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Ever since moving to the southwest of Berlin, a day out in Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg feels like a mini holiday.

at smartdeli in Berlin, Germany Filed under snapshots with tags: Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

From the Brâncuși exhibition, which we managed to see on the closing weekend. at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany Filed under snapshots with tags: Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

Finally, the park living up to its name. at Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin, Germany Filed under scraps with tags: Berlin Reply by email or on the Fediverse Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

at Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin, Germany Filed under snapshots with tags: Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

It always surprises me how well watermelon, some salt, olive oil, and feta work together.

Heatwave Filed under snapshots with tags: Tea, Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

🎵 TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

Meandering. in Kreuzberg, Berlin Filed under snapshots with tags: Cycling, Berlin, Surly Reply by email or on the Fediverse Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

🎵 The Cure - A Forest Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

🎵 Lord Huron - Meet Me in the Woods Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

Today's tea was a sheng (raw) pu'er processed in 2021 from the Ergazi varietal from Baiyingshan in Lincang, Yunnan.

🎵 Spoon - Wild Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

🎵 TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

After last week's first outside lunch, V joined me on Thursday for a work-day lunch in the sun at our local Vietnamese.

First long(er) ride of the year, basking in sunshine.

🎵 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) (BADBADNOTGOOD Reinterpretation) Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

With temperatures reaching 17ºC and full sun, we are in the middle of Fool's Spring here in Berlin.

🎵 Barry Can't Swim - The Person You'd Like To Be Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

Sometimes all you need is a humble Brompton, and that mid-rack does help a little.

Two weeknotes in one, a two for one, what a bargain—or, how I felt that not enough has happened in week 7 to warrant writing about it.

Bookmark of: Designed to be specialists (aworkinglibrary.com) [...] they were designed to be competent but limited, active but docile, intelligent but ignorant outside of anything but their function, incapable of having a horizon beyond that of their task.

🎵 Electric Guest - This Head I Hold Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

My first Sheng Pu'er, a Gushu 1 made from the Da Ye Zhong cultivar, from 2025, so still a young Sheng 2, and coming from the Nannuo mountain in Menghai, Yunnan, China.

🎵 The Afghan Whigs - Arabian Heights Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

Bookmark of: Stop generating, start thinking (localghost.dev) Where I've seen LLMs do the most damage is where engineers outsource the thinking that should go into software development.

I saw a video online of an old street artist in Yokohama's Chinatown doing, engraving objects people brought to him.

🎵 Foals - Mountain At My Gates Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

Late on Friday, V received the results from her Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), she took the N5 level one back in early December.

#RabbitRabbit 1 20260201-W-BRM8QQ A cold, one-hour walk at -5ºC. 🧭 on foot 📍 52.457984, 13.330025 2 📐 6 meters away 🗓️ Sunday, 1 February 2025 🌍 428.83 ppm CO₂ https://rabbit-rabbit.quest https://www.openstreetmap.org/?

tch-tch - HOT OFF THE PRESS - tkt-tch-tch ⁂ A new dispatch from the Studio: We've released a major new version of Rabbit Rabbit, the same functionality as before, but with much smoother map interactions.

🎵 Portugal.

Bookmark of: The Enclosure feedback loop, or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good (michiel.buddingh.eu) A chilling foreboding making the connection between large language models of the few big players and enclosure,

I mentioned last week that with the beginning of another year, I started thinking about reframing how I apply my software engineering skills.

🎵 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Magenta Mountain Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

Last week's sore throat turned into a proper cold, and resulting in being a sniffling and coughing mess.

A sea of throw-away Christmas trees. in Friedenau, Berlin, Germany Filed under snapshots with tags: Berlin Reply by email or on the Fediverse Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

We've switched coffee beans recently as after finishing the last bag of Drip Roaster's La Papaya, a natural Ecuadorian.

🎵 Metric - What Feels Like Eternity Filed under scraps with tags: Jam Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

A good start to the week, the cast came off early Monday morning.