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I just realized that the last time I wrote about anything Apple related has been about a year ago and I wanted to take the opportunity to review how my usage and outlook has changed.

also check my programs I use Precursor to this list: 💻 Internet Exit Strategy 🌸 = high value, those are also saved on my phone LLMs 8.5GB Bonsai-27B-Ternary 3.4GB MedGemma-1.5-4B-it-4bit 🌸1.7GB Qwen3.5-2B-MLX-4bit Non Kiwix 🌸1.42GB all of standardebooks.o…

The 8bitdo pro 2 (top) has suffered some wear and tear Your browser does not support the audio element.

So, around a month ago, I had my first real experience with vibe coding.

I've been using Claude for three weeks now, and want to share a small but impactful lifehack for getting more usage out of the weekly limit by aligning your five-hour usage windows to your actual daily schedule.

AI somehow got good at code, but other than writing it, it can also review it now.

getting gold with superior bureaucracy So I'm currently in a side-quest heavy phase of my life and what better side-quest than to obtain the german sports badge?

I'm now employed full-time again for five months.

My domain expires exactly a year from now, so I thought it fitting to release a short update.

plaintext list for copy-pasting # Fiction - George Orwell - Animal Farm - Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata - Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis - F.

right side profile of my setup I finally got it, I cracked the code.

the majority of this blogpost was written mid september The dead internet theory was still fringe 5 years ago, but now even mainstream voices are complaining about the enshittification of social media and all other online platforms.

🔗 Why Full Disk Encryption is more secure than any lockscreen.

Update From Inside The Welfare Trap I have been unemployed for a little over 6 months at this point and believe this warrants another NEET update.

🔗 Previously (2025) X86 vs M4 Mac Mini Benchmarks (2024) Garmin vs Apple Watch (2024) Apple Ecosystem Review (2023) M1 Mac Review 🔗 Introduction In my on-off relationship with apple hard- and software, I converged on some specific usage patterns and have…

In February I played the game This War Of Mine, in which you play a civilian surviving during war.

V 1.0 Prep time: 5 min Fridge time: 6-12 hours Ingredients 150g Oatmeal 70g raspberries 300g of milk (optional) 10g flavored protein powder Tools bowl plate spoon teaspoon measuring cup Directions measure your oatmeal and add half of it to your bowl now a…

It randomly dawned on me today that I track way more stuff than most people and that it may be very insightful to my readers to know what and why.

I've been praying the rosary for about a month now to great effect.

So almost 3 years ago I wrote a post about social media and how it wastes your time.

Yes, I'm christian.

I'm too lazy to write a large introductory paragraph, so take a look at the X86 PC Part List and head straight to the benchmarks. 🔗 Benchmarks Power Idle: 55W vs 5W Youtube 1080p: 75W vs 5W Speedometer 3.1 Brave: 110W peak vs 15W peak Super Mario Sunshine…

today my last day at work was exactly two months ago Nursing Internship My nursing internship in the last week of march was certainly interesting.

🔗 Low Activity As you may have noticed, the frequency of posts on this blog has decreased from about two a month to almost radio silence.

for runners While I love running and its my main sport, its high impact nature means that pure running training opens you up to overuse injuries.

source Prep time: 5 min Steep time: 5 min Ingredients 2 cloves of garlic as much ginger as garlic 1 lemon 1 tsp turmeric 1 tsp cayenne pepper 2 tsp apple cider vinegar 400ml water Tools kitchen knife cutting board teaspoon kettle teacup Directions Put wat…

Pre-warmup Before doing any mobilizing exercises it makes sense to somewhat get the blood flowing for a few minutes.

Story of a 5k 3-5 Days before Race I try to get more than enough sleep in the days leading up to the race and eat a little healthier and more than I usually do.

Garmin Forerunner 945 vs Apple Watch Series 6 Background About a month ago I decided to side-grade my apple watch to a garmin watch because those are said to be way better for running.

ZSA Voyager next to M1 Macbook Air - Oryx Training Price Breakdown ZSA Voyager: ~330€ (365 USD) VAT & Imprort Duties: 77€ Ambient Nocturnal Switches & Bongo Cat Keycaps: 70€ Sum: ~480€ 🔗 Light Silent Linear Switches The Ambient Nocturnal Switches I ordered

tl;dr ps2 is too pixelly and better emulated or played via ps3 re-releases PS2 - Final Fantasy 12 - 4k VA 🔗 The Glorious Used Market I'd like to open this review of my gaming consoles by expressing the great gratitude I have for the well priced used tech…

heart rate zones are important I've picked up running again in early august and ran an official 11.5k 8 days ago.

Go is an acquired taste 🔗 Foreshadowing As foreshadowed in my post explaining my blogging setup, I always wanted a faster dead link checker to run on my evergrowing website.

habitual complaining is not healthy I have it good For context, me and my colleagues work at a large company in an air-conditioned building, in a small team-contained office of four people.

Since I bought myself some used Apple hardware at the end of June, I'm now writing a consolidated review on it. 🔗 MacBook The M1 MacBook Air was the first piece of Apple hardware that I bought and cost me 630€.

For quite a while now I have wanted to develop a dynamic website.¹ In that pursuit I looked at Python Django, even going through the whole tutorial.

good riddance subfont This week I added a nicer house emoji to the footer and added heading anchors to all my <h2>s in the tech category.

🔗 Why A little while ago I wrote rapture, a modern server setup, with the goal of covering a wide range of popular infrastructure tooling.

How many nines do you need?

GPN CTF 2024 Writeup This weekend I participated in the GPN CTF, organised by the CTF team of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

~1 year update on my spending habits Okay, it was never that bad Where we left off So in July of last year, following a particularly egregious impulse purchase, I started to curb my spending by following a new system.

I've always wanted to write a piece on meditation, but could never think of a coherent message worth communicating.

Google CTF 2018 🔗 What are CTFs Security CTFs, with CTF standing for Capture The Flag, are challenging, time bound IT security contests.

Prep time: 10 min Cooking time: 15 min Ingredients 250g champignon 50-100g other mushrooms (opt) 30g dried porcini (sub: other expensive mushrooms) 50g butter 2 small onions / 1 large onion 200g cream 500ml water 3 tsp broth powder 1 tsp curry powder 2 tsp

takes way too long Leg Disk Stew Recipe Cooking time: 10 min Oven time: 90 min Ingredients 1 (~500-800g) leg disk with bone (beef) 6-8 carrots ~150 soup noodles 500ml water 3 tsp broth powder (opt) black pepper (opt) salt (opt) Tools potato peeler cutting…

also check my anime list Completed • played through twice Curation Sourcing & Emulation Myrient is good for curated nointro and redump romsets.

Irish Coddle Recipe Prep time: 30 min Cooking time: 10 min Oven time: 60 min Ingredients 8 potatoes 3 carrots 100g bacon 200g sausage 50ml rapeseed oil (sub: sunflower oil) 500ml water broth powder black pepper salt Tools potato peeler cutting board cutti…

🔗 Timeline My history with lisp and functional programming starts in august of '22 where I learned haskell¹, doing a lot of coding puzzles with it.

I'm not gonna keep updating this on every distro/hardware change.

A tour of what makes my blog totally awesome I've been actively blogging for almost 2 years now, releasing over 50 posts in the process.