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I was trying to fix a puncture on my bike the other day, just a week or so after I had already fixed another puncture on the same tyre. Yeah, welcome to the UK, where the national sport seems to be covering the sidewalk in glass shards. Thanks to this, each commute feels like a dice roll. As you can guess, I'm no stranger to fixing punctures, and at first it was the same as any other time. I had done the patching, put back the inner tube, the tyre, all looked good, and then I start pumping. With my …

The photo was taken at the same spot on Lake Störmthal

I started soldering the first resistors today. I'm really confident that the board will at least produce some kind of noise when I wire it up for the first time. The one error I found in the schematics worried me so I checked again: both photos and 770 schematics make it clear that there's an error in the 800DV schematics.

I'll have to order capacitors and parts for the oscillator core next. When all components are soldered to the board, I'll hook up some knobs and switches and find out what it'll do!

It happens pretty often that I'm in a space where it's hard to get out of. There is work to be done but I just feel drained and foggy. This especially happens when there's a lot of stuff to do but there are no deadlines I can really adhere to. It's hard to get back on track in situations like these sometimes.

One thing I frequently forget but almost always helps: Go for a walk. A short walk sometimes doesn't cut it so I try to be outside for at least half an our. At least during that time, …