Webring: ○ General

There are so many things to do and so many tools to keep track of what needs to be done. When I'm working with developers, kanban boards, markdown files or issues in a git repo can already do the heavy lifting. It's good to have one central place you can look at and immediately see: Here's what still needs some work.

Other teams might not write code, understand how markdown works or want to set up some complicated tool for task management. Especially in craft, there's little room for tools that deeply change how a business works.

For …

It's been a while since I last photographed the Moon, but the day before yesterday it felt like the right time to bring out my telescope + camera combo once again, and capture this week's waxing gibbous. Nothing changed for me in terms of equipment, or how I make these photos, but I refined my post-processing methods some more, and took the opportunity to revisit some of my previous lunar photos and apply what I've learned since. This is where I wish I had kept all the raw files for these... the reason I didn't do it wasn't so much …

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 …

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, …

I decided long ago that I'd be there in Spain for this year's total solar eclipse, but I'm only just starting to finalize my plans for it because I kept putting it off. Not a smart thing to do, mind you, because the global interest around such an event is sure to bring lots of people to the country, making it harder to book a flight or find accommodation the longer you wait. General laziness on my part played a role in this of course, but also this event is also just not that easy to plan for. Even within …

I often think about how well the internet can preserve data. It's not that rare that I'll stumble upon some forum with messages from the early 2000s. Even when something does eventually become inaccessible, there's always a chance that the data is out there somewhere, resting on someone's hard drive and just waiting to be released again. I wonder if the things I've created will outlive me through the internet and if there are gonna be people who enjoy them even after I'm gone. As weird as it is, this is what gives me motivation sometimes to finish a project …

When I do translation I'll often perform "exact match" searches on Google. This is a good way to gauge how common an exact phrase is and to find the context in which people use certain expressions and idioms. This is to make sure what I write comes off as natural, and that I've got the meaning right.

But occasionally I'll see a result that makes me pause because of how unexpected the context is. I'll stop what I'm doing and go check the website out. It's sites I would never find under normal circumstances: hidden forums with decade-old posts, …

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It's so easy and fast to print circuit boards using one of the well known factories. I could just upload my files and have it printed in a matter of days. However, I'm not in this project for easy and fast, but I'm also impatient. It's a weird space where I feel like printing a circuit board at home and spending hours preparing it gets me there faster.

To be honest, it makes little sense in this case but I feel drawn to making everything at home. So I looked into …

Over the course of my life I always find myself returning to life service games — web-based MMOs in the past and gacha games in recent years. Yet when I look back on these games without the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, there isn't a single one I'd consider good. More often than not they are riddled with pay-to-win elements, predatory tactics or simply just lazy game design. So what gives?

I think I may be romanticizing the idea of a game that stays with you for a big portion of your life, one that grows and changes with you. …

I got my first cassette recorder when I was 3 or 4 years old. It was small enough to be carried around so I naturally recorded everything around me. Two of those recordings survived and I still have them here, waiting to be listened to one day.

Cassettes taught me that information can be stored on media that you can't see with your naked eye. When I got my first computer at 5 years old, the concept of files stored on a computer came naturally to me. My mom's computer had access to the internet so we would sometimes …

On the weekend, I've been on a heavier vessel. Its cargo? Eastern-European Post-Punk!

I’ve been working on this project for a year and finally have a platform to host a website for it:

https://800dv.paperboat.website/

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Synths were much simpler in the 70s. No chips, only simple resistors, capacitors and transistors. To the point where it’s actually possible to draw and print the circuit boards, populate them with components and hopefully have a working synthesizer.

That’s what I’m doing right now. An invaluable resource have been photos of the back sides of the boards and lots of deep knowledge of …

Sometimes life can be a lot and I often feel how important it is to have a way to escape. I'm about to finish my degree in Digital Humanities, have job, some other side gigs and a kid and a partner. More often than not things stack up and it can take weeks before I get to work on my projects, make music or build something.

It's hard to really dive into something if there's not much time. As my energy drains, the threshold gets bigger and bigger and I'm less likely to pick up a drum machine or …

When I was in Rome for vacation, I found this interesting model in a thrift store.

It doesn’t seem to be particularly well made. The trees are made of moss and it’s coming apart in a few places.

Still, someone had an idea or an assignment for school. …

Yesterday, I unlocked a time capsule. In fact, it used slide to unlock.

It snowed a fair bit this night. Isn't it crazy how snow transforms the places you know and go to every day? It feels like I've been teleported to somewhere else entirely.

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Ever since 2006, creating websites has been a part of my life. My first website dates back to 2006. At elementary school, we had a really cool computer club where we learned HTML, Logo, image manipulation with GIMP and so much more. I still have some files from back then. Sadly, the data on the diskette containing the website is long gone. The website was about dogs and it even contained a quiz that even checked your ansers. Its background was orange and it had tons of animated gifs. I typed it all by hand. The document …

What I'm listening to right now (feel free to listen while reading): https://patchingflowers.bandcamp.com/track/pears

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