Lately (as in the last six months, I’d guess) I have really intense dreams every couple of nights. Not nightmares or action-packed adventures, just dreams that feel very real with people who seem like well-rounded persons. Days after these nights are always a bit weird, especially when the grey weather turns the daylight dull and reality seems less real than the dream I just had.
And while some locations keep reappearing – there’s a valley and a city that are settings again and again – the people never do. My brain is smart enough to not put them into long-term memory, so by the afternoon they’re usually gone for good. But for a short while in the morning the memory is still fresh and I get to be sad about the fact that I’ll never hang out with these friends again, as unreal as they might be.
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Maybe I should just schedule meetings all day on Mondays. Apparently it’s not a good day to write code.
Hello internet friends,
I just had a nice little walk in the forest and for a moment I was wondering if I should just stay there. But then I started to want some coffee and the plan went right out of the window.
I did touch some grass though and that’s why I won’t yell about the whole ActivityPub bridge kerfuffle (Roy Tang said it much better than I could so anyway) or the fact that Apple is messing with my PWAs. (I’ll let Jeremy Keith do that.)
Let’s look at apes instead. They’re basically the same as us anyway: Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study finds.
Meanwhile chatbots aren’t like us. Well, they are like us in the way that we also sometimes give out wrong information because we don’t know any better and then the company we work for tries to blame us as a separate legal entity instead of looking at their internal processes.
This week I was hanging out with the boys and I took a couple of photos and that was all very nice. But now I don’t know what to do with these photos. Put them on Flickr? Lol.
Anyway, enough for this week. Time to hang out on the couch and look at camper vans that I’m not going to buy.
Take care! Toodles!
More than anything I’d like to have LinkedIn on the fediverse. Native or via a bridge. Thought leadership and business thinking are important voices missing in the open dialogue.
(hihihi)
Hm.
Wow, a lot of people take websites a little bit too serious.
Dear reader: I woke up even earlier than my alarm clock and then I couldn’t get back to sleep. Great start to a day that will be very long.
I just realized I have to get up really early tomorrow.
Hello internet friends,
another pretty calm week here, I had some raclette, I went to a small Symfony conference/meetup thing and now it’s Sunday.
Turns out it is not possible to have a DDos botnet running on hacked WiFi-enabled toothbrushes.
I really like the little Jimnys already and what DAMD does with them is even funnier.
This timeline of 20 years of Flickr makes me a bit sad. It shows just how short the actually good times of Flickr were and how long ago it was. Oh well.
Anyway, time to find some breakfast.
Take care!
Toodles!
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment.
This morning it was With Every Heartbeat from Robyn with Kleerup
I should know better than to think “This is going to be a nice calm workday.” in the morning. This reliably jinxes the whole day.
Hello internet friends,
I’m writing this very early in the morning, somehow my sleep schedule is torturing me lately. Besides that there’s not much to report from my glamorous life.
I did spend a bit of time with my blog this week. My Morning Earworm category has a new archive page now. And I installed a broken link checker plugin. Oh boy. A lot of links from the last 20 years are broken.
After reading this review of Arc Search by Ben Werdmuller I was wondering: do people who write apps like these actually like the web? And if not, isn’t creating a browser or a web search a bit of a bummer?
Meanwhile the Chinese are getting really creative when it comes to spying on the Indians. At least the Indians think so: Indian police clear a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after 8 months in bird lockup.
It is important to have hobbies. And it is time for me to find a new one. Maybe tunneling could be it?
That’s it for this week – take care!
Toodles!
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment.
This morning it was Smoko by The Chats
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment.
This morning it was Live With Dignity by Tom Green.
(Hey, at least it wasn’t The Bum Bum Song (“Lonely Swedish”))