Wishing all carnevalists around the World a great start of the fifth season of the year.

My German word of the week: der Einfallsreichtum

Not sure that I really like where Microsoft is taking VSCode - it looks like soon it will be just another frontend for them to sell Github Copilot subscriptions.

We turned the heating up/on in our home for the first time this year.

Let it sink in how the richest person on the planet was EXTREMELY directly involved in getting his preferred candidate in the US presidency seat.

After testing Vivaldi for a couple of weeks I am convinced this is a great browser and to support the team behind it, I decided to start sending them a couple of Euro monthly, just to keep the momentum going.

If all Orange Face Elefant party voters would take them on their words and make them actually do whatever insane world they invented, then perhaps people will realize the grave mistake that was made today. Many people have to feel consequences before they believe it. I hope there will still be history books in the future to disclose the insanity for future generations. But whatever happens, the World will keep spinning…

Another new email handling strategy I am applying is agressively deleting everything that I don’t need to keep for some reason.

@Codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl I have separate mail boxes for private and work, but flattened both to have a simpler structure. For work, where we use Outlook, I am using categories for organising the mails and privately I am using Vivaldi’s labels system. The main idea is to use search and grouping through dynamic saved searches instead of static folders.

I wish I could absorb some of the horrors the rescue workers will encounter in Valencia’s underground garages and basements, so they could somewhat manage on with their own lives after… #realheroes #cannotunsee

Grateful for everything I have. Wishing everyone a good week.

So I’ve flattened my work and private email inboxes to single inbox folders and I don’t even know anymore what I was thinking before trying frantically to organise everything in sub folders. Labels and search filters are the way forward.

Moved my email back into a single ‘inbox’ folder instead of trying to keep everything organised in sub-folders. Using Vivaldi’s labels instead for organising the messages. Makes sense because I sometimes had trouble if a message needed to be in multiple boxes.

My guilty pleasure: raisin bread with salted butter and a slice of gouda cheese

My favourite part of Halloween is helping to set up the charity halloween party at a local school. Love decorating the haunted hallway and setting up the lights. Feels great to get those smiles on people’s faces.

First day back at school after our first real school vacation. Didn’t know where to start when a parent asked me about how our vacation was.

Cleaned up my personal e-mail account this week and claimed back about 2GB of space occupied by irrelevant stuff.

Liking the distinction in Vivaldi between bookmark and something to add to your reading list.

After many many years on Firefox, I am making the move to Vivaldi.

Had a great time at the Duisburg zoo yesterday including the amazing dolphin show

Got my flu shot today!

Monthly sign of life. We’re good.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s hot here as well. Luckily should only last a couple of days. Bunkering down in our home and keeping all the doors and windows closed. No airco. Fans give some relieve.

We had a great and relaxing three week vacation in Denmark and Sweden.

Picked up Altered Carbon again on Netflix. Really need to read those books.

Had totally forgotten how cool Apocalyptica’s “Nothing Else Matters” is.

@Prologic@twtxt.net No, haven’t had the need to. We’re sticking to trusted and true over latest and sleekest in this project. Perhaps next year.

Asked ChatGPT 3 yesterday to tone down an angry message I had to send, as in make it still polite, but make sure to get the message across, and it succeeded pretty well.

So dissatisfied and disappointed with the Fairphone 4’s audio issues where during phone calls, the receiver only gets half of the messages due to noise cancellation problems, that we’re considering iPhone as a valid “it just works” replacement. Especially since the iPhone15 now also has the USB Type C port.

I lapsed with the coffee drinking. One cup a day. Making tea takes way more time than making a quick coffee. Although I still should take the time.

Doing laundry at 6:00 in the morning

Time flows backwards for some successful people

And I feel fine…

Haven’t been sleeping well lately. Going to bed late. Lots to do.

Fun with React Hook Forms and MUI Material lately.

Cutting down on drinking coffee to one cup a week. Drinking more tea to get me through the day instead.

Made something that was mentioned in a national press release last week. That was cool.

Saw an airship fly over Düsseldorf and for a second I felt like being in an alternative dimension where these were more common. Really like them as they glide through the sky.

We’re good. Lots of work to do and that is great.

Finally using workspaces in my monorepos.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, normally I just use s browser to open PDF, but we had actually create one and it needed some special Acrobat features. Afterwards I immediately uninstalled it again.

Not having a great experience with Acrobat Reader. What the heck is Adobe trying to achieve with all of these popups and annoyances?

Half of Germany’s car owners are trying to get their cars washed today.

If AI coding machines become mainstream in less than ten years no human will be able to understand how any digital service works any more.

Even AI coding machines will need to rotate their access credentials every 90 days.

Going to have to reinstall my Yunohost server one of these days as the packages no longer seem to be updateable.

The show “One Day” is well worth the watch.

I’m in need of some nineties rage against the machine right now - sleep now in the fire

Asked an “AI Assistant” (Perplexity) to summarize my introduction of my homepage and then I asked it to give me some book recommendations I might like, and the thing actually nailed it.

The way things are going, we’re never going to make it to Alpha Centauri.