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To make things easier for me, I'll do the logbook for WeeklyBeats 2026 here and not on my main blog where posting just takes much more dedicated time.

For a while now, my first generation AMD based Framework 13 has been my daily driver (and still is).

Not exactly sure how but I stumbled across this wonderful article in the german ZEIT (unfortunately behind a paywall), detailing the first few years of German hip hop in the late 80's and early 90's.

I'll be talking about re-implementing the BASIC interpreter from the Commodore C-64 in Ruby at the Baltic Ruby conference in Malmö in less than two weeks (if time permits, I'll try to betatest it at the Ruby Unconf in Hamburg where I'll be MCing).

Somehow I used to think that with Windows 11 and WSL2 and Windows Terminal, I finally found my daily driver for good.

Bit of a weird time right now.

CW: Personal health, somewhat detailed descriptions of illnesses, negative thoughts For some reason, both my SO's and my birthdays seem to attract smaller and bigger catastrophes like a magnet for a while now.

So, I had this idea for a piece of software that would listen to the MIDI output of the Woovebox and instead of just displaying the surface of the Woovebox verbatim as Woovebox Connect does, it would display additional help information for the screen and…

I am not a keyboard geek by any means.

This summer is definitely peak cognitive dissonance.