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Source: earlyretirementextreme.com Something about “Big on methods, poor on fundamentals.” stuck with me. It appears to me that this is a factor on why I’m often getting stuck and/or don’t find lasting solution anymore. I’ve given in to the ease of “buying” solutions versus understanding the problem and developing solutions. Gotta think first, go back to understanding the problem and investigating my own solutions before just jumping the gun on someone elses fixes that usually abstract the fundamentals away.

1000 Days My blog has been pretty dead lately. Although I have the goal of writing one blog entry a month, I keep on pushing this task due to various reasons. And even with COVID, my life got busier than ever before. During these intense, but fun, days I got reminded by an app on my phone about one big thing, this being: Exactly one thousand days ago I decided to not consume any alcohol, nicotine, or (for the sake of completeness) any other drug anymore.

Happy new year and a good start into the 21st century twenties A healthy and awesome start into the new year to everyone! As the new decade begins, many people tend to set themselves additional new years resolutions. I thoroughly don’t believe in this particular tradition. But I believe in kicking bad habits - independently from any specific day of a year. So I did. And encourage everyone to do the same.

April, 2019. 49 years after its premiere on the photography market, I decided to purchase a Mamiya RB 67. Whilst I already had experience with medium format TLRs (the WZFO Start-B), which we had acquired for a vintage wedding of one of my closest friends, and which sparked my interested in analogue photography, it turned out that the Mamiya RB 67 is a completely different beast. Capable of pictures rivalling modern digital cameras in look and detail.

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Recently one of my best friends married, and I took the honor of being his best man. The wedding took place in a historical franconian castle. The pairs wish was that all the guests follow the theme “vintage”. This being a very broad theme, I decided to follow the rules and buy some ol fashioned clothes/a old fashioned suite, to be as appropriately dressed as possible. During my research I stumbled over some old footage, and eventually decided to actually purchase a old film camera.

My daily commute to work includes walking a beautiful strip of berlin roads. Namely: Prinzenstraße, and its side-, and crossroads. I pass a lot of green until I reach our office (from Moritzplatz to Gitschinerstraße), conveniently located next to a brothel and close to Prinzenstraße U-Bahn Station, in one of the rear courtyard of a Gitschiner Straße building (luckily freshly renovated). However, this beautiful path is frequently destroyed by what I encounter there….

Sunday is Golangday will be a new series of golang related learnings of mine. As I have just started learning Golang, this will be mainly focusing on the basics of the go programming language. What is golang Go (by Google) is a programming language created at Google in 2009. Not to be confused with Go! (a functional programming language developed by Francis McCabe, and Keith Clark and first appeared in 2003).

Some words about privacy (and data privacy) and how to assure it Many people consider the terms data protection, data privacy, and privacy in general to be synonyms, and even though they are all closely related, they complement each other without ever being the same. privacy: the quality or state of being apart from company or observation1 data privacy: …is about authorized access — who has it and who defines it2

Information: This went live initially on 2018-04-09 at 00:44:51+02:00 I decided to move this very nice first landing page to the posts sections, as it rather appears to me as a real post. A primer This is dedicated to all the time spent in front of computers. Finding a true way to express oneself in projects, and beginning to make a small private blog a habit. In all it’s glory, I will present you, the humble inventions, findings, and collections of myself, friends, family and fools.

Welcome to my first snippet addition to this website. I hope you find this as helpful as I find it sometimes. Why would I need this? Imagine you want to fill a field of a table with a sequenctially value, but do not have any ID for a sequence and are using PostgreSQL, and you also already have information in this table that you want to append on. Well there is this option to use the internal ID (CID) provided by PostgreSQL, but this only works to a certain extent.

Second entry - first commit After setting things up initially in a Mac environment and creating a new post, why not doing the same for windows? –> Bad idead Still, I’m getting it and slowly things are coming together Setting Hugo up on a windows machine is not utterly complex, but also not as fluent of an experience as on linux, or mac. One might wonder why I have to deal with three different environments at all?

Initial Entry - no commit Just doing the setup like described in the quickstart. I’m trying to figure out what I’m doing here So setting up hugo was a smooth experience on my macbook. 1st Step: Installing the depencie via brew install hugo 2nd Step: Installing the desired them as a submodule via git add submodule <ADD_URI_TO_DESIRED_THEME_GIT> <PATH_IF_NECESSARY>; 3rd Step: Adding a first post via hugo new posts/a-new-day-with-hugo.md Et voilà and here we are.