A birthday, a funeral and a train journey that actually went just fine filled the week that was over faster than I could look around. Just like I mentioned last week, the current weather has a bigger effect on me than the one during the _heat wave_ so everything […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

_I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ This morning it was I Can’t Stop Me by Twice and it is 100% because Instagram keeps showing me reels of that girl who screams along with it #KPop #Twice

I added a `dominik.md` to a project that I only work on once in a while. It contains a list of things still unfinished and a documentation about my decisions I made so far and _oh boy_ is one of my coworkers livid. Frankly, in a time when people add markdown files for a mysterious person with a […]

The “Years Ago Today” plugin on my blog just reminded me that I linked to GTA V GeoGuesser four years ago. I clicked just for a laugh, oh, maybe I still remember, haha – and I wasn’t really prepared what a deep feeling of nostalgia and (I guess?) homesickness this would trigger. A long time ago […]

Another data point for my thoughts about blog posts and especially weeknotes being personal or not: Roy read my post and decided to be less personal. Which is interesting – he does also mention that he is writing a private journal as well, which I am not […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

For the last couple of days when it was really hot I had my big fan running almost 24/7: during the day to bring some respite through moving air and during the night to make sure that the cooler air from outside makes it into the parts of the apartment where there isn’t much of a natural flow of […]

A few weeks ago I talked with Dirk about blogging and while this conversation got him to write a post about the state of the world he told me that week notes aren’t for him as they are too personal. I’ve been thinking about this conversation a lot since then. I read a lot of blogs, through my […]

I guess it was the heat that got to people’s brains. This week I more than ever in the just about nine years I’ve been on Mastodon I had to block and mute and filter to keep my timeline halfway sane. On Monday evening I went to a photo walk in Basel. The _vibe_ […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

I have linked to videos from OTR a few times on my link blog but this one deserves a post on here. It’s a feature-length documentary about the “Golden Triangle” within Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, the history how it became the center of the global drug trade and […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

I mostly spend this week up in Cologne. A bunch of in-person meetings, a bit of hanging out with friends and coworkers, good (and some not so good) food and the days went by very quickly. For the first time in quite some while I took the train instead of […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

_I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ (This one I _really_ can’t explain. It’s not my kind of music. I can’t remember hearing it anywhere lately. And yet here we are.) This morning it was Senza Una […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

Another big 24 hour race this week, this time the Le Mans one. I’m usually not a WEC guy but this one is special, of course. Otherwise this week was a calm one, again. (Next week won’t. Foreshadowing!) Taskmaster Series 21 concluded, which is always a bit sad […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

I very much prefer _the fediverse_ aka Mastodon (yes, I know) over the other text-based social networks. Especially over the one that used to be so important to me. But it does have it downsides and I usually notice them when I am trying to see who else besides the people I follow is talking […]

A calm and rather cool summer week. Not quite as rainy as forecast but not the hot temperatures of the last few weeks. I didn’t do all that much – slept a lot, futzed around with my websites and learned more about Vietnamese addresses, reverse geocoding and the […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

This is a copy of an issue that I just created in the Nominatim repository. Sadly my skills in Python (and my knowledge of the OSM data model) aren’t good enough to poke around in the code on my own to figure out what is happening. # Reverse Geocoding in the Ho Chi Minh City center return wrong […]

> You get you get old and you start thinking, “Oh, I better make the world around me miserable. Then I won’t mind leaving so much.” That’s what you got to fight against. > – Bob Mortimer #Ageing #BobMortimer

Can you believe it’s Sunday already? It’s still nice and sunny but the weather forecast (and a look outside) tells me that this is going to be over soon. There was a lot of family this week – it would have been my grandmother’s 100th birthday, so my aunts and a […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

This series is an incredible deep dive into the cryptic short codes that are behind flight bookings and how the systems behind the curtain work all the way until the passenger reaches the destination. I’ve read them all the way through yesterday and I’ll likely read through them again today. I […]

A sunny Sunday, a few clouds in the sky, windows wide open, iced coffee, Italo disco on moderate volume, this is a good early summer morning. My “cleaning out my personal side-projects”-project is moving very slowly. Mostly because I’m faster at having new […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

Last night I was feeling like playing some _New Age easy listening_ music while reading and this morning I found out that my 100.000th scrobble is now “Age Of Loneliness” by Enigma. I’m not sure what to make of that.

I really managed to mess up my sleep schedule beyond anything resembling smart. I’m wide awake now. I won’t be tomorrow morning, quite the opposite.

By now you might have noticed that I use week notes to keep myself from abandoning this blog. And yeah, I quite enjoy writing them, too, most week. Even though lately they’ve been a bit calmer than I’d like them to be. It is what it is. On my travels through the internet I found a service for […]

A week with a public holiday is a pretty good week. I got talked into going for an indoor miniature golf outing with my nieces and nephews which went about as well as expected. I’ve been watching the Nürburgring 24h race and all the things around it for the last […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

Back when we did things like “buy a cd and use iTunes to turn the music into mp3s” I used MusicBrainz Picard a lot to get all the metadata I needed. And then I kind of forgot about MusicBrainz. Turns out: it is still going strong. It does lack quite a lot of the music I listen to, though. Which […]

_I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ This morning it was D:Ream with Things Can Only Get Better

Hm. I moved all the little scripts I had running on a Raspberry Pi to my Mac Mini so I could install Home Assistant to it. So far I haven’t done anything wild with it, except created a bunch of dashboards. Who’d have known that the carbon dioxide level is […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

I can’t help to note just how nice it is to wake up three days in a row without an alarm. I had a little bit too much beef (the food, not disagreeing with people) on Friday, so obviously I needed the whole of Saturday to recover. And today I went to visit two […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

I have seen a blog post asking Who knows that you blog? making the rounds lately and for me the answer is pretty easy: probably everyone who knows me but not many people are even remotely interested. (Some are and: thank you! I really appreciate it.) I have noticed (or at least it’s something I […]

Another calm week that went by very fast, not much to tell. I didn’t even take a single photo, that is all pretty remarkable. As I’ve written about on Thursday I started cleaning out my side-projects. Annoyingly enough it rather gave me more ideas instead of […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

I just went through a _tour de force_ of going through all the subdomains (and domains, lol) that I have gotten and set up for random side projects over the year. Good god. I cancelled a whole bunch of auto-renews and now have a long todo list of cleaning up.

Bubbles mostly seems to be a place to vote for blog posts about Bubbles. (I kid, of course. It looks nice and I’ve bookmarked it.) #Indieweb

First asparagus dinner of the season. Can’t complain except _someone_ wasn’t peeling them properly which was a bit of a problem. (That someone was me, obviously.) Went to have a quick planespotting evening with my cousin, which ended up being a bit […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

Sleep review, lunch break nap April 14th, 2026: 8/10, too short, otherwise no notes.

Sleep review, April 13th to April 14th, 2026 (Remember the last time when I said I should write these when the sleep is good? Well, lol. I guess it’s like how I only update dominik.ist when I feel like complaining. How very German of me. Most of the time I sleep just fine.) Anyway: this was not […]

A short and rather quiet week. Helping out my coworkers in their project was a very welcome change of pace at work. The allergies came back with a vengeance after I ran around all Easter weekend, telling everybody that I think the worst for this spring is over […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

* I was watching the Artemis II flyby last night. So of course I am rather tired today. * I really like _dashboards_ – I’ve been looking at the one for Artemis II by Canadian Space and it is rather fancy. Now I want my own for whatever kind of data I can think of. Obviously that means I need […]

I hope you had a good Easter weekend, mine was very relaxed indeed. Today a (very) short little “hike” with the family, a bit of picnic, an early return home and a long nap with wide open windows with the birds singing, I can’t complain. (Yes, technically today […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

A little family trip to Strasbourg crowned a week that was otherwise similarly mundane as the last couple of them. The city is well worth a visit, it’s very pretty indeed. I started reading a Japanese whodunnit on Saturday which so far is very intriguing and […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

`human.json` is exactly the kind of nerdy metadata silliness that is designed to amuse me. It’s a protocol to vouch for people’s websites created by Beto Dealmeida. It basically works by offering a little json file with a list of websites one trusts to be human who doesn’t use AI to write their […]

The constant urge to keep a `grievances.md` file while knowing fully well that this would be extremely silly.

So, it’s already Monday and here are my notes for last week: Nothing to report, carry on. I know this is a bit boring to read. At the moment my brain seems to be in the same mode as my Wallabag installation, (which I did manage to get going again, for those […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

Three K-pop(-ish) songs I enjoyed recently: Hypnotize by XG, Catch Catch by Yena and Bang Bang by Ive. #Ive #KPop #XG #Yena

Not much to report on this week. It was mostly cold and rainy, I got lost in Captain of Industry (yes, again. No, I don’t learn from past mistakes) and rewatched the first season of True Detective. I almost bought something online and about half an hour after I […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

_I often wake up with a random song as anearworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ This morning it was Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio

I’m thinking a lot about adding a blogroll lately. I’m considering everything from a simple list to a full-blown reader experience. My WordPress installation is old enough to still have the Links Manager, so I might just use that. #Blogging #Blogroll

It is allergy season, fuck yeah. So while I spend both days of the weekend outside (which was nice, don’t get me wrong. We even had sun!) I immediately crashed on the couch when I came back, defeated by the battle that my body is trying to fight against the […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

Oh boy. The pollen allergy season is in full swing already. And of course I forgot to order my antihistamines.

It is a bit baffling. I’m working with a whole bunch of WordPress installations, every single one of them with the server time zone set to UTC and the WordPress time set to Europe/Berlin. It works fine in all of them – except with one client, where there’s always a weird mismatch of times […]

I spend my morning watching reels from expats in Dubai and yes, you’re right, iOS. I have indeed reached my limit on Instagram. Meanwhile I have fallen out of love with Wallabag. Mostly because it suddenly didn’t let me log in anymore and I don’t have the […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

PSA: The new Gorillaz album is out today and it is very good, indeed.