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I just love Cheapskate's Guide, it's a fantastic site.

I just found an interesting video on Hacker News about homeless people in Oakland.

In the last few months a lot of my people became interested in getting rid of ads on their devices.

... are a scam.

Over the years, a lot of devices have accumulated at my home.

Back at home after christmas.

From time to time I'm interested in what my reader would like to read.

During Covid 19 we are talking a lot about freedom.

I deleted WhatsApp some months ago.

The older I get, the more I perceive time flies by.

What should I do next?

Hey folks, I'm into learning a whole new topic in-depth: cryptocurrencies.

Just wanted to check which packages I've installed on my different Linux devices, so I wrote the package names into a file (pacman -Q > packages.txt).

I finally added my old blog posts.

I use Linux for some years know.

I love vim.

I just wanted to grab a copy of this book, because I've read an article about it.

When I read about hosting providers, e.g. for a virtual privater server, there are a lot of companies: AWS, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode etc.

Instead of hoping that other people, politicians or businesses change the world, do it yourself.

My devices are very well organized: I have no desktop icons I delete stuff all the time my backups are 200MB small I don't open more than ~5 browser tabs and close them after the task at hand ...

I own 2 phones.

Sometimes I find myself searching for a blueprint. "3 steps to stay healthy / find brotherhood / become rich / have a great relationship etc."

Today I decluttered my collection of interesting articles.

All plans are set up.

When we talk about software, there are terms like "free", "open source" etc.

Start: 2021-08-20 Last update: 2021-10-05 Common Concepts statically typed: must know all types at compile time (but can infer a lot of types) variables are immutable variables have a scope and live only in a block ({}) types: no implicit coercion primiti…

Today we elect a new government in Germany.

The more I learned about technology in the last few years, especially due my professional career, the more I started to reject digital stuff.

Sometimes I ask myself, if someone is a bad person, if they work for a company that does some kind of shady things.

This blog runs on Zola.

I have a really simple plan for learning Rust: I read a chapter in the Rust Book I do the Rustlings exercises that fit the chapter's content I summarize my learnings After I will have finished the Rust Book and Rustlings, I will have a look into Rust By E…

I was on a camping trip for some days.

Because I've finished the udacity course the other day, I'm now focused on learning Rust.

When code evolves We start out with a tiny function that doesn't do that much (pseudo code): function download_from_aws (from, to) { do_something(); result = aws_client.download(from); parsed_result = parse(result); filesystem.write_to_disk(parsed…

I started the Intro to Cybersecurity Nanodegree some weeks ago and finished it today.

Daily Schedule I started a new daily schedule this week.

Learnings General default options are strong: I always ask myself, why people don't use my cool, sophisticated software, but Windows 10 / Edge / Chrome / Google Search / whatever Project Management we mostly use the tools we know, e.g. we default to Trell…

Concepts: multiple notes or single summary?

Shortcuts :help help :q quit :w write :o open esc escape mode i insert mode c - change mode v - visual mode to select chars V - visual line mode to select lines vim tutor to learn hjkl - left, down, up, right u - undo w - next start of word b - last start…

Ideas this is just my mental model, build your own life can be thought about in different environments, let's call them sessions; example: work environment, private environment, gym environment an environment can be divided into different projects, let's…

You probably already heard about it: 533M Facebook users' data leaked.

Last year, I migrated all my passwords from Firefox to KeePassXC to have my passwords just saved locally, not in the hands of a third party.

I've just sent my first SMS after like 3 years.

I continued on reading Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism.

Yesterday, I talked about the fact, that I deleted WhatsApp.

Today, I finally deleted my WhatsApp account.

Reading is an integral part of my life.

I visited a company that invited me to work with them.

I updated my whole selfhosted scripts: Caddy, Pi-hole and Nextcloud work out-of-the-box with my install script.

I have a list with short tasks I want to work / research on.