The local energy Company is doing an Advent contest with a word guessing game, 21 letters long, it starts with a T and I got all other letters by looking at the source of their site… Put all of the letters into ChatGPT 3.5, but it is having real trouble coming up with something plausible.

In Memoriam voor mijn grootmoeder Agnes Cours, die vandaag haar 88ste verjaardag had gevierd. We missen je!

Pretty neat what one can achieve with Node.js Fs, the Express framework, Redis, a text file and some HTML with a sprinkle of CSS.

Almost six year old loves the New York Rap dance remix from Jan Hammer’s “Axel F” - it’s a bit stuck on repeat. The song is from 1985. Coincidentally the year I was five myself.

First snow fall in Düsseldorf city center this evening.

’t is the Season to restock on batteries.

My son achieved the kindergarten karate belt white-orange-white. He is really proud too himself.

Streaming services can suck. Wanted to watch the classic Elf movie for a fun movie night, but somehow we were getting the message “This movie is not available in your region.”. Turns out we were looking for the wrong title.

Went to the Christmas market for the first time this year.

My kid is amazing

SCP all the things!

Cache rules everything around us.

Feeling nostalgia for simpler web development times.

Context-switches are a real productivity killer if it means that by the time you get back to the previous context your remote desktop session expired.

The best gift anyone could give me is the time to be able to finish reading some books.

Is there a car leasing that does not feel like a trap?

Happy advents calendar month to everyone!

Enjoying the shower as a sensory depreviation cell.

I think I witnessed twice today how someone shop-lifted something from a big department store and ran away with it. One was actually being chased by the shop’s security.

Hurray for password recovery processes.

If snow fall on the mountains is reducing so much, and this snow acted as a water reservoir formed in Winter to get through the warmer, dry summers, then we should start creating huge water reservoirs on top of mountains; pumping the water up there when it rains.

Going for Codeberg to support a non-profit organisation that stands for the common good.

Github is like Linkedin for Developers

Started the process of migrating from Github to Codeberg with my projects.

Obligatory Twtxt post: I love how I can simply use a terminal window and some very basic tools (echo, scp, ssh) to publish thoughts, as they pop up, onto the Internet in a structured way, that can be found and perhaps even appreciated.

Wondering that part of the charm and attraction of Christmas markets could come from a common nostalgia towards every day street markets in towns and a longing for more outside social life during the cold, clammy Winter days.

Keeping the bare minimum of apps installed on my NAS to avoid vulnerabilities.

These guys from the Sokpop game developers collective are really cool.

@eapl.me@eapl.me This is cool Windows history. Thanks for sharing

Figuring out how to properly do session management in Node.js with Redis.

I’m in your node js, messing with your process.env variables.

It is that time of year where I try to be extra nice in customer service Quality and feedback surveys. I once worked on the other side of these, so it might brighten someone’s day.

Another work week just flew by.

One of these tricky things of the German language I haven’t really gotten the hang of is the difference between: “Ich weiss.” and “Ich weiß.”

Got a great idea for an web app: a flashlight app which uses media-queries to detect if the light, aka the body of the page, should be on (white) or off.

It’s getting, it’s getting, it’s getting kinda hectic…

With that said: Happy Thanksgiving to anyone celebrating and for everyone else: happy third thursday of November. I am grateful and I thankful I get to share this thought with you all.

There is a lot of Black Friday promotion happening in Germany these days - I wonder however how many Germans really know where it comes from? Happy Thanksgiving to whoever is celebrating today - as it is one of the few US / Canadian festive days where families - really - try to enjoy their time together.

Having fun with React - yet again. A large part of my job entails (re)learning technologies - luckily I have access to some good resources in the form of training- and tutorial sites, all provided by my employer.

First time ever I made something that uses Redis

The first cold days of Winter are upon us.

Good night, good morning, good afternoon.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I played that DOS Tetris game too over and over on my PC, mezmerized over the 3D graphics.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks for reaching out - just general wonkiness with the Epson printing job configuration UI. They offer Fedora software, but it seems that not all features are supported

My todotxt done.txt file has over three years worth of stuff in it that I found important enough to put a todo in todotxt for.

Someone at Philips Hue or Amazon Alexa screwed up something, as it seems. My lamps stopped responding to Alexa some days ago and I am not the only one experiencing issues. I guess we can say we enjoyed the (partial free) ride for as long as it lasted. https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Hue/dp/B01LWAGUG7

Printing pictures on Linux is still a bit of a challenge.

My son is getting pretty good at skating.

ExpressJs is rather fun to work with - at least for a smaller project.

Wondering how that person in Nebraska is doing keeping that cornerstone open-source package going.