LostFocus

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 directly influenced by humans and by open windows? (Yes, everybody. Including me. But now I have nice little lines in my browser to see it in almost real-time.) Reply by email

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 museums with my nieces and my brother-in-law, which was rather fun. So all in all a rather successful weekend. Successful enough that I managed to completely forget what happened during the four days before that. Which might be more of a…

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 tell myself) that it isn’t primarily about me but about the medium. Not many people I know in real life are looking at websites for fun.I guess more people would read/look at my stuff if I sent it out by…

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 the motivation to delete (or at least consolidate) what is sitting around. Good grief. And in case you haven’t seen those, yet – I decided to turn the four videos I took during my vacation public: Reply by email

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. Reply by email

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.) Reply by email

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 underwhelming but still, a good reason to be out for a while after work and hang. Reply by email

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 […]

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. So I spent most of my days […]

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 is Monday and already the week of the […]

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 quite different from the usual European ones I read. […]

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 blog posts. It’s […]

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 keeping score) things […]

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