The end of the year is rapidly approaching.
As expected this week was a bit busy, but I think I’m more or less on track with my tasks. Still more busy days ahead. (Of course it didn’t help at all that instead of doing anything useful I looked into POI categorisation in OpenStreetMap data all day long yesterday. Good god.)
Another week done. No, I haven’t gotten all the Christmas gifts, yet, so next week will be a bit busy.
Besides this, not much to tell. I finally managed to cut together a few clips from our family hiking weekend in October and I was a bit weirded out by how much faster and more enjoyable that was on my old gaming PC than on my newer Macs. I guess that beefy GPU actually does have some uses besides Automobilista 2.
Sleep Review, November December 1st to November December 2nd, 2025: Don’t even ask. Turns out that eating two little satsumas (or maybe mandarin oranges? Who knows, they label all of them as those and I don’t really know the differences.) just before going to bed give the body enough to do to keep it from falling asleep. A lot of tossing and turning, not a lot of proper sleep.
1/10
Another of these liminal weeks. There’s a lot of stuff I’d usually get pretty excited about and yet, what I mostly notice is the fall weather. Oh well.
At least I went to the Christmas Markets in Basel already. Cleverly enough I had so much food at my sister’s birthday brunch that I didn’t really feel the need to queue up for half an hour for a bit of hot cheese in a bread, as tasty as that might be.
A few smaller notes:
- I downloaded a full archive (again?) of my Flickr photos. I stopped paying them for Pro and since then they send me nasty emails, which is a great way to get me to never give them money again. It’s a bit sad but it is what it is.
- I still don’t have any Christmas gifts even though I have a much shorter timeframe to get them than usual. Tzk.
- The next time I find shoes that I really like, I’ll just get ten pairs of them. I’m a bit annoyed that Adidas stopped selling the shoes I have and instead is now selling a different type of shoe under the exact same name. How dare they.
- This DJ set of 90s Thai Disco pop is pretty amazing.
- I just notice that am not really link blogging anymore. Frankly when Pocket shut down (which has been quite a while ago now) my whole link storing and sharing workflow broke down and I didn’t really find a proper way to handle it.
Sleep Review, November 25th to to 26th, 2025: Weird, as it has been the last few nights. On paper more than enough sleep, my body feels pretty awake and rested.
But oh boy, am I having a lot of weird dreams lately. Not nightmares, really. Not really dreams I can remember after waking up. But dreams that really exhaust my mental energy. I wake up and the idea that I should have any coherent thought during that day seems preposterous.
So, yeah. 3/10
How do you nice people reading my blog handle your Github account(s)?
I’ve had my “main” account @lostfocus for ages and used it for pretty much everything I needed to do on Github. Now with my current employer our accounts are put into the SSO system, so I created a second account which went through a couple of names until I changed it in a (probably futile) attempt to look professional to just my name.
But I already know how this will end up – my .gitconfig still has an email address for the other account and now confusingly my work repos have commits from both accounts. And of course I wonder what will happen when the account is being removed from the SSO system. Hm.
How do you do it?
Do you have one account for everything?
Do you have one account for your stuff and one for work?
Do you create a new account every time you have a new employer?
Another calm-ish week. It’s dark, grey and cold as Novembers tend to be. The result is that my brain went into a weird waiting mode even though I should probably be starting to think about Christmas and finding some gifts. It’s just a few weeks away now.
I’m slightly sorry that you got a bunch of my old posts if you are following this blog via ActivityPub/Mastodon/… – I was just moving them to a different category and it seems like that was deemed worthy of an update by the ActivityPub plugin.
Irgendwann hat das Algorithmus von YouTube gedacht, ich müsse Manhunt Bangkok schauen. Ein großes Räuber-und-Gendarm-Spiel für “Influencer” in Bangkok. Irgendwie sind diese Art von YouTube-Serien wie 7 vs. Wild an mir vorbeigegangen und ganz ehrlich: wäre es eine andere Stadt hätte ich vermutlich auch nicht reingeklickt.
Und obwohl alles irgendwie dezent trashy ist, habe ich das ganze Ding an einem Wochenende gebinged.
Seit zwei Wochen läuft nun die neue Staffel, diesmal in New York, und wenn man sich für dumme Reality-Formate begeistern lässt, ist es schon auch echt spannend. Und auf jeden Fall mit viel Arbeit und Liebe zum Detail gemacht.
Two weeks into the SailNavSim Jules Verne Trophy the field starts to spread out. Something tells me I’ll not be in the very front once the race ends.
You know what? I didn’t even take out the garbage.
(As in: put the bin out. I took the garbage from my flat to the bin and the bin is still empty enough to wait for another circle.)
I’m not even sure what to think about this week.
Bad and good news from friends.
A grey uniform light from morning to the way too early evening.
I think that’s what the youths call liminal – everything feels like it is between two points and I’m just passing through.
Meanwhile in media consumption: I gave Pluribus a try. Not for me. (And just to shock everyone around: that might be in general a Vince Gilligan thing. I also never managed to get into Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul.)
The Taskmaster finale was very Taskmaster-y. A few good tasks, a few middling ones, a very weird end to the series. In general I liked the tasks a lot more than in the preceding series.
I started a rewatch of Cheers. Makes me want to find a bar where everybody knows my name. But maybe better not.
I didn’t take a single photo all week. So while I’m writing this, I don’t know what to do about the OpenGraph image for this weeknote, yet.
I don’t even know why I bother – it’s not like that image shows up anywhere besides in link previews. And as part of the ActivityPub payload.
Haha, it was week 45.
For once I’d be quite happy with a boring, normal week in which I have nothing to talk about. Maybe next week? The most exciting entry on my calendar for next week is a reminder to take out the garbage.
Work-wise things keep being slightly irritating and often just weird.
Yesterday was a tour-de-force: a whole bunch of family got up really early, headed eastwards to Chur in Switzerland to take the Bernina Express. Sadly the most scenic parts with the Landwasser Viaduct were closed for renovations but the Engadin valley was rather pretty as well. All in all with traveling back home it was an 18 hour train joy ride, which, as nice as it was, was rather taxing. So today I didn’t do much besides lounging around and watching YouTube.
Remember last week, when I was all relaxed and in a good mood? Yeah, that changed pretty quickly. Certain changes at work managed to give me such a mood-backlash that come Wednesday morning I finally made a decision that I’ve been putting off for quite a while.
So now the rubicon has been crossed, let’s see what the future brings.
Remember back in the day when I talked about SailNavSim? For some reason I started playing it again last week and lo and behold, the guy who runs the game has opened an around-the-world race starting next Sunday. Luckily without the anxiety-inducing “celestial navigation” mode, so hey, why not join the race? It’s a pretty fun browser game, easy to learn, difficult to master and with low time commitment. (unless you really want to get into it)
Just because I keep forgetting it: the URL parameter to have the WordPress router redirect you to the proper permalink is p as in: https://website.example/?p=12345