Finally vacation! No work until (including) 2024-01-07. | Continue reading
It seems like I was successfully able to migrate from my Alpine Linux VPS to a new VPS having Fedora CoreOS installed. | Continue reading
The taskforce I was part of the last weeks is finally done! The deadline for the production deployment was met and today also a knowledge transfer took place. I’m happy to not have to fear weekend work or do overtime in the evening anymore, and hopefully return to a more regular … | Continue reading
Danny van Kooten did an interesting experiment and checked the top 10 thousand websites whether they are compressing their HTML. About 8% of them do not apply any kind of compression, resulting in many terabytes of unnecessary transmitted data, not helping to save energy. | Continue reading
It’s that time of the month again for a new recap. November has passed, so let’s see what happened in the last 30 days… | Continue reading
I captured the first real snow this winter this morning ❄️ | Continue reading
Yesterday, I used a rental car to avoid problems with Deutsche Bahn. Today, trying to do another trip with DB, the train is 50 minutes delayed. Karma? Or it’s the weather again, DB’s infrastructure isn’t working well at temperatures below 0 °C. 🤷♂️ | Continue reading
It looks like Microsoft cloned Notion and calls it “Loop”. | Continue reading
Completed my second Freeletics Hell Week and with it my second training journey! | Continue reading
Today, while being in the second home over the weekend, I finally installed the 5G router setup (ZTE MC801A + GL.iNet Beryl AX). Now my home server (staying in this flat because it has a good place here) is behind a cellular 5G connection. There’s running nothing important on it, … | Continue reading
Colin just reminded me, that it’s the third GoBlog birthday of this blog! I am still genuinely content with it, despite the apparent loss of my blogging momentum since then. | Continue reading
To join another trend, here’s my list of default apps and services in late 2023. | Continue reading
I quickly played with OpenAI’s new Text-To-Speech model to check if it’s an alternative to Google’s API. And wow! English is fantastic and even German is not bad. Just some syllables in German have a weird English accent. But even then, it’s still good. But sadly, it’s also a bit … | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale, Kev Quirk and some others (in response to them) listed their subscriptions and what and why they are paying for them. | Continue reading
Another month has come and gone, time to take a look back. | Continue reading
The last week was really rainy, so I didn’t leave the flat much. And now walking at sunset time, everything looks so pretty. | Continue reading
Almost a full yearly cycle since my first post. The leaves are starting to get colorful again. | Continue reading
Fun fact: Since I started tracking my train journeys in mid-May, I’ve already spent almost 7 whole days on trains. | Continue reading
I acquired a new, fancy domain for a new side project. A site with tips on how to save money on purchases is something I would like to start. The search for a CMS reminds me of why I built GoBlog: all available options are not optimal. But GoBlog also isn’t optimal for this proje … | Continue reading
I’ve been toying with my recently received GL.iNet Beryl AX (GL-MT3000) for some days and I have to say, it’s wonderful! It provides all the features I need in combination with my 5G router (like support for IPv6). I was also able to set up a VPN connection using Wireguard to the … | Continue reading
Thanks to Tim Hårek Andreassen, I finally have a link I can send my coworkers whenever they send me a “Hi”, “Do you have some time?”, “Can I call you?” instead of asking their question right away or even just mentioning the topic. And there’s also a German version, great! | Continue reading
When I read this article by Herman Martinus, creator of Bear Blog and some other projects, about how he stays motivated as a solo creator, it triggered some thoughts about my own career. | Continue reading
One of the reasons I like blogging is that it sometimes helps me organize my thoughts. There’s a lot of chaos in my head before I write them down, and after, my head is sometimes calm. | Continue reading
Now September is over, and it’s time to take a brief look back at the past month. | Continue reading
The field near my second home… Walking here reminds me of when I walked here a year and a half ago, debating whether to accept the new job offer. It feels like an eternity ago. But it was a good decision! | Continue reading
I used to use Postman for both personal and work projects. It was great for making HTTP requests without having to create curl commands. But now, Postman requires a login, which I hate. I don’t understand why a login is needed for such a simple tool. | Continue reading
Spammers and their spam are annoying. | Continue reading
So far, I had been spared from COVID-19. “Had,” focusing on the past, because now it has affected me, or us, after all. We had to cut short our vacation, which I used to share little glimpses of here on the blog. We quickly went back home, wearing masks the whole time and hoping … | Continue reading
The angle of the sun wasn’t perfect for this photo, but it turned out to be an unexpected highlight during our hike around Thurso today. | Continue reading
With a backpack full of stuff for two weeks, we managed to walk 11km on the West Highland Way in 2:35h. I feel it in my legs, but the views and the experience are worth it. | Continue reading
Here are three things I’ve noticed in the UK that I really appreciate: | Continue reading
London is on a whole different scale when it comes to size. It has roughly the same population as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, and Frankfurt combined, and those cities are already quite large. 🤯 | Continue reading
This is some really cool news! You can now use Tailscale and Mullvad simultaneously without any additional setup required. | Continue reading
After some cold and rainy weeks, it’s a quite warm and sunny again, but probably for the last time this year. | Continue reading
Now it’s already September. So, what happened in August? | Continue reading
In my second apartment, I really like sitting in the winter garden (more some kind of balcony or loggia but with windows) in the evening and looking outside. The neighbors aren’t very close, and you can see the sky well. It’s very relaxing to sit here in the dark, thinking and en … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since ChatGPT was introduced to the world, and after the initial excitement, things seem to have settled down. While there’s still daily news about various services and companies integrating the GPT API into their products, the buzz around it has quieted. At lea … | Continue reading
If you haven’t already noticed (though why would you?), I have finally merged my homepage into my blog. Why? Well, I believe it doesn’t make much sense to keep them separate. My homepage had only a few pages, and elements such as my “About Me” page and collections of things I use … | Continue reading
In search of the perfect LTE or 5G-based home router, I recently found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole. | Continue reading
I have already read a few monthly reviews from my fellow bloggers, and now it’s time for my version: | Continue reading
After two weeks of traveling by train at a maximum speed of about 120 km/h, sitting in a 230 km/h train is mind-blowing. 🤯 | Continue reading
This will be my accommodation for the next 15 hours. Tomorrow morning I’ll be back in Budapest (from Bucharest) and hopefully catch a train that will take me back home by tomorrow evening. | Continue reading
I’m still on vacation. It’s hot most days, but it’s interesting to get to know a new country and visit some places from my mother’s youth. I will write a more detailed report when I return. | Continue reading
#SlowTravel in the IC/IR 73 Traianus from Budapest to Timişoara. | Continue reading
I bought myself a Tilley LTM6 hat. It was expensive and still feels a bit strange to wear because nobody wears hats here. But it’s comfortable even with my big head (I always have to buy XXL caps and helmets) and it protects my face and neck pretty well from the sun. And it comes … | Continue reading
During and after my studies, I used to refresh my Miniflux start page (the feed reader, which I use to keep up with things on websites I want to follow) every few minutes. As soon as there was a new article, I would read it. I also used to use this tool to read the news by follow … | Continue reading