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A little family trip to Strasbourg crowned a week that was otherwise similarly mundane as the last couple of them. The city is well worth a visit, it’s very pretty indeed.
I started reading a Japanese whodunnit on Saturday which so far is very intriguing and quite different from the usual European ones I read. Apparently it’s part of a longer series, two of them have been translated so far.
After I added the human.json file I installed the browser plugin as well and it is quite interesting to see how many blogs out there are already setting this up. I might need to clean up my plugin and actually put it in the WP plugin repo. Even though the idea of doing that really doesn’t appeal to me at all.
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human.json is exactly the kind of nerdy metadata silliness that is designed to amuse me. It’s a protocol to vouch for people’s websitescreated by Beto Dealmeida. It basically works by offering a little json file with a list of websites one trusts to be human who doesn’t use AI to write their blog posts. It’s nice and not super complex. So after reading about it on Terence Eden’s blog I knew that I needed to add this to this website as well.
As for me – for now I added people I have met in real life. Maybe I’ll add people I only know online but still know for a fact that they’re humans. We’ll see.
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The constant urge to keep a grievances.md file while knowing fully well that this would be extremely silly.
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So, it’s already Monday and here are my notes for last week: Nothing to report, carry on.
I know this is a bit boring to read. At the moment my brain seems to be in the same mode as my Wallabag installation, (which I did manage to get going again, for those keeping score) things go in, to be processed at a later time. The buffer still has space, so let’s see what happens when there’s an overrun.
Not much to report on this week. It was mostly cold and rainy, I got lost in Captain of Industry (yes, again. No, I don’t learn from past mistakes) and rewatched the first season of True Detective.
I almost bought something online and about half an hour after I asked the seller to use the marketplace’s secure payment system, I got an email that the seller has been kicked off the platform for fraud reasons. At least I saved some money this way.
Dominik@dominik@lostfocus.de
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment.
I’m thinking a lot about adding a blogroll lately. I’m considering everything from a simple list to a full-blown reader experience. My WordPress installation is old enough to still have the Links Manager, so I might just use that.
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It is allergy season, fuck yeah. So while I spend both days of the weekend outside (which was nice, don’t get me wrong. We even had sun!) I immediately crashed on the couch when I came back, defeated by the battle that my body is trying to fight against the pollen. And I’m sure the antihistamines didn’t help, either.
Dominik@dominik@lostfocus.de
Oh boy. The pollen allergy season is in full swing already. And of course I forgot to order my antihistamines.
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It is a bit baffling. I’m working with a whole bunch of WordPress installations, every single one of them with the server time zone set to UTC and the WordPress time set to Europe/Berlin. It works fine in all of them – except with one client, where there’s always a weird mismatch of times.
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I spend my morning watching reels from expats in Dubai and yes, you’re right, iOS. I have indeed reached my limit on Instagram.
Meanwhile I have fallen out of love with Wallabag. Mostly because it suddenly didn’t let me log in anymore and I don’t have the energy to look into what happened. Ugh.
While I already mentioned that I like the new Gorillaz album, I want to add that I also like the animated video they created.
Manuel was nice enough to contact me for his People and Blogs newsletter – I still don’t know why and I hope I didn’t embarrass myself too much with my answers.
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PSA: The new Gorillaz album is out today and it is very good, indeed.
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That was in many way a very surprising week. A spontaneous decision meant that on Monday afternoon I drove into Köln. On Rosenmontag no less. I reached the town late enough that there weren’t any road closures, but being not very Karneval-minded, slowly rolling through the streets towards the hotel parking lot felt a bit like that scene in Strange Days where Lenny rolls through the city while riots and parties are happening at the same time all around him.
I’ve slowly been chipping away at the technical debt the (by now very old) theme of this blog. At some point I might even start to make changes that someone can see in the browser.
I haven’t really heard any feedback on the link dumps, until that happens, there is more of the same:
This is a good overview on the upcoming video features in Apple Podcasts. It’s very disappointing how Apple is handling this and if their goal is to break the YouTube video podcast monopoly then this might be exactly the wrong way for that. Instead they try to route around RSS. Ugh.
The very last sentence sold me on the movie: “a marvellous sympathy for the whole cast” – which seems to be surprisingly uncommon in a lot of stories and media. I know it’s not quite in the spirits of the times but I actually prefer watching (or reading) stories about people I can tell the author likes and that I can like as well.
I really like the DS3, easily the prettiest Citroën in modern times and the same can be said of the rally version. What a car.
Now it’s already five days into lent and as the old and tired joke goes: this year for lent, I’m giving up.
Dominik@dominik@lostfocus.de
I always like to try new ways of reading RSS, so of course Current seemed interesting at first. Alas, the first blog post looked a bit too wank-y and learning that while it proudly proclaims to respect a user’s attention it doesn’t seem to respect a user’s data management really put me off the whole endeavour.
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