Thorsten Zöller

I have never really seen coding the way described in The Healing Power of Code by Craig Mod, but I can definitely relate to much of what is being said in the article.

I fully agree with practically everything stated in Write plain text files by Derek Sivers as I have come to the same conclusions myself.

xkcd: ISO 8601 – Exactly.

Apparently, there was an inscription on the temple of the Oracle of Delphi which read: Know thyself Nothing to excess Maxims to be taken to heart.

Jeder Mensch – Initiative for six new fundamental rights for Europe which take the major developments and problems of the recent decades into account.

Finished reading How to Live by Derek Sivers A definite must-read: Extremely dense and to the point, packed with wisdom – in a word: stunning!

New note: Multiple-Click Selections in xterm.

Multiple-Click Selections in xterm 2022-02-12 It is possible to configure in detail which portion of the screen – a word, a line, etc. – is selected in xterm(1) on rapid successive mouse clicks.

I didn’t know that carrot greens are edible and so delicious when stir-fried!

I had long been looking for a keyboard alternative to clicking the middle mouse button for pasting the primary selection.

New note: Taking Screenshots on OpenBSD.

Taking Screenshots on OpenBSD 2022-01-30 I rarely need to take screenshots, but occasionally it is convenient to be able to do so.

“Just in case” – One of the most common justifications for letting clutter accrue.

A worthy prompt: Just For A Moment, Let’s Be Still.

Just finished reading Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers and enjoyed it at least as much as Your Music and People.

Harder, easier and more convenient by Seth Godin – the aspiration to ever more convenience is often faulty.

Taschenhirn.de: Knowledge database containing lots of interesting data in the form of lists organized into different categories (German only).

Installation and Setup of the RainLoop Webmail Client on OpenBSD 2021-12-22 Rainloop is a modern, simple and rather lightweight webmail client.

I hate Ashtanga Yoga.

Rediscovered two good posts by Zach Holman (and, well, Zach Holman himself): Keeping a Journal and My Favorite Tweet.

Finished reading Your Music and People by Derek Sivers and loved it, though I am not even a musician myself!

I love beautiful hand-crafted web sites.

“…which components of what aspects of the many things making up our lives at any point are worth noting in some external fashion, and which can be left undocumented?”

Pretended Intentionality 2021-10-21 I have recently become aware of an interesting – and somewhat concerning – behavior of mine in relation to my phone: In those spare moments when I am waiting for something, for instance, and the inevitable compulsion to…

igh school and university students have designed and built a LEGO model of the detector of the ALICE experiment at CERN, consisting of about 16,000 LEGO bricks – highly impressive!

Roden 059 – Stupid Life Tricks by Craig Mod contains a thoughtful piece on the ever-present distractions of our phones and their consequences – a pressing and, in my opinion, still underrated issue of our time.

My advice (for what it’s worth) for success and happiness: Compete with yourself and root for everybody else. – Candice Millard, https://twitter.com/candice_millard/status/1383508127442608141

Wise advice: Make Sure You Write Down Everything Interesting That You Find.

Beautiful article: Long, Boring Walks by Craig Mod.

Can we please establish a universal code of conduct stating that no smartphones are to be used at the dining table?

Instead by Seth Godin.

Man alone measures time.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. – Stephen Vincent Benét

Rediscovering the joy of cycling.

Two very convenient shell aliases for copying the primary X selection to the system clipboard and vice versa: alias primary2clip='xsel -p | xsel -i -b' alias clip2primary='xsel -b | xsel -i -p' Alternatively, using xclip instead of xsel: alias primary2cl…

Once again, I find myself fascinated by the miracles and history of the Laocoon Group.

In recent years, I have become increasingly aware of the profound effects of walking.

The renovated Twin Gable House, designed by Ryan Leidner, is truly amazing with its light-flooded, minimalist interior and beautiful inner courtyard.

Every completed Ashtanga practice is a little victory.

What does it mean to be a leader?

Installed OpenBSD 6.9.

Acting yourself into motivation is much more effective than thinking yourself into motivation or waiting for motivation to occur.

Slowly getting used to using the Spleen font in the terminal.

New website is live!

My New Website 2021-06-20 Not long ago, I created my first website.

A good habit to form: Reading in A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy every day.

How to Write: why jotting things into notebooks improves your writing – I fully agree.

Yes – This is the Mindset For Life.

Switched from Vim to nvi.

OpenBSD released – the 50th OpenBSD release!