An excerpt of attributes I was convinced I had, where parenthood proved me wrong:

• patient


• calm


• flexible


• consequent


• convincing


• clear at communicating
  ... (There are for sure more)

I see more and more clearly that these attributes i believed to have were mere wishes of how I would like to be. I was always striving to achieve these, but parenthood made it impossible to pretend that I had fully succeeded.

I feel parenthood teaches me something new about myself and others each day. I...

Recently something got me thinking: Could we filter out co2 from the atmosphere and somehow transform it into something solid to keep it out of there?

But then again: would this help us in any way or wouldn't it probably just make us even more lazy and unambitious in solving the core problem - the production and emission of co2?

Also, I read frequently that technological solutions can't help us out of the situation technology got us into in the first place.

But I'm still sceptical. Really...

5 years ago I had a lot of respect for the USA and Americans. I felt that they positively contributed to humankind - my view was mostly based on impressive research they did as this is the area I was coming from.

I guess about 2 years ago I realized that I was surprised and shocked that Americans decided to choose someone as their leader that would directly contradict anything I had so far believed the USA to be: tolerant, eloquent, educated, honest, reliable. I was mad at Trump for being so...

My guess is that 95% of all people that accept that the #climate #crisis is real and rolling onto us feel as #powerless about it as me:

What can I achieve?

With just a handful of friends, close to no audience, with weekdays so fully packed, when at home constantly occupied by the family.

Seriously, what can I do? I'm really trying, using my education (computer scientist) to trying to make software that can make a change, but I feel no resonance. And definitely not enough impact to achieve...

Hier hab ich mal ein paar Sätze aufgeschrieben für all diejenigen, die ich davon überzeugen möchte, in das freie, verteilte, dezentrale soziale Netzwerk "Fediverse" umzuziehen und die monetarisierten und zentralisierten sozialen Netzwerke wie Facebook und Co. hinter sich zu lassen.

Ich werde diesen Leitfaden immer mal wieder aktualisieren, wenn mir neue wichtige Details einfallen. Platzhalter in [] an verschiedenen Stellen signalisieren, dass ich...

[cont. from Software Framework for CO2 Footprinting and co2 tracker: some progress]

My CO2 footprinting app in its current state allows me to model the things I do everyday and annotate my "events" with emitted CO2.

So one could say I advanced from the development stage to a data curation stage. Because what I have to do now is mostly to look up the emission data of the everyday...

Streb' danach
Wie sie auch damals schon alle taten
In letzter und vorletzter Generation
Nach der Erfüllung.

Tu' was dir jetzt wichtig ist.
Denn in 50 Jahren wird dein Kind sitzen
Und deine Taten hinterfragen bei leuchtenden Dias.

Was sie alle aus Überzeugung taten
Ohne dass ich es sah und wusste.
Was tu' ich, das meiner ebenso authentisch ist?
Alsdass in 50 Jahren meine Kinder sitzen und finden, ja das macht Sinn.

Und so wird dein Kind nicht das selbe
So wie du vor 50 Jahren tun.
Doch das...

I have been looking for a photo management software for a long time, that allows me to manage our pictures, host and share them, provides a sleek UI, and has some cool features that make my life easier.

For quite some time (and still), I am using Nextcloud to do this, but I always disliked its inferior performance due to PHP. Recently, they also completely replaced their pictures app by a new one, which, apart from the fact that the app seems far from feature-complete and polished to me, made...

[cont. from Software Framework for CO2 Footprinting]

I've been coding on my #co2 #emission #tracker project for about a month now and there has been some (limited) progress, that my (limited) available time would allow.

First of all, I feel very positive about what level of insight and awareness the project could already give me despite the early stage it is in.

I've started by evaluating some web frameworks' facilities for quick...

Nachdem wir hier in einem ländlicheren, stark landwirtschaftlich genutzten Vorstadtgebiet auf Jütland im Winter fast nur Krähen und Elstern zu Besuch hatten, sehe ich in letzter Zeit erfreulicherweise auch einige kleinere Vögel, zB. Bachstelzen.