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  • πŸ“ Book Report 2022

    florian.ec/blog/book…

    β†’ 6:02 PM, Dec 25

  • Towards the mountains…

    Taken from a moving train you see mountains in the distance, a bit after sundown; in the foreground you see train tracks and signs and in the reflection of the glass a book and pen

    β†’ 4:47 PM, Dec 25

  • A quick walk before midnight to get my steps in

    Street at night, very dark atmosphere some street lights are on, there are parked cars on either side, but only a single bike on the road

    β†’ 11:34 PM, Dec 15

  • No surprises here:

    Most played Switch games in 2022: PokΓ©mon Brilliant Diamond, PokΓ©mon Arceus and PokΓ©mon Shiny Pearl

    β†’ 9:57 PM, Dec 13

  • First snow day in Vienna…

    Pedestrian walk way, trees on each side, on the right is a street with cars and a tram, on the left some imperial Habsburg buildings. It is snowing and there is roughly 2 cm of snow on the ground

    β†’ 9:09 AM, Dec 12

  • There is no bad weather…

    Selfie of a man walking in the rain, wearing a black wool hat and a black coat with a hood. there are drops on his glasses and he looks very wet.

    β†’ 5:45 PM, Dec 9

  • Finished reading: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner πŸ“š

    β˜… β˜… β˜… β˜… β˜…

    β†’ 9:48 PM, Dec 7

  • Zola Jesus at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna

    Stage, Zola Jesus on the left standing and singing, on the right three sitting violin players and a cellist

    β†’ 12:02 AM, Dec 4

  • Anika at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna

    Stage with a four piece band: singer in the middle, keyboard player on the left, bass player on the right and the drummer in the back

    β†’ 11:59 PM, Dec 3

  • Dlina Volny at the Desertshore Festival in Vienna

    Stage with a woman singing and a man playing keyboards

    β†’ 11:56 PM, Dec 3

  • New Twitter will be hostile to anyone queer, or non-white, or slightly to the left of Ronald Reagan.

    Twitter, failure modes, and your favorite bar

    β†’ 8:12 PM, Nov 28

  • If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can be linked to and viewed in an unauthenticated browser, or if there is no way to make a new post from a browser, then that program is not a part of the WWW in any meaningful way.

    Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet

    β†’ 7:43 PM, Nov 28

  • I thought people were joining, but no, you are actually fighting against a car, not a car PokΓ©mon in Scarlet and Violet

    Screenshot of PokΓ©mon Violet: Azumarill is using Bubble Beam against Segin Starmobile, a car with a lot of speakers and disco lights

    β†’ 10:49 PM, Nov 27

  • My first shiny in Violet

    Screenshot of PokΓ©mon Violet showing a shiny Ralts

    β†’ 10:34 AM, Nov 27

  • Finished reading: The Mirror and the Light (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 3) by Hilary Mantel πŸ“š

    Like House of Cards, but in England in the 1530s.

    β†’ 11:54 PM, Nov 26

  • Deleting tweets (4250 of 25256) and a progress bar at 17%

    β†’ 10:34 PM, Nov 25

  • They are here!

    Hand holding physical copies of PokΓ©mon Violet and Scarlet

    β†’ 5:52 PM, Nov 25

  • I’m horny for backpacks all the time, but Black Friday week is the worst.

    β†’ 8:20 PM, Nov 24

  • Classic

    Roll of Fizzers

    β†’ 3:22 PM, Nov 20

  • Iβ€˜ll reached the first town and already caught 13 PokΓ©mon in Violet. Looks like there will be more variety in each area.

    β†’ 12:28 AM, Nov 20

  • First winter walk of the season ❄️

    Trees covered with a bit of snow

    β†’ 4:15 PM, Nov 19

  • The new Weyes Blood album is chefskiss

    weyesblood.bandcamp.com/album/and…

    β†’ 11:41 AM, Nov 19

  • Klimaticket year number 2 starts now

    view out of a train showing the platform and another train in the background

    β†’ 10:34 AM, Nov 19

  • Hey Fuecoco πŸ‘‹

    My PokΓ©mon character with Fuecoco

    β†’ 6:22 PM, Nov 18

  • Nintendo sent me an email that the physical copies of Scarlet & Violet will not arrive today. But they included download codes so that I can start playing today 😎

    β†’ 12:43 PM, Nov 18

  • They are not cool. They are not sexy. But they are an essential tool to save gas when you live on the first floor with just storage rooms below.

    My feet with wool slippers

    β†’ 12:25 PM, Nov 18

  • I haven’t heard anything since the order confirmation and the tracking link is not leading to a 404 and now I’m worried that the new PokΓ©mon will not arrive today. 😞

    β†’ 12:22 PM, Nov 18

  • The plan was to finish the PokΓ©dex in all the other games before Scarlet & Violet are released tomorrow. I got very close, but I failed.

    screenshot of pokedex progress in pokemon home app showing a couple of missing entries

    β†’ 10:53 PM, Nov 17

  • πŸ”— Marie Kondo your software stack with open source by Mike Melanson

    Some great points on keeping your software stack minimal.

    β†’ 9:10 AM, Nov 16

  • Going for Punsch for the first time this year.

    beer

    β†’ 9:30 PM, Nov 12

  • Good Morning. VIE ✈️ BCN

    airplane om the ground with the sun rising in the back

    β†’ 6:58 AM, Nov 7

  • Oh boy…

    iOS Sleep Scheduling showing rhat i have to wale up at 4:00 tomorrow

    β†’ 10:17 PM, Nov 6

  • I will be today and tomorrow at LeadDev in Berlin.

    β†’ 10:00 AM, Nov 3

  • Oh hai Berlin. It’s been too long…

    β†’ 10:56 PM, Nov 2

  • 10.000 steps. 3 years.

    Screenshoot of Pedometer++ achievement screen showing the 3 years stresk for 10.000 daily steps

    β†’ 6:32 PM, Nov 1

  • Look what I made:

    Gugelhupf on a table

    β†’ 2:51 PM, Nov 1

  • So this happened.

    Marina and Florian directly after saying yes

    β†’ 5:57 PM, Oct 30

  • πŸ”— Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance by Mike Masnick

    β†’ 12:36 PM, Oct 29

  • πŸ”— Welcome to hell, Elon by Nilay Patel

    β†’ 4:24 PM, Oct 28

  • The center of Vienna knows neither climate nor energy crisis. Restaurants are happily heating outside tables, even if no one is sitting there.

    β†’ 3:17 PM, Oct 28

  • Finished reading: The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy πŸ“š

    β†’ 10:40 PM, Oct 27

  • I saw Efterklang at Theater Akzent, Vienna yesterday. It was the first concert of their tour and they were so motivated and tried out some new music. Beautiful.

    β†’ 9:01 AM, Oct 12

  • 🎸 Angel Olsen at Wuk, Vienna

    β†’ 9:35 PM, Oct 5

  • Finished reading: Circe by Madeline Miller πŸ“š

    Wow. This was perfect.

    β†’ 7:47 AM, Oct 1

  • Finished reading: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney πŸ“š

    Vacations are for reading.

    β†’ 1:26 PM, Sep 27

  • Finished reading: The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien πŸ“š

    A week in between new episodes of The Rings of Power was too long…

    β†’ 3:09 PM, Sep 26

  • They look a bit bored at the Huawei store today.

    β†’ 12:07 PM, Sep 16

  • I love the new color backgrounds on the Modular Apple Watch face. Instead of trying to simulate the analogue, embrace the screen.

    Arm wearing an Apple Watch with Modular face and a green to blue gradient background

    β†’ 3:25 PM, Sep 15

  • Maps in iOS 16 still does not have cycling directions for Vienna. ☹️

    Screenshot of iOS 16 showing that cycling directions are not available in Vienna

    β†’ 8:55 PM, Sep 14

  • β€œQueen Elizabeth II – a role model for startup founders?”

    Okok.

    β†’ 5:15 PM, Sep 13

  • The Arrogance of the Anthropocene by Peter Brannen

    β†’ 7:01 PM, Sep 12

  • I played around with Stable Diffusion last night and this still haunts me.

    Matte painting of two hawks soaring through the Austrian Alps, but one hawks head is on its wings

    β†’ 11:34 AM, Sep 11

  • I sign up to new services using FastMails Masked Email feature. Now I receive emails like this:

    Hello Active Egg1942,

    β†’ 8:23 PM, Sep 10

  • Running errands on my bicycle and the clouds are looming dark behind me.

    β†’ 4:00 PM, Sep 10

  • Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink?

    Interesting approach. When writing CSS with defaults in mind it can be beneficial for performance to write closed media query ranges instead of mobile first media queries.

    β†’ 4:14 PM, Sep 6

  • This is neat. A map that shows how far you can travel by train in 5 hours across Europe

    www.chronotrains.com

    β†’ 12:33 PM, Sep 6

  • It’s the time of the year where every day I wear a jacket when going to the office and every day I leave the office without a jacket.

    β†’ 7:14 AM, Sep 2

  • Today I got my hair and beard shaved professionally for the first time ever. Doesnβ€˜t look very different, but the details are more precise.

    Florian with freshly shaven hair and beard

    β†’ 9:26 PM, Sep 1

  • Finished reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff πŸ“š

    β†’ 8:48 PM, Aug 31

  • A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno?

    TLDR: Competition is good, even for JavaScript runtimes. But don’t use Bun for production yet.

    β†’ 12:18 PM, Aug 30

  • The web is a harsh manager

    Dave Rupert on the increasing demands of the frontend.

    β†’ 7:38 AM, Aug 29

  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» I released a new minor update for @fec/gatsby-plugin-advanced-feed. v3.0.1 fixes the engine constraint in package.json and moves some dependencies in the right section.

    github.com/florianec…

    β†’ 8:25 PM, Aug 28

  • When buying software you are also paying for the developers vacation time, sick leave, care leave, etc. Panic sent this very nice email that they are extending the Nova subscription to give the developer time off. It’s a nice gesture, but it should not be necessary.

    β†’ 11:01 AM, Aug 28

  • Apparently I’ve become the kind of person who irons their shirts on a Sunday morning.

    β†’ 10:56 AM, Aug 28

  • Bright Eyes at Arena Open Air, Vienna

    β†’ 7:16 AM, Aug 26

  • The results of three hours of foraging in the Styrian woods:

    β†’ 10:50 AM, Aug 21

  • Later today I will spend three hours in a train and I forgot my book at home 😭

    β†’ 10:52 AM, Aug 19

  • Living the aperativo life

    β†’ 5:41 PM, Aug 13

  • Software architecture does not always solve technical problems. Micro-services and micro-frontends exist to create small, independent and agile teams. If applied for technical reasons, they create more problems than they solve.

    β†’ 2:45 PM, Aug 9

  • Sundown in Piran, Slovenia.

    β†’ 10:27 PM, Jul 2

  • The best part of my job as a manager is telling people that they got a raise they haven’t asked for.

    β†’ 9:40 AM, Jun 24

  • I finished reading The Mountains Sing by Nguyα»…n Phan QuαΊΏ Mai. A sad, but beautiful historic novel about multiple generations of a family during the wars in Vietnam.

    β†’ 9:39 AM, Jun 24

  • πŸ“Έ New blog post with photos from my trip to Trieste in May

    florian.ec/blog/trie…

    β†’ 9:29 PM, Jun 13

  • Watched the first episode of Prehistoric Earth on Apple TV+ and this is so well made. Perfect mixture of interesting and relaxing.

    β†’ 11:12 PM, May 30

  • Klarna used a prerecorded video message to lay off 10 percent of employees

    Filed under Classy.

    β†’ 3:13 PM, May 25

  • How it started: I want to play a sound effect during a video call

    How it ended: I have an overcomplicated system that involves StreamDeck, Audio Hijack, SoundSource, Farrago, Keyboard Maestro, and Shortcuts.

    But: it works πŸŽ‰

    β†’ 12:58 PM, May 20

  • When a Google Meet preview page is open in the background, the sound quality of the music I’m listening to is super bad. How are these connected? It took me forever to figure this out.

    β†’ 9:37 AM, May 19

  • The Smile at Gasometer, Vienna

    β†’ 10:15 PM, May 17

  • I received my Mark Two. Such a nice pen, the magnetic snap is glorious.

    β†’ 6:14 PM, May 9

  • I’m going on my first ever business trip to visit my colleagues in Barcelona πŸ‘”πŸ–

    β†’ 8:58 AM, May 3

  • Lola Marsh at Arena Wien

    β†’ 9:45 PM, May 2

  • From last Saturday: Julien Baker live at Arena in Vienna. My first concert in months.

    β†’ 6:45 PM, May 2

  • πŸ“ New blog post: Post to Eleventy from iOS with Drafts, Shortcuts and Working Copy

    β†’ 4:18 PM, Apr 23

  • After nearly 20 years 🚭

    β†’ 2:41 PM, Apr 23

  • Released a new version of remark-images, my responsive images in Markdown plugin for remark. It now produces an AST instead of raw HTML, which should allow for better integration into the remark ecosystem.

    β†’ 12:59 PM, Apr 23

  • Prism Music is a music player for iOS that can be connected to Plex and Apple Music. This is exactly what I was looking for.

    β†’ 7:51 AM, Apr 21

  • Accidental Charmander

    β†’ 4:25 PM, Apr 16

  • I listened to the new live album from Zola Jesus and I miss live concerts so much. I was supposed to see NilΓΌfer Yanya, but I had Covid and the Lucy Dacus show was cancelled. Now looking forward to Julien Baker.

    β†’ 12:03 PM, Apr 16

  • The quaking of the duck is a nice change from the pigeon sounds we normally hear.

    β†’ 12:53 PM, Apr 5

  • We got a taste of spring, but winter is not yet done with Vienna.

    β†’ 10:53 PM, Apr 2

  • I used this occasion to update the Apple Touch Icons for my site, but I’m still not super happy with them.

    β†’ 9:56 PM, Mar 30

  • πŸ“ New blog post: Generating Apple Touch Icons with Eleventy

    β†’ 9:55 PM, Mar 30

  • FastMail and 1Password are promoting their integration of Masked Email, but it does not work for me. I never seen it when a website prompts me for my email address.

    β†’ 11:01 AM, Mar 8

  • I’m not sure what I should think Epic Games buying Bandcamp. Bandcamp has been my favourite way to buy music over the last couple of years and I hope it continues to operate on the same principles it has before.

    β†’ 11:17 AM, Mar 3

  • Album cover of Laurel Hell by Mitski

    Yes! Laurel Hell, the new Mitski album is out.

    β†’ 4:06 PM, Feb 4

  • Today I spent an hour on optimising how CSS is generated on my blog. Saved a couple of KB by not loading the code syntax highlighting on the home page.

    β†’ 8:59 PM, Feb 1

  • πŸ“ New blog post: Convert Audio Files to MP3 with ffmpeg in Fish Shell

    β†’ 2:57 PM, Jan 29

  • I was updating the categories on some of my old blog posts today in Nova and I noticed a couple of typos and grammar mistakes. One of the benefits of a native application that uses spell checking provided by the OS.

    β†’ 10:52 PM, Jan 25

  • πŸ“ New blog post: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (2016)

    β†’ 10:50 PM, Jan 25

  • After breaking my streak yesterday, I got lucky today.

    Wordle 220 3/6

    ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
    ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    β†’ 1:37 PM, Jan 25

  • I still don’t like Hawkeye (the character), but we finished Hawkeye (the TV show) yesterday and I liked it a lot.

    β†’ 10:00 AM, Jan 25

  • Wordle 209 5/6

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ()
    ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ (1 partial, 1 perfect)
    ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 (3 perfect)
    ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 (1 partial, 3 perfect)
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (Wordle done on Line 5)

    β†’ 11:47 PM, Jan 14

  • Upgraded Eleventy to 1.0.0 for florian.ec and everything worked. Nice release πŸ‘

    β†’ 3:40 PM, Jan 14

  • Did another PCR test this morning. According to my email archive this is the 39th since Vienna started offering them last summer.

    β†’ 9:48 AM, Jan 14

  • Wordle 208 4/6

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 (1 partial)
    🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ (2 partial)
    ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ (2 partial)
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (Wordle done on Line 4)

    β†’ 12:53 PM, Jan 13

  • There is so much I love about Obsidian, but I cannot use ⌘+↑ and ⌘+↓ to go to the beginning and end of the document drives me crazy.

    β†’ 10:01 PM, Jan 8

  • πŸ“ New blog post: Books I Read in 2021

    β†’ 9:27 PM, Jan 8

  • Released v3.0.0 of eleventy-plugin-remark, which finally supports ESM and works with newer, ESM-only versions of remark.

    β†’ 12:12 PM, Jan 6

  • πŸ“ New blog post: My Favourite Albums of 2021

    β†’ 5:38 PM, Jan 5

  • πŸ“ New blog post: Humble Inquiry by Edgar H. Schein and Peter A. Schein

    β†’ 5:42 PM, Jan 4

  • πŸ“ New blog post: Sustainable Web Design by Tom Greenwood

    β†’ 5:40 PM, Jan 4
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