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In 2023 I started cycling along the D11 (Ostsee-Oberbayern-Radweg) across Germany, doing 500km on that trip, then 300km in 2024.

For some reason or other I currently don't have a tower PC with a CD-ROM drive connected, or even an available slot.

I've bought, collected, and ripped my own CDs for a very long time.

In theory it's really easy, in practice the manpage didn't help me.

Apparently there is no uniform way to find out when an OS was installed, so here are several ways I found, which might or might not work: Linux # This is btrfs on Arch # stat / ...

I've long been annoyed at having to alt-tab and find the mute button (or even more the UNmute button during Teams calls or Slack Huddles) when I have another window open, also having to memorize the different shortcuts.

In older Windows versions you had to download Sysinternals' junction.exe in order to create symlinks/hardlinks.

Once in a while (like on a freshly installed OpenBSD) I only have vi and not vim (or neovim) and it usually sucks.

The macOS dock doesn't just let you add spacers, but this can be fixed.

The command aws cloudformation describe-stack-resources is handy aws cloudformation describe-stack-resources --physical-resource-id BUCKET_NAME --logical-resource-id RioCloudWatchDistribtionFrontEndBucket550600D4

I wrote about tools on Windows in 2019 and I wanted to write an update to that post for a while already.

This arch box does not have cron installed so I tried systemd timers for the first time.

Windows does not have ldd it seems, but if you have Visual Studio installed, (in my case 2022) then you can do: dumpbin /dependents filename.dll/exe And of course it's not on the PATH, but it works inside VS' terminal.

Discord has terrible defaults and apparently you need to set them again every time you install it.

I've long been unhappy with shell scripts for anything that's more than 20 lines of glue code and so I've been looking for replacements for quite a while.

What happens if you don't read the manual properly?

These review posts have proven useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. ( 2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 ) Non-Board Games I've played/bought World of Warcraft EVE Online Diablo IV F…

I've not properly used Python for a bit, so here are some random notes so I don't have to search through scripts and shell history and docs: uv I'm not one of the people who were desperate before and now all problems are solved, but uv does a good job so…

If I look at my environment.zsh (just the part of my zsh config that handles PATH - I see the following customizations, although not all are active on every machine at every time (the curse of shared dotfiles): add rustup's bin/ and source .cargo/env add…

It's been over 7 years that I last wrote about keyboards.

The go version in go.mod, i.e. go 1.17 does NOT work like in Rust or Java - it's not "using the installed compiler to produce something somehow backwards compatible".

A while ago I noticed that I had not been happy with my "development environment" at home.

You can open a VNC connection in the Finder by pressing cmd-k and then connecting to vnc://HOST:PORT.

Usually I post all my code experiments and tools publicly (usually on Github, but that may change) but for some reason I never published this, but after a couple changes I might.

While I didn't really plan to (or need to) replace my 2019 Ryzen we had a gaming laptop act up (again, actually), and so I decided it would be good to have a 2nd current-generation gaming PC again, so I bought one.

There's been a German blog post going round the last few days, in the general tone of self-hosting and choosing European-hosted alternatives, or just more community-focused and decentralized than walled gardens, with a focus on US megacorps.

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While learning Kotlin I had brief look at KotlinNative.

I have been using includeIf in my .gitconfig for years, usually to separate out my personal git config on my work machine.

As I started a new job in October I'm anticipating to learn a lot of things in a short timespan in the coming weeks, and because in the past I was bad about writing stuff down I've resolved to do better and write stuff down.

Less of a TIL than a "I have to look this up every couple of years".

The feature I was missing most on the mac was window management like I knew it from i3.

I wrote about self-hosting stuff in 2022, since then I've made a few changes: server 1 - a blog Debian 12 with podman (not happy with the rootless setup) Caddy, Tailscale, grafana-agen on the host MySQL in a container PHP + Wordpress in a container server…

// User.kt import kotlin.properties.Delegates class User { var name: String by Delegates.observable("<no name>") { prop, old, new -> println("$old -> $new") } } fun main() { val user = User() user.name = "first" user.…

Cmd-UpArrow in Terminal.app lets you jump to the last time you pressed enter.

Last year I started my first long bicycle tour, along the D11 (Ostsee-Oberbayern-Radweg) across Germany.

These review posts have proven useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. ( 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 ) Non-Board Games I've played/bought World of Warcraft EVE Online Diablo IV Books I've read…

Maybe skip this intro Back in the day I used to be very much into customizing and theming my Windows installation (probably around the turn of the century), mostly before I started running Linux on half of my machines with graphical interfaces.

As the discussion of mobile phones came up briefly in #lobsters, I thought I might finally write down some thoughts I've had for a while.

I'd long planned to do a multi day bikepacking [see footnote at the end] tour and these last few days in my June vacation it finally happened.

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In a mood of looking into not self-hosting every small tool I wanted to try out a few of the options that are around now.

Last week I finally bit the bullet and, after changing the font, made the few remaining switches.

Over the last few evenings I spent a little bit of time on the CSS for this website, I can't say I was particularly enjoying it though.

Recently I've thought a lot about self-hosting, maybe triggered by the whole fediverse hype and how decentralization is actually desirable for many projects.

Today is a weird day.

The 7DRL, or 7 Day Roguelike Challenge, is a yearly one week long event where you build a game.

I'm a big fan of in-ear headphones when outside.

I'm in the unfortunate circumstance to be using a mandatory proxy these days (including SSL) and unlike with browsers where it's kind of fire and forget, if you're developing software there's a plethora of tools that will or will not accept the default en…

These review posts have proven useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. ( 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 ) Non-Board Games I've played/bought World of Warcraft - subscribed for the whole year, played a lot in t…