Ingo Richter on Today is Tomorrow's Past

Wallpaper Week 37/2026 Howdy As I have mentioned in the previous Wallpaper post, I spent some time with my family on the island of Kaua’i.

Wallpaper Week 35/2026 Howdy At the beginning of August ‘26, I spent some time with my family on the island of Kaua’i.

📖 What I’m reading Der Flügelschlag des Paarfalters - Andreas Rainer Apple: The First 50 Years - David Pogue 📺 What I’m watching Your Friends & Neighbors, Season 2 The Hunt 🧰 What I’m making Fix my ansible setup.

Wallpaper Week 22/2025 Howdy I’ve spent last Saturday afternoon riding my bicycle in a bigger loop in the East Bay.

Wallpaper Week 20/2025 Howdy I went for a short hike last weekend in Marin County, CA.

TL;DR JankyBorders is a tool that allows you to add a colored border around macOS app windows.

I’m a US Citizen Now 🇩🇪 + 🇺🇸 TL;DR On July 31, 2023, I received my US Citizenship certificate during the Oath Ceremony at the USCIS Field Office in San Francisco.

It’s already May Woah, we have already surpassed the four-month mark for this year.

Enable extensions for dayjs I was working on a small project to sharpen my Javascript and Typescript skills.

Kicking Nextcloud Cron Script from TrueNAS Cron Job Tl;DR I’m running TrueCharts Nextcloud in my TrueNAS SCALE at home.

The Fediverse I was never an active user of Twitter.

13 Months… … after filing the application to keep my German citizenship, I got an email today, letting me know that my application was accepted, and I was granted the permission to retain my German citizenship when applying for the US citizenship.

WFH Day 946 I had some random thoughts the other day.

WFH Day 896 I’m working on too many things at once.

WFH Day 870 Long time no update.

A Better Fan Shroud I already updated my 3D Printer fan shroud a couple of months ago.

Well, Crap, what a waste of time One would guess that I should have known better with the work experience I accumulated in the software engineering field.

Stepping into the Void Friday, May 6th, is the first time since the start of the Pandemic that I stepped inside our office.

Global Day Off Thanks to my employer, I had an additional Day Off.

WFH Day 761 Thanks to my employer, I had an additional Day Off.

Designing a Spacer for my AxiDraw Plotter I have an AxiDraw V3/A3 Penplotter that I bought to satisfy a desire to own such a fantastic machine.

WFH Day 744 It’s a whole week now since we can’t use any water in the house due to a clogged sewage pipe between the property and the main sewer pipe.

WFH Day 736 I’m currently reading Out of Office - The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home and I have a couple of pages left before this loan expires.

TL;DR Adding Swift Code to Objective-C Project Ensure your Swift class derives direct or indirect from NSObject Ensure your Swift class is public to ensure the YourProjectName-Swift.h header generation Prefix the class to expose it to Objective-C.

WFH Day 702 Well, well, well, I surpassed the 700 days since I started counting the WFH days in March 2020.

The Gatekeeper Before I forget what I learned today, I better write it down.

WFH Day 693 I’m back in California for a week now, and my Jetlag is finally gone.

TL;DR Hugo’s file lookup magic was biting me and was causing the 3rd party template to use a file with the same name from my blog assets directory.

SwiftUI - Learn by doing I briefly started to use SwiftUI in 2021.

WFH Day 657 Happy New Year!

Happy Thanksgiving I wish everybody a great day with their families and friends.

WFH Day 616 I spent four weeks in Germany with my wife and some of my children.

Reorg Time I use Nextclouds image upload feature to backup all photos from my phone.

WFH Day 438 I get it.

WFH Day 421 I got up this morning by 6 am, jumped into my running gear, and headed outside by 6:30 am for a short 2 miles run.

WFH Day 414 Unbelievable, but it’s already May of 2021!

WFH Day 365 I took some time during the weekend to minimize my belongings.