fabian writes.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good set of drawers, must be in want of a good organization system.

The latest board game obsession in my household is Forest Shuffle.

Last weekend, I took a silvercasting workshop run by a friend and made an absolute chonker of a ring.

I built a weird little remote control for my stereo system from a bluetooth macropad.

Are you a macOS user?

Here are five good hikes, mostly about 10 or 15km long, each reachable with public transport, around Berlin. this isn’t a cooking blog, but you’re still getting the preamble In late 2020 I made a habit of walking somewhere in nature once a week.

On alcohol use and recovery.

Have you ever thought about how weird birthdays are?

Ok, this blog post has a really specific title, but I’m sure a lot of it generalises to other devices and other software. 😅 I bought a stereo system recently!

Every few months, I become wildly dissatisfied with my relationship with my mobile phone and vow to take steps to change it.

I had a spare weekend in London before a work trip in February.

Recently, I wondered whether songs were being increasingly released with entirely lowercase titles.

Kids these days are speaking in lowercase on the internet.

Hello, friends.

In November, I walked for eight days along the Rennsteig, a famous, old ridge road in Thüringen, Germany.

I’m going on a hike, and writing / photographing some things on the way.

Last week, I deleted a bunch of old photos while trying to back them up.

To head this off before I get questions: yes, dear Reader, it is 2021, and I am writing about a floppy disk drive.

Content Note: Covid-19 My housemates caught COVID-19 on the last weekend in February.

I have taken a couple terabytes of photos over the years, and have a mild phobia of deleting data, so I keep my photos on a Synology DiskStation NAS.

2020 is over, and ooh wee it’s been a weird year.

Some people are searching for God.

FYI: this is Part II of a series!

FYI: this is part one of a two-part series!

I added email subscriptions to my blog1 and, in the process, signed up for four different email providers to test them out.

Chelsea and I spoke last week about software engineering, jobs, and blogging; here’s the audio!

I’ve been writing and reading a lot of questions on camera and programming forums recently, which got me thinking a lot about how to write questions well.

It is already the hot, latter half of the Berlin Summer, and I have learned a small mystery about the Willows on the Landwehr Canal.

I gave a talk at EnthusiastiCon on the weekend and it was really fun.

I gave a talk at EnthusiastiCon about the very basics of digital photography and how pixels are actually made of lies 🤐.

On April 30, I committed to learning the Colemak keyboard layout.

I’ve just published a piece on how Fuji’s RAW file compression algorithm works.

I spent 3 weeks earlier this year digging in to and reimplementing the lossless compression algorithm in Fuji’s RAF Camera RAW files.

Content Note: Covid-19 stress and societal impact.

This website now uses margin notes instead of footnotes if your browser window is wide enough.

Ordering a bagel in NYC is like cracking a code.

2020 is here, and I’m writing this from Brooklyn Roasting Company off the tail of about 7 hours of accumulated jetlag.

There’s something glorious about disappearing into the mountains, alone.

Yesterday, I published a rather long post about the way that SQLAlchemy uses database transactions.

I’ve been working on database stuff for the last few months at Sendwave.

2019 is almost done.

A few months ago; I switched this blog over from Jekyll to Hugo, and in the process, built a new theme.

Yesterday I released the first version of Grouse, a diff tool for websites generated with Hugo.

When working with anything semi-automated, you sometimes run into a situation where the following are true: The environment you’re working in has a lot of interlocking pieces, and changing one thing can result in unexpected changes to lots of other things…

Two weeks ago, I got back from a hiking trip in Austria and South Tyrol, and discovered that my Fuji X-T2 had developed a rattle.

My good pals Tom and Mikaely moved from the greater Wollongong area to Roseburg, Oregon, back in 2015.

Remote work is, on balance, great, but one of the disadvantages compared to a normal job is that it’s harder to switch off from work in your lunch break, at the end of the day, or when you’re on holidays.

I rebuilt my Emoji Haiku generator over the last month or so, and learned a bunch about how text is rendered on computers.

In late September, 2018, I hiked for eleven days along the E5 long-distance hiking trail.

Back in May 2017, I took a solo backpacking trip through Georgia and Armenia.