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Alle bekloppt!
Ich kenne dieses Gefühl von „alle bekloppt!“ sehr gut. Ich fühle es öfter mal in Richtung Schulsystem, Lehrer der Kids oder Eltern von Mitschulkindern. Insofern ist dieser Absatz Frau Novemberregen wirklich gut und richtig:
Dann noch einen Termin mit der Hausverwaltung aus rein strategischen Gründen abgesagt, nämlich weil ich mich nicht bis Mittwoch in eine Haltung bringen kann, die nicht „ihr seid doch alle Vollidioten“ ausstrahlt und so eine Haltung ist für Verhandlungen komplett ungeeignet. So ist es ja nicht, niemand wird morgens wach und denkt sich Okay, heute bin ich ein absoluter Vollidiot! Es ist eher so, dass das Verhalten in dem jeweiligen Referenzsystem irgendeinen Sinn ergibt und wenn ich den Sinn nicht verstehe, habe ich dass System noch nicht verstanden, dann fehlen mir noch Informationen. Und wenn ich so verbockt in Gespräche gehe, bekomme ich diese Informationen ganz sicher nicht. Bis Mittwoch habe ich allerdings keine Zeit, mich innerlich wieder komplett unverbockt aufzustellen, dazu brauche ich ein bisschen und es ist zu viel anderes, daher: strategische Absage.
Source: Novemberregen by @novemberregen
Das mal verinnerlichen.
Und jetzt zum Sport
Ansonsten läuft es aktuell gut. Letztes Wochenende war ich an der polnischen Grenze, die Oder besuchen.
Ich bin vom Trainingsstand nicht ganz da, wo ich sein wollen würde aber es wird. Im Juli stehen ca. 250km an, an die Ostsee. Das sind nochmal 100 mehr als am Samstag. Dafür muss ich noch den Sattel am Rad tauschen. Der mitgelieferte verträgt sich nach 100km nicht ganz so gut mit meinem Allerwertesten. Deshalb montiere ich meinen bekannten Sattel, mit dem ich auch „problemlos“ schon 300km am Stück gefahren bin. Das sollte passen.
Arbeit
Hier passiert gerade einiges. Offiziell wird es aber erst nächste Woche angekündigt. Bin aber gespannt und sehr vorfreudig.
Nochmal zum Sport
Über Himmelfahrt werde ich im Frankenjura sein. Das ist ein Wald-Dreieck zwischen Bamberg, Bayreuth und Nürnberg.
Dort werde ich das erste Mal draußen bouldern. Wir werden nicht klettern, nur bouldern. Mal reinfühlen, wie so ein Fels sich in Echt anfühlt 😉. Das Ganze mit dem Camper. Also viel Natur und Luft. 🤞, dass das Wetter halbwegs hält. Und „nebenbei“ werde ich an den Tagen noch etwas arbeiten müssen, denn soviel Ulopp hat ja niemand.
Musik
Empfehlung: Olivia Rodrigo: Tiny Desk Concert www.youtube.com/watch …ohne Einbettung, da ich den ganzen Cookiekram nicht haben möchte.
Es wurde wieder einmal fantastisch.
Neue Automation für um Websites als Draft-Posts zu Erstellen
Eine neue Automation für iOS ermöglicht es, schnell Entwürfe für Beiträge in Micro.blog zu erstellen.
Celebrating 19 years of writing on the internet
Thanks to the Wayback Machine I was able to find my first official blog post ever, from January 2006. The site is still online, at blogspot.com. I am very surprised by that.
I also learned, that I registered my first url (holgerfrohloff.de) in 2004. The first entry on the Wayback Machine is from February 19th 2007.
That makes this year the 20th year that I write on the internet. 🎉
(When navigating through the archives you can even access two songs that I recorded back then. While it was “nice” to listen to them again, I am not sad that they officially disappeared from the internet. But hey, thanks for the memories Wayback Machine.
Warum werden immer noch Captchas benutzt?
Ich wollte mir den Artikel von @leitmedium@tldr.nettime.org auf golem.de durchlesen, auf den sich die Conversation micro.blog/leitmediu… bezog. Leider ist die Website von Golem for free quasi nicht lesbar. Zuviel Werbung und nicht lesefreundlich. Schade! 
A thing about Raycast that I immediately like: It helps you uninstall apps from your system and deletes all belonging files. Neat! 👍
How I created a “On this day” feature in Obsidian for my journaling
The author describes their process of journaling in Obsidian, including importing past entries from DayOne and creating a dynamic “On This Day” feature using the Dataview plugin.
Just looked at the cookie banner for The Verge (@manton shared a post from them and I wanted to take a look at it).
This is ridiculous. Functional cookies are usable for 810 partners? They transmit 2.6MB of JS for that article. It’s only text with 4 images.
🥳🫶
Maybe on a day like this it is a good idea to look to the Stoics. Gain trust in yourself and the good people around you. Do what’s right. Don’t despair.
Here’s the whole text of this excerpt from the Daily Stoic by Ryan Holliday.
DON’T BE DISTRACTED BY DARKNESS
There’s no question that depressing things happen in this world. They always have and always will. People lie, cheat, steal. Envy, avarice, selfishness-it’s all out there. And it’s hard to miss. I’s easy to despair about this. What do we do? Must it be this way? What’s the point of being good when everyone else is so bad? This is the wrong way to think about it. It’s not up to us to change this unchangeable part of the human species, but instead to think about how to adapt to it, how to integrate it into our understanding of the world and not let it make us miserable. That’s a big part of why the Stoics talk about ignoring what other people do-their lying, cheating and stealing— and focusing on what we do. On making sure that we hold ourselves to a higher standard and put our energy towards evaluating ourselves according to those standards rather than projecting it onto others. Marcus’s best advice on this is worth remembering today: instead of talking about other peoples selfishness and stupidity, our job is “to run straight for the finish line, unswerving.”
To not be distracted by the darkness of others, to head towards the light. To be good without hesitation, even when other people are not. That’s our job. Today and for our whole lives.
My FaceID didn’t work tonight. No idea why. 🎃
Since switching to Vivaldi, yesterday
For now I will switch and try out Vivaldi. The feature set makes somehow sense and what I've seen about the browser so far seems good. We'll see.
I noticed that my camera has new options during a video call. I can set a background 🎉. This background choice is just lovely. 😍
Pinboard is dead. At least for me. Let me tell you how I bookmark in 2024.
Yesterday, I read an opinion about the bookmarking service pinboard.in. I am a user since 2010. In 2019 I paid ~$210 for a 10 year contract because I wanted to do my part to keep the service running and enable the founder to do his thing. Because I believed in his mission and the purpose of the service. Gordon made me aware that Pinboard might be over. There is a Hacker News thread for the linked article where alternatives are discussed, if you are interested. The thing is, I believe Gordon and others might be right. Roughly 1,5 years ago I tried to write a small application to interface with the Pinboard API. Unfortunately, the API didn’t work as expected. When I looked into it, I learned about a version 2 of that API that was supposed to be in development. The documentation to that API was insufficient and things didn’t work in any way like they were documented. When I reached out to the Pinboard founder I heard nothing back. The state of the API hasn’t changed at all since then. There were no updates.
The founder still writes on the web about things like lunar programs and moon landers with SpaceX and other political topics. He also gave entertaining talks on conferences during the last years. But he didn’t do what he was paid for. At least in my opinion. Sure, the basic website still works. And maybe that could be considered enough?
I have since stopped using the service. Bookmarking is an activity I not do as often anymore as before. If I want to have a website handy for later reading or watching, I use Omnivore. It’s an open-source solution that is free to use. Eventually you can even do self-hosting. I chose it because it works well and I can read and understand the code and tech stack. If they ever decide to discontinue the web app I can host it myself.
For saving website to reference later, which you could call bookmarking, I mostly use Obsidian. It’s my preferred solution for taking notes that I want to keep. Right now I have over 5.600 notes in there. A big part of those are my journal notes, which I imported from Day one.
To make saving websites quicker I wrote a small Alfred.app workflow that calls a Shortcut (from Apple shortcuts). If everything works out (it does most of the times!) a note is created in Obsidian.
I attached a screenshot of the note, because I don’t have a good way to share it with you otherwise right now. Those bookmarks land in a folder called /sites. I can add tags and link them to my notes, or references the bookmark in a note somewhere else. It doesn’t save a complete copy of the bookmark. So if the website disappears from the web, my bookmark would cease to work. Maybe that is something that I will add later. I am not sure yet.
So yeah, Pinboard is dead as far as I am concerned.
In order to fulfill my part in documenting life and the seasons here’s the first chestnut 🌰 I saw this year. Autumn is coming.
It’s impressive how much greener the grass is on our side since we installed our automated irrigation system. 🥳
Iced Americano ☕️
Good Morning ☕️
