# Learn more about twtxt at: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt # # nick = lyse # url = https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt # avatar = https://lyse.isobeef.org/avatar.jpg # # prev shxculq twtxt-2022-04.txt 2022-05-01T09:30:00+02:00 (#shxculq) @ I will blame it for sure. :-D But it doesn't end there, even though I put the nut cake in a container over night so it doesn't dry out, it's bone-dry now. Taste is toleratable but easily ranks high in my worst cakes I ever made. I have no idea what I have done wrong there. It's like everything went belly-up this time. This cake really sucks. Oh well, at least it's very rare that my baking ends this terrible. 2022-05-02T17:30:00+02:00 (#olgwlyq) @ I'd say you definitely should use a camera you're very familiar with. Otherwise it's just ging to be terrible always figuring out first how to configure the cam for the best shot. And by then the situation is long gone. 2022-05-02T17:45:00+02:00 (#knvl3sa) @ @ @ I started out with the MiKTeX distribution and then went on with Kile as the LaTeX IDE after changing to Linux. Shortly after I used Vim, of course. The results are super awesome looking, but the error messages are easily the worst I've ever come across. Oh, the compiler reported an error in line 742, where it finally gave up. Damnit, the error is actually *somewhere* in the range of lines 1-742. Good luck finding that. Always compiling at least twice, better three times is something, I'm not missing either. Sure, just put it in the Makefile, but still. The syntax is also something I don't really like, but that's just personal taste. My application documents were the last things I've typeset using LaTeX.

To produce weekly schedules and personalized time tables for summer camps I generated LaTeX documents from the data model of my planning software. That was in fact the easiest option to get PDF documents. Ones that are even also very good looking in the end without much effort. But yeah, it took quite some time to compile all those files. 2022-05-02T18:00:00+02:00 (#7kxa5vq) @ Cool, cool! :-) It also looks quite cold on the photo. I think around the turn of the year 2018/2019 was the last time I've been on a (also very cold) beach and seen the ocean. 2022-05-02T18:15:00+02:00 (#6suo3hq) @ Very nice! But quite crude to cut this with a grinder. ;-) 2022-05-02T18:30:00+02:00 (#22pdtoq) @ Yes, you remember correctly. @ asked about it one day and a litle bit later you had the same question where somebody [linked to my answer](https://twtxt.net/twt/rhdu4rq) (sorry, forgot who it was). 2022-05-02T18:45:00+02:00 (#r7qmfyq) @ I have to watch out, that I'm not undermining my own agenda with all those pro office arguments. :-D

Haha, I just remember so well because I was a newbie not too long ago in my current project. And shortly after we got even more team mates. All remote of course. The first few days after I joined were quite tricky, but we all managed it very well I have to say.

Exactly, consideration is the keyword. Since that property seems to be on the decline everywhere anyways, the Großraumbüro should rapidly die out. 2022-05-02T20:45:00+02:00 (#3welorq) @ Run, doggy, run! 2022-05-02T21:00:00+02:00 [Forest fire in the neighborhood](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-05-02/):

![Very orangy sunset and clouds behind the trees creating the slight illusion of a forest fire](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-05-02/04.jpg "Nah, no worries. Luckily just the sunset.") 2022-05-03T17:00:00+02:00 (#gneet3a) Yes, @, all clear. @ read the image title and/or alternative text. :-) 2022-05-03T17:15:00+02:00 (#oymxvoa) @ `! [ -z "$string" ]` can be simplified to `[ -n "$string" ]` :-) 2022-05-03T17:30:00+02:00 (#vzah2xq) @ To test whether a file is executable, you can simply: `test -x $file` 2022-05-03T17:45:00+02:00 (#dj2qqqa) @ @ Hahahahaaaaa, very nice! :-D 2022-05-03T21:00:00+02:00 (#7kzz5ua) @ Oh shit, that doesn't look good at all. :-( So you now have to go regularly to the office? 2022-05-04T19:45:00+02:00 (#7kzz5ua) @ Alright. Working on Saturdays will hopefully result in more money, too.

My train was on time but I was quite a bit late today morning. I got the ticket when the train doors opened. UX of the ticket vending machines is still as bad as I remembered. Back then, I didn't have to use them, because I always had annual tickets. Switching trains was also quite a lucky moment, just caught the connecting train before the doors got locked.

I was productive until the first team mate arrived. You were absolutely correct in that regard. ;-D After that, only very small progress. And also as expected, most people think, that Corona is now finally over. :-( Fortunately, people are still wearing masks in public transport.

And now it appears a thunderstorm is rolling in. Lightning and thunder in the distance. But it's fine, I'm home. 2022-05-04T20:30:00+02:00 My neighbor told me somebody ran over the garbage can (today was collection) and that the driver thought that it got broken. Coincidentally, the public order office was at the site because of someone illegally parking on the road and they then also dramatized the whole situation and proudly recorded everything. But luckily, neither my neighbor nor I can see any damage to the bin. It's just the shape of the wheel axle clamp that kind of looks on first glance as a piece is missing, but that's clearly just the regular molding. Also evident on all other bins. Maybe a slight scratch, but who knows when that happend. Even if, doesn't hurt, it's a garbage can. So tomorrow, I'm gonna call that poor guy and give him the all-clear signal.

It just figures that this happens at this one day I'm not at home… 2022-05-04T21:30:00+02:00 (#pc4rxnq) @ Unfortunately, I will not be able to make it this week. You have to tell me the results afterwards. Maybe it is possible to record that subject if everybody is fine with it. In any case, I bet you're the king at the next sausage stand wearing ketchup shoes. 2022-05-05T19:00:00+02:00 The weather forecast… The whole day is supposed to rain and thunderstorm. Nothing. Now I just wanted to get out my bike and it's starting raining cats and dogs. Luckily, I got out the chain grease, so when I was about to move out my bike, it started. So I aborted my mission. Now rain like no tomorrow and even decent hail. 2022-05-05T19:10:00+02:00 (#ffmtsva) But the fresh air, I tell you what. Lovely! Still hailing. 2022-05-05T19:15:00+02:00 (#q3eeova) @ Hahaha, that's a nice one. :-) 2022-05-05T19:30:00+02:00 (#7kzz5ua) @ So the "now" is a "no", if I read this correctly. Bah, how dare they!

The train connection takes exactly one hour. One-way. At least. If everything goes to plan. Plus the time walking from home to the station and from the station to the office. Going to office is always quicker then the way home, because the regional train basically runs only hourly. But I can take a connecting S-Bahn every five minutes. So missing the S-Bahn on the way in is no big deal. Not catching the Bummelbahn on the way out is a real bummer, though. I can then wait half an hour for an inter-regional train and then switch again to an even bummeliger Bahn after waiting another quarter an hour, so it effectively costs me at least 45 minutes and more stress with less comfort. If you can talk about comfort in a German regional train at all, hahaha. So to avoid that, I usually take two, three or even four S-Bahns earlier on my way home, depending on the announced train traffic delays or even cancels. Delays of course accumulate easily and often over the course of a day, so the return rides are much more often impacted than not.

So, all in all I'm wasting 2:30-3:00 hours for commute, depending on the exact connection and condition.

And yes, pre-Corona I did this every single day in the work week. Well, at my former employer only four days a week. Friday was the typical day to work from home half a day or take off completely. In the new company there was the spirit of "Gschafft wird em Birro". You could also sporadically work from home, but you needed some good excuse, like expecting a visit by a craftsman or something along those lines. Covid upset the apple cart. It was the very best that could happen to me.

Going by car could be slightly faster, but there's no guarantee, either. Accidents and traffic jams happen all the time. And then you also have all those bloody wankers on the Autobahn. You know, if the German (probably anyone) has a steering wheel in his hand, he instantly turns into an animal. Not saying, that a train ride is not stressful, but you can just sit in, wait and eventually reach your destination. Listen to podcasts, talk to your fellow passengers you see every day, just look out the window, read a book, take a nap, … Try going the latter two things in your car's driver seat. :-) 2022-05-05T19:45:00+02:00 (#uhqkkya) @ If I get up early, that's not a problem. But I'm already having different plans for this weekend. :-) Next week might work out, no guarantees, though. 2022-05-05T20:00:00+02:00 (#ffmtsva) @ Yeah, I image they were super pleased to see that hitting their holy possessions. But luckily, the hailstones were mostly just around half a centimeter in diameter from what I could tell. The greenery suffered more than those driving tin cages. The hail lasted for maybe 15 to at most 20 minutes, just gently raining now. 2022-05-05T20:05:00+02:00 (#5pxpbsa) @ Get well, soon! 2022-05-05T22:00:00+02:00 Nom, nom, nom: ![Roast potatoes](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/bratkartoffeln-2022-05-05.jpg) 2022-05-05T22:30:00+02:00 (#c3ednia) @ It took me a bit to understand the mechanism and interpret the photo, but this is a homemade rope saw, I'd say. Very cool! Your skin was quite hard to distinguish from the rusty metal, it just blends very well with the background, so at first I only saw a sheet of metal with groks on it. Even the groks I first confused for some knife blades. ;-) How thick is this sheet metal? These guys make for some rather nice looking raised beds. 2022-05-05T23:00:00+02:00 (#cpvwlga) @ An old classic, but still greatly entertaining every time I read it. I'd like to see a follow-up on that. 2022-05-05T23:30:00+02:00 (#vgdnc6q) @ @ Thank you for digging this up, this is really, really cool! I was instantly hooked. I loved it. 2022-05-06T12:00:00+02:00 (#ha7mmmq) @ Yupp, yummy I have to say. :-) 2022-05-06T12:15:00+02:00 (#c3ednia) @ Very nice. How long does it take roughly to rip one sheet in two? 2022-05-06T12:30:00+02:00 (#7kzz5ua) @ I see. Yup, going slow is much needed every now and then. I'm having a four days weekend now with using up a bit of my overtime.

Wow, that's a really bad ratio. It just looks like they force you to not use public transport at all. 16 km seems like it could be done with a bike (maybe with a fancy help these days). Or how is the terrain? Are there many hills and valleys between you and the office? In any case, cummuting is totally not worth all the wasted time.

Glad you liked my new invention. ;-) That train stops at each milk can along the way. Luckily, most of the stations are coming after my destination, but there are still quite a few before that, too. 2022-05-08T21:30:00+02:00 Finally showed a mate around in my lovely area on Friday. So we went up my backyard mountain. It was cloudy and right between t-shirt and jumper weather.

The local mountain rescue service started a training at the [Spielburg](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spielburg), a nature reserve of white jura surrounded by brown jura. While the presumably leaders prepared the wall with climbing gear the youth group arrived with more equipment, I reckon their own gear. I would have watched them much longer, but my mate pressed on to return home. So there are [only a few photos](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-06/) of that event.

![Members of the mountain rescue service climbing up the Spielburg in a training situation](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-06/23.jpg) 2022-05-08T21:45:00+02:00 (#dq4wraq) @ What a mess! Nice solution though, I was wondering how you solved that. But I wouldn't have come up with that on my own. In hindsight, it's totally obvious. Now what does the standard say? 2022-05-08T22:00:00+02:00 (#clv7woa) @ This is great, thank you very much! I was very pleased to see that! :-) I hope you automated this somehow and don't have to handcraft this each and every time.

[It is linked](https://mckinley.cc/blog/rss.xml) in the blog section, @. That's how I found it. 2022-05-08T22:15:00+02:00 (#zitnbvq) @ Oh dear, one of those days… :-( But you managed to finish the job? 2022-05-08T22:30:00+02:00 (#opev6mq) I have nothing to add to @'s statements. I remember it exactly the way he described. But we might be able to just also allow absolute URLs, if multi-protocol is nothing for feed authors to worry about. Might get messy, though. Didn't completely think this through yet. 2022-05-08T22:45:00+02:00 (#ha7mmmq) @ Of course, come by, mate! I have homemade pizza and waffles to offer you today. And two or three slices of hazlenut cake (this time it worked out). 2022-05-08T23:00:00+02:00 On Saturday it was sunny and so we went on a [short 19 km tandem ride](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tandemfahrt-2022-05-07/) in my area. The bike was designed in the hillless Netherlands, so that's presumably why in areas like mine the battery is flattened in no time. They claim a maximum range of 40 km in the flat. We only engaged the motor on the way up to save on juice.

![Mt. Hohenstaufen in the distance, side by side e-tandem](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tandemfahrt-2022-05-07/03.jpg)

My town lends out the electronic tandem to all its inhabitants for free, which is awesome. The cool thing is you sit side by side and not behind each other like on a regular tandem. This makes it quite cool for conversations. But of course, narrow spots might get tricky, it's over a meter wide. Posts on the footpaths to block off cars and other motorized vehicles can get a challenge to navigate around. Also avoiding oncoming or overtaking traffic is tricky on narrow paths or lanes.

The vehicle is designed for disabled passengers, but some of these features are in fact drawbacks for others. The driver can select from eight gears, but the passenger has always a fixed gear ratio. So at very low (going uphill) and at a bit higher speeds (basically regular cruising speeds on the flat) the passenger cannot help pedalling, it's either too hard to tread or you're like a hamster in a spinning wheel. Only the midrange (~5-15 km/h) is somewhat okay. Ideally, the passenger would have an own gearbox or at the very minimum share the same gear ratio as the driver. But the current solution is just terrible. There are three settings for the passenger the driver can control: 1) idle all the time 2) fixed gear with the option of ideling 3) fixed gear without the possibility of ideling, you always have to tread and cannot rest. So of course, setting 2 it is. But why not provide a fourth or fifth option with a passenger gear box?

I will talk about the tandem experience in more detail another time. 2022-05-08T23:15:00+02:00 After the quick tandem ride and a quick lunch we headed out on foot this time and visited the tadpole pond. Lo and behold my friends, the little creatures were out there again the first time this year! The entire pond was crowded with millions if not billions of them. Absolutely amazing! \o/ I'm super excited about that.

![Tadpoles are swimming again!](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-07/08.jpg)

[More of this trip into the woods](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-07/). 2022-05-08T23:30:00+02:00 And we were lucky enough to also receive a [very pretty sunset present](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-05-07/) yesterday.

![Colorful sunset](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-05-07/04.jpg) 2022-05-08T23:45:00+02:00 Even today the [sunset gods meant very well for us](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-05-08/)! Cannot complain about this beautiful scene.

![Setting sun](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-05-08/02.jpg) 2022-05-09T10:00:00+02:00 (#dgj5zvq) @ Ta! :-) 2022-05-09T10:15:00+02:00 (#dq4wraq) @ Very nice, thanks! :-) Well, at least the standard is pretty obvious in that regard. Although, I have to say, I prefer the "must NOT" over the "cannot" version. Interesting that they changed the wording in the draft version. Admitted, it's basically a complete rewrite.

Now the only thing left for you is to file a bug report against Otter. 2022-05-09T10:30:00+02:00 (#clv7woa) @ I'm writing one Atom feed by hand myself and I'm super glad I update it only very rarely.. 2022-05-09T10:45:00+02:00 (#ha7mmmq) @ Drop me a note when it happens. :-) Waffles are awesome, I fully agree. And indeed, they work out fine with plant-only material. Some years ago I had to omit the milk because of one person being strongly lactose intolerant. I had also ran out of eggs and didn't feel like going to the shops, so I simply tried without them. Very surprisingly to me I hardly could tell any difference in regards to taste. I was super baffled that this experiment turned out this good. But maybe homemade apple sauce was key. ;-) 2022-05-09T11:00:00+02:00 My dear friends, do you have any particular library recommendations for ical parsing in Go? 2022-05-09T21:00:00+02:00 (#nbt66eq) Ping, @. :-) 2022-05-09T21:15:00+02:00 The flavor of hay and freshly cut meadows was everywhere, the sun spoiled us with 23°C, a pleasant easterly breeze was blowing and we went [on a tandem ride again](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tandemfahrt-nach-geislingen-2022-05-09/). We had like a VIP lodge on the river Fils. That was pure luck, the ice cream shop we were headed for originally was still closed because of renovation. They'll open tomorrow, the owner told us. So we went to a park/beergarden thingy and enjoyed the view.

![Drake eating a slice of presumably bread somebody upstream threw in the river Fils which got caught up in a small basin in a rapid](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tandemfahrt-nach-geislingen-2022-05-09/10.jpg) 2022-05-09T21:30:00+02:00 (#duqvxja) @ I never came across such a bike before either. The chairs are kind of nice, but not super ideal for pedaling. The backrest feels kind of flimsy, the driver's more than the passenger's. When pedaling stronger I always had the slight fear of breaking the backrest, it's not as ridgid as I would like it to be. Also after some effort your buttocks are very sweaty. Never had that with a saddle. But other than that, the seats are nice amd comfy. Good luck not getting rained on on your tour, I reckon these cloth upholsteries will be soaking wet in no time.

The handlebars are in very silly locations. I'd like them to be much lower. But that's not possible. It's a bit like I image what it would feel when sitting on a Harley. Sort of driving a recumbent bicycle, not that extrem, of course, but a bit in those lines (never sat/layed on one either).

And the passenger's armrests don't line up with the handle bars either. You have to select one position: Put your arms on the rest or grab the handlebars, but both is impossible. Unless your anatomy is reaaally weird. Riding freehand also works of course, the armrests can be tilted up.

But always keep in mind, *the only* usecase of the bike is to drive your grandma around in the park. Something along those lines. Certainly not going for longer adventures. I'm pretty sure it's quite up to that task. But it would be muuuch cooler to also support other usecases. Wouldn't be hard in my opinion. 2022-05-09T21:45:00+02:00 (#zitnbvq) @ Örks! :-( 2022-05-09T22:00:00+02:00 (#ha7mmmq) @ Apple sauce was originally invented for waffles, I'm totally sure! It's the perfect fit. Yeah, next time try that, you won't regret it. :-) But basically anything works. Plum jam is also a pretty hot candidate. Blackberry, raspberry, you name it.

Speaking of apple sauce. That's also brilliant for pork schnitzel. I was like you guys when I first heard it: "What the heck!? These Aussies definitely want to play a prank on me!" So I waited for them to go first and then hesitantly gave it a try. But man, I was instantly hooked, it's a very yummy combination, no doubt. If you can't believe it, think of cranberries served along deer. Not sure about the rest of the world, but in Germany that's a classic. 2022-05-09T22:15:00+02:00 (#7kzz5ua) @ Whoo, that's quite something I'd say. I wouldn't want to do that on a regular bike when going to the office (recreation is a different story). Maybe with a cheater bike, but that needs to be experimented with first. How long would it take you according to Uncle Elgoog?

I've seen bike lines on motorways in Australia, but I wouldn't feel save there at all. And regular people don't have escort cars:

![Cyclists ahead on the motorway](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/cyclists-ahead.jpg)

Indeed, you get a nice heads up before:

![Narrow shoulder on bridge](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/narrow-shoulder-on-bridge.jpg)

But then you basically have to go on the right lane anyways, because that shoulder is pretty much non-existent in my books. And cars and trucks are flying by with 110 km/h.

![Shoulder pretty much non-existent](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/shoulder-pretty-much-non-existent.jpg)

You would need some constructionally separated bicycle lanes.

@ Hahaha, very cool! :-) A folding bike is nice if you have to take a train in the rushhour. I saw people folding and unfolding their bikes in less than ten seconds, pretty amazing what can be done today. I never had a folding bike, but I reckon a non-folding bike will be more comfy to ride, just judging from the smaller tires alone. So when you have 20 km to go, I have my reservations on a folding bike.

Just put it right inside the office. That's what some collegues did at my former employer. Or they locked it on the railing in the public corridor. Just do it, you can worry about the others when they also start coming by bike. However, I doubt, that lots will.

Missing showers is a thing that might kill the bike idea right from the beginning. 2022-05-09T22:30:00+02:00 (#7kzz5ua) @ Interesting video! Not being allowed to drive into and out of that garage is really silly. It clearly shows that that those, who came up with the rules, don't use these underground garages. We're very far away here from giant (underground) bicycle parking lots. Not enough volume of traffic. 2022-05-09T22:45:00+02:00 (#zcp3qna) @ Yes, that's a very good read. Do you also have an article where you go into more detail about your setup and changes? 2022-05-10T17:30:00+02:00 (#nbt66eq) Thank you, @! Will give it a try later this evening. 2022-05-10T19:15:00+02:00 My twtxt.txt feed grew over 700 KiB, so I thought I write a Python script to split it into monthly archive feeds. Now the only things left are automating the execution, automatically rewriting the main feed as well and adding support in tt, so that the full feed is reconstructed in the cache. 2022-05-10T22:30:00+02:00 I experimented with photographing the moon again. And of course it [profoundly went wrong](https://lyse.isobeef.org/mond-2022-05-10/), what did you think?

![Overexposed moon shining through the clouds, creating some kind of a rainbow^H^H^Hcircle](https://lyse.isobeef.org/mond-2022-05-10/05.jpg) 2022-05-11T22:00:00+02:00 (#7kzz5ua) @ Yeah, 16 km/h should be possible I reckon. If you don't take our tandem, that is. :-D

That's a nice vision, I truely like it. But yeah, ain't gonna happen. Not in a hundred years. 2022-05-11T22:15:00+02:00 (#ha7mmmq) @ Oh, interesting. So it's not an Australian thing, but much more common. Never thought that. Whole-grain bread is great, I prefer apple jelly on it, though. :-) 2022-05-11T22:30:00+02:00 (#zcp3qna) @ Little time? I hear you! Now that my short holidays are over, I don't get much done either. Totally fell behind again. 2022-05-11T22:45:00+02:00 (#eawyw6a) @ Excellent, thank you for confirming. If I'm very, very lucky I might get after one of the open topics on the weekend. I'm not specifying which one, though. :-P 2022-05-11T23:00:00+02:00 (#stlehta) Nothing unusual, @. Just obliterated by the earth. :-)

Unfortunately, I cannot select the exposure time, @. My pocket camera is too shitty for that. I need to borrow my dad's DSLR one day. 2022-05-11T23:15:00+02:00 (#guv3leq) @ Sounds like a solid plan. To success! 2022-05-13T16:15:00+02:00 (#ha7mmmq) @ I'm already using cumin, but haven't tried duck fat so far. Thanks for the recommendation. 2022-05-13T16:30:00+02:00 (#fm7xdga) @ @ Nice article. I never had the guts to use ed. Now I wanted to try it, but was very surprised that I don't even have it installed on my current system. That must be a sign to better not dare. 2022-05-13T16:45:00+02:00 (#3gtuw3a) @ @ Holy moly! :-D Perfect choice when you try to get hit by a car at night. 2022-05-13T17:00:00+02:00 (#vctugiq) @ What a cool chilling dog enjoying its shiny teeth. Contemplating whether to use its broom tail to do some cleanup. But the dice have fallen, it keeps resting. :-)

Yesterday morning I got up very early at 05:30 to get the still cold air back in the house. So I opened all the doors and windows for a draft. Suddenly, there was a reddish brown cat in the bathroom and hissed at me when I had a look. It then ran across into my room where I was already working, jumped on the desk, ran over the keyboard and computer, out the balcony door. It tried to to escape between the railing and wall, but failed as it was too big. So it turned around and wanted to get back in the house, but I luckily blocked off the route. The next unsuccessful attempt was to squish between railing and wall on the other end of the balcony. Finally it returned, hissing like crazy of course and then jumped over the railing onto the tiled veranda. Quickly vanished off through the bushes.

That was the end of creating draft in the ground floor. What a stressful morning. 2022-05-14T09:15:00+02:00 (#d6tq4aq) @ Looks like I was too late. 2022-05-14T09:30:00+02:00 (#itqyskq) @ Awesome! :-D Never heard of Tresenlesen, but immediately recognized Jochen Malmsheimer's voice. 2022-05-14T09:45:00+02:00 (#fm7xdga) @ Bwahahahahahaaa, I didn't know this one. Very nice! :'-D 2022-05-14T10:00:00+02:00 (#e7bqh7q) @ Hahaha, oh yeah, this is brilliant! :-D 2022-05-14T10:15:00+02:00 (#d6tq4aq) @ @ No, no, all good. I just have to go to bed earlier, at a healthier point in time. Last night I overdid it quite a lot. 2022-05-14T10:45:00+02:00 (#ijjwp4a) Thanks for the meeting notes, @! I cannot access this lovely spam mail, @. :-) 2022-05-14T15:15:00+02:00 (#ijjwp4a) @ What a genious! So kind of him to ask you for the money transfer. With all his superpower he easily could have just done it himself instead! 2022-05-15T12:00:00+02:00 (#gioykcq) @ Good thing that creek and river beds are designed to keep it under control most of the time. 2022-05-16T16:45:00+02:00 (#wzwzqva) @ You can never have enough clamps. :-) 2022-05-16T17:00:00+02:00 (#gioykcq) @ New records all the time. 2022-05-16T17:15:00+02:00 (#itqyskq) @ Reading stuff at the Anstalt you mean? Just noticed I haven't followed it for a long time now. Where's all my time gone? Right, twtxt and such… 2022-05-17T17:30:00+02:00 (#lakn2oq) @ Looking good, mate! :-) 2022-05-17T17:35:00+02:00 (#gioykcq) @ @ Turns out, this is actually a thing: https://www.keppeldatacentres.com/innovations/floating-data-centre-park/ 2022-05-23T11:00:00+02:00 Phew, our yearly big flea market this weekend is over. It was cancelled for obvious reasons in the last two years. We got donated a bit more material than usual I'd say. In the end the big multipurpose hall was packed like nothing. Every square centimeter on and below the tables was occupied with things. Residents donate all sorts of stuff they don't need anymore to our local scout group on Saturday and we go through it, sort it and sell it on Sunday to the general public. All profits go to our youth work.

[Some photos on the course of Saturday](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/flohmarktaufbau-2022-05-21/). Like always, sorting and preparing the "Bikes and more" and "Garden" sections outside after closing on the pre-sorting area took way beyond dark and through the night. I forgot to take pictures yesterday.

![Material delivery area outside](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/flohmarktaufbau-2022-05-21/05.jpg) 2022-05-23T11:15:00+02:00 (#itqyskq) @ Ah, I see. Sounds good, will check it out later. Yes, the show is always a downer on the mood. 2022-05-23T11:30:00+02:00 (#sstu4eq) @ I'm happy to see some rain. On Friday we were surprised with a [very quickly rolling in thunderstorm with heavy rain](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/flohmarktaufbau-2022-05-20/). But luckily, no material delivered yet, so not a problem for us. So we watched the open-air pool visitors across the street fleeing in a hurry.

![Heavy rain](https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/flohmarktaufbau-2022-05-20/04.jpg) 2022-05-23T11:45:00+02:00 @ I suppose [your bitcask implementation](https://git.mills.io/prologic/bitcask) is a Go version of [Basho's "original bitcask" in Erlang](https://github.com/basho/bitcask)? 2022-05-23T12:00:00+02:00 (#2vspqoa) And now [the report has one photo](https://dpsg-salach.de/2022/40-floh-und-troedelmarkt-ein-voller-erfolg/) where quite a lot of stuff is already sold. 2022-05-24T22:00:00+02:00 (#mqmqiwa) @ Cool, thanks! 2022-05-24T22:30:00+02:00 (#2vspqoa) Whoops, I just noticed the article's image link was broken and fixed it.

Well, I'd say most things are still in good shape and reusable, @. But some people abuse us as large trash collectors, that's for sure. There is always a looooot of decoration crap, that most of us don't value ourselves, but it sells like hot cakes, so we don't mind it too much. :-) I'm in charge of the electronics department and most things work, but we threw away a few things right away, because they were complete garbage. On the other hand, some machines were even never used once and came in their original packaging. So you have the complete spectrum.

That also goes for the customers. Most are super nice and few even give you more than you charged. Of course haggling is key and everybody tries to get a good deal. "It's for a good cause" is a trick to get people to finally accept your higher price request every time (if it's not too far away from what they want). I never experienced sb. declining that in all the years. ;-)

But you also have the complete asshole that tries to shamelessly bargain the crap out of you and often are successful in pulling young cub scouts over the barrel, who of course have no idea what something is really worth (and a buck is quite a lot for them). Well, even we grown-ups often have no clue about the real value. You won't believe how many times I heard "but that's really all I have" by wheeler-dealers and after some time they accidentally find some more coins in their pockets. Surprise! And then there are also the thieves. We watched like hawks, but a smartphone was stolen regardless in the first 20 minutes or so. And probably a few other things as well, we didn't even notice.

But all in all, most people are great to deal with. The bad bunch are a very small minority, it's just that the unpleasant situations sink deeper into memory. But the good thing is that you know them inside out the next year and can act appropriately. 2022-05-24T22:45:00+02:00 (#sstu4eq) @ Yeah, nothing really to worry about here, too. 2022-05-24T23:00:00+02:00 Finally, went through the [photos from one and a half weeks ago](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-11/). Still a lot of other days left to sort, including today.

![High voltage line on a green meadow with blue sky](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-11/01.jpg) 2022-05-24T23:15:00+02:00 It was very humid and hot at our quick forest hike on [Thursday last week](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-19/). The announced thunderstorm didn't struck, but rain was definitely a thing in the distance.

![Caterpillar](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-19/05.jpg) 2022-05-25T21:15:00+02:00 (#fwsqfgq) @ Ta! 2022-05-26T16:00:00+02:00 (#w3pw2vq) I would say it was just about five centimeters long, @, so quite a normal size. :-) Oh wow, I didn't know that. Crazy! Completely sick how some specializations work out. 2022-05-26T16:15:00+02:00 (#7epxnhq) I had a long afternoon nap and can't emphasize enough, how great that was. 2022-05-26T16:30:00+02:00 (#2vspqoa) @ Yeah, decoration easily makes for about a quarter of the donations I reckon. We open at 9 o'clock and the first people lined up at 8:15. This time they didn't, but past years the literally ran into the hall when the doors opened. The one who unlocked had a dangerous job.

I'm pretty sure there are flea markets in your region, too. One train mate is a super active flea market vistitor and he went about every one or two weeks somewhere in my area. Most of them I also never heard of before. Granted, that was pre-corona, not sure if they all survived, but I imagine if you do a quick search, you will dig something up. 2022-05-29T08:45:00+02:00 (#l3nxvbq) @ Interesting! 2022-05-29T09:00:00+02:00 (#wcxw6eq) @ Oh no, that poor little guy got electrocuted! Nice work, though. :-) 2022-05-29T15:15:00+02:00 (#t3kh3xq) @ Yup, I fully agree with you, @. We're like a third world country in that regard. In big cities it's usually not too bad, but in more rural areas you're often centuries behind. I'm lucky that I cannot complain too much here about the service (except for the price). A [speed test](https://www.speedtest.net/de/) just revealed new all-time records: 56.72 Mbps download and 11.95 Mbps upload. I can't really believe that. 2022-05-29T15:30:00+02:00 (#3y3jmba) @ @ Of course parsec would be the desired unit! At least it did not select feet, miles, or shots, … [That's a fun list of units](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4ngenma%C3%9F). I always use `units 42inch cm` on the shell when converting. 2022-05-29T15:45:00+02:00 (#wcxw6eq) @ Yup, looks like this dog wanted to claim an electric fence. :-D 2022-05-29T21:00:00+02:00 The colors on the [day before yesterday's sunset](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-05-27/) were crazy as heck:

![Colorful sunset](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-05-27/01.jpg) 2022-05-29T21:15:00+02:00 (#3y3jmba) @ It took me also quite a long time to get introduced to it. You also probably want to use the `-t` or `--terse` flag to get a better output. Not sure why `--compact` and `--one-line` aren't the defaults. The only downside with this program is that you need to put fractions in parenthese and then quote the whole thing: `units -t '(3/8)inch' mm` 2022-05-29T21:30:00+02:00 (#wcxw6eq) @ Oh, I see! Whoops. :-) 2022-05-29T21:45:00+02:00 (#zmv3m3a) @ LOL! :-D 2022-05-29T23:00:00+02:00 Temperatures dropped to 12°C today. No complaints about that. Except that tomorrow they are supposed to climb back to 17°C and keep raising throughout the week. [My hike brought a nice spectacle](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-29/). I went up my mountain to spot a rain front coming in. At times it appeared quite apocalyptic with the dark clouds in the front and the bright sun in the background. What can I say, very gorgeous! Luckily, I decided to stay up top. I toyed with the idea to descent and seek shelter in a small hut-ish building. But in the end I covered my backpack with its protective shell and braved the wind and rain up top. The leaved trees made for good covers.

![Rainbow](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-29/15.jpg)

I met some dude when the rain hit and had a good chat with him for over an hour. We enjoyed the scenery from the lookout. And as you can see, we got rewarded with a super intense rainbow, that lasted for about 20 minutes. That's very rare. 2022-05-29T23:45:00+02:00 (#xbfjrma) I now follow your new feed, @, so I saw your answer only now. Yeah, the carrot is a "yellow turnip" in Swabian. You can also call it "Karotte", "Möhre" or "Mohrrübe" in German. In contrast to the first term, the latter three are understood by everybody I'd say. And the banana is simply a "Banane". I just wanted to highlight the weird naming of an orange thing called out yellow instead. 2022-05-30T00:15:00+02:00 (#3y3jmba) But only the quotes, not the parentheses, @. I'd like to write just `3/8inch`. I should create a bunch of shell functions to help with that. 2022-05-30T20:30:00+02:00 (#3y3jmba) @ With all these American crafts videos, fractions are unavoidable for me. I don't know the decimal equivalents for the more esoteric ones. 2022-05-30T20:45:00+02:00 (#dr7xy6a) @ Thank you! :-) 2022-05-30T21:00:00+02:00 (#dmrbuza) @ Ta, yep, that was a really, really nice one. 2022-05-30T21:15:00+02:00 Another [past walk](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-24/) last week:

![Mt. Stuifen nicely lit](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-05-24/12.jpg) 2022-05-31T21:45:00+02:00 (#3y3jmba) @ What barbarians! 7/13th of a frankenstein. 2022-05-31T22:00:00+02:00 (#ahhuydq) @ @ Thank you, mates! Correct, here the dirty lense helped to improve the effect. :-) 2022-05-31T22:15:00+02:00 (#kw3jp6a) @ I just glimpsed over the first one and they both went straight on my short term bucket list, thank you! 2022-05-31T22:30:00+02:00 (#ju5fgva) Hmm, what happened to @? That feed is gone for a few days now. Had it been relocated somewhere else? 2022-05-31T23:45:00+02:00 (#kw3jp6a) @ Crazy stuff, this sounds pretty cool! The details were a bit too much, so I ended up skipping the PDF, but the article was very good. 2022-05-31T23:55:00+02:00 (#ju5fgva) @ Too bad. :-( 2022-06-02T17:45:00+02:00 (#5vsxmma) @ @ It's fantastic, yes! Another one of my favorites addresses the so called Deppenleerzeichen – idiot's space. That's where a German compound noun is not spelled in one word or with a hyphen, but with a space instead. Just like the English language does it, but in German that's wrong. A phone shop once advertised "ohne Grund Gebühr" (fee for no reason) instead of "ohne Grundgebühr" (without basic fee). 2022-06-02T21:00:00+02:00 Yiha, the [second slow worm this year](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-02/)! \o/ They're just sooo cool. I'm now convinced they can sense when the camera is recording and then stop darting their tongue in and out. Whenever I paused, they started again. And it appears that tadpoles love bread like nothing else. Somebody had thrown in a few buns and they got attacked like there's no tomorrow. It kind of reminded me of the typical piranhas scenes in comic books.

![Slow worm enjoying the warmth radiating off the forest road](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-02/05.jpg) 2022-06-03T15:30:00+02:00 (#bn5mexa) @ Haha, I just saw that in my work e-mails, too. They had immediately shut it down. 2022-06-03T15:45:00+02:00 (#pkbh5oq) @ Interesting use cases. I never had the urge to do something like that. But I can see why that would be useful in some situations. 2022-06-03T16:00:00+02:00 (#5kfswta) @ [Absolutely](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_worm)! In fact it is neither a worm nor a snake, but a completely harmless legless lizzard. It's just the English name, that's misleading. The German "Blindschleiche" means "shiny anguidae". 2022-06-04T09:15:00+02:00 (#yf6xnsa) @ Is @mutefall back? :-) 2022-06-04T09:30:00+02:00 (#5kfswta) @ Weird indeed. :-) 2022-06-04T09:45:00+02:00 (#bp3lzda) @ Shouldn't be too long, next week at the latest. :-) 2022-06-05T09:30:00+02:00 (#bn5mexa) @ Oh, you were in charge of that. :-( Luckily, that fell into the responsibilities of some other department here. I just saw the mail before shutting down my work machine. 2022-06-05T09:45:00+02:00 (#kvrpbcq) @ Congratulation, mate! 2022-06-05T10:00:00+02:00 (#yf6xnsa) I see, @. I was just surprised that the disappearance happened so suddenly without any notice. Glad to see you again. :-) 2022-06-05T21:45:00+02:00 (#bn5mexa) @ Ah, you're the fire brigade. Speaking of fires, I noticed the other day that [Feuer und Flamme Staffel 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARCajqmj0IQ&list=PLO8lnEN5VWhNjlPH3xecE_tvGUsl7Cqbq) continued. Several hundred Confluences? Holy crap! Oh yes, it adds up quickly with that number of instances. 2022-06-05T22:00:00+02:00 (#kn77ziq) @ So somebody used `@all` and flooded peoples inboxes. Reminds me of my dayjob where this happens at least once every second week. Apparently, this cannot be disabled in GitLab. Somebody could have just made a fix for that, it would have been totally worth the time to get this going with our large user base. 2022-06-05T22:15:00+02:00 (#wjyzarq) @ I don't have issues with PulseAudio. But GTK always calls for trouble in my opinion. 2022-06-07T19:15:00+02:00 (#qjkntoq) @ Cuuute! 2022-06-07T19:30:00+02:00 (#ytajbra) @ Wow, what happened here!? Did you upgrade your internet connection or was the high resolution image just an oversight? Anyways, I approve, looking good! :-) 2022-06-07T19:45:00+02:00 (#3r5tkwa) @ You have to deliver a screensaver next. 2022-06-09T16:00:00+02:00 (#wfpuenq) @ @ Looks like our branch of the universe was not meant for production use. 2022-06-09T16:15:00+02:00 (#lgoljoa) @ I definitely prefer the original version. The edited version looks unreal. In the WRINT-Fotografie podcast they would call it Clownkotze. ;-) 2022-06-09T16:30:00+02:00 (#iil2ahq) @ Very nice! It's a shame we cannot zoom in. 2022-06-09T16:45:00+02:00 (#gsgbzsa) @ Bwahaahaaahaaaaa, you made my day! Brilliant. :-D 2022-06-09T17:00:00+02:00 (#wjyzarq) @ I started out with Delphi, then used Java AWT for a wee bit, but quickly switched to Java Swing. Since I didn't know much else, I was under the impression that Swing was super great with all the dynamic layouts, `GridBagLayout` in particular. I later tried Java SWT in one uni project. Can't remember whether I liked it more or less than Swing.

Finally, I discovered Qt and KDE. I had been a KDE user for a while already. Qt had a super great documentation. In a semester break I just started reading the docs for fun without any use in mind and then got instantly hooked. It was just very well written and it appeared as if it was designed by people who really knew what they were doing. I certainly did not get that feeling in the Java world. Shortly after I tried out Qt with C++, but quickly discovered that there was QtJambi for Java. Muuuuch easier. Quickly I found out that there are even Python bindings, so PyQt4 (or was it still 3?) was the holy grail. Totally convenient to use, most things could be just passed in the constructor arguments. No need to set things one by one with these annoying setters. You wouldn't believe how happy I was when discovering PyKDE. Native applications for my desktop environment of choice back then! \o/

But writing real GUIs (not mickey mouse kindergarden hello world GUIs) is always painful. I try to avoid it if possible. So far, quite successful. It's been several years now that I touched my last PyKDE code. I would have to port it to version 5 to get it going. 2022-06-09T17:15:00+02:00 (#bh6zoba) @ Really? I'm totally hooked. Sure, the damage isn't nice at all, but it just shows very authentically what the fire brigade does all day long in a big city. And in the end they're usually successful. This show is very well produced, no narration, just the footage and explanation by those who were involved. I like that calm approach very much.

@ WTF, crazy! I didn't suspect that they block it outside of Germany. In their Mediathek they remove it in a year. This is such a terrible public broadcasting system we're having. ]:-<

Yes, I'm really glad that we have all those volunteers and professionals. I couldn't do it. 2022-06-10T21:00:00+02:00 (#rg5d6ba) @ @ I just set my alarm clock to 7am UTC+2. 2022-06-10T22:00:00+02:00 Yesterday it was supposed to rain just a wee bit for a few minutes during our hike, [but the weather had other plans for us](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-09/). We got soaked instead. So we ran to seek shelter under some trees. Waiting there turned out to be our lucky day, we met two mates on their bikes who had the same plan. They were about to go mowing their lawn. Well.

![Next rain front about to hit](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-09/05.jpg)

Last week I brought a jumper and it was useless, since it was very warm and humid, more than I thought. Temperatures this week were the same, so I learned from the week before and left my jumper at home. Boy, I could have used it this time. When I arrived at home I was super cold. 2022-06-11T08:30:00+02:00 (#w6s4onq) Thank you for taking the notes, @! :-) It was really great fun talking to all of you. A very good start into the day. 2022-06-11T08:45:00+02:00 (#2g63vtq) @ I'm on Firefox with lots of stuff disabled. @ Now that's a cool project, thanks! 2022-06-11T09:00:00+02:00 (#5hy3hiq) @ Enjoy! The sea looks awesome, just the concrete towers are dulling the view. These are some nice large trees I have to say. Would not have expected those in the city in these quantities. Makes it much more scenic. I reckon it's too cold already to go for a swim, or is it? 2022-06-11T09:15:00+02:00 (#wjyzarq) @ @ Command line and text interfaces are often a lot better and all that one needs. I try to switch to CLI and TUI alternatives as much as possible. 2022-06-11T12:30:00+02:00 (#pmjvurq) @ We can try next week. ;-) 2022-06-11T12:45:00+02:00 (#5hy3hiq) @ Cool, have fun! Not too long and you'll be sweating again. ;-) @ LOL :-D 2022-06-11T13:00:00+02:00 @ Oh wow, I [never heard of that](https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2022-06-11/0/POSTING-en.html). Very interesting findings! 2022-06-11T15:30:00+02:00 (#abmjeva) @ I bet you were! :-D What a relief. 2022-06-11T15:45:00+02:00 Been [out in the woods yesterday](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-10/) reading a book about common animals in gardens. The silence was super great.

![Pine along other trees](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-10/04.jpg) 2022-06-11T16:00:00+02:00 (#bh6zoba) @ Yeah, I can totally understand that fear. Would be same with me. How big was the damage on the neighboring tower? I assume people were not harmed at least? 2022-06-11T16:15:00+02:00 (#n5gekkq) @ The simulation of thinking hard could be considered cheating, yes. But cheating is such a hard term, at least it's not super straight, that's for sure. I can't tell if I would have told the interviewer, that I thought about that question the other day, though. 2022-06-11T17:45:00+02:00 (#bxyjheq) @ Oh, this is really interesting. I didn't know that lead is white. I'm totally surprised! Never would have guessed that. 2022-06-11T18:05:00+02:00 (#fxxj3ta) @ These are some super great shots, I love them! :-) Wasps are cool (but also cruel if you think about it). I'm not sure whether introducing a new wasp species really helps or causes much more trouble in the long run. I fear the latter. 2022-06-11T18:15:00+02:00 (#2hlggeq) @ I still use Atom and RSS feeds. But I also don't understand that browsers now need extensions to do something useful with these feeds. The mind just boggles. 2022-06-11T18:30:00+02:00 (#nzo3dmq) @ Ta! Yup, we had good lighting. 16 and 17 remind me of steppe. The African elephant is right around the corner. 2022-06-12T11:00:00+02:00 (#visi7ma) @ Newsboat brought me there first. ;-) I knew you could base64-encode images pretty much everywhere. However, I was not aware of the fact that this bookmarks file format is such a mess. 2022-06-12T11:15:00+02:00 (#y3bilva) @ Thanks, will have a look later! 2022-06-12T11:30:00+02:00 (#bh6zoba) @ I'd say the water damage and horrible smell are the worst that affect others. Good thing we have fire detecters everywhere, so chances are that such desasters are prevented or reduced. 2022-06-12T12:45:00+02:00 Hahaahaaa, came across this one: https://scrolller.com/nature-is-cool-a01vremory 2022-06-12T14:00:00+02:00 Holy smokes, this is some beautiful engineering porn! [Marius Hornberger designs and build a tool changer for his CNC router](https://youtu.be/ZeOUdosoEBM) 2022-06-12T14:15:00+02:00 (#2hlggeq) I agree with you, my friends. A lot of teenagers these days only have a smartphone but not a real computer. If something doesn't exist in their social media bubble, it's not real. Even e-mail seems to slowly die off in that generation. At least that's what I see in my circle of acquaintences. 2022-06-12T21:30:00+02:00 (#npaayha) I agree with you, @. It's a waste of resources. We do not need to know it this accurately. Even [for NASA 15 decimal places were enough in 2016](https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article153492167/Mit-so-vielen-Pi-Nachkommastellen-rechnet-die-Nasa.html). [In 2013, astronomer Florian Freistetter wrote that 38 digits after the decimal point were enough for the observable universe](https://scienceblogs.de/astrodicticum-simplex/2013/02/25/pi-mehr-als-39-stellen-sind-luxus/) to calculate its volume and have an error smaller than the diameter of a hydrogen atom. Not sure if this has changed a lot since then. I reckon with a hundred decimal places you're more than covered. 2022-06-12T21:45:00+02:00 (#2hlggeq) @ Haha, yes, mostly disjoint from my universe, too. ;-) 2022-06-13T22:00:00+02:00 Holy fuck, I pressed the trigger 577 times today. No wonder my battery flattened and I couldn't capture five deers and one fox anymore on my return. 2022-06-13T23:30:00+02:00 (#dgj5qvq) @ Indeed. [Kept 60 of them](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-13/):

![Not a crash, hot-air balloon gets deflated after landing](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-13/57.jpg)

It's crazy how loud these mowers can be. The noises resounded from 1.5 km away to the summit like they were only a few meters away.

As it turns out, the tree in question covered in ivy from a few weeks or even months back is a cherry (34 & 35). 2022-06-14T22:45:00+02:00 Today only a [short stroll in the woods](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-14/). I came across a barking deer.

![Deer in the distance at the woodland margin looking at you!](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-14/01.jpg)

The sunset started really lame but quickly turned into a pretty colorful spectacle. At least three quarter of the photos turned out utterly useless, since the auto-focus totally fucked up again. That's almost never the case with the old camera (unless lighting sucks). Observed this quite a lot with this one, even happens every now and then in superb lighing conditions. :-( 2022-06-14T23:00:00+02:00 (#dgj5qvq) @ Ta! Yes, it was quite cool seeing this flying vehicle land. I haven't seen a lot of landings, maybe like three or so. Especially not from above. 2022-06-14T23:15:00+02:00 (#y5wdwaa) @ I'm using both in all of my Atom feeds, too. Although I don't really get, why the self link is recommended. Feed readers store their fetch URL anyways. The only advantage I see is if people open downloaded feed files on their local machines, they can directly see where they originated from. Yeah, I doubt as well, that this happens on a regular basis. :-? 2022-06-15T18:00:00+02:00 (#k2f3dea) @ I wasted about one and a half to two hours yesterday night watching these videos. Was super tired today morning. 2022-06-15T18:15:00+02:00 (#itqyskq) @ Yup, very good show! In fact I watched it weeks ago, but didn't reply back right away. Super great stories, absolutely hillarious! One thing I have to complain about is the audio, it's not mixed very well. When they were yarning in between their reading sessions, they (esp. Jochen) moved away from the mic, making it harder to hear. Increasing the volume helped of course, until they leaned forward and then it became too loud. 2022-06-15T18:30:00+02:00 (#rpofvqa) @ I only had a quick look and this is all in no particular order:

1. I'm sure `go fmt` would add a space after the comment marker `//`.
2. Go doc strings are supposed to start with the name of the variable etc (I'm not a fan of this, either).
3. Sometimes `log.SetPrefix(…)` ends with a space, sometimes not.
4. Some messages start capital, some don't.
5. Typo: `occurred` with double `r`.
6. On lots of errors no appropriate status code is set.
7. Some `err` can be scoped in the `if` like that: `if err := foo(); err != nil { … }`
8. The ``s could be improved.
9. I have no idea about redis, but `rclient.Set("user:"+username, …)` looks suspicious to me and reminds me of SQL injections.
10.
```go
cookie, err := r.Cookie("session_token")
if err != nil {
 if err == http.ErrNoCookie { … return }
}
```
doesn't look complete. Also handle other errors? Or simplify without nil check. 2022-06-15T18:45:00+02:00 (#zmnaddq) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> Sounds like a good plan. Weather is getting hot over here with 29°C. Yikes! 22°C at your end is much more suitable to be active outside. 2022-06-16T09:00:00+02:00 (#itqyskq) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> So did their audio technician. :-D One day I need to read up on that. 2022-06-16T09:15:00+02:00 (#hpwdcka) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> This is looking really nice! I'd love to have this over here, but temperatures are going nuts already. 2022-06-16T14:45:00+02:00 (#v5gz42q) @<novaburst https://twt.nfld.uk/user/novaburst/twtxt.txt> Very clean looking, I like that. 2022-06-16T15:30:00+02:00 (#itqyskq) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> Oh yes, that's also my all-time favorite! :'-D 2022-06-17T14:00:00+02:00 (#o6fh4wa) @<off_grid_living https://twtxt.net/user/off_grid_living/twtxt.txt> That's a cool contraption, nice! Is the platform a car roof rack? I also like the idea of using the lownmower as the cable trolley. 2022-06-17T14:15:00+02:00 (#k2f3dea) There ya go, @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arBgEMfzfl8 It's so absurd, just amazing! :-D 2022-06-17T15:30:00+02:00 I knew that locale handling is very difficult, but [this older article on language and locale matching in Go](https://go.dev/blog/matchlang) was an eye-opener. First, I completely forgot there are three-letter language codes and I never heard of script and sorting variants being part of language tags (was just aware of encodings). Also, never thought about the complex fallback calculation, e.g. that for Afrikaans Dutch would be a good candidate. Or instead of Norwegian Danish would be pretty good. Azerbaijani has three possible scripts, oh wow! So many new small things I learned today, very cool. 2022-06-17T15:45:00+02:00 (#zteh76a) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> [Have](https://golangdocs.com/json-with-golang) a [look here](https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/branch/main/internal/session/session.go#L29). And I headed you're using JS, so are you sure you're also sending it correctly? ]:-> 2022-06-17T20:00:00+02:00 (#6c2wigq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> I would love to as well! 2022-06-17T20:15:00+02:00 (#7f4acja) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> I'm sure you will love it. :-) 2022-06-17T22:30:00+02:00 (#omdhkrq) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> Just came across [Juzzie Smith](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP4bhTMK5f0): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkJTmwHdOjo 2022-06-18T09:15:00+02:00 (#b6537wq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<ocdtrekkie https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt> @<mckinley https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt> Oh shoot, I completely forgot today's Saturday! But looks like you had some good fun. :-) 2022-06-18T09:30:00+02:00 (#vyeupqa) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> Yeah, it's a joke. But you know, this way the valuable trash doesn't getting rained on. 2022-06-18T09:45:00+02:00 (#omdhkrq) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> And if the drop was programmed in?! 2022-06-18T14:30:00+02:00 (#x5he5ga) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> Crazy! Never seen anything like that either. I don't want to trade with Will, no way I could have a camera go up my nose and then even down my throat. 2022-06-18T22:00:00+02:00 (#omdhkrq) The [Norwegian band Katzenjammer is absolutely brilliant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMYh4xrqwMM). I didn't know all the songs in this show, when I first ran across them, their repertoire wasn't that big yet. Unfortunately, I think they don't exist anymore. :-( 2022-06-18T22:15:00+02:00 (#k2f3dea) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Yeah, some parts weren't super amazing, but the story he came with in the end was super ridiculous. :-) 2022-06-18T22:30:00+02:00 (#nbt66eq) Thanks for [your recommendation](https://github.com/emersion/go-ical), @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>, I ended up going with it. Due to a parser panic I found a bug in one of my own iCalendar generators. The start date was announced as a `DATE` only, but in fact a complete timestamp including time and timezone was written instead (`DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230106T000000Z` rather than `DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230106`). This parser didn't like that. To my defense, the [validator](https://icalendar.org/validator.html) did not report anything and approved of my ical file, though. 2022-06-18T22:45:00+02:00 (#b6537wq) I will try my best. :-) 2022-06-18T23:00:00+02:00 (#u5z6zeq) Future is not looking good at all, @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt>. 36°C tomorrow. Luckily, with the shutters nearly all rolled down I'll have about twentysomething°C inside. But that's not gonna last for long, I'm sure. :-( 2022-06-18T23:15:00+02:00 (#x5he5ga) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> Compared to what we've seen with the nasal throat cam, MRT is super boring. ;-) Getting used to something makes it very hard to go back. 2022-06-19T10:00:00+02:00 (#zqpybaa) @<ullarah https://txt.quisquiliae.com/user/ullarah/twtxt.txt> This is great! :-D 2022-06-19T19:00:00+02:00 (#ni4epua) I just ran across this one. I'm loving it! https://images.scrolller.com/atto/old-hand-planar-ejtbsjcpxm.png 2022-06-19T20:00:00+02:00 (#ni4epua) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> It's an x-ray through a metal hand plane. :-) 2022-06-19T20:15:00+02:00 (#k3ia6na) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> I've done that in the past myself. Absolutely perfect. 2022-06-20T16:00:00+02:00 (#zb3bqra) @<off_grid_living https://twtxt.net/user/off_grid_living/twtxt.txt> Wow, quite impressive! That's really high. 2022-06-21T23:15:00+02:00 Four deer, some goats, a nice sunset, one butterfly, about a hundred fireflies and again four (probably the same) deer. Going for a [walk this evening](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-21/) was a very good decision, that's for sure.

![Not too shabby sunset](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-21/05.jpg) 2022-06-21T23:30:00+02:00 (#kyd6xga) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> How adorable! :-) 2022-06-21T23:45:00+02:00 (#y5gvurq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> A white cable snake! 2022-06-22T00:00:00+02:00 (#gmapzba) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Wow, it actually fits in. When it tried to climb in, I thought that it will never make it. 2022-06-22T00:15:00+02:00 (#7bxttyq) @<off_grid_living https://twtxt.net/user/off_grid_living/twtxt.txt> Once you're finished you're having a solid base to start for a watch tower. :-) 2022-06-22T18:30:00+02:00 (#2cgljcq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Ta, it really was! 2022-06-22T21:15:00+02:00 (#7bxttyq) @<off_grid_living https://twtxt.net/user/off_grid_living/twtxt.txt> You just need to make sure that the enormous sail is well anchored. 2022-06-22T21:30:00+02:00 (#ovmya4a) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> Absolutely! Enjoy the nice greenery. 2022-06-23T23:00:00+02:00 Today, I [brought my camera along once again](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-23/). Right at the beginning I saw my first slow worm of the day, the second one on my way home.

![First encountered slow worm heading into safety](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-23/02.jpg)

The tadpole pond was nearly empty. When approaching it, hundreds of not even fingernail sized frogs or toads were jumping towards me. I knew, that there are larger fish in the pond, but I've only heard them so far, never seen them. Until today. At least five large individuals about 30-40 centimeters in length. One might have been even half a meter long.

Banning dragonflies on film is nearly impossible. 11 is the "best" result, not only can you see its shadow, but also its head at the very top. When going home I saw six deer in total at the woodland margins. Spending two hours at the pond was absolutely worth it. 2022-06-23T23:15:00+02:00 (#qrnc2ga) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> Looking great! :-) Cooling off in the shade at the windy beach is the only thing you can do right now. Maybe even jumping in to accelerate cooling. 2022-06-23T23:30:00+02:00 (#6rcy4bq) @<off_grid_living https://twtxt.net/user/off_grid_living/twtxt.txt> Nice! Maybe you need a second one of your moving platforms. Or install two cables from one end to the other and then roll your wire netting over them. 2022-06-23T23:45:00+02:00 (#ovmya4a) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> Oh, cool! So this is a park then? 2022-06-24T00:00:00+02:00 (#ompze4q) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> Oh yeah, a long leave sounds awesome. Enjoy! How long will you be able to do just what you want to?

My workday didn't went so smoothly for me. When implementing tests for a hotfix I refactored some test helpers and then found out that a mock structure was wrongly implemented for ages. After fixing it, three tests failed. Two could be solved by fixing the test setups. But the third test failure turned out to be even another severe bug in one of our production code functions. Good old nil pointer dereference panics. Somebody thought it's a good idea to rewrite `(nil, ErrNotFound)` of type `(*Data, error)` to `(nil, nil)`. After handling the returned error in the caller (in this case, there was no error anymore) nobody had the possible nil pointer on their radar. Bad design. To be reworked in the future after bringing the hotfix on its way.

I then also found another inconsistency of our storage implementations. When removing something that does not exist, some return `nil`, some `ErrNotFound` instead. Oh dear. This will cause some aftermath, I tell you.

At least all of those side quests didn't happen in the wild yet. 2022-06-24T16:00:00+02:00 (#ptj743q) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> They totally do! :-) But they can detach their tail if in danger. 2022-06-25T03:00:00+02:00 Sorry folks, can't make it to today's call. :-( 2022-06-26T20:00:00+02:00 (#uhyhhea) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Very nice! On my way home I rode my bike a long detour through the forest and came across the former padpole pond. Your pieceful picture just reminded me of that. 2022-06-26T20:15:00+02:00 (#ptj743q) @<darch https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt> lol, at least it looks like to the untrained eye, mine included. :-) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> Super tiny, yes. When I checked today, I couldn't see a size difference. 2022-06-27T21:45:00+02:00 (#l3sxj7a) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> Cool, so you're now getting fresh eggs each morning? :-) Building stuff always takes way longer than expected. Especially if you're getting baked like an egg by sun. At least down here, yesterday was very brutal. I assume it wasn't much different at your place. 2022-06-27T22:00:00+02:00 (#fdpyt2a) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> Holy fuck, this is incredible! Much more amazing [than here](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-06-27/)!

![Sunset](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2022-06-27/04.jpg) 2022-06-28T17:30:00+02:00 (#wluz5ga) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> One has to be lucky, that's for sure, yes. And when seeing such a nice one, one is definitely lucky and happy. :-) 2022-06-28T17:45:00+02:00 (#fdpyt2a) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> @<ionores https://twtxt.net/user/ionores/twtxt.txt> These numbers are like rolling a dice. I only know the folk saying "Morgenrot, schlecht Wetter droht" – "Red sunrise impends bad weather". Not sure, though, whether there are any scientific data to back it up or not. The only country lore that's always true is: "Wenn der Hahn kräht auf dem Mist, ändert sich's Wetter oder es bleibt wie es ist" – "When the cock crows on the dung heap, the weather changes or stays the same". 2022-06-28T18:00:00+02:00 (#l3sxj7a) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> I usually only use eggs for baking or fry them for potatoes and spinach. @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Why don't you have them anymore? Did the fox get them all when the door didn't close in time? ]:-> 2022-06-28T21:00:00+02:00 I never heard of [pop-pop boats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AXupc7oE-g) before, pretty interesting toy. 2022-06-29T22:00:00+02:00 (#itgqqpq) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> Bloody gorgeous, mate! \o/ Super great shots, I have to say. :-) Somehow your URLs for the small and large versions completely differ. Is that on purpose? Also, an important hint for others: I just found out by accident that the directory listing will show more pictures. Totally worth to manually go up (or use your browser's shortcut support, if possible).

Today, I decided to [take some photos again on my way in the woods](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-29/). Couldn't be bothered the last two days. It was too humid and I leaked like crazy. Surprisingly, I went outside, though.

![Sunset](https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2022-06-29/08.jpg) 2022-06-29T22:15:00+02:00 (#qfy2tvq) @<novaburst https://twt.nfld.uk/user/novaburst/twtxt.txt> @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> How I deal with that? I have a large lightning protector tree in front of the house! Just need to hope that it doesn't crash into the roof once it gets a strike.

Other than that I don't have a good strategy either. Since I don't use 2FA and have some hard passwords memorized, I might be able to recover some data/accounts, but definitely not all. Have to come up with a suitable battle plan in the future. 2022-06-29T22:30:00+02:00 (#qpudoia) @<carsten https://yarn.zn80.net/user/carsten/twtxt.txt> I agree, error handling often takes up much more than the happy path. My first work mate hammered that into me right at the beginning of my work life. Even if you don't think that something can fail, chances are it still might. So always be safe than sorry. This attitude quickly proofed to be correct. Sure enough, I ran into – and luckily handled – errors that were initially thought to be impossible. I'm very grateful for these valuable lessons. 2022-06-29T22:45:00+02:00 (#lffl6gq) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I see. 2022-06-29T23:00:00+02:00 (#evhawbq) When looking at the starting image I thought there was a Festool plunge-cut saw guide rail ([Tauchsägenführungsschiene](https://festoolcdn.azureedge.net/productmedia/Images/jpg_large/117fccbf-25ee-11e5-80cf-005056b31774_1600_1066.jpg)). :-)