Implementing the fix: 30min Trying to build a unit test that tests the fix: now at 6h and counting (there's multi threading, a state machine and some callback hell involved, yes, that's on me -- me 13.5 years ago that is) Some days this job just sucks 😅

Today I learned #til: "How to fix the Chromium WebHID connection for a Keychron G5 under Linux" 👉 https://foosel.net/til/how-to-fix-the-webhid-connection-for-a-keychron-g5-under-linux/

So I recently finished binging through both seasons of The Pitt and can I just say that Dr. Mel King is now part of my favourite characters ever?

Went #bouldering this morning and finally managed to finish this route after getting a better idea on how to solve it from a buddy. Currently quite exhausted and still trying to get my strength back from before my forced climbing break, so this win was really important for me.

I was today's years old when I realised that the name "Adora Belle" is a pun. 🙈 #GNUTerryPratchet

I got to take a walk today with this friendly lady (and one of her owners who happen to be my neighbours). What a fluffy goofball. And way too fast for the lighting situation 😄

Went for an hour long walk today. Enjoyed all the green.

Finished my partner's and mine play through of "The Casting of Frank Stone". Not my favourite narrative game from Supermassive Games (that's "The Quarry" closely followed by "House of Ashes"), but not as bad as its reviews say. I just wish there were more differences in the endings. Next up is […]

My stance on #llm : 1. There _might_ be some useful use cases with this technology that could be worth exploring. 2. However, it is glaringly obvious that, as of now, their main purpose is to power the mother of all investments bubbles. 3. Which leads us to the present trillion dollar […]

Went #bouldering again this morning! Will take a while until I'm back on my former level I fear, I lost a lot of strength by this stupid forced break. But I made progress on some of the new routes, and I'm also just glad that I was able to go!

The stars aligned today and the bloody vertigo that's been going strong the past weeks finally was manageable enough that I dared to go #bouldering! Not the best performance, but not bad either, and I'm just glad I finally made it back on the wall again and […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Successfully replaced the mainboard and touchpad on my partner's special edition PS5 controller 😄 Fixing stuff feels good!

Got a clue box for my birthday last month from my cousin, and just solved it in 1h+ together with my partner. *Really* fun, not the last one of these we'll play for sure! And this one can be played through again too!

My Xteink X4 finally arrived! And I already flashed it with Crosspoint Reader and connected it to both my OPDS library (Calibre Web Automated running in Docker on my NAS) as well as my KOsync Server (KO Insight, also hosted on my NAS). The case I printed last […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Spring cleaning time!

RE: https://chaos.social/@foosel/115414416386366668 Close to half a year now and I'm still incredibly proud of my hand-pixeled avatar every time I see it :) It might not look exactly like me, but it's close enough I think! Had been thinking about doing that for ages, and then finally sat down […]

Thanks to @Romses I finally did what I had wanting to do for months now and set up a small VPS with #pangolin on it, so that I can access and (temporarily) *share* some of my self hosted stuff from outside my LAN without having to be logged into my VPN. This will come in handy to also help […]

Tiny stamps are tiny! 🥰 Had a lot of stress the past few weeks, and decided to treat myself to some stamps to use in my bullet journal here and there 😊 Found these lovely tiny ones built from meeples here: https://www.designmanufakturberlin.de/en/cat/index/sCategory/119

Die jährliche Infomail von der DKMS bekommen, und das möchte ich jetzt einfach mal zum Anlass nehmen, hier ein bisschen Werbung dafür zu machen, sich da registrieren zu lassen (falls noch nicht geschehen). Geht schnell, tut nicht weh, dauert keine 5min und man kann Leben retten. Krebs ist […]

@foosel nice, I did a similar thing in Jekyll when I added my own human.json file, putting the vouches in a separate YAML data file: https://github.com/rollerozxa/voxelmanip.se/commit/277dbf0905b18f9b9346609c188552e8f599c957

Today I learned #til: "How to automatically build a human.json file in Hugo" 👉 https://foosel.net/til/how-to-automatically-build-a-humanjson-file-in-hugo/

With more and more studies showing regular (gen)AI use to have a negative impact on cognitive skills, and me now knowing that my genes carry a higher dementia risk (I'm currently supporting my mom through her diagnosis), I can tell you that this is yet another reason (on top of *plenty* others) […]

Today I learned #til: "human.json" 👉 https://foosel.net/til/humanjson/

Had to run some errands today and while doing so found spring!

Went #bouldering again this morning and made some progress on the pictured route. Sadly my vertigo triggered and got a bit into the way of the second half of the session, but all in all once again a case of: I went & I did my best 💪

Da hab ich im September beim bundesweiten Warntag gedacht, ich bin mal ganz schlau, ich trag mir den für 2026 (10.9. btw) gleich im Kalender ein, dann krieg ich (hoffentlich) keinen Schreck, wenn mein Handy loskreischt. Das Land Hessen so: Ätsch, hessenweiter Warntag am 12.3. um 10 […]

[ph~] Neurologist appointment booked for yet another try to get to the bottom of my chronic vertigo. Have to wait until July, but after 25 years with this issue that doesn't really matter 😬 Same neurologist that I've accompanied my mom to twice now, so I was able to get an idea about them (and […]

RE: https://troet.cafe/@sarah_ist_muede/116194477257790547 Ronja Räubertochter und Alanna von Trebond. Und natürlich meine Mama. Dann Dana Scully, Buffy Summers und Veronica Mars. Und eine 5 Jahre ältere Freundin (👋 falls du das wider Erwarten liest). Später Ellen Ripley, Granny Weatherwax […]

I think I never mentioned that so far on here, but our #projecthotsauce2026 is well underway already. Planted on Feb 18th.

I've been repeatedly pestering everyone at GitHub who didn't run away fast enough about adding a file input to issue forms ever since those were created, around 5 years ago. THEY FINALLY DID IT! […]

“Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” – Granny Weatherwax

New blog post: "My TODO list lives in my pocket" 👉 https://foosel.net/blog/2026-03-06-my-todo-list-lives-in-my-pocket/

I consider writing software a kind of craftsmanship. It's important to me to think through what I build, to consciously make design decisions based on knowledge and the existing problem space. To understand why things work (or not!) and be able to solve problems as they come up. To keep things […]

Went #bouldering again this morning! Not in my best shape: had a lot of trouble holding on to stuff I usually have no issues with, and also my fear of heights had a (hopefully temporary) comeback. But despite this frustration, the important thing is that I […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Ich hab seit Tagen ein komisches Problem mit dem Shop der Deutschen Post und frage mich, ob das auch andere haben. Loginversuch mit Firefox 148.0 unter Fedora wird nur noch mit "Aufruf fehlgeschlagen" quittiert. Login mit den selben Credentials in Ungoogled Chromium klappt (145.0), ebenso auf […]

Re-reading "Daemon" by @DanielSuarez and... Yep, this is as relevant as ever.

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Mood for today...

First time back on the well since the start of this month. Vertigo still going strong, but I needed this. Went ok-ish. Keeping my balance while standing on the mats was trickier than #bouldering actually 😅

For some reason I always seem to get scheduled right before the lunch slot at Python conferences 😂 At least I've broken the curse of "on the last day" 🤘 The extremely nervous part of the @pycon conference (for me at least) thus will be over come the first lunch period! […]

Aktuell viel um die Ohren (eigene Gesundheit, Familienzeug, Arbeit, *fuchtel* der ganze Mist da draußen), aber die völlig überraschende Erwähnung von @octoprint in der neusten Folge meines Lieblingspodcasts @minkorrekt hat mir jetzt den Tag, die Woche, evtl den ganzen Monat versüßt :) Direkt […]

First day wearing this new shirt that arrived yesterday. Saw it scrolling by on mastodon a few days ago and had to get one for myself. Can't find the toot anymore, but here's the shop link: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/70096211-stop-forcing-ai-into-fucking-everything-original

Woohoo, just got a mail that my talk for @pycon got accepted! Will be my first talk in Italy 😄 And also a new one I've never given before and that I now actually have to prepare 👀

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history. This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations. You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

Hier... also Hömma, sachma @buersten Ganz blöde Frage: verkauft ihr auch nur die Borsten? Halt, halt! Bevor ihr mich in die "Spinner" Rundablage packt: Solche Borsten werden in meinem Hobby (Miniaturen Tabletop) gerne als Speere verbaut. Die Dicke ist ideal für 15mm, 20mm und 28mm Miniaturen […]

Goodbye #Raindrop, hello self-hosted @linkwarden#raindrop Yet another service self-hosted now instead of in the cloud. What triggered it was a "meet our new chat assistant" mail, but it's been on the todo list for a while.

Hm... I think I'll skip @europython this year. I have a TON on my plate (incl. a current health scare with my mom I have to help with), and considering that, a reduction of event stress certainly sounds like a good idea. Also means I don't have to feel pressured now to respond to the CfP that's […]