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It's World Cup season, and it keeps delivering: dubious referee decisions, fans marching the streets celebrating and sometimes disrupting opposing teams' sleep and, of course, underdogs standing their ground against the great football nations' teams.

A year ago, I decided to learn Spanish more seriously.

For the past ten days my journey across China has been an amazing experience.

I recently went down the rabbit hole of improving video conferencing quality.

A coding problem about finding the 'most central' element in an array, which can be elegantly simplified by applying some maths.

I discuss two different approaches to transferring data from Firestore to BigQuery.

I own a Synology DS223j NAS and went on great lengths to figure out the ideal way of backing up my data on Google Cloud Storage.

I read 'The Passionate Programmer' by Chad Fowler, which made me think about teamwork.

After half a decade of loading structured data from CSVs, I share my thoughts on data formats and their implications for data practitioners.

Patterns I notice in in practice when transferring and loading tabular data.

Thoughts on performance under pressure.

On the benefits of using the right tool for the right job.

It feels really good to use Zeal and Dash to read developer documentation.

A rough guide to setting up a backup routine on a machine running Fedora 34.

With early vaccination data from the Robert Koch Institute, I run a linear regression to get an estimate to predict when the Germans will reach herd immunity.

Mutable data structures are tricky to work with, which is a tripping wire when updating state in a React app.

Some wisdom I learned from a friend about slow programming languages.

A summary of the work I did in my Master's thesis.

Fundamental thoughts on how to get started with backups on Linux.

I've written a bunch of Python code that needs to run faster.

Some thoughts on how scientists can test their code.

A few ideas on how to get started with programming without having studied CS.

In 2019 habe ich an allen Berliner Universitäten Kurse belegt.

Im St.

Ich verbringe etwas mehr Zeit mit meinem Smartphone, als mir lieb ist.

Ein Vergleich von Berliner Leihfarradanbietern.

Ein Erfahrungsbericht, wie ich im Winter in Berlin Fahrrad fahre.

Überlegungen zum Leben in einem Land mit der ältesten Bevölkerung weltweit.