Tech
Centralization
Roughly ten years ago I ditched GMail, and started the journey of hosting important software myself. The shutdown of Google Reader made it clear to me how dependent I became on Google and their services. I tried different web hosting services - but always came back to uberspace. They are a small German company, offer SSH access to the server, have an incredible support team and their “pay what you want” policy is really great.On To-Do Management
About a week ago, I read the blog posts from Andy and Birchtree on To-Do Apps. Andy wrote that he’s given up on fancy apps and just uses simple paper & pencil to organise his todos. I’ve given up this week and gone back to paper and a pencil and I feel unbelievably organised and flexible, day-to-day. In his reply, Birchtree points out that he read articles like this a lot before.CO2 consumption
I recently wrote about how much energy we consume at home. And while I was in the mood, I started looking for similar statistics for running this blog. I couldn’t find reliable information about the entire energy consumption, but I stumbled upon a CO2 calculator. Not exactly what I was looking for, but interesting nonetheless (especially since I saw some cool kids posting this on their websites, too). According to websitecarbon.All the phones I owned
I paused blogging for a while, because re-starting work and having a sick baby at home took more of my energy than I thought. Hopefully, I can find more time soon again, because I miss it. 🙂 This one is in the backlog for quite some time, inspired by Kev’s blog post about all the motorbikes he owned. When I read it, I thought this is a cool idea! I should do something similar.💻 My First Mac
The Mac celebrates its 40th birthday and with that comes another bandwaggon I’d like to jump opon. Everyone is writing about their first Mac. I joined the party quite late. My first Mac was a 2019 MacBook Pro 13" that I got from work and used intensively during Corona lockdowns. It still had four Thunderbolt ports, the only thing I am missing on the M1 MacBook Air. I was a Windows Users since I had my fist computer about 20 years ago, with some short excurses into the linux world, but always wanted to try out one of those “cool kids” notebooks.My blogging workflow as of late 2023
In 2019 I wrote an article about the technical background of this blog, and in 2020 there was a post about how I blogged using iPad. Neither of these articles mentioned the complete workflow, starting by how I capture ideas and how they slowly form into larger articles. The idea of this post is to give this comprehensive overview. Not for you to replicate it, because it is so cool & smooth, but for me to see how things change over time.Publish to Blog from iPad
Unfortunately, ideas for new blog posts often fizzle out because I find it too much of an effort to boot up my laptop in the evening and organize my thoughts. I am therefore always on the lookout for ways to lower the inhibition threshold as much as possible. A good approach would be to remove the laptop from the equation and blog from a device that I have in my hand all the time anyway: Smartphone or tablet, for example.OSM Daten als SVG exportieren
Ich möchte euch heute ein cooles Projekt vorstellen. Der Hase nutzt die Zeit während seines Spezialprojektes sehr effektiv und hat am Wochenende ein Python-Projekt auf GitHub geladen. Mit dem Skript könnt ihr Daten aus OpenStreetMaps als XML oder SVG exportieren. Das ist super-nützlich, wenn ihr eine skalierbare Grafik vom “Grundriss” eurer Heimatstadt, eures Lieblingsbundeslandes, eurer Lieblingsinsel, Bielefeld oder Trinidad und Tobago braucht. Das bietet sich auch super für ein Ratespiel an.Hugo mit Git auf dem uberspace nutzen
Vorgeschichte Vor gar nicht allzu langer Zeit bin ich mit diesem Blog von Ghost zu Jekyll gewechselt. Ghost hat mir eigentlich sehr gut getaugt, auch wenn ich nicht der größte Fan davon war, dass bloggen mit Markdown mit den neueren Versionen einen Klick weiter entfernt war. Außerdem war es für mich immer eine kleine Herausforderung bei neuen Versionen die Abhängigkeiten auf dem Betriebssystem auf dem neusten Stand zu halten und die Datenbank zu migrieren.EXIF Daten unter Ubuntu auslesen
Heute nur ganz kurz, weil ich es gerade gesucht, gefunden und vermutlich morgen wieder vergessen habe: Mit Hilfe von imagemagick könnt ihr unter Ubuntu die exif-Daten eurer Fotos auslesen.