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Moin!

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I don’t like all-dark websites. My eyes cannot read well in the dark and I struggle to adjust to black-on-white afterwards. I don’t get this white-on-black obsession many people have.

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Wisdom from Sandi Metz

„The verse method is getting simpler, but it still has more than one responsibility. This problem is reflected by the very structure of the code—the above method contains a blank line. Programmers add blank lines to signify changes of topic. The presence of multiple topics suggests the existence of multiple responsibilities, which makes code harder to understand when reading, and easier to harm when changing.“ Excerpt from “99 Bottles of OOP” by Sandi Metz

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I just used this project to migrate my DayOne entries (over 3000) into Obsidian. Some small issues but in the end it worked perfectly and now I have all text, audio, photo and video entries in Obsidian. Since my Instagram exported to Day One, I have those as well now 🎉

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I’m done with closed services by @rknightuk is spot on! I really like this shift as of lately to the open web. Maybe it really is turning full circle and we get back to having a better web.

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Want to know what my day is like? I am snoozing Slack to find enough headspace to think and am glad that the Apple Silicon Macs still get warm enough to warm the hands, given the right workload. That’s what today feels like. And coffee.

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Tschüss Hamburg

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I will try to use Readwise and their Reader app for my RSS reading for a few days. Ususally I use the Reeder.app on Mac and iOS. The integration/workflows/highlighting in Readwise’s Reader does look really good though. And their integration into Obsidian is already really good…

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My post about an article by @tomcritchlow appear weired on micro.blog but fine on my own website

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Anyway. There’s no real point here. But isn’t the web amazing?

The web is amazing, indeed. I really like this article by @tomcritchlow@twitter.com about how he utilizes different small tools on the web and a low-code approach to build solutions for his clients. I am, of course?, doing a more high-code approach. But still, sometimes I do think too complicated and other approaches might work better (see: https://holgerfrohloff.de/2023/01/20/so-today-i.html)

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idea for a low-fi solution to subscribe to keywords on the fediverse

So today I read this interesting conversation by @rknightuk. The topic isn’t “finished” and he might post updates on the topic. If he remembers he might add them to the conversation. But maybe he doesn’t. (I wouldn’t blame him!) That brings me to the question: How could I make sure I don’t miss the update? Checking in daily is one option. It’s unrealistic for me though. If you consider the case that you want to see posts from someone you don’t follow/subscribe to, how can you make sure you get updates on things you might care about?

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Honest question: Am I paranoid or too worried? People leave their stuff all alone on their desk in this WeWork space. Their phone, computer unlocked. They were away for around 4 minutes. Enough time to be evil. If I wanted to 😇🤷‍♂️🤔🤔🤔

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So, heute arbeite ich beim Kunden in Hamburg. Immer wieder schön, diese Stadt.

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Ich habe heute dieses Video gefunden Happiness by Steve Cutts und das passt ganz wunderbar zum Artikel „No other love“ von @Buddenbohm@mastodon.social vom 12. Januar.

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Moin. Der Tag und die Woche begann mit mehreren hysterischen Wutausbrüchen der jüngeren Tochter. Fun times. Jetzt endlich arbeiten 😅

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Training ✅

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Tonight we’ll have freshly made pitas with homemade fresh Tzaziki 😋😋😋

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Utility tool to help migration from Gatsby to Micro.blog

I wrote a little tool yesterday to help me normalize my markdown files from the Gatsby site to be able to import them into Micro.blog properly. Especially I wanted to have redirects setup automatically for all the old posts. My site had simple slugs like holgerfrohloff.de/power-laws. Micro.blog sets up the posts using the dates => https://holgerfrohloff.de/2019/03/01/power-laws.html For that to work, I needed to have the permalink added to the frontmatter. That wasn’t the case for the majority of posts.

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After four days of drinking regular coffee the new espresso beans finally arrived. I’m surprised to see that the packaging doesn’t have the little valve anymore. Maybe this is for saving on packaging reasons? I don’t know. 

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Finally made the migration

I finally made the migration to micro.blog with my personal site https://holgerfrohloff.de All the posts and newsletters I’ve written are migrated. They are still being published so they are not styled, yet. Have to migrate all pages as well. And then the overal design of the site. I want it to look a little bit different and also showcase some of the functionality that microblog offers me now. Overall I am happy to be even more part of the IndieWeb now.

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