

It is a bit baffling. I’m working with a whole bunch of WordPress installations, every single one of them with the server time zone set to UTC and the WordPress time set to Europe/Berlin. It works fine in all of them – except with one client, where there’s always a weird mismatch of times. Reply by email

I spend my morning watching reels from expats in Dubai and yes, you’re right, iOS. I have indeed reached my limit on Instagram. Meanwhile I have fallen out of love with Wallabag. Mostly because it suddenly didn’t let me log in anymore and I don’t have the energy to look into what happened. Ugh. While I already...