Marcus Jaschen

🔐 Just a quarter of a year ago, I switched back from Bitwarden to 1Password with all my password-related stuff1.

🍴 The nine-year-old IKEA dishwasher stopped with the error message “i20”.

🗺️ Bikerouter now has a feature that has been requested time and again for many years: The elevation profile can now also be displayed for straight-line segments.

🚵‍♂️ I am slowly reaching an age where I do not even simply say anymore, “Great, almost 40 degrees, let’s do a 130 km bike tour with a mix of big-city and gravel surfaces”1 😬 Of course, I did it anyway, and it was very strenuous.

🚗 Two weeks ago, I wrote that I had lost the vehicle registration certificate for the old VW Touran six weeks earlier and had a new one issued at the vehicle registration office.

🌫️ About the title image: On Sunday morning, there was quite dense fog over the landscape.

🚗 Four weeks ago, I lost the registration certificate for the car (“Zulassungsbescheinigung Teil I”).

👨‍💻 PhpStorm Light.

The Lightroom days have been over for me for several years now, and my central photo collection now lives in the Apple Photos app included with macOS.

🎂 Mini milestone: I actually managed to write a small blog post for 150 consecutive weeks 😲 🚵‍♂️ Strava got serious and completely shut down the API for non-paying users at the end of June 2026.

🖥️ The 1 TB NVMe storage in the Mac Studio is permanently full: I am annoyed that I did not buy 2 TB or even 4 TB back then1.

🗺️ I tinkered with OverpassQL again and confirmed that the area here offers quite a lot for gravel biking.

✈️ I still have a few Raspberry Pi boards lying around here: some 3s and two 4s.

🔲 Every now and then I am out and about specifically to collect individual, still-missing small map tiles (“Squadratinhos”) for the Squadrats game (more precisely: for my own implementation, Tileflood).

🗺️ I published an update for Bikerouter on Saturday.

🚵‍♂️ The week was so utterly uneventful that I really had trouble finding topics for this post.

🗺️ As announced last week, I finished the Route Inspector for Bikerouter.

✈️ It probably interests nobody, but since I was so happy about it, I want to mention it: Honeycomb Bravo Profiles for X-Plane is the configurator that integrates the Honeycomb Bravo into X-Plane extremely well with minimal effort, including various ready…

🗺️ I had to order another server for Bikerouter.

🚵‍♂️ A SRAM groupset is installed on the e-gravel bike; it is a mullet setup made up of Force and X0 components.

🗺️ The Bikerouter Route Manager is now available.

After the new elevation profile, the Route Manager is the second major new 2026 feature in Bikerouter.

🚵‍♂️ On Saturday I was briefly out cycling in Berlin.

📱 Very few apps have permission to send push notifications to my phone.

🗺️ The new elevation profile on Bikerouter has been online for about a week now, and so far, I’ve received exclusively positive feedback.

🚪 Four weeks after my request, the door manufacturer replied.

✈️ Last week I was traveling for work and in between had a brief chance to play in an Airbus A380 flight simulator with an original full-size cockpit.

In recent weeks, I rebuilt the elevation profile in Bikerouter.de from the ground up.

🎮 I have expanded my hardware setup for working in the flight simulator.

🎮 I have been toying with the idea (for quite a while now, at least for two years) of upgrading my gaming PC.

🚵‍♂️ 3× short: On Saturday it was so warm that I could ride a short gravel lap with a short jersey and shorts1.

🚪 The sliding door to the kitchen has been broken for — I hardly dare say it — two years: one half can no longer be moved because one of the two carriages the door hangs on is broken.

🤒 There wasn’t much going on this week – I spent a good stretch of time in bed with a nasty cold.

🎡☕🏰 I was in Vienna last week and, as always, really enjoyed the city.

🧴 Spray bottles1 are something you basically always need around the house.

🪗 On Saturday I listened to the New Year’s concert of the accordion orchestra Euphonia.

🥶 Once every few years, there are a few days of continuous frost, so that the lakes in the area freeze over to the point where they can be safely walked on.

🖥️ Twenty years ago I used it all the time; by now it had completely slipped my mind.

🔲 Here’s a screenshot of a project I’ve been working on during the days off: Some of you will immediately see what’s going on here.

🐔 Three nights last week it was quite cold.

As in the last few years (2023, 2024), I’m taking a brief look back at 2025 around bikerouter.de.

🗺️ The probably last Bikerouter release this year brings one of the most requested features: You can now set different routing settings on the individual segments of a route.

🗺️ After the round trip planner I presented last week, I actually didn’t intend to tinker with Bikerouter any further this year.

🗺️ This week I just about finished a new, major feature for Bikerouter: There is now a round-trip planner.

A landing airliner has a lot of kinetic energy that it has to shed after touchdown.

🗺️ In Bikerouter, you can now save and reload profile customizations.

🗺️ I found the time last week to move all remaining services around Bikerouter into the new environment.

🚵 I’ve decided to buy a new bike computer.

👣 One of the most unobtrusive yet practical apps on my iPhone is Owntracks.

🛣️ This week there isn’t much to report – I was still on the move and spent most of the time on a road trip through the Benelux countries.