marco's blog

I’ve decided to put this blog to rest for now.

I switched from Zwift to Rouvy some time ago for reasons.

Not Interested: The truth is I’m just not interested in pretty much all the things I cared about before.

Finished reading: Reset Thriller : die Wahrheit stirbt zuerst by Peter Grandl 📚

It still baffles me that so many people are willing to completely give up their privacy out of fascination with the possibilities of AI.

Project Hail Mary: Loved the book and enjoyed the movie

Finished reading: Die Mitternachtsbibliothek by Matt Haig 📚

Finished reading: Die Känguru-Rebellion Der fünfte Band der Känguru-Reihe by Marc-Uwe Kling 📚

TIL that when using WireGuard to connect remotely to your home network, and you have configured Pi‑Hole as a local DNS server in your Fritz!

Successful products: Every time I stumble on articles or posts discussing tech products, I’m perplexed when someone uses the word “successful” to describe a product with a lot of users.

TIL that on macOS Tahoe, you can use an user default to turn off menu icons: defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool false

I really appreciate Apple’s attention to details and software quality.

Your entire smart home in the macOS menu bar.

Enjoyed reading Phantom Obligation.

Finished reading: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow 📚

Watched: The Last Viking 🍿 I love this kind of movies and this one, too.

Another year has passed, and it’s time to update my app defaults.

PSA: Right now is a good time to buy Indie Software for macOS and iOS.

For a couple of years, I’ve had two Raspberry Pis running on my home network.

Watched: Rushmore 🍿 - enjoyed it

Babo: The Haftbefehl Story (2025)

Run local LLMs like gpt-oss, Qwen3, Gemma3, DeepSeek and many more on your computer, privately and for free.

In the latest Hiro report, I read about an app called Roll N' Write for iPadOS.

TIL that you can’t connect to your Fujifilm camera with your iPhone via its local wifi if you have a VPN service running in the background 🤦‍♂️.