LostFocus

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I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment.

This morning it was Toryanse by Atarashii Gakko

Can we believe we’re already twelve weeks into this year?
Somehow yes – spring is in the air, mostly in the form of earlier light and (ugh) pollen.

This week was mostly unremarkable. I learned a lot about early refactoring and Github actions, so that’s something. I had a whole lot of new ideas that I’ll never turn into reality and I finally started to get rid of unused domains and VPSses. Those things get expensive soon, uh? Who’d knew. It seems to be a common nerd problem, though.
Very common.

I only skimmed the article but something about the title spoke to me. I can’t quite put my finger on it what it is, though: A Society That Lost Focus

Ouch: Things that don’t work
But hey, at least People Probably Like You More Than You Think. (I lost the post that linked to this article with the comment “There must be some Dunning-Kruger effect to this as well” which gave me a chuckle. But then there always is.)

Turns out, a lot of data and very fast computers aren’t always a bad thing: Weather forecasts have become much more accurate

Right about now I regret my “no coffee after 4pm” rule. I’m not even all that under-caffeinated but I could do with something tasty.

Oh.

Turns out, there is even an option for a very special type of nerd.

Daylight saving time is slightly annoying, especially when it happens on different days in different time zones. I subscribe to a couple of newsletters that usually reach me around noon – so they’re a good indicator to take a lunch break. Now that the Americans changed their time, the newsletters arrive at 11am and like a dog hearing a bell I start getting hungry an hour earlier.

Another week, and again: weeknotes! I’m not too sure what to say about this week, though. Same same. And I even managed to think of three new things I want to do to my websites. I will start all these things and then never finish them. Fun!

Lately I’ve been a bit of a streak of watching trashy game shows. Survivor and Australian Survivor are currently on and for no real reason I’ve been getting into the Traitors franchise. Watching the UK and US ones are especially funny – they use the same locations and structure and it is pretty interesting to see how basically the same content (lol) is edited and presented to appeal to different markets. I’ve been told there has been a German season that has been pretty well received, so I’ll have to hunt that down, too.

RSS is 25 years old now and it somehow never really reached escape velocity from the nerdy part of the internet that likes these things. Except as a delivery vehicle for podcasts and that’s mostly because most clients hide that fact very nicely from consumers.
I don’t track readers but the chance is not zero that most people read this here via RSS, so hey, hello fellow nerd!

I just realized that all of the links today are to Wikipedia articles about the stuff I’m talking about. But oh well – turns out, that’s just where my mind was this week and honestly, there are worse pages to click on and read than Wikipedia.

I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment.

This morning it was Big City Life by Mattafix

Alarm clocks are the bane of my existence. I just want to nap in peace. Especially on world sleep day.

With all the renewed interest in blogrolls I started to think of adding one as well. And then I remembered that WordPress used to have a pretty nifty function for blogrolls and then they just decided to hide it.

I have one of those old MacBook Pros. The one with a touchbar. It is still pretty, pretty good and does what it is supposed to do without any real troubles.
Except when JavaScript is involved. Run Webpack? Open an “interactive” website? The fans go nuts.

I’m not a big fan of the word “enshittification”

Looking at screenshots of the old MovableType backend, I am once again reminded of how nice blogging used to be.

I’m now in my silly Ember mug’s lifecycle where the charger pins aren’t bouncy anymore. How annoying.