Holger's Blog

Oct 21, 2023 ∞

So sehen vier Stunden Arbeit aus. Gut voran gekommen, aber noch viel zu tun.

Oct 21, 2023 ∞

Eben waren wir im Baumarkt und haben die Fliesen abgeholt. Außerdem Fliesenkleber und anderen Kram. Jetzt leerräumen und vorbereiten. Nachher werden die ersten Fliesen fallen. 🏗️👷‍♂️💪

Oct 20, 2023 ∞

Dev note for catalog 2023-10-20

What I was able to achieve Today I continued work on the catalog. I streamed for about 90 minutes to Twitch while working. I continued work where I had left it the last time which were the tests for the route /entries. The goal was to get a passing test where the entries are rendered with their titles. It took me longer than I care to admit but in the end I noticed my error and was able to get a passing test.

Oct 20, 2023 ∞

Starting my stream now. Be gentle I am a beginner with streaming twitch.tv/holgerfro…

Oct 19, 2023 ∞

Really happy that I’ve discovered Lofi Girl for background music. Their streams really hit my mood on most days, depending on what I need. Jazzy vibes or more electro thingy. Today it’s Synthwave Radio

Oct 18, 2023 ∞

I went to YouTube with the goal of finding and watching a video for a specific topic/question. Then I saw thumbnails of other videos and clicked. 20 minutes later I returned and completely forgot about what I wanted to watch & learn about in the first place. 🤦‍♂️ Hello brain. Time to wake up.

Oct 17, 2023 ∞

Developing React Native apps really is a major PITA.

Oct 17, 2023 ∞

I use Macs since ~2008. I work as a professional programmer since ~2011. Since then I wasn’t able to use AppleScript (and recently Shortcuts.app) to automate my Mac. I don’t know whether this is due to me being stupid or because AppleScript and Shortcut syntax are really strange.

Oct 16, 2023 ∞

I hate computers. Maybe I should become a baker.

Oct 16, 2023 ∞

And now cache.ruby-lang.org is down for me. But only me it seems. I just want to go back to bed. Nothing works. This is frustrating.

Oct 16, 2023 ∞

I really hate what they did to MacOS. Everything is so confusing now, you have a bazillion system settings entries but nothing is easily found anymore. Right now I am trying to disable some app from auto starting on reboot but I cannot find where to edit those entries anymore. It’s so annoying!

Oct 13, 2023 ∞

I switched from using Docker Desktop to Colima. Won’t look back. Really happy with Colima’s simplicity. Docker Desktop was buggy for me, never was able to update itself properly and I didn’t like the direction they took.

Oct 13, 2023 ∞

It took a few days (no idea why!) but now I can use ChatGPT-4’s browsing feature. This changes a lot of things for me and makes my life wayyyy easier. Costs $20/month but as a business expense it’s fine.

Oct 13, 2023 ∞

Yesterday I tried my hand at something new: Streaming on Twitch.

You see I started developing (again) on a side project. It’s called Catalog for now and I will write more about it once I am ready for it. I want to use it to develop something that I always wanted to have and what could be useful to others. The second reason for the project is that I need to try out all the new features and things that Ruby on Rails brought along with their latest versions. I didn’t really get into Hotwire and Turbo and all those things. So now I can use it in my side project. After all that’s what these are for, right? Right?!

The Twitch stream went ok, I guess. Took my a while to set everything up and learning how the Technik works. At one point I even had one visitor watching me (briefly 😂).

I’ll post here, once I stream again.

Oct 12, 2023 ∞

Safari profiles. A nice start but not done well enough

I tried to use Safari for a week now. The new PROFILES feature lured me in. Unfortunately it is still not what I need from a browser and Firefox just keeps ticking almost all of my boxes. What turned me away from Safari again: Once you close a window with a profile, Safari doesn’t remember the tabs you had open. So closing a window means you need to reopen all of them once you want to continue your work.