Hi, I'm Dominik Schwind, friend of the internet. And this is my blog.
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Sleep Review, November 25th to to 26th, 2025: Weird, as it has been the last few nights. On paper more than enough sleep, my body feels pretty awake and rested.
But oh boy, am I having a lot of weird dreams lately. Not nightmares, really. Not really dreams I can remember after waking up. But dreams that really exhaust my mental energy. I wake up and the idea that I should have any coherent thought during that day seems preposterous.
So, yeah. 3/10
How do you nice people reading my blog handle your Github account(s)?
I’ve had my “main” account @lostfocus for ages and used it for pretty much everything I needed to do on Github. Now with my current employer our accounts are put into the SSO system, so I created a second account which went through a couple of names until I changed it in a (probably futile) attempt to look professional to just my name.
But I already know how this will end up – my .gitconfig still has an email address for the other account and now confusingly my work repos have commits from both accounts. And of course I wonder what will happen when the account is being removed from the SSO system. Hm.
How do you do it?
Do you have one account for everything?
Do you have one account for your stuff and one for work?
Do you create a new account every time you have a new employer?
Another calm-ish week. It’s dark, grey and cold as Novembers tend to be. The result is that my brain went into a weird waiting mode even though I should probably be starting to think about Christmas and finding some gifts. It’s just a few weeks away now.
I’m slightly sorry that you got a bunch of my old posts if you are following this blog via ActivityPub/Mastodon/… – I was just moving them to a different category and it seems like that was deemed worthy of an update by the ActivityPub plugin.
Irgendwann hat das Algorithmus von YouTube gedacht, ich müsse Manhunt Bangkok schauen. Ein großes Räuber-und-Gendarm-Spiel für “Influencer” in Bangkok. Irgendwie sind diese Art von YouTube-Serien wie 7 vs. Wild an mir vorbeigegangen und ganz ehrlich: wäre es eine andere Stadt hätte ich vermutlich auch nicht reingeklickt.
Und obwohl alles irgendwie dezent trashy ist, habe ich das ganze Ding an einem Wochenende gebinged.
Seit zwei Wochen läuft nun die neue Staffel, diesmal in New York, und wenn man sich für dumme Reality-Formate begeistern lässt, ist es schon auch echt spannend. Und auf jeden Fall mit viel Arbeit und Liebe zum Detail gemacht.
Two weeks into the SailNavSim Jules Verne Trophy the field starts to spread out. Something tells me I’ll not be in the very front once the race ends.
You know what? I didn’t even take out the garbage.
(As in: put the bin out. I took the garbage from my flat to the bin and the bin is still empty enough to wait for another circle.)
I’m not even sure what to think about this week.
Bad and good news from friends.
A grey uniform light from morning to the way too early evening.
I think that’s what the youths call liminal – everything feels like it is between two points and I’m just passing through.
Meanwhile in media consumption: I gave Pluribus a try. Not for me. (And just to shock everyone around: that might be in general a Vince Gilligan thing. I also never managed to get into Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul.)
The Taskmaster finale was very Taskmaster-y. A few good tasks, a few middling ones, a very weird end to the series. In general I liked the tasks a lot more than in the preceding series.
I started a rewatch of Cheers. Makes me want to find a bar where everybody knows my name. But maybe better not.
I didn’t take a single photo all week. So while I’m writing this, I don’t know what to do about the OpenGraph image for this weeknote, yet.
I don’t even know why I bother – it’s not like that image shows up anywhere besides in link previews. And as part of the ActivityPub payload.
Haha, it was week 45.
For once I’d be quite happy with a boring, normal week in which I have nothing to talk about. Maybe next week? The most exciting entry on my calendar for next week is a reminder to take out the garbage.
Work-wise things keep being slightly irritating and often just weird.
Yesterday was a tour-de-force: a whole bunch of family got up really early, headed eastwards to Chur in Switzerland to take the Bernina Express. Sadly the most scenic parts with the Landwasser Viaduct were closed for renovations but the Engadin valley was rather pretty as well. All in all with traveling back home it was an 18 hour train joy ride, which, as nice as it was, was rather taxing. So today I didn’t do much besides lounging around and watching YouTube.
Remember last week, when I was all relaxed and in a good mood? Yeah, that changed pretty quickly. Certain changes at work managed to give me such a mood-backlash that come Wednesday morning I finally made a decision that I’ve been putting off for quite a while.
So now the rubicon has been crossed, let’s see what the future brings.
Remember back in the day when I talked about SailNavSim? For some reason I started playing it again last week and lo and behold, the guy who runs the game has opened an around-the-world race starting next Sunday. Luckily without the anxiety-inducing “celestial navigation” mode, so hey, why not join the race? It’s a pretty fun browser game, easy to learn, difficult to master and with low time commitment. (unless you really want to get into it)
Just because I keep forgetting it: the URL parameter to have the WordPress router redirect you to the proper permalink is p as in: https://website.example/?p=12345
What a good week – I mostly spent it right next to a pretty lake or overlooking it. Having a lot of pizza and pasta and more Aperol Spritz, Limoncello Spritz, Peroni and Ichnusa than I can count. (To be honest: counting got a bit complicated after a while.)
Add a few small walks, a little shopping trip and a lot of good conversations and all in all this was a pretty, pretty good week.
Ah, yes. Sunday again.
So far a lazy one – there was a big family gathering yesterday with a lot of food (so much food) and good conversations all around.
And that nice day couldn’t have come too soon – the work week was especially frustrating and draining. A lot of poking around in the dark and sometimes it is hard to find a specific bug if nobody seems to know which of the things that look like bugs are actually features.
Oh well. Better week ahead.
I almost forgot how to write these.
On Monday morning my roomba (which isn’t a roomba) managed to ram itself under my couch. It usually doesn’t fit underneath the strut in the front, but sometimes, with just enough speed, it can get it. And of course it won’t get out and just beep sadly.
Apparently that was annoying enough that I made a bullet point of it in my Obsidian daily note.
On the weekend I went up into the mountains, a bit of hiking with the family. That was good fun even though it was obvious, once again, that everyone else in my family is in much better shape to run up and down mountains. That includes my 70-year-old mother and my five year old niece.
I did see some deer, though. A lot of cows. And a bunch of goats. (Meanwhile my roomba (which isn’t a roomba) managed to eat my camera charger while I was away and was sending me sad push messages.)
Every time I play around with ActivityPub I get a bit of an headache. And my respect for @pfefferle grows that he can handle that and WordPress. (Also: I wonder if this link to his profile translates into a mention.)