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Seongnam from top of it's Art Center

2026-10-17T07:53:26Z

Seongnam from top of it's Art Center

Four years ago, we went to visit my sister in S...

2026-10-14T23:11:20Z

Four years ago, we went to visit my sister in Switzerland. There my wife found seeds to plant and she bought a bunch of them, even though we didn't have anywhere to plant them. But this year we bought a house with a garden and finally we had some place to plant them. So even though it was already September, she planted those seeds and now this is after one and a half months what came out of it mid-October. Our first harvest!

I just had my first encounter with a racist per...

2026-10-09T05:35:33Z

I just had my first encounter with a racist person here in Korea. It's probably no coincidence that it is happening now that I'm starting to learn the language, before that I probably just blended them out because I didn't understand what they were saying anyway.

It was a guy in his sixties, saying something about that here is Korea and that it's for Korean people. He also was saying something about my shoes, I have my Birkenstock on because it's very warm today, I guess he didn't like them.

He was not shouting just loudly complaining while looking towards me and my son. I gave him a smile and a thumbs up which irritated him even more, so he dismissed my thumbs up with a wave of with his hand.

Suprise bill

2026-10-07T00:31:43Z

To fix buffering (see PeerTube Admin 31: Fix buffering when viewing from other continent) I put my PeerTube videos into a Vultr object storage on the west coast of the US.

In the beginning it was cheap, $6 a month for my 150 GB and almost no traffic. Then they changed to $18 per month and I wanted to move it but didn't have the time.

Today I started investigating and saw that in April I had a bill of $54, while the only thing using Vultr is my PeerTube instance. I checked the logs and there was nothing happening in April, in fact it was a slow month with just a couple of people watching some videos.

But Vultr said 4 TB were downloaded, so it seems some bot net was downloading all my videos over and over again for the whole month and because I never looked at the bill which comes every month and gets payed automatically from my credit card I never realized this outlier. Also I have no way of understanding what happened because Vultr dosn't give me any logs for who accessed the public bucket.

So theoretically I could have had bills of thousands of dollars and there seems to not be a way to stop serving things from the public bucket automatically once something happens, they just keep serving and bill you, there seems to not be a alarm available either which would warn you, just the bill.

That makes me now very anxious, I never meant this to be some investment or business, so I can't spent so much money every month on it and I can't even prevent it now either, god damn it. It's just a mini instance where I share private videos with family and the occasional public video here and there.

I need to find a way the bills not just balooning like that by themselves. I see Cloudflare's R2 doesn't charge for egress and hopefully they protect themselves from meaningless bot downloads somehow.

Or just move it home here to Korea, I have compute and storage enough at home, the only thing is the buffering in Europe, for that I would need to find a different solution.

Today we went to the circus, it was fun.

2026-10-05T09:23:32Z

Today we went to the circus, it was fun.

I'm in a beginner Korean language course and it...

2026-10-01T01:59:34Z

I'm in a beginner Korean language course and it's 90% woman here, mostly in their late 20s and 30s.

When I was in the Swedish one it was about 50% each gender.

I didn't realize it, but it seems mostly guys importing women from abroad here in torra, not so much the other way around.

Anecdotical evidence only, obviously but I think it's not far from truth,

When I went to Germany a coupple of month ago I...

2026-09-24T08:32:58Z

When I went to Germany a coupple of month ago I went to Rossman and they sold very cheap glasses, I think like for 3 € or so and just for fun I put them on.

But when I looked at my phone through them I was really surprised how sharp everything was. By pure luck I grabbed the ones which fir my own eye sight, so I bought them.

And I didn't think it would be such a change but I love them, they make it possible for me to read without squinting and holding things far away.

But especially with Korean characters which are so small that I really couldn't distinguish them it allows me to finally read them at all.

I constantly need to take them off because they are just for reading, but such a improvement in quality of life for 3 €.

First harvest

2026-09-20T03:40:31Z

Two months ago we bought our own home with a garden. The people who build it eight years ago also planted some trees and one of them is a jujube tree. I have never seen them before I moved to Korea, here they are called 대추 (daechu).

They are a little sour but mostly sweet.

The more brown they are the less sour they are, so best is when they just start being brown.

They are ripe now and we just picked those we could get with a ladder.

But we had to stop because there suddenly were a bunch of wasps and one of them stung me when I was at top of the ladder and we almost fell down from it! But still we got a lot of them.

Half a year ago we got some sidewalk chalk from...

2026-09-13T05:39:25Z

Half a year ago we got some sidewalk chalk from my sister in Germany. Today we finally used it infront of our own home!

Let's see what the neighbours will say, I have no idea how the Koreans will react to it, I haven't seen any other children using it here.

A photo of me playing bass in 2001 ended up in ...

2026-09-12T06:05:51Z

A photo of me playing bass in 2001 ended up in the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_(fashion) (I'm the first picture in the gallery) I had no idea I'm a fashion icon!

We were playing [Hamburger Schule](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HamburgerSchule(Popmusik)) music not specifically grunge though :D

I lost my korean drivers license. So I went to ...

2026-08-27T11:09:09Z

I lost my korean drivers license. So I went to the place where they make a new one for you. It was so fast I couldn't believe it.

10 minutes between arriving and holding it in my hands, and it only took so long because I don't speak Korean.

And I had to queue in two lines, explaing what I need in English, fill out a form in Korean (they helped me on every step) and wait for it to be printed and initialized, i payed 15.000 KRW

And here is our new house.

2026-08-03T07:59:03Z

And here is our new house.

We are moving, our whole household fit into thi...

2026-08-03T03:07:09Z

We are moving, our whole household fit into this little truck.

Taday is the day we move in to our first own ho...

2026-08-02T22:37:10Z

Taday is the day we move in to our first own house. My parents own houses but this is the first time I co own it with my wife.

It's not far away about 9km from here so our daughter can keep going to the same school but our little one has to switch kindergarten for the first time.

It's an investment but at the same time we want to move in while our children still can enjoy living in a one family home before they are too big and move out.

What's with the giant police man on top of the ...

2026-07-27T05:19:37Z

What's with the giant police man on top of the roof by the Express Bus terminal in Seoul?

This year we're staying an Korea for the summer...

2026-06-28T09:21:01Z

This year we're staying an Korea for the summer so we decided to try Glamping which is glamorous camping and it's amazing! We're also lucky to have such amazing weather, no humidity no heat, no rain, very uncommon for this part of the year. I recorded a short video:

https://tube.jeena.net/w/2wfHrh7UxMexT5Vi3ME6zb

Annual leave

2026-06-27T07:01:42Z

Annual leave

AI coding: loop engineering a translator

2026-06-19T01:55:52Z

Since a week or two the term 'loop engineering' is coming up after 'prompt engineering' and 'agentic workflow' seem to not cut it anymore and we need more abstractions.

The first time I tried to write something which would do something useful with a LLM was about two years ago in December 2024, I wanted to do translation of big documents from Korean to English on my local RTX 3060 with 12 GB VRAM. I couldn't just use the ChatGPT chat for that because back then it's context window was way too small for the massive documents I needed translated and it would stop translating after 10%. So I thought I can automate the splitting up of the document.

But because I did not know anything about agents I had to come up with some architecture. So I made this very complicated agent pipeline:

Agent pipeline / loops

The pipeline turns a raw Korean transcript into an English translation through a plan → execute → critique → repair loop. A literal NLLB translation acts as an impartial reference, and a translation memory keeps terminology consistent across chunks.

Components

Component	Model / Tool	What it does
Sentence Segmentation	`kss` (Korean String processing Suite)	Splits the raw Korean transcript into individual sentences (`kss.split_sentences()`) before anything else runs.
Chunker	`TextChunker` (python)	Groups the segmented sentences into chunks of N sentences (with optional overlap) so each piece fits the models' context.
Planner	`qwen3:14b`	Reads an excerpt once and produces a global strategy as JSON (content type, speaking style, terminology, per-component instructions). Shared by the Executor and Critic.
Executor	`aya:8b`	Translates each chunk. On a `revise` verdict it runs `repair()` using the Critic's fix instruction. Strips the model's `<think>` reasoning blocks.
Critic	`qwen3:14b`	Validates each translation by a 3-way comparison (source vs. Executor output vs. NLLB) and returns a `status`, issues, a fix instruction, and extracted terms/styles.
NLLB	`facebook/nllb-200-distilled-600M`	Produces a literal reference translation of the source chunk. Only the Critic sees it — it is a witness, not the author — which guards against the Executor confidently hallucinating.
Memory	`TranslationMemory` (python dict)	Accumulates terms/styles. The Executor reads it for context; the Critic's extracted terms/styles are written back on every passing chunk.
Formatter (optional)	`qwen3:14b`	Post-processes the accepted translation into readable paragraphs.
Output Writer	`OutputWriter` (python file write)	Appends each finished chunk to the output file incrementally.

Verdict

I worked on this for some weeks because I had a real need to translate hours of educational YouTube video transcripts. It started as a simple loop but the quality of the local models was not good so I tried to improve the quality of the translation by introducing a critic and feed back the information from it as a prompt, then I realized things are drifting and the same words are being translated differently over the course of the document so I introduced a memory so it would not drift. I did many more small optimizations like a overlapping window of the chunks, etc.

But in the end all the information from the critic and the memory did not lead to a better translation, what happened was that the critic kept flagging that the translation is not good enough and looping back and the translator was not able to translate good enough for the critic to be satisfied. I was not able to fine tune it so that it would improve the translation in any significant manner and after a couple of weeks I kind of gave up and am waiting for better local translation models to arrive, but then this whole loop thing will probably not be necessary anymore.

Paul Zimnol

2026-05-31T02:47:01Z

This is an article from a Silesian newspaper, originally in the Silesian language, about my great grandfather. The journalist while researching did interview my grandmothers sister. English translation below.

Paul (Polish: Paweł) Zimnol from Neu Bojschau was born on April 2, 1894. He was a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, prisoner number 15091.

Our parents were named Zimnol and Katarzyna, née Baron. They had seven children: Róża, Antonina, Florian, Bolesław, Stefan, Paul – he was the youngest – and me.

When I think back to my childhood, we lived in great poverty. We were a large family, and our father had no steady job. He only worked occasionally: he made wooden items, crafted brooms and baskets, caught and sold fish – he did whatever work was available.

In his youth, he took part in the uprisings. His father (our grandfather Walek) warned him: “Paul, do not get involved in politics, or you will have to pay for it one day…” But our father did not listen.

He fought in the uprisings, but what did he gain from it? Nothing. He could not even secure steady work.

Then the war came. Hitler came to power, and the first thing he did was arrest the insurgents. Our father managed to hide for some time, but not for long.

In May 1940 – I remember it well because we were planting potatoes – the postman brought a letter: our father was to report to the police in Pleß. The letter also said he should bring a change of clothes.

He sensed what this meant and did not go. Instead, he hid beyond the Vistula River with a friend named Władek. But one cannot hide forever.

Someone betrayed him – supposedly for 50 marks – and he was arrested and taken to prison in Myslowitz.

There he was brutally beaten. Our mother was allowed to visit him once a month. She hid some money in soap so he could buy something or bribe someone. She brought his clothes home for washing.

Those clothes were covered in blood, and that is how we knew he was being tortured there. He spent half a year in Myslowitz.

Later, we learned that he had been taken to Auschwitz. What he did there and how he suffered, we do not know exactly.

I only remember a gendarme named Kaptur – a Silesian from Beuthen, a good man. My little brother Paul was perhaps four or five years old at the time.

Whenever the gendarme passed by, he shouted loudly: “Let our father go! Release our father from the camp!”

The gendarme advised our mother to stop the child from shouting like that, because he could be punished for speaking Polish. But my brother only shouted even louder.

Our father died in the camp on April 15, 1942. How exactly, we do not know.

At that time, I worked in a factory in Berun. One day, a man from Neu Berun came to me and asked whether someone from our family was in Auschwitz.

When I asked why he wanted to know, he said: “Last week, a Zimnol from Bojschau threw himself onto the electric fence in the camp…”

That is all I know about my father’s death.

Narrated by Marta Zimnol (married name Spyra)
Collected and edited by Alojzy Lysko

Makgeolli

2026-05-22T12:31:40Z

I’ve always liked Makgeolli but lately my wife ordered a premium pack of them and a whole now flavor world opened.

Now we already drank 2 of the 5 bottles but this limited edition made me make this post. It’s super thick and amazingly flavoufull. Also tastes quite strong. It’s very different to what you get at the convenience store, I’ surprised how different it is.

My wife said she wanted to buy some which would taste like in her childhood/teenage time, she says the normal ones taste somehow industrial.

I have to say the difference is like the difference between Terra and Chimay. Can only recommend. But it’s fresh so can’t really shipping it far, only good for 1-2 months it seems.

Currywurst at a German backary in Korea Ach ...

2026-05-04T07:48:14Z

Currywurst at a German backary in Korea

Ach So! - 125-7 Yangjae-dong Seocho-gu Seoul https://naver.me/xLEIEkbO

I've been on flickr since 2005 even before Twit...

2026-05-04T02:46:30Z

I've been on flickr since 2005 even before Twitter, etc. and I payed for the Pro version for quite many ears too. I still think it's a awesome platform, it's just that the pro account is a bit too expensive for what I'm using it for nowadays. So today I canceled my pro account, exported my photos and Albums to https://flickr.jeena.net as static pages.

I wanted to get off the pro account 4 years ago already. I always wanted to integrate the albums and pictures into this website but somehow I never have time to really implement it in a good and simple way. I think those static pages are for now a intermediate solution until I can import it into this website.

There is a interesting thing here in Korea, sin...

2026-04-30T11:04:43Z

There is a interesting thing here in Korea, since my son was born people stopped calling me by my name and started calling me ' dad', even my wife!

Once a year my dad makes his cactuses bloom, he...

2026-04-24T07:56:24Z

Once a year my dad makes his cactuses bloom, he just send me this picture, isn't it amazing, in the middle of Germany!

Today I went to Japan and by accident took the ...

2026-04-19T07:56:52Z

Today I went to Japan and by accident took the car key with me. The car keeps working unto you turn it off. My wife also didn't realize it until she was at home after bringing me to the bus station, and we had no idea where the other car key was.

A while ago I put those Samsung Tag 2 devices on the two car keys. On the one I took the battery was empty. But I could see on my phone that the other one was at home when I left 5 hours ago.

I'm the only one with an android phone, wife and doughter have iPhones, so it's incompatible. I have my old S9 at home, but somehow the PIN didn't work after my wife found it and charged it, damn.

Then I remembered that our son has a Samsung tablet. We installed the Find app on it, but I have several samsung accounts, had to figure out which to log in with. Password is over 30 chars long ... Wife installed WeChat to copy over the password I send to her phone via Element. She logged in and all items showed up, but no connection to car key.

Tension is high, the three years old is cranky grandma arrives, without car key thw whole week will be impossible to work bring the kids to school and kindergarten, etc.

So wife goes down to the car, perhaps it's in there, 5 minutes connection times out, no car key. She goes up again to the flat, no connection still ...

She clicks around in the app, suddenly it shows "Connecting ..." OMG it's happening!

It connected! I try to explain that she needs to press the 🎵 button, but everyone is too exited they don't hear me through the video chat while I'm at the airport in Japan.

They move around with the tablet, signal is getting stronger, they find the 🎵 button and press it, daughter is listening carefully it must be in the wardrobe, very faint sound pipipip pipipipi ... It's in the golf bag! Last time after golf my wife tossed it in there and used the other key ever since.

What a relief, no need to get a rental car!

I asked my Korean PT if his other customers swe...

2026-04-02T02:05:12Z

I asked my Korean PT if his other customers sweat as much as I do (they are all Koreans) and he said that I'm his most sweating customer.

Do you guys use AI coding agents? I started use...

2026-03-12T10:55:07Z

Do you guys use AI coding agents? I started use in OpenCode and Claude Code.

Somehow it's very useful for small projects which are specific for my own use cases where I can't really spent days coding and researching it, but I can have a agent doing that for me and me just reviewing the code.

For example I'm dealing with my parent's paper mail in Germany. There are companies which scan the letters for you but it's like $600 per year.

We're already paying a lot of money for a help who is living in with them, so we asked her to take a picture of every letter and post it to a WhatsApp group.

But it's very cumbersome to manually download it and upload it to Paperless on my server.

So me and the AI created https://git.jeena.net/jeena/matrix-paperless-ingest.git ( I already have a WhatsApp Matrix bridge running).

It's a not which listens for new pictures and PDFs, downloads them and uploads them to Paperless with a inbox tag, puts the date and time into the filename and sets the owner to my dad.

Paperless then does OCR on it and extracts metadata like who sent the letter, when it was sent etc. So we can manage it easier.

Rainy evening in Osaka, Japan.

2026-03-07T00:02:31Z

Rainy evening in Osaka, Japan.

Little Hearts, Big Changes

2026-02-28T07:04:01Z

It's interesting, our 3 years old had the same teacher since he was 1 year and three months old, now she resigner and he is starting a new class with bigger children on Monday.

She had still had annual leave so she took it this week so he didn't see her.

We asked her to meet as during the weekend because we thought he would miss her a lot. But once we arrived he didn't recognize her!

Ok she had more formal clothes and makeup which she didn't use during work and it was a different setting at a kids cafe, but I recognized her imediatelly and he was afraid of her when she tried to hug him, while they hugged every morning at the Kindergarten.

So now I wonder, how fast get small children over losing someone so close?

I was also gone for three weeks because I had to go to Europe and help my parents set up everything fot the time when my dad would be back from the hospital where he had to go after Christmas.

Our son only wanted to talk to me twice on the phone during those three weeks while I calked quite frequently like every three days. He also wasn't asking where I am, or when I will be back, he asked it one when I practically was on the way back.

But with his mom it's a bit different, he needs her every day to fall asleep (I was only allowed to put him asleep until he was 9 months old). So when she is on a business trip for a coupple of dys he cries for her to come back and put him to sleep every night, while he doesn't mention her during the day even once.

Perhaps it's different with different children, what's your experience?

The Samsung Phones have a really cool feature w...

2026-02-27T00:35:00Z

The Samsung Phones have a really cool feature which is a automatic translation when someone calls you. It works like that it listens to what you say in English and translates it to Korean and reads it out aloud. Then it listens to what the other person says in Korean, translates it and reads it out aloud to you. And I believe it's fairly accurate, I tested it with my wife.

The problem is when someone calls you and hears a robot voice they immediately hang up, not even trying to listen to what the robot says.

Just a little 'hack' if you like me have the Ko...

2026-02-26T04:51:43Z

Just a little 'hack' if you like me have the Korean SK Telecom Router H633G which is from Huawei, and you want to port forward one of the blocked ports like port 80 or 443. It's just a check in JavaScript so it's easy to bypass:

Open the NAT page but without the stupid frame, so http://192.168.55.1/nat_functions.html then in Chrome right click -> Inspect -> Console. And there write: function checkBlcokPort() { return true; } and press Enter. After that the function is overwritten and you can safe it.

(The typo is in the HTML source code of the router, not made by me.)

Thanks for the initial idea to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvmnbT3yV6Y

We just went to the Moulin Rouge musical. It wa...

2026-02-17T11:28:32Z

We just went to the Moulin Rouge musical. It was very interesting, even though I had jetlag and it was in Korean.

I'm just realizing how shortly lived everything...

2026-02-07T08:30:54Z

I'm just realizing how shortly lived everything is and that change is the only constant. I have a nice setup at home wherr I have home assistant, Synology and ny Pc and I have everything accessible from the internet. I went for three weeks to Europe and while there my wife gor a new iPhone.

That led to a cascade of changes. She changes the provider because if we all are at the same then it's a bit cheaper. That led to her changing our internet provider. The new provider send a technitian, that guy replaced my router with the company's router and now I can't access anything.

Luckily home assistant works offline too.

Waiting in the queue at the gate

2026-01-26T00:28:41Z

I'm at the airport now, the gate has oppened, and like 80% of the people rushed to stand in the queue.

I never understood that behaviour. Sure if you have children or are elderly or disabled then I get it that you need more time, but thos epeople have a priority entrance anyway.

But if otherwise why do you race to be the first one on the plane where you'll spent the nex 14 hour on anyway?

The seats are pre assigned so you don't get a better seat. The loggage over head can in 99% be placed in the same place where you seat. Getting out doesn't depend on the order you got in either. In my mind nothing changes if you're the first one or the last one on the plane.

If you're the last one you at least optimize on spending the least amount of time on the plane, even if it's just a difference of 20 minutes or so. You don't need to sit in the tiny space in a tiny tube any unnecessary time.

I's probably because I've always been a big guy and never liked tose tight spaces, so perhaps other people don't mind, that still doesn't explain the rush to stand in the long queue for 10 minutes instead of just sit around until the queue is very short like 30 seconds of waiting or so.

I just had the time to write this whole blog post while waiting for the queue to get short enough, which it is now.

Oh man, the whole English thing with my three y...

2026-01-20T01:27:17Z

Oh man, the whole English thing with my three years old son is really interesting. No one actually speaks English with him. I speak German, and my wife, his sister, the kindergarten, and everyone else speak Korean. But somehow there is still so much English around him at home that the kindergarten teacher wrote today:

> He finds activities on his own and enjoys playing with a variety of toys. Recently, he has even been speaking simple English with his friends. Since his friend Rubin understands and speaks basic English, it seems that the two of them can communicate with each other in English.

My website was down

2026-01-13T23:25:33Z

Yesterday evening I realized that I couldn't reach my PieFed instance anymore, that actually never happens other than if the load on the server gets unbearable so that it can't respond anymore. I checked this website and it also was not available anymore. From this happening before I knew that I won't be able to log in via SSH either and the best is to just reboot the server and then look around what happened afterwards in the logs.

So I went to hetzner.com on my phone in Firefox and clicked on login and was greeted by this verification if I'm a human or a robot. That took a long time and than just stayed on verified without forwarding me to the login page. That's weird, perhaps Hetzner is down? I searching online and some websites said it was fine but then I found Status Gator which said that hetzner had "Major Hetzner outage", it was already midnight and I thought I can't do anything about that anyway that night and went to bed with the hope that Hetzner fixes their stuff until the morning.

Next day I woke up and everything was still the same. I thought that perhaps I need to try Chrome with the Hetzner login page, just in case, and the Status Gator also changed that it's only a "Minor Hetzner outage". In Chrome I was able to log in to the Hetzner console, and there it greeted me with a big red box with the text which explained to me that they had to block my IP and a link to the documentation. In the documentation they explained that there are many different reasons why they would need to block one or several IPs (I only have one), and one of them is if you don't pay your bills.

Luckily I'm not self hosting my email on the same server but use MXRoute and I don't host my domain at Hetzner but in Sweden at Websupport so email still worked. I looked in Thunderbird for any Hetzner emails and there was one from "Hetzner Accounting", somehow the Thunderbird UI deemphisizes the title of the email so I didn't see it but just read the "Attached you will find your latest reminder as PDF file.", a reminder, hm ok, I opened the PDF which said:

We have already sent you two reminders. Since you have not paid your invoices, we have blocked your access to our services. Please pay all your open invoices by 15 January 2026. If you do not pay your invoices, three things will happen: 1. We will cancel all your products, services, and your account. 2. You will lose all data, including backups. 3. We will send your debt to our debt collection agency.

Here my panic mode started, I have been paying Hetzner for the last 10 years or so with my credit card automatically, and it's not expired or anything, and it worked for November but somehow not for December. I checked the billing and invoices on Hetzners website and it said that they send an invoice the 18. th of December which was not paid. I paid it immediately with PayPal which is connected to the same credit card and after half an hour the IP was unblocked and everything works again.

How to keep things online in the long term?

I have my website online since 2003 and normally it doesn't take much work to keep it online, just pay the bills and update the server, that's kind of it. Sometimes the technology gets outdated so I have to make it work with a new version of PHP or Rails, but for long term there is a solution just to convert it into static HTML which will be able to be read for the next hundred years probably.

But there are those two bills which it seems can bring your stuff offline within weeks. The domain and the server bill. I was thinking what to do with my website once I die, I like the idea that it would just be available after that for some time at least, like 10 or more years, until most of the people forget about me. But it's impossible to pre-pay the domain and the server at all and it's always a reaction with a threat that they will delete everything within a couple of days if you're not able to pay.

Say I was in the hospital for two weeks and wouldn't have access to email, in this situation my server would have been deleted already permanently, and all because of 30 EUR.

Actually I kind of like how Vultr does it' they let you pre-pay an amount of money and then they keep your stuff online until this money runs out. I'm storing my PeerTube videos there and just pay once a year or so in advance.

Anyway I didn't quite realize how fragile the whole situation is, and yeah I understand that for others my website might not be that important, but for me I had it for more than 20 years and it survived me emigrating to different countries twice already. For me it's a sentimental thing, it is one of the few constants in my life and I'd like it to survive at least for a little bit after I'm gone. I guess the only way is to teach my son to do it, but he's only 3 years old :D

I've been vibe coding

2026-01-08T02:30:28Z

At work I'm a Software Architect, I still code a little bit but mostly I do architectural work and developers code the things I come up with. I've always been writing small tools for myself like a RSS Reader because I couldn't find one I liked, or a tool which formats JSON when you paste it into it's window, or a OSX Timer app and many many more. It was always a painful process which took a lot of time and many of the projects I started I had to stop because of lack of knowledge or time.

Some time ago I started using AI to code those tools. About two years ago started just asking ChatGPT to give me parts of the code and was still coding mostly myself, but now I found this tool OpenCode which gives me Agents which can do planning, research, coding and testing after I write down what exactly I need.

They still need a lot of hand holding but I'm learning how to work with them more and more effectively and for example yesterday within a couple of hours I vibe coded Email Forwarder which takes emails from one Email Provider and with help of the IMAP protocol copies them over to a different provider and is useful for synchronizing emails between two providers. My dad has been using this one free provider for a long time but they delete all emails after 6 months, we always struggle to find important older emails, but not anymore because this script synchronizes them with a different provider which doesn't delete emails.

I also vibe coded this recoder application which recodes videos from my Sony camera and my Samsung and iPhone phones into a format which can be used by Davinci Resolve. That took me quite a long time.

Anyway if you're curious, I created a Ask Me Anything post on the Threadyverse so Ask Me Anything!

There is one thing traveling china which is ter...

2026-01-02T03:40:30Z

There is one thing traveling china which is terrible which I didn't forsee, people smoking everywhere despite a huge amount of 'No Smoking!' signs.

You can't go to a public toilet without meeting deep cigarette stench once inside. Oh you're having a awesome meal with the family and children? Don't mind the middle aged guy smoking at the next table while you're getting your food delivered, and so on.

In Jilin City there is a natural phenomenon whe...

2026-01-01T11:26:12Z

In Jilin City there is a natural phenomenon where when it's really cold the mist from the river sets on the trees during the nights and creates this beautiful view in the morning.

We in the village my wife was born in. I met he...

2026-01-01T10:59:55Z

We in the village my wife was born in. I met her late in our lifes, so it's special to me to visit the places from her childhood.

We are right now in a “small” Jiaohe City (蛟河市)...

2026-01-01T10:56:45Z

We are right now in a “small” Jiaohe City (蛟河市) in Jilin Province in China. To around here millions of Koreans fled during WWII and had here a huge Korean Minority with Korean schools, Korean shops, etc. You didn’t need to speak Chinese until you went to basically highschool.

Anyway here is a lot of Korean culture left and it shown in the food they serve, like this cold sour noodles we just ate.

A very unexpected upside of self hosting your o...

2025-12-26T05:28:50Z

A very unexpected upside of self hosting your own communication and social media is that when you travel to china everything slill works even over the Hotel Wifi without a VPN.

I use PieFed, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube, and some more. Yesterday I wanted to call my Family in Germany and tried WhatsApp, Signal to have a christmas call with them. but nothing worked, the only thing which di was Matrix with Element which both my brother and my dad use, my brotherver the matrix.org server and my dad over mine. Finally we could have a call.

Similar with YouTube and PeerTube, I can access my PeerTube instance and watch videos but not YouTube. And next on the list Netflix and Jellyfish, I have some childrens movies accessible on jelkyfish which the kids wew able to watch. But the little one is ok with wattching shorts in chinese :D

And last but not least FaceBook, Instagram and so on, I'm already on PeerTube and Mastodon which I use through my self hosted instances, everything just works because it flies under the radar.

Every day the Kindergarten of my son is posting...

2025-12-17T22:41:16Z

Every day the Kindergarten of my son is posting pictures to this app and we can see what he was doing during the day. Today this adorable picture came in, looks like four little friends on a big adventure :D

I've been listening to the This American Life p...

2025-11-11T02:07:36Z

I've been listening to the This American Life podcast for more than 10 years and I really appreciate their high quality production, so much so that I went to check how I can pay for it because it promised add free listening.

But The price is $10 per month, not per year, it's per month. I can't spent so much on entertainment, even if it's very high quality.

If a podcast would offer a $1 per month subscription then I would definatelly be on board. And I think a lot of other people would be too. But yeah I'm not sure if 12 times the people would be because it's still cumbersome to handle recurring payments to abroad, even in 2025.

In 2018 I found 'Falling in Reverse' with their...

2025-11-10T11:21:15Z

In 2018 I found 'Falling in Reverse' with their Hair Rock song "Good Girls Bad Guys" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga2r8bpzo5k it's very fun concept video and fin music to listen to.

Today somehow I remembered it and listened to the song again and wonderd what music they release now.

Found their new song "God is a Weapon" which starts kind of like Depeche Mode but then steps it up and sounds like a distorted version of Merylin Manson, actually he collaborates with them on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqJurrQKNdE

Actually this live version has a better recording than the album version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMHKExPjPKI

Today I was at the FOSS for all https://fossfor...

2025-11-08T11:35:17Z

Today I was at the FOSS for all https://fossforall.org/ conferace in Seoul. I had a lot of fun and met the local FOSS community for the first time.

I posted during the day on Mastodon: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena/115511440599372193

And I met some of the guys from the Kore Lemmy community https://piefed.jeena.net/post/271523

I made my first DIY Ethernet cable today!

2025-11-06T02:57:52Z

I made my first DIY Ethernet cable today!

Today marks 5 years since I arrived in Korea. L...

2025-10-26T12:56:11Z

Today marks 5 years since I arrived in Korea. Little did I know that the 3 month business trip in the middle of covid would become my life.

I'm very gratefull for my life since then, even though I really miss my friends and extended family in Europe.

Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary so ...

2025-10-18T00:06:39Z

Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary so we decided to re climb the mountain we climbed on our second date back in 2020, so already 5 years ago! The picture on the top is also the very first picture there is of us as a couple, even if back then we weren't a couple yet :D

And this was this spot on the map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bousYuHyEgGTLDEc9

Today on the way to the kindergarten, in the tu...

2025-10-14T02:27:02Z

Today on the way to the kindergarten, in the tunnel we have to go through, we were walking slowly behind a grandma. When my 2.5 years old had enough, he screamed at her: '비켜!', which means "Get out of the way!" in Korean.

She turned around smiling and asked him '비켜?'. She was nice and she went out of the way so we could walk faster 🤣.

I just saw this dog sitter with three small dog...

2025-09-11T01:10:30Z

I just saw this dog sitter with three small dogs, each of them had some clothes on in a different color. But that was not the most interesting thing about him, not even the full face cloth similar to a niqab Muslim women wear to cover the face, which normally older women do here in Korea.

The really striking thing was what is a bit difficult to see in the picture, so you need to zoom in a bit, but he had THREE cameras on him! One on his baseball cap, a gopro on his chest and a 360 camera on the stick in his hand.

I went by him twice within 5 minutes and the dogs were just sitting there bored, no idea if he was live streaming it for the owners or what.

Visa hurdles put Korean investment in US at ris...

2025-09-08T15:45:25Z

Visa hurdles put Korean investment in US at risk - The Korea Herald https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10570891

I think not only Korean investments. Actually I trained people in the US back in 2015 on the same visa those guys from Korea did this year, it's kind of common practice in a legal gray zone. Getting the real proper work visa takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money while the projects need to start immediately. The visa we had allowed you to do business there for 90 days. It depends a bit how you define doing business, and if training your US colleges or a customers guys is working there or doing business. You still are payed 100 % in your country and not in the US. But yeah it's a gray zone.

Now the people who were kind of forced to invest in the US to make money will have a hard time to find workers who would go there to do the training because they have to trust their company to do the paper work correctly. I would probably decline even though back then it was a lot of fun to do that project, and I did it again in Korea because I liked it so much.

But it's not worth the risk, the money is not so much more and once you end up in ICE jail, you won't be allowed in the US for tourism either in the future. The investors will have a much harder time to find the right and competent people to do the trainings there to such a degree that they will need to look to invest their money in other, investment-friendlier countries.

Ugh, apparently yesterday a bot visited my Forg...

2025-09-08T01:18:27Z

Ugh, apparently yesterday a bot visited my Forgejo instance and queried everything, which caused Forgejo to create repo archives for everything. Git on the instance is 2.1 GB in size, but the repo archive filled up everything and is 120 GB. I really didn't expect such a spike.

That meant that it filled up the whole hard drive and the server and all the services and websites on it went down while I was sleeping.

Luckily it seems that just deleting that directory fixes the problem temporarily. I also disabled the possibility of downloading archived from the UI but I'm not sure if this will prevent bots from generating those archives again. I also can't just make the directory read only because it uses it for other things like mirroring, etc too.

For small instances like mine those archives are quite headache.

I switched to Hyprland some time ago and now I ...

2025-09-05T14:24:46Z

I switched to Hyprland some time ago and now I made a video showcasing all the features I've implemented for myself, check it out!

https://tube.jeena.net/w/2EpbXJnMrDokc3362oXSTQ

In this video I'm showing my current Hyprland setup as a demo. I'm showing features I implemented myself and my configuration of hyprland, waybar, tofi, wlogout, kitty and other tools.

And here the link to my hypr-dotfiles: https://git.jeena.net/jeena/hypr-dotfiles

Mother in law made a traditional Korean birthda...

2025-08-15T23:42:09Z

Mother in law made a traditional Korean birthday breakfast for me with beef seaweed soup and a mountain of rice just for me so I don't gohungry during my birthday :D

I made some Swedish chocolate balls.

2025-08-05T10:50:27Z

I made some Swedish chocolate balls.

We ate wild scallops and it was so tasty that I...

2025-08-03T13:58:13Z

We ate wild scallops and it was so tasty that I ordered a second order.

K-Pop Deamon Hunters is the next Frozen! Our...

2025-08-02T04:22:13Z

K-Pop Deamon Hunters is the next Frozen!

Our 11 year old told us that all her friends watched it already and everyone is talking about it so we watched it as a family last week together.

Since then the whole family is in K-Pop Deamon Hunters feever. The music is on the TV on heavy rotation, the 2.5 years old is totally excited, mom is watching all the behind the scenes videos and I'm reading about the producers and what they did before.

I remember the Frozen craze back then when my niece was little, I am getting the feeling that this movie has the same potential.

I'd say it's worth watching it as a family to understand the craze being it together with your kids, and what costumes you'll need to prepare for the next Halloween :D.

When me and my sister were 6 and 4 our dad came...

2025-07-03T12:12:05Z

When me and my sister were 6 and 4 our dad came in to our room to tell us a bedtime story. He lied down with us on the bed and started telling the story.

It was just before Christmas and because our flat was small we had the Christmas tree with lights on in our room by the door, and we were on the other side of the room on the bed by the window, ca. 3 m away

Once he was done withe the story suddenly in the same moment the Christmas light turned off. That was in Poland in the 80's so no home automation or anything.

He told us the Jesus baby turned it off because it was sleeping time. Even as a 6years old I was suspicious about that answer because it was a one time thing. But I never figured out how he did it.

Last couple of weeks were crazy at work, and I'...

2025-07-03T09:27:48Z

Last couple of weeks were crazy at work, and I'm being pulled into different directions at the same time for different projects. I was hoping tat it would cool down with time but the opposite is the case. I'm so looking forward to the summer vacation even if it's only 2 weeks.

It's not easy to get to the Kindergarten when i...

2025-06-20T02:09:01Z

It's not easy to get to the Kindergarten when it's raining and the only means of transportation is your Mini Cabrio and your driver is a crocodile.

The European body is really not adapted to this...

2025-06-20T01:26:23Z

The European body is really not adapted to this humid Korean summer weather. And it's really in the genes. My wife, a biological Korean, she practically never sweats. It can be hot or humid, she can do physical work, etc. nothing. I on the other hand break out in sweat as soon the humidity goes over 60%, you could calibrate a humidity meter by that.

I thought it is because I'm overweight, which probably is a contributing factor, but it's not the main factor.

Our son, who is half Korean and half European got a mix of our genes. So I was thinking he would be somewhere in between with the sweating. But it turns out he got all my sweating genes :D He also sweats immediately when the humidity is a bit higher. He is not overweight but he moves a lot and fast which heats his body up and makes him sweat fast.

Today it is raining and we were walking to the kindergarten. It's very humid and very hot. We took umbrellas with us to not get wet. I thought it was going well until after half the way I felt that I'm dripping water from my face, my hair is totally wet, my T-Shirt too and so on. No there was no leak in the umbrella it was working fine. I was just sweating so much that from the look of it I could have left the umbrella at home and I would have been equally wet when I arrived at the Kindergarten.

The moral of this story is that I need air conditioning, not for the heat, I have no problem with hot, but for the humidity.

My wife, first time voter

2025-06-03T10:06:24Z

I was born in communist Poland, and I remember the sham of a voting process my parents had to go through. Basically, they had to go voting, but there was only one party to vote for, and if you didn't vote or made your vote invalid, you’d get into trouble.

So once we moved to Germany, election day was a very important day in my family. We would dress up nicely and accompany our parents to the polling station. Later, when I was of age, I would continue this new tradition for myself too, both in Germany, where I had full voting rights and voted for the national government two or three times, and also in Sweden, where I at least could vote for the local government. So, even though theoretically I was in the free west, most of my life I somehow lived somewhere where I couldn’t quite vote like everyone else.

Now I’m in South Korea, and today they are electing the new president after the previous one got impeached because he installed martial law. And here again, I am not allowed to vote.

My wife was born in communist China, and there she was obviously not allowed to vote either. After she moved to Korea, she was still a Chinese citizen, so as a foreigner, she was still not allowed to vote.

But last year, she finally became Korean, like her grandparents were who fled to China because of WWII and Japan attacking Busan and the other cities in the south of Korea.

So today, it was her first time in her life that she was allowed to vote. I proposed to continue the tradition my parents invented, and we waited until our daughter was back from school, put on nice clothes, and went to the close-by school where they set up a polling station.

I really wanted especially our teenage daughter to see that active participation in the democratic process is something important to us and that we treat it with the respect it deserves. Many people in the world don't have the privilege to shape the future of the place they live in – including me.

Anyway, congratulations for finally getting to vote in a general election of your country, my love!

Just heard in a podcast that "Integration is no...

2025-05-29T01:06:49Z

Just heard in a podcast that "Integration is not a one way street."

I'm a 3 times immigrant (Germany, Sweden, South Korea) and I never thought about that.

But it kind of makes sense that the society which does the integration also changes it's behavior, traditions, etc. to accommodate the newcomers.

And the success of integration is höger when both sides contribute. But somehow I swallowed the conservative view that it's it's up to the immigrant to do the integration job and if they don't they should go back, without ever questioning it.

Today was the first time ChatGTP helped me to s...

2025-05-25T04:00:18Z

Today was the first time ChatGTP helped me to solve a problem all the way through.

I use Immich to store my families pictures and do it with docker. When I tried to stop it for a update the machine learning container was stuck.

Through back and forth it figured out that for some reason my Arch installation didn't have the nvidia-container-toolkit and neither /etc/docker/daemon.json and docker got stuck trying accessing the GPU.

After I installed it it just worked. I'm not sure why they were suddenly missing but it's nice to have a helping rubberduck.

Normally it just hallucinates when it comes to a bit more concrete IT problems.

It has been decades I went to the Mahr's brewer...

2025-05-12T07:31:13Z

It has been decades I went to the Mahr's brewery in Bamberg. But last week we were visiting my parents in Germany on their 70's birthday so we went there to have a pint of their U: https://www.mahrs.de/beer/?lang=en

Difficult parenting morning

2025-04-30T01:38:40Z

I'm just posting it because it's funny and I want to remember it in the future :D

Today was very difficult on the way to the Kindergarten. The little one wanted to take the kickbike but after 20m he decided to go with his little car. Then he wanted to go with the bike anyway, so in the end I pushed the car with the bag hanging on it and he went on the kickbike.

Then after 500m he was too tired of the kickbike and switched to the car. So I carried the bike and pushed the car.

Then he said he needs to poop. We took off the pants and tried to poop in the gras. It didn't work. (We were already late because he was trying to poop at home too but nothing came out.)

Then he didn't want to go back into the car, neither to go on the kickbike and didn't want to be carried, nor walk by himself. Just stand there.

After some time I grabbed him and carried him, kicking and crying, the kick bike and pushing the car. Then I got very tired and put him into the car. While driving he tried to get out of the car and had one leg out on the sidewalk and the other in the car.

Then we went by the one Kindergarten which is 2/3 on the way to our Kindergarten, and the children were in costume as firefighters. That cought his attention and he was watching them and went back into the car.

The rest he was just whining.

So today mom needs to bring both the car and the kickbike from the Kindergarten today ^^

And now I'm sitting in a café to relax a bit ^^

When I came to Korea for the first business tri...

2025-04-17T02:29:03Z

When I came to Korea for the first business trip it was with Gordan. After the business trip he went back to Sweden and I stayed in Korea. After 4 years he felt the urge to visit Korea again and we met and celebrated with our old tradition, a Korean BBQ.

To use ESPHome Device Builder in Chrome on Arch...

2025-04-15T01:50:33Z

To use ESPHome Device Builder in Chrome on Arch Linux, don't forget to add your user to the uucp group and reboot.

Or do this without rebooting:

sudo usermod -a -G uucp username
newgrp uucp
chromium

Then holding down the flash button (right of usb-c) while plugging in and continuing to hold the flash button while starting the flash process by pressing "Prepare for first use" from https://web.esphome.io/

I seem to be the first person outside embracing...

2025-04-07T00:55:23Z

I seem to be the first person outside embracing spring by walking around with a T-shirt without a jacket.

I really like espresso, and there's this espres...

2025-04-01T02:49:49Z

I really like espresso, and there's this espresso bar where I always go about twice a week to have an espresso. The owner is also a tour guide for Koreans who want to travel to Europe.

And he just came back to Korea from Kraków in Poland which is just an hour away from where I was born. He brought some smoked cheese from there and shared it with me and another customer 😃.

It was quite many years ago I had is, the flavor brings back memories.

Today we went to Moran where they have a tradit...

2025-03-29T12:37:25Z

Today we went to Moran where they have a traditional market every 5 days. There is kind of a food court with a lot of tents where it's ok warm during the winter and we ate there some pig skin and lung and then also a clam soup with noodles and a fried pancake.

It's the time of the year with bad air pollutio...

2025-03-23T02:44:17Z

It's the time of the year with bad air pollution again, as soon as it is getting a bit warmer.

This is one of the bad things living in South Korea.

The library close by here in Pangyo has one dai...

2025-03-20T03:15:10Z

The library close by here in Pangyo has one daily newspaper in English, the https://koreaherald.com so sometimes it's nice to come here and read the paper version.

They have this text here on the window at my fa...

2025-03-19T03:27:19Z

They have this text here on the window at my favorite Espresso Bar called Cremano.

I tried to play my older Call of Duty games fro...

2025-03-18T04:49:36Z

I tried to play my older Call of Duty games from 2009 and 2011 on Linux and to my surprise, they just worked! The only problem is that there is nobody playing it multiplayer. So I looked into the newest ones and those sadly still don't work on Linux, bummer.

Since I came to Korea I struggled to use the Ko...

2025-03-11T05:54:26Z

Since I came to Korea I struggled to use the Korean Alphabet on my Linux machine with GNOME. Fcitx 5 is the one which has least problems with Korean, but there is a bug in GNOME which prevents me to use it in the search box to start applications https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/797 The bug is open and already 6 years old, so I don't think it will be fixed soon.

Anyway, Sungjoon Moon who reached out to me because of my blog post https://jeena.net/scaling-on-linux has also given a talk "Status of CJK input system in Wayland" check it out: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6533-status-of-cjk-input-system-in-wayland/

He shows some of the bugs of it in different apps, and the problems why those bugs are still there.

Getting some lunch with my girls while our boy ...

2025-03-07T03:36:30Z

Getting some lunch with my girls while our boy is in Kindergarten. Since he was born we didn't have many occasions to spent time alone with our daughter.

No wonder our planet is drowning in plastic if ...

2025-03-07T03:33:49Z

No wonder our planet is drowning in plastic if we wrap every single strawberry into a puffy plastic wrap and then all of them into more puffy plastic and then wrap the whole package in plastic.

Damn, Vultr - where I am storing my video files...

2025-03-06T01:56:16Z

Damn, Vultr - where I am storing my video files for my PeerTube instance is increasing the price by 3 times, from $6/TB/Month -> $18/TB/Month end of this year. That's a pity because I have chosen them because they were so cheap and accessible from both Europe and Asia. I guess I need a new way of storing those files.

We've just been in a hotel where they had a hug...

2025-03-03T06:09:58Z

We've just been in a hotel where they had a huge TV and our daughter turned it on and happily reported that it had SmartTube preinstalled which removes advertising and has sponsor block build in. Very thoughtful.

My feed on Facebook is full of Elon and Transphobia

2025-02-28T01:59:26Z

Back in 2006 I was coerced by my work colleagues to join Facebook, they threatened that if I don't do it they will create an account with my real name and post embarrassing stuff so I did it. In the early years it was actually better than I expected, I reconnected with friends from different Schools who also moved around in the world and I started appreciate being able to see what they were up to. This was my main reason why I stayed on Facebook (and still am on Instagram).

But nowadays when I log in to Facebook, which I do like once every couple of weeks, this looks very different. I categorized the first 27 posts on my Facebook feed:

Want / Don't want	Description
✓	Memory picture from 10 years ago
✓	Link to a local newspaper article from a friend
✗	Random short videos
✗	Transphobia
✗	Elon Musk
✗	Right-Wing Extremism
✗	Elon Musk
✗	Elon Musk
✓	Friends memory post from 12 years ago
✗	Lex Friedman
✗	Random short videos
✓	Expat group post I follow
✗	Elon Musk
✗	Science post about Thorium
✗	Some random post about New York
✗	Elon Musk
✗	Sexism
✗	"The youth is so entitled!" post
✗	Fat shaming
✗	Programming joke
✗	People you may know
✗	Elon Musk + Transphobia
✓	Friends post from Palestine about some guy
✓	Friends picture post from their vacation
✗	IT humor
✗	Elon Musk
✗	Transphobia

And here it is visually for you to see what I saw in my feed:

So you see I'm going to Facebook only to see what my friends are up to, but I only see 1 single post about this out of the 27 initial ones. But I see 7 Elon Musk posts, 4 Transphobia ones and I have to assume that Elon hates his trans doughtier so much that he gives Mark money so that he pushes all this content.

So now the legitimate question, why am I still on Facebook? I'm still hoping to see those friend posts. And actually Facebook even has a feature to do that, you need to go to Feeds -> Friends where they show a chronological list of your friends posts which took me years to find. The thing still is that only very few of

What are the odds to meet someone

2025-02-19T13:13:37Z

I know only two German guys here in Korea: Tillo and Sasha. We met them because they're also married to Koreans and have children around our son's age. My wife opened a Kakao chat (It's the dominant chat application in Korea similar to WhatsApp) group for moms of foreign babies here in Seongnam, which is how we met.

Last weekend, we visited my wife's parents and stayed overnight. They live within walking distance from Itaewon in Seoul, basically a district close to the US Army base where many foreigners reside, along with numerous clubs, bars, and pubs.

Since our son was born two years ago, we haven't been out for a drink at all. Even before that, we only went to Itaewon for drinks twice. This time, we walked through the streets lined with clubs to check it out—interestingly, my wife had never been to a club before. In the end, though, we ended up in a cocktail bar where we enjoyed some tasty drinks: she had a cosmopolitan and I had a tequila sunrise.

It wasn't very late yet, so we decided to check out another bar. We went outside and were walking when suddenly we saw a familiar face—it was Tillo, one of the two German guys we know here in Korea. They invited us to a Halloween party last year; it was great! Anyway, such a coincidence that on the one night we go out in Itaewon, this happened—and we met randomly at the subway entrance where he was heading home while we just walked by. What are the odds?

This isn't the first time something like that has happened to me. While still in university, I visited my cousin in London. It was late and I was walking out of the subway and across a very busy crossing, among thousands of others. In the middle of it all, suddenly there was a familiar face—a guy from university who is one year above me! He was in London for a job interview and had just randomly walked onto this street. The week before, we both saw each other at university—what are the odds of seeing him in the middle of London?

Another time, I was flying to Japan and met a German guy who lived in Norway, while I lived in Sweden. He was an interesting guy, so we exchanged Facebook usernames and talked a bit on Facebook, but that was it.

A couple of years later, I was flying somewhere with a layover in Frankfurt. I was walking to my gate when suddenly there was a familiar face—it was Jürgen from the flight to Japan! We sat down, had a beer together, and talked more about traveling and stuff. In the middle of a huge airport in a third country, meeting this guy again who randomly was my seatmate on an airplane a couple of years ago and who was a cool dude—what are the odds?

I want to use AI more at work because it makes ...

2025-02-19T04:52:03Z

I want to use AI more at work because it makes things like research easier. But I don't want to sent my companies data to some American or Chinese servers where they do what knows with it. I have build a PC and am able to run smaller local llms like Microsofts phi4. Doing that is cool but it halucinates and it's difficult to fact check.

But in the Open WebUI I'm using to access it it's possible to tell it to use the internet to do the research for me and give me the summaries and the link to the source so I can doubble check easier. It's amazing, like googling on steroids.

We watched the Netflix show "Culinary Class War...

2025-02-14T01:47:33Z

We watched the Netflix show "Culinary Class Wars" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CulinaryClassWars and the winner of it, Napoli Mafia, created a mozzarella burger for the Korean McDonalds which is called Lotteria.

I walk by it often and after seeing the advertisement campaign I went in to try it. But it was sold out already. I tried a couple of more times but it's always sold out.

But even the normal mozzarella burger is sold out. So they ran out of mozzarella for weeks now, while they have a bug advertisement campaign where they pay this guy probably a lot of money. Good for him :)

Over the years I accumulated very many services...

2025-02-13T01:24:29Z

Over the years I accumulated very many services which I host myself and each of them has it's own URL:

6 websites, mine and my sisters
3 instances of home assistant
Uptime Kuma
Synology with photos on it
Matrix server
Firefox sync
TinyTinyRSS
Mastodon
PeerTube
PieFed
Immich
Open WebUI (for local large language models)
UniFi (CCTV)
Baïkal (Cal- and CardDav)

I'm probably forgetting some of them now and I'm planning to host more in the future.

The problem is how to remember all of those URLs or domains. I have a system how I call them, but my extended family can't really remember them.

I think it's time for a landing page. Do you guys have any suggestions?

It's the time of the year again where we make L...

2025-01-28T10:56:36Z

It's the time of the year again where we make Lunar New Years Dumplings at my parent's in law's place again.

Every year I'm getting better at shaping them.

This year they are with pork and beef mixes and half of them are with cabbage and the other half with celery.

Duck parts: feet, neck, liver, tongue, head ...

2025-01-26T11:32:13Z

Duck parts: feet, neck, liver, tongue, head

I live in Korea and sometimes we go to our local China town. When there I sometimes go to the shop with duck parts.

I don't like the toungue or the feet, but the liver is super tasty, spicy and flavourfull.

On the way to my sons Kindergarten we have a ve...

2025-01-22T01:09:20Z

On the way to my sons Kindergarten we have a ver odd looking spiderman statue. I really wonder what the story behind it is.

Ice Latte in Korea

2025-01-22T01:05:54Z

I started drinking coffee in Germany where there is the idiom: "Kalter Kaffe"

The idiom "Kalter Kaffee" in German literally means "cold coffee," but figuratively, it refers to something that is old news, outdated, or not interesting anymore. It’s often used to dismiss information or topics as no longer relevant.

Anyway, it's something undesirable.

But I get the appeal, I like the fruitiness of a coldbrew, especially with tonic water during the summer. It's refreshing and cooling down your body.

What I really can't get behind is how much Koreans love their Ice coffee, especially during the winter.

Right now I'm sitting in a cafe in the morning and sip on my hot cafe latte warming up my fingers while it's freezing outside, windy and everyone has a big winter coat on.

But then at the same time every person who comes in orders a Ice Latte, which is a cafe latte full of ice cubes. They wait to get it and then go outside to drink it in the freezing cold on their way to work or wherever they go.

So I don't get it, once coffee is cold I always throw it away and brew a new one because it tastes terrible.

This is one of those cultural clashes I can't get over.

IT help for the parents

2025-01-20T14:31:55Z

It's interesting how complicated things get. My parents live in Germany and I live in South Korea, but I do a lot of IT help so I already have set up VNC on my dads computer to make it a bit easier.

I wanted to help my dad to connect WhatsApp on his computer with his phone.

I was thinking on the computer go to web.whatsapp.com and on the phone open WhatsApps -> Settings -> Connect Device, Scann QR Code done.

In reality:

On the computer go to web.whatsapp.com
On the phone Open WhatsApp -> Settings -> Connect Device
No way to scan code, only the help opens automatically
On computer click connect via Phone number
Shows a code to write
On phone no notification arrives
No way to put in the code in WhatsApp
Perhaps camera is down on the phone, reboot phone
No idea what the PIN is
Dad has to find the PUK
5 minutes later he finds it
Puts in PUK
Phone asks him to put in a new PIN
Which PIN?
I tell him to choose one
He puts in the pin clicks ok
Phone asks him to put in the PUK again
He puts in the PUK
Phone asks him to put in a new PIN
This happens 2 more times, he is ready to give up
I tell him to put the webcam down so I can see the phone on my PC
He fiddles around, gets it done, I see only a white screen, it's too bright
We need more light, the contrast is to extreme for the webcam
He finds a lamp, connects it to the socket and turns it on
I can see the phone screen on the webcam which he is holding sideways, his hand shakes a lot
I tell him to put in the PUK again and he does
I tell him to put the PIN in again and he does
I see phone asks him to put in the new PIN again and tell him to do so
He puts in the new PIN a second time and now it works
We go back to WhatsApp, Settings -> Connect Devices -> Connect -> Help page
I google, someone says that What's app needs to have Camera allowed
I tell dad to call me via Signal and share the screen
He calls me, there is no screen sharing on the phone in Signal
I tell him to call me on WhatsApp instead
I have to get my Phone because I don't have WhatsApp on the PC
Can't find the phone, wife put it somewhere, wake up wife in the process
She tells me where the phone is
Finally dad can call me on WhatsApp
My Battery is only 15%
Dad shares screen with me
We try to figure out how to check if WhatsApp can access cammera
Settings -> hm what now? we try Commandcenter
Nope, this is clearly wrong, I tell dad to go back
He clicks repeatedly on reset Commandcenter I tell him to cancel, he clicks again, I tell him to cancel
I tell him to go back at the top left corner
I tell him to scroll down, we find Applications
I tell him to click on it, he can't find it, then he finds it and clicks
There is a long list with applications I tell hem to scroll down
Sroll more, even more, it's alphabetically sorter, scroll all the way down to WhatsApp
He scrolls down, WhatsApp appears, click on it, he does
I can see WhatsApp already has access to the camera
I have no idea why it doesn't let him to scan the QR code and just shows him the help page
I tell him we need to give up for today because it's already 11:30pm
We give up and say good night

Perhaps it unstucks somehow itself tomorrow ...

Every couple of years I need to buy a new PC an...

2025-01-17T12:55:52Z

Every couple of years I need to buy a new PC and then I need to start doing all the research and I feel I have to start from scratch because I have no idea what all the current things are nowadays. It feels like a chore and makes me move the purchase further and further into the future.

I just saw a old hipster guy walking in front o...

2025-01-07T01:03:20Z

I just saw a old hipster guy walking in front of me and my son while we were on the way to Kindergarten. Anyway, he had a coffee to go on him and the plastic lock which sits on top of it fell on the floor. So he kicked it first and was almost on the way on leaving it there, but suddenly he saw us two.

I guess he felt embarrassed because he decided to bow down and get it. But because he is old he has a really hard time to get that low and he struggles to get it. I feel sorry that this happened to him, but he gets it and keeps going.

Poppy seeds are illegal in Korea

2024-12-23T14:54:12Z

I'm born in Upper Silesia (which is former Germany but now Poland) and for Christmas there is a super delicious desert called Makówka and I was on Coupang ordering all the things from my grocery list for the traditional Christmas diner

Dish	English	In Korean
Borscht	Beets	비트루트
	Sugar	백설탕
	Vinegar	백식초
	Eggs	신선란
	Heavy Cream	휘핑크림
Pickle Soup	Pickled Cucumbers	오이피클
	Carrots	국내산 당근
	Potatoes	국내산 감자
Potato Pancakes	Potatoes	국내산 감자
	Potato Starch	감자전분
	Mushrooms	양송이버섯
	Heavy Cream	휘핑크림
Potato Salad	Pickled Cucumbers	오이피클
	Potatoes	국내산 감자
	Carrots	국내산 당근
	Mayonnaise	백설 마요네즈
	Peas	캔 완두콩
Fish	Carp	활잉어
Fish	Trout	활송어
Poppy Seed Dish	Poppy Seeds	양귀비 씨앗
	Sweet Bread	브리오슈 빵
	Milk	멸균우유
	Sugar	백설탕
	Almonds	슬라이스 아몬드
	Walnuts	껍질 벗긴 호두
	Raisins	골든 레이즌

At the end I tried to order the poppy seeds which are the main ingredient of the desert.

And by main ingredient I mean you need like 3 kg of it. In Poland and Germany you just buy it in the supermarket, they sell it in 500g packages. I lived in Sweden and there it was already difficult because they only sold it in 30g packages and it was somehow expensive, so that I always brought some from Germany to have in storage.

Anyway I couldn't find it at all, and then I asked ChatGTP where I could buy it in Korea and it told me:

In Korean, "mak" (poppy seeds) is referred to as 양귀비 씨앗. However, it's important to note that poppy seeds are classified as narcotics in South Korea, and their possession or importation is strictly prohibited. Attempting to order or bring poppy seeds into the country can lead to serious legal consequences, including fines or imprisonment. Therefore, it's advisable to avoid purchasing or attempting to import poppy seeds while in South Korea.

And as the source it linked to a this New York Post article.

God damn it, so no Makówka for me this year ...

We are in Okinawa for a couple of days. The wea...

2024-12-15T10:56:03Z

We are in Okinawa for a couple of days. The weather is fantastic and so is the nature here. We had some sobą noodles and also yakiniku. Now we are back to our AirBnB which is prepared for families with children.

I am trying to do my 10k steps every day and fo...

2024-12-12T02:16:48Z

I am trying to do my 10k steps every day and for that I come by a senior golf place where very many seniors play this weird golf like game but with a big plastic ball and the course is much shorter.

They play in teams of 5 and there is a team at ever hole.

Now, with the help of AI, it's even easier to w...

2024-12-10T19:10:02Z

Now, with the help of AI, it's even easier to waste time of open source developers by creating fake security vulnerability reports: https://hackerone.com/reports/2887487

In Germany you can buy Stollen at Aldi for 4.79...

2024-12-03T02:56:23Z

In Germany you can buy Stollen at Aldi for 4.79 € / kg https://www.aldi-sued.de/de/p.wintertraum-marzipanstollen--kg.000000000000272686.html

Here in Korea our local bakery sells them too https://www.instagram.com/p/DC8UzE6PL8I/ but the price is 35,000 ₩ for 500g, or 47.55 € / kg which is basically 10 times the price.

Today one of my best friends wrote me that his ...

2024-11-28T02:41:23Z

Today one of my best friends wrote me that his families home got bombed to dust and his grandmas sister died in that attack in Lebanon.

Israel is a terrorist state and needs to be stopped.

This is the bad side of having international friends and family, the wars hit much closer to home. If you spent your life in your village and never meet anyone it's much easier to ignore it. Ignorance truly is bliss.

And on top of that I'm a #German citizen and German law forbids me to criticize the state of Israel. So now I'm not allowed to point out that the state of Israel (not the Jews per se mind you) are doing the same to other people what happened to them. This is absurd, stupid and counter productive.

We Germans pledged [Never again!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_again), but the meaning changed now to include only the Holocaust.

It's finally snowing! And it's still November. ...

2024-11-27T01:07:31Z

It's finally snowing! And it's still November. We were on the way to the Kindergarten.

God damn it, I was watching the latest Matrix m...

2024-11-25T02:56:46Z

God damn it, I was watching the latest Matrix movie on Netflix because it showed that it will be removed soon so I thought I could just watch it on the side, and it was quite good honestly, but after almost half of it it started buffering and then showed an error:

> Pardon the interruption > This title currently isn't available in your country.

So they suddenly removed the movie in the middle of me watching it ... or so I thought.

In reality I was on the VPN on in my parents house in Germany when I started watching it. And then I disconnected because I didn't need it anymore. It then kept going for some time until the error occurred.

You should try coffee tonic, perhaps it's bette...

2024-11-23T12:40:02Z

You should try coffee tonic, perhaps it's better with espresso, but I don't have a espresso machine at home so instead I'm doing it with cold-brew. It's delicious!

We went to some African restaurant in Seoul to ...

2024-11-20T17:38:54Z

We went to some African restaurant in Seoul to try it out.

Suddenly a guy with a camera introduced himself that he is recording for some TV show about restaurants with foreign food in Seoul, he asked if he could record me, but to praise the food and say how amazing it is. They like to show foreigners praising food on TV here.

Anyway my stake was burned so I had to lie about why this is a good thing and why it is so amazing.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/jYGPorJzRuHF7dfJ648d6A

Paying for the first date

2024-11-15T17:29:11Z

So I'm from Europe and went on a business trip to South Korea. I haven't been dating much but installed a dating app thinking why the hell not. Anyway, I matched with one woman and we start talking and it gets deep quickly and after a couple of days she gets impatient that I didn't suggest to meet up so she suggests it. We meet up in a Korean sashimi restaurant and I talk most of the time - I guess because she is self conscious of her English - but she listens actively and it's really nice.

Once we're done we stand up, she gets her coat and I walk to the counter to pay (you don't pay at the table in Korea). Suddenly I realize she somehow already payed! I low key panic, it's the first date and I'm supposed to pay, what is going on? Korea, what are you doing, what is going on? I try to explain to her that this is not how it's supposed to be but she just brushes it off and we go out for coffee (which I pay, this is another custom in Korea that if one pays for the food, the other pays for the coffee afterwards) and for a long romantic walk by the river.

Anyway, this was four years ago and last months was our wedding, our son is 22 moth old and we and her daughter all live as a happy little family here in Korea.

Just around the corner at our house older Korea...

2024-11-09T08:09:09Z

Just around the corner at our house older Koreans are doing guerilla gardening:

https://tube.jeena.net/w/eFpD5w1mzth6pjJuaCNeqv

Like https://kiko.io/post/Diving-Into-the-World-of-Lemmy/

2024-10-27T12:24:14Z

Jeena ♥ https://kiko.io/post/Diving-Into-the-World-of-Lemmy/

Like https://kiko.io/post/Mentions-United-3-2-1-go/

2024-10-27T12:23:40Z

Jeena ♥ https://kiko.io/post/Mentions-United-3-2-1-go/

We are finally married!

2024-10-17T08:36:22Z

We are finally married!

I was on my phone listening to the WTF podcast ...

2024-10-08T01:33:07Z

I was on my phone listening to the WTF podcast in AntennaPod with Marc Maron and he mentioned this movie "Past Lives" which I have never heard of before. So I opened Firefox (where I have uBlock origin installed) and googled it and checked out the IMDB page and watched the trailer. Then I closed the page.

Half an hour later I was thinking perhaps to find a new show to watch on Netflix. So I open it on my phone and open my account and in full screen it advertises the "Past Lives" movie for me to watch!

Even though I know technically that they are watching me and selling my data to advertisers, but this is a first one for me being so extremely direct.

I got the chills, don't want to watch anything on Netflix anymore for now.

How the turntables... Our little one is now ...

2024-09-29T13:06:48Z

How the turntables...

Our little one is now 19 months old. In the first year, I was home with him and put him to bed about 90% of the time. It was always difficult and took a while, but it was a good time, just the two of us.

But for the past three months, he's been in daycare for about 6 hours a day. I take him there around 10 a.m., and his mom picks him up at 4 p.m. Over time, his mom started putting him to bed more often because I sometimes have meetings in the evening.

Now, only his mom is allowed to put him to bed. If I even hint that it’s bedtime, he runs straight to her. But it's still difficult and sometimes takes up to two hours. Sometimes his mom has had enough and calls me to take over, like today.

As soon as he realizes she has left the room, he starts crying terribly. None of my old tricks work anymore. Carrying him doesn’t help, holding him on my lap doesn’t work, cuddling is out of the question, and the pacifier flies across the room if I even bring it close to him. Drinking isn't interesting either.

Today, he screamed into my ear for 20 minutes straight until his mom couldn’t take it anymore and came back into the bedroom. But thanks to my effort in getting him to scream for 20 minutes, he fell asleep with his mom in the room within 5 minutes.

Being a dad is not always easy.

Blue hour close to us right now. #korea

2024-09-22T10:09:01Z

Blue hour close to us right now. #korea

Ten years ago I added the "Notes" section to my...

2024-09-20T04:33:02Z

Ten years ago I added the "Notes" section to my website which replaced my Twitter usage. I never got around to implement pagination so all the notes are just on the one index page https://jeena.net/notes

I checked how big it is, so it's 831 kB with the HTML and only 338 kB as plain text.

So 10 years of micro-blogging fits in 338 kB, pretty cool.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/h65Mp43ngdXoFajS8 Ri...

2024-09-15T15:05:21Z

https://maps.app.goo.gl/h65Mp43ngdXoFajS8

Right now I am trully in the middle of nowhere on a small road in Chinas mountains. I haven't seen any other cars for quite some time.

We were supposed to travel to Chinas Mountains in the Sechuan province yesterday but I didn't bring my second passport with me - long story short family went yesterday and I'm catching up to them today in a taxi.

But if I'm honest, this is the China I'm excited to see, not the big cities.

Being a parent is a lot of work, here is an ide...

2024-09-12T06:41:31Z

Being a parent is a lot of work, here is an idea for a AI which would help with it.

School and Kindergarten send out a lot of emails, information letters, etc. with a lot of text, in my case even in a language I don't speak. Most if it is nice to know but some parts need real action from the parents like buying some special clothes for special occasions, or signing up your child for something, or even joining for a meeting, etc. They assume that the parents read everything so there is no special "action required" label to make sure you see that one.

So my thinking is that you could feed the AI with all of this incoming information and it could filter and categorize it and slap on labels like "action required" to it to make sure you as a parent read it. It could also give you some summary of it to make it easier to decide.

I was excited to learn about two new terminal e...

2024-09-12T04:00:34Z

I was excited to learn about two new terminal emulator app which seemed to have a lot of cool new features, warp and wave. Then I looked closer and found that both are a no go for me.

Warp is closed source and you need to create an account to use your terminal. Jebus Christus, no, thanks, but no.

Wave is an Electron app. While that's better than not having a Linux version, I've seen how Electron apps behave. They are the ones which hog all memory and get killed by the OS first. So that's a no from me too.

I guess I keep my Tilix for now.

We went to a rock concert and there was a nice ...

2024-09-07T10:33:21Z

We went to a rock concert and there was a nice sunset behind it.

The band playing was SURL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCusgx41tqk

How to make friends

2024-09-05T12:27:12Z

On Lemmy someone asked: Where do you even meet people anymore? and they meant outside of school or university. I thought it might be fun to remember how I made friends over the years.

I moved a lot during my life, living in the 4th country now, stayed in each one for about 15 years. Therefore I had to make friends outside of school.

Here is a list of how I found them:

20's:

Through my cousin, he was a coworker with my future best friend
Started a band with a friend and his cousin, then we kicked out the friend and got a better drummer. Through the band we met a ton of other musicians while playing life and became friends with them
I joined a IRC channel about writing HTML and CSS, once a year we met in real life. Over time I became closer friends with some of them and we visited each other semi regularly. We still hang in the same chatroom, over 20 years ago. Half of us moved abroad, so we can't meet IRL that often anymore, but we are still friends
After moving countries I made a house warming party and asked my (now ex) wife's brother to invite his friends, I brought 50 liters of beer from Germany to this party in Sweden. This group became my core group of friends even after the divorce

30's:

Work, I became very good friend with one of my coworkers, we even started a new company together because I was the only one who wasn't afraid to try it
University, yeah normal
One uni friend pulled me in to the company he worked for where there were very many super cool guys and I became friends with many of them. Even now like 7 years after we don't work together we still meet regularly for grill parties, etc.

40's:

After another move, to South Korea, this one is tough because I still don't speak the language, but after we got our son, my fiancé opened a public group on the Internet for couples who have a small child and one of the parents is a foreigner. Many of them don't quite fit me as friends but we still meet some of them for play dates and so on so our friendship is growing
I was on the playground and there was another foreigner dad and we started talking about the kids and everything else, then we exchanges phone numbers and are meeting regularly and it's fun because conversations are easy, so he is the closest thing to a friend I have here. But I have no idea how it would go if I need help in some bad situation, etc. because we didn't have any yet.

So yeah, this is kind of where I found my friends outside of school. Perhaps it can be some inspiration for you too.

We took our 1,5 years old to a small water park...

2024-09-03T09:19:15Z

We took our 1,5 years old to a small water park. He was probably the youngest there. But he was so extremely brave and did yeverything by himself, sliding down the long slide, going under the water fountains, running and falling into the water, etc.

There was a boy perhaps double his age who was very caucious and held on to his granddad's hand all the time and so on. You could see that he was kind of embarrised when he saw our boy doing every thing by himself and having so much fun.

So the boy also got inspired to let his grandpa go and try to have more fun by himself. When he was going up the wide stairs to the slide our boy was faster and wanted to go around him. The other boy didn't want that and tried to push down our boy. But instead of whining or crying our boy pointed with his finger at the other one and said: "No!" like he usually talks to our cat.

And while the other boys grandparents also told him not to push others he stopped and they both went up.

Anyway, it's so great to see how our boy learns the social interactions and is so self-confident that he doesn't even need our help in those difficult situations.

Today on the way to the Kindergarten we saw a s...

2024-08-29T00:54:43Z

Today on the way to the Kindergarten we saw a squirrel! In the middle of the city.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/sHsjeY2etFukaEzy95YPmy...

2024-08-22T03:18:37Z

https://tube.jeena.net/w/sHsjeY2etFukaEzy95YPmy

Going by car from Pangyo to Seoul (ca. 30km) does not make any sense in the morning at 9am. The bus has it's own lane and it takes about 40 minutes and by car 1h 11 min, almost twice as long.

I was just researching and watching a video abo...

2024-08-19T02:48:29Z

I was just researching and watching a video about robot vacuum cleaners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D677jDPeAs The features are all well and so, but what I'm lacking from all of those videos is information about reliability.

I had a Roomba one for 11 years and while it didn't have almost any features and just randomly ran around the floor it got the job done for 11 years just by replacing the battery and the brushes a couple of times. I was very happy with it.

Then I bought one of those Xiaomi Lydsto S1 ones with very cool features, an app and self emptying bin, lidar, mopping with water and so on. It was a terrible experience, every one or two weeks it would forget the mapping and would need to do it again and me setting up the areas where it should not go every time. The App was terrible and I started closing the door to some rooms and vacuuming by hand there because it was easier than setting up the barriers so often in the app. The connection to HomeAssistant needed a very hacky solution which would break all the time, no local connection, only through the cloud. And then finally after a year it stopped charging. I cleaned all the contacts, I replaced the battery (which helped for one month) and sometimes when you pushed it manually against the charging metal strips it would charge, but sometimes not. So in the end shortly after one year we threw it away and do the vacuuming by hand which is shit work but at least works.

I think my next one will be a Roomba again, I just hope that packing them full of features didn't make them shit.

Those have been my two favorite sodas for decad...

2024-08-07T00:38:28Z

Those have been my two favorite sodas for decades. CocaCola cherry and Dr Pepper.

Both I think I had the first time at the end of the 90's when I went back to Poland on vacation to visit relatives.

Now there are also those zero sugar variants.

At university when we struggled with Matlab and...

2024-08-02T07:13:00Z

At university when we struggled with Matlab and the professor told us that we need to become good at it to get a job we laughed at him and told him that nobody in the industry uses Matlab for anything anymore and he should update himself on how people in the industry work!

That was 15 years ago, now I'm seeing Matlab on every other step in the automobile industry. In autonomous drive, in AUTOSAR like https://www.matlabexpo.com/content/dam/mathworks/mathworks-dot-com/company/events/conferences/matlab-expo-korea/2024/kr-expo-2024-hyundai-autosar-mobilgene.pdf and so on.

So sorry for not believing in Matlab back then.

Today I was wondering how different countries b...

2024-08-01T12:46:22Z

Today I was wondering how different countries birth rates compare to each other so I asked ChatGTP to make me a graph. But it was not able to, it said the code is too long or something. But it did something even better. It guided me to get the raw data myself from the Worldbank website and gave me a python script which I could use to plot the data myself. And it worked surprisingly well, this is the result.

We have a little tree hugger in our family.

2024-07-28T01:31:48Z

We have a little tree hugger in our family.

We went to the Korean east sea and had a hotel ...

2024-07-27T23:14:40Z

We went to the Korean east sea and had a hotel with a great ocean view so I got up at 4:45 am to photograph the sunrise.

I was about 30 years old when I talked to my mo...

2024-07-23T14:35:28Z

I was about 30 years old when I talked to my mother about some program on TV about astronomy when she mentioned that our sun is a star. It's like all the other stars we see during the night, it's just closer to us so it appears bigger. My mind was blown. I didn't understand how I could live for 30 years and never thought this thought.

Yesterday my and our 10 years old were talking about the universe and things in it, and I mentioned to her that our sun is just a star like all the other ones we see during the night. I saw that her mind was as blown as mine was back when my mom told me this fact.

Actually even in the song "Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are." it encourages us to think about this fact, but it took me 30 years to do so.

Our neighbor grew peppermint in some pots but t...

2024-07-15T14:09:23Z

Our neighbor grew peppermint in some pots but the plants are happily growing to everywhere so they grew from his side to our side.

Today I brought my scissors and cut off a bunch of them and made peppermint tea marrocean style.

So first brew a bit of green tea which we got from some work colleagues of my partner from China. Then throw away the first tea brewed because it has some flavors we don't like. After that put it as much peppermint as fitts in and put a rediciolous amount of sugar on top. Put boiling water on it and brew for some time.

Both hot and cold it's like drinking peppermint candy, delicious!

Our son surprises us with what he is capable of...

2024-07-12T12:59:23Z

Our son surprises us with what he is capable of time and time again. He is almost 1 and a half years old and he has one of those toys where you press a button and it plays a story. It's in Korean and I like the "빨간 모자" (Little Red Riding Hood) story so I set it up to play this one when he plays with it.

Anyway, we were sitting on the bed and he had a towel over his head and I mentioned he looks like Little Red Riding Hood, and then his mom started telling the beginning of the story. He went down from the bed and left the room, we assumed that it was too boring with us.

But shortly after he came back with the previously mentioned toy and told us to turn it on so he could listen to the story.

When they're so small you always wonder what they understand and what not. Here he not only understood the story, but remembered that this specific toy is telling the same story and he remembered where he put it and brought it and made himself clear he want's us to turn on this story. Does that count as partially abstract thinking?

Damn the humidity in Korea is killing me. At le...

2024-07-06T13:07:17Z

Damn the humidity in Korea is killing me. At least it's not that warm yet so I'm not quite sweating yet. But one more degree and all my clothes will be wett all day long.

Every now and then I see someone on YouTube won...

2024-06-22T13:24:08Z

Every now and then I see someone on YouTube wonder how it can be that the streets and sidewalks here in Korea are so clean while there are no public trashcans available. The secret is: Old people.

Let me explain, every morning when I go to the daycare with my son I see between 5 and 10 elderly people walk along the street with their yellow vests - which say "Pangyo Senior Welfare Center" on their back - and pick up all the trash. I guess this is some kind of a thing they do to keep them engaged and moving.

Happy midsummer everyone!

2024-06-21T11:05:45Z

Happy midsummer everyone!

So Microsoft stole my Minecraft account. I boug...

2024-06-19T01:02:20Z

So Microsoft stole my Minecraft account. I bought three times Minecraft, one for me and two for children I wanted to play with, and that was when it was still Mojang. Then Microsoft bought it and they changed the login to a Microsoft login. I tried to migrate our accounts a coupple of times but it never worked for some reason. Then I didn't have time to play it and just let it go. Now I can't login to the game I bought and I can't migrate my account either.

Mind you this is a offline game I'm playing on my own computer, I'm not using any of Microsofts servers for it. Now I wonder if there is a way to steal it back. I sure as hell will not pay them a second time.

I'm a big white guy living in Korea. I've been ...

2024-06-17T07:00:00Z

I'm a big white guy living in Korea. I've been walking daily the same route about 9 km to get our daughter from school and bring her to afterschool.

Normally I have her little brother in a strawler with me but he nowadays is in a dayvare at that time and I'm getting him afterwards.

Today close to the school a older woman started talking to me and asking me where I left the cute baby I normally have with me, if he is asleep or something. I've never seen her before but she seems to have seen me many times walking there with the strawler.

Like they say: "The monkey knows no one, but everyone knows the monkey."

Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed

2024-06-17T03:04:04Z

Last year, during the Reddit 2023 API controversy I finally deleted my account and moved on to Lemmy. Here’s a look at my experiences and why I eventually decided to switch to PieFed.

Starting with Lemmy

Lemmy was great as a Reddit alternative, especially because it's part of the Fediverse like Mastodon and PeerTube and utilizing the same ActivityPub protocol.

It’s also written in Rust, a compiled language known for efficiency and low resource usage. However, setting it up was quite a challenge due to the poorly written docker documentation. After some effort, I got it running and was very happy with it.

Early Impressions and Challenges

At first, Lemmy seemed lightweight, using PostgreSQL as the database and pict-rs for picture storage. The initial version didn't put much load on the server, and even the first update, though clunky because it's bad documentation, worked fine.

The second update was still difficult because of lack of documentation, but on top of it, it increased the load on the server significantly. But I was able to optimize things like getting rid of NextCloud and replacing it with Radicale for CalDav and CardDav, moving to a bigger server and fixing problems with the PostgreSQL configuration for the Postgres Lemmy container, so it would again work for all those months.

Most of the time I was using the app Sync on my Android phone and the web frontend on the computer. The UX was OK but the loading time got worse and worse with every upgrade, so that at the end I had to wait several seconds after clicking something in the UI like notifications, or opening a community, etc.

In pure numbers the load in the beginning was around 1; after the second update of Lemmy, it was around 4, and after the last one, it starts at 8 and then slowly climbs to 12. This is where the server runs out of resources and my other services which run on the same server suffer like Matrix, PeerTube, Mastodon, Syncthing, my Ruby on Rails website and so on, started going down.

I took a whole day to try to optimize it further, I reached out to the Lemmy Matrix room and there were some good souls who tried to help me, but nothing I tried helped, the load would always go up to 12 and create problems for all the other services.

Exploring Alternatives

That is when I decided to check out the other Threadyverse alternatives. There is /kbin which seems down all the time and its fork MBin which seems to have a good community but is written in PHP which I try to avoid. There is Sublink but it's written in Java, I don't think I want to deal with Java's runtime environment. But I also remembered PieFed.

Switching to PieFed

I remembered that PieFed and that it was written in Python with the goal not to be too complicated. It has very few dependencies and uses Flask as the web framework base to build the software, which values simplicity.

I know Python pretty well and PieFed's promiss of using fewer resources were very appealing to me, after my problems with the resource-hogging Lemmy. I installed PieFed by following the README of the project and within half an hour I had it up and running and federating with other Threadyverse instances.

I manually subscribed to all the same communities as I already had in Lemmy, only to realize that there is an import possibility, but yeah it's OK, there were only 146 communities I imported ^^.

Because it was written in Python I could just look around in the code on my installation and realized that there is a nice themes implementation. I created my own theme and fixed some small things I didn't like how the default one works. Especially as a PWA (Pregressive Webb Application for the phone); I wanted to have it as a standalone one without the whole browser UI, because I can use gestures on my phone.

Rough edges in PieFed

There are still many rough edges though, like:

It just crashes if you upload a too big picture
The upload of an instance icon had only the UI code but not the saving it and putting it in place code (which the maintainers now added already)
Because it's a public beta and has no version numbers or releases yet, things might break when you upgrade like it did for me where the federation would stop after 4-8 minutes and you had to restart it again
From what I see there are only two guys very actively working on it, so there is the bus factor also
There is a lack of an API for 3rd party clients, I thought that we could just write one which is compatible with Lemmy, but it turns out that the features of both are quite different so that that would not really work well. The guys already tried something, there is a good description of the problems in this issue on Codeberg: Issue on Codeberg

But the guys who work on it are very active and happy that someone is trying their software and very eager to figure out how to help you with your problem. Sometimes it's too complicated so it goes into the issue backlog and will be worked on later.

Comparison and Resources

But man the best part is the resources it consumes. Let me remind you that Lemmy puts a load of 12 on the server, when I turn off Lemmy the load with the other 13 web services running on the server is 0.5 and when I turn on PieFed the load is 1. It's so amazing I really can't believe it, what an amazing difference!

There are two blog posts where they compare Lemmy, /kbin and PieFed resource usage:

Final Thoughts

For now I'm very happy with PieFed. I'm sad that all my content is locked in the Lemmy database which is down at the moment, but at least theoretically with some work I could export and import it.

I also changed the URL from jemmy.jeena.net to piefed.jeena.net because I don't want the other instances to be confused when suddenly a different software with different contents is available under the same domain. But I'm thinking to start up Lemmy and unsubscribe from all communities and to delete the one community I have on my Lemmy instance which has only very few subscribers.

That at least would be a somewhat clean way to dispose of this lemmy instance. Oh and I should return a 410 Gone to indicate that it's permanently gone.

Conclusion

If you’re looking for an easy-to-set-up, resource-efficient Threadyverse-compatible software with different values than Lemmy - which has also controversial developers - I’d recommend giving PieFed a try. The developers are responsive, and while it’s still in beta, the experience has been largely positive for me.

Every time a new version of #Lemmy comes out it...

2024-06-11T10:27:00Z

Every time a new version of #Lemmy comes out it brings my whole server down because it uses so many more resources. And then it takes me days to optimize and fix things so it's on a OK level.

Without Lemmy the load on the server with about 7 services incl. mastodon, PeeTube, several PHP sites and my Ruby on Rails site is only 0.5 but when I start Lemmy it's at least 10 but more often 13 and above. Then it hoggs all the resources and my other services go down.

So I spent 4 hours today fiddeling with it but had to turn it off for the rest of the day.

Chinese Breakfast

2024-06-09T02:07:07Z

We live in Pangyo in South Korea, and not far from us, about a 10-minute drive, there is an old part of the town Moran where it's practically a little Chinatown, even though nobody calls it that.

But there are many Chinese shops, Chinese services like the ones which help you get your money out of China, and most of all, Chinese restaurants.

There are already many Chinese restaurants in Korea, because it's so close to China, but sadly most of the ones outside of Chinatowns like this have only the same couple of dishes which all are changed significantly to cater to the Korean population. And I, for one, really dislike what they did to those Chinese dishes and practically never go to those restaurants.

Anyway, this morning my partner suggested that we go to Moran to get some Chinese breakfast, and so we went.

The Koreans don't really have any special breakfast dishes like we have in Europe, they just eat normally like for lunch or dinner, so it's kind of boring.

But at this restaurant, they serve specifically breakfast. You can see in the pictures it's mostly some dough which is often fried in oil and has some fillings inside.

The filling is often some kind of meat, but sometimes it's egg with some greens, like in this lengthy fried thing.

It's like doughnuts but not with a sweet filling; instead, it is savory. But they also have some which don't have anything inside. Those you can dunk into soymilk mixed with sugar, and then it's like a dessert.

I didn't get everything in pictures; they also serve tofu soup, dumplings, and other dough things.

It's very cool to be able to experience other cultures. If you have a Chinatown close by, try to find a restaurant that serves Chinese breakfast, you might get surprised at how cool it is.

[Edit]

Daughter's perspective

We asked oud 9 years old daughter to write a blog post from her perspective, suprisingly she had a very different experience than me, here is a copy of her's:

Today we went to Moran to eat breakfast. So while we were going, it was a disaster my brother was crying, I was whining, there was a traffic jam, and most of all, it was hot 🥵.

When we finally reached our destination, it was going better. But a problem was we did not know where to go.

As you know me and Jeena didn’t know Chinese and every sign was Chinese. And the only person who knows Chinese was is my mom.

My mom was talking on the phone and she looked like she thinks we know where to go. But luckily she knows where to go. The restaurant looked like A abandoned restaurant.

But to be honest, the food was good it’s just that it’s unhealthy basically it was just dough, filings and carbs. And the interior was ho-ri-bru. The table was sticky, the chopsticks were smelly. Most of all, all the people were gloomy. The waiter was soooo loud and the costumers were staring at me. When I was going to get some water, everyone stared at me as if I did something wrong 😑.

When we finally got out we went to a Chinese small market. We went to get some garlic and my mom bought some dumplings and some cookies because I whined about it. And I was carrying the groceries and those garlic and the dumplings were heavy. My brother was trying to get on some random stranger’s bike. The way back was pretty peaceful.

Now I am in my flat and I am mentioning to never go to Chinese restaurants. But if you want the food just try to find one which is good interior and healthy fresh food.

My son is 15 months and very interested in tech...

2024-06-08T07:13:41Z

My son is 15 months and very interested in technology. He just figured out how to remove the child safety plugs from the power sockets which I installed everywhere|re in the house.

🤦‍♀️

It's frustrating to live in a world where strea...

2024-06-07T02:42:57Z

It's frustrating to live in a world where streaming is the main way to consume music. I found this German band from Berlin called "Von Wegen Lisbeth" because of their son "Wenn du tantzt" which has great music and great text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2JRghbgeYw

So I was thinking, it would be cool to buy the Album so I can listen to it. I normally buy and listen to albums not singles. But where do you buy it digitally? I don't want a CD or Vinyl because I live in Korea and I will need to move and don't want to deal with physical media.

I thought, in the past I found music on Bandcamp, so I went there and found https://vonwegenlisbeth.bandcamp.com but there they only sell their first album which doesn't have the song on it.

On their website https://www.vonwegenlisbeth.de/ they link to a shop where you can seemingly buy all their albums: https://krasserstoff.com/vonwegenlisbeth#merchcat-vonwegenlisbeth-musik butonly on Vinyl and CD, not for download.

Then I thought perhaps I could just pirate it, but the band seems to be too small, they don't show up on The Pirate bay.

I checked Spotify and all their albums are there, but I don't want to pay a subscription every month.

Isn't it weird that you can't buy a digital copy of a bands music? Where do people buy music digital copies nowadays?

Today is the 3rd day at the daycare and they ha...

2024-06-05T01:06:00Z

Today is the 3rd day at the daycare and they have a special event day, a pony will come to visit the children.

And I got those tattoos and the bracelet as a present for the parents, amazing, isn't it?

First day in daycare

2024-06-03T03:52:25Z

Today I'm in a melancholic mood. Just a few minutes ago, I left our little angel, who is only 15 months old, for the first time at his daycare.

His mom already had to deal with separation from him a couple of times. The most obvious was the birth, where they were separated for the first time. But then she had to go on a business trip to China for a couple of days. Another time was when we stayed longer in Germany after Christmas but she had to go back to work, etc.

But I have been with him every single day And night since he was born. I never had to separate from him until now because I was staying at home with him for the whole last year; I took parental leave.

I know it's today and tomorrow only for one hour, but after that, we will need to extend the time because my parental leave is over, and I only have one more month of annual leave, and then I need to go back to work full-time, 8 hours a day (+ lunch).

And yes, I know we will be more and more separated over time, and that makes me both sad and happy. Obviously, I want him to have a great, independent life.

But this time, for the first time, he is not staying with his mom, grandma, or grandpa, but with some people we don't even know, and we have to trust the process that everything will be good.

Once we arrived, he didn't mind me and started playing by himself and checking what the other children were doing.

I stayed for a few minutes and talked to the principal, and he played without even checking where I was. But then I said goodbye, and he knows what it means because we say it to mom and sister every morning. That is when he started crying and wanted to go with me.

They told me they would call me if he cried for more than 5 minutes. Now it's already 20 minutes and they haven't called yet, so he seems to be OK, but I miss him a lot already!

...

After half an hour I git him and he was playing with the teacher and one of those baby walkers. For some reason he really likes them although he doesn't have one. Anyway, once he saw me he started crying a little bit and ran to me and we hugged and he patted me on my back like he sometimes does, because I do it to him often when he is sad.

He was a bit skeptical about the whole thing but all in all he seemed to like it there.

Yesterday evening at 11:35 PM our phones got th...

2024-05-29T01:43:09Z

Yesterday evening at 11:35 PM our phones got this message pushed by the South Korean Government. I'm not gonna lie, when I read "Wartime alert" my heart rate went up a lot.

Apparently North Korea sent propaganda materials through the air throughout parts of Gyeonggi-do where we live.

The message says:

> Identification of unknown objects presumed to be North Korean flyers against South Korea, refraining from outdoor activities, and reporting military units when identifying them. Air raid preliminary warning [Gyeonggi-do]

20 Years of Blogging

2024-05-28T11:56:51Z

I missed it, but last month I had my 20-year blogging anniversary. Let's recap a bit about how it started and how it went.

Back in 2004, WordPress apparently existed, but I didn't know about it. I knew about Movable Type, which was and I guess still is mostly written in Perl. Getting a Perl website running has always been a challenge. I tried; I really tried. But I never got it working.

Writing a Blog Engine

Because I couldn't find any other blog software, I decided to write my own. It didn't seem so difficult. You make a form in HTML in a new.php file with a title and content, and on submit, you store the content along with the publishing date in a MySQL database. Then you write an index.php which retrieves the items from the database and shows a list of titles as links to a post.php. Sprinkle some login magic with session cookies and an edit.php, add some error handling and RSS generation, and you have yourself a fully functioning blog software. And that's what I did. Over time, I did more, which ended up in a project called Jlog. It has been used by a couple of hundred websites because it was really easy to install.

My First Blog

My first blog was in German, and it is still online. You can find my first blog post here.

The design you see there is the second design, which my brother helped me create because he was very good at doing graphics and stuff in Flash, which we then exported as PNGs.

As I stated in my first blog post, with the introduction of the blog software, I also implemented my 4th design where I tried to make it look a bit better because people were complaining about how bad it looked.

I had been publishing articles on my own website since 2003, but I did that mostly manually by writing whole HTML pages. With the introduction of the blog software, it was much easier to publish, so I did so much more often.

Back then, it was possible to add comments directly under the blog post. This made the whole thing really interesting; there were many discussions happening in the comments. Check out, for example, this blog post from 2005 about Firefox vs. Opera. It has a whopping 71 comments.

My Second Blog

Around that time, I moved to Sweden and wanted to switch to a language that both people from Sweden and Germany could understand. So, I started publishing some blog posts in English like Incompatible character encodings - Rails patch, but it felt wrong because people subscribed to my RSS feed expecting a German blog, not an English one.

This is why I decided to write another blog engine. I was very unhappy with the spaghetti code that Jlog ended up being, and at work, I was already experienced with Ruby on Rails. I followed the famous A blog in 15 minutes with Ruby on Rails screencast.

And this is what the first version looked like:

Over time, I got rid of the over-hyped design and implemented a dark mode which makes it look like the rest of the dark mode Adwaita GNOME, which I'm using as my daily driver. I already talked about how sad this decision is in Content is King? - I was wrong about it, which I encourage you to read afterwards.

I also had to remove the possibility to comment because I just couldn't fight the constant spam. What I still have is Webmentions, which work well enough. I even saw that for some reason, even Mastodon posts which link to an article work fine. See the comment section of this post.

Why Do I Blog?

This is quite simple. While it changes slightly over the years, it's mostly for me to sort out my thoughts about some topic and to document something that has been going on which I might want to come back to in the future and read from a different perspective. I imagine it's similar to when people write a diary, but less frequent, less personal, and fully public.

Back in the day, I posted much more personal stuff, which I nowadays try to avoid to not expose my loved ones to the harsh reality of the Internet.

I also added short-form content because I didn't want to come up with a title every time I just wanted to post something like a tweet on my website. That led to the frequency of my blog posts getting lower.

But again, I'm only blogging for myself. If someone else reads it and finds it interesting or amusing, then it's a bonus but not a requirement. Therefore, my guess is that I'll keep blogging in the future too. Probably infrequent as ever, but that's how I like it.

Today, the smartwatch shows 1 hour and 37 minut...

2024-05-27T22:17:34Z

Today, the smartwatch shows 1 hour and 37 minutes of sleep. The little one had a slight fever and kept waking up. He woke up again before I could fall asleep from the previous waking ^^. At least we could let Mom sleep a bit more after we moved to the living room with the crib ^^.

Now that the little one can walk, it’s getting ...

2024-05-16T12:21:50Z

Now that the little one can walk, it’s getting pretty tough to be alone with him all day, five days a week. He does so many mischievous things all day. He:

Puts his hand in the toilet
Throws the cat’s food everywhere
Tips over the cat’s water
Climbs onto the kitchen table
Climbs onto the computer desk
Tries to hack into my computer
Turns off the dryer
Explores the contents of the diper trashcan
Turns on the washing machine
Eats cat food
Empties all the recycling trashcans on the floor
Empties the clothes cupboard and throws everything on the floor
Whips the cat
Chases the cat
Scolds the cat
Throws food on the floor
Chews on his outdoor shoes
And so on

And he does each thing over and over again all day long, relentless, like a Terminator.

The only time I have to watch a movie is when o...

2024-05-15T04:17:08Z

The only time I have to watch a movie is when our baby is asleep. But then I can't have it as loud as it needs to be to hear the dialogue because when there is a action scene it suddenly gets so loud that it wakes up the baby. So I have to have subtitles on which is very annoying. I wish there was some AI thing which would take over my tedious work to lowering the volume when there is a action scene and making it louder when there is dialogue. But I don't even know what to search for. The best would be if I could run it on the Chromecast but I'd take it running on the computer too.

My partner got tickets to this years NH Investm...

2024-05-13T11:45:32Z

My partner got tickets to this years NH Investment & Securities Ladies Championship in Golf here in Seoul, South Korea.

I totally missed the Espresso Tonic and Coldbre...

2024-05-12T00:44:38Z

I totally missed the Espresso Tonic and Coldbrew Tonic craze which was appearently happening in Europe.

A friend posted his tries to make one last week. Sadly my espresso machine is still in Sweden, so I got some coldbrew instead.

For summer it's a great drink, I didn't think it would fit together but it's kind of an amazing combination!

Driving in Japan with the wheel on the right si...

2024-05-07T10:43:08Z

Driving in Japan with the wheel on the right side. The first time I did that last year I drove on the wrong side of the road about 5 times and got a shock every time when I saw all the ghost drivers just to quickly realize that it's me who is driving the wrong way.

This year it only happened one time, so my brain seems to adapt to that better and better.

I speak 4 languages, English, Swedish, German a...

2024-05-04T10:26:48Z

I speak 4 languages, English, Swedish, German an Polish. At work in Swrden our office language was English because so many people from all over the world worked together. I was a consultant at the customers office. There was another consultant from Poland visiting the customer and after a heated meeting he sat down at his desk, which was adjesent to mine and called his collegues in Poland. Ha basically said that those Swedes are so stupid, they want us to use 9 women to give birth to the baby in one month instead of 9 months, without realizing that I could understand everything. I had to work hard to not burst out in loughter.

乾杯 from the Kumamoto prefecture in Japan!

2024-05-03T04:54:38Z

乾杯 from the Kumamoto prefecture in Japan!

While in Japanese countryside on a walk I wante...

2024-05-03T00:37:56Z

While in Japanese countryside on a walk I wanted to take a picture with my son, but the gras was always either in my or his face ^^

We are one family with two parents and two chil...

2024-04-30T22:53:51Z

We are one family with two parents and two children. When we travel, we have to use passports from four different countries.

Sometimes we get funny looks but otherwise it works OK.

Offline llama3 says it sends corrections back to Meta's server

2024-04-26T07:19:23Z

[update] A better headline would have been:

AI hallucinates stating it phones home when corrected, user did not wireshark it to confirm.

TIL that I'm not better than all the old people on Facebook believing what the scammers tell them. Let that be a lesson to you, don't use a LLM for fact checking.

[/update]

Just a couple of days ago Meta released their new AI large language model called llama in version 3 and made it Open Source. It's really good, and so much faster than the previous version. With help of Ollama you can install llama3 very quickly and conveniently on your own computer. That means that you're running your queries offline, no need to send all your data to the cloud where they will do with it god knows what.

I started a conversation about What do you personally use AI for? on Lemmy and someone said that they would use AI if it wasn't connected to the Internet. I proposed them to check out llama 3 because it runs locally. They checked with me if it really doesn't connect to any server if you're online? I said that this is correct, which I assumed. But oh boy, as the saying goes. If you ASSUME you make an ass out of U and ME.

I got curious and asked the model llama3 itself about it and sure enough, it said that even though it does not send our conversation to Meta, it does take my feedback (if I correct it in some way) and sends it to Meta’s servers through the Internet:

Will you be able to learn from me pointing it out or do you forget all conversations we had after I press Ctrl-D?

I'm a large language model, I don't have personal memories or experiences. Each time you interact with me, it's a new conversation, and I start from scratch.

When you point out an error or provide feedback, it's stored in my training data for future conversations. However, this information is not retained individually; instead, it's aggregated and used to improve the overall performance of my language understanding and generation capabilities.

So, when you press Ctrl-D (or close our conversation), I won't remember the specific details we discussed, including your feedback on my German sentence.
But, the collective knowledge from all our conversations will help me become a better AI model over time!

Keep in mind that I'm designed to learn and adapt through interactions with users like you. Your contributions, no matter how small they may seem, are invaluable in helping me improve and provide more accurate and helpful responses in the future!

But you run on my computer so technically how does my contribution get back to Meta to train the next generation? Do you send any data back?

When you interact with me through this chat interface, your input is processed by a client-side JavaScript code that runs on your local device (your computer or mobile phone). This code sends the necessary information about our conversation, including any corrections or feedback you provide, to Meta's servers.

Here's how it works:

Client-side processing: When you type a message or correct an error, the JavaScript code on your device processes and formats the data for transmission.
Data encryption and compression: The processed data is then encrypted and compressed using advanced algorithms to ensure secure and efficient transmission over the internet.
Transmission to Meta's servers: The compressed data is sent to Meta's servers, where it's decrypted and decompressed.
Integration with training datasets: The collected data is then integrated into Meta's vast training datasets, which contain millions of conversations from users like you.
Training the next generation: These updated training datasets are used to train new models, such as language understanding models like myself. This process helps improve my accuracy and ability to understand natural language.

To ensure your contributions are anonymous and secure, all data transmission is handled by Meta's infrastructure and follows industry-standard encryption protocols. Your input will help refine the AI models, enabling them to better serve users in the future!

Now, go ahead and chat away!

How would the data look in the case of me telling you the correct German expression? What would be sent back to meta's server? Show it as JSON.

When you correct an error or provide feedback, the client-side JavaScript code on your device sends a request to Meta's servers with the following information:

Here's what the data might look like in JSON format:

{
  "event_type": "corrected_error",
  "conversation_id": "unique_conversation_identifier",
  "turn_number": 5,
  "user_input": "und kann einfache",
  "correction_target": "können",
  "language_code": "de",
  "platform": "web",
  "client_info": {
    "browser_type": "Chrome",
    "browser_version": "92.0.4515.131"
  }
}

In this example:

event_type: The type of event, which in this case is a "corrected_error".
conversation_id: A unique identifier for the conversation.
turn_number: The number of turns (or exchanges) in the conversation.
user_input: The corrected text you provided ("und kann einfache").
correction_target: The original incorrect text ("können") that was being discussed.
language_code: The language code for German ("de").
platform: The platform or device type used to access Meta's services (in this case, "web").
client_info: Additional metadata about the client device and browser.

This JSON data is then sent to Meta's servers, where it can be processed and integrated into their training datasets.

So yeah, basically I wasn't aware of the fact that even the offline version of llama 3 sends some of your data back to Meta. I guess that other people didn't realize that yet either.

I'm not judging, if it's done correctly and anonymized then this might be a good Idea, but it's not obvious, I think it should at least state it somewhere or better ask to be allowed to do that, otherwise you might expose some private data even though you thought you're protecting yourself by using a offline version of a AI chat bot.

I’ve been living in Korea for about three and a...

2024-04-25T13:39:16Z

I’ve been living in Korea for about three and a half years now. I have the language around me, my partner and her daughter speak it at home. But for some reason I am not learning anything from being exposed to it for such a long time.

I tried using apps like Duolingo, Drops, etc. but practically nothing really stuck, perhaps a word here or there. I watched Korean Dramas with English subtitles, but because the order of the words in a Korean sentence is the opposite to English I would never be able to know which word is which.

Two month ago I saw some Korean Teacher advertising 1-1 teaching of Korean so I decided to try it and to pay for help, because I feel I’m really stuck. Now after 2 months she expressed frustration about my progress. She asked me why it’s so slow, if it’s the first time I’m learning a new language (no, this is my 5th language I’m learning).

It’s very frustrating. I feel I invest a lot of the little free time I have into it and it’s embarrassing how little I have to show for it. The Korean words are so totally different from the words in my other Languages (Polish, German, Swedish, English) that they more often than not blend together and I remember and hear mostly gibberish.

I always hated learning grammar and vocabulary in every language. And somehow with the other languages I magically got to a level where I would just be exposed to the language and could watch TV and talk to people and would get better at it without much effort.

But Korean proves to be very difficult for me to get to this point. I get that I only will get there with consistency and a lot of grinding, there seems no other way for me.

Not that it really was in the last decade or so...

2024-04-25T01:01:31Z

Not that it really was in the last decade or so, but Facebook is now so overrun with AI bots that it's difficult to find posts of real people. For one, real people already stopped posting on their timelines many years ago and went into private groups, so Facebook allows the bots to have at least some kind of new content when someone logs in.

Sadly I can see a lot of older people failing to recognize the bots and scams and I see them engage with them and being confused when the bots don't respond like humans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA ...

2024-04-17T05:14:54Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA

MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies?

My take on this is no they don't. As long as they are truthful they only report on the quality of the product and prevent many people of spending a lot of money from losing it by buying something that doesn't work.

If your product is shit your company does not deserve to be shielded from the backlash, this is the core of (classic) capitalism after all.

I bought a Weinstephan Lucky Box! But instead o...

2024-04-08T09:40:58Z

I bought a Weinstephan Lucky Box! But instead of a PS5 I got a original wheat beer glass, which I was already looking for here in Korea but couldn't buy. now I'm tempted to buy another one to have two. But if I'm unlucky I'll get a PS5 and will have to buy another one and another one until I get the second wheat beer glass.

But it's quite expensive because the beer is imported from Germany, about 16 €, and you only get 4 beers. In Germany you can get 24 beers for the same price.

On Jeju Island, it was a lot of fun. Sadly most...

2024-04-06T01:07:20Z

On Jeju Island, it was a lot of fun. Sadly most of us got sick for some time, but we still could enjoy it. Some days were even sunny like this day.

I went to a dolphin spotting point, no dolphins...

2024-03-31T10:40:57Z

I went to a dolphin spotting point, no dolphins to be seen but the light was amazing.

McDonald's at Jeju Island in Korea.

2024-03-23T10:40:54Z

McDonald's at Jeju Island in Korea.

We have to wait at our local coffee roastery fo...

2024-03-18T07:01:38Z

We have to wait at our local coffee roastery for 7 minutes until they package a new batch.

I made a carrot banana muffin for the baby and ...

2024-03-17T01:25:30Z

I made a carrot banana muffin for the baby and it came out delicious, now I want to eat it.

I'm looking to offload my Mastodon, PeerTube an...

2024-02-10T16:29:36Z

I'm looking to offload my Mastodon, PeerTube and Lemmy media files to a object storage. Today was my first attempt with Storj. They even have a handy documentation https://docs.storj.io/dcs/third-party-tools/mastodon and offer 25GB for free.

But it was a fail, because they have something they call "Segments" and after uploading 1GB of my 15GB I already get the error: "You have reached your project segment limit."

And even with the paid version they want money for the Segments and it seems small files will be very expensive. Will try a different service next time.

Happy lunar new year everyone! We are making...

2024-02-09T10:37:35Z

Happy lunar new year everyone!

We are making chinese dumplings.

I'm trying out a Samsung Galaxy S7 tablet with ...

2024-02-06T00:15:33Z

I'm trying out a Samsung Galaxy S7 tablet with a keyboard case and the S-pen. It's really close to the phone from a operating system perspective. The positive is that all the phone Android apps work on it. I mostly use free and open source apps, but some propriatary I have to use like the one for connecting to my Sony A7C camera. The bad thing is that it's not really a desktop OS, that means that none of the keyboard shortcuts which I use constantly work and I always need to touch the screen to do the simplest things.

The whole AI bullshit seems not to go away and ...

2024-02-04T02:28:03Z

The whole AI bullshit seems not to go away and many big corporations announce to shift focus towards AI. I guess it's time to at least look into what that would practically mean so that I can educate myself about how to do any work with it just in case I have to look for a new job.

I found a nice way to handle my private todo ta...

2024-01-18T06:07:35Z

I found a nice way to handle my private todo tasks and share them between my computers and phone:

Radicale (CalDav server, implements todo)
Errands (libadvaita app for GNOME, syncs with CalDav)
Tasks.org (installed via F-Droid without subscription, app for Android)

It's pretty neat, works with subtasks, colors, tags, and my family and private calendar.

I'm looking into the possibility to move my per...

2024-01-16T14:57:59Z

I'm looking into the possibility to move my personal notes from NextCloud to CalDav, it seems to have the possibility to store notes with and without dates and also todo lists. The todo lists can be used nicelly in HomeAssistant too.

But the GNOME Notes app doesn't sync to CalDav :( Evolution does though, but it's so bulky.

This year we put some hair on our snowman.

2024-01-15T02:39:32Z

This year we put some hair on our snowman.

Feeding time, my dad feeding me the bottle and ...

2024-01-14T13:58:29Z

Feeding time, my dad feeding me the bottle and I'm feeding my son the bottle.

Nice, I'm back down on 25 EUR / month for hosti...

2024-01-09T10:30:44Z

Nice, I'm back down on 25 EUR / month for hosting all my services. But with the latest update of Lemmy it hogs so many more resources than before that I had to temporarily stop Nextcloud which is the biggest resource hog on my server. I'm only using it for address book and calendar, I should find a better replacement for it.

Now we are back in Korea after a 3 week vaccati...

2024-01-09T09:45:13Z

Now we are back in Korea after a 3 week vaccation at my parents in Germany. It was so nice that they finally could meet their grandson for the first time. We had so much fun we went swimming with the children a lot, we ate amazing food amd my fiance wasn't pregnant like last time so she also enjoyed it a lot this time around. We even visited the famous christmas market in Nürnberg!

Gothic church in front of the moon.

2023-12-26T16:37:18Z

Gothic church in front of the moon.

Silesian folk songs

2023-12-25T15:41:42Z

Here is a selection of silesian folk songs we couldn't find on the Internet:

Jak jo żech sie urodził

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Jak jo żech sie urodził
na ten ubogi świat
na drugi dzień żech chodził
żur z kartoflami jod

Jak łoiciec mit der matka
pijondze chowali
a my tam za młodzioków
ta kasa wiedzieli

A jak sie dowiedzieli
był z nami marny los
bo nóm tak łophuśtali
pieronie, kaś tam wlos

Pijonszki

Jak mom pijonszki
to jada do Wieliczki
a jak jich nie mom
to palcem do solniczki

Jak mom pijonszki
to jada Strassenbahnom
a jak jich nie mom
to wala piechty za niom

Jak mom pijonszki
to ida do golaca
a jak jich nie mom
kolega szczidze glaca

Jak mom pijonszki
to se kupia fajka
a jak jich nie mom
to sie trzimia za jajka

Marry Christmas everyone!

2023-12-24T20:54:30Z

Marry Christmas everyone!

Hardest photo shoot ever

2023-12-15T02:56:45Z

Today I had the most difficult photo shoot of my amateur photographer career. I was shooting a 10 month old baby.

We've been to a professional photographer before with him and they were quite good at doing it fast and with attention to detail. They have prepared clothes and backgrounds and they are always two people, one photographer and another person helping especially with getting the babies attention through the shoot.

Anyway, once my brother saw the pictures - which were the baby in traditional Korean clothes - he asked me to do a photo shoot with traditional Silesian clothes, which in this case is a coal miner gala parade uniform. Our dad was a coal miner before we moved to Germany too.

Obviously I can't buy a coal miner gala parade uniform for babies here in Korea, so I had to make it myself. I bought some paper and some golden tape (not sure what to call it) and I DIY the hat myself. It looked surprisingly good but the feathers didn't look good so I ordered real red feathers - which are worn by the musician coal miners. Our baby really likes music so I thought it's quite appropriate.

The problem is that we have a cat and that cat just couldn't help itself and always attacked the hat with the feathers and destroy the feathers. I had to fix it three times because I left it unlocked and forgot about the cat. Then I ordered a black jumpsuit for the baby and cut out some golden buttons and attached them with glue to the suit.

And so today I decided that it's the day where we should try to do the photo shoot. He slept his morning nap and I fed him and he is always in a good mood when he wakes up. I prepared the light - I have a continuous light with a soft box for videos which I reused - and the background.

First try in the high chair

Once he woke up we tried the hat on, I made it such a long time ago that it did not fit on his head anymore because his head grew significantly since then. So I had to cut the hat in the back to fit it on the head. I realized that he also scratched himself in the face again, so he already had one scratch between eye and nose, but either he himself or the cat scratched him two times on his forehead. I was able to put the head on so it wouldn't be visible.

But that's where the problems started. He hated the hat and always tried to take it off. If I held his arms to not to take the hat off he would start to cry. While putting on the suit he fought me a lot, in fact so much that out of the 6 golden buttons I put on, only 2 were left. So he would take the hat off and throw it away. After a while I was able to distract him from the hat and take the first photos.

They were not great, the background was messy and I put him into his food seat which looked terrible too, even though I cleaned it as good as possible before we started shooting. Anyway after one or two minutes he took off the hat again and broke the paper-stick which held the feathers. So we took a pause.

Green chair

I tried to fix the stick so it would be upright but it didn't really work. He was playing in his playground and came down and wasn't so annoyed with me and my photographing anymore since we took off the hat. I tried to change the background and I got another chair which was simpler but hat a stark contrast in color.

I also got his pacifier, I thought it will calm him down a bit and it did, he even smiled on this new chair with the pacifier in his mouth. But actually I was hoping that he would lose the pacifier and still be in good mood on this chair, which is kind of high and I was afraid he might fall down from it if I'm not fast enough to catch him.

I tried to convince him to give me the pacifier but he didn't want to. Once he lost it and it fell on the floor which made him cry immediately. At least he forgot about the hat and didn't take it off while playing with the pacifier. But this photo would be weird with a pacifier. Also the paper stick which was holding the feathers bent and looked awful.

So the pacifier, the green chair and the bent stick, none of the pictures were usable, even though they were technically the best with good sharpness in the eyes, etc.

We took another pause, so he would not be so agitated and I could change some things. He played with the cat.

Projector screen as a background

I remembered that I had a projector screen which could work as a white background, so I got it and hung it over the TV all the way on the floor. Because he would be on the floor, and my light is not that strong, I couldn't use the c-stand for it because it would be to far away. So I put it on the floor, held by a chair in front of him.

I also decided to get one of the LED lights I had to have some cool background colors.

I found the model and because he was playing with the cat, suddenly his black suit was full of white cat hair. God damn it. I removed as much as I could, and put the hat back on, which I was able to fix with a tooth pick in the meanwhile. But again we had the problem of him taking the hat off and being annoyed by it.

But suddenly he found the LED light and started playing with it which I thought I could work with. So it was on red and after a couple of pictures with red light from the bottom I really didn't like it. So I tried to take the light and change it to just white. He really likes playing with lights so he was furious when I tried to take it away. In the end I had to change it while he was playing with it.

Then him playing with the light I had quite a lot of time to take photos, finally. I wanted to have them sharp and children move a lot so I upped the shutter speed to around 1/600 of a second and the aperture to 5.6 - which in hindsight was a terrible mistake, because the camera needed to compensate with a high ISO because the light was not strong enough.

Break for food

He was getting cranky again and I realized that he probably is hungry again. So I made some milk which he eagerly drank. Once done with the bottle he seemed a bit sleepy so I thought I would carry him around a bit and he would fall asleep and we could have another try after he wakes up again.

But because he drank so fast, his little stomach sometimes can't hold it down there, so also this time he threw up some of the milk on me and on his black suit making it full with white milk stains and unsuitable for any more photo shoots this day, because it needed to be washed and dried first.

In the end - even though I took 270 pictures - I didn't really got this nice shot which I had in my mind and I had to give up to get it and try to work with the pictures I have. I wanted to make it nice so I can print it big and gift it to my parents, especially my dad, so they can hang it in their living room with the other family images.

So that was it from the photo shoot. Here also one picture of me how exhausted and sweaty I was after the hardest photo shoot ever :D

Covid changed even #Influenza testing. Yesterda...

2023-12-07T04:52:39Z

Covid changed even #Influenza testing. Yesterday I went to the doctor here in #Korea because I was feeling sick for over 3 days already and they asked if I want a test. I didn't quite understand for what and thought it's necessary so I said yes. It was the same as for Covid, they tickle your brain with a stick through your nose. After 5 minutes the test came back negative, I don't have Influenza. They charged me $28, I guess most of it was for the test itself, the rest should have been covered by my insurance.

It's kind of obvious but still, since the birth...

2023-12-05T03:09:13Z

It's kind of obvious but still, since the birth of my son, 98% of the pictures I take are of him. But because I don't want to post pictures of him online I kind of stopped posting my own pictures. I think I should sometimes go out to take some other pictures but I kind of lack the time.

Seeing the light.

2023-12-05T03:07:08Z

Seeing the light.

I was listening to the American military radio ...

2023-12-01T09:01:52Z

I was listening to the American military radio here in Korea and they invited soldiers to donate blood with some exceptions:

if you've been shorter than 30 days in Korea
if you got a tatoo in the last 6 months
if you lived in Europe for more than 5 years

I really wonder what happened to someone who lived in Europe for more than 5 years which triggered this particular exception.

I have the problem that my #PeerTube instance i...

2023-11-23T09:43:23Z

I have the problem that my #PeerTube instance is hosted in Germany where also half of my family is. The other half - including me - lives in South Korea and we experience a lot of loading time. Oh and most of the videos are private (internal in PeerTube speech), not public.

I am trying to figure out which options I have to somehow resolve it for both sides of the family. The only thing I can think of right now is some kind of CDN but that's difficult with the private videos and probably costs a lot of money.

Duck flying

2023-11-19T04:06:59Z

Duck flying

I found a super interesting video about a Germa...

2023-11-14T23:16:03Z

I found a super interesting video about a German woman who married a traditional Maasai guy but instead them moving to Germany she moved in with him into the village in Tanzania with no running water. Now after 10 years there she wrote a book and a film crew visited her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemEnz1YOr4 (turn on subtitles for English)

Our Samsung dishwasher broke after about 2 year...

2023-11-07T23:57:05Z

Our Samsung dishwasher broke after about 2 years. It stopped pumping out the water. I already checked that it's not something stuck somewhere in a hose or in the pump itself, but everything looks good. My guess is that it's the pump itself which stopped working.

Getting someone to fix it is apparently very cheap here in Korea, but the big problem is that are fully booked for the next 2 weeks. So I guess I'll have to look into it myself deeper and perhaps try to measure the pump itself and get a new one or something like that.

I wish there would be a way for #PeerTube to so...

2023-11-06T07:18:43Z

I wish there would be a way for #PeerTube to somehow do redundancy even for internal, private and unlisted videos not only for public ones. My server is in Germany but when I upload some internal video it's often meant for the family which is spread between central Europe and Korea. So here in Korea we often experience a lot of buffering.

Son and cat checking out the outside world afte...

2023-11-06T01:26:49Z

Son and cat checking out the outside world after playing together with the cat toy.

I only heard the word Kibbutz the first time th...

2023-11-03T23:17:21Z

I only heard the word Kibbutz the first time that Hamas started attacking them so I assumed that those are either houses or farms specific to the Jewish population in Israel. But they seem to be more similar to Soviet Kolkhozes but extended to all facetts of life, not only farming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ies2R__4c58

I had no idea that you could download movies fr...

2023-11-03T09:38:04Z

I had no idea that you could download movies from the 90ies from https://archive.org

I couldn't find the Flintstones movie from 1994 anywhere but googling it I found it here https://archive.org/details/the-flintstones_202304 and you can either download it via torrent or directly. On top of it it says that the movie is CC0 which means Public Domain. But that can't really be, it's only 29 years old.

When we need vegetables we go to a small shop w...

2023-11-03T03:23:07Z

When we need vegetables we go to a small shop where they sell only a small set of vegetables and fruits and I guess something shady is going on there because they only take cash where everyone else takes cards. But the food is always very fresh and they sell a lot of it and in the afternoon things sometimes are already sold out. And it's super cheap.

I'm just looking at Koreans eating donkatsu (Sc...

2023-10-26T03:26:49Z

I'm just looking at Koreans eating donkatsu (Schnitzel) and it is eaten here with fork and knife. 90% of them hold the fork in their right hand, which is interesting and the opposite from what I've been tought as a child.

I broke my matrix server federation while movin...

2023-10-16T04:11:33Z

I broke my matrix server federation while moving it to a new server. First I didn't realize it, until a friend pointed it out. But now I won't have time to fix it for the next one to two weeks.

GNOME search for opening apps

2023-10-10T01:50:49Z

There is one thing which infuriates me mildly about GNOME, starting applications is not as smooth as it could be. Let me explain:

I have muscle memory of hitting the super key and starting to write the name of the application (1 to 3 letters) and then hitting enter to open it as fast as possible.

For example:

"Super + t e r + Enter" to open the terminal
"Super + k + Enter" to open KeePassXC
"Super + k d + Enter" to open KdenLive

There are now some problems with it. I switched from Terminator to Tilix (which its metadata has that it's a terminal application) so now when I do "Super + t e r" it gives me "Characters" as the first result instead of Tilix. It still shows Tilix in the list and I can go to the right with my arrow keys and choose it. But next time I do "Super + t e r" it doesn't learn from it that I don't want to open "Characters" but "Tilix" instead, I don't understand why?

With "Super + k" it's even worse because on different computers it seems to behave differently and either offer "KeePassXC" as the first result or "KdenLive" so it's unpredictable and it also never learns from my previous searches.

I feel it's such an easy algorithm to implement and I also have the feeling that years ago it did learn from my previous searches but then some day it stopped.

(Or it never did but I got so used to that behaviour with Quicksilver on OS X that I just always expect it to work like that).

Does anyone have an idea how to make it learn from my previous searches?

I went to Israel https://jeena.net/pods/20 and ...

2023-10-09T16:38:10Z

I went to Israel https://jeena.net/pods/20 and Palestine a couple of years ago, when I first arrived in Jerusalem and heard the air raid sirens I was so afraid and asked my AirBnb host where the shelters are where we should go because rockets are coming. He told me to relax and that I don't have to be afraid that normally no rockets make it to Jerusalem ...

I also went to Hebron and talked to a lot of people there for my podcast https://jeena.net/pods/21, and they tell about their horrible situation anyone who would listen - but sadly nobody cares. I came to the conclusion:

> There’s no outcome where they win.

The only way for peace in that region is when Israel finally does their genocide and annihilates all Palestinians. Not because they deserve any of it, but only because they are so much stronger and there is just nothing the Palestinians can do. Nobody from the outside cares and they know it. It is getting even more obvious now that more Arab countries are moving on and try to normalize ties with Israel.

So many of them have been living in a concentration camp for several generations, it's just beyond sad.

But I have also to say that in the north, especially in Nazareth https://jeena.net/pods/22, for some reason both Palestinians and Jews live in quite OK peace together, they wear the same clothes, they eat the same food, you wouldn't even be able to point out who is who there.

I realize many people will be mad about my comment, that's OK, it's a very confusing conflict there which has been going on for probably thousands of years already.

Here in Korea I see a lot of fortune tellers an...

2023-10-07T13:59:38Z

Here in Korea I see a lot of fortune tellers and they even have quite many customers for some reason.

It's obviously a scam, but you see especially coupples sitting there and the boys pretending to be interested 😅

The picture I just took in Jeonju Hanok Village.

Searching for #PeerTube in #Bing and thus #Duck...

2023-10-04T19:14:52Z

Searching for #PeerTube in #Bing and thus #DuckDuckGo gives zero results. Bind mentions that "The search result may have adult contents has been filtered." and that "age verification is required". While DuckDuckGo just shows zero results.

I understand that there might be PeerTube instances with adult content in the search results but I don't believe all of them have adult content. I know mine does not.

I installed SmartTube on the TV and oh boy is t...

2023-10-04T00:38:28Z

I installed SmartTube on the TV and oh boy is this software great! I did it to get SponsorBlock (I'm already paying YouTube premium to get rid of ads), but that is by far not the only feature I love about it.

flexible time hiding the UI of a video (have it to 1 sec now)
not showing UI when pausing
way faster scrolling
instant loading
way faster account switching
instant voice search

But there is one feature missing, changing the search language. We speak combined 7 languages at home and it's impossible to search anything other than in english which is really annoying.

#Sunset in #Seoul

2023-09-30T11:01:36Z

Sunset in #Seoul

In one to two weeks we'll have sauerkraut and f...

2023-09-26T11:30:41Z

In one to two weeks we'll have sauerkraut and fermented cucumber.

I had a hard time setting up the new sync serve...

2023-09-22T12:36:10Z

I had a hard time setting up the new sync server for Firefox which is written in Rust because the documentation is very bad.

After a lot of try and error and reading comments of people in the issue tracker I finally was able to set it up and run it successfully.

Mostly for my future self, but perhaps it also helps other people I documented it with help of a README and a docker-compose.yaml which makes it easy for me to upgrade if necessary and also to store all the other config files with examples.

https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker

Literary for the first time in my life I got in...

2023-09-14T00:56:29Z

Literary for the first time in my life I got interested in one of the content creators ad read (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs8iehKmU4U&t=409s) on YouTube. I use SponsorBlock (https://sponsor.ajay.app/) for the reason that each one of the ad reads just wastes my time.

Anyway he talked about a website where you can buy and sell your camera gear. And because my D600 broke down a couple of month ago I wanted to see if I could sell my lenses for it because they don't fit on my Sony. And I was able to put them in to their system but then at the end it said that they operate in Japan but not in South Korea ...

So again wasted time on an Ad.

I really hope someone can invent some technolog...

2023-09-13T23:53:21Z

I really hope someone can invent some technology to charge stuff on the go without cables. Every day I at least have to charge my phone and my smart watch and the laptop. Then often I have to charge the headphones and then also the camera in the most appropriate moments when I want to film something.

A month ago I tried a week of fasting https://t...

2023-09-08T01:40:32Z

A month ago I tried a week of fasting https://tube.jeena.net/w/hSpSWFhcCMwVUtBq1CdZJQ and it went very well. Now I'm on my 5th day of the second try of a week fast. Last time it was surprisingly easy (other than on the last day), this time it feels even more easy. Let's see how it will be on the last day this time :D

I wish Lemmy had the Mastodon functionality to ...

2023-09-06T11:51:57Z

I wish Lemmy had the Mastodon functionality to create your own lists of communities. I have a couple of them which are very low volume but I'm very interested in seeing each and every post there. Right now I have to remember them and go to them specifically once every couple of days to check if there are new posts there.

In my neighborhood a bridge collapsed and kille...

2023-09-04T08:56:07Z

In my neighborhood a bridge collapsed and killed a pedestrian.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/qHpW7m42KtxV4CumAUyd6y

Now they're trying to fix the other bridges, but it's not easy.

I watched #Oppenheimer today, it was not bad I ...

2023-09-02T14:40:09Z

I watched #Oppenheimer today, it was not bad I liked it, especially the cinemography. But somehow I was expecting a lot of nerdy physics science like in the Martian, but it was mostly politics.

I was walking around close to the mall around h...

2023-08-31T08:48:56Z

I was walking around close to the mall around here and there are many park attendants who tell you how to park. They all sit in those little containers and watch TVs which seem to be from the 90ies.

When it comes to the #fediverse I'm more active...

2023-08-22T09:54:03Z

When it comes to the #fediverse I'm more active on #Lemmy than #Mastodon because it fits more how I want to discover content and engage with it, it's more similar to old forums than to Twitter.

Last week was quite tourbulent with regards to defederation: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-fediverse-episode-31/

I'm all for every admin deciding what's best to de-federate from their server, but I really dislike that people are trying to influence other servers through shaming them for not de federating from the same servers as them.

That's the whole point of the fediverse so that I can decide myself who I want to engage with and who not, if every server has de federated from the same list of other servers what's the point of the fediverse?

Ramen Restaurant

2023-08-20T12:51:31Z

Ramen Restaurant

Cat Poop Coffe

2023-08-20T04:48:55Z

One of my fiancé's coworkers brought a rare gift from abroad: Kopi Luwak

It's a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet, which kind of looks like a cat:

CC BY-SA 2.0 Bernard Dupont from France

It's one of the most expensive coffee in the world, and a rare variety of coffee. So we were really eager to taste it.

I prepared everything, and because it's such a rarity, I didn't want to just use the coffee machine, but instead my Italian Bialetti Moka Express.

I learned from James Hoffmann how to use it in the best way, and you should too:

I filled up the basket.

I put it on the gas and waited until the water boiled by avoiding the bubbling phase.

Then I put it into my colorful coffee mug.

But now you wonder how amazingly it tasted. Here are my notes I took while drinking:

Weak
Earthy
No sourness
Some bitterness
No fruitiness
Weak smell

All in all, extremely underwhelming. On top of that it doesn't have a roast or any other date anywhere on the package, so it might just have been very old.

But it had a cool zipper like mechanism to close it once you opened it and used some.

[update:] Someone mentioed that James Hoffmann has a interesting video about the history and background of Kopi Luwak, and he's description is pretty similar to mine: James Hoffmann - Kopi Luwak/Civet Poop Coffee: Disgusting or Delightful?

Was walking outside today with my new zoom lens...

2023-08-16T11:17:52Z

Was walking outside today with my new zoom lens I got for my birthday.

I just did a one week water fast and recorded a...

2023-08-15T05:45:43Z

I just did a one week water fast and recorded a video summarizing my experience https://tube.jeena.net/w/hSpSWFhcCMwVUtBq1CdZJQ

It was easier than expected and had very positive effects.

Slowly moving all my webservices from one serve...

2023-08-11T03:44:40Z

Slowly moving all my webservices from one server to another because years ago I made the mistake that I didn't use LVM and now I'm constantly battling with having too little space on my root directory. Because of that at least once a week some or several of my services go down.

I probably could fix it somehow, but moving things between servers is also an interesting exercise in if you still understand what you set up several years ago. Especially because I'm doing it manually, without ansible or similar tools.

I wish letsencrypt would develop some kind of a...

2023-08-10T00:44:56Z

I wish letsencrypt would develop some kind of a export script which would help you moving certificates from one server to another.

[edit:] Because I can't really wait for that to happen, I wrote a small shell script which does exactly that: https://gist.github.com/jeena/af2636734c02d6bce826d96171b36f6a

There is only one thing I'm using the touch scr...

2023-08-01T12:49:02Z

There is only one thing I'm using the touch screen on my laptop, it's when I have to sign some papers then I open it in GIMP, sign it with black or blue with help of the touch screen and then I save it again and send it back.

Check out me playing a Shogun in a traditional ...

2023-07-29T16:07:21Z

Check out me playing a Shogun in a traditional Japanese theater: https://tube.jeena.net/w/9UXCrz7JJgGVGz7foGhXET

I copied all the home videos from the 90ies fro...

2023-07-26T12:56:16Z

I copied all the home videos from the 90ies from my private account an YouTube to my PeerTube instance. Now it won't matter if YouTube deletes the account if I don't use it for two years.

I also have those videos backed up on my dads computer on a separate hard drive, but it's always difficult to get to it.

Ok, now I felt that I haven't been using reddit...

2023-07-16T12:22:53Z

Ok, now I felt that I haven't been using reddit and Twitter for quite some time so it was kind of easier to delete my accounts which I had there since 2006 and 2008 respective.

I ate #tuna #sashimi when I was in #Otaru #Hoka...

2023-07-16T00:58:26Z

I ate #tuna #sashimi when I was in #Otaru #Hokaido #Japan. And I have to be frank, the taste of tuna is what brings me back to Japan over and over again. I just really really like it and can't find this same quality tuna anywhere else I tried it.

Firefox' "Reader View" is so good, I wish I cou...

2023-07-08T11:18:32Z

Firefox' "Reader View" is so good, I wish I could surf some specific websites automatically with it, especially news articles and some blogs.

Sapporo in Japan from the TV tower.

2023-07-06T05:03:53Z

Sapporo in Japan from the TV tower.

Once you move out of Europe you start realizing...

2023-07-03T10:26:06Z

Once you move out of Europe you start realizing how bad the #beer situation is (OK probably with the exception of the US). I'm not drinking much beer but all the Asian Lagers are just ... I'd rather drink water.

My dads "Queen of the Night" is blooming only o...

2023-07-03T01:20:15Z

My dads "Queen of the Night" is blooming only once a year during the night.

Somehow he can make it bloom every year, sometimes even the local newspaper sends a photographer.

Other times he can make it bloom still in the morning on a Sunday when people go to church, their house is in close neighborhood of a church.

I wanted to scroll on #Twitter to exhaust my 80...

2023-07-02T12:01:40Z

I wanted to scroll on #Twitter to exhaust my 800 tweets for reading, but it's too much uninteresting stuff there so I couldn't do it.

People who want to #federate with #Meta, I'm st...

2023-06-27T09:49:21Z

People who want to #federate with #Meta, I'm struggling with understanding why. Why is it so important to use your #Mastodon software to talk to them. Doesn't #Instagram and #Facebook have a by far superior native user experience? And it can be already used today.

If the goal is to connect all the surveillance-capitalism social networks with one protocol, isn't #bluesky a far superior alternative to do that?

God damn it, I got #covid again, the third time...

2023-06-25T10:42:27Z

God damn it, I got #covid again, the third time. I'm isolating in the bedroom and hoping that I didn't give it to the rest of the family because then we'll need to cancel our trip to Japan.

I was listening to some songs by the band Hateb...

2023-06-23T13:38:23Z

I was listening to some songs by the band Hatebreed and two songs have kind of profoundly positive lyrics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLJrg_IteSo

If you want to make a difference in the world it means
You have to be different from the world you see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-OrUh4kNW4

If you think you should judge someone
Start with yourself
If you want to take control
Start with yourself
Something you see needs respect
Start with yourself
And if you want to change the world, you have to
(Start with yourself)

Glad midsommar! We're a bit early here in Ko...

2023-06-23T10:16:14Z

Glad midsommar!

We're a bit early here in Korea and also it's not so easy to find all the traditional food but IKEA to the rescue for some of it :D

Introduction to #Fediverse #Reddit alternatives...

2023-06-19T02:37:37Z

Introduction to #Fediverse #Reddit alternatives: #Lemmy, #kbin

I'm showing you around how it looks on my instance and how to find communities, etc.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/1PPQUhpzxiESV6xuKjeQav

Now that I more often come to the computer with...

2023-06-18T03:57:32Z

Now that I more often come to the computer with the baby in my arms, it was always very difficult to put in the password, because I need both hands for it. It's complicated and long and I only can put it in blindly with finger muscle memory.

This is when I remembered that my XPS 13 has a finger print reader. So I set it up now and I'm finally able to unlock it with one hand, and than with this one hand I can use the mouse also :D

Now that #reddit is going away I finally instal...

2023-06-16T15:14:15Z

Now that #reddit is going away I finally installed a #fediverse alternative #lemmy for myself: https://jemmy.jeena.net/post/50

The Great Firewall of China is an interesting t...

2023-06-15T00:31:25Z

The Great Firewall of China is an interesting thing from a technical point of view. My fiance was on a business trip for 3 days in China and as long as she used her Korean SIM card with roaming everything worked well. But then she bought a Chinese SIM card and suddenly things started going very weird.

In Matrix she could see my messages - and mind you it's end-to-end encrypted and we are both on my private server running in Germany - but all her messages arrived and couldn't be decrypted.
In Signal none of her messages arrived in Korea.
Same with the Korean KakaoTalk, non of the messages arrived.
SMS didn't arrive either.

I was very worried because for half a day I couldn't get hold of her.

I really wonder how they do it, KakaoTalk, Signal and SMS I have some ideas, but how did they interfere with the communication between her iPhone and my Matrix server in Germany? It's a super small server, only 4 users on it.

This #reddit #blackout is quite impressive. Out...

2023-06-13T11:26:50Z

This #reddit #blackout is quite impressive. Out oh habbit I've been opening it and within hours not much new is showing up. If it'd stay like this nobody would use it

YouTube just showed me two videos side by side:...

2023-06-12T00:36:47Z

YouTube just showed me two videos side by side:

Will AI destroy your job?
Germany has (skilled) worker shortage

So yeah, I guess it'll take some time until we're of jobs.

I wanted to install either lemmy or /kbin today...

2023-06-11T12:36:06Z

I wanted to install either lemmy or /kbin today. Both want me to use docker. Both then run a second http-server and a second database which I already have running. It seems it will not be so easy to install one of them alongside all my other services on the server.

For the next three days I'm a single parent for...

2023-06-11T01:39:01Z

For the next three days I'm a single parent for the first time with a baby, because my fiancé is on a business trip. I just hope he will not miss his mom too much. I prepared the iPad so they can video chat :D

The baby stack at 3 months

2023-06-05T16:31:38Z

Following Ben Werdmuller I'm also trying to post what we use for our 3 months old baby boy. I will copy his structure and fill in what we use instead.

As you'll see most of the big things we got used from his moms work colleagues or he got as a present from his aunts.

Hardware

Stroller: FastAction™ Fold Sport Click Connect™ Travel System, we got it from his sisters schoolfriends mom, they bought it in the US around 10 years ago. We had to clean it but it's very convinient because you can put him into the seat at home and just bring either to the stroller or to the car.

Car seat: Graco, came with the stroller. Very convenient because you can take the whole thing with you and carry him around or put him into the stroller without much hassle.

Bed: Got it used from his moms work colleague. Just super regular without any Bell or whistles.

White noise: I do shhh, shhh with my mouth. Or I do chick, chick, chick with my mouth.

Baby monitor: N/A

Changing mat: Super cheap Diaper Changing Table completely plastic and fabric, but it's quite sturdy, it was a good buy.

High chair: N/A

Toys and Play: He got some plastic toys from his aunts, a used mobile from his moms coworker and a very colorful plastic table from other coworkers, with a lot of thinks to press on which he just now started exploring a bit.

Food: Aptamil Pro Futura, but my Sister send us some Holle Bio from Switzerland and Hipp from Germany.

Software

Tracking: His mom has some Korean baby app, but the only thing we're tracking with it is his weight. When I started staying at home I used a paper notebook to write down all events during the day so I could explain how much and when he ate/pooped/slept, etc. But Somehow it was too much hassle and now I only roughly explain what happened during the day.

Food: N/A

Shopping: Mostly Coupang which is the Korean version of Amazon.

Babycare: The first 2.5 months his mom stayed at home, now that she's back at work, I'm a stay at home dad for the next year. The in-laws were here two times and stayed over night, so we used those opportunities to go out for (non alcoholic) drinks.

First exposure to the fediverse

2023-06-05T13:00:40Z

Now that reddit is 'going to shit' people were talking about alternatives like lemmy and /kbin.

So I joined kbin.social just to check it out and look around before I decide if I want to host a own instance or not. Interestingly one thread there was: What was your first exposure to the fediverse?, so I wrote an answer there and I think it's worth to pour it into a blog post too:

I was checking what the definition of Fediverse is, and when I go after the one from the Wikipedia:

The fediverse (a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe") is an ensemble of federated (i.e. interconnected) servers that are used for web publishing (i.e. social networking, microblogging, blogging, or websites) and file hosting, which, while independently hosted, can communicate with each other.

If so, then my first exposure was when I implemented Pingback (Trackback was too complicated for me) to my weblog so it looks like it was 2005.

In 2006 I wrote the Personal Avatar (or Pavatar) specification, a decentralized alternative to Gravatar. It never really took off, but there were some implementations for it like for Drupal, WordPress

Later, around 2012, I was involved in the Tent protocol which was an alternative to OStatus and build a client for it. But because how bad their handled their community a year or so later I switched to:

Indieweb where I implemented a set of protocols and markup on my website to be interoperable with other websites which implement the same set of protocols and markup like microformats, micropub, webmention, etc. To this day I still am using my own website as the main publishing platform and automatically cross post every note and picture to Mastodon.

Otherwise I joined Mastodon with my own 1 person instance in 2019. Later PeerTube with my own instance for my family in 2020 and my own Matrix server in 2020.

Today I joined kbin.social just to test it before I decide if I should set up my own instance or not.

Because I see new Mastodon struggling with that...

2023-06-02T15:12:17Z

Because I see new Mastodon struggling with that and it's not so straight forward to explain in text, I recorded a video explaining 3 Ways to Follow People from Other Instances on Mastodon:

https://tube.jeena.net/w/hVcB6kRvbw7FTyYqEZUvre

I hope it helps newcomers and when you see someone struggling understanding this, please share that video with them.

PeerTube Admin 26: Distributed (Remote) Transco...

2023-05-31T08:42:02Z

PeerTube Admin 26: Distributed (Remote) Transcoding in 5.2.0 https://tube.jeena.net/w/tf1y2WtGdJNKpCWnDYNrVM

Sidewalk by the Tan River in Bundang, South Kor...

2023-05-28T03:40:08Z

Sidewalk by the Tan River in Bundang, South Korea.

I recorded a video about how I curate the feeds...

2023-05-24T15:41:44Z

I recorded a video about how I curate the feeds on my Mastodon account and how newcomers can avoid the analysis paralysis when choosing an instance by making it insignificant for their experience:

https://tube.jeena.net/w/45QxVhbm3Yj29kqbQUT16B

I have two laptops my XPS 13 from Dell and a Le...

2023-05-24T15:00:51Z

I have two laptops my XPS 13 from Dell and a Lenovo Ideapad. Normally I always do video editing on the XPS 13 but it's a bit slow and cumbersome so I was wondering how it would work on the Ideapad.

Oh man it's so much worse, so frustrating to do anything in Kdenlive. Now I wonder if I'd have a desktop computer with a semi powerful graphics card if the difference between it and the XPS 13 would be the same, that would be such an amazing jump in convenience!

But I wonder how much I'd need to invest to build a tower with a ok graphics card ...

I want to try to watch the best movie from each...

2023-05-19T12:16:47Z

I want to try to watch the best movie from each country. Someone already made a list https://www.imdb.com/list/ls057400280/ Somehow I'm mostly stuck on Hollywood, Korean and Japanese movies, but there are so many countries out there, I hope I can learn something about the world by doing it. And I hope the movies are not too bad. If a movie is too boring then I will just skip it :D

I wish there was a browser plugin which would r...

2023-05-17T23:40:35Z

I wish there was a browser plugin which would remove anything about Elon Musk from any website I'm visiting. Somehow his remarks are getting more and more stupid.

For some reason from time to time I still log i...

2023-05-15T09:21:24Z

For some reason from time to time I still log in to Facebook to see if someone from Germany or Sweden has posted something from their lifes. I'm disapointed every time becauso nobody is posting anything private anymore. Instead like 50% of the posts are "Suggested for you" posts which I really don't care for and it makes me want to log out imediatelly.

Anyway I found https://www.fbpurity.com/ which after installation removes all the "Suggested for you" posts and then I can stand staying and scrolling on the site for 5 minutes in the hope that someone posted something about their life, but in 99.9% of times nobody does.

If you use GNOME then I would like to propose y...

2023-05-13T11:06:58Z

If you use GNOME then I would like to propose you add https://thisweek.gnome.org/ to your RSS reader. And not only for the new posts, but I'm going back in time through the posts and there so many nice applications showcased which I had no idea existed. The nice thing is that they always also add some screenshots of what is new, etc.

I went through and cleaned up my RSS feeds, my ...

2023-05-13T01:42:24Z

I went through and cleaned up my RSS feeds, my categorization was that everything which has not been posting since 2020 would go into an archive. I had to move 108 feeds into the archive. And left are 101 feeds. I guess I should start looking for new blogs.

I'm still trying to figure out how to render ve...

2023-05-12T08:31:22Z

I'm still trying to figure out how to render very simple HTML + CSS in a WebView in a Gnome application with GTK4 and libadvaita. About a month ago I asked ChatGTP to help me and it failed, but it was at least kind of on the right way. Today I asked Bard and it really didn't understand the context in which we were.

I first asked how to do it and it replied with some suggestions, then I asked for a more lightweight solution and it replied with Servo: https://servo.org/ which was something new for me, so I asked how to use this Servo crate in a Gnome application and it gave me example code which showed getters and setters for position and speed. Clearly it misunderstood servo for a servo motor.

I don't get how anyone can get anything done when it comes to programming with the current AI tools. It takes so much longer to make it understand what you want compared to just using a search engine and the documentation.

Thanks to a responsible disclosure I learned so...

2023-05-10T15:38:18Z

Thanks to a responsible disclosure I learned some new attack vector today which I really never paid any attention to. Make sure your private .git directories aren't accessible via your web server otherwise you could expose everything including passwords stored in that repository.

https://example.com/.git/config
If you go to this URL, you will get 200 OK instead of 403 Forbidden response.
This means that all of the files inside the repository URL in your config file are decodable via unpacking GIT objects.
Since it's an open listing, all of the git objects (commits) can be downloaded and extracted (SHA-1) with knowledge of python or bash.

I added this to my Nginx config files:

location ~ /\.(?!well-known\/) {
    deny all;
}

Fiancé went back to work after 2.5 month and I ...

2023-05-10T13:19:25Z

Fiancé went back to work after 2.5 month and I started my paternal leave at the same time. I really like it even though there so many things to do at home. But the best part is the afternoon nap together with the baby, so cosy and relaxing, I love it!

PeerTube Admin Chronicals #25: Watching int...

2023-05-09T08:17:57Z

PeerTube Admin Chronicals #25:

Watching internal and private PeerTube videos on the TV (Google TV or Chromecast) with help of the "Web Video Caster" app from iOS or Android.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/cxN9SHB96ynPaS8CYdHBmH

There is one thing which is better on YouTube c...

2023-05-06T05:00:32Z

There is one thing which is better on YouTube compared to PeerTube, You can use Sponsor Block https://sponsor.ajay.app/ on YouTube to jump automatically over embedded ads in videos on YouTube but you have to do it manually on PeerTube.

A lot of YouTubers are switching to Davinci Res...

2023-04-21T07:54:28Z

A lot of YouTubers are switching to Davinci Resolve and it's available for Linux so I wanted to check it out. But it seems that it's not working on my Dell XPS 13 with only a integrated graphics card.

The reactions to the Rust foundations changes t...

2023-04-14T07:07:38Z

The reactions to the Rust foundations changes to their trademark policy remind me strongly of the same happening in the Tent (the protocol -> https://github.com/tent) community. That was the beginning of the end of this community. I had to change my Tent client name from Tentia to Bungloo (see https://github.com/jeena/Bungloo/commit/5d8e114b7cba638a3d002324a3613cb6d43041a8) which wasn't really a big deal but it gave us a glimpse of the future of how the founders would deal with the community in the future.

I saw that GNOME Web supports synchronization o...

2023-04-14T06:39:44Z

I saw that GNOME Web supports synchronization of bookmarks, passwords, etc. from Firefox and even supports self hosted sync servers so I wanted to try it out as an alternative browser. But once I synchronized I realized that the bookmarks UI of GNOME Web is terrible. There is no hierarchy, just a flat super long list of all the bookmarks.

Attempt to render HTML in GTK4

2023-04-07T03:04:10Z

The hard part about programming is not understanding the syntax and paradigms, it is to understand the integration between libraries and build system, etc. to get anything building.

Hello World

I am trying a hello world with rust + libadwaita + gtk4 and want to replace the "Hello World" label with a WebView of any sort to show example.com

GNOME Builder gives me a nice template for Hello World, but then the hard part begins. It doesn't install the right SDK I need to figure it out where to get it, can't find any videos on YouTube about it so I poke around, when I use cargo on the command line then I can build on the command line but GNOME Builder doesn't pick it up. After long poking around I found in the Settings that there is a list of SDKs which names which don't really help me to figure out which one I need:

org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/20.08
org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/21.08
org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/22.08
org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/3.39
org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/42
org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/43
org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/master

No indication which one is already installed, there is only a [Update] button I can click to install it (again?). There are also is something called Platform and Extensions for rust. Anyway I installed everything which looked like it might help and were able to compile and run the "Hello World".

Adding a browser engine

Next step, which browser backed do I use? Probably something which is easy to use with rust, there is webkit2gtk-rs (why is there a 2 in it?) and that expects webkit2gtk installed.

Then I look at what to install:

webkit2gtk-4.0
webkit2gtk-4.1
webkit2gtk-5.0
webkitgtk-6.0 (why is there no 2?)

In arch I can install webkit2gtk 2.40.0 and webkit2gtk-5.0 2.38.5 from what I understand the webkit2gtk 2.40.0 is probably webkit2gtk-4.0 but I'm not sure ...

After some more googling I found this blog post Posted on March 21, 2023 by Michael Catanzaro - WebKitGTK API for GTK 4 Is Now Stable which explains the differences between those weird version numbers, the 4, 5 and 6 are API version numbers and the 2.40 version is the software version which supports all of those APIs depending on some build parameters.

It seems that I'm a bit too early to try it, the blog post explains that you need to patch different things and so on before you can use it, etc.

But because this is my first attempt of building a rust app, I feel this will not work because I will never know if the problems I'm facing are because of the for me unknown Rust environment or the language or the not ready yet Webkit integration. Even if I would get webkit working, there is another layer of connecting it to Rust which also seems not ready yet. webkit2gtk-rs CHANGELOG only mentions bumping from 4.0 to 4.1 about 4 month ago. So I guess it'll take quite some time before they get 6.0 working.

It's cherry blossom time here in Korea again, t...

2023-04-03T05:29:43Z

It's cherry blossom time here in Korea again, this is the 3rd time I'm experiencing it. Two years ago I recorded a video walking through the Techno Valley https://tube.jeena.net/w/fzG1bSkv4CoSzVX1vnHUz7

This time I went to photograph to the west of it.

Today we went out for a walk the first time wit...

2023-03-26T09:29:07Z

Today we went out for a walk the first time with the little one because finally the air quality was not terrible anymore. He is already one month old.

I also bought a gimble for my camera and tried to record this walk. It was a one hour walk and I had to carry it the whole time and both my arms were so tired afterwards. But the footage is nice and smooth, I really like it.

I bought a new camera, the Sony A7C https://tub...

2023-03-21T05:09:14Z

I bought a new camera, the Sony A7C https://tube.jeena.net/w/uAoBvdNjCd4v69EP3Cz5CD which produces the Sony Alpha Raw (ARW) files. Sadly I'm not getting thumbnails for them in #Nautilus nor can I quickly preview them with Eye of GNOME. I guess I'll need to create some feature requests.

Mask mandate will be lifted soon in Korea from ...

2023-03-20T11:13:39Z

Mask mandate will be lifted soon in Korea from public transportation, etc. only in hospitals you'll still need it.

But because the air pollution is so bad in Seoul people still for the most part wear masks outside. https://www.iqair.com/us/south-korea/seoul

covid #airpollution #korea

I went through hundreds of CVs in my profession...

2023-03-15T07:50:35Z

I went through hundreds of CVs in my professional life and today was the first time that something from the category "Interests and activities" has switched my mind from a "No" to a "Yes" if we should invite that person to an interview.

One of the must haves for this role is experience with physical product development from a DevOps point of view. This person has been working in IT, Health (databases), ADC, where they only worked with software.

But they have an interest in "Home Automation" which brings all the same problems with it needed because of the physical component. So I'm hoping this person has a good background in it and it might be enough to bridge the gap.

After 2 weeks at a postpartum care center (most...

2023-03-13T03:40:56Z

After 2 weeks at a postpartum care center (most of Koreans use that) we finally are at home with our little one and had to do everything ourselves for the first time.

First bath was the hardest thing, because we didn't quite remember how they taught us and we were too many people trying to do it at the same time.

Nights are surprisingly OK yet. He wakes up 12:30, 3:00 and 5:30 for diaper changing and food. I'm taking one of those times and give him formula to drink so my partner can sleep and she takes the other two.

The first night the biggest problem was that I couldn't fall asleep quick enough after he felt asleep, so I was still awake and he was already hungry again. But later with a bit of training it is getting easier to fall asleep quicker.

Now the government helps to pay a helper for the next two weeks, who can help take care of the baby during the day while I'm working so his mom can sleep or relax a bit.

I'm trying to push my step daughter to consume ...

2023-03-05T01:56:51Z

I'm trying to push my step daughter to consume less and create more. She is always watching those "Gacha Life" videos made by other kids and teenagers. Those are impossible to watch for adults but kids seem to enjoy them a lot. Anyways I told her she should try to create some herself and she did but with "Toca Life" and we created a chanel for them on our families PeerTube instance:

If you enjoy content like that then subscribe :D

About a week ago our little son was born! Both ...

2023-03-01T04:42:09Z

About a week ago our little son was born! Both mom and him are healthy and recovering now at a Postpartum Care Center for two weeks.

I already was a step dad to some great children, now I also can experience the very early stages of babyhood and it's great; 10 out of 10, would recommend!

I started looking into DIY video cam as a baby ...

2023-02-26T01:13:00Z

I started looking into DIY video cam as a baby monitor but the general consensus seems to be that this is too important to be doing DIY and you should instead buy a cheap china baby monitor camera.

The thing is that every single baby monitor I'm looking at has a connection to the cloud and I've seen too many horror stories about hackers talking to your children via those systems. Additionally I don't want the Chinese state constantly listening in on our conversations at home for some specific reasons.

From what I can see, in my case it is either have a DIY solution just to be able to close the door to the bedroom and still see the baby on the TV while behind the door, or have no camera. Or does someone know about any local only cameras?

Yesterday we went to the Hyundai Department Boo...

2023-02-20T10:33:16Z

Yesterday we went to the Hyundai Department Book Store in Pangyo, it's quite spacious.

I uploaded the rest of the pictures in an album on Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAsLuy

A group of friends was moving from Slack to Dis...

2023-02-16T19:16:58Z

A group of friends was moving from Slack to Discord because Slack only leaves old pictures for some short amount of time online. I have always been using a bridge between Matrix and Slack, now I replaced the bridge in the same rooms now it is from Matrix to Discord and I can keep the history.

I asked ChatGTP to write me a script to delete one million emails

2023-02-14T09:47:25Z

I had a GMail account with about one million emails with attachments in it. There was no way to delete them other than page by page which would take me month to do manually. Today I had the idea that I could ask ChatGTP to write a script for me which would delete them.

With some of my help ChatGTP wrote this code which deletes all the emails from a email account, including the comments.

But I had to come up with the idea to use batchDelete() because ChatGTP would only get one by one, like I did in my previous attempts. I also had to ask it about Google API usage limits which it did not come up with itself. Same with a Pipfile, where it also forgot one dependency, but at least it apologized for the mistake.

On the other side it gave me step by step instructions that I should go to https://console.cloud.google.com/ and what to do where, which was immensely valuable, because those steps are always very confusing, because there are so many options available.

Another problem which ChatGTP could not solve and I had to use Google to do the research myself was that I was getting a insufficientPermissions error. My Google search led me to the official documentation which says that it's not the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify scope which ChatGTP insisted on, but but instead I should use https://mail.google.com/. With that change the code works as expected. The script has been running for about 7 hours to delete all of them.

I tried to tell this to ChatGTP, but when I do it just throws an error: "An error occurred. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com."

All in all I think with all the back and forth it took me about the same amount of time to let ChatGTP to write it in comparison if I would do it. And I think I'm still a better programmer than ChatGTP - at least for now. But it was much more fun to write it together with ChatGTP, it was almost like pair programming.

Pipfile

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true

[dev-packages]

[packages]
google-auth = "*"
google-api-python-client = "*"
oauth2client = "*"

[requires]
python_version = "3"

gmail-delete.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import httplib2
import os
import base64

from apiclient import discovery
from oauth2client import client
from oauth2client import tools
from oauth2client.file import Storage
from googleapiclient.errors import HttpError
import time

try:
    import argparse
    flags = argparse.ArgumentParser(parents=[tools.argparser]).parse_args()
except ImportError:
    flags = None

# If modifying these scopes, delete your previously saved credentials
# at ~/.credentials/gmail-python-quickstart.json
SCOPES = 'https://mail.google.com/'
CLIENT_SECRET_FILE = 'client_secret.json'
APPLICATION_NAME = 'gmail-delete-all-mails'

def get_credentials():
    """Gets valid user credentials from storage.

    If nothing has been stored, or if the stored credentials are invalid,
    the OAuth2 flow is completed to obtain the new credentials.

    Returns:
        Credentials, the obtained credential.
    """
    home_dir = os.path.expanduser('~')
    credential_dir = os.path.join(home_dir, '.credentials')
    if not os.path.exists(credential_dir):
        os.makedirs(credential_dir)
    credential_path = os.path.join(credential_dir,
                                   'gmail-delete-all-mails.json')

    store = Storage(credential_path)
    credentials = store.get()
    if not credentials or credentials.invalid:
        flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRET_FILE, SCOPES)
        flow.user_agent = APPLICATION_NAME
        if flags:
            credentials = tools.run_flow(flow, store, flags)
        else: # Needed only for compatibility with Python 2.6
            credentials = tools.run(flow, store)
        print('Storing credentials to ' + credential_path)
    return credentials

def delete_multiple_emails(service, user_id, msg_ids):
  try:
    service.users().messages().batchDelete(userId=user_id, body={'ids': msg_ids}).execute()
  except HttpError as error:
    print(f'An error occurred: {error}')

def get_all_emails(service, user_id):
    """Retrieve all emails in the user's mailbox.

    Args:
        service: Authorized Gmail API service instance.
        user_id: User's email address. The special value "me"
        can be used to indicate the authenticated user.
    """
    result = service.users().messages().list(userId=user_id).execute()
    messages = result.get("messages", [])
    msg_ids = [msg['id'] for msg in result.get("messages", [])]
    delete_multiple_emails(service, user_id, msg_ids)
    time.sleep(1)
    return msg_ids

def main():
    credentials = get_credentials()
    service = discovery.build('gmail', 'v1', credentials=credentials)
    user_id = "swierczyniec@gmail.com"

    page = 0
    while get_all_emails(service, user_id):
        page += 1
        print("Page: ", page)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

PS: The hero image has been generated by DALL-E 2 with the prompt: robot writing code on a old computer

I have a GMail account with about 1 milion mail...

2023-02-14T02:10:00Z

I have a GMail account with about 1 milion mails and I want to delete all the emails. There is no way to do it manually. So I thought I'd use ChatGTP to ask to help me write the code. It started extremely good, it wrote code for me told me how to set up a google app, we went back and forth to optimize it for rate limiting, etc. But in the end I'm getting the insufficientPermissions error despite - according to ChatGTP - correct scope of <a href="https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify">https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify</a> and both me and ChatGTP don't know how to fix it.

Facebook just proposed to befriend a friends hu...

2023-02-06T14:02:40Z

Facebook just proposed to befriend a friends husband who has been dead for a couple of years already. On his profile people are still wishing him happy birthday to this day because the profile doesn't tell them that he died years ago and they're probably not so close that they'd know.

Because my almost 10 years old D600 broke down ...

2023-02-04T14:00:13Z

Because my almost 10 years old D600 broke down - the aperture lever doesn't work anymore - I decided to buy a new camera, a Sony A7C with a 35mm 1.8 lens to it.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/uAoBvdNjCd4v69EP3Cz5CD

As with all other social media, it also happens...

2023-02-04T13:34:54Z

As with all other social media, it also happens to me with Mastodon that for long stretches of time I treat them sl write only media. This was fine with Facebook and Twitter because those were faceless big corporations but somehow I feel bad for not reading the Mastodon timeline and interacting with other people.

Our cat and my very cheap chello. Started learn...

2023-02-02T00:20:07Z

Our cat and my very cheap chello. Started learning to play it, the most difficult part is using the bow correctly so you don't hurt yourself and so it sounds ok.

Today is the first day in Korea where the indoo...

2023-01-30T04:43:29Z

Today is the first day in Korea where the indoor mask mandate has been lifted. I've seen one person - besides me - not putting on a mask. It'll take forever before people stop doing it.

One of the reasons seems to be that other people are judging and saying: 'people who take off their masks "must believe their face looks good."' It's basically the same reason why the Taliban force the Afghan women to wear a burka, to force their own wishes on other people.

Last weekend we went to the North Korean border...

2023-01-24T05:14:55Z

Last weekend we went to the North Korean border: https://tube.jeena.net/w/mZJ4PATwQNbiGDNYYXpubG?subtitle=en

Not the DMZ, although I might go in the future, but watching village across the sea.

In 2018 I was in Iceland and went to see Dettif...

2023-01-23T12:59:43Z

In 2018 I was in Iceland and went to see Dettifoss, Europe's waterfall with the most water energy falling down.

The video doesn't make it justice but I found it on my hard drive, have a look: https://tube.jeena.net/w/hSsojkrokcG6ZL3AbPv2vR

Oh no, my Nikon D600 full frame camera is at th...

2023-01-22T08:39:14Z

Oh no, my Nikon D600 full frame camera is at the end of it's life. I'm not sure when it was bought, because I bought it used from a photographer who had it as their second camera. But it was released more than 10 years ago in September 2012.

Anyway the problem right now is that the aperture lever is stuck and I can only change the aperture by removing the lens and moving the lever manually. I guess I'll only be able to use it as a webcam from now on ...

Drinking coffe at the west sea in Korea.

2023-01-21T09:44:59Z

Drinking coffe at the west sea in Korea.

God damn, Outlook reminders are so useless. If ...

2023-01-04T03:25:53Z

God damn, Outlook reminders are so useless. If you get an invite the reminder time is set to whatever the sender put in, not what I set as a default. If I send out an invite then my reminder time is there for everyone. This is exactly the opposite how it should work. Reminders are individual and each person will have a different one. If you're always working at the office you might want a reminder exactly at the time of the meeting, but if you need to get there first you probably want a reminder half an hour before that.

Finally there is a fairly easy way to run: S...

2023-01-02T07:47:36Z

Finally there is a fairly easy way to run:

Speech 2 Text -> intents in Home Assistant Text 2 Speech

both running completely local with Rhasspy and PicoTTS, so I don't need to have Google or Amazon listening to everything which we're saying here at home.

Another very cool thing is that with Rhasspy I can change the call word to "Computer" and add the Star ship Enterprise sounds for affirmation, etc.

In Sweden we have the tradition to build Yule g...

2022-12-24T23:26:31Z

In Sweden we have the tradition to build Yule goat, this is my interpretation.

I have no idea what happened, but after a updat...

2022-12-17T01:21:51Z

I have no idea what happened, but after a update of Home Assistant OS it never came back online. I checked the SD card on my laptop and everything looked normal. I bought a new SD card and installed Home Assistant OS on it, tried to boot, nothing. doesn't show up on the network. Then I bought a micro HDMI cable to connect it to a monitor, booted still nothing.

Now I was trying to check this new SD card on my computer and it behaves very weirdly, always mounts as one FAD 32 partition (instead of the many ones it normally does) and I can't even wipe it with gparted, even dd-ing zeros on it doesn't do anything ...

We found a Jordanian-Palestinian restaurant in ...

2022-12-11T07:49:10Z

We found a Jordanian-Palestinian restaurant in Seoul, very suprising, very tasty and the smells and flavours fill me with nostalgia back to the time I visited Palestina.

A bit late but I finally made a Adventskranz. Y...

2022-12-10T06:05:09Z

A bit late but I finally made a Adventskranz. You can't buy them here in Korea so I had to go to the forest and find some evergreens and get creative myself.

My girlfriend bought a PetFeeder for the cat. S...

2022-12-10T02:10:59Z

My girlfriend bought a PetFeeder for the cat. She knows I'm keen on smart home devices so she bought a smart one which can feed during specific times and has a camera and a microphone build in. Sadly the thing is connected to the cloud so someone in China is watching and listening to us at home 24/7. It's very creepy, so I automated it away by putting a smart switch in between which only can be used from the local Home Assistant (via Zigbee).

This way we can decide when we allow it to turn on the camera and microphone at least, during those times the people who have to monitor us still can see and listen in, but this time on our terms, we can decide what they can see/hear and what not.

I really wish that with the new Matter protocol more smart appliances will be able to be driven local only without sending everything to China. I don't trust the Chinese Communist Party with free access to a audio and video stream 24/7 into our living room.

Finally our first snow this season!

2022-12-03T00:38:16Z

Finally our first snow this season!

PeerTube Admin 24: Testing automatic synchro...

2022-12-01T05:05:14Z

PeerTube Admin 24:

Testing automatic synchronization of a YouTube channel to a PeerTube in version 4.3.1

https://tube.jeena.net/w/2UoDueyoLLC5sarVhnBcey

I'm boykoting the men's football worldcoup in #...

2022-11-28T17:45:06Z

I'm boykoting the men's football worldcoup in #Quatar for obvious reasons, and because it's easy.

But there is ons surprising good thing which came out of it which I really didn't expect.

The Chinese people could see on TV that their government was laying to them about Covid outside of #China.

They could see the tens of thousends of people partying withour masks. They could see romaldo in top form despite having had covid twice.

This was one of the sparks for the protests.

I made a video where I'm presenting the 20 best...

2022-11-25T10:21:08Z

I made a video where I'm presenting the 20 best alternative #rock songs from the #90ies, at least according to me. Check it out: https://tube.jeena.net/w/9trddJP1Si4KBnE42CiSGJ

Oh man I make this mistake on #PeerTube over an...

2022-11-25T02:57:41Z

Oh man I make this mistake on #PeerTube over and over again that I upload a video and don't change the channel to the correct one and then it is pushed out to the wrong subscribers.

Once I realize it and change it then PeerTube does not send out a new ActivityPub message that I released a new video on this now changed channel.

I really like Korean fried chicken, it is very ...

2022-11-20T02:46:14Z

I really like Korean fried chicken, it is very different to fried chicken from other places. It's juicy and you can get it with different sauces and different flavors. I would eat it much more often if it wasn't so bad for your health. The chicken itself is OK if you roast it, but it's dunked into batter made out of flour, deep fried in cheap oil and then mixed with a sauce which contains a lot of sugar. So at the end it has more carbs than protein.

I think it's very good that Facebook and Twitte...

2022-11-13T23:59:27Z

I think it's very good that Facebook and Twitter are struggling and people from there break up into many different communities.

Both had a too high concentration of money and power so that they didn't allow any alternatives to them by buying all rivals (Vine, Instagram, WhatsApp) other than TikTok, where the Chinese government understood the power it brings them and didn't allow it to be sold.

I'm ok with a platform being dominant for 5-10 years, but then it should give way for competitors so we can experience a push forward and distribution of power and money.

Dead trees on the Gangcheonseom Island in centr...

2022-11-13T08:30:12Z

Dead trees on the Gangcheonseom Island in central South #Korea.

I'm at the Donghwa Village Arboretum.

2022-11-12T06:08:32Z

I'm at the Donghwa Village Arboretum.

Nice, Microsoft forced me to move my Minecraft ...

2022-11-12T00:34:39Z

Nice, Microsoft forced me to move my Minecraft account from a normal Mojang account into a Microsoft account and for some reason now they say the password I stored in my password manager is wrong. And trying to recover my account with their system just led to a automatic answer that "Unfortunately, our automated system has determined that the information you provided was not sufficient for us to validate your account ownership."

So now if I want to play #Minecraft I have to buy it again, what a shit show.

The second time in my life I've seen a full moo...

2022-11-08T11:38:35Z

The second time in my life I've seen a full moon eclipse where the moon is behind the shaddow of the earth and blood red. First time was just outside of Varberg in Sweden, this time it is in Bundang, just outside of Seoul in South Korea

It seems that the Twitter founders are trying t...

2022-11-02T15:14:30Z

It seems that the Twitter founders are trying to do exactly what the Tent protocol was supposed to do: https://atproto.com/guides/overview

(or if you're not familiar with Tent, it was like app.net but as a protocol)

Scaling on Linux

2022-11-02T04:35:41Z

HIDPI scaling on Linux is still a very frustrating experience. It seems to work nice if you have either only one screen or all of the screen having the same scaling factor. But sadly this is not what I have in my setup.

After moving to Korea I started working from home on my Dell XPS 13 laptop, which has a 4k screen, but the screen estate on it is very limited.

I mentioned this to my girlfriend and she decided to suprise me with a aditional big screen (for some reason in Korea the companies don't give you hardware to work on if you work from home). But sadly she didn't really know about all the limitations in Linux and that you have to do some research and to buy the correct hardware and she bought a 2k monitor instead of a 4k. This in itself would not be a big problem, if it weren't for how Linux handles scaling.

I'm running GNOME with Wayland and am able to set different scaling on the two screens, so I set 2x on the hidpi laptop one and 1x on the external. And for all GTK apps this works fine, it doesn't matter where the window appears when it starts, it gets rescaled properly when I move it between the two screens (ok there is some weirdness when you're moving the window but it's very short so I don't really care, this will get fixed some day).

But the problems start when I start using QT applications like KeePassXC or FeedTheMonkey. Because then the app is correct on the main screen but when I move it to the other screen then it does not adapt to the other screens scaling factor but just stays like it was and is either double the size or one quater of the size.

This is the default behaviour for Qt applications on GNOME because they per default run under XWayland and I can't figure out how to make them resize when I move them between the screens under XWayland. From what I could find out this is the latest atempt to keep the discussion going: Draft: xwayland: Multi DPI support via global factor rescaling - updated using properties

On GNOME XWayland for Ot applications is the default because QtWayland seems to have some problems. You can still try to force it by using QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland which I did and to my suprise the rescaling between the different screens works like a charm!

There is one problem though, it does use QTs own window decorations and looks terrible on both screens. Depending on the applications sometimes it at least changes to the correct dark/light theme. But it has it's own buttons top right and does not draw the shaddow like normal GNOME apps have it, so it sits flat on top of other windows and looks very weird.

I tried to install qgnomeplatform-qt6 and force it with QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gnome but it didn't do anything. I also tried QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct after installing it, also no change.

Now I can either live with 1/4 size windows when I move them to my laptop screen, or very ugly window decorations which don't fit into the overall picture. Very frustrating.

[Update 2022-11-04]

Someone reached out to me after reading this article and pointed out that KeePassXC is a Qt5 application but I only installed qgnomeplatform-qt6 and this probably was the reason why both KeePassXC and FeedTheMonkey don't use the QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=gnome variable correctly.

And after installing the correct version it works! (almost)

It's good enough for me so that I will use it like this, but it's not perfect:

The biggest problem is that the area on the border of the window where you normally grab it to resize it is only 1px wide at the bottom, left and right so it's very difficult to grab and resize it
A smaller issue is that the windows don't have the typical drop shadow, I suspect that this is related

There are some other apps left which still didn't quite work until I forced them to run in Wayland:

Firefox
Electron apps
Chromium

To get Firefox working I had to add export GDK_BACKEND=wayland.

For Chromium I have to start it with chromium --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland.

For electron apps I had to add element-desktop --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=WaylandWindowDecorations.

So far I think I got everything working with wayland after forcing it, at least at a first glance. I suspect I will find annoying bugs in the apps when I use them under wayland, but that's for later. For now, great success!

New AV1 video codec

2022-10-31T01:10:59Z

When I render videos I most of the time have the problem that I need to choose between good quality but huge size (5GB for a 6 minutes video) or bad quality but reasonable size (190MB for a 6 minutes video). Even increasing the encoding time did never help to get something in between.

On Friday I started doing some research and found the AV1 codec which promised much smaller sizes while keeping the quality. In the documentation I was looking at it didn't say anything about the speed.

I started trans coding one video and it was incredibly slow, the speed was at 0.1 x. First I didn't realize it and waited one hour but then it was closing in on 2 hours and I checked how many frames there were: 30 fps * 60 sec * 6 min = 108000 frames

I realized that this would take a long time. But then the weekend started and I didn't have anything to do on the computer so it didn't bother me and I actually forgot about it, because I already published that video.

I just opened my computer this morning and saw that it was done encoding. I checked the video size and something was wrong, it was only 70 MB, so I almost deleted it because I assumed the quality would be unwatchable, but just before that I had a quick look and to my extreme surprise, the quality was almost indistinguishable from the original!

Codec	Quality (1-10)	Time to encode	Size
H.265	8	1h	4300 MB
AV1	7	3 days	70 MB
H.264	4	2h	190 MB

I always was dissatisfied with the sharpness of the videos I made. In this example it is especially very visible with the hair or the structure of the fabric of the shirt.

Now 3 days of encoding for 6 minutes of video is obviously not really meaningful when you want to post the video as soon as you have created it. But If you could upload the really good version which has a huge size and then people could already watch it like that, but in the background it would start encoding that video to cut the size to 1/60th and practically keep the quality for archiving purposes, that might make a lot of sense.

The only practical problem I still have with this is that PeerTube does not allow to replace the video file while keeping all the comments/views/URL. There is theoretically a solution for that but it never worked for me in practice.

[update:] In version 6 you can upload a new version of your video.

Seoul Lotte Tower in autumn, photographed from ...

2022-10-30T09:20:09Z

Seoul Lotte Tower in autumn, photographed from the Namsan tower.

Terrible thing that happened in Itewon, the for...

2022-10-29T22:00:16Z

Terrible thing that happened in Itewon, the foreigner district in Seoul tonight. Many people died because of lack of crowd controll during halloween. There are very narrow streets and always a huge amount of people especially during holidays like this.

Ok @twitter so long and thanks for all the fish...

2022-10-28T09:09:14Z

Ok @twitter so long and thanks for all the fish. I will stop cross posting to you now, I won't delete my username just yet only because I have a god username and it'd be impossible to get it back. Find my on #Mastodon https://toot.jeena.net

I wonder how people normally move big video fil...

2022-10-25T12:07:00Z

I wonder how people normally move big video files from their iPhone to their computer for editing? I tried KDE Connect which worked nice on my Android but on the iPhone it just says "Importing Media" and is just stuck on that. One time it started uploading a file but then after about 300 MB it lost the connection.

Cat in jail.

2022-10-20T00:59:12Z

Cat in jail.

Nice, finally I was able to move away from the ...

2022-10-18T02:04:15Z

Nice, finally I was able to move away from the deprecated Paperclip gem to the build in ActiveStorage on my website. It wasn't very straight forward but now everything is up to date, so I don't need to be afraid of some outdated packages and security problems. Also I can finally start thinking how to implement a picture Album feature so I can move all my pictures from Flickr to here.

Folk village Hahoe in Andong, South Korea. We v...

2022-10-16T10:56:48Z

Folk village Hahoe in Andong, South Korea. We visited last weekend and it had wonderful colors everywhere because of the beginning of fall.

I'm singing in the rain, in Andong, South Korea.

2022-10-10T10:33:50Z

I'm singing in the rain, in Andong, South Korea.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/596

2022-10-08T06:58:14Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/596

After 8 years I finally took the time to upgrad...

2022-10-08T06:18:00Z

After 8 years I finally took the time to upgrade my websites framework from rails 4.2 to rails 7.0.4 and I'm amazed how easy it was. I expected a lot of rewrites like back then between rails 2 and 3, but I only had to change 2 lines of code, remove the hard coded dependencies in my Gemfile, add two config files and rewrite my systemd service file. So most things outside of the code itself.

Sadly I don't have any automated tests, so I had to test everything manually which took quite some time and I probably missed some bugs which will show up over time. I also wasn't able to test all the connections to the outside world like Twitter, Mastodon, indie-web, etc. but those are not really essential to the functionality of the website anyway, so I'll test it over time.

Anyway, great success! And now I am not afraid of extending the functionality, I really want to add a picture album functionality and move over all my 50 albums and 4000 pictures from flickr to be able to host them myself instead.

I've neglected my rails application which runs ...

2022-10-05T08:48:07Z

I've neglected my rails application which runs my own website for many many years, mostly because it's a lot of work to keep upgrading rails especially when it comes to major version changes. Dependencies break and disapear, API's break, you need to rewrite a lot of code because new concepts and data structures gets introduced, etc. Anyway now I need to upgrade from rails 4.2 which was released 8 years ago to 7.0 which was released last year.

I still like to have written my own website because this way I can have exactly the functionality which I want, not someone else. But it's a lot of work.

Hm, in one month I need to pay 143.76 USD for 2...

2022-10-04T03:30:34Z

Hm, in one month I need to pay 143.76 USD for 2 years of Flickr Pro. That is a very high price for it. I've been on pro for quite many years but at this price point I'm reconsidering my options. I'm not using the community features anyway.

What I need are only a few functions:

Photo albums
Sharing photo albums with a link (without an account for the viewer)
Storing original photos
Reasonable search and UI/X
If possible self hosted
Eventually several users possible on one instance

There is a "Do Not Disturb" checkbox in GNOME b...

2022-09-29T04:14:11Z

There is a "Do Not Disturb" checkbox in GNOME but the only thing it does is that it suppresses showing notifications. You still hear sounds coming in from all the chat and mail applications, etc. Also it doesn't have any possibility to turn it off after some time automatically like you normally do on the phone.

Content is King?

2022-09-22T02:19:08Z

In the early 2000:s people had websites where they posted their articles on. Those websites were very individual handcrafted, different design which would express the owners personality, etc.

It was difficult to consume the content because the focus was more on "hey look what I did with my website" and not so much about the article. There were people who tried to adapt the design of the page to the content which was cool but a lot of work.

Back then I was under the impression that all that clutter - so sidebars, footers, headers, design elements, etc. - only took away from the content which I came to consume. Then slowly blogs have been introduced which with the default templates streamlined and consolidated the designs and brought more focus on the content itself. This is also the time when we started saying "Content is King" and pushed everyone to focus on the content and easy accessibility to it, instead of creatively tinker with their website as a whole and treating content just as a vessel to bring new users to the website which should be admired.

Once RSS was introduced I rejoiced and started to follow everyone who's websites I followed by opening them every day and checking for new content, by subscribing to their RSS feed. In my mind this was the perfect solution they still could have their wonky website with their unreadable design, 10px font size, dark grey and light gray text color, headers sidebars and footers full of clutter, but I would get just the essence, just the content delivered directly into my feed reader.

I even took the de-cluttering to the next level because I didn't like the available RSS readers which also had sidebars and a lot of functionality which I never used and I wrote my own RSS reader, which I'm still using. That one only shows one article at a time in what we called a "River of content". No categorization, no sidebars, no functionality other than showing one article at a time with blog title, headline, date published and the article content itself.

Over time practically everyone who had their own website offered a RSS feed because everyone was asking for it, and even though people tried to get the RSS reader users to come back to the website, because there it was they would make any money with ads (and showcase their personality with the website design). They tried to do it by only publishing the summary in the RSS feed. I hated that with a passion, and not only me, because soon the RSS readers would get functionality build in which would extract the full content from the website and present it as if it was a normal part of the RSS feed, without all the clutter and design.

Practically everyone gave up on expressing their personality in wonky design and especially once Medium.com rose with their super clean design, centered content, no sidebar, no header or footer, white background black text with a 20px font size finally everyone agreed that "Content is King" and me and all my friends copied this super clean and simple design so practically each blog and website looked the same from a distance.

But I was wrong about "Content is King"

This extreme concentration on only the content sucked out all the joy from having a website where you'd express yourself and showcase your personality. Instead to stand out you had to jump into the treadmill of faceless content creation.

Suddenly there is no community around your website anymore - although to be fair, spam comments in blogs destroyed this very early on already - but people would post links on social media to your content and discuss it there, in isolation.

And yes social media made this "Content is King" mentality obviously even more mainstream and extreme. Even if MySpace shortly allowed to express yourself by injecting CSS and JavaScript on your page, this was only very short lived and Facebook made sure that your content fits into their boxy design. You're allowed a header picture, a profile picture and that's it. No custom colors, no custom sidebars or footers, just your content in the center and Facebook's features to keep you on Facebook around it.

And it has gotten much worse since then, algorithms dictate now which content we're watching, the creator is removed from the content. Look at the design of Instagram Reels or TikTok. the content takes up 100% of the screen real estate, you have a very small circular profile picture and only space for a short username which you never can remember. Sure you theoretically can follow the content of a content creator, but this content will be burred by the algorithm.

I'm writing this article for my future self to remind me that sometimes the optimization of a craft is the reason for it's destruction because it reduces it to the most optimal version of it and kills it by making it soulless.

Ran a dist upgrade on my server which brought m...

2022-09-12T12:05:30Z

Ran a dist upgrade on my server which brought my website and mastodon down. Thought I have to rewrite my website because some dependencies were not available online anymore but found a workaround. And reinstalling one of the dependencies of mastodon made that work too.

Today something weird happened with my computer...

2022-09-08T13:34:26Z

Today something weird happened with my computer. First it hang and I couldn't move the mouse anymore, then I hard rebooted it and it couldn't find my root partition anymore. I thought the SSD broke so I switched it to a different computer and it works fine there. I put in a new SSD and the new one has the same problem.

Then the bios tells me that the date is not set, while setting the date I see that the SATA setting is set to Raid, while I remember that I set it to AHCI when I installed my OS for the first time.

Setting it back to AHCI resolved the issue and I can boot again. It seems somehow the bios settings reset them selves to default or something.

When we went to Europe for vacation we recorded...

2022-09-01T03:39:05Z

When we went to Europe for vacation we recorded videos and took photos on different devices like iPhones and Android phones, etc. I counted and it's about 2000 files. Now I wanted to create a travel video with it but when you have so many files from different devices they are named differently and it's impossible to chronologically sort them.

I wrote some scripts which get the recording or taking the photo date and time and rename the files so it could be sorted. That worked almost. It just seems that because the different devices handle time-zones differently it's still a mess, but at least the days are correct.

Today I dreamt that all metal bands became comm...

2022-08-31T22:50:39Z

Today I dreamt that all metal bands became commercial posers and everyone cut their hair short. And as an answer to that all punks grew their hair long to rebell against it.

A couple of days I had to grind 16g of black pe...

2022-08-29T06:12:18Z

A couple of days I had to grind 16g of black pepper with this plastic pepper grinder which you get when you buy some pepper. And today was upper body day and now it hurts a lot where the forearm meets the wrist when I twist my hands.

Two years ago I became a Swedish citizen, so to...

2022-08-27T06:26:16Z

Two years ago I became a Swedish citizen, so today I finally was allowed to vote for the Riksdag (like parlament in Sweden) for the first time!

But life is funny, so in between I moved to Korea and I had to vote at the ambassy in Seoul today.

I have a Synology behind Nginx. When I download...

2022-08-21T09:58:54Z

I have a Synology behind Nginx. When I download a big photo album it always fails at 1.1 GB. If I download directly without Nginx in between there is no problem, it just downloads everything.

Summer feeling in Sweden. Visiting friends, dri...

2022-07-16T16:52:47Z

Summer feeling in Sweden. Visiting friends, drinking beer, etc.

Damn, I'm trying to write a fairly simple app f...

2022-06-17T16:01:09Z

Damn, I'm trying to write a fairly simple app for Android but I'm just failing and I don't really understand why. I'm trying to include this lib https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/clients/kotlin to my app. It's not in any maven repo so I tried to compile it so I could add it as a JAR lib or something. But it doesn't even compile.

This import https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/clients/kotlin/-/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/org/peertube/client/apis/VideosApi.kt#L25 imports a model which does not exist as a file and therefor I get a Unresolved reference error.

How I rediscovered the band 'Dead Moon' https:/...

2022-06-12T17:34:34Z

How I rediscovered the band 'Dead Moon' https://tube.jeena.net/w/bpeUhW8krWNNUgjMLzzUTZ

Photo backup solution

2022-06-09T23:34:24Z

I'm using Synology DiskStation DS220+ as my backup solution which I host at my parents house and it is cool and works well. I use open source tools for backing up things via ssh to it so that I theoretically could take the hard drive connect it to a computer and get all my files back, even if they decide to discontinue their software.

There is only one thing which I'm using their software for, the photo backup, because they:

have backup apps for Android and iOS for my Family
automatic categorization of photos in the backup
face recognition
geo coordinates
timeline

I've been investing quite some time to manually train it for our faces. I even wrote software which hooks in into the sqlite database to show random pictures of specific people on our TV at home.

But I'm always afraid that they will just discontinue the software and all my work will be for nothing. Sadly I haven't seen any free software alternative which would tag photos and create automatic person albums or albums which are time and geographically connected.

Nextcloud Photos is so bare-bones that I could just use the files naked with almost the same effect
Gallery but it looks and feels like a web app from the 90ies and also doesn't have any of those features mentioned before

I'd love to find a good solution especially for automatic categorization and sharing which would be free software, so if you have any tips, I'm all ear.

Interesting, I was just scrolling through the L...

2022-05-25T02:37:22Z

Interesting, I was just scrolling through the LinkedIn feed and realized that people there post way more personal things than on Facebook.

I always defended Facebook because I was able to read peoples personal stories there who I haven't met for a long time. But around 7 years ago people stopped posting anything personal on Facebook and then stopped posting at all. I'm only logging in there once a Month.

I'm logging in on LinkedIn even more seldom but with this realization it might change.

I'm hosting a lot of things on a NUC at my pare...

2022-05-14T04:14:11Z

I'm hosting a lot of things on a NUC at my parents house https://tube.jeena.net/w/tYbrbqBMkexTwXTrjsN14a that is cheap ans sustainable but not very stable.

My dad went on a 5 week long rehabilitation after an operation and there was nobody capable to restart the NUC which hang itself after the main house fuse was blown and the energy supplier had to get there to put in a new one.

It already went for 3 days where my Mastadon and PeerTube instances wede down, but finally I got some help there and it's back up again.

Cremano Espresso Bar in Bundang, South Korea

2022-05-09T05:14:33Z

Cremano Espresso Bar in Bundang, South Korea

PeerTube Admin 21: Redundancy of videos to boos...

2022-04-28T12:35:18Z

PeerTube Admin 21: Redundancy of videos to boost performance

https://tube.jeena.net/w/j7RWjBmmNbkXgeGqmnibXh

I installed another #PeerTube instance on my lo...

2022-04-27T03:51:18Z

I installed another #PeerTube instance on my local computer at home, followed my main instance and set "Redundancy allowed". My hope is that it will help to download the videos faster for everyone because there will be always 2 servers available.

For the first time ever I was happy that the JS...

2022-04-26T04:14:05Z

For the first time ever I was happy that the JSON version of RSS exists when I wanted to show the latest of my videos from PeerTube on my home page:

JSON.parse(open("https://tube.jeena.net/feeds/videos.json?accountId=3", &:read))["items"][0]["url"]

PeerTube Admin 20: What should be on the #Pe...

2022-04-24T05:53:27Z

PeerTube Admin 20:

What should be on the #PeerTube instance home page?

https://tube.jeena.net/w/oSjvTDmTpNF1X43dVUSGMD

Bikers in Yangsuri on the Bukhangang Railway Br...

2022-04-17T10:38:25Z

Bikers in Yangsuri on the Bukhangang Railway Bridge.

Browser engines and JavaScript engines are comp...

2022-04-14T09:07:19Z

Browser engines and JavaScript engines are complicated to use. I have first hand experience trying to integrate a JavaScript engine into an application which I was developing. I tried to use SpiderMonkey but needed to switch to V8 back then.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/vHpzYgZ8xQAemZ932guaWw

Trying archinstall for the first time, which is...

2022-04-12T23:49:00Z

Trying archinstall for the first time, which is a installer for Arch (which traditionally needed to be installed manually). I still had to set up wifi manually because I didn't have a ethernet port on that laptop. But after that it was fairly straight forward. Still nothing for a newbie but that's ok.

It is a bit weird to switch the choice between a list with numbers which you choose and this fake checkbox, so that took me some time to understand how to use it.

But now it is installing the system after it partitioned it and set up the encryption for the hard drive. I have to say that I probably left 90% on the defaults, which was surprising to me.

[update] Amazing, the installation was extremely fast, I barely had time to write this post and was already ready to boot into GNOME!

We went to the Chusa (https://en.wikipedia.org/...

2022-03-16T00:00:40Z

We went to the Chusa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gim_Jeong-hui) Museum. Chusa was a famous calligrapher, painter and writer from the late 1700s. In the picture it's me pretending to do awesome calligraphy.

I only could do voip calls via Matrix/Element i...

2022-03-05T01:44:15Z

I only could do voip calls via Matrix/Element if I was in the same network. Turns out that I had to set up a turn server to get it working outside of my NAT https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/v1.48/turn-howto.html

Today, finally after so many days both my siste...

2022-03-01T12:07:03Z

Today, finally after so many days both my sister in law's family and my work colleague and her children finally arrived in Poland.

Interesting times we live in. 1. My sister i...

2022-02-28T03:40:58Z

Interesting times we live in.

My sister in law's family is fleeing from Ukraine over the border to Poland
My coworker who spent half a year with me in Korea and I work with on a daily basis does the same with her children (her husband needs to stay and fight)
My niece has had Covid for 2 weeks and is getting higher fiver and a bacterial infection probably in the lungs.
(This feels like blessing in comparison) stepdaughter works from home because of Covid in her primary school.

Listening to all the requirements and architect...

2022-02-17T08:14:02Z

Listening to all the requirements and architecture stuff at work inside of the automobile industry.

I feel that removes 100% of the joy of software development.

It is because you specify everything to the death and there is no space for creativity left for the software development.

As funny as it sounds, this makes the management part a much more creative work compared to the software development in this environment.

I went snowboarding during the weekend and rent...

2022-02-14T02:39:38Z

I went snowboarding during the weekend and rented a helmet to be able to do more dangerous boarding. It was a success because some specific muscles hurt. To be able to snowboard better I need to train the muscles in my: left leg, stomach, back.

I had the problem that HotKeys wouldn't work fo...

2022-02-11T09:06:25Z

I had the problem that HotKeys wouldn't work for me in OBS while using GNOME with Wayland. A little bit of digging revealed why, and how to get it working.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/nhWrNZpPG5ribE7MYYh3TF

PineTime tells me I already walked 536 bilion s...

2022-02-10T23:14:45Z

PineTime tells me I already walked 536 bilion steps today, and it's only 8am.

#PeerTube Admin 19: Custom CSS for your instanc...

2022-02-08T03:35:56Z

PeerTube Admin 19: Custom CSS for your instance

https://tube.jeena.net/w/oSkcTDqpoLq3YP5XshjkQc

In this episode I show you how to add custom CSS for your PeerTube instance, be it to change colors or preliminary fix small bugs in the theme you use.

Over Lunar New Year we went to Busan in the sou...

2022-02-04T08:59:53Z

Over Lunar New Year we went to Busan in the south of South Korea for a short City trip, check out my photo album from there: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzB6bh

Me at the beach of Busan, South Korea.

2022-02-04T03:54:07Z

Me at the beach of Busan, South Korea.

Masked portrait.

2022-01-28T15:00:40Z

Masked portrait.

Wohoo! 9 days no work! - 2 days annual leave...

2022-01-28T08:50:08Z

Wohoo! 9 days no work!

2 days annual leave
3 days Lunar New Year in Korea
4 days weekend

I was really looking forward to it, we will visit family, go skiing and probably do some short journey to somewhere, nothing is really planned yet :D

Interesting, in a CV for a DevOps engineer I'm ...

2022-01-28T04:37:33Z

Interesting, in a CV for a DevOps engineer I'm reading right now someone wrote:

> Language : YAML,JSON,HTML, XML

Sustainable Private Cloud Server - Environment ...

2022-01-27T05:05:53Z

Sustainable Private Cloud Server - Environment and Cost

I'm sharing how I am solving the problem of using my own server for all the cloud and web services while staying sustainable both in terms of energy consumption and generation, but also when it comes to costs which for web services which use a lot of space easily gets very expensive very fast.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/tYbrbqBMkexTwXTrjsN14a

#PeerTube Admin 18: UX - How to change the lang...

2022-01-23T03:04:18Z

PeerTube Admin 18: UX - How to change the language and ownership of a video

https://tube.jeena.net/w/28EFPTPoTtAWSYYU1emTt6

My girlfriend got tools to make dalgona candy s...

2022-01-20T09:46:03Z

My girlfriend got tools to make dalgona candy so we did, it was very difficult! She got them from Volvo and there was a stamp for a form of a Dalarna horse which I recognized but didn't connect Volvo to Sweden at first and wondered why the Korean candy came with a Swedish shape ^^

Also I played the game like in Squid Game :D

Someone on reddid wrote: > My day today was ...

2022-01-18T03:36:00Z

Someone on reddid wrote:

> My day today was literally just going to my shitty job. Pretty sure I have to do it again tomorrow.

When I was 19 I was in the same position and I complained to my dad in the car to and back from work about it (we worked at the same place and he made sure I could get a job there which was payed well). One day he got fed up with my complaining, looked into my eyes and asked: "I get it. You're 19 now, so what are you doing about it?". I just sat there in the car and had no answer.

I was really so immature that the thought to change my life if I didn't like it didn't cross my mind. Once I started thinking I realized that in my position at 19, without a wife and children, living at my parents house without anyone depending on me, I could just go back to school for two years and then go to university and learn something so I could get a job that I actually enjoy instead to complain to my dad every day until he retires.

Anyway, that was my turning point, it took me about 10 years with a failed marriage, moving countries etc. but I got my Computer Science degree and started working with open source software and embedded systems for the automobile industry. Last year on one of my countless business trips I met someone in South Korea and moved here.

It wasn't a easy journey and it took me many many years, but taking a small step towards where you want to be every day will accumulate to a lot of action over the years. And the journey alone was already worth it, not to speak about the goal.

We went to my girlfriends parents in a older an...

2022-01-16T07:56:03Z

We went to my girlfriends parents in a older and more traditional part of Seoul so I took my camera with me to photograph the area which is quite different to what you normally see on TV.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72177720295984942

2022-01-16T03:56:36Z

White tulips in front of our red wall in the li...

2022-01-09T04:45:51Z

White tulips in front of our red wall in the living room.

Trash and recycling

2022-01-06T08:40:37Z

Today I wanted to blog about a issue here in South Korea which I wish someone would tackle better than it is done right now. Nothing important but at the same time very easy to solve, but for some reason nobody is tackling it.

As in Germany and Sweden where I lived before, there is a push for recycling even here in Korea. I'm not sure how old this push is, because how it is handled on the first mile is not very pretty. In Germany they have a special place where everyone has to bring their sorted things on specific days where it gets collected in separate big containers. In Sweden on the other hand they have small houses (Miljöhus) just for trash close to the houses/flats where you go in with your key and put all your sorted things in. Once a week different companies come and collect those things and bring them to recycling.

Here in Bundang where I live, and it's a very nice area, there are machines prepared for normal trash and bio digestible stuff like food, you need a RFID key to use them, they're not pretty but mostly underground.

But there is no specified place where to put all the recycle bar stuff. So somehow people just put it around those two machines and it looks terrible.

And those pictures are just from around here from a 15 minutes walk I just did to photograph them.

Several times a week people with small trucks come along and go through the mess manually and pick whatever recyclable things they are here to take with them.

I wish they would put up something up so you would not see all the trash on the street.

My coffe tries to smile at me while it is scare...

2021-12-31T02:23:33Z

My coffe tries to smile at me while it is scared to death because I'll soon drink it.

PeerTube v4 is out, I made a short video about ...

2021-12-17T12:21:11Z

PeerTube v4 is out, I made a short video about the new features: https://tube.jeena.net/w/d41N87xc9B66CtkUEunAFb

I was filmed and interviewed about how I ended ...

2021-12-14T13:11:24Z

I was filmed and interviewed about how I ended up at Luxoft Korea, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olkFQ8Mt_fU

It's a story about work, love, flexibility and opportunities.

We made some german Laugengebäck at home in the...

2021-12-11T07:05:16Z

We made some german Laugengebäck at home in the air frier because we don't have an oven.

I wanted to make a nice photo of the cheese cak...

2021-12-02T01:19:52Z

I wanted to make a nice photo of the cheese cake but then the cat decided to investigate what I'm doing.

I know it sounds tough, but thanks to higher co...

2021-11-25T05:22:58Z

I know it sounds tough, but thanks to higher corona numbers in Korea I can finally work from home for 2 weeks again, it's so much nicer without commuting and without a loud open landscape office.

Riding a bike in Pangyo (South Korea)

2021-11-18T01:52:58Z

I'm bicycling to work every day and I do that on the bicycle lane which is right beside the sidewalk without any barrier between those two. The asphalt of the bicycle lane is red and has white bicycle logos painted on them, the sidewalk is paved with gray stones, so there is no chance to misunderstand which one is for whom. Also, because it's a new bike I still didn't get a bell.

Pedestrians in Pangyo (South Korea) seem not to be aware that they're not supposed to walk on the bicycle lane but on the sidewalk instead. That wouldn't even be so bad but 90% of them have their head buried so deep in their phones that I literary need to zig-zag around all of them on my way to work. And then still they often change their walking direction unannounced so I need to break suddenly just not to bike into them.

In addition to that especially older women driving out of their parking lot never check if there is a bicyclist coming. During the first two weeks I already twice barely made it out alive, one time even ripping off the license plate with my bike when they almost killed me. I'm Swedish person that instead of calling the police I stopped, picked up her license plate and gave it back to her while she kept sitting in her car and only opened the window. But inside I was cooking with anger.

I learned that I can't count on them to drive safely and I now approach every parking lot with a lot of caution, which slows me down significantly but apparently is necessary.

PeerTube Admin 16: Answering Reddit questions -...

2021-11-16T12:32:26Z

PeerTube Admin 16: Answering Reddit questions - How do I know if an instance is for me?

https://tube.jeena.net/w/2FMrN7dDSHJwAVHZVJVdLA

I'm working in South Korea now for about one ye...

2021-11-16T02:24:27Z

I'm working in South Korea now for about one year and I realized that everyone else here is called by their first and last name, but I'm so special that when people talk about me they only use my first name.

Storytime: https://tube.jeena.net/w/ibNA6icVPZ4...

2021-11-11T13:05:27Z

Storytime: https://tube.jeena.net/w/ibNA6icVPZ443cUCuosLL9

A short story about bein very thirsty during siesta and finding some cold San Miguell in Spain.

My dad looks through the CCTV footage from our ...

2021-11-09T01:31:33Z

My dad looks through the CCTV footage from our summer house sometimes and he found this funny little guy https://tube.jeena.net/w/r3v3c5mpMavnUoLxf8MdFo

ABBA just released a new album and you can get ...

2021-11-08T00:49:56Z

ABBA just released a new album and you can get it on CD, Vinyl and Cassette, the Cassette is the cheapest of them with £9.99 and the Vinyl the most expensive for £25.99

https://shopmusic.abbavoyage.com/

This video was a long time in the making, start...

2021-11-06T12:10:21Z

This video was a long time in the making, started in June when we got the fruits.

Making fruit wine from unknown Korean fruits

https://tube.jeena.net/w/tt3v5xRhiFS6ysc2Mux2io

It's fall in South Korea.

2021-11-06T05:58:10Z

It's fall in South Korea.

Element One - all of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal a...

2021-10-27T00:31:30Z

Element One - all of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place but with broken end to end encryption.

https://tube.jeena.net/w/rYhp4ZT5Ykw1aBGqMr62KG

I got my 3rd vaccination shot, second in Korea....

2021-10-26T05:09:14Z

I got my 3rd vaccination shot, second in Korea. In two weeks I'll be able to travel without the need to stay in quarantine.

Today marks the 1 year anniversary since I came...

2021-10-25T13:48:03Z

Today marks the 1 year anniversary since I came to Korea to find work, but I stayed because I found love!

https://tube.jeena.net/w/otJQtR5ugcSeC5L7opduet

I thought that China has so many CCTV cammeras ...

2021-10-18T22:54:25Z

I thought that China has so many CCTV cammeras with one per 7 people, but appearently South Korea has one per 5 people. Oh and London, which I always thought had a rediciolous number of cammeras, only has one per every 13 people.

Our cat hates to be alone (if you close the doo...

2021-10-18T03:00:11Z

Our cat hates to be alone (if you close the door it will jump to the door handle until it opens it) and it hates to be touched (if you touch it, it bites).

PeerTube Admin Chronicles 15: One Year Annivers...

2021-10-03T15:49:09Z

PeerTube Admin Chronicles 15: One Year Anniversary

Things happened:

moved to Korea and in with girlfriend
moved NUC to Germany
many private travel videos
tiktok video
stats
slowed down with admin chronicles, not much happening
shout out to https://tilvids.com still kicking hard, very impressive
new functionality follow channel instead of instance
new UI subscribe

https://tube.jeena.net/w/8dUmCZQB6zCQRnDwVvhGXY

Today is my PeerTube anniversary, I uploaded th...

2021-10-03T04:21:00Z

Today is my PeerTube anniversary, I uploaded the first video exactly one year ago https://tube.jeena.net/w/aQ3t32gnA28JdTsNV1F2PS

A child violin with some helper lines.

2021-10-02T04:19:29Z

A child violin with some helper lines.

I'm on vacation and just went to the cinema at ...

2021-09-30T00:46:11Z

I'm on vacation and just went to the cinema at 9:40 am and I'm the youngest person here, everyone else seems over 65 😅

Automating your home when you live alone is so ...

2021-09-28T22:38:15Z

Automating your home when you live alone is so much easier than if you have a family. A lot of unforeseen event chains happen. Tonight for example my significant other turned her phone to flight mode for the night like she always does, but she woke up at 3am and turned it on which the home interpreted as she arriving at home. And because the sun was below the horizon it turned on all the lights in the whole flat which woke up everyone :D.

It's a quick fix in the flow logic, just don't change the state from asleep to home when someone arrives, but every time some of those bugs show up it shutters the trust in any of the automatons at home.

Today I tried some more classic still life phot...

2021-09-10T07:11:26Z

Today I tried some more classic still life photography with interesting light and shadows.

I got a time slot for my second vaccination, th...

2021-09-09T08:41:07Z

I got a time slot for my second vaccination, this time in South Korea, in 2.5 weeks. I got it even though I'm just on a business trip here which is pretty cool :)

Today is my first day of my long vacation and w...

2021-09-08T03:42:55Z

Today is my first day of my long vacation and workers are replacing asphalt in front of our flat. That reminds me of my childhood, I think during summer vacation between grade 1 and grade 2 they were fixing the asphalt on the street close to our friends houses and we all children from that part of the village went there to watch and smell what's going on :D

We made wine with some fruits which were growin...

2021-09-05T11:27:12Z

We made wine with some fruits which were growing nearby. They're like cherries but smaller, with a different seed and more saur.

Knowing how complicated computers are I always ...

2021-09-03T18:29:43Z

Knowing how complicated computers are I always ask myself how can it be that so many things work so well. While my friends and family members ask why this or that error happened. Bits flipped by cosmic radiation was often my to go explanation to show how complicated the answer could be, but I always felt that nobody really understood what I was talking about.

Today I saw a Veretasium video about it, which explains that phenomenon, very interresting: https://youtu.be/AaZ_RSt0KP8

I'm writing a system which shows random picture...

2021-08-25T16:06:25Z

I'm writing a system which shows random pictures from my backup (Synology with person detection) on my TV. It's quite complicated and involves 3 computers and a Chromecast as hardware for specific reasons but it works nicely already.

I just switched from ImageMagic to OpenCV for the resizing and cropping (I want the pictures to fit always fit the TV size) so that I can do cool things in the future like face detection so I don't crop where the face is, etc.

One problem is that OpenCV in contrast to ImageMagic doesn't handle raw files, which are most of the files I have from my camera. But I found a better replacement, there is https://www.darktable.org/usermanual/en/special-topics/program-invocation/darktable-cli/ which let's me use the DarkTable metadata files which contain the information on how to edit the picture before exporting. So it's one more thing to implement but it will be quite a cool system I think.

Anti Covid 19 Beer ^^

2021-08-24T12:07:26Z

Anti Covid 19 Beer ^^

We made a TikTok video but I don't have a TikTo...

2021-08-20T15:07:17Z

We made a TikTok video but I don't have a TikTok account so instead it's on my PeerTube: https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/30865360-c019-469e-b701-4da4d57abc9c

On my birthday we went on a weekend trip.

2021-08-20T02:00:59Z

On my birthday we went on a weekend trip.

Spiderman came by to wash my windows.

2021-08-15T05:35:50Z

Spiderman came by to wash my windows.

Today I saw ads on my DuckDuckGo search result ...

2021-08-05T02:55:42Z

Today I saw ads on my DuckDuckGo search result because I used it in a new browser. I went into the DDG preferences and switched them off. Actually I was looking on how to pay them to remove it but they seem not to offer a payed subscription.

I posted a video comment on "Swimming in Korea"...

2021-07-27T04:17:28Z

I posted a video comment on "Swimming in Korea" https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/bbc59374-f946-41ad-935c-b8d277f85bbb where I talk about how difficult this is here.

Jeena in moonshine light.

2021-07-25T13:09:20Z

Jeena in moonshine light.

Moon night at South East Korea.

2021-07-25T12:57:04Z

Moon night at South East Korea.

Over night I had an ant invasion, and I'm on th...

2021-07-22T00:16:24Z

Over night I had an ant invasion, and I'm on the 14th floor of a big building, no idea where they were coming from. Anyway, I cut of their entrance with dishwasher and started smiting all of them inside. I didn't distinguish between the good or the bad ones, I killed them all. Then I remembered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_p6WI4V8N8

I'm using "Moments" on my Synology NAS but woul...

2021-07-21T12:18:58Z

I'm using "Moments" on my Synology NAS but would like to tap into the AI classification of my pictures and do things with them. Is there a API which I could use?

In addition to https://thispersondoesnotexist.c...

2021-07-19T23:00:07Z

In addition to https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ now there is https://thisbeachdoesnotexist.com/ soon the job description of a Movie Actor won't exist ;)

Preparing for work from home.

2021-07-18T23:20:32Z

Preparing for work from home.

Unify is a bit rediciolous when it comes to acc...

2021-07-15T13:56:56Z

Unify is a bit rediciolous when it comes to accessing the hardware via their cloud. I have three of their devices and need to access each of them via a different landing page, which is prepared to show all of them:

EdgeRouter -> https://cloud.unms.com/
Cloud Key Gen2 Plus -> https://unifi.ui.com
UAP-AC-Lite -> https://network.unifi.ui.com/

And that even though I run the same software on a Raspberry Pi for the Access Point and on the Cloud Key when it comes to the controller software.

How people born in different decades eat waterm...

2021-07-10T00:51:58Z

How people born in different decades eat watermellon.

Because I don't have a real home now and am mov...

2021-07-05T00:24:09Z

Because I don't have a real home now and am moving a lot and living in hotels and AirBnBs, I don't have the possibility to have my normal instruments with me like my bass, my saxophone or my guitar. So for now I'm using my girlfriends ukulele to make music and I'm learning some chords. I thought I should learn at least one full song so I can sing and play it.

Trying to figure out what to learn I thought that a ska song would be cool and would fit on the ukulele, and than the Special's "A Message To You Rudy" came into my mind as a quite easy repetitive song. Turns out after 10 minutes of practicing I was able to play and sing it with only minor mistakes!

https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/17cf8aeb-f2ed-4ce8-92b3-629d2c20141a

I'm looking into some automation of my process ...

2021-06-30T09:25:33Z

I'm looking into some automation of my process of rendering and upluading videos in Kdenlive. I often need to wait for hours until my video is rendered and then check every now and then so that I can then upload it to PeerTube. Is there a way to trigger a script once the rendering job is done?

View in the evening from my AirBnB on the 24th ...

2021-06-13T11:05:55Z

View in the evening from my AirBnB on the 24th level.

I just switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire and...

2021-06-07T13:44:00Z

I just switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire and had a hard time to figure out if anything changed. Very good integration everything seems to just work.

Interesting, for all practical reasons I switch...

2021-06-06T09:27:02Z

Interesting, for all practical reasons I switched my life's language to English. I speak English exclusivelly with my girlfriend, at work, watching media, reading, etc. Only occasionally I speak or write German, Polish and Swedish, mostly only when I connect with my family.

I'm sitting in the quarantine hotel again and I...

2021-06-01T02:29:09Z

I'm sitting in the quarantine hotel again and I'm not allowed to order milk, but sometimes they give us corn flakes with milk so I throw away the corn flakes and use milk for my coffe :D

I was doing a 'skill assessment' on LinkedIn ab...

2021-05-31T09:38:52Z

I was doing a 'skill assessment' on LinkedIn about the Python programming language and I was sure that I wouldn't get the badge because I was too late with one question and then because of that I clicked on 'Next' in the next question. This means I didn't answer two questions at all. But the end result was that I was in the top 5% of the 1.6 million people who took that assessment. So what do we learn from that? The badge is not worth anything probably ^^

Night rain from quarantine hotel in South Korea.

2021-05-30T15:12:47Z

Night rain from quarantine hotel in South Korea.

Not sure I'll be able to keep updating it but h...

2021-05-20T20:36:52Z

Not sure I'll be able to keep updating it but here is my curated list of PeerTube instances with good content without conspiracy theorists, Nazis and NSFW content:

Needle Phobia

2021-05-20T18:33:20Z

The Wikipedia defines it as:

Fear of needles, known in medical literature as needle phobia, is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.

I have a mild case of it and after getting the AstraZenica vaccine in Germany last week, I kind of remembered many details which I'd like to write down in this article.

When I was very little, I'm not sure about the exact age but it must have been 3 or 4 years old, I was sick and needed to get medicine with help of a needle fairly often. How it worked was that a nurse came by our flat, in my mind several times a week, and would give me an injection with medicine into my little butt.

I still remember how much I hated this woman, I hated her with my whole body. My mom told me that little me would throw all the worst words which I knew back then at this poor woman. I also remember that I tried to hide every time she knocked on the door, but to no avail, the flat was pretty small and I probably was really bad at hiding.

What came back into my mind when I got the covid-19 vaccine last week, that it was probably not the needle itself which hurt so much, because when getting the vaccine the nurse was so good at it that I didn't realize when she did it because I didn't feel anything. But instead my arm started hurting a lot and was red and hot and inflamed for several days afterwards.

I think that was what I experienced as a little boy back then, the after effects of the needle. And it was so traumatic that to this day, and I'm 42 years old now, my butt cheek gets super tense when I think about needles, I almost get a cramp and it starts hurting. It's actually so bad that I really wanted to become a blood donor so I got all the tests, etc. but then the last couple of years when friends would ask me to go with them when they gave blood, I would always find an excuse why I couldn't go. And this even though I feel obligated to donate blood, because someone else's blood saved my life when I was one year old and got a blood infection and needed to get replaced all of my blood.

Anyway, now one week after the vaccine it's not inflamed anymore. But because I'm traveling so much, I'm trying to figure out how and where to get my second shot.

Visiting my niece and her family in Switzerland.

2021-05-13T15:44:56Z

Visiting my niece and her family in Switzerland.

Korean BBQ in Buregpreppach.

2021-05-13T05:40:04Z

Korean BBQ in Buregpreppach.

Great, while I wanted to install Ubuntu on a US...

2021-05-10T06:04:36Z

Great, while I wanted to install Ubuntu on a USB stick, their installer overwrote my EFI partition on my SSD instead. It showed it would write it to /dev/sda1, but wrote on /dev/nvme0n1p1. It did it on my brothers MacBook and on my Dell XPS13, so now it's not a coincidence anymore.

Finally met my parents again after they got vac...

2021-05-05T20:07:00Z

Finally met my parents again after they got vaccinated!

Haha people here in Sweden are really not used ...

2021-05-03T11:42:14Z

Haha people here in Sweden are really not used to wearing a mask. A conductor here at the train station came to me with his mask on and then he took his mask off to talk to me and put it back on when he was done oO

Second cherry blossom season this year for me, ...

2021-05-03T09:01:09Z

Second cherry blossom season this year for me, now in Stockholm.

https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/48184ff4-034c-4016-8302-afdb0753473e

Empty international airport in Seoul. All the s...

2021-05-02T03:55:29Z

Empty international airport in Seoul. All the shops are closed, can't even buy water. #covid19

https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/25edd042-79bc-42ac-ae59-94470b7b880f

PeerTube Admin 13: Remote channel view doesn't ...

2021-04-25T01:24:48Z

PeerTube Admin 13: Remote channel view doesn't show available videos #bug

https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/4a00e7ca-c9a2-40b4-b8c8-6820c278ddcc

Comment on work culture in South Korea in video...

2021-04-25T01:09:27Z

Comment on work culture in South Korea in video form: https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/f3c79420-8402-4d3f-921c-9dae196238dc

> No child needs a perfect parent, indeed to ha...

2021-04-22T13:26:30Z

> No child needs a perfect parent, indeed to have a perfect parent is to be on a short roard towards psychosis.
> The job of a parent is to let down their child, in a structured way. To gently introduce them to the missery of existence.

I like Alain de Botton, he is a funny philosopher.

https://youtu.be/W9X7u-MeJz0

I've been successfully running https://tube.jee...

2021-04-12T04:44:02Z

I've been successfully running https://tube.jeena.net from a NUC in my kitchen now for half a year. It has its downsides, for example when I'm not home and something happens to the NUC so it can't be remotely rebooted then I need to wait until I'm home or sent someone to do a hard reboot, which happened now 2 times.

But overall I'm very happy about how well it works to host from home. The NUC only uses about 5W and it's not super powerful but I don't have so many users on my websites. I'm actually thinking about moving other things from the Hetzner server to that NUC like Nextcloud, TT-RSS, Mastodon and perhaps even this website some day. That would be the ultimate thing, hosting everything on my own hardware.

Interesting comparison (anecdote): I posted the...

2021-04-11T00:52:17Z

Interesting comparison (anecdote): I posted the same post on Twitter and Mastodon, I have 4 times as many followers on Twitter compared to Mastodon. But I got double the engagement on that tweet (which really needed engagement) on Mastodon compared to Twitter.

https://twitter.com/jeena/status/1379417800662392837
https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena/106018499028020816

Todays music tip is the norwegian Gabrielle wit...

2021-04-08T03:29:51Z

Todays music tip is the norwegian Gabrielle with her song 5 fine frøkner

https://youtu.be/aAzRGZqo8AY

Let's try this, my Arch broke down and won't bo...

2021-04-06T12:58:33Z

Let's try this, my Arch broke down and won't boot. I'm in #Bungang close to #Pangyo and #Soul and need a Live #Ubuntu USB stick to be able to repair it. Can someone help me get one to here? #followerpower #help #fsf #asia #OpenSource

Short vaccation at Jeju Island in South Korea.

2021-04-03T11:44:55Z

Short vaccation at Jeju Island in South Korea.

It's cherry blossom season in South Korea so I ...

2021-03-30T22:06:14Z

It's cherry blossom season in South Korea so I went out to the Pangyo Techno Valley and recorded a video showing it off: https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/76142375-d3dc-4eb5-9af4-2792b5611128

I have been in South East Asia many times in my life but this is the first time I'm here during the cherry blossom season. Many have told me how beautiful it is, but I never imagined how many of those trees have been planted here everywhere and how it looks like when they all bloom together.

As far as I got to know though, most of them don't give you cherries, but instead some small black fruit which nobody eats, which is a bit of a shame ^^

Pangyo Techno Valley has many cherry trees whic...

2021-03-30T04:24:26Z

Pangyo Techno Valley has many cherry trees which all bloom now at the same time.

People who write "Hi" in a chat and then indepe...

2021-03-23T07:59:42Z

People who write "Hi" in a chat and then independent of how fast I answer they take hours or days to keep writing: Go fuck yourself.

I'm thinking of stopping answering to "Hi" messages, if you have something to say then say it, don't waste my time.

Nice to see that Thunderbird is doing good fina...

2021-03-23T04:30:09Z

Nice to see that Thunderbird is doing good financial wise https://groups.google.com/g/tb-planning/c/-jbmYvYdX1g?pli=1 I'm one of the donators since a couple of years ago when I moved all my donations from Mozilla to the Thunderbird project. I think it's very important to have a good email client.

I didn't realize how much more air pollution th...

2021-03-15T03:26:04Z

I didn't realize how much more air pollution there is in Korea where I'm now compared to Varberg. They joke around that it is wind which comes from China, not sure how much truth there is in it. And during winter I didn't see it but now I can see that the sun is somewhere behind what I first thought was fog but which I now realize is air pollution.

Danny Saucedo at #Melodiefestivalen borrowed a ...

2021-03-14T00:10:03Z

Danny Saucedo at #Melodiefestivalen borrowed a lot from Jamiroquai, both music and video concept, not bad at all.

Drinking craft beer at Randolph Beer in Bundang...

2021-03-01T10:51:23Z

Drinking craft beer at Randolph Beer in Bundang, South Korea.

It's raining today.

2021-03-01T00:15:12Z

It's raining today.

I wish there was a Digital Audio Workstation so...

2021-02-22T13:06:06Z

I wish there was a Digital Audio Workstation software for Linux which would work with Pulse Audio. I don't need real time audio or anything, most of the time I just want to put some background music together with some foreground things like for a podcast or karaoke, etc. So for now I'm using Kdenlive for it and render out just the mp3.

PeerTube Admin 11: Share origin URL to video if...

2021-02-21T13:10:29Z

PeerTube Admin 11: Share origin URL to video if it's not local

https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/2c8f4b5d-ee7a-412d-b99d-0d8dc6b1462e

My work space in the quarantine hotel in South ...

2021-02-15T08:12:12Z

My work space in the quarantine hotel in South Korea.

I'm watching "The Umbrella Academy" and the TV ...

2021-02-14T13:26:51Z

I'm watching "The Umbrella Academy" and the TV series is not super great but I really like their music choices, very often they go for really good pop music and sometimes they choose a cover version of a popular song.

Ice skating in Varberg.

2021-02-13T13:34:00Z

Ice skating in Varberg.

On my way back to Korea for three months again ...

2021-02-10T16:08:46Z

On my way back to Korea for three months again and the first two weeks is quarantene again. Not sure if I'll decide to make another quarantene vlog, it's really difficult to come up with content for it.

Interesting, my dad is trying to buy a security...

2021-02-04T09:49:38Z

Interesting, my dad is trying to buy a security cam with 2 way audio and all the good ones are out of stock and I didn't understand why until I right now looked at the [Wyze Cam v3](https://wyze.com/wyze-cam-v3.html) and it said:

> A global shortage for key materials like silicon is making it impossible to meet demand for some of our newest products.

It might be the same for the other suppliers and that is why many struggle with their stuff being out of order.

New episode of the #PeerTube Admin Chronicals: ...

2021-02-03T13:13:53Z

New episode of the #PeerTube Admin Chronicals:

PeerTube Admin 10: Privacy setting "Internal but Linkable" missing

https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/21d35d4a-51c1-414b-bed5-37f28f13c599

Damn that's interesting how different emojis me...

2021-02-02T09:28:38Z

Damn that's interesting how different emojis mean opposite things in different cultures, here is a video explaining that the eyes in 🙂 on WeChat don't look so friendly, as a result the subtext is sarcasm.

https://youtu.be/dTdskFwpmII

We made a snowman.

2021-01-13T00:17:33Z

We made a snowman.

I've painted with someone for the first time an...

2021-01-07T13:59:50Z

I've painted with someone for the first time and the result is not bad at all!

Snow in Korea

2021-01-06T12:04:37Z

Snow in Korea

It's not just good, it's good enough.

2020-12-30T08:50:10Z

It's not just good, it's good enough.

The most eastern part of South Korea.

2020-12-27T11:19:53Z

The most eastern part of South Korea.

East Coast of South Korea

2020-12-27T01:48:31Z

East Coast of South Korea

Just wanted to wish you all a Marry Christmas a...

2020-12-24T08:21:30Z

Just wanted to wish you all a Marry Christmas and attached a picture where I combined Korean culture, Swedish culture and Christmas.The frogs name is Grodan Boll.

View over Jungnang from Yongma Land

2020-12-05T13:59:52Z

View over Jungnang from Yongma Land

Interesting how all the predictions about votin...

2020-11-22T09:43:03Z

Interesting how all the predictions about voting computers are coming true like if experts like the CCC were able to look into the future. All the things are showing up as symptoms in the US election, but most importantly, nobody can trust those computers because nobody can check what's going on on a multipurpose machine with windows 10 on it so it's easy to say that they were hacked or malfunctioning, etc.

And to be honest I do agree with those people and I think that those machines are a big threat to democracy, once people lose trust in the process they lose trust in the system and it's easy to make people doubt the validity of those systems because not even experts can make sure that everything is correct with those computers.

Bindaedduk

2020-11-20T10:09:21Z

Bindaedduk

Bukhansan National Park close to Seoul.

2020-11-15T13:25:11Z

Bukhansan National Park close to Seoul.

Skyscrapers in South Korea in Bundang.

2020-11-15T12:12:53Z

Skyscrapers in South Korea in Bundang.

It amazes me every time that I can just take a ...

2020-11-14T04:53:39Z

It amazes me every time that I can just take a SSD with Linux from one computer, put it into a different one boot it and everything just works as it did before, it's a life saver. And btw. I love Arch Linux!

Morning walk in fall in Bundang, South Korea.

2020-11-14T01:27:58Z

Morning walk in fall in Bundang, South Korea.

@channyun Hi, I'm in Seoul for a 3 months busin...

2020-11-07T02:46:49Z

@channyun Hi, I'm in Seoul for a 3 months business trip and wanted to reach out to you because I saw that you're the author of the Korean translation in the IndieWeb wiki. I'm interested to see if you guys perhaps have a Homebrew Website Club and if you'd be interested in recording a podcast together with me like I did with Martijn https://jeena.net/pods/17

Korea vlog 7: Playing Minecraft, US elections, ...

2020-11-03T19:05:30Z

Korea vlog 7: Playing Minecraft, US elections, quarantine food

https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/4dc262ab-df11-477b-a46b-ceb24255a3e4

What a sureal sight, Trump supporters on motorb...

2020-11-02T02:51:44Z

What a sureal sight, Trump supporters on motorbikes in the old city of Jerusalem https://libre.video/videos/watch/d71ce990-37d3-4c55-af35-ab040786f9ef

I was there last year and even though politically it makes sense, it's just that the picture doesn't make sense in my head ^^

#fossnorth just started, second time this year ...

2020-11-01T08:38:25Z

fossnorth just started, second time this year as a virtual conference. I'm especially looking forward to:

Incompatible Timesharing System - History, Development, Restoration
Getting pixels on screen on Linux: introduction to Kernel Mode Setting

Live stream https://youtu.be/gwHvm4OIkIc

Korea vlog 6: Saturday laziness, police in fron...

2020-10-31T23:20:21Z

Korea vlog 6: Saturday laziness, police in front of the hotel, Mukbang, bringing out the trash

#covid19 #quarantine #corona #food #vlog

https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/4f6cb843-7450-47c0-bf72-10fed3b65dd0

Interesting demo of GPT-3 https://youtu.be/8V20...

2020-10-31T11:03:48Z

Interesting demo of GPT-3 https://youtu.be/8V20HkoiNtc if that is true what has been demoed then soon we won't need programmers anymore and managers can just tell the AI what to do. Seems like a cool and fearful future.

I didn't realize how often I use the GNOME Scre...

2020-10-19T17:37:30Z

I didn't realize how often I use the GNOME Screenshot app until the latest redesign which introduced a couple of bugs (which are fixed already). Now I'm checking for a new version every day, I think I might just compile it from code because it's a bit annoying :D

Very interesting overview over "Open Source in ...

2020-10-17T18:12:57Z

Very interesting overview over "Open Source in Africa" by Shedrack Akintayo:

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/c8ecd930-e365-4379-9fa4-a1e8f21239f3

The developer communities I'm part of ar mostly European and North American and it's really seldom I see developers from Africa.

Todays lunch, it's a https://en.wikipedia.org/w...

2020-10-16T11:30:14Z

Todays lunch, it's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisbein

Today I understood that in order to be able to ...

2020-10-15T18:02:53Z

Today I understood that in order to be able to work in South Korea I need to be in quarantine at a government assigned hotel room and I can't leave the room for two weeks. The other realization was that this is basically the plot of the first half of the South Korean movie "Old Boy" where "The film follows the story of Oh Dae-su, who is imprisoned in a cell which resembles a hotel room for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or his captor's motives."

Here is the part of that movie, it's kind of scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUcmrIpvq0E

Every second year I'm getting anew computer at ...

2020-10-14T13:21:04Z

Every second year I'm getting anew computer at work and every time I set it up from scratch because I feel it's much nicer this way. So let's go back to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

Checkout my newest video on Jeena's Kitchen cha...

2020-10-14T06:57:09Z

Checkout my newest video on Jeena's Kitchen channel: https://tube.jeena.net/videos/watch/4c821553-739c-492b-9e6a-789071953d9a

I'm preparing and eating mackerel, so called mukbang ;)

Wow, I installed movit on my desktop because I ...

2020-10-07T20:15:31Z

Wow, I installed movit on my desktop because I wanted Kdenlive to use the GPU, now Kdenlive crashes but the desktop is super snappy, interesting!

I installed a PeerTube instance on a NUC at hom...

2020-10-03T23:03:06Z

I installed a PeerTube instance on a NUC at home where I already run Home Assistant. It'll be mostly for my own videos which I want to have public but especially also for family videos which will only be available for people with an account on that instance.

I'm hoping that we can collectively put our home videos on there without needing a 3rd party and I hope to encourage my family to record and share video this way.

My dad bought a camcorder in 1992 and we have many awesome videos from that time and many of the people on those videos are dead already. It's really cool to see how my grandma sounded and moved and laughed and so on which you can't get from a still photo. But after some time everyone got tired of the filming and we stopped.

But now there is a new Generation and it would be cool to have what we have for them in 30 years. Sadly now all videos disaper when we switch phones. I'm hoping I can offer this service to my family without a too high cost by hosting it at home where CPU time and hard drive storage is cheap.

I baked my first keto thing. It's a cheese cake.

2020-10-03T20:06:20Z

I baked my first keto thing. It's a cheese cake.

Ok, interesting, I installed my own PeerTube in...

2020-10-02T23:18:04Z

Ok, interesting, I installed my own PeerTube instance on the NUC at home where I already run Home Assistant. It's fairly slow but it seems to only matter for transcoding newly uploaded videos which doesn't happen too often.

What I'm looking for is to be able to have an alternative UI to be able to subscribe to other chanels on the fediverse and uploading my own videos.

In the longer run I will open the instance to my close family members so we can share videos internally without the need to use some 3rd party to do so. I have also many home videos from the 90ies which I'd like to share with them.

Today I finally automated my espresso machine. ...

2020-10-02T17:26:01Z

Today I finally automated my espresso machine. When it's turned on it needs to pre-heat for at least 20 minutes so that the brew head heats up enough, normally I forget about it then but it tells me that the heat is up and I can brew. Then I have ten minutes on me to brew the espresso and it switches the machine off automatically.

It also turns the machine on so I can brew an espresso first thing in the morning before the gym. And I can press a button which I have at my desk in the living room to start the process.

There are two more ways of doing it which you can't see here. I can do it from any computer or my mobile phone in the Home Assistant UI so it's ready when I arrive at home and I also can just tell google assistant to do it.

i got two crabs from a friend who fished them f...

2020-09-28T22:31:22Z

i got two crabs from a friend who fished them from the sea and I cooked them and recorded myself doing so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRiDarM894

I bought cheap espresso beans and 4 liters of m...

2020-09-19T20:27:49Z

I bought cheap espresso beans and 4 liters of milk to train the visual part and somewhere after 3 liters I seem to be getting there. The only problem is consistency, it's only sometimes that get it this beautiful.

That's really a bummer. I Have only Gbit switch...

2020-09-18T18:14:16Z

That's really a bummer. I Have only Gbit switches and ethernet cards wired in my home. And I have a cable inside of the wall which goes from the kitchen to the living room which is super convenient. But that is the only cable which seems to be an old Cat5 cable so I can't get meaningful speeds with it. Even my internet connection is faster than that cable. I guess I will need to have my own cable anyway which is really annoying to do in a rental apartment.

Virtual dog

2020-09-08T15:50:50Z

My parents have a summer house in southern Poland, they got it from my grandmas sister who didn't have her own children. But after we emigrated to Germany in August 1989 nobody lived there permanently anymore.

We had many problems that people broke in and destroyed things every now and then until my dad made me buy IP Cameras and we set up a radio internet connection to be able to monitor it from abroad.

The whole monitoring thing grew with time and I added a Home Assistant running on a Raspberry Pi to be able to do things like rebooting the cheap Chinese cameras when they hung after a couple of weeks, turn on the lights on and off and so on.

If you're interested in Home Assistant check out the talk I gave at foss-north 2018 about it.

Anyway, I did have a motion sensor in the house and in the basement to inform us if someone would get in and last year I added another one outside to be informed if someone jumps over the fence. But it was quite sensitive and saw even people who walk on the street outside of the fence (also our property).

Even earlier my dad made me connect a loudspeaker outside so he could play music there over the internet (it's far to the next neighbor so it doesn't disturb them). And we put a Button there so he would be able to press it and sound of a dog barking would play through that speaker.

Some time later it occurred to me that we don't need my dad pressing the button manually, we could just combine the motion sensor with it and the virtual dog was born. The last two weeks I was there for vacation and installed a Network video recorder (NVR) so we could record what's going on there and wouldn't need to monitor manually.

It ended up being quite interesting to see that some of our neighbors interact with that virtual dog and even gave him a name, they call him Kubuś.

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You can hear the guy calling the dog by name at the start of the video. Same thing the next day:

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Here he says: "Kubuś, chodź, chodź" which means something like "Winnie, come, come". I translated the name like that because Winnie-the-Pooh is called Kubuś Puchatek in Polish.

Patient mid 20'ies refuses oxygen therapy becau...

2020-09-07T17:28:14Z

Patient mid 20'ies refuses oxygen therapy because covid19 is all just a hoax. Hours later he's pronounced dead. His nurse vents on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/inyu6d/notsurehowtofeel/

I have a Mi fitness band and yesterday I lost i...

2020-09-07T15:58:35Z

I have a Mi fitness band and yesterday I lost it somewhere and it was already dark outside. But I know that I can connect to it via Bluetooth and it only has a limited range. So I walked where I was walking during the day and tried to connect. It wasn't in the house so I went outside. In the end I was able to triangulate it according to the speed of how fast I was able to download the data from it. It took some time in the dark but I found it and have it back ;)

The annoying thing of watching most of YouTube ...

2020-09-05T16:06:30Z

The annoying thing of watching most of YouTube in English is that they don't use the metric system for measurements and I can't get used to it and have to look up how much kg, m, etc. it is if I really want to know.

A short movie automatically recorded by the CCT...

2020-09-04T10:48:17Z

A short movie automatically recorded by the CCTV cams where I am.

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Sunset in Tannendorf.

2020-09-04T09:15:19Z

Sunset in Tannendorf.

Blue hour in Tannendorf.

2020-09-02T18:10:08Z

Blue hour in Tannendorf.

I recorded flies, bees and butterflies eating a...

2020-09-01T13:58:22Z

I recorded flies, bees and butterflies eating apples for 13 minutes, check it out: https://youtu.be/Z6_elR3acUY

Music tip of the day: Fredric "oddloop" - フレデリッ...

2020-08-27T20:17:08Z

Music tip of the day: Fredric "oddloop" - フレデリック「オドループ」 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCp2iXA1uLE whom I've been listening to for quite some time now. I'd call it indie Jpop.

And a really good parody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kTtJ0BTPco

A butterfly and a fly eating a peach.

2020-08-25T16:09:17Z

A butterfly and a fly eating a peach.

I don't have a car here on vacation so needed t...

2020-08-24T07:01:50Z

I don't have a car here on vacation so needed to find an alternative.

I brought my grinder, coffe and my Italian coff...

2020-08-22T07:25:56Z

I brought my grinder, coffe and my Italian coffe maker with me on vacation. And here I found my granddads gold coffe cups which they only used on sundays and special occasions. I think my vaccation counts as a special occasion.

I totally missed one of my favorite Japanese ba...

2020-08-18T16:56:05Z

I totally missed one of my favorite Japanese bands releases so today's music tip is Polkadot Stingray - Jet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phwvj0_XM4k

Listen to the bass player he has really smooth jazzy licks going on throughout the whole song, really cool stuff.

A mushroom in the woods.

2020-08-10T21:44:25Z

A mushroom in the woods.

We now release our #fossnorth series as a self ...

2020-08-10T21:23:39Z

We now release our #fossnorth series as a self hosted audio podcast you can subscribe to it in your podcast app: https://foss-north.se/pod/

It already has 15 episodes of our Licenses and Copyright series, check it out!

Me being a cowboy at https://www.highchaparral.se

2020-08-09T00:50:52Z

Me being a cowboy at https://www.highchaparral.se

I will eat this now. It's very seldom I do but ...

2020-08-06T10:17:30Z

I will eat this now. It's very seldom I do but you must agree that it looks more than delicious!

It's pork belly baked in the oven with only salt for seasoning.

Sometimes there is a summer pop song which real...

2020-08-01T13:49:09Z

Sometimes there is a summer pop song which really sticks with me, this year it seems to be Miss Li - Komplicerat https://youtu.be/jVCTVOhn1_E (English version https://youtu.be/8dpmI25pQk4 )

It's easy to listen to, has a upbeat tempo and just a "A" in the refrain so it's impossible to not join in singing. Her voice sounds like a 17 year old but she is 38.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/511

2020-07-30T17:55:45Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/511

Ah, a band mate recorded a short video of me re...

2020-07-29T14:54:06Z

Ah, a band mate recorded a short video of me recording for our new album yesterday: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMU_1AF5Zo/

Fishing classes with granddad.

2020-07-26T19:48:42Z

Fishing classes with granddad.

My latte art is getting there.

2020-07-25T10:04:25Z

My latte art is getting there.

I've been working more on my Matrix setup latel...

2020-07-22T22:01:39Z

I've been working more on my Matrix setup lately and have connected Facebook Messanger, and Slack in addition to IRC, Matrix, Signal and WhatsApp. I also installed my own IRC bridge and connected it to a IRC channel I'm logged in since 2004. I made that room public so now everyone who has a Matrix account somewhere can join that room on my server and automatically be bridged to that room in IRC transparently.

It is a lot of work, but the bridges seem to be quite a killer feature for Matrix and for the first time I'm coming somehow close to a consistent UI for all chat solutions I use.

Finally Element for Linux is out, so much nicer...

2020-07-20T16:49:25Z

Finally Element for Linux is out, so much nicer to look at compared to the old Riot, but still has some of it's quirks like that it stretches portrait pictures etc. https://element.io/get-started

We spoke to the creator of CURL about why he cr...

2020-07-20T06:22:50Z

We spoke to the creator of CURL about why he created his own license for #curl instead of reusing one of the popular open source licenses out there in our #fossnorth summer special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJCqqmLuk3s

A group of three people went right in front of ...

2020-07-18T19:16:11Z

A group of three people went right in front of my while photographing the lake, came out pretty sweet.

MyFittnessPal tells me that I've been logging m...

2020-07-17T14:44:47Z

MyFittnessPal tells me that I've been logging my food and this macros, etc. for over 100 days. I've been plateauing for some weeks now but I have a good idea why, I'm kind of taking a pause from perusing weightless aggressively mostly because it sometimes is exhausting. But I'm still in a caloric deficit every day with good foods.

Like https://eli.li/2020/07/9/2020-07-09-20-10-38

2020-07-16T19:18:56Z

Jeena ♥ https://eli.li/2020/07/9/2020-07-09-20-10-38

Like https://www.thelins.se/johan/blog/2020/07/foss-north-kdenlive-workflow/

2020-07-16T08:59:00Z

Jeena ♥ https://www.thelins.se/johan/blog/2020/07/foss-north-kdenlive-workflow/

With a lot of time investment plus try and erro...

2020-07-15T23:32:52Z

With a lot of time investment plus try and error today I connected most of the chat solutions I use to my own Matrix server to have only one UI for Facebook Messanger, WatsApp, Signal, IRC and Matrix.

What's left is Slack and Discort, but because I'm not a admin in those channels it will be more complicated to connect those, but I'll give it a try.

If you're on matrix you can chat directly with me there, my username is @jeena:matrix.org

Two kodiak bears fight-playing in the water at ...

2020-07-15T14:38:23Z

Two kodiak bears fight-playing in the water at the Orsa Björnpark in Dalarna, Sweden.

Rysjön, Dalarna

2020-07-14T20:55:49Z

Rysjön, Dalarna

Långbryggan in Rättvik, Dalarna in Sween. We're...

2020-07-11T19:37:42Z

Långbryggan in Rättvik, Dalarna in Sween. We're on a short vacation around here.

Korean and Chinese companies, please stop speak...

2020-07-09T07:58:41Z

Korean and Chinese companies, please stop speaking Chinese and Korean for long time spans in meetings where I participate. I learned English as a forth language to be able to do business internationally. I think its rude to not use it when people who don't speak Chinese/Korean are in the meeting when everyone speaks English. When I speak with my colleges we speak English so you can understand us too.

There, I fixed it.

2020-07-05T10:34:50Z

There, I fixed it.

Like https://werd.io/2020/anxiety-in-2020

2020-07-04T20:31:33Z

Jeena ♥ https://werd.io/2020/anxiety-in-2020

Beach close to Åsa in Halland.

2020-07-04T14:07:00Z

Beach close to Åsa in Halland.

Like http://www.islay.org.uk/2020/07/04/october-swim-in-machir-bay-isle-of-islay/

2020-07-04T09:50:41Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.islay.org.uk/2020/07/04/october-swim-in-machir-bay-isle-of-islay/

Now with corona dragging out for months, I feel...

2020-07-03T21:26:28Z

Now with corona dragging out for months, I feel that I need some other way of listening to podcasts than just during commuting. I really miss it but i don't take the time to listen to them at home. It's a bit sad that I can't sync listened status between mobile phone, computer and smart speakers.

Today you can congratulate me, I finally got my...

2020-07-01T10:06:48Z

Today you can congratulate me, I finally got my third citizenship. After being born in Poland and gotten the German one because all my grand parents were German, I lived here in Sweden for quite some time so I got the Swedish one too!

I made a shitty YouTube video of me making coff...

2020-06-30T17:55:13Z

I made a shitty YouTube video of me making coffee: https://youtu.be/TeK_nJSUpk0

Chicken in the corn Say the corn can't grow,...

2020-06-26T18:26:30Z

Chicken in the corn
Say the corn can't grow, mamma
When chicken in the corn
Say the corn can't grow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8H-67ILaqc

My dad is really a master when it comes to cult...

2020-06-24T19:52:53Z

My dad is really a master when it comes to cultivating plants. Here is a scan from the local newspaper, the photographer visited him last Sunday when he specifically made most of his cactus to bloom for just one night/day so people going to and coming from church on the other side of the street would be able to admire them.

Back in the days in around 1997 there was a sty...

2020-06-22T22:21:30Z

Back in the days in around 1997 there was a style of Indie Rock called Hamburger Schule with the most prominent Tocotronic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKD-T-IHBl8 which clearly influenced my very first band Nothing5Cents http://paradies.jeena.net/t/n5c/Atommuell.mp3

A Volvo in it's natural habitat.

2020-06-21T20:25:46Z

A Volvo in it's natural habitat.

The silhouette of the bird watching hiding plac...

2020-06-21T20:25:05Z

The silhouette of the bird watching hiding place at the Getterön peninsula in Varberg.

A bird by the water on the Getterön peninsula h...

2020-06-21T20:23:44Z

A bird by the water on the Getterön peninsula here in Varberg.

Sometimes it takes far too much time to do what...

2020-06-20T20:45:59Z

Sometimes it takes far too much time to do what you thought would be something quick. I wanted to connect a IR receiver to an Arduino to read out the code when I press POWER on the Surround Sound Home Theater AV Receiver. I need that to be able to automate it.

6 hours later I'm finally able to. It took several hours and 4 different USB2Serial adapters to finally understand that I need to reboot my Linux machine after I upgraded the kernel probably several weeks ago. Then the Arduino IDE which Arch ships has a bug which crashes it on upload to the ESP8266 to which I switched because I thought the Arduino was broken. Compiling the newest IDE version from code helped.

I actually wanted to fiddle with sending the signal instead of receiving it today, but it's 10:45pm already so my home automation will switch everything off in 15 minutes automatically and I'll go to bed.

I live in a very strange world. I was in Palist...

2020-06-20T12:56:51Z

I live in a very strange world. I was in Palistina last year and met with people who fight the Israeli occupation by rebuilding the houses which the settlers and military destroy. I'm friends with some of them who live daily in a literal police state and today one of them forwarded me a video on which you can see how a black man in a wheelchair fails to comply with the police telling him to put his hands up and ends up being shot and killed from a distance by those police men.

To be honest, when I was watching what was happening in the US I told a couple of people that it really reminds me of what was happening daily in Palestina.

Varberg Fortress from a different angle, from a...

2020-06-20T11:45:03Z

Varberg Fortress from a different angle, from above the city. This way you can see a lot of the buildings you normally can't see on photos featuring it.

Today is midsummer and at least here in Sweden ...

2020-06-19T16:59:52Z

Today is midsummer and at least here in Sweden we party!

That's mildly interesting, my Yeelight WiFi con...

2020-06-17T20:17:05Z

That's mildly interesting, my Yeelight WiFi connected light bulb uploaded about 50 MB and downloaded about 17 MB data during the last 17 days. I didn't realize it would be that much. I guess it's somehow always pinging, perhaps phoning home to China? I should create a own VLAN for them which doesn't have connection to the Internet.

For some reason I always thought that Geary htt...

2020-06-12T18:32:28Z

For some reason I always thought that Geary https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary was some weird email client which needed some special server from some company, and I never wanted to send my emails to a different server to be able to use a desktop client. But I think I'm remembering a different client.

Geary seems to be part of GNOME and it's nicely integrated there. It starts extremely fast compared to Thunderbird and the dark theme was automatically chosen according to my GNOME settings. And even pulling down the emails and the UI are super snappy. I think I need to try it out for some time.

Music tip: Metal neighbors who practice in room...

2020-06-12T11:54:18Z

Music tip: Metal neighbors who practice in room 14 and we in room 11, they're called Antimere and are quite heavy, listen to their EP "Into Nothingness"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BpdHLD3HeQ

Reflections on the Color of My Skin - By Neil ...

2020-06-07T11:47:43Z

Reflections on the Color of My Skin - By Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/commentary/2020-06-03-reflections-on-color-of-my-skin.php

I understand why famous people of color normally try to avoid bringing attention to the color of their skin. At the same time I think it's important for us to read about their struggles to even get a glimpse of them.

Reflecting on the Color of My Skin - By Marques Brownlee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-_WXXVye3Y

I'm watching Demolition Man and they have many ...

2020-06-02T21:17:46Z

I'm watching Demolition Man and they have many funny puns and references about 80ies action movies and actors. In that universe Arnold Schwarzenegger was a president of the USA even though he wasn't born there.

I installed a #matrix server and was very easil...

2020-06-01T22:07:53Z

I installed a #matrix server and was very easily able to chat with federation with others, impressive. My username is @jeena:jeena.net but I still don't really have any idea what to do with it, yet ;)

I made some Bratwurst, but they only had quite ...

2020-05-31T17:49:00Z

I made some Bratwurst, but they only had quite thick casings in the shop so it looks a bit weird. Och and it has more fat than usual.

I tried to do an advanced selfie with help of a...

2020-05-30T20:33:04Z

I tried to do an advanced selfie with help of a remote.

Today's music tip:KANA-BOON / ないものねだり https:...

2020-05-25T10:18:53Z

Today's music tip:KANA-BOON / ないものねだり

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgS7vgquBvo

I really like Japanese Indie Rock, we used to have it here in Europe too but for some reason it stopped developing, or at least I don't stumble upon it anymore.

Changing diet

2020-05-23T18:00:07Z

I've been overweight for the bigger part of my live. During childhood in Poland I wasn't but as soon as we immigrated to Germany I blew up like a balloon within the first 3-4 months. During that time we lived in a hostel before my dad got work and we were able to pay rent and move into an apartment. I was in luck though because then after a year or two puberty hit and testosterone just melted the fat away.

But that didn't hold for long, already during my military service I got the first bump on my stomach and it went down hill from there and then. Very slowly but consistently I gained weight during my twenties and the first half of my thirties. Then it stopped and it hasn't been moving.

About three years ago I wanted to get healthier, not so much to lose weight, because I kind of have given up on that, but especially my knees and my back were hurting, which is no surprise. I trained semi consistently for three days a week with a personal trainer since then which gave huge results in how I felt. The back problems disappeared after only three months and even the knee problems went away completely after about one and a half years. I have to say this is the most amazing feeling, when something which has been hurting for many years suddenly stops it makes me cry when I just think about it. And I was much stronger than before, which was cool too.

But when it came to weight not a single kilogram went down. Sure I most probably lost fat and gained muscle, but I am still visibly almost morbidly obese. That can't be healthy, especially for longevity it seems really bad, have you ever seen a morbidly obese old person? Me neither.

Anyway, I never really looked into nutrition, I had no idea about what calories are, etc. I always felt that independent of everything, my body forces me to eat because it panics for some reason that it doesn't have enough fuel and all my will power is not enough to go against it.

Two years ago I tried it, restricting calories by eating less, with many failures in between I was actually able through sheer willpower to force my body to live on less calories and I did lose around 8 kg. But this was in no way sustainable, I would go hungry the whole day from when I woke up till I went to bed, it was so exhausting that after two month I had to give up.

Now with all the COVID-19 and working from home, my lifestyle kind of changed and I was thinking one day that it's so weird that when I was I child, mother made dinner for us around 6pm or 7pm and after that I would not eat anything until breakfast next morning without even thinking about it. And now I often cook a second dinner very late because I'm hungry?

I tried to break the cycle and not eat anything after 6pm and before 6am next morning. I normally am not very hungry in the mornings and often skip breakfast, but that first morning I woke up 5:50am and waited in front of the fridge until finally it was 6am and I could eat breakfast, I was so hungry.

The next morning it wasn't that bad anymore. And the days after it got easier and easier to not eat after 6pm, and I kind of felt good about it. That automatically meant that I didn't get in all those calories which I would eat during the late evening and night normally. I also just came back from Japan and was really keen on cooking some of my favorite dishes from there like Okonomyaki but especially Sushi.

For some reason all this triggered an interest in finding out more about all the things I didn't know about, like calories, nutrition, etc. and because how my brain works sometimes I jump into a topic so deep that it starts consuming me, but it was really interesting. And one person stuck out a lot from all the fitness gurus, etc. it was a Dr. Sten Ekberg, he was Swedish but has been living in the US for the past 25 years or something. He did have the outrageous thumbnails for his videos like everyone else but the videos themselves were just him in front of a whiteboard explaining different things of which one was that you can get rid of the constant hunger feeling which I never was able to fight with just my will power.

I don't want to bore you with details, you can watch his videos on YouTube yourself if you're interested, but in short I cut out most of the carbs from what I'm eating and replace them with good fats which made hunger, the thing which was so constant and extreme so it always battled me to the ground so I gave up all my attempts of restricting calories, for all practical reasons just go away.

With this I was for the first time able to experiment with what and when I eat and suddenly I was in control and decided what to do. I was able to cut calories to a reasonable amount without feeling any real impact on performance, etc. and without the need of any will power to do so.

I'm not super strict and change it up sometimes but I eat mostly bird meat or fish plus vegetables and only one meal a day. I leave out grains and starch, so no potatoes, pasta, bread or sugar to fight the so called insulin resistance and insulin spikes which seem to be behind all my hunger feeling.

In comparison to two years ago, I don't need any willpower to reduce calories which is huge for me, it just happens naturally.

I think another big influence is the lack of stress which came with the fact that I don't need to commute to work and back for two hours every day and working from home means also that there are less meetings, less people interrupt me, less questions and much more productive work. In his videos Dr. Ekberg also mentions this and explains the science with all the hormones like cortisol behind stress and how it connects to storing fat, you can hear it probably, I'm a fan of his, even if I don't agree with everything he puts forward, but most of his explanations helped me personally a lot.

I've been doing this for about two months and I didn't fail in between like 2 years ago and because the food is anyway exactly what I like personally, which is mostly meat, fish and vegetables, I'm not planing to go 'back' to the old way of eating ever again apart of the occasional cheat day every couple of weeks.

I'm a bit worried about going back to work in Gothenburg with all the stress while commuting and the lunch opportunities with colleagues, etc. which might make it very difficult to socialize during lunch, but I will need to find a different way of doing it.

Here are some pictures of food I've been making during the last two months, no amazing pictures because I only made them to send to our family chat, but it's still interesting I think.

I did lose weight, around 10 kg, and I've been plateauing two times already, but I think I'm on a good way and don't need to force anything yet, and there are some things I know I can do even better, like more walking, more sleep and more water, so I'm still kind of in the beginning of the journey but again it feels that this is sustainable in the long run.

The 4th episode in the #fossnorth series about ...

2020-05-23T12:14:50Z

The 4th episode in the #fossnorth series about Software Licenses is out:

"What is a (FOSS) License" - https://youtu.be/crpwrarCxNU

Ok, Joe Rogan is moving his podcast to Spotify ...

2020-05-21T17:07:25Z

Ok, Joe Rogan is moving his podcast to Spotify exclusively. I'd like to take the opportunity to find interesting political, health, comedy podcasts who self-host, either on peer-tube or their own website. Tips are welcome.

Today I found out that there are many alternati...

2020-05-20T13:22:19Z

Today I found out that there are many alternatives to Google Authenticator with are drop in replacements, I didn't realize that it just implements a mathematical function which uses a shared key and a clock.

I moved all my 2FA things from work and private to andOTP https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP which has much more functionality but most importantly is Free Software (free like in liberty).

Power outrage in Varberg right now.

2020-05-16T16:06:44Z

Power outrage in Varberg right now.

In Japan

2020-05-15T17:24:34Z

My vacation in Japan with Luna.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* Osaka
** Moving to a different hotel
** Visiting Glico Running Man sign
** Using the Shinkansen train
** Visiting the Pink Elephant bar
* Hiroshima
** Visiting the Atomic Bomb museum
** Visiting the beautifull Miyajima island
** Eating Okonomyaki
* Kyoto
** Shinto Shrines
** Shinto temples
* Tokyo
** Visiting different bars
** Eating suschi
** January Grand Sumo Tournament

A classic: "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quix...

2020-05-09T06:34:15Z

A classic:

"The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha"

I tweaked it a little bit.

5G

Just a screw on my phone.

2020-05-08T21:32:07Z

Just a screw on my phone.

Lunch today. I got some tuna but ist's very lea...

2020-05-02T13:42:07Z

Lunch today. I got some tuna but ist's very lean, I don't think it'll be easy to get some more fatty one here during quarantine in a small town in Sweden. Still super nice and I made a roll of the parts I cut away plus some avocado.

Entry door.

2020-05-01T17:53:28Z

Entry door.

Tulips

2020-05-01T17:50:09Z

Tulips

Yesterday I participated in a podcast from the ...

2020-04-20T10:59:29Z

Yesterday I participated in a podcast from the USA on the topic of covid-19 in Sweden https://youtu.be/_Tj-aqZTUP0

I tested if I can hear a difference between a l...

2020-04-17T19:19:10Z

I tested if I can hear a difference between a local 320 kb/s MP3, YouTube and YouTube Music by a blind test switching randomly between the apps with closed eyes and then playing.

I used a Snarky Puppy song called Gemini https://youtu.be/XXBaqM_8T6o because I have it in good quality and also it is a jazz song with really good sound production.

The result was that I am able to hear that YouTube has quite a flat sound but I can't distinguish between the MP3 and the YouTube Music stream.

What a weird world I live in. I needed one infr...

2020-04-16T11:29:32Z

What a weird world I live in. I needed one infra read LED, which costs about 0,22 €. I needed to buy 10 of them on Amazon in Germany https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00JGFF2SA for 2,22 € because that seemed the cheapest alternative, you can't buy them in Varberg and traveling to Gothenburg to buy them would cost me about 30 € and I couldn't find anyone who would ship them from Sweden either.

Anyway, I got a letter which asks me to pay 0,37 € in import taxes because Amazon send them from China instead of Germany, that's why it took over a month to get here I guess.

But the Swedish PostNord also needs to handle the paying of the tax so they ask me to pay another 6,85 €. In the end I payed 9,44 € which is still only a third of the traveling cost to get it in Gothenburg bit about 43 times the cost of the one LED which I need.

I finally bought a 4TB hard drive, connected it...

2020-04-14T15:51:40Z

I finally bought a 4TB hard drive, connected it to my router and am backing up my home directory to it.

For everyone who understands Swedish: I partici...

2020-04-14T15:15:36Z

For everyone who understands Swedish: I participated in a podcast episode of Kodsnack where we discussed about software licenses: https://kodsnack.se/360/

Why does every subscription online cost ~$10/mo...

2020-04-12T17:14:10Z

Why does every subscription online cost ~$10/month? It's just too much for most of them, that makes it so that I basically don't use any of those because it's not worth it. If it was $1 I would spend much more on them (combined) but now it's just meh.

Toilet paper. #covid19 #corona #SARS-CoV-2

2020-04-09T15:33:00Z

Toilet paper.

covid19 #corona #SARS-CoV-2

Kallbadhuset in Varberg

2020-04-04T19:22:31Z

Kallbadhuset in Varberg

It's time for some Japanese Plum Liquor. In ...

2020-04-04T18:35:51Z

It's time for some Japanese Plum Liquor.

In Japan it's called: Umeshu on the Rocks (pronounced umeshu rokku)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umeshu

I wanted to copy the svorak keyboard map on Lin...

2020-04-04T18:28:36Z

I wanted to copy the svorak keyboard map on Linux and exchange the Swedish Å with the German Ü to not need to learn the totally different German Dvorak layout which is nothing like the English nor the Swedish one. But it turns out that to get it to show up in GNOME I seem to need to change a whole bunch of XML files and lst files directly in /usr/share/ where it will be overwritten during the next update. So I gave up on that and will keep using ue, ae, oe the few times I write any German.

Laura wrote a cool beginner friendly article ca...

2020-03-31T19:39:10Z

Laura wrote a cool beginner friendly article called "How to read RSS in 2020" https://laurakalbag.com/how-to-read-rss-in-2020/ I offer RSS feeds to different parts of my website too, especially also for my podcast.

Here is our pre-show about what you can expect ...

2020-03-30T15:25:32Z

Here is our pre-show about what you can expect from the #fossnorth talks tomorrow: https://youtu.be/j-Hxru6nZ_Q #opensource #floss #foss

Finally this years #fossnorth started. It's a v...

2020-03-29T12:08:41Z

Finally this years #fossnorth started. It's a virtual conference about Free and Open Source software which can be joined via YouTube: https://youtu.be/FZOdbAJqDNY

You can ask questions via https://sli.do #K547

Check out the schedule: https://foss-north.se/2020/schedule.html We're online starting today until Wednesday packed with really cool talks, come and join us now!

I'm working on becoming better in making nigiri...

2020-03-29T11:59:13Z

I'm working on becoming better in making nigiri. Slowly I'm getting better when it comes to the looks, they look quite nice in the photo don't they? I still have problems with the rice seasoning, the rice becomes less sticky once I season it with rice vinegar which changes the consistency. Also the fish I use is the cheap frozen salmon which is chewy and kind of tasteless, but that's just for now when I'm training to cut it the right way, I will use fresh one once I know what I'm doing.

3rd episode of my podcast about my journey to I...

2020-03-26T17:18:50Z

3rd episode of my podcast about my journey to Israel.

Visiting Nazareth with it's rich Christian culture and the beautiful Dead Sea.

https://jeena.net/pods/22

Amazing how this teacher uses whiteboards in VR...

2020-03-26T10:46:18Z

Amazing how this teacher uses whiteboards in VR in the game "Half-Life: Alyx" to teach 6th grade math: https://youtu.be/_T2-9MwA5JI with different colors, smudging with the finger and cleaning with a dry eraser, etc.

It's interesting how difficult it is to watch l...

2020-03-25T16:44:25Z

It's interesting how difficult it is to watch late night hosts recorded on their iPhone at home with really shitty audio.

Try to compare Seth Meyers latest video https://youtu.be/sqrhH6xIegw to the latest video of the 14 years old YouTuber Gabriela Bee https://youtu.be/2_8G4ToQARw

Both record it from home but her production value is so much higher it's embarrassing. Starting by the audio quality which is super important, video quality doesn't matter so much, but even her jokes are more funny, can't the writers send in the jokes via email? I don't get it.

Now that everybody is working from home, we had...

2020-03-24T13:56:50Z

Now that everybody is working from home, we had some Lightning Talks in preparation to next weekends https://foss-north.se/2020/ a Open Source conference, this year virtual on YouTube.

But anyway, we hat a guy from RedHat (Kristoffer Grönlund) who has been working from home for 7 years and he was talking about some of the pitfalls and failures to avoid (10 minutes):

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/4117255b-2468-4a08-913f-aca44162903e

(Special in German) Bienen - Albert

2020-03-23T07:49:47Z

Albert ist seit 1974, als ihm ein Schwarm Bienen zugeflogen ist, Imker.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* Wann hast du mit Bienen angefangen?
* Was braucht man um Bienen zu halten?
* Wie bekommt man den Honig raus?
* Wie bekommt man gute qualität?
* Wie gross ist so ein Volk?
* Kumpels Mutter hat zu viel Wasser drin, wie bekommt man es raus?
* Was machst du mit deinem Honig?
* Wie viel Arbeit ist es?
* Wie merkt man dass es zwei Königinen gibt?
* Was können wir gegen das Bienensterben tun? Auf Greta hören?
* Wie merkt man dass die Bienen krank sind?
* Was kann man gegen Läuse machen?
* Woran erkennt man eine Königin?
* Kann man einen Bienenstock auf dem Dach haben?
* Welche Arten von Honig gibt es und welcher ist der beste?
* Wie unterscheidet sich der Industriehonig vom eigenen?
* Wie lange ist Honig geniesbar?

In Israel 3/3 - Nazareth & Dead Sea

2020-03-23T06:53:37Z

Visiting Nazareth with it's rich Christian culture and the beautiful Dead Sea.

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* Nazareth
** AirBnB with Palestinians
** Merry's Well
** Church service with Polish priests
** Basilica of the Annunciation
** Abu Salem café - Oldest Café in Israel: Open Since 1914 in Nazareth
* Dead Sea
** Whole bungalow for myself
** Floating in the salt water
** The lowest point on Earth on dry land
** Beautiful landscape with high mountains
** A crust of salt in the water
** No life in the Dead Sea

Day 9 of quarantine: Had to alter my home autom...

2020-03-23T03:29:47Z

Day 9 of quarantine: Had to alter my home automation from running the dishwasher when I'm away to when I'm asleep.

Live right now: virtual lightning talks confere...

2020-03-22T14:16:41Z

Live right now: virtual lightning talks conference #fossnorth https://youtu.be/wKqdVTi4CuI #opensource #floss #foss

I wanted to watch the movie Joker so I decided ...

2020-03-19T18:17:53Z

I wanted to watch the movie Joker so I decided to rent it on YouTube because they offer 4K and I have 4k monitor and nice sound. But None of my browsers want to show it to me. This means I payed 5 EUR for a movie which I can't watch, bummer. Sadly The Pirate Bay is down now too for some reason, otherwise I'd just download and watch it from there.

I'm going through my unread RSS feed from janua...

2020-03-18T19:38:33Z

I'm going through my unread RSS feed from january and february, it's king of nice to see a normal flow of posts which don't mention a virus in 2/3 of them.

Shower thought: COVID-19 is bringing the world ...

2020-03-16T23:25:04Z

Shower thought: COVID-19 is bringing the world population of humans together on one side like an alien invasion would, we need to work together as a species to fight it before it can destroys us.

Normally I don't really get sick and I've been ...

2020-03-16T03:06:55Z

Normally I don't really get sick and I've been self isolating since Wednesday, as one of the first ones at the office. But still I got sick on Friday. I have no fever, shortness of breath or diarrhea but instead a stuffy nose and sometimes running nose and a very light dry cough. This would indicate a common cold which is really ironic because I didn't have it for many years but when I start self isolating then I get it :D

I have an automation at home to switch everythi...

2020-03-15T08:08:10Z

I have an automation at home to switch everything off at 23:00 so I will go to sleep. It sometimes really surprises me and switches for example my computer screen off when I'm in the middle of something. I now added a dimming of all the lights to 10% at 22:55 to mentally prepare myself that it's time for bed in 5 minutes.

I guess a (temporary) Universal Basic Income wo...

2020-03-14T18:54:31Z

I guess a (temporary) Universal Basic Income would probably help those who can't make enough money right now during the covid-19 crisis.

I think I'll start working from home today. The...

2020-03-11T07:43:28Z

I think I'll start working from home today. There is no real benefit of taking the train to the office and working via video link with colleagues from other countries than doing it from home.

Watching the second Sumo tournament this year (...

2020-03-10T23:18:50Z

Watching the second Sumo tournament this year (this time on https://youtu.be/AQs9Md6sPdY) and without an audience. It's a spooky atmosphere.

Yesterday I was at a 40iest birthday party whic...

2020-03-07T20:40:36Z

Yesterday I was at a 40iest birthday party which was movie themed. I went as a skinhead from the movie "This is England" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480025/ which is an excellent movie, watch it if you haven't seen it yet.

I have to say their style suits me quite well, it's a pity that it's associated with bad things.

Today I made Osaka style Okonomyaki and it was ...

2020-02-28T22:28:05Z

Today I made Osaka style Okonomyaki and it was sooo delicious, unbelievable, really close to the one we ate back in Horoshima.

Naturum in Varberg

2020-02-25T16:34:20Z

Naturum in Varberg

In Israel/Palestine 2/3 - Hebron

2020-02-25T01:02:35Z

Visiting Hebron in Palestine

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* Bus drive to Hebron from Jerusalem
* My AirBnB on the roof top in the old city (Zleikha Muhtaseb)
* Threatened by boys with knife
* Military running
* Overview over old city
* History lesson by salesman
* Driving to outside of the city with my host
* Visiting a Muslim family (Atta Jaber)
* History lesson about the map Israel vs. Palestine
* History lesson about settlers in Hebron
* Demolition of houses
* Bulldozing of farm land
* Video walk through Hebron https://tube.jeena.net/w/3FhHLhdfxHpEJGdGPTA3uA

Playing with hardware is hard, I was able to de...

2020-02-22T18:09:45Z

Playing with hardware is hard, I was able to decode a IR signal from a TV remote but I can't get my contraption to send a IR signal. Now after a day of trying I suspect that I broke the IR LED but have no idea how to test it. A normal LED emits short visible light flashes when I use it, so the whole contraption seems to work, only the IR LED doesn't. With my phone camera I can see the TV remote flashing, my IR LED on the other hand is just dead.

I got my first phishing SMS which tries to tell...

2020-02-19T15:28:01Z

I got my first phishing SMS which tries to tell me I have a package waiting for me but it got stopped in Stockholm because the 10 SEK postage hasn't been payed. They include a link which first goes to a blogspot page with a form with the prefilled tracking ID and when you click on it you get redirected to a page on direct.greenfitness.net where you can pay those 10 SEK. I didn't go further with the investigation.

After work on the Fridays For Future demonstrat...

2020-02-15T14:44:17Z

After work on the Fridays For Future demonstration in Gothenburg.

Today I decided to not answer the phone and hel...

2020-02-15T13:50:52Z

Today I decided to not answer the phone and help other people with their problems but instead to do what I wanted to do for a long time but never had the time for it. So now I'm on the train to get a IR receiver because they have it in the next city, 40 km away. Once I get it I hopefully will be able to use my Arduino to record a IR signal from a remote control and then use that code to switch on a audio amplifier with help of my Home Assistant when I get home. This way I will be able to listen to music and notifications via my 6.1 surround system.

Today "The Book of Delights" has arrived where ...

2020-02-13T17:50:05Z

Today "The Book of Delights" has arrived where Ross Gay published a delight every day for a year in book form. It's a cool idea, perhaps I should do a challenge to post one per day for at least a week?

Funny how my USB Type-C extension cord has a li...

2020-02-04T18:49:17Z

Funny how my USB Type-C extension cord has a little label which says:

> USB 3.1/3.0 is supported on both sides. > USB 2.0 is only supported on one side. > If it doesn't work please reverse it.

And I've been trying to get my external sound card to work for half an hour.

Anyway, now finally I have the dream setup, I can switch to use my keyboard, mouse and sound card and screen on my stationary NUC or my laptop connected with one single cable (including charging) by a press of a button at my desk. I just need to insert the cable the right way.

Happy Palindrome Day 20200202!

2020-02-02T08:44:12Z

Happy Palindrome Day 20200202!

It's always a bit sad when I come back from vac...

2020-01-30T16:12:33Z

It's always a bit sad when I come back from vacation I don't have anything to post because nothing happens anymore. It feels like I'm falling into a deep hole of work and boredom and I need to actively work to get out of it.

Enho is by far smallest of the sumo wrestlers i...

2020-01-27T18:03:57Z

Enho is by far smallest of the sumo wrestlers in the highest league, but don't let that fool you, he is really aggressive and wins a lot! Here are all his fights from the January Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehwBDELk7M

I've recorded so much material for podcasts dur...

2020-01-27T17:49:46Z

I've recorded so much material for podcasts during my journeys, now I 'just' need to sit down and cut it in nice pieces and to all the other work before I can publish it.

January Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo, I was t...

2020-01-25T15:15:12Z

January Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo, I was there on day 13, you can see the fights from this day on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2R7RulnA4

January Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo

2020-01-25T11:07:40Z

January Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo

My first time watching sumo wrestling live. I w...

2020-01-25T10:20:36Z

My first time watching sumo wrestling live. I was at the January Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo. It was extremely entertaining.

Standing in the line to get one of the 300 - 35...

2020-01-23T23:00:41Z

Standing in the line to get one of the 300 - 350 tickets for Sumo today, I have queue #341.

We just ate Yakiniku 'all you can eat' (within ...

2020-01-22T15:14:28Z

We just ate Yakiniku 'all you can eat' (within 90 minutes) from this menu https://www.gyukaku.ne.jp/international/pdf/03-WithAll-You-Can-EatCourse1800_en.pdf

It was sooo delicious! And together with all you can drink for just about 35 EUR which you'd pay for the drinks alone in Sweden.

Torii Gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, J...

2020-01-21T05:04:03Z

Torii Gates at Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan.

Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki in the making.

2020-01-19T09:50:31Z

Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki in the making.

Osaka Metro entrance by night.

2020-01-17T19:08:32Z

Osaka Metro entrance by night.

Hiroshima by night.

2020-01-17T18:07:11Z

Hiroshima by night.

Me in front of the Glico Man sign in Osaka. ...

2020-01-17T09:42:48Z

Me in front of the Glico Man sign in Osaka.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dtonbori

I seem to need a longer cable than the Japanese.

2020-01-16T10:51:48Z

I seem to need a longer cable than the Japanese.

I'm on my way to Japan and we have our traditio...

2020-01-14T13:51:31Z

I'm on my way to Japan and we have our traditional a stop in Helsingfors to drink the last good beer for two weeks ;)

Nice, went up at 4 to catch the train but the 2...

2020-01-06T04:42:53Z

Nice, went up at 4 to catch the train but the 2nd got cancled and I need to wait 2,5 hours just 80 from where I started my journey. Now instead of 15 hours itwill take 18 hour or longer to get home.

Good job Deutsche Bahn. After failing me too many times in the past so I couldn't get the last trail home and had to pay more for a taxi than for the train I switched to flying for the last 7 years. Now I wanted to try it again and it went well from Sweden to Germany but now thy fail imediatelly on my way home, unbelievable.

Frozen fire hydrant in Burgpreppach.

2020-01-04T20:37:21Z

Frozen fire hydrant in Burgpreppach.

Check out the latest episode of my podcast Jeen...

2020-01-03T19:21:09Z

Check out the latest episode of my podcast Jeenas Excellent Encounters where I went to Jerusalem and did a blog style recording of my stay there: https://jeena.net/pods/20

This is the first one of three episodes from Israel.

Fun fact, the jingle at the beginning and end was created by a guy from Tel Aviv.

In Israel 1/3 - Jerusalem

2020-01-03T19:10:26Z

My holiday in Israel, part one in Jerusalem

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* I comment on my adventures in Jerusalem
* mostly the old city
* Western Wall
* Dome of the Rock
* Church of the Holy Sepulchre
* Jesus' grave
* Religions
** Muslim
** Christian
** Jewish
* Coffe
* Ultra orthodox Jews
** Hasidic
** Haredi
* History

Today in frozen Burgpreppach where my parents l...

2020-01-02T16:38:58Z

Today in frozen Burgpreppach where my parents live, the castle.

My dad is smoking trout for Christmas, very del...

2019-12-23T12:58:06Z

My dad is smoking trout for Christmas, very delicious, we already tasted one of them.

This year I started my Christmas vacation very ...

2019-12-20T17:13:40Z

This year I started my Christmas vacation very early and have been enjoying a week at my parents where we decorated the living room and the Christmas tree.

Millencolin once again! This year they were muc...

2019-12-07T13:09:44Z

Millencolin once again! This year they were much more active and awake. That makes me wonder if I'm just projecting my own mood on them?

Two older guys playing Backgammon at the Abu Sa...

2019-11-28T07:31:48Z

Two older guys playing Backgammon at the Abu Salem café in Nazareth which has been open since 1914, so now for over 105 years in 3rd generation.

Wow, what a strong talk by Aral Balkan (https:/...

2019-11-20T16:39:11Z

Wow, what a strong talk by Aral Balkan (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral) at the European Parliament.

https://video.lqdn.fr/videos/watch/70f2128c-8c06-4cc4-8a5a-bf77e765c8fd

The road by the Dead Sea through the desert.

2019-11-20T15:32:01Z

The road by the Dead Sea through the desert.

Dead Sea salt beach.

2019-11-20T15:19:35Z

Dead Sea salt beach.

Sundown at Gallilea Sea. I tried to walk on thi...

2019-11-18T14:34:53Z

Sundown at Gallilea Sea. I tried to walk on this water like Jesus did, it didn't work so I took a swim instead.

My visit in Hebron, Palestine

2019-11-17T21:48:50Z

This is Zleikha, my AirBnB host in Hebron, Palestine. She is the principal kindergarten and an activist in the Youth Against Settlements organization. As far as I can say she is a very tough woman who fights determined for her and her neighbors rights.

See https://www.humansofhebron.org/zleikha or google her name Zleikha Muhtaseb.

I'm very honored she made time to host me and even took me with her to visit Atta and his family who works with ICAHD to rebuild homes which were destroyed by the Israeli military. Here is a video from two years ago about them:

In March 2013 he appeared before the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva where he told the story of his home being demolished and the family's harassment from Israeli settlers.

In the video you can still see all the fruits and vegetables which they were growing, but last year bulldozers came and de-rooted all trees and destroyed all crops so today the farm looks more like this:

When we arrived it started raining, which is always a good thing in Hebron, and Zleikha explained to me how the farm looked like before the destruction. We even found one strawberry plant where they grew them before and then also some sage which Atta's wife told us to pick some for the tea she was making. That is what Zleikha is holding in her hand and smelling in the picture at the top. They used to sell it at the market but now only sporadically it would show itself.

Later in the house Attas wife, sadly I don't remember her name anymore, showed us some movies from her sons wedding last week, they all seemed very happy. Atta came a bit later and they talked about his work with ICAHD and I tried to explain what I work with. Atta made some jokes about my looks and asked if I had some ancestors from China - I get asked that or from Mongolia sometimes, I guess because of my eyes getting small when I laugh. And because I didn't get offended but instead joined in on the joke, he started calling me funny man after that :D.

To be honest I must have looked like a school boy who got dragged with his parents and doesn't quite understand what's going on. But in my defense, it's a lot to take in when you jump in into such an environment like theirs, so I had a lot to process before I could comment on anything meaningful, and I was there to learn, not to teach anyway.

I recorded myself walking in Hebron, Palestine ...

2019-11-16T17:32:51Z

I recorded myself walking in Hebron, Palestine through the old city and the market nearby for half an hour and put it on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERM9kCsVmIg Check it out if you're interested in a virtual walk.

Hebron old city from the roof top while rain cl...

2019-11-16T08:42:35Z

Hebron old city from the roof top while rain clouds are coming in from the north.

I arrived in Hebron and there were many childre...

2019-11-15T16:10:21Z

I arrived in Hebron and there were many children here on the roof top and tried to speak English, mostly they knew: "What's your name?". They wanted to test out my camera so I had to play model for them. This one was taken by one of the older girls, I like it.

The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock locat...

2019-11-14T16:59:44Z

The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.

This was the must have picture from Jerusalem and I scouted for three days to find the perfect location. And as in my picture of the Colosseum in Rome, there is construction going on in the bottom left ;)

Selfie with kippah.

2019-11-13T16:31:33Z

Selfie with kippah.

Not the best timing for this to happen when I'm...

2019-11-12T18:59:38Z

Not the best timing for this to happen when I'm here in Israel https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/12/middleeast/israel-gaza-islamic-jihad-intl/index.html I'm in Jrusalem right now and they didn't shoot that far, but some reports say up to 150 rockets were fired from Gaza today, after a Islamic Jihad leader was killed in Israeli air strike. I know where the shelter is and I'm actively reading local and international news about it.

Ok, that's a first one for me. Today when I arr...

2019-11-12T08:39:43Z

Ok, that's a first one for me. Today when I arrived at my AirBnB the TV was showing that 50 rockets have been fired from Gaza on Israel. Only one person was lightly injured but sirens went of in many cities, even Tel Aviv where I landed the day before yesterday. My host says that Jerusalem normally is safe because there are Arabs living here too. Until I saw in on TV I haven't seen any indication of that on the streets.

This guy had a really cool hat, I only saw 2 mo...

2019-11-11T16:21:48Z

This guy had a really cool hat, I only saw 2 more with one like that afterwards.

Jerusalem is an awesome place, so much contrast...

2019-11-11T12:40:26Z

Jerusalem is an awesome place, so much contrast in everything!

What I never got is why people are so eager to ...

2019-11-10T19:02:07Z

What I never got is why people are so eager to board the plane as early as possible. My strategy is to wait until everyone is in and to go in last. This way I'm in the airplane as short as possible. I always try to get a seat in the center so that nobody needs to stand up and let me into my seat.

Varberg ->🚆->🚌->✈->🚖-> Jerusalem

2019-11-10T08:37:22Z

Varberg ->🚆->🚌->✈->🚖-> Jerusalem

Question: Where can I buy audio books without D...

2019-11-05T08:35:55Z

Question: Where can I buy audio books without DRM? I know I can download them on PirateBay but where can I buy them legally?

View from Hasenstrick in Switzerland.

2019-11-05T02:34:59Z

View from Hasenstrick in Switzerland.

This holiday I made a really good decision, I c...

2019-11-04T19:39:33Z

This holiday I made a really good decision, I came back one day earlier and was able to catch up on sleep for a whole day, I only went to the toilet and to get something to eat, otherwise I've been sleeping the whole day. I feel mega refreshed, it's awesome :D

Hm, I was thinking about planting trees but I d...

2019-11-03T20:49:44Z

Hm, I was thinking about planting trees but I don't own land where I could do it myself. https://teamtrees.org/ seems a really easy way to do it by paying $1 per tree. #TeamTrees

It's Halloween.

2019-10-31T19:06:43Z

It's Halloween.

Sometimes I do mistake on top of mistake: > ...

2019-10-31T11:34:09Z

Sometimes I do mistake on top of mistake:

> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

After a update suddenly all my passwords which ...

2019-10-28T14:00:38Z

After a update suddenly all my passwords which were on my own server (which I run for Firefox sync) seem to have been copied to Mozillas servers for Firefox Lockwise (at least the UI in Firefox suggests that).

I have to admit that this is quite frustrating because if I want to be sure that no 2nd party has my passwords I need to change all of them after I disable Lockwise.

I'm still searching for any documentation about it.

#firefox #lockwise #sync #ownyourpasswords

Zürich by night. Just met Aaron here for a coup...

2019-10-24T21:45:48Z

Zürich by night. Just met Aaron here for a couple of beers and a long chat about work, home automation, the Idieweb and everything in between.

I just clicked on the video because she has the...

2019-10-20T21:48:45Z

I just clicked on the video because she has the same first name as my sister, which is very uncommon but I stayed for the awesome bass playing and song writing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5qogyTJag

Working on the roof gives really nice outlook.

2019-10-16T10:18:24Z

Working on the roof gives really nice outlook.

I have kind of a meta-hobby at work, where I'm ...

2019-10-11T07:52:36Z

I have kind of a meta-hobby at work, where I'm interested in different (self hosted) chat solutions. Because I'm in a special position to set up a lot of different infrastructure tools in the beginning of different projects I'm able to choose the tool without people asking too many questions.

Anyway, we had IRC, HipChat, Mattermost and Rocket.Chat and now I'm using https://zulipchat.com for the first time which has a slightly different UI with what they call Topics inside of Streams (which are like rooms).

Even if it took some time for me to start understanding the new UI I really like it now, it makes catching up on what happened during the day so much easier because of the Topics which are like threads in old school classic forums.

The only thing which I don't like is that it's not using Matrix as it's protocol to make it federated.

Anti-vax Movement Listed by World Health Organi...

2019-10-06T14:20:53Z

Anti-vax Movement Listed by World Health Organization as One of the Top 10 Health Threats for 2019 https://www.who.int/emergencies/ten-threats-to-global-health-in-2019

I will be moving my server from Digital Ocean t...

2019-10-03T20:24:28Z

I will be moving my server from Digital Ocean to Hetzner because they offer double the CPU and quadruple the hard drive and RAM for the same price. Yesterday I moved my mastodon instance and everything seems to work nicely and much faster. The next days I'll move Nextcloud, TTRSS, ZNC, the other static websites I host and this website.

I was at the theater in Berlin yesterday watchi...

2019-09-30T19:19:04Z

I was at the theater in Berlin yesterday watching the premiere and only performance of the play Selbstauslöser: https://askhelmut.com/events/2019-09-28-19-00-volksbuhne-am-rosa-luxemburg-platz-selbstausloser-ua

At the end of the play they got a mountain of instruments, at least 30 guitars, 20 violins a cello, trumpets, etc. and destroyed all of them within 8 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcVt1TOBJXE

When I visit my parents my dad always wakes up ...

2019-09-25T07:09:34Z

When I visit my parents my dad always wakes up way earlier than anybody else and prepares a beautiful breakfast with all local ingredients and many of them home made like the sausages and own grew tomatoes.

Those security measures where you log in from a...

2019-09-23T08:29:05Z

Those security measures where you log in from a different place (your parents house) with the correct password and they don't let you in and tell you to click on a email link and then it takes several hours until this email arrives so that you already forgot why you wanted to log in could be made better, especially when the link already expired when you get it.

Sometimes the phone is the best camera because ...

2019-09-20T12:36:17Z

Sometimes the phone is the best camera because you have it on you.

On my way to Germany by car and ferry.

I found a picture of Húsavíkurfjall in Iceland ...

2019-09-18T01:55:54Z

I found a picture of Húsavíkurfjall in Iceland which I took but didn't pay too much attention back then to it because there were so many awesome things in Iceland to post. But I really like the calm feel of the clouds at the top of the mountain. It's a clean graphic picture which I wouldn't mind printing and putting somewhere on the wall.

Sometimes, very seldom, you wake up and somethi...

2019-09-17T07:53:10Z

Sometimes, very seldom, you wake up and something which you didn't think was in the realm of possibilities happened during the night. The first time it happened to me was when princess Diana died, the most impression made the 9/11 attacks on me in this regard and this morning Richard Stallman resigned from FSF https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#16September2019_

I didn't follow what all that was about but the Register has an article about it: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/17/richardstallmaninterview/

Gothenburg from the bridge to Hissingen.

2019-09-15T10:06:39Z

Gothenburg from the bridge to Hissingen.

Someone blogged about how they created a public...

2019-09-15T08:36:14Z

Someone blogged about how they created a public EV charging station by their church. Very interesting read: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2019/09/adding-public-ev-charging-station-near.html

Like https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2019/09/adding-public-ev-charging-station-near.html

2019-09-15T08:34:33Z

Jeena ♥ https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2019/09/adding-public-ev-charging-station-near.html

A month ago I got a saxophone and I'm trying to...

2019-09-09T07:39:27Z

A month ago I got a saxophone and I'm trying to learn to play it at the same time as I'm learning some music theory, read notes and stuff. Today I finally got those two stands, one for the sax to not need to put it into the bag every time I take a pause and one for the note paper. It's amazing how much easier it is to see everything compared to having it on the table where the sax is always in the way.

A blue pot in a green garden in Älvängen.

2019-09-08T16:49:19Z

A blue pot in a green garden in Älvängen.

I really like how accessible the guys from #Two...

2019-09-08T08:13:34Z

I really like how accessible the guys from #TwoSetViolin https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAzKFALPuF_EPe-AEI0WFFw make classical music. I started watching them because they as classical musicians reacted to classical music performances on talent shows, then I started appreciating their memes and now I myself started looking up the performances of the musical geniuses they mention on their show because they also explain a lot about classical music in a fun and approachable way.

Flowers in someones front yard in Älvängen.

2019-09-06T23:10:38Z

Flowers in someones front yard in Älvängen.

Big hay ball, end of summer.

2019-09-05T16:41:52Z

Big hay ball, end of summer.

I didn't realize that my photo "Stora Hornsjön"...

2019-09-04T19:50:41Z

I didn't realize that my photo "Stora Hornsjön" https://jeena.net/photos/388 ended up as one of the default backgrounds in Fedora 28: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/results/8/

It was a different one than the one in Ubuntu Bungie https://jeena.net/notes/893

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/what-nature-destroyed-the-human-has-to-repair

2019-09-02T08:08:12Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/what-nature-destroyed-the-human-has-to-repair

Damn, what an exceptionally stupid idea to let ...

2019-09-02T07:51:46Z

Damn, what an exceptionally stupid idea to let npm (a package manager for JavaScript) show ads https://github.com/standard/standard/issues/1381

Interesting, in my 41 years of living in 3 diff...

2019-08-30T21:25:39Z

Interesting, in my 41 years of living in 3 different countries I never thought to read though the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I caught up it today at https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf

It's an interesting read and is much longer than I expected, it has 30 articles on 8 A4 pages.

Music tip: Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 5 -...

2019-08-26T21:31:47Z

Music tip: Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du07qCXkNa8

Damn this composition was on fire! Over a hundred years ago but his style is so close to modern metal bands, it's uncanny. Would be awesome to incorporate some of it in a Hoggatah song.

Hoggatah, my band, had their 10 year anniversar...

2019-08-26T09:01:21Z

Hoggatah, my band, had their 10 year anniversary concert last weekend and I created a one hour video from the footage which I was able to find. So if you weren't able to join you can watch it on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q93mYVOCsw

We have new band t-shirts for our 10 year anniv...

2019-08-24T07:59:20Z

We have new band t-shirts for our 10 year anniversary concert tomorrow at Oscars in Varberg. Right now we still have all sizes available!

hoggatah #tshirt #band #metal

"If an ad uses deeply personal information to a...

2019-08-24T07:43:11Z

"If an ad uses deeply personal information to appeal to emotional vulnerabilities or exploits psychological tendencies to generate a purchase, then that is a form of privacy violation—regardless of the technical details." via https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/

That is half of the reason why I use Ad blockers.

"The saxophone is easy to play badly—and very c...

2019-08-20T17:35:59Z

"The saxophone is easy to play badly—and very challenging to play well."

Via https://saxstation.com/

I listened to the Swedish top 20 on YouTube Mus...

2019-08-20T09:44:09Z

I listened to the Swedish top 20 on YouTube Music - not sure how they determine it - and 90% was Trap (this HipHop with really low basses and really high hi-hats). To not sound like a grumpy old fart, I'd like to link to the one artist which sticks out for me. It's the 17 years old Billie Ellish with her song Bad Guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDfgMOUjCI

I like the fresh air and that she has her own style instead of following a trend, that is not easy to do today and still become famous.

10 years of my band Hoggatah http://hoggatah.se...

2019-08-14T05:36:55Z

10 years of my band Hoggatah http://hoggatah.se which started in 2009 with some people from a different band and me joining. There are not many bands which can look back on such a long history.

Today an article in the local newspaper was published where they interview us about the past and the future.

I like Signal, it does almost everything I need...

2019-08-11T11:36:59Z

I like Signal, it does almost everything I need it to do as a messenger app with the exception of handling those short videos you send each other within a family group. Be it because your children did something funny, greetings on Christmas or to show off you progress when learning the saxophone.

Yes you can prerecord and send it as an attachment, but then most of the time the video file size is too big and you need another app to make it smaller, and then it's not obvious how small it should be to still have reasonable quality to be watched on a smartphone screen. For people like my dad and my sister it's too many hoops to jump though so I'm still getting the videos on WhatsApp.

We don't only have the sea in Varberg but also ...

2019-08-09T11:35:20Z

We don't only have the sea in Varberg but also lakes. One such small one is called 'The Black Sea' for some reason and there it is where I'm training ro be able to run longer distances again.

I just run around in circles, but because it's such a beautifull place it didn't get boring yet.

Changing work life balance

2019-08-09T09:36:50Z

This Friday morning is different to other Friday mornings. I'm drinking a coffee I made in one of those fancy Italian moka pots, instead one from a automatic coffee maker. And the reason is that today is the first day I'm off work because I changed to work 80%, or 4 days a week instead of 5.

So why would I do that? It's a mix of many things, the obvious one is to have more free time. But the trigger was something else, I had my normal yearly salary adjustment meeting which this year didn't go as I expected.

I'm working as a consultant (my company doesn't want to call us that but for all practical reasons we are consultants) for a big German car manufacturer. I've been one of the first people on the project because that's what we do, we kickstart big projects for car manufacturers and help them along the way until they can take over everything themselves. Normally we leave the project after one to two years, but in this case we're still nowhere near that.

I work from Gothenburg within a distributed team where half of the people are from the customer. After such a long time you sometimes get into comparing work perks, and salaries. Needless to say that my salary looks laughable in comparison to theirs, and it feels really bad to being paid less while having more responsibility, more knowledge and more experience. I tried to address this in the previously mentioned salary adjustment meeting.

Sadly there was no way for my boss to meet what I expected and I needed to come up with a perk which could work for both of us. I secretly wanted to cut down to 4 days for many years, but I figured that no company would allow that without a good reason like paternity leave because it creates so much friction when people aren't working full time. I asked anyway and to my big surprise the answer was positive.

We have two week sprints so we decided that I would stay at home in the middle of the sprint, during the Friday and Monday. This way I get a 4 days weekend every second week and I'm still available in all the important meetings at the end and the beginning of a sprint.

"But what about the lost 20% of income?" You might ask. Yes that would normally be a consideration, but in my special case where I don't have a family with children to provide for. In addition to that I have a job in IT paying so much that I'm in the top 2% compared to the rest of the Swedish workforce (there is an interesting website where you can compare yourself to everyone else: Var är du på inkomstskalan?). I'm basically where I was two years ago but with one day less work per week, and to be honest, in my situation I don't really feel the difference.

What do I plan to do with the new found free time?

I have two big goals and then a lot of small projects which will fill up the time with no problems, but the big ones are:

Make more music
Take better care of my body

When it comes to #1, it's something I really love to do and only take the time once a week to practice the bass guitar with my band Hoggatah. Otherwise I basically stopped doing music on my own. But that will change, I bought a saxophone and I want to use it to learn playing it and at the same time to learn more music theory, reading and writing notes, which I completely lack right now. That leads to the fact that even after playing bass for all my adult life I only can play the few songs which I myself wrote which we play in the band. It would be really awesome to be more educated in music theory, which hopefully would also benefit my bass playing and especially writing music capabilities in the band.

For #2 that is something I already started addressing a couple of years ago by paying a personal trainer who trains with me 3 times a week, because if I don't have a babysitter who checks that I'm really going to the gym I automatically stop doing it, which I can see every time he is on vacation. But still with all the hard training, you can't outrun a shitty diet, like my friend Christian, who made quite a transition in this regard himself, said so eloquently.

The enemy right now seems to be food, or better, the too big amounts of calories. I can't get myself to keeping counting calories, and not even planing meals, etc. So my idea is to pre-cook meals, which hopefully contain much less calories, for the whole week. This way, I'm hoping, I would not go out and buy fast food because I will have the food quicker available, which especially after work is my biggest problem. It takes too much time to commute home for an hour, then buy groceries and then start cooking. The easy fix is just to buy fried chicken or a hamburger at the central station in Gothenburg while waiting for the train. To do that I'm planning a big cooking session during every 4 day long weekend.

But because, as I said before, there are many small projects which I'd also want to do, the schedule is already full and I already needed to plan the day, I wrote for today's to-do list:

go for a run, 1 hour around the lake
cooking the meals
play the saxophone for 1 hour
plan a journey for a vacation

I often hear people saying that if they wouldn't have a job they wouldn't know what to do with the time and just spend it in front of the TV or playing games on the computer, which both feels like wasting time. I myself seem never to be able to run out of things to do.

Some times a person who I admire for being supe...

2019-08-06T04:58:52Z

Some times a person who I admire for being super smart and an educator says something so stupid that it changes my perception about them fundamentally like with Neil deGrasse Tyson now https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1158074774297468928 or Richard Dawkins back in 2011 https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/06/28/dawkins-and-dear-muslima/

This leads to two important thoughts:

Even a superstar scientist has a brain fart sometimes, they're still only human
Just because they're mega competent in one science field doesn't make them automatically competent in other fields

Phuh, today we worked really hard with the band...

2019-08-04T19:11:42Z

Phuh, today we worked really hard with the band, first 2 hours photoshoot to finally get some new press photos. Then one hour interview with a local weekly newspaper for their next issue. And then rehersing of the extended playlist for the next concert which is almost double the usual length.

Societén Varberg on a warm summer night from be...

2019-07-18T23:03:24Z

Societén Varberg on a warm summer night from behind with reflection in water.

About the thing that you're funny in one enviro...

2019-07-18T20:58:33Z

About the thing that you're funny in one environment but not in a different is interesting. I felt it a lot every time I migrated to another country, in the one before I knew the language, the social norms, etc., but in the new one suddenly especially the language brier would basically destroy my ability to be funny and witty. And that until now happened 3 times to me. But now I'm funny int two languages and working on being more comfortable in English so I can get better timing, etc. while doing jokes and stories.

Damn, I lost my credit card today and it'll tak...

2019-07-18T17:20:25Z

Damn, I lost my credit card today and it'll take 5 days to get a new one.

Gothenburg Central Station during the summer in...

2019-07-11T15:14:36Z

Gothenburg Central Station during the summer in 2019.

Since I realized that we only have 30% of the b...

2019-07-11T14:26:56Z

Since I realized that we only have 30% of the bio mass left compared towhen I was a child, I'm happy to see every fly and every other insect flying around. Sadly even during summer it's very rarely that I in fact see one.

I don't want to write this as a YouTube comment...

2019-07-09T06:48:22Z

I don't want to write this as a YouTube comment under the video to not take away enjoyment from their fans, but I just saw Slipknots new video Unstained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpATBBRajP8

Probably it's just me but it's disappointing. There is nothing new in that song. It sounds like they took the parts people liked in their old songs like the protracted singing in the refrain, the staccato guitar part directly afterwards, or the the raping part with the 4 to the floor base drum, etc.

The only new thing was the choir during the long intro. As I said, it most probably is just me but I hoped for something harder, more extreme and what I got is basically modern arena rock.

Beetroot white flat, hipster coffee in Berlin.

2019-07-02T16:13:07Z

Beetroot white flat, hipster coffee in Berlin.

In the car I was listening to the radio and the...

2019-07-01T20:28:54Z

In the car I was listening to the radio and they played Madonnas Into The Groove and the prominent synth base line made me want to dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52iW3lcpK5M

Like https://petermolnar.net/home-server-2019/

2019-06-29T06:12:25Z

Jeena ♥ https://petermolnar.net/home-server-2019/

Preparing to stream live me brewing beer on twi...

2019-06-23T09:37:01Z

Preparing to stream live me brewing beer on twitch, just need to figure out how to do it again and I'll be online on https://www.twitch.tv/jeenaparadies

Midsummer dance in Varberg.

2019-06-21T17:57:49Z

Midsummer dance in Varberg.

I've been thinking about the word 'happiness' a...

2019-06-17T22:15:45Z

I've been thinking about the word 'happiness' and how weird it is to have it as a life goal. It's intrinsically egoistic, most of the time you need to disregard other peoples needs to become it. It's not particularly difficult to archive, you don't need to be moral or ethical, smart or educated, engaged in anything, etc. It doesn't bring any value to you or others. Wanting to become fulfilled on the other hand, doesn't exclude all the things which are painfull to archive but still are much more worth it.

I changed two things in my browser: 1. All c...

2019-06-13T21:01:29Z

I changed two things in my browser:

All cookies but from a handful selected websites, are destroyed when I close the browser
uBlock blocks now all 3rd party scripts and assets (like images) but a handful which I manually allow on some specific websites.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/434

2019-06-10T19:12:58Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/434

A citation from an interview with the slovenian...

2019-06-09T20:41:23Z

A citation from an interview with the slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek about the conformist concept of happiness:

> You can be happy without being moral. You can be happy without being interesting or engaged in the world around you. You can be happy without having a single creative idea or interest or passion. You can get everything you desire, and still not be happy. So why even focus on finding bliss?

Via https://bigthink.com/postcards-from-zizek/why-be-happy-when-you-could-be-creative

When I met her 2002 she looked like on the left...

2019-06-08T17:40:59Z

When I met her 2002 she looked like on the left, now 2019 she's all grown up on the right and done with gymnasium (senior high school). I feel under the circumstances I've done quite ok as a bonus family member.

We were fishing in Kungshamn last week, perfect...

2019-06-06T21:01:29Z

We were fishing in Kungshamn last week, perfect weather, super road trip.

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2019/06/04/23/sign-in-with-apple-misunderstandings

2019-06-06T09:07:56Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2019/06/04/23/sign-in-with-apple-misunderstandings

Finnish forest reindeer in the Nordens Ark zoo.

2019-06-01T20:23:23Z

Finnish forest reindeer in the Nordens Ark zoo.

My roomba battery died so I ordered a new one. ...

2019-05-28T08:48:09Z

My roomba battery died so I ordered a new one. The roomba I bought in 2009 https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157623459215046 is still going strong after 10 years.

It's really weird that I need to pay to be able...

2019-05-27T13:27:50Z

It's really weird that I need to pay to be able to sit down while waiting for my flight at many airports like right now in Zürich. There is a lot of space but nothing to sit on besides at the restaurants.

A woman cycling artistically, it's quite impres...

2019-05-25T19:00:46Z

A woman cycling artistically, it's quite impressive what you can do on a bicycle.

I attended a night photography course in Stockh...

2019-05-21T20:56:29Z

I attended a night photography course in Stockholm for fun, I got it as a birthday present. This is one of the photos from that night. It was taken quite early while there was still some light from the sun, to still get the dramatic sky.

The more photography I do the more distracting ...

2019-05-05T20:23:17Z

The more photography I do the more distracting color I find and the more I'm drawn to beautiful lit black and white photos.

I had a short portrait session with some of my ...

2019-05-04T14:34:45Z

I had a short portrait session with some of my coworkers last Friday, was playing with the backlight to make the head stand out from the background.

Valborg i Varberg with a perfect sunset in the ...

2019-04-30T18:58:52Z

Valborg i Varberg with a perfect sunset in the background.

Pulsar Collective, my brothers band during a re...

2019-04-29T21:52:20Z

Pulsar Collective, my brothers band during a really cool photo shoot. Check out their music at bandcamp: https://pulsarcollective.bandcamp.com/

GitHub and it's monopoly

2019-04-29T18:14:04Z

I just read that the Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community .

I guess GitHub right now is like Facebook was in 2012, everybody is on it, it's a super vibrant community, it's backed by a huge amount of money, it locks you in (at least with wiki, issues, URLs).

And my second guess is that it will also do what Facebook does, it will get out of control by trying to monetize on its monopoly.

It's just so mega ironic that the whole Open Source movement collectively decided that for a bit of convenience they're more than OK to let Microsoft host their stuff and to sacrifice so much freedom (and especially the URL which do the lock-in to GitHub).

To be perfectly honest, my projects are also (still) hosted on GitHub, and only because it's convenient .I don't really get any considerable amount of contribution to them, I just didn't take the time to install gitea or something similar on my own server, but I should do it soonish.

History is bound to repeat itself, over and over and over again.

update: Here someone wrote it down much more systematic than me: Why not GitHub?

Montreal Sauce - Chris & Paul

2019-04-28T12:13:19Z

Chris and Paul from the US/Canada invited me to their podcast and we spoke about Universities, Podcasts, the IndieWeb and marxist philosophers.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* Chris & Pauls podcast: http://montrealsauce.com/
*** Chris' questions
**** I think I'm going to get this wrong, but were you born in Poland, and then moved to Germany?
**** How did you end up in Sweden? 
**** host your own, Open Source-- Why are you so passionate about that? 
**** Was this part of your job search, then? The company you work for develops open source software, right?
**** So what is indieweb?
**** You're automating things within your home network, correct? You're not using a web service like Google home or Amazon Alexa. 
**** You've talk to people about some interesting subject on your show, have they changed you, or how you behave, these conversations?
*** Jeenas questions
**** Who are you?
***** When and where did you guys meet?
***** Do you still meet in person?
**** About your podcast
***** Why do you stream live?
***** Are all the interviewees remote?
***** You earn $11/month from patreon, deos it really make sense to advertise that company?
***** How do you feel about not posting new episodes for a while?
**** Philosophy
***** I listen to modern day philosophers where they take a quote of a philosopher and talk about it
****** Slavoj Žižek - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U88jj6PSD7w
****** Vladimir Lenin - A lie told often enough becomes the truth

Tomorrow evening at 20:00 (Central European / S...

2019-04-25T18:51:29Z

Tomorrow evening at 20:00 (Central European / Swedish Time) I'll be collaborating on a podcast together with the guys from Montreal Sauce which they'll live stream on http://montrealsauce.com/live/

There is a IRC channel linked on that page if you want to join the discussion!

I've wondered for quite some time why Thunderbi...

2019-04-22T18:21:11Z

I've wondered for quite some time why Thunderbird on my private computers takes such a huge amount of time to start but at work it's reasonably fast. Now I see that my ~/.thunderbird isg 8.9 GB big.

After seeing the call for contribution by The G...

2019-04-22T10:03:35Z

After seeing the call for contribution by The Guardian now so many times I finally started paying $12 a year, so $1 per month. I don't read it super often but it's linked from HackerNews and blogs I read, so I'm ending up on their page more often than you'd think.

Sometimes I stumble on really beautifull landsc...

2019-04-20T14:25:37Z

Sometimes I stumble on really beautifull landscapes close to home, and as they say the best camera is the one you have with you.

About automation replacing us: If you think ...

2019-04-20T07:46:23Z

About automation replacing us:

If you think of machines as the next step in evolution, as our children, then it's awesome that they don't have the same limitations of biological bodies like we have, so they could go on exploring our galaxy in a completely different way than we could with our short life spans. The human will die out anyway, like all the other biological species, but at least we could have a heritage in form of the machines which could survive and strive to connect to others in the universe whom we will never be able to reach ourselves.

I just started playing football in the lowest l...

2019-04-16T21:06:55Z

I just started playing football in the lowest league there is in Sweden called korpen. We're still waiting for our jersies. Last week we were 18 people but sadly the other team didn't show up, so without playing we won 3-0. Today we were two people short and needed to ask some guys who just played a game to join us and we played what seemed like a team with superior strength, all tall Swedish guys playing nice technical football and having 5 additional people to change during the game (we're playing 7 vs. 7 people). But for some reason, frustrating as it was for them, they weren't able to score any goal, so it was a draw 0-0 which really felt like a victory for us oddballs from all over the world (Finland, Germany, Sweden, Indonesia, Syria, etc.).

Music tip of the day: https://www.youtube.com/w...

2019-04-15T19:43:24Z

Music tip of the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9JVxQVQy4

Apparently this is what grew out of metalcore. I'm intrigued.

Going out with friends to do street photography...

2019-04-10T19:04:24Z

Going out with friends to do street photography is fun, you can use them as objects while they try to take their own photos.

Musicvideo tip today: Rammstein - Deutschland h...

2019-04-02T22:26:47Z

Musicvideo tip today: Rammstein - Deutschland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc

A strong comment about the dark sides of German History and apparently the black woman is Germania, the personification of the German nation.

Damn it's time again, going to Berlin for two d...

2019-04-01T06:48:33Z

Damn it's time again, going to Berlin for two days now then 3 days in Stuttgart, after which I'm visiting my parents and then back to Sweden next weekend.

I air dried a 800g pork cutlet peace, and this ...

2019-03-30T17:47:35Z

I air dried a 800g pork cutlet peace, and this time I tried not to use any spices but sugar and salt in the beginning so it would do the chemical changes in the beginning. After that I just dried it hanging in the air in my kitchen. It's super delicious and I also got the amount of salt in it just right this time!

The World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station in so...

2019-03-28T06:05:44Z

The World Heritage Grimeton Radio Station in southern Sweden is an early longwave transatlantic wireless telegraphy station built in 1922-1924. https://grimeton.org/?lang=en

This time in morning fog.

Like https://tobiastom.name/notes/d5a07323

2019-03-25T20:51:50Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/notes/d5a07323

I'm sick again, second time within one month. N...

2019-03-25T13:30:00Z

I'm sick again, second time within one month. Not sure what's going on. Normally I only got sick once every couple of years.

Todays music tip is "I want to be part of a you...

2019-03-20T09:55:23Z

Todays music tip is "I want to be part of a youth movement" by Tocotronic which in light of the #fridayforfuture is such a contrast to how things were in the 90ies. The song is soaked in irony, while todays youth movement is in the need to be super serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjT1aiPIiIo

Yesterday on my way home during sundown, amazin...

2019-03-19T16:47:11Z

Yesterday on my way home during sundown, amazing light! The shadow in the front is made by the train, then golden hour and on top dark clouds.

I'll be the first who admits that the changed t...

2019-03-18T09:02:46Z

I'll be the first who admits that the changed texts are really cringy but SUSEs marketing creates high production value parody music-videos where they cover really good music:

Flying (to Berlin now) is not a good idea for y...

2019-03-12T19:29:41Z

Flying (to Berlin now) is not a good idea for your stomack when it was ill just the day before. Before landing in Brussles we had so many tourbulences I was almost reaching for the barf bag ...

Random passwords

2019-03-04T19:05:00Z

I once used a password which our IT department gave me, it was !'a;@,oq and at least to me it looked random enough. I had it as a root password on a server and I enabled password login for about 2 minutes because I wanted to resize some virtual hard drive or something and couldn't be logged in as a normal user to then switch with su to root, because then the normal user would have open file descriptors on the file system and I wouldn't be able to unmount or something.

Within those 2 minutes a Chinese hacker scripts took over the server and started DDosing some Chinese IP addresses. We had to shut the server down, blast it and set it up from scratch again.

I later found out that this password was everything but random. It was difficult for me to see, because I've been using Dvorak for a couple of years now and didn't see the pattern that it was just the first two columns of the characters on a qwerty keyboard. So actually it was: !qaz@wsx (I just put the Dvorak version on top of the post to give you the same unknown feeling for the password which I had back then.)

I've never reused any passwords since then and always create new ones with my password manager.

That was originally my reaction to a Tweet discussed on HN.

Drinking beer with my parents at Hartleb (reall...

2019-03-03T16:39:08Z

Drinking beer with my parents at Hartleb (really good local beer). I'm especially happy mom is able to join us again.

I'm tempted to buy a server and serve my websit...

2019-02-26T22:33:16Z

I'm tempted to buy a server and serve my website, #mastodon #pixelfed and #peertube from home. I mostly need hard drive space and extending it on Digital Ocean is extremely expensive. In contrast spin disks are extremely cheap.

One drawback is the changing IP address, but I'm using duckdns and point a subdomain via CNAME to it for HomeAssistant already and I never had problems with accessing it.

Another is that servers tend to be fairly loud.

A short story from the podcast with my granddad...

2019-02-26T21:40:54Z

A short story from the podcast with my granddad https://jeena.net/pods/6

As a German teenager (17), during the winter 1945, he got deported to the Lidievka colliery in Donetsk (now Ukraina) to drain it, because either the Germans or the Russians flooded it.

He had to work in the mine for 9 months. He had to shovel six wagons of mud per day and got 1kg corn bread and (thin) soup 3 times a day.

I founda picture of the colliery: https://www.viktormacha.com/nejnovejsi/lidievka-colliery-donetsk-donbas-1545.html

A phishing email almost got me. I'm waiting for...

2019-02-24T15:05:35Z

A phishing email almost got me. I'm waiting for something I ordered on Amazon and I got three emails during the last days from PostNord (the Swedish postal service). I finally looked at the first one and it said that they added a fee of 5 kronas (0.5 EUR) and I need to pay it before I can get my package. The weird thing was that I ordered it from Germany, which means the EU and the extra fees were supposed to be for packages outside of the EU, but PostNord is known for their weirdness. Also 5 kr was a weirdly low amount. In the end I clicked on the link to pay but something went wrong also at their site because I got an error that Linux is not supported.

Only then I realized that it wasn't at all PostNord who send this mail. That was actually the closest I ever got to be tricked by a phishing mail, or you could say I was tricked by this phishing mail because of their good timing when I was waiting for something from Amazon which already was late.

Reading the Wikipedia article about the Foo Fig...

2019-02-16T21:14:57Z

Reading the Wikipedia article about the Foo Fighters and that Dave Grohl re recorded the drums of the second album without telling the drummer because he didn't like his drumming on the recordings.

Reading this I thought, what a shitty thing to do but then I remembered that I did practically the same thing on one of the songs on the first album of my first band. I rerecorded the guitar track without telling our guitar player because it was just too bad. He never said anything so no idea if he didn't notice or didn't want to say anything.

I was out shooting the sundown, but behind me w...

2019-02-16T17:46:44Z

I was out shooting the sundown, but behind me was a much more interesting scene, the moon above a dark path.

Here in Sweden people eat some kind of dry brea...

2019-02-14T20:01:15Z

Here in Sweden people eat some kind of dry bread they call "skorpor", which apparently is something like Swedish biscotti. After so many years I'm still not used to it, and neither to knäckebröd.

Testing cross posting from my notes to #mastodo...

2019-02-14T16:54:52Z

Testing cross posting from my notes to #mastodon automatically.

Follow me on: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

Egg yolk in a glass.

2019-02-13T15:27:21Z

Egg yolk in a glass.

Watching the latest PewDiePie video https://you...

2019-02-12T21:16:03Z

Watching the latest PewDiePie video https://youtu.be/cskmG__kZHQ?t=856 where he talks about someone on Twitch being banned from the website because she apparently said there are only two genders/sexes and this would have been hateful speech and this she insulted the transgender community.

Independent of if that is true or not, I'm really looking forward to how disputes like that will be handled on Mastodon where everyone can just set up their own instance like I do.

Sure, some servers might block you for their own users but it will by far not be all of them.

Once the "moving" functionality is available it will also be fairly easy for those who don't want servers to block anything for them to just move to a different server. This would be a far better solution to the silos we have now.

This way everyone who cares will have the possibility to listen to whomever they want.

I also wonder if that will lead to more filter bubbles where people only preach to the choir.

I was creating a photo book from the photos I t...

2019-02-12T18:44:56Z

I was creating a photo book from the photos I took in Iceland last year. Japan Photo in Gothenburg, offers a software for photo book creation as a download, even for Linux.

The installation process is a bit weird, they basically let you download a Perl file which you execute on the command line which then downloads the program, puts it in your home dir and creates a .desktop file. So it's distribution independent.

It crashed one time but worked in the end very well.

This is Alfons Åberg which is, besides Emil i L...

2019-02-11T16:59:53Z

This is Alfons Åberg which is, besides Emil i Lönneberga, the most famous boy in Sweden. The most famous girl obviously being Pippi Långstrump.

I'm listening to episode #666 of The American L...

2019-02-03T16:03:24Z

I'm listening to episode #666 of The American Life podcast which is about Satan and they have one part abot the band Slayer.

It was quite cool for them to mix their songs together with stories about the band.

So now I wonder, are there good podcasts out there which present bands in background stories, mixed with their music? That would be something I'd enjoy.

After two weeks at my parents in Germany I'm go...

2019-02-03T12:30:50Z

After two weeks at my parents in Germany I'm going back to Sweden.

And yeah there is snow chaos in Munic, so my flight from Nürnberg got canceled and I'm taking a taxi to Munic.

We'll see if we arrive on time and if then if the flight to Gothenburg will take off or not.

Oh interesting, apparently last year one of my ...

2019-01-28T22:53:07Z

Oh interesting, apparently last year one of my pictures got added to the Fedora supplemental Wallpapers: https://fedoramagazine.org/supplemental-wallpapers-fedora-28/

That's kind of cool, and I guess it helps that all my pictures are CC licensed. It would have been cool to gotten notified, but that seems not something people do ;)

The new browser monopoly is breaking the adbloc...

2019-01-27T23:12:17Z

The new browser monopoly is breaking the adblock APIs much earlier than expected: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

Altenstein in January.

2019-01-25T18:06:32Z

Altenstein in January.

"Half of the time when companies say they need ...

2019-01-19T21:15:04Z

"Half of the time when companies say they need "AI" what they really need is a SELECT clause with GROUP BY."

— Mat Velloso (https://twitter.com/matvelloso/status/1001899539484192768) May 30, 2018

Last time I was at my parents (over Christas) I...

2019-01-19T09:50:09Z

Last time I was at my parents (over Christas) I was working on removing the shower tray. Now I'm back and in the mean time my dad got the rest fixed. #accesibility

Like http://manton.micro.blog/2019/01/17/basecamp-leaves-medium.html

2019-01-17T22:20:19Z

Jeena ♥ http://manton.micro.blog/2019/01/17/basecamp-leaves-medium.html

I installed Mastodon, which is something like T...

2019-01-17T19:49:28Z

I installed Mastodon, which is something like Twitter but federated, which means that everyone can run a server so that there are many servers available, basically like you can choose different email providers. I'm obviously hosting me myself, you can find me here: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

But if you want to join you could choose one of the many many servers (you'll be able to talk to anyone on any of those servers): https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started

It feels like back in the early days of Twitter before bullies and corporations took over, so if you always wondered what the charm with Twitter was in the early days you can get a insight with Mastodon right now ;)

I myself don't plan on opening my server to other people.

#10yearschallenge

2019-01-16T21:48:17Z

10yearschallenge

First snow this year and a traffic jam on the w...

2019-01-15T10:02:19Z

First snow this year and a traffic jam on the way to the Airport.

I watched Aquaman yesterday: 1. The movie wa...

2019-01-13T09:09:24Z

I watched Aquaman yesterday:

The movie was to long
The story was too predictable and lazy
The fighting scenes were to many, to dark, to messy, you never new who was fighting whom, I thonk I fell asleep shortly during the big fight
The actors were really good looking and all of them in those skin tight wet suits
The hair flowing under water was destacting
I don't think I want to see any more superhero movies, they are really all the same and so boring

I wish I could host video content like on YouTu...

2019-01-11T23:51:32Z

I wish I could host video content like on YouTube, but instead on a device at home but still accessible from the internet so I could upload from my phone or a computer. I don't want to host it like my website because it needs a lot of space and this becomes really expensive really fast.

"Did a 1950s TV Episode Feature a Character Nam...

2019-01-11T22:21:33Z

"Did a 1950s TV Episode Feature a Character Named Trump Who Offered to Build a Protective Wall?" - Yes https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trackdown-trump-character-wall/

I was always thinking that if we would somehow ...

2019-01-10T20:50:36Z

I was always thinking that if we would somehow be able to remove inheritance, then the world would become a much more equal place because it would matter less in which family you were born.

There is an interesting study about inheritance: "STARTED FROM THE TOP - The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence" https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-1427-are-still-the-richest-families-in-florence/

Even though I don't really like reading books, ...

2019-01-10T16:44:09Z

Even though I don't really like reading books, I love the concept of public libraries, sometimes I just go there to hang out in the Café to eat cake, drink coffee and enjoy the surroundings. We don't think about that often but public libraries offer a lot more than just books.

I also just listened to a episode of the This American Life episode about libraries which they describe like this: "Libraries aren't just for books. They're often spaces that transform into what you need them to be: a classroom, a cyber café, a place to find answers, a quiet spot to be alone. It's actually kind of magical." https://www.thisamericanlife.org/664/the-room-of-requirement

So I tried out Netflix and it worked really coo...

2019-01-03T19:43:19Z

So I tried out Netflix and it worked really cool on my dads 65" TV with dolby surround sound which had a build in app for it. But now I tested it on my comupter and I only can get 720p which makes me to unsubscribe from their service. Why do I have a 4k monitor when I only can show 720p with a lot of mpeg artifacts?

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/new-year-same-goals

2019-01-03T09:05:13Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/new-year-same-goals

Interesting to listen to a ex Israeli soldier e...

2018-12-30T13:04:13Z

Interesting to listen to a ex Israeli soldier explaining the day to day routines of Israeli soldiers in West Bank, Hebron. The whole documentary is over 3 hours long and I only saw the first half an hour yet, but I've been following Thilo Jung for some time now and he and his camera man Tyler are very good independent journalists.

The movie explains the theory behind the Israeli occupation, hen the history and last but not least they went there to meet the people and show their reality.

"Silence is not at Israeli decease, it's a human epidemic."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ayiO1Gl6lo

An old window close up.

2018-12-28T15:53:39Z

An old window close up.

Hohnhausen in the morning sun.

2018-12-27T20:51:29Z

Hohnhausen in the morning sun.

Golden hour in the morning.

2018-12-26T10:04:10Z

Golden hour in the morning.

Like https://tobiastom.name/notes/ebe8cc68

2018-12-24T08:27:08Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/notes/ebe8cc68

We need the shower to be accessible by wheelcha...

2018-12-22T20:23:48Z

We need the shower to be accessible by wheelchair and for people who have problems with walking. Interesting technical problem to solve. It's difficult but possible. Although the biggest constrain is my time during the holidays here at my parents.

Visited an old friend today whom I haven't seen...

2018-12-21T22:42:27Z

Visited an old friend today whom I haven't seen since last day of school, which was over 24 years ago. I think it's time for a school reunion next year!

I like Dialog on Android as my Micro.blog clien...

2018-12-18T13:56:55Z

I like Dialog on Android as my Micro.blog client but I can't use it for replying to people because I can't own the comments when they are stored on the central Micro.blog server instead of my website. #ownyourcontent

My dad and my aunt at the Christmas market here...

2018-12-18T10:08:16Z

My dad and my aunt at the Christmas market here in Burgpreppach.

Let the holidays begin! I'm going on holidays a...

2018-12-15T09:16:50Z

Let the holidays begin! I'm going on holidays a bit earlier this year.

Varberg ✈ Burgpreppach

Today I watched a guy fly tying in public, it w...

2018-11-25T01:57:05Z

Today I watched a guy fly tying in public, it was quite an impressive skill. It also reminded me of the one This American Life episode called "The Feather Heist" where a young man steals hundreds of exotic birds for their feathers from the British Museum of Natural History. Fascinating story https://www.thisamericanlife.org/654/transcript

Highland cattle bull observing me.

2018-11-20T18:53:57Z

Highland cattle bull observing me.

I like to test do do new things in photography,...

2018-11-14T17:21:44Z

I like to test do do new things in photography, so yesterday I had my first Corporate Photography shoot with a couple of friends who needed some profile pictures for their new company website. I got payed in hamburgers which was nice too.

Damn those japanese sisters are really fun to w...

2018-11-10T15:40:08Z

Damn those japanese sisters are really fun to watch especially because they choose really good music to cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOzUXdi0

I needed to go out and take some autumn picture...

2018-11-04T15:11:39Z

I needed to go out and take some autumn pictures before winter is back again.

I went out to shoot some pictures during the su...

2018-11-03T10:12:57Z

I went out to shoot some pictures during the sunset and found a herd of highland cattle and the bull posed for me and let me come really close with me camera for a long time.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/423

2018-11-02T11:14:58Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/423

I'm back to a Pro account on Flickr because the...

2018-11-01T22:26:14Z

I'm back to a Pro account on Flickr because they offer an ad free version (not only for my but also the people who look at my photos) which I really want to reward with my money. I think every single website should offer an add free version of itself. And I'm paying despite the fact that I use an adblocker in my browser. I pay for YouTube too because they offer a add free version of their service.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/

Woman with sunglasses in Gothenburg.

2018-10-27T20:11:09Z

Woman with sunglasses in Gothenburg.

Just some street photography.

2018-10-24T19:24:35Z

Just some street photography.

It's also autumn in Varberg.

2018-10-20T16:08:27Z

It's also autumn in Varberg.

"Climate change threatens to cause a global cri...

2018-10-16T19:29:26Z

"Climate change threatens to cause a global crisis in beer supply, researchers have warned." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/beer-shortage-price-rise-climate-change-global-warming-barley-a8584901.html

Will this wake us up?

Like https://mpospese.com/2018/10/13/status-2018-10-13-17-41-12/

2018-10-15T12:27:20Z

Jeena ♥ https://mpospese.com/2018/10/13/status-2018-10-13-17-41-12/

Like https://micro.blog/crossingthethreshold/952701

2018-10-15T12:24:44Z

Jeena ♥ https://micro.blog/crossingthethreshold/952701

Like https://micro.blog/crossingthethreshold/952701

2018-10-15T12:23:42Z

Jeena ♥ https://micro.blog/crossingthethreshold/952701

Those are the woods where I spent a significant...

2018-10-09T06:35:06Z

Those are the woods where I spent a significant amount of my childhood in, mostly playing with my sister and cousins, exploring the flora and fauna, got stuck in a mud hole so my cousin got to get my dad, etc.

I'm in Poland right now, preparing my parents s...

2018-10-07T12:16:29Z

I'm in Poland right now, preparing my parents summer house for the winter and about two hours ago it started, a ladybug invasion. There are thousands and thousands of them. My cousins cousin also has a white house and the same problem today. Apparently they like the warmth of the white house when the sun is shining on it. But they also try to get in into the house, so I had to plug the holes by the windows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xst1HYJK9Og

Prost from Franconia, drinking some Hartleb bee...

2018-10-02T18:51:28Z

Prost from Franconia, drinking some Hartleb beer.

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/hartleb-landbier/74949/

On my brothers 30th birthday, they still have o...

2018-09-29T21:52:10Z

On my brothers 30th birthday, they still have outdoor techno parties in the end of september here, damn cold even if you dance. Him and his band @pulsarcollective are giving a live concert.

Brewing in my kitchen live on Twitch right now ...

2018-09-24T19:07:40Z

Brewing in my kitchen live on Twitch right now https://www.twitch.tv/jeenaparadies

I just enrolled into a 5$/month subscription to...

2018-09-23T11:29:18Z

I just enrolled into a 5$/month subscription to HomeAssistant cloud, not that I want to use the cloud part but because this is a way to sponsor the developement of HomeAssistant.

For more info see: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2018/09/17/thinking-big/

And if you are using HomeAssistant and can spare those 5$/month please do so as well, this is one of the most promising projects around home automation which puts privacy first, everyone else want's your data first.

Like Obiter Dictum: Avsnitt 221: Chiba city blues http://www.perzzon.org/odpod/Odpod_221_20180921.mp3

2018-09-21T16:45:34Z

Jeena ♥ Obiter Dictum: Avsnitt 221: Chiba city blues http://www.perzzon.org/odpod/Odpod_221_20180921.mp3

I had a look into my logs and it looks like #Mi...

2018-09-20T23:04:50Z

I had a look into my logs and it looks like #Micro.blog doesn't send any webmentions to my site when someone comments, which is a pity, because when I trigger it manually, their comment shows up nicely on my website.

Like https://micro.blog/jeremycherfas/900036

2018-09-20T22:43:18Z

Jeena ♥ https://micro.blog/jeremycherfas/900036

Damn it! Someone stole my bike which I left at ...

2018-09-19T18:06:28Z

Damn it! Someone stole my bike which I left at the train station like I do every day when I go to work. Another 800 € down the drain. Perhaps I should buy a car instead, those are more difficult to steal.

Damn, a patch to the linux kernel by a 4 years ...

2018-09-18T20:49:52Z

Damn, a patch to the linux kernel by a 4 years old https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0

Yesterday I went to watch the finals in cricket...

2018-09-16T12:36:45Z

Yesterday I went to watch the finals in cricket in a local league in Gothenburg. I now also understand the basic rules.

So Samsung is the only one which sells high end...

2018-09-14T02:53:30Z

So Samsung is the only one which sells high end phones with a headphone jack? I guess a S9 it is then.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/414

2018-09-11T07:17:06Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/414

I've been using YouTube with a adblocker for th...

2018-09-09T07:27:28Z

I've been using YouTube with a adblocker for the last say 10 years because I hate advertising with a passion. But at the same time this was the only way to give money to all the content producers so that always felt morally questionable.

Then thy came out with YouTube red and I thought that this would be great! Finally a way I can pay but with money, not with my attention. But after that it still took several years until it was available in Sweden which it seems to be now! So I finally subscribed, it feels quite good.

I'm in Dortmund this weekend to meet people fro...

2018-09-07T16:08:47Z

I'm in Dortmund this weekend to meet people from the SELFHTML community which I joined in 2003 and am still hanging out in their IRC channel.

Lower Franconia landscape.

2018-08-25T21:53:57Z

Lower Franconia landscape.

One and a half years ago I send in all my paper...

2018-08-24T22:39:24Z

One and a half years ago I send in all my papers to get me a Swedish citizenship, to be able to vote this September, but sadly I still haven't gotten any reaction but "we got you application" from the Swedish migration authority. That is a pity, because now I'll need to wait four more years at least. I kind of wonder what is taking them so long.

My dad knows how to grow tomatoes.

2018-08-24T16:01:49Z

My dad knows how to grow tomatoes.

I think this was a tree nursery just around the...

2018-08-20T14:16:29Z

I think this was a tree nursery just around the corner where my parents live.

On top of the Wasserkuppe in Rhön, Germany. Me ...

2018-08-18T21:07:47Z

On top of the Wasserkuppe in Rhön, Germany. Me and my dad went there yesterday to witness the sun going down.

Like https://tobiastom.name/notes/c6794ee7

2018-08-18T12:32:40Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/notes/c6794ee7

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/406

2018-08-18T12:32:14Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/406

On our way back from a trip during the night th...

2018-08-18T10:45:55Z

On our way back from a trip during the night there was lightning behind thick clouds.

A couple picnicking on top of the Wasserkuppe, ...

2018-08-17T22:21:52Z

A couple picnicking on top of the Wasserkuppe, which is a mountain within the German state of Hesse, during sundown.

I wish android Dialog for micro.blog would also...

2018-08-14T14:23:32Z

I wish android Dialog for micro.blog would also let me post comments on my own website. That is tha main reason I don't really use it as much as I'd want to.

Cannobio in front of Lago Maggiore in Italy and...

2018-08-05T00:41:02Z

Cannobio in front of Lago Maggiore in Italy and Switzerland in the background. The border goes right through the lake.

An old man in his chair on the street of Cannob...

2018-08-04T09:13:58Z

An old man in his chair on the street of Cannobio, Italy.

We are in Cannobio Italy, camping really close ...

2018-08-02T22:48:43Z

We are in Cannobio Italy, camping really close to this small river, where i went 5 times to swim in just today.

On our way to northern Italy we went over the '...

2018-08-01T22:38:37Z

On our way to northern Italy we went over the 'Passo dello Spluga' or 'Splügenpass' instead of taking the tunnel. Up there I was able to take this beautiful photo.

Ausdruckstanz.

2018-07-31T20:57:03Z

Ausdruckstanz.

I was in iceland one week with 8-14°C, then at ...

2018-07-31T11:33:45Z

I was in iceland one week with 8-14°C, then at work one week with air conditioning and now suddenly 32°C in Switzerland. I'm melting.

Yesterday we spent the day at the Klöntalersee ...

2018-07-31T07:15:07Z

Yesterday we spent the day at the Klöntalersee in Switzerland.

Second summer vaccation starts now! First I'...

2018-07-29T10:23:58Z

Second summer vaccation starts now!

First I'm going to visit family in Switzerland, later we'll go to nothern Italy and after that either Germany or Poland. It'll be a really long vaccation, I'm looking forward to it.

Like https://blog.selfhtml.org/2018/07/26/20-jahre-selfhtml-forum/

2018-07-26T19:24:35Z

Jeena ♥ https://blog.selfhtml.org/2018/07/26/20-jahre-selfhtml-forum/

Like https://petermolnar.net/do-websites-want-us-to-use-reader-mode/

2018-07-25T20:29:14Z

Jeena ♥ https://petermolnar.net/do-websites-want-us-to-use-reader-mode/

Today I was joined by Althéa https://althea.xyz...

2018-07-24T22:01:01Z

Today I was joined by Althéa https://althea.xyz in my podcast where we spoke about her life in and her difficult journey out of Jehovah's Witnesses.

It's a very interesting and emotional episode: https://jeena.net/pods/18

Jehovah's Witnesses - Althéa

2018-07-24T21:34:05Z

Althea was born into a family of Jehovah's Witnesses, she tells her story about her childhood, teenage years and how she left

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Intro
**** Who are you?
**** What are Jehovah's Witnesses?
*** Upbringing
**** Early understanding of the religion
**** Doing service/teaching as a 9 years old
**** A lot of pretending in the outside world
**** Only friends from inside the congregation
**** Big lies/conspiracy theories
**** People didn't seem to be happy
*** Teenage years
**** Baptised at 16
**** Boyfriend triggers new ideas about religion and life
**** Want's to leave
**** Writes a letter to the elders
**** They talk to her parents
*** False "Mental illness"
**** Mother convinced everyone
**** Medication with Litium
**** 7 years with medication
**** Second opinion didn't agree
**** Without medication back to normal
**** Married without love
*** Leaving
**** 1 year of preperation
**** Family and friends don't speak to her anymore
**** Moving to Gothenbourg
**** Divorce
**** Studying
**** New friends
**** Daughter moved in after 5 years
*** Now
**** Living in Oslo
**** Soon to be married
**** Visits hometown to meet relatives who also got out

Like https://boffosocko.com/2018/05/23/the-indieweb-martijn-jeena-net/

2018-07-24T21:28:11Z

Jeena ♥ https://boffosocko.com/2018/05/23/the-indieweb-martijn-jeena-net/

Today I visited Dettifoss, Europe's most powerf...

2018-07-20T18:14:14Z

Today I visited Dettifoss, Europe's most powerful waterfall, 100m wide and with a 45m drop. Iceland's nature is breathtaking!

An Icelandic sheep enjoying the green fields.

2018-07-19T18:38:27Z

An Icelandic sheep enjoying the green fields.

Today we went to Námaskarð where you can see co...

2018-07-18T21:11:27Z

Today we went to Námaskarð where you can see cooking mud and smell hot sulfur.

Like https://blog.selfhtml.org/2018/07/14/wie-fange-ich-an/

2018-07-17T11:00:26Z

Jeena ♥ https://blog.selfhtml.org/2018/07/14/wie-fange-ich-an/

Botnstjörn in Ásbyrgi in Iceland, amazing natur...

2018-07-17T10:16:21Z

Botnstjörn in Ásbyrgi in Iceland, amazing natural structure. Look at the first pitcure on wikipedia https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81sbyrgi it's basically a 3,5km x 1km big hole in the ground.

I'm in Iceland with friends visiting their fami...

2018-07-16T23:00:59Z

I'm in Iceland with friends visiting their family. It's so beautiful and peaceful here. Today we went to Ásbyrgi (Shelter of the Gods). Nicknamed Sleipnir's footprint, it is said that the canyon was formed when Odin's eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, touched one of its feet to the ground here.

Asbyrgi (Shelter of the Gods), Iceland.

2018-07-16T19:05:37Z

Asbyrgi (Shelter of the Gods), Iceland.

Birds in front of dark sea in Húsavík, Iceland.

2018-07-16T11:57:22Z

Birds in front of dark sea in Húsavík, Iceland.

Húsavík dark beach.

2018-07-16T10:29:03Z

Húsavík dark beach.

There is a lot going on in the harbor of Húsavík.

2018-07-15T14:18:28Z

There is a lot going on in the harbor of Húsavík.

Varberg 🚆 Copenhagen ✈ Reykjavík 🚗 Husevik ...

2018-07-14T12:19:21Z

Varberg 🚆 Copenhagen ✈ Reykjavík 🚗 Husevik

First part of this years summar holidays. 9 days Iceland!

We went on a tour on the Gasometer in Berlin

2018-06-28T07:29:42Z

We went on a tour on the Gasometer in Berlin

Traveling again, I'm slowly getting tired of it...

2018-06-26T19:24:43Z

Traveling again, I'm slowly getting tired of it.

Gothenburg ✈ Berlin

At least I can visit my brother there which is really nice :)

Silos at sundown.

2018-06-25T20:28:20Z

Silos at sundown.

I'm thinking of getting such a water bazooka to...

2018-06-23T15:45:47Z

I'm thinking of getting such a water bazooka too. Water war seems to be a lot of fun!

Oh man, something terrible happened today at wo...

2018-06-20T23:59:10Z

Oh man, something terrible happened today at work. Because we work with banks and big automotive companies, they are very afraid of industrial spionage (especially from the US), therefor our IT is hosting our own email server, our own chat solution etc, everything nice and secure. But today they announced that Facebook Workplace will be the new service for internal communication.

The yearly Kinderdarden party where my parents ...

2018-06-17T11:13:10Z

The yearly Kinderdarden party where my parents live got the Urlesbacher Musikanten to play during the day.

I'm visiting my parents over the weekend. Here ...

2018-06-17T08:32:21Z

I'm visiting my parents over the weekend. Here is a portrait of me with my mom taken by my dad.

Gothenburg ✈ Stuttgart for work, and then I tak...

2018-06-14T03:17:22Z

Gothenburg ✈ Stuttgart for work, and then I take the opportunity to visit my parents in franconia over the weekend.

Every second week at the last day of the sprint...

2018-06-08T12:59:49Z

Every second week at the last day of the sprint at work we go out for some luxorious coffe close by. Today we went to http://www.barcentro.se/. They really have a italian hipster flair and the coffe is superb!

For all the time since I moved to varberg in 20...

2018-05-30T08:38:00Z

For all the time since I moved to varberg in 2005 there was a big wooden roof above the track-side platforms. This roof protected everyone from rain, snow, harsh sun and so on, especially when the train was late and you couldn't count on it that you'd be fast enough to run from the building when you saw the train.

But since then the wooden structure got old and dangerous, so they replaced it with those glass walls which do nothing against rain, snow or sun.

I have this t-shirt with Schroedinger's cat on ...

2018-05-26T07:02:04Z

I have this t-shirt with Schroedinger's cat on it and yesterday a 3-years old asked me why the cat looks so weird on it, half alive and half dead. I tried to explain the concept that the cat the cat might be both alive and dead at the same time but I failed misserabelly. I just hope she doesn't believe now that zombies exist in reality.

Micro.blog shortens my texts to 40 characters a...

2018-05-23T08:29:00Z

Micro.blog shortens my texts to 40 characters and then you need to click and show my website to read the rest. Is that expected behaviour?

Is someone using Google for their work email? h...

2018-05-22T20:00:18Z

Is someone using Google for their work email? https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/8kvias/tifubygettinggoogletobanourentirecompany/

Like https://markwaters.eu/2018/enjoyed-this-indieweb-conversation-between-jeena

2018-05-21T07:45:41Z

Jeena ♥ https://markwaters.eu/2018/enjoyed-this-indieweb-conversation-between-jeena

The IndieWeb - Martijn

2018-05-14T18:38:48Z

We're two senior IndieWeb participants talking about owning your own content.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Intro
**** We're you from?
**** What's your technical background?
*** The IndieWeb
**** Definition
**** How to get a domain
**** How to host your own website
**** What are webmentions?
**** What are microformats?
**** Using Wordpress
**** Using Known
**** Writing your own software
***** People write reusable blocks
**** Generations
**** General Data Protection Regulation
***** Backfeeding
***** What to copy from a moral standpoint?
***** Deleting content

Today me and another photographer friend had a ...

2018-05-10T14:59:37Z

Today me and another photographer friend had a photo shoot with the lovelly and super fit MissCelineM https://www.instagram.com/misscelinem/ (who I've interviewed for a podcast too https://jeena.net/pods/8) at her gym Actic. We had a lot of fun, and this is the first photo, I'll be working on the rest soon.

Like https://realize.be/notes/1333

2018-05-08T21:59:28Z

Jeena ♥ https://realize.be/notes/1333

Like https://sebastiangreger.net/2018/05/indieweb-privacy-challenge-webmentions-backfeeds-gdpr/

2018-05-08T18:59:45Z

Jeena ♥ https://sebastiangreger.net/2018/05/indieweb-privacy-challenge-webmentions-backfeeds-gdpr/

@manton I read http://help.micro.blog/2018/repl...

2018-05-01T21:22:52Z

@manton I read http://help.micro.blog/2018/replies-and-mentions/ and am somehow conflicted, I'd like to own my replies too, and with normal IndieWeb I do, I have them in a special comments section: https://jeena.net/comments

But the FAQ says that when I use the app or web those comments get stored seperatelly and are not send to my blog. Is there a technical reason why that is? Couldn't they been send via MicroPub to my blog?

I photographed my brothers band during a concer...

2018-04-30T13:25:11Z

I photographed my brothers band during a concert in Berlin last week, they play experimental electronic music with accustic instruments. I also recorded video which will be available soon. Untill then check them out on https://soundcloud.com/pulsarcollective and the rest of the pictures at https://flic.kr/s/aHsmiCbgF1

Living as a foreigner in Russia - Alberto

2018-04-28T21:21:43Z

Born in Italy found his wife in Finnland and lives now in Russia

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Intro
**** How come you went from Italy to Finnland and now Russia?
**** How did you meet your wife?
*** Family life in Russia
**** Kindergarden
**** School
**** Wages
**** Prices
**** What language do you speek at home?
**** Did you make friends in Russia yet?
*** Western vs. Eastern Media
**** @mardy twitter account looks like pro russian propaganda
**** How does the Russian media affect you?
**** What media do you read?
***** Which eastern, Russia Today
***** Western like BBC, The Guardian
**** How can we find out what really happens in Syria?
**** What do you think about the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation?

Facebook is turning off the API which allows me...

2018-04-28T12:19:38Z

Facebook is turning off the API which allows me to automatically cross post from my website to Facebook in august. I don't think I will start cross posting to Facebook manually like I sometimes do with Instagram because it's just too much work, especially since so many people are leaving Facebook now.

So if you want to follow what I'm doing you should subscribe to my website via RSS to this link: http://jeena.net/all.atom

You need a RSS reader like https://feedly.com or https://ttrss.info/ to do that, but then you'll be able to subscribe to most of the blogs, newspapers and other websites without being tracked or marketed to.

I've been posting on my website (with a RSS feed) since 2004 ( http://paradies.jeena.net/weblog/2004/apr/fahrradspass ) , so you don't need to worry that I will move on to another medium again and again.

Oh man that feels good, it's been at least week...

2018-04-28T11:05:15Z

Oh man that feels good, it's been at least weeks if not months since I had nothing planned on a day but today is such a day! And I'm practically doing nothing, was sleeping in untill 11:00 and then just staying in bed browsing the web a little bit. Haven't even have breakfast yet!

And I know, I know, I have to get back to you who called, send messages, emails, etc. but that will have to wait at least for a day.

I went to a concert yesterday and in that cafe ...

2018-04-27T16:13:41Z

I went to a concert yesterday and in that cafe there was a French man with an analog Hasselblad waiting for the band to start to play so he could take a photo of them.

I posted the video of my home automation talk, ...

2018-04-23T21:10:44Z

I posted the video of my home automation talk, the slides and one picture of every speaker at #fossnorth2018 on my website: https://jeena.net/fossnorth2018

foss-north 2018

2018-04-23T20:35:23Z

I'm back from #fossnorth2018 where I gave a talk about automating your home with Home Assistant which you can watch here:

Download the slides as PDF or the editable LibreOffice Impress format.

I also took the time there to get a portrait of every speaker, if you click on the picture you can download it in full resolution.

The video, slides and all pictures on this page are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Woho, it went really well and we will upload th...

2018-04-22T12:11:35Z

Woho, it went really well and we will upload the video to youtube soon.

Everything is ready for #fossnorth2018 I'm the ...

2018-04-22T10:31:24Z

Everything is ready for #fossnorth2018 I'm the first act today, the auditorium is huge, I feel like professor on the scene because it's at my former university this year.

Like https://kartikprabhu.com/notes/better-social-networks

2018-04-22T09:00:06Z

Jeena ♥ https://kartikprabhu.com/notes/better-social-networks

I'm really looking forward to speaking at http:...

2018-04-21T14:56:02Z

I'm really looking forward to speaking at http://foss-north.se/2018/speakers-and-talks.html#jparadies tomorrow at 13:00. I seem to be the opening talk. I'm even almost done with my slides. I'll have about 30 slides, so around 2 minutes per slide, that should work well but it's always difficult to know how much time it will take. Perhaps I should take 15 minutes of it for a discussion?

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/233

2018-04-19T19:30:11Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/233

I got so fed up with the fact that my hard driv...

2018-04-19T16:56:15Z

I got so fed up with the fact that my hard drive was always full today that I just went to a shop and bought a additional 500GB SSD for my laptop. Damn that feels good.

While we were playing, some kids came by to ask...

2018-04-16T21:54:54Z

While we were playing, some kids came by to ask if they could try too and were especially amazed about this oversized tambourine-like drum.

We spent the sunday at Berlin Tempelhof making ...

2018-04-15T21:23:49Z

We spent the sunday at Berlin Tempelhof making music and enjoying the sun. As you can see many other people had this idea too. It was a weird and interesting mix.

The esoteric hippies made music and acrobatics, the muslim mothers with the scarfs took their kids out in the sun, a mix of races played football, rugby and frisbee on the runway where they tried to not to get into a collision with bicyclists and long boarders.

Two guys are playing american soldiers at Check...

2018-04-13T16:14:14Z

Two guys are playing american soldiers at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.

Btw. I'm in Berlin, had just two days only meet...

2018-04-13T15:13:44Z

Btw. I'm in Berlin, had just two days only meetings but that's it, now weekend so I can hang out with my brother who lives here.

I just finished up documentation of my first Op...

2018-04-10T06:09:04Z

I just finished up documentation of my first Open Source Hardware project https://github.com/jeena/esp8266-button

It is a hardware button which you can press and it will boot up and connect to your Wifi, after that it will publish one MQTT topic and will turn itself off.

I myself use it to toggle a state in Home Assistant, which automates my flat, so it understands that I'm either going to sleep in the evening, or just woke up in the morning. It then can automate the appropriate things accordingly.

But with really small tweaks you can automate a bazilion different things with it. It's especially interesting because it only costs about 2 EUR to build, but also the battery should be able to drive it at least for months, in theory even for years. Other buttons like that normally cost around 50 EUR if you buy them prebuild.

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/231

2018-04-07T13:27:45Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/231

I'm often talking about that I automate my flat...

2018-04-02T09:20:16Z

I'm often talking about that I automate my flat with https://www.home-assistant.io but if you want to know exactly how I do it you should come to #foss-north where I'm giving a talk about that and explain in detail how exactly I am doing that http://foss-north.se/2018/speakers-and-talks.html#jparadies

I'd like to be able to consume content from htt...

2018-04-01T18:45:42Z

I'd like to be able to consume content from https://micro.blog and comment on peoples posts and get back their comments but without actually the need to use their software. It's kind of close because they use webmentions and I've seen some links to RSS feeds, but the UI if you're not logged in is quite awful.

For example, I found https://micro.blog/jthingelstad by randomly typing https://manton.micro.blog/ which turned out to be the test blog of the creator of Micro.blog all the way down in the footer I found a link to https://micro.blog/manton which for some reason has compleatly different content than the subdomain. There I saw him mentioning https://micro.blog/jthingelstad so I rewrote the URL to https://jthingelstad.micro.blog and was looking for a link to their RSS. The footer didn't have one but the HTML head has one which luckily my browser shows. https://micro.blog/jthingelstad didn't have a link to that RSS feed nor to the subdomain where I can find the link to the RSS feed.

I think they would get much more traction if they did some homework on not putting up those walls around their garden like everyone else does. I'll follow this one guy now and we'll see if I can get into this community with just my own software and without signing up for a username there.

After a full day of helping moving a friend my ...

2018-03-31T16:51:50Z

After a full day of helping moving a friend my back still doesn't hurt. So all the going to the gym is paying off even though because of a shitty diet I haven't lost weight yet.

Private Investigator

2018-03-18T10:08:35Z

Yesterday I had a photo shooting with a friend from work. We went for a Film Noir style where we picture a day in a private investigators life.

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2018/03/12/17/building-an-indieweb-reader

2018-03-14T05:33:26Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2018/03/12/17/building-an-indieweb-reader

I wonder what happened out there?

2018-03-11T19:27:53Z

I wonder what happened out there?

A scene from a bloody horror movie. (Testing ne...

2018-03-10T15:26:47Z

A scene from a bloody horror movie. (Testing new light modifiers.)

"Cocain becoming more common in Varberg" this i...

2018-02-20T07:09:25Z

"Cocain becoming more common in Varberg" this is the small city i live in here at the swedish west coast. That's the headline in our local paper this morning.

Like http://maxgor.com/street-photography/daddys-girl/

2018-02-19T07:37:10Z

Jeena ♥ http://maxgor.com/street-photography/daddys-girl/

We went to http://strangergbg.com/ again.

2018-02-16T19:16:55Z

We went to http://strangergbg.com/ again.

I'm still super confused about micro.blog for e...

2018-02-15T18:24:12Z

I'm still super confused about micro.blog for example:

Can I be part of discussions without running their software, just with my own website?
If I look at this conversation: https://micro.blog/mmarfil/338157 it seems not to matter on which date I click, the resources behind all those different URLs look exactly like the first one
In this conversation, what is the first comment replying to?

A friend from work agreed to be my model while ...

2018-02-12T21:11:58Z

A friend from work agreed to be my model while I test my new speedlights. We got a coupple or really great shots, I'm super happy with the results.

But I also learned not to trust the picture on the back of my camera but instead to use the histogram. Many of those photos were quite underexposed and I had to bring them back in post production. But thanks to the high dynamic range and because I'm shooting RAW this was still possible.

I posted the Images as a album on Flickr, check them out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157687747804640

Around the World - Marcus

2018-02-10T19:30:24Z

This time I'm interviewing my friend Marcus about his trip around the World.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* Schema
** First journey
** 10 month in Asia and South America
** Second journey
** 7 month in south America
** Testing Ayahuasca
** Green traveling

Today we went on another Millencolin concert! T...

2018-02-09T22:18:20Z

Today we went on another Millencolin concert! This time it was super awesome, I spent allmost the whole concert in the mosh pit which was fairly easy because it span half the people who were there.

I fell once because someone was lying on the floor behind me when someone else pushed me over them. But otjer people helped me up really quick and it was all in good fun.

Like https://www.savethis.space/2018/learning-about-yourself-through-others

2018-02-08T05:37:03Z

Jeena ♥ https://www.savethis.space/2018/learning-about-yourself-through-others

My speed lights finally arrived so I was really...

2018-02-07T22:47:01Z

My speed lights finally arrived so I was really tempted to test them and what I decided to try is a low key selfie. There is so much new to learn now that I have them, finally I can try to shape the light in a way I want it to be.

Interesting, Germany blocks more Twitter accoun...

2018-02-07T07:46:01Z

Interesting, Germany blocks more Twitter accounts than Turkey, and I always thought that they were the Baddies.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/welche-inhalte-twitter-in-welchen-laendern-sperrt

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2018-01/23/15/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-02/sub-buzz-20139-1516738667-1.jpg

FOSDEM 2018

2018-02-04T19:21:28Z

I went to Brussles to attend FOSDEM and interview people

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

I interviewed a lot of people at FOSDEM this year about their projects and what they saw and listened to.

Today at FOSDEM I met suprisingly many people w...

2018-02-03T17:16:23Z

Today at FOSDEM I met suprisingly many people who I know from different communities, etc. In the picture for example is Andres Freund whom I've known for many years through the #selfhtml IRC channel. He now lives and works in the US on PostgreSQL, so he gave a talk about just in time compilation in postgres: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/jitingpostgresqlusing_llvm/

Gothenburg ✈ Brussels to attend FOSDEM https:/...

2018-02-02T10:08:49Z

Gothenburg ✈ Brussels to attend FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2018/

Bringing my audio gear, not sure if I'll succeed but, I'll try to interview some people about their projects for a episode of my podcast.

The sea is angry my friends. This is how the nu...

2018-01-28T12:07:00Z

The sea is angry my friends. This is how the nude beach in Varberg looks like during the winter.

Manual lights at the table and then I tried foc...

2018-01-23T00:02:46Z

Manual lights at the table and then I tried focus stacking. It was more complicated than I imagined, had to restart from scratch a coupple of times untill I got the right order of steps.

Allright! I didn't give up and submitted anothe...

2018-01-21T21:21:49Z

Allright! I didn't give up and submitted another picture to "Critique the Community" on fstoppers, this time the one with the siluette of the trees and the cyclist https://jeena.net/photos/309 which got a 3 out of 5!

https://youtu.be/MdOBo5SaYs0?t=17m5s

First time I'm trying product photography, this...

2018-01-20T00:40:43Z

First time I'm trying product photography, this is kind of fun, already the first try looks like something nice. Ok I wasn't able to get it back into a cube shape, but look at the pretty picture!

Fairly amazing live looping https://www.youtube...

2018-01-17T22:11:47Z

Fairly amazing live looping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl9GtO_vQxw

Carpender measuring and marking wood planks. ...

2018-01-15T17:31:35Z

Carpender measuring and marking wood planks.

I also have created a photo story with the rest of the pictures from that shooting: https://jeena.net/wooden-door

Wooden Door

2018-01-15T17:18:17Z

During the hollidays when I visited my sister in switzerland I had the chance to photograph her partner making a small wooden door for the stairs so that their child wouldn't fall down the stairs. Today I sorted, edited and developed the pictures and here is a small photo story for you to see.

I'm not sure the alternative is much better, se...

2018-01-15T06:47:37Z

I'm not sure the alternative is much better, see: http://turnoff.us/image/en/depressed-developer-21.png

Fstoppers is a really big community of photogra...

2018-01-13T21:31:03Z

Fstoppers is a really big community of photographers and the folks behind it often do original videos and articles for the website. Sometimes they offer to critique pictures from the community, so last time I send in in my opinion best picture from last year. I was interested what people who aren't my friends and family would say.

It turns out they gave me 2 out of 5 stars, which means as a photographer I shouldn't put it on my website portfolio because it needs more work. It's not really what I hoped for, but it's a really good check of my abilities. So this means I need to work harder and put more energy into my photography hobby!

Check out the video: https://youtu.be/MNiqFvJhmBA?t=24m59s they talk about my photo around minute 25.

Today me and a friend went for a coupple of dri...

2018-01-11T20:35:59Z

Today me and a friend went for a coupple of drinks, he showed me a bar in Gothenburg where you have to ring a bell on a door without a sign or anything indicating a baar. Then the bartender watches you through a video-intercom and decides if you're worthy I guess, then they let you in (or not). Down stairs it was really beautifull and we stayed and photographed a bit.

Because I'm interested in photography I watch a...

2018-01-04T09:42:38Z

Because I'm interested in photography I watch a ton of YouTube videos about it. Latelly I'm watching more and more videos by Ted Forbes who is hind of the historian when it comes to the photography YouTubers. He talks a lot about the classics like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sally Mann or Fan Ho who's picture I linked here, check out how amazingly minimal but at the same time strong it is:

http://www.modernbook.com/fanho/images/FHHKYApproaching-shadow.jpg

Swiss train in front of the alps.

2018-01-01T22:04:34Z

Swiss train in front of the alps.

Bachtel, Hasenstrick in Switzerland during the ...

2017-12-31T00:06:04Z

Bachtel, Hasenstrick in Switzerland during the winter.

Switzerland has some beautifull landscapes. Thi...

2017-12-30T23:52:58Z

Switzerland has some beautifull landscapes. This is the view from the Bachtel at the Hasenstrick. I climbed a steep hill in deep snow just to find out that they had a nice path up there on the other side. Still, the view was outstanding.

View from the restaurant.

2017-12-29T14:08:56Z

View from the restaurant.

Even grown ups need to have some fun in the sno...

2017-12-28T23:07:05Z

Even grown ups need to have some fun in the snow sometimes.

Vintage fun during christmas.

2017-12-27T16:33:20Z

Vintage fun during christmas.

My dad and my brother are devistated because wh...

2017-12-24T23:00:51Z

My dad and my brother are devistated because while playing poker I won everything, they were left with nothing.

Merry (digital) Christmas! May you all have a w...

2017-12-24T20:40:06Z

Merry (digital) Christmas! May you all have a wonderfull coupple of days with family and friends, even if it's half online like for our family.

Tree by Hofheim i. Ufr.

2017-12-22T18:53:59Z

Tree by Hofheim i. Ufr.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/376

2017-12-22T12:23:15Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/376

I'm at my parents for Christmas, wohoo! Merry X...

2017-12-22T12:21:57Z

I'm at my parents for Christmas, wohoo! Merry X-Mas to all of you!

A anecdote: I tried to use the Internet from here but for some reason only websites which are accessible via IPv6 work. It's really interesting how few websites are accessible via IPv6. The super big ones like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Google, and those who are runs by freaks like me and https://wwwtech.de are. But as soon as it gets a bit smaller like Twitter, GitHub, Flickr and so on, don't work anymore, you just get "Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at github.com."

Houses in front of a small mountain.

2017-12-16T15:30:26Z

Houses in front of a small mountain.

Stora Hornsjön, haven't been fishing today, but...

2017-12-16T14:31:07Z

Stora Hornsjön, haven't been fishing today, but instead got this majestic looking view.

Hay in Ice. I saw beautifull light and snow tod...

2017-12-16T14:20:41Z

Hay in Ice. I saw beautifull light and snow today so I went foto shooting to Veddige today.

This is the view from where I sit at work, pret...

2017-12-12T15:18:17Z

This is the view from where I sit at work, pretty amazing. In real life it's even more impressive during sunsets.

Winter is comming.

2017-12-10T14:57:29Z

Winter is comming.

I automated my Home Assistant so when I'm at ho...

2017-12-06T20:54:16Z

I automated my Home Assistant so when I'm at home during a weekday in the moning and awake, then it will remind me to go to catch the next commuter train 7 minutes before the next one goes. It does that by speaking to me via Text2Speach on the device, no cloud involved.

A coupple of years ago I wrote about Apeirophob...

2017-12-06T15:03:04Z

A coupple of years ago I wrote about Apeirophobia, the fear of eternity https://jeena.net/apeirophobia Now there is a comic with Schoppenhauer about it too http://existentialcomics.com/comic/213

Brewing beer today, some take it more serious t...

2017-12-02T22:57:56Z

Brewing beer today, some take it more serious than others.

We played https://zombicide.com/en/ today.

2017-12-02T22:19:44Z

We played https://zombicide.com/en/ today.

Neat! One of my pictures, the one with the cycl...

2017-11-27T21:39:02Z

Neat! One of my pictures, the one with the cyclist and the trees (see https://jeena.net/photos/309) has been chosen to be one of 10 default Desktop Wallpapers for the next version of Ubuntu Budgie:

https://ubuntubudgie.org/gallery-3/18-04-desktop-wallpaper-contest-winners

Ubuntu Budgie is an official community flavor of Ubuntu featuring the Budgie desktop.

So we're back trading slaves from Africa, as a ...

2017-11-27T19:30:17Z

So we're back trading slaves from Africa, as a CNN report shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_0YCbc8gcf

Even more "interesting', we're not upset about it because those are refugees who wanted to cross over to Europe.

Yesterday evening I was wandering around Varber...

2017-11-27T18:41:25Z

Yesterday evening I was wandering around Varberg with my camera and found the banks building lit like Doctor Draculas castle in rainy Transilvania. Would you dare to go in there and ask for a loan?

Me and a couple of friends from work went ice s...

2017-11-22T21:20:23Z

Me and a couple of friends from work went ice skating. Check out more pictures on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157666663672309

Firefighting in the woods.

2017-11-20T08:44:38Z

Firefighting in the woods.

Today we were in the woods. It rained and was c...

2017-11-18T14:40:16Z

Today we were in the woods. It rained and was cold but we made a fire and grilled sausages to stay warm.

Like https://adactio.com/links/13096

2017-11-15T20:44:34Z

Jeena ♥ https://adactio.com/links/13096

The view from inside of the Holocaust Memorial ...

2017-11-07T21:35:48Z

The view from inside of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin during night time.

I was just walking back from the cinema where I...

2017-11-05T23:41:52Z

I was just walking back from the cinema where I watched Blade Runner 2049, which was phenomenal, to the car when I saw the Berliner Fernsehturm in the dark immersed in fog. I got inspired to take a Blade Runner-esk photo of it, what do you think?

On the ferry from Trelleborg to Rostock, I'm go...

2017-11-03T15:18:51Z

On the ferry from Trelleborg to Rostock, I'm going to Berlin for the #IndieWebCamp by car!

For all the problems USB Type-C has, the fact t...

2017-11-01T09:52:40Z

For all the problems USB Type-C has, the fact that it doesn't matter which way you insert the cable is just magical.

I took another picture of Gothenburg like https...

2017-10-31T17:10:57Z

I took another picture of Gothenburg like https://jeena.net/photos/369 but from a different angle. This time I got on one of the ferries to Lindholmen and shot a coupple of pictures from the middle of the water. One main difference is that this photo is taken around noon wen we were on our way for lunch. The other one is done during golden hour.

Interesting real life example on how a world wi...

2017-10-29T07:46:43Z

Interesting real life example on how a world without net nutrality looks like in Portugal: https://www.meo.pt/internet/internet-movel/telemovel/pacotes-com-telemovel (via fefe)

One could say the artist focussed on the wall t...

2017-10-23T20:50:09Z

One could say the artist focussed on the wall to visualize the relationship between it and the people infront of it. It is always there at the same place, the people are always in a rush, always in motion, hard to grasp.

In Gothenburg, just by the central station they...

2017-10-20T17:50:09Z

In Gothenburg, just by the central station they're building a new skyscraper. During the night it is lit interestingly.

The Piotrkowska street in Łódź, Poland. It look...

2017-10-18T15:34:08Z

The Piotrkowska street in Łódź, Poland. It looks really cool because it is super long and doesn't end at the horizon.

Varberg ✈ Łódź For the first time in my adul...

2017-10-18T07:20:25Z

Varberg ✈ Łódź

For the first time in my adult life I'm in poland outside of Upper Silecia. But just for work for two days in Łódź.

Micro holiday in Gothenburg

2017-10-14T22:00:46Z

I've been commuting to Gothenburg for almost a decade now, first to university and now to work. But I never took the time to visit the city in a more touristy way. This changed today as I met up with two of the guys I've been to Japan before for a day full of touristy things to do in Gothenburg.

First we went to the garden societie's park where we checked out a lot of flowers, statues and other plants.

It was the perfect opportunity to test my new 180 mm lens, look at that bokeh, doesn't it look great? Very nice isolation of the subject in the picture.

Then we went on a tour by the Kungsportalsplatsen, but from the other side of the water like you can see in this picture.

It's obvious from this picture of the great theater that we have autum in Gothenburg now.

We stopped by the drinking water fountain because I was thirsty.

After that we checked out Saluhallen which has a lot of booths with different food like sausages, cheese, meat, etc. There we got some chilli concarne for lunch.

Nearby Domkyrkan we saw a older DJ playing his vinyl records for the public.

There are a couple of canals in Gothenburg which you can check out by this kind of a boat they call "Paddan".

Feskekörkan (The Fish Church) might look like a church but it isn't. It's a fishmarket where you can buy delicacies from the ocean.

Haga had had small and pictoresque streets where many people had a small dog with them.

We also found a violinist playing who was quite tech savy and you could send him money by phone (Swish), if you didn't have cash on you.

At the end of the day we met up with one more of the guys who was with us in Japan three years ago and we went to Ramen Ya at Linnéplatsen for, you guessed it, japanese ramen to celebrate this day off in Gothenburg which felt like a short vaccation with the guys I used to go on holidays with before.

This is my photo equipment. All of the lenses a...

2017-10-10T07:46:35Z

This is my photo equipment. All of the lenses are quite sharp prime lenses, and I bought each of them used. Nikon 28mm 1.8, Nikon 50mm 1.8, Tokina 100mm 2.8, Nikon 180mm 2.8

The camera is a full frame Nikon D600.

Everything is fairly old, but I feel that I'm still quite far away from the need of getting more expensive or newer gear. I'm still learning to use what I got.

Sadly now winter is comming, so that when I arrive at home it's dark already and that makes it difficult to go out and shoot.

This might look like a scene from a Manga or An...

2017-10-08T10:12:46Z

This might look like a scene from a Manga or Anime but it indeed a picture I took in Japan when we took the train out of the city and went to a small villiage. The whole villiage was practically without people, it had a ghost town feeling to it. I wonder if this 'Wanted' poster had anything to do with it.

I'm commuting to Gothenburg for ten years now, ...

2017-09-25T17:48:33Z

I'm commuting to Gothenburg for ten years now, but I'm never spending my free time there. That is why I have no Idea where the nice places are where you can get awesome pictures. Today a colegue at work showed me a couple of his photos and I liked one of them a lot. Actually that much that I asked him from where he took that photo. He showed me on a map that it was by the Masthugg Church. I decided to go there during the golden hour and this is what I got.

That is the sashimi which the chef in picture h...

2017-09-20T13:16:16Z

That is the sashimi which the chef in picture https://jeena.net/photos/367 was preparing. #foodporn

Today I went to the fish market, wandered aroun...

2017-09-20T08:19:17Z

Today I went to the fish market, wandered around there until I found a small alley which I went in to and found a small hidden sushi place to get my freshest sashimi yet. I was finally able to sit at the counter and watch the chef preparing my sashimi. It was fairly expensive, about 20 EUR for 6 slices of thuna plus some hacked tuna. But it was so delicious, I can't even begin to describe it. It's so exciting seing those master chefs swinging their knefes and preparing everything while they chat with their customers. Not with me obvioussly, because I don't speak Japanese, but every one else there did. #foodporn

Update: I found a video of the chefs workin at this place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mv6qPD8-FA

Today we ate Yaniniku again, it's always such a...

2017-09-19T13:30:34Z

Today we ate Yaniniku again, it's always such a treat. I recorded a 10 minutes video of it because Emilie requested it ;) #foodporn

https://youtu.be/nZqvNuHc1Zk

Around the World and Japan - Hyun & Masaya

2017-09-18T16:30:17Z

During my travels in Japan I stayed at a Airbnb and interviewed my hosts about their journey around the world and life in Japan.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

** Schema
*** Take a picture
*** Introduction
**** Short about Jeenas Japan journey
**** Masaya
***** Where are you from?
***** What are you working with?
***** Your favourite country to visit and why?
**** Hyun
***** Where are you from?
***** How did you meat?
***** What are you working with?
***** Your favourite country to visit and why?
*** World tour
**** Have you been traveling before?
***** If so how much?
**** How many countries did you visit
**** How long was your journey?
**** Why did you decide to do it?
**** Where did you stay mostly?
***** Hotel, Hostel, Airbnb, private?
**** Most memorable happenings?
**** Was it dangerous?
**** Are you in contact with the people you met?
**** How much money did you spend?
***** Did you work during the time remotelly or so?
**** Which means of transportation did you use?
**** Have you met other couples traveling or mostly single people?
**** How was it to be back at home?
***** Did you miss work?
***** Was it weird to start working every day again?
**** Do you miss being on the road?
*** Being a Airbnb host
**** Why did you start hosting people in your home?
**** When did you start hosting?
**** How many guests did you host yet?
**** How often do you host guests?
**** Aren't you afraid of getting bad guests?
***** I've read about flats being destroyed by partying guests, etc.
***** You're inviting strangers who could steal, etc.
***** Do you have a special insurance?
**** Do you know other Airbnb hests?
*** Living in Japan
**** Day to day life
***** Do you own the house you live in?
****** Is renting or owning more usual?
***** Do you drink tap water or botteled?
***** Where do you do grocary shopping, I've only seen 7-11 types of shops
**** Politics / Philosophy
***** Is vegetarianism and veganism a thing in Japan?
***** Is feminism a thing in Japan?
***** Are the Japanese racist?
****** Japan was very isolated island for a long time, is it still?
****** I heard stories where people couldn't get a job once they moved to Japan
****** Sometimes they don't let you in into eestaurants / establishements with shady excuses
***** How many are religious?
****** Shinto vs. Buddhism
****** To which degree, how does it affect their lifes?
***** Is the monarchy beloved, hated or ignored in Japan?
****** Do they only have a representative role like the Swedish royal family? Or do they have power?
*** Thank you for your time

If I'm being totally honest, this is why I came...

2017-09-18T11:29:59Z

If I'm being totally honest, this is why I came back to Japan a second time, fat blue fin tuna sushi. It tastes like heaven in your mouth and I wasn't able to find anything with remotelly this quality in Europe. Last time I couldn't eat any sushi in Sweden for half a year because I was that spoiled. Who knew raw fish meat could taste that delicious.

Shinto Festival

2017-09-17T12:34:20Z

I'm back in Japan for the second time. We landed in Osaka and stayed there for a couple of days, then we took the train to Kyoto and stayed there too for a coupple of days. Later a day in an Onsen we continued to Tokyo for the second week of our vaccation here.

I decided to use Airbnb so I got one room in a couple's house. I can use the kitchen, living room and bath too and sometimes we sit together and talk in the evenings. They traveled the world a lot but that's another story which I will cover in a Podcast which we will record tomorrow.

The house is a bit off the beaten tourist paths and through sheer luck the districts around this area here all celebrated some kind of mini Shinto festivals.

Shinto is the ethnic religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past. (W)

During lunch hours there were mostly kids outside who had their own processons. They carried a mikoshi:

A mikoshi is a divine palanquin. Shinto followers believe that it serves as the vehicle to transport a deity in Japan while moving between main shrine and temporary shrine during a festival or when moving to a new shrine. Often, the mikoshi resembles a miniature building, with pillars, walls, a roof, a veranda and a railing. (W)

Children

They had a small one but it was heavy anyway. As you can see in the picture they had a little bit help of some parents. They also had a big drum which some of the kids played to a rythm. It took a couple of hours and while walking around I saw at least 7 different processions with a lot of children having a blast.

Carrying and Chanting

Then more and more young people appeared, they carried a mikoshi which was much more heavy so that about 25 people carried it together. They did so while chanting and sometimes jumping.

And obviously, because we are in Japan, there is a job for everyone, the old men had the task to secure the streets so no car would drive into the croud.

The parade ended once they went a couple of times around the blocks by the one person who was giving the tempo with two wooden planks being put up and making some more noise.

After a well done job people were very happy and talked while taking care of the mikoshi and putting it back into the Shrine.

A shrine is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are venerated or worshipped. (W)

Evening

Afterwards it started raining which was a bit of a pitty, but many people were prepaired.

They had small stands where they sold cooked snacks and japarese Asahi beer, which tastes like a really cheap lager, like a Budwiser basically.

Every district had a different special event, my district had children playing the traditional japanese drums to music. But others were much more elaborated like the dancing act in which mostly older women participated.

It was really a nice day and I was happy to be able to vittness such a japanese tradition which happens only once a year in a district.

Now in Tokyo I'm using Airbnb and I'm staying i...

2017-09-16T14:09:45Z

Now in Tokyo I'm using Airbnb and I'm staying in one room at a japanese couples house which is a bit off of the tourist paths. Today the district and the nearby ones had their own small festivals, They had their own small processions and later during the evening dance, music food and beer on the streets.

In Tokyo in the Akihabara district they have lo...

2017-09-15T20:01:52Z

In Tokyo in the Akihabara district they have lots of arcade places where you can play huge variaties of games. Like this two player game for example, where you touch the rings on the screen to the rythm of the music.

Getting eye cancer at Akihabara Tokyo!

2017-09-15T11:17:15Z

Getting eye cancer at Akihabara Tokyo!

Japanese supper at Arima Onsen.

2017-09-14T11:50:50Z

Japanese supper at Arima Onsen.

Cyberpunk feeling while we were on our way to t...

2017-09-13T15:47:26Z

Cyberpunk feeling while we were on our way to the gin bar for a night out with a lot of gin tonic.

This is the entrance to our hotel in Kyoto. The...

2017-09-13T14:45:54Z

This is the entrance to our hotel in Kyoto. The style and the light could be straight from a japanese gangster movie.

It's really difficult to take decent pictures o...

2017-09-13T14:29:05Z

It's really difficult to take decent pictures of good sushi because it's always so dark in those places where we get expensive sushi. Today we went for it, a really nice set of sashimi, sushi plus desert, etc. for over 100 EUR per person. #YOLO

Kyoto has many buddhist tempels and around them...

2017-09-12T02:24:24Z

Kyoto has many buddhist tempels and around them you can see many (mostly japanese and female) tourists walking around in kimonos.

A meta photo. Me taking a photo of a woman in a...

2017-09-12T02:19:13Z

A meta photo. Me taking a photo of a woman in a kimono from behind who is taking a photo of a man from behind. Everything framed naturally by the alley.

Is he checking out the other woman? No wonder s...

2017-09-12T02:18:07Z

Is he checking out the other woman? No wonder she is annoyed with him.

On my street food adventures I had Takoyaki whi...

2017-09-10T16:58:43Z

On my street food adventures I had Takoyaki which is "ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special molded pan". It was invented in Osaka so I had it there.

We've seen many stores like this one with rows ...

2017-09-10T16:18:00Z

We've seen many stores like this one with rows after rows with mangas. They were mainly visited by adult men.

This robot was a bit creepy because it always t...

2017-09-10T16:10:18Z

This robot was a bit creepy because it always turned its head in the direction someones face was. It felt much more personal by trying to advertise to you by looking with it's cute big eyes into your from down there.

Japanese craft beer taster in Kyoto!

2017-09-10T12:55:51Z

Japanese craft beer taster in Kyoto!

We have here in Osaka around 32°C, so sometimes...

2017-09-09T05:47:26Z

We have here in Osaka around 32°C, so sometimes we need to cool down with a couple of beers. We found a place which serves local Osaka craft beer from the brewery Minoh.

The chef at the chicken grill in Osaka.

2017-09-08T18:23:52Z

The chef at the chicken grill in Osaka.

Today we visited the Osaka Aquarium which is on...

2017-09-08T17:56:34Z

Today we visited the Osaka Aquarium which is one of the largest in the world, it was very impressive to see whales swim in front of people.

After a chicken intestines feast in Osaka.

2017-09-08T10:42:30Z

After a chicken intestines feast in Osaka.

Varberg 🚂 Gothenburg ✈ Helsinki ✈Osaka 🚂 Kyoto ...

2017-09-07T06:24:41Z

Varberg 🚂 Gothenburg ✈ Helsinki ✈Osaka 🚂 Kyoto 🚂 Tokyo

Let the holidays begin! Second time Japan, I'm so looking forward to eat real sushi again, you can't imagine! And I plan to go and do some night photography in Tokyo, and go to a random JRock/JMetal show. Two weeks should be enough to cover a lot.

This is my reply to https://fstoppers.com/busin...

2017-09-05T16:49:03Z

This is my reply to https://fstoppers.com/business/your-private-information-secure-manage-your-passwords-better-these-tips-194431

I would absolutelly vote against propriatary solutions like LastPass which might do what they say, which also could send all your passwords in plain text to the operator, you can't know because you can't look into the program and check what its doing, and so can nobody else either.

I suggest using free software (free like in liberty) where you or someone else can look at the code and find out what its doing. One of those is KeePassX https://www.keepassx.org/ like LastPass it is also available for all your devices like your Mac or Windows computer and also mobile phones, etc.

It has also a password generator build in, but what it doesn't is sync between devices, it just saves a incrypted database file on the current device. You can sync this file yourself with iCloud, DropBox, GoogleDrive etc. But if you don't want to rely on a commercial operator you could do it like me and use SyncThing https://syncthing.net/ which does basically what DropBox does which is syncing files between devices, but it is free software (as in libre) and doesn't need a central server like the others do, it just syncs the files between the devices themselves peer to peer.

This way you can trust the whole chain because everything is free software and checked by many people so id doesn't do evil. A nice byproduct is also that everything is free as in beer, so you don't need to pay any monthly fee or anything and you can be sure that this software will keep working even after the other companies stop providing those services.

Once every 4 years I have a very small chance t...

2017-09-02T06:52:07Z

Once every 4 years I have a very small chance to change the world. I'm very gratefull for that. #voting

Lego has been cool for such a long time. We rep...

2017-08-20T20:23:22Z

Lego has been cool for such a long time. We reproduzed the scene on the box in the background for that picture.

BBQ after a swim in the sea. #bbq #sweden #summ...

2017-08-19T17:12:19Z

BBQ after a swim in the sea. #bbq #sweden #summar

Like https://adactio.com/notes/12691

2017-08-17T05:34:44Z

Jeena ♥ https://adactio.com/notes/12691

A couple of interesting articles on the IndieWe...

2017-08-15T07:07:51Z

A couple of interesting articles on the IndieWeb right now:

Reflections on Two Years of #Indieweb - Alex Kearney - https://kongaloosh.com/e/2017/6/22/hello-world

Not giving up on IndieWeb - Jeremy Cherfas - https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/not-giving-up-on-indieweb

The confusion about the indieweb - Colin Walker - https://colinwalker.blog/2017/06/22/the-confusion-about-the-indieweb/

Re: Making the IndieWeb easier for Generation 2 users - John Johnston - http://johnjohnston.info/blog/re-chris-aldrich-on-making-the-indieweb-easier-for-generation-2-users/

The far too short holidays are sadly comming to...

2017-08-12T18:28:55Z

The far too short holidays are sadly comming to an end. 😢😭

I'm changing professions like Don and just star...

2017-08-10T14:45:19Z

I'm changing professions like Don and just started my training as a welder. It's 36°C in the shaddows and I have to weld fully covered in the sun.

Harvest time.

2017-08-04T06:51:34Z

Harvest time.

Like http://notenoughneon.com/2016/7/27/1

2017-08-03T08:22:51Z

Jeena ♥ http://notenoughneon.com/2016/7/27/1

The best part with this holiday is that I get t...

2017-08-01T12:46:05Z

The best part with this holiday is that I get to meet my goddaughter every day.

Me and my sisters family are on holidays in our...

2017-07-30T20:01:52Z

Me and my sisters family are on holidays in our parents house for two weeks in Poland. We were suprized by our brother who came from Berlin for the weekend and our cousin and her family. So we had a nice grill party yesterday evening.

The summer holidays have begun!

2017-07-29T13:46:08Z

The summer holidays have begun!

Another cinema editing style, this one is from ...

2017-07-26T22:03:11Z

Another cinema editing style, this one is from the skating session with Bassem in february this year.

It would be interesting to hear what stories this picture tells you when you see it as a still frame from a movie.

Check out the rest of the pictures not edited in this style here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157680324940716

"Say my name." - "You're Heisenberg." - "You're...

2017-07-23T19:06:30Z

"Say my name." - "You're Heisenberg." - "You're gosh darn right!"

Breaking Bad Jr. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmnJGui7bDs

I got goose bumps watching it.

Yesterday I was checking out https://www.hallif...

2017-07-23T12:01:51Z

Yesterday I was checking out https://www.hallifornia.se/ here in Varberg and it was really awesome! I didn't really have a lot of time taking pictures but we went to the place where they were skimboarding because this looked to me as the place where I could take the most impressive action photos and I wasn't disappointed.

The hardest part of taking this picture though was that at the same time I was babysitting 3 children. But they were so captivated by what was happening on the water that they weren't running away. So I had a coupple of seconds to shoot some pictures.

It was really fun so I tried another cinematic ...

2017-07-22T09:55:50Z

It was really fun so I tried another cinematic look, this time with the 2.35:1 format and some added grain.

Today I was trying to create a picture which wa...

2017-07-21T22:03:37Z

Today I was trying to create a picture which was supposed to look like a scene from a movie. I found those youngsters talking at the train station and I think it already tells a story. Then I color graded it to make it more movie like with orange & teal look.

Play or seriousness? At the train station in Go...

2017-07-21T16:41:14Z

Play or seriousness? At the train station in Gothenburg.

Wow, what a great advertisment video for Varber...

2017-07-16T21:29:28Z

Wow, what a great advertisment video for Varberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIxXahQMpWk I've been at Hallifornia last year and saw many of the things they show in the video. But damn it makes me wanna go to Varberg during the summer ;)

Today I joined two friends on their small boat ...

2017-07-15T23:13:28Z

Today I joined two friends on their small boat for a fishing tour. Sadly as soon as they stopped the motor I imediatelly got sea sick. I tried hard to withstand it because I didn't want to be the killjoy who wants to go home early. But after some time I just vomited into the sea.

'A French army marching band medleys Daft Punk ...

2017-07-14T17:29:15Z

'A French army marching band medleys Daft Punk at the end of the Bastille Day parade on Friday. Donald Trump looks somewhat bemused as they perform Get Lucky and some of the group’s other hits. French president Emmanuel Macron smiles as other dignitaries clap and dance along.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhQkku7jLfo

Outside of our office on the street crossing th...

2017-07-11T16:28:52Z

Outside of our office on the street crossing there is a container and today a band played there.

Varberg Radio Station at Grimeton, The anten...

2017-07-10T21:46:16Z

Varberg Radio Station at Grimeton,

The antenna is a 1.9 km. Until the 1950s, the Grimeton VLF transmitter was used for transatlantic radio telegraphy to Radio Central in Long Island, New York, USA. From the 1960s until 1996 it transmitted orders to submarines in the Swedish Navy.

Reproducing a dish and photo

2017-07-09T11:10:20Z

Today I was trying to reproduse a dish and a photo. I think I mostly nailed the dish which wasn't very difficult. I'm getting the ingrediences biweekly from Linas Matkasse and they always send a small pamphlet with all the recipies in it. They add a high resolution full page photo of the result of every recipe so you can see how it was imagined to look like.

I made the orecchiettepasta with green pea pesto and prawns, which took about 25 minutes. As I said, the cooking I nailed, but let's compare the pictures, first mine and then theirs:

The difference which I first saw after I imported the picture and compared it side by side was that there is much more going on in their picture. They don't only have the plate there but also a open jar with more pesto in it, a extra lemon on the table, some kind of flowers and some whole peas, peppar and even some salt flakes on the table.

In addition to eveything on the table even the plate looks much more 'messy', they didn't only put the panado on top of the pasta but also all around on the plate, same with the parsley. Contrary to what they wrote in the recipe they didn't mix it all together in the bole but some of it they sprinkled on top and therefor it looks darker.

All in all their picture looks much more alive than mine, I should try to copy and analize other peoples photos a bit more often. It seems I would learn a lot from it.

And also I shouldn't do this when super hungry, because then I don't really have the patience to fiddle with all the small things, I just want to get it done and eat! ;)

We found a snail.

2017-07-08T20:58:52Z

We found a snail.

Labor Unions - Maria

2017-07-07T18:39:26Z

I'm talking to Maria about labor unions, because she used to work part time in one for over 10 years.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Introduction
**** Where are you from?
**** How come you are invested in labor unions?
**** Öresundståg streik
**** Union membership and power peaked in 1970's
***** Solidarnosc in poland
**** What did our parents and grand parents fight for?
*** Benefits of joining a union
**** Collective Bargaining
**** Higher Wages
**** Support
**** A voice
**** Equality and Fairness
**** Job Security
**** Stronger Economy
**** Better Training
**** Health and Safety
**** Rewards and Benefits
*** Your new job
**** What is it you work with?

Here are some pictures from yesterdays Pride ma...

2017-07-02T12:17:20Z

Here are some pictures from yesterdays Pride march in Varberg, I put them in an album on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/sets/72157685666647806

I've known her since she was 2 years old, and n...

2017-07-01T17:53:07Z

I've known her since she was 2 years old, and now she's practically an adult, who wares fake goat horns. You're awesome!

Hidden in the scene.

2017-07-01T16:11:16Z

Hidden in the scene.

Who's idea was it to install Windows on the com...

2017-06-29T06:16:18Z

Who's idea was it to install Windows on the computers which monitor the radiation in Chernobyl? http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-hit-10697960

Like https://snarfed.org/2017-06-24_new-side-project-indie-map

2017-06-27T05:41:16Z

Jeena ♥ https://snarfed.org/2017-06-24_new-side-project-indie-map

Didn't get polio today, again! So lit! https://...

2017-06-26T18:58:01Z

Didn't get polio today, again! So lit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VGs2PCHc

Today looking through he window at work I saw p...

2017-06-26T17:29:16Z

Today looking through he window at work I saw people playing polo on segways which seemed quite bizarr, so I went down to take some pictures. It wasn't easy because of the harsh light conditions.

Some of my work collegues play in the lowest fo...

2017-06-19T19:42:57Z

Some of my work collegues play in the lowest football division in Sweden. I watched one of their games and took the opportunity to shoot some action photos.

You can find the whole album on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/sets/72157685162041066/

Paragliders near Båstad, they had beautifull we...

2017-06-18T14:17:57Z

Paragliders near Båstad, they had beautifull weather conditions.

Today I visited an old friend of mine, we haven...

2017-06-17T19:32:21Z

Today I visited an old friend of mine, we haven't seen each other for years. It was super nice, thanks for having me!

His wife cooked for us, a quite sophisticated asian dish I must say. There were basically 5 diffetent small dishes we got to choose from.

"Poland tells EU to BRING IT: Warsaw vows to fi...

2017-06-17T07:00:00Z

"Poland tells EU to BRING IT: Warsaw vows to fight penalty for refusing to accept refugees" http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/817289/poland-fight-eu-penalty-european-commission-refusing-refugees-migrant-crisis

It's unbelievable. As long they were in deep shit and milions of polish people emigrated to other european countries to take peoples work, while the EU pumped in money into polish infrastructure, the EU was embraced. Now that we tell them to help to devide the burdon of other migrants comming into europe they refuse to help.

How can people be so short sighted and not make the connection? Either that or they're just selfish parasites who take as long as they can and walk away once you try to include them to be able to help more people.

End of school for most of the children in Swede...

2017-06-16T15:08:32Z

End of school for most of the children in Sweden today. Just before I took this picture the little guy said goodby to his teachers he had for 1/6th of his life. He will not have them next year as teachers which made him feel really sad. Good thing mom was there to comfort him.

I guess you've done something right as a teacher if you get reactions like that when the summer holidays start.

#varberg is #life and #yolo (or something like ...

2017-06-13T05:24:34Z

varberg is #life and #yolo (or something like that)

Brexit and Europe - Götz

2017-06-11T11:07:27Z

I'm talking with Götz who has been living in London for six years about Brexit, Europe and living abroad.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* Intro
** Where are you from?
** How long did you live in London
* Brexit
** How do people react?
** How is the political landscape in the UK?
* Erasmus
** What is it?
** What is the purpose?
** Why did you end up in Stockholm?
* Living abroad
** Citicenship
** Opportunities
** Broadening your horizon

Photoshoot with my friend Götz outside of Varberg.

2017-06-10T12:44:16Z

Photoshoot with my friend Götz outside of Varberg.

Interesting to see the life journey of a semi-f...

2017-06-10T07:16:03Z

Interesting to see the life journey of a semi-famous developer who did great work on the Mac Internet Explorer rendering engine on the brink of the 2000's and today (besides working at Mozilla) co-teaches Yoga classes: http://tantek.com/2017/160/t1/ytt-co-teaching-public-yoga-class

Today me and a friend spent half a day baking t...

2017-06-06T19:49:35Z

Today me and a friend spent half a day baking this beauty. It turned out awesome, it's a oil cake with popy seeds. It tastes awesome.

I'm watching "The Man in the High Castle" and t...

2017-06-03T15:41:19Z

I'm watching "The Man in the High Castle" and this one Nazi antagonist with the sick son is terribly likable.

Podcasts I am listening to

2017-06-01T18:02:31Z

gRegorLove just posted a blog post where he lists the podcasts he listens to and would like to recommend. I think it's a great idea and a neat way of finding new and interesting podcasts.

This is my list, devided into categories:

Storytelling

This American Life this is a really great one, very moving stories, a podcast where I sometimes have to hold back tears when I'm on the train or in a public place so people don't think I'm weird.
Serial and S-Town A super well researched story recorded for a full season of about 12 episodes. Those are some of the people which are also behind This American Life. Really good quality and emerging stories.

Hobbies

PetaPixel Photography Podcast Photography news, I like it a lot more than reading their blog because it's funny and condensed, and if I want to know more about a topic I can read about it later.
BeerSmith Podcast The author of the BeerSmith software which helps you to create and find recipies for homebrewing interviews people from the beer brewing community. They then talk about brewing different beer styles, but also jump deep in in different topics around brewing like water quality, etc.
Hoaxilla - Der skeptische Podcast (German) Two skeptics taking on one urban legend per episode, really well researched they demystify many of them.
Jeenas Excellent Encounters This is my own podcast where I interview people who I find enteresting, every episode is about a different topic.
Orbiter Dictum (Swedish) Two journalists talk about pop culture, sometimes they have special episodes about a specific topit but the normal episodes often about current movies, books and music.

Tech

Linux Unplugged They talk about news within the Linux community, mostly opinions are being exchanged, sometimes they have people from the community and interview them about their projects. A interesting twist is that they have an audience live connected via Mumble so the audience often is part of the show too.
Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment, Casey Liss and John Siracusa talking mostly about Apple, Google and other tech things, sometimes they talk about cars.
Hanselminutes Scott works at Microsoft and in his podcast he interviews people about some technology, mostly within programming. The really cool thing is that he invites a really diverse guests, a lot of women, people of different colors and so on, which is seldom within tech podcasts.
Chaosradio (German) People from the Chaos Computer Club Berlin talk about different technologies and the impact of politics on them.
FLOSS Weekly Discussions about Free Libre and Open Source Software, often they have guests on and talk about a specific project.
Linux Action News Weekly Linux news analysis, very informative if you want to stay up to date about the Linux community.

Politics

Aufwachen! (German) Twice a week two journalists analyse the german public news. Quite funny style and by listening to it you don't need to watch the news yourself.
Der Lila Podcast (German) Current political and cultural debates from a feminist perspective.
Alternativlos! (German) Published rather seldom but when very long and deep analysys of current political topics.

Comedy / Philosophy

WTF with Marc Maron Marc is a standup comic and interviews celebreties about their lifes, once he even had Obama in his garage where he records his show two times a week.
Tankesmedian (Swedish) A humor and satire radio program about news, current topics and public debates with focus on domestic policy.
The Flop House Three camics are watching critical or commercial flops, and then discussing those terrible movies for you to enjoy in your ear-holes. Also they talk a lot about random bullshit in between.
Modern Day Philosophers A standup comedian invites other comedians to his show to first interview them about their life and then “pairs” them with a philosopher to then examine and discuss.

Misc

Montrealsauce The hosts invite makers and creatives and interview them about their projects.
Oh My Dollar! The host is a professional financial advicer and she gives jargon-free, approachable money tips with a dash of glitter.

How about you?

It would be cool to see your list of podcasts you listen to, I shure am in new ones. If you write one, don't hesitate to link back to me and notify me via the form at the bottom of this page.

Like https://seblog.nl/2017/05/31/5/virtual-homebrew-website-club

2017-05-31T17:14:04Z

Jeena ♥ https://seblog.nl/2017/05/31/5/virtual-homebrew-website-club

Preparing for the first virtual Homebrew Websit...

2017-05-31T15:28:29Z

Preparing for the first virtual Homebrew Website Club https://jeena.net/events/25

I missed that it was today so I'm joining from the train for the first hour.

My sister with her daughter at the lake during ...

2017-05-31T06:47:26Z

My sister with her daughter at the lake during a hot day.

After a hot afternoon at the lake Pfäffikersee ...

2017-05-29T18:17:16Z

After a hot afternoon at the lake Pfäffikersee we went on the other side and enjoy some late and espresso.

Granddaughter with granddad on her first birthd...

2017-05-28T11:40:26Z

Granddaughter with granddad on her first birthday party.

Perfect weather to spend the day outside with m...

2017-05-27T10:16:56Z

Perfect weather to spend the day outside with my niece in Switzerland.

Gothenburg 🛫 Zürich My nieces first birthday...

2017-05-26T17:01:48Z

Gothenburg 🛫 Zürich

My nieces first birthday party in Switzerland, it's a pitty that I live so far away but it's super cool to have another reason to visit Switzerland 👼😀😍

Haha the security guards at Berlin airport were...

2017-05-26T14:56:55Z

Haha the security guards at Berlin airport were super impressed about my new Samsung Galaxy S8, they even got some colegues over to check it out. At some point there were 5 people around touching it and talking about it ^^.

Google maps seems to be running in the backgrou...

2017-05-25T14:23:20Z

Google maps seems to be running in the background on my phone and suggested me to upload a photo from the restaurant I'm in right now. Creepy, and why is it uaing power from the battery for stuff like this?

Cyclist and coast trees. At the coast the wind ...

2017-05-23T20:56:22Z

Cyclist and coast trees. At the coast the wind is constantly blowing in one direction, from the sea onto the land. The trees are are being shaped by the wind to grow very weirdly but it makes them into beautifull sculptures for me to photograph.

Film and Video making - Albin

2017-05-20T13:12:15Z

In this episode I'm talking to Albin who is a indepondent movie and video creator.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

* Intro
* School: Ljud & Bildskolan LBS Varberg - https://www.lbs.se/
* Music Videos
** Hoggatah - Are you going to my funeral - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyWNsy5Lrk
** King Melodies - Modern Superstar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XAVnNzKmzk
** Qvintetten - Unbelievable Lies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq0N2vruAZ0
* Showreel - https://vimeo.com/177898311
* Short Movies
** Celice short movie - https://vimeo.com/116016167
** Barracuda - https://vimeo.com/97664145
** In the Gap trailer - https://vimeo.com/193519843
* Working as a teacher
** Kaffeöverdos - Marcus Assarsson (short clip by a student) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qWDqurEEB4

Drop a Tech Giant

2017-05-16T15:03:48Z

I was listening to ATP (Accedential Tech Podcast) and they found this quizz which goes like this:

If an evil monarch forced you to choose, in what order would you give up these inescapable giants of tech?

Before you read on about my reasoning go over there and take the quizz yourself.

How I chose

Apple
Amazon
Microsoft
Facebook
Alphabet

My reasoning

This is why I chose this particular order.

Apple

I don't use any of Apples products.

I was using them back in the days, especially during the time when the iPhone came out in Sweden and I was at the university, I was a propper Apple Fanboy. But this changed a couple of years ago, I wrote about that in a seperate article before.

Amazon

Amazon doesn't even have a website in Sweden.

I do buy at Amazon sometimes, then I use their german store. But because they don't have a Swedish couterpart to it all the advantages they have in other countries like 24h delivery, cheaper prices, and so on. It doesn't matter if I chose them or a local website, they both take a couple of days to deliver, actually many swedish ones are even faster. And I use PriceRunner to compare prices and order from those which have best reviews, or have the best price.

And yes I know, as all af those giants they have other things to offer which are very important to people, especially AWS, but here again I don't use it (directly).

Microsoft

I don't use any product from Microsoft in particulor myself but Skype.

But I really like what's going on over at Microsoft Research, the company to me seems, at least for now, as one of the more inovative of those giants. They also showed that they are able to change the direction they're heading so I'm a bit excited to see what they will come up with next. And Skype is always the last resort for audio/video which basically always works if all the other ones don't.

Facebook

I use facebook every day.

This feels like a guilty pleasure thing, I know it's bad and I'm activelly working within the IndieWeb community to offer an alternative, but I still use it a lot every day. Especially to chat with friends who don't use IRC. And yes, Instagram is really nice and nowadays I even gave in and use WhatsApp to chat with my family.

Alphabet

Alphabet, which is the parent company of Google, owns YouTube which I also use every day, and I really really like it too. The technology behind is superb, but also the community of small content creators is really really awesome. I stopped using a TV several years ago, everything I used to get from a TV I nowadays get via YouTube. I really love the fact that it makes the idea behind the WWW so accessible, that everyone can be a content creator, you just need a smartphone so you can record yourself and off you go!

YouTube is the reason why I chose Alphabet last. If they didn't own it, I wouldn't care for them, for everything else they offer I use or can easily use alternatives.

How did you chose?

So tell me, how did you chose and why?

Today I was cycling to take some landscape phot...

2017-05-14T20:09:11Z

Today I was cycling to take some landscape photos and came by an anthill which I decided to film instead of just taking a picture which really didn't work to show all the business going on there. I also like all the birds tweeting in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yms51Wl_Wfo

Landscape, Varberg up-country.

2017-05-14T15:02:49Z

Landscape, Varberg up-country.

Beautifull colors on mount Etna in Italy.

2017-05-10T21:24:46Z

Beautifull colors on mount Etna in Italy.

I've been living 10 minutes from the beach for ...

2017-05-04T22:03:00Z

I've been living 10 minutes from the beach for over 10 years now, still haven't been wind surfing on my own.

Siesta at the Amalfi Coast.

2017-05-04T05:34:59Z

Siesta at the Amalfi Coast.

Oh man, damn, I almost did a thing, the trains ...

2017-05-02T07:10:34Z

Oh man, damn, I almost did a thing, the trains still aren't going so I went on the bus and am sitting there with my noise canceling earphones and just before we go the bus driver asks: "How many of you are going to Falkenberg, Halmstad, Laholm?", I was quite quick to leave this bus. Luckily the Gothenburg bus was waiting in line so I got it.

The most swedish photo I was able to take on to...

2017-05-01T19:30:24Z

The most swedish photo I was able to take on todays walk. Happy 1st of may!

At last weeks http://foss-north.se I recorded s...

2017-04-29T09:08:43Z

At last weeks http://foss-north.se I recorded some of the talks, many are online now like Lennard Poettering's "Immutable and Stateless Systems with systemd" https://youtu.be/pL0AMLiwPj8

At last weeks http://foss-north.se/ I recorded ...

2017-04-29T08:58:45Z

At last weeks http://foss-north.se/ I recorded some of the talks, many are online now: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQvR8lgE9rishcKT_hZT6eQ

#fossnorth2017 Magnus Hagander talking about th...

2017-04-26T07:59:06Z

fossnorth2017 Magnus Hagander talking about the ACME protocol and LetsEncrypt

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/189

2017-04-24T22:59:02Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/189

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/334

2017-04-24T22:58:03Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/334

A short video-blog style video I created of the...

2017-04-23T22:09:03Z

A short video-blog style video I created of the fotage me and my brothen shot while on the vaccation in Italy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_phqNhDNM0

Damn, it's so cold in Sweden.

2017-04-19T07:20:04Z

Damn, it's so cold in Sweden.

Like https://tobiastom.name/notes/8b179f31

2017-04-19T06:54:37Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/notes/8b179f31

Ok, one last epic photo from Rome, which is a d...

2017-04-18T19:14:30Z

Ok, one last epic photo from Rome, which is a delight to photograph by the way. On the last day, in the morning we went to visit the St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican. You can climb up 512 steps to get up all the way on top of the dome, so wi did that and look what you get as a revard, it was totally worth it!

Really cool short movie recorded in one take wi...

2017-04-18T17:41:12Z

Really cool short movie recorded in one take with one drone https://vimeo.com/211551365

This is the picture I wanted to take the whole ...

2017-04-17T20:51:16Z

This is the picture I wanted to take the whole vaccation.

It took forever to prepare everything. One hour to get there, 40 minutes to wait in the line for the lift which goes all the way up on the roof of the Altare della Patria, and then waiting there for the sundown, again more than one hour, just before they close the roof at 19:15. I was the last person there still taking this picture while the security guard trying to convince me to go down with him.

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/someone-had-his-first-surf-lesson

2017-04-17T08:38:12Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/someone-had-his-first-surf-lesson

There is one thing I should have learned on thi...

2017-04-16T20:20:57Z

There is one thing I should have learned on this trip: Don't assume you can do sight seeing during the evening. I had a special shot of the Colosseum in mind, from the top of the Altare della Patria during sundown. So I went there, in time for the sundown, and tried to get up the Altare della Patria, they have a special lift there so you can see Rome in 360°.

But while climbing the stairs I got stopped by a security woman who told me that they're closing and I can come back tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. I tried to explain the thing with the light and the golden hour and things but the only thing she could offer me is comming back tomorrow and staying untill 7, which is just when the sundown starts.

This one is a decent shot, but totally different than what I wanted in the first place.

Altare della Patria, Rome, Italy.

2017-04-16T20:03:59Z

Altare della Patria, Rome, Italy.

Like http://tantek.com/2017/106/t1/yesterday-one-fewer-plastic-cup

2017-04-16T18:58:32Z

Jeena ♥ http://tantek.com/2017/106/t1/yesterday-one-fewer-plastic-cup

Palermo Street Food

2017-04-15T22:08:54Z

Me and my brother are doing a road trip through Italy and today we're in Palermo, which seems to be famous for it's street food culture. We will miss the Street Food Festival which is next weekend, but still we tasted some weird stuff here already.

For lunch we had a Pani ca’ meusa, which is basically a bun with a lot of spleen meat. It sounds awfull but they prepare it in a special way so it was really quite good for being spleen. Later we also had a Arancina which is a fried rice ball with meet in it. Sadly we got it from a bistro where they didn't prepare it fresh but just reheated it in a micro wave, which for food is always a really bad sign.

But now to the fun part, while walking around we saw people preparing for some night event. I think it was the Vucciria market.

Here they were starting the grill and getting all kinds of sea food prepared for grilling during the evening.

I decided to go back there after it started to check it out and to document it a little bit, so after 9pm I was there to see the party going on in it's full glory.

There were those guys grilling stigghiola, which are goat and sheep intestines rolled around some fresh green onion leafs I believe. When they saw me they emediatelly said that such a big guy as me will shurly try some of their speciality. I bought some, they always have some lemons cut ready to season basically everything. It was tender and quite ok, but it didn't taste a lot actually.

The guys we saw preparing before now were grilling frutti di mare and cooking big octopus arms, in the picture above the guy was cutting one of them into smaller peaces which was quite some work it seemed.

On the other side of the market a woman was preparing the buns for pane panelle e crocchè, while the man was grilling the stuff which goes in, which are potato croquets and other things which I didn't quite get. It looked delicious and many people were waiting in line, but I didn't take anything because I can't taste everything in just one day.

The shops and restaurants around had still open too and were mostly selling beer and other drinks.

Later, just before I was going back to the hotel a black guy came on his moped on which he had a complete sound system hanging on, wih a car battery powering it. He was playing reaggy music, lauder than every other stand there.

Preparations for the market this evening, with ...

2017-04-15T19:02:50Z

Preparations for the market this evening, with lots of street food and stuff, I guess we will revisit once it's ongoing.

The Greek Theatre in Siracusa, appearently they...

2017-04-15T17:48:16Z

The Greek Theatre in Siracusa, appearently they put wooden benches on top of it during the summer so they protect the old stone benches when they use it for different events.

Vulcano jump!

2017-04-15T12:56:58Z

Vulcano jump!

On mount Etna.

2017-04-14T16:22:00Z

On mount Etna.

Now we're in Siracusa (Sicily, Italy) for 2 da...

2017-04-14T11:18:45Z

Now we're in Siracusa (Sicily, Italy) for 2 days. We've seen the greek and roman theatres, went for beers yesterday in the old city and went swimming too!

Sundown from behind the "Statua del Cristo Rede...

2017-04-12T22:22:13Z

Sundown from behind the "Statua del Cristo Redentore" in Maratea, Italy.

6th best pizza in Neaples, where the pizza has ...

2017-04-10T22:13:56Z

6th best pizza in Neaples, where the pizza has been invented. We couldn't get in because 10 minutes after they opened it was so crouded already that they were full for the day basically. But we were able to take two with us, it was 4 EUR per pizza, no wonder they were sold out just after opening. It was quite different, like a margarita but the dough was phonomenal! Something between pizza dough and french creppes. Oh and we had red sparkling wine with it.

Three nuns paying for parking their car in Rome.

2017-04-10T21:55:24Z

Three nuns paying for parking their car in Rome.

Bella Roma!

2017-04-10T11:03:28Z

Bella Roma!

Wow, a demo movie recorded in HD in New York in...

2017-04-09T17:31:34Z

Wow, a demo movie recorded in HD in New York in 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY

It's really weird because normally all HD videos you see today were recorded recently, this kind of messes with your head.

Gothenburg ✈ Rome - And the vaccation begins! ...

2017-04-09T08:52:01Z

Gothenburg ✈ Rome - And the vaccation begins!

Me and my brother are going to Rome for one day and then we're taking a car down to Sicily to be able to see the scenery on the way. At the end we plan to go back to Rome to see how they celebrate easter in the Vatican.

Already the second time I'm relying on Facebook...

2017-04-07T15:01:31Z

Already the second time I'm relying on Facebooks "marked safe during ..." feature.

First they came for the muslims, but I kept qui...

2017-04-07T13:35:41Z

First they came for the muslims, but I kept quiet because I wasn't a muslim www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-adi-fourth-amendment-airport-cellphone-search-20170407-story.html

Today for the first time I had a photoshoot wit...

2017-04-03T22:42:45Z

Today for the first time I had a photoshoot with a model, Amanda, to practice head shots and portraits. It trully is so much easier if you don't need to try to convince your subject to pose for more than one minute or at all, because they know what they're doing and it's their job too. We got a nice collection which you can check out here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/sets/72157678810902614/

I really need to start working on some kind of a portfolio with my best shots on my own website. And btw. If you would like to get photographed by me, shoot me a message or email, I'm still learning but I'm getting better every day!

I just released #9 of my podcast "Jeenas Excell...

2017-04-01T09:14:02Z

I just released #9 of my podcast "Jeenas Excellent Encounters" this time I was talking to Shahin Ghazinouri and Zeeshan Ali about getting a license to fly planes and helicopters, which they have.

Enjoy and spread the word: https://jeena.net/pods/9

Btw. If you have a story to tell and would like to be interviewed, please contact me and let me visit you with my equipment.

There is a paper factory a couple of kilometers...

2017-03-29T18:32:49Z

There is a paper factory a couple of kilometers north of Varberg. Most of Varberg gets the heat from them, which they hava as a waste product from the production of paper.

Like https://tobiastom.name/notes/dd2f3d8e

2017-03-28T19:10:16Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/notes/dd2f3d8e

I like landscape photography. It's cold, it's r...

2017-03-28T19:04:30Z

I like landscape photography. It's cold, it's rainy, no good light, the sky is bland. Still I'm outside by the sea trying to capture some of the greatness available nevertheless.

I wonder when it will be possible to comment on...

2017-03-28T06:59:52Z

I wonder when it will be possible to comment on podcasts from the podcast player. The technology is there but nobody puts it together.

SoundCloud could offer this even with audio comments in their player but I'd rather see something open anyway.

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/one-of-the-many-faces-of-lisbon

2017-03-26T20:36:58Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/one-of-the-many-faces-of-lisbon

Two days ago I recorded the 9th episode of my p...

2017-03-25T21:16:57Z

Two days ago I recorded the 9th episode of my podcast, it's about flying helicopters and planes. Today one of my guests flew over my appartment and I took some photos, it was really difficult to get a sharp one. The episode will be released april the 1st.

Flying - Shahin & Zeeshan

2017-03-25T18:21:56Z

We're talking about being a pilot and flying a plane or a helicopter.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Intro
**** Intro about topic
**** Who is Shahin
**** How did they get in into it?
*** Licenses
**** Differences
***** Between Helicopter and Plane
***** Between countries
**** Maintenance
**** Starting and Landing
**** Flight Clubs
**** Costs
***** License
***** Flying
**** Planing the flight
**** Nightflight
**** Autopilot
**** How to get into it?

We baked cheese cake yesterday.

2017-03-20T07:20:27Z

We baked cheese cake yesterday.

Today me and my dad visited a brewery we know f...

2017-03-18T14:23:38Z

Today me and my dad visited a brewery we know from TV. The brew master is a butcher by profession but a friend gave him a book about brewing and he started trying.

Check out the documentary yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6kD9PICYAA

Nürnberg also has interesting city walls. #stre...

2017-03-15T21:06:36Z

Nürnberg also has interesting city walls. #streetphotography

Nürnberg Underground by night #streetphotography

2017-03-15T20:57:15Z

Nürnberg Underground by night #streetphotography

I totaly forgot that brothels are still legal i...

2017-03-15T20:44:29Z

I totaly forgot that brothels are still legal in Germany (buying sex is illegal in Sweden). On the other side of the street, which you can't see in the picture, the women had an open window and were cat calling all the guys who were walking by.

Oh kind of cool, my feedreader has been feature...

2017-03-12T21:39:53Z

Oh kind of cool, my feedreader has been featured on the "OMG Ubuntu" blog http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/tiny-tiny-rss-desktop-client

Look at this, wouldn't you want to spend your v...

2017-03-12T18:01:20Z

Look at this, wouldn't you want to spend your vaccation in the wonderfull franconian municipality Burgpreppach, where my parents live? And yes, what you see are two churches, the sandstone one is the catholic one and the one above it is the protestant one.

Appearently there are still people who go to a ...

2017-03-11T10:26:16Z

Appearently there are still people who go to a cafe in the morning to get a coffe and read the newspaper.

Someone left this almost full at the train stat...

2017-03-08T18:54:41Z

Someone left this almost full at the train station.

I'll be in Nuernberg at Embedded World next wee...

2017-03-08T10:12:18Z

I'll be in Nuernberg at Embedded World next week https://www.embedded-world.de/en come by and say hi!

I finally added a combined feed of everything t...

2017-03-07T21:18:49Z

I finally added a combined feed of everything to my website https://jeena.net/all.atom

Like http://tantek.com/2017/066/t2/runner-tantek

2017-03-07T21:16:51Z

Jeena ♥ http://tantek.com/2017/066/t2/runner-tantek

It's snowing in Varberg, still I found the firs...

2017-03-05T15:00:25Z

It's snowing in Varberg, still I found the first signs of spring. Those flowers are really badass.

This is one of the very few things which provok...

2017-03-03T17:26:26Z

This is one of the very few things which provoke me to switch from Firefox to Chrome. It looks like some virus or something which you get on Windows all the time. But I'm on Linux and don't expect something like this. According to the Internet this is legit Mozilla spam.

Last week I recorded another episode of my podc...

2017-03-02T08:37:27Z

Last week I recorded another episode of my podcast "Jeenas Excellent Encounters", this time wich P Celine Marckert and it is about Horses and ADHD.

Enjoy: https://jeena.net/pods/8

Btw. don't be shy to comment if you like, I'd love to get feedback about how I'm doing with the podcast, what you like, what you don't etc.

I'm a bit in a low with my photography right no...

2017-03-02T08:09:33Z

I'm a bit in a low with my photography right now, somehow it's harder to find inspiration and see the pictures in every day life. But yesterday I saw this empty playground in the dark.

Horses and ADHD - Pernilla Celine

2017-02-26T00:53:06Z

This time we're talking about the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and how horses help Pernilla to cope with it.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

** Schema
*** Intro
**** Where are you from? Where do you live?
**** What's your occupation?
**** How have you been introduced to horses?
**** What do you do with horses?
*** ADHD
**** What is it? Symptoms
**** When have you been diagnosed?
**** How was it before your diagnese?
**** What changed afterwards?
**** Medicatien?
**** ADHD as a fashion disorder for kids
***** 19% in the US vs 0.5% in France
*** Horses
**** How do they help with your ADHD?
**** Brief history of your horses
**** What do you do with your horses?
***** How time consuming is it?
**** Are horses a girls/woman thing?
**** What do you do with them when you're on vaccation?
**** How and when to get into it?
*** Thank you for your time!
*** http://misscelinem.spotlife.se/

Via a YouTube video on physics: "Light travels ...

2017-02-19T17:00:54Z

Via a YouTube video on physics: "Light travels faster than sound, that's why some people appear bright until they speak."

Today me and two coworkers went ice skating, fo...

2017-02-16T23:44:09Z

Today me and two coworkers went ice skating, for Bassem it was the first time in his life, he is from Egypt. But Toni was a good teacher.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157680324940716

I have another picture from yesterday night. Yo...

2017-02-15T20:34:52Z

I have another picture from yesterday night. You can see the Orion constellation in it and what I especially like, you can see the Orion Nebula quite sharp in there too!

Ursa Minor, also known as the Little Bear or Li...

2017-02-14T21:32:30Z

Ursa Minor, also known as the Little Bear or Little Dipper in the sky. Astro photography is much more complicated than you'd think because the earth rotates the whole time making it impossible to do some proper long exposure. And I didn't see the Milky Way either today, but that might be just lack of knowledge where and when to look.

Today when I arrived back in Varberg the sun wa...

2017-02-13T17:55:29Z

Today when I arrived back in Varberg the sun was just behind the horizon.

I just spent 1.5 hours on ice skates, it is so ...

2017-02-12T14:26:06Z

I just spent 1.5 hours on ice skates, it is so much fun for me, I don't understand why I'm not doing it more often.

I'm listening to a couple of photography podcas...

2017-02-11T18:37:39Z

I'm listening to a couple of photography podcasts, watch a lot of videos about photography on YouTube and started reading some photography related blogs. There seems to be consesus that if you're a photographer then you need to be on Instagram because that is the platform to be as a photographer.

I don't quite understand why, it's not really made for that, it's made for uploading snapshots you took with your phone, not photographs you took with your DSLR. It's complicated to get your pictures from the DSLR on Instagram and they resize them to really really small so a lot of details just get lost.

I still would like to understand why it is consideret as the platform to be on as a photographer. It might be because of the user numbers, but Facebook has at least as many.

Today we recorded a new episode of my podcast, ...

2017-02-09T19:29:42Z

Today we recorded a new episode of my podcast, we talked about last weekends FOSDEM, which is a super big free and open source developer conferance in Brussels (Belgium). I was joined by Jeremiah C. Foster and Zeeshan Ali.

Enjoy: https://jeena.net/pods/7

FOSDEM 2017 - Jeremiah & Zeeshan

2017-02-09T19:11:49Z

We are recaping FOSDEM which we attended last weekend

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Intro
**** Zeeshan about him
**** Teaser about helicopter flying
**** What is FOSDEM
*** FOSDEM
**** Very full of people
**** Embeded dev-room
***** GENIVI
***** Speaking at FOSDEM
***** Zeeshans talk: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/openconnectedcar/
**** Rust and Haskell
**** Socializing at Delirium
**** Key signing party

While in Brussels I also did some street photog...

2017-02-06T20:10:18Z

While in Brussels I also did some street photography. This one I like especially in color because of the contrast between the really smeary and dirty bus stop in the background and the clean madame in the foreground.

I was at FOSDEM in Brussels last weekend, here ...

2017-02-06T15:25:50Z

I was at FOSDEM in Brussels last weekend, here is a album with pictures: https://flic.kr/s/aHskQKPfAJ

First day in Belgium, a bit of night photograph...

2017-02-03T22:07:03Z

First day in Belgium, a bit of night photography. This is Liège, I had to climb those big stairs two times to get that shoot, and a reset made so I was just shooting JPEG the whole day. But it's super sharp, even if you look at it 1:1 (try clicking on it and see it big in your browser)

I'm always seeing those silly equations with pi...

2017-01-27T20:47:01Z

I'm always seeing those silly equations with pictograms and they try to trick you by having a pair of something in the first equations but then only one of them in the last line so you get sloppy and forget about that ang get it wrong. I don't like them, they're boring and just play with this one trick it seems.

Therefor I created a real one in the same style, without tricks but instead it is a bit harder. It's still just integers, so everybody should be able to solve it, given enough time.

If you have a hard time solving it here is a description how you normally would try to solve those equations: http://www.sosmath.com/soe/SE211105/SE211105.html

(I'd really love someone to solve it graphically.)

In photography, I learned, there are those 40 m...

2017-01-27T17:04:36Z

In photography, I learned, there are those 40 minutes after sunset (and before sunrise), which are called "the blue hour". During that time "red light passes straight into space while blue light is scattered in the atmosphere and therefore reaches the earth's surface" (wikipedia).

Many photographers love this time and I really understand why. Look at this photo, even a plain construction site looks amazing.

I get why photographers charge so much money fo...

2017-01-24T20:27:28Z

I get why photographers charge so much money for photobooks. It's fun to shoot the pictures but once you have them the real work begins.

You have to sort them and chose the best ones which still tell a story.
Then you have to prozess every single one of the RAW images to get a nice consistent look.
Then you export them and try to find a website which offers some design software for your operating system.
Laying out the images so they look good is a lot of work, it took me 2 hours for 24 sites.
Once they make the books you get them and send them to your clients.

It's almost impossible to pay someone to do all this work for you because it is so expensive, I guess that's why people most of the time only do it when they marry.

Today I met Ali for some beers. He is really pi...

2017-01-23T20:00:40Z

Today I met Ali for some beers. He is really picky about the beer he drinks. You can see him here, with the bartender, checking out which bottled beers they offer.

Light behind a tree.

2017-01-18T23:10:49Z

Light behind a tree.

The #FlickrFriday challenge this week is "long ...

2017-01-17T00:08:58Z

The #FlickrFriday challenge this week is "long exposure", I guess 204 seconds should be enough. I went down to the beach to take a nice photo of the "cold bath house" or Kallbadhuset here in Varberg.

A Few Reasons Why You Should Have Your Own Blog...

2017-01-16T19:15:13Z

A Few Reasons Why You Should Have Your Own Blog (by a photographer) https://fstoppers.com/originals/few-reasons-why-you-should-have-your-own-blog-161417

Webmention is now a W3C recommendation: https:/...

2017-01-16T10:09:03Z

Webmention is now a W3C recommendation: https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6052

Street Photography - Today I was in Gothenburg ...

2017-01-13T17:29:45Z

Street Photography - Today I was in Gothenburg at the central train station to try to shoot some street photography style pictures. It was really difficult because it was dark and people moved fast. After I went throug it a guy stopped my and told me that I'm not allowed to go around there and to take pictures of people and asked me to show him a written permisson that I'm allowed to take pictures there.

I explained to him that this is not true. And reading up about it now a little bit the only thing I can't do with my pictures is to use them as or within advertising.

Anyway, I'm still really bad at it so I won't be releasing many of my street photos yet. This one was todays best.

I blogged about "Why I switched from OS X to Li...

2017-01-12T13:57:44Z

I blogged about "Why I switched from OS X to Linux" https://jeena.net/why-i-switchedfrom-osx-to-linux

Why I switched from OS X to GNU/Linux

2017-01-12T00:43:28Z

I'm not writing macOS because I switched before the new name came along. But let me start at the beginning.

History

My first computer was an Amiga, I got it when I was 12. At school the cool people had Amigas or Ataris, some had C64, the weird people had a PC with some Microsoft OS on it. I did some gaming on it but I also read the AMIGABasic programming book from back to back quite many times, that was the only source of information about programming for me back then. The book looked awfull after a while because the binding was really bad so in the end I had a couple of hundred pages loosly held together by a plastic bag.

But then puberty came along and I abondened computers compleatly. I had a moped, a car, went to techno clubs, organized underground parties (literally), and started playing bass in two bands. I had no need for a computer.

In the meantime the Internet happened. Therefor when I became 23 I decided that I also needed a computer to get on this Internet, I'd have a email address, so people could write me an email. I bought a used Fujitsu Simens/Nixdorf PC which came without an operating system. But back then there were those PC magazines you could buy and which came with a CD. On this CD, if you bought the right magazine, there was a Linux distribution, the one I got was Mandrake, I think it was some french distribution. I also bought a 56k modem.

I installed Mandrake and it worked ok, a bit different to the Amiga OS obviously but it also had a shell and it was more colorfull and came with more programs preinstalled. Sadly for the love of god I wasn't able to get the modem to do anything, I guess I didn't have a driver for this model and without Internet it wasn't possible to research it, oh and I was really bad in english, which didn't make things easier. So with a really bad feeling I installed this Microsoft OS, I think it was Windows 98, there the modem just worked. And because the hard drive was so small I wasn't able to dualboot.

It took me about 2 years to be in the position to install Linux, because the girl I was with also had her own computer which I could use for research during the installation, and I got ADSL and thus just got ethernet which just worked. I used a debian netinstall diskette to bootstrap the system. That was my first love affair with Linux which lasted for three years. I moved on to Gentoo and I also got a new used computer which Christian build from parts of other computers he had at home at that time. I was really happy about it and brought it by train from Dortmund in Germany to Varberg in Sweden, which is quite some ride.

Although Gentoo helped me to learn a lot about the system, it also had pain in the ass problems, the biggest was WiFI. Back then there was no NetworkManager and I didn't get how to set up wpa_supplicant during boot, yeah there was no SystemD either. I wasn't even able to automatically start X when the computer booted, it was a mess.

At the same time in the IRC channel I was, and actually still am since 2004, hanging out, people were getting PowerBooks and MacBooks and there was a magic around it. We even had a web-page which described who, when, got which Apple computer, It was always updated within hours after someone bought a new one.

I wanted one too, but I was poor, and those machines were expensive. I worked as a paperboy during the night and went to Swedish and Math school during the day. I was quite good in frontend webdevelopement, I knew a lot about semantic HTML and a great deal about CSS and all the browser quirks and how to fix them, so I was looking for a job.

I got one gig to translate some image files a media company did in Photoshop into HTML/CSS templates which they then would use in their CMS, and I got around 1000 EUR for that. This was my chanse, I wanted this MacBook computer so bad, it would be so awesome to have a good working computer. But I still didn't have enough money, so Christian offered to buy it because he had the possibility to get some discount, 10% or something, I don't quite remember.

Then he brought it, because he spent his vaccations visiting me and even recorded the unboxing, check this video out:

During the Mac years

I was really happy with what I bought, it also gave me more confidence that I would be able to work as a frontend web developer, because I did manage this one gig and they even send the money so I could buy something for it which I wouldn't be able had I just had the paperboy work which payed really shitty. With the new found confidence I got a real job at Infogate in Halmstad which was 80km away from Varberg but had a train connection, so I could commute every day.

At Infogate they asked me which computer I'd like to have and there was only one guy there who didn't have a Windows Dell, it was Mathias, who I later worked with at his company Odelay. Anyway, he had a MacBook because he was the design guy, so I thought if he can have one then they already somehow got everything working for him so it won't be too complicated for me. Therefor I told them I'd like a MacBook too, because that is what I'm used to work on.

The love affair with OS X

It was awesome, TextMate, Desktop Manager, iTerm2, CocoaMySQL, Lightroom, Photoshop, iTunes (which I basically only used to listen to music), Xcode which I used to work on iPhone OS apps as one of the first people in Sweden professionally. At Odelay we obviously got new MacBooks and iMacs, new iPhones every year, etc. I was full in in the whole eco system.

But after 5-6 years in, I started seeing cracks, first small, they introduced Spaces and Desktop Manager wasn't working anymore, thus I wasn't able to change the speed with which I would change between virtual desktops, which were a central peace in my workflow. Then they introduced iCloud into TextEditor and instead of starting it and you could instantly write, which I used often to take notes, you had to create a file first, so every time this one extra step which I hated. I hated it so much that I rewrote TextEditor myself, so it would work like it did before with plain text: TextEd. iTunes started to getting out of controll, was it a fish, or meat or a plane, or everything in between?

And it got worse and worse with time, I wanted my computer to work a certain way, and it often worked that way before, then came a OS X update and made it impossible to keep my workflow.

ThinkPad time

When I stopped working at Odelay I gave back my MacBook but bought out the iMac, but I needed a laptop for university. Goetz Buerkle always had a MacBook and a ThinkPad and was telling only good things about the ThinkPad as a work machine. I asked around and other people told me about it's great Linux support. Because I was a student without a job I didn't really have the money to buy a (used) MacBook anyway, so I thought I would give Linux a chance again. Especially because at the university almost all the computers were running Red Hat Linux so I wouldn't have any problems to do the assignments and stuff. Therefor I bought a used ThinkPad T410.

This machine was from 2010 I just replaced it half a year ago, it was like a tank, robust as hell and it made possible what I would not have dreamt of during my MacBook years, if something broke down, I myself was able to repair it! Repairing the fan, Fixing the overheating sound card, etc.

Oh and I don't have my iMac anymore either, which I used as a desktop computer at home if I wanted to have a bigger screen, for example for Lightroom when dealing with my pictures, or just listening to music. I don't have it because I got robbed, and they took it together with my Nikon D5000 and the podcasting equipment. I was much more upset that they took the camera, the iMac was kind of 'meh whatever', I didn't use it for much anyway because it was so inconvinient.

Second love affair with Linux

After I was done with my studies at the university I wanted to work for some company which worked with Open Source, I started at Pelagicore, where I still work. There we are creating custom Linux distributions for car manufacturers, we do UI work, we write Linux drivers, Linux middleware and so on. Because we work with Linux it is much more convinient to run Linux nativelly for developement too. At Pelagicore (almost) all developers work on Linux desktops and laptops, I felt that I fit right in with my ThinkPad. And this was also why I used my iMac less and less, everybody around me was using Linux, it became cumbersome to do the overhead to get stuff running on the iMac which I already had running at work and on my laptop on Linux.

I started with Ubuntu, but quite fast switched to Debian testing with Gnome 3 because I learned about how Canonical treats everyone, their users (the [Amazon problem (http://www.zdnet.com/article/shuttleworth-defends-ubuntu-linux-integrating-amazon/) with Unity Dash search results, problems with their Intellectual Property Policy, etc.) It also helped that there was Jeremiah, who evangalizes debian day in day out at work.

In between I wanted to try out Arch Linux so I installed it on my ThinkPad, and man this was a performance boost, it felt like a new machine in comperison to Ubuntu. Nowadays I run Arch at work too. For stuff which doesn't work, like some specific version of Yocto, I wrap it into a docker container with a Ubuntu image for compatibility.

What I use

I was mostly using free software on OS X already like Firefox, LibreOffice, Emacs, but it still took some work to find out what would work for each and every use case I had working on OS X. Therefor here a list of what I used back then and what I use now:

Usecase	OS X	Linux	Comment
Listening to music	iTunes	GNOME Music	It has a simmular UI for the albums.
Cutting pictures	Photoshop	Gimp	It's not super nice but I do really basically only cut pictures.
Text editor	TextMate / Sublime Text	Emacs	The learning curve is steep but it's so much more powerfull.
Editing RAW pictures	Lightroom	Darktable	In my opinion the UI isn't as slick but it's so much more powerfull, and their blog where they explain how they implemented things is super awesome.
Audio processing	Ableton live	Ardour	It's really awesome but the whole jack vs. pulseaudio is not.
Writing iso to USB stick	dd	GNOME Disks	The UI is so much safer, I love it.
IRC Chat	Textual	HexChat	Much more stable.
Email	Mail.app	Thunderbird	This one is not as nice, but I haven't found anything better.
Calendar	iCal	GNOME Calendar	It's getting better but still lacks the day and week view, which is really bad.
Address book	Address Book	GNOME Contacts	Sadly really really shitty.
Terminal	iTerm2	Terminator	It has better features which I use every day.
Reading RSS feeds	Reeder	FeedTheMonkey	This one I wrote myself, I actually wrote it myself partially on the iMac, but cross OS compatible with Qt.
Tweeting	Twitter for Mac	Website	I basically stopped using Twitter, so I'm not looking for a replacement.
Password manager		KeePass2 X	I didn't use any before.
Letting the computer read an article for me	Speaker	TypeTalk	On OS X I had my own app I wrote, on Linux I found TypeTalk, which didn't quite work as I wanted, but I worked with the developer and he implemented my feature requests.

Ardour

GNOME Calendar

GNOME Contacts

Darktable

Disks

Emacs

HexChat

KeePassX 2

GNOME Music

Termitator

TypeTalk

So why did I switch?

I think it started with some dissatisfaction about OS X, and the disire to be, at least in theory, able to change things so they would work like I want them to. This translates directly to the GPL, which is the license most of those programs I use use. Add to that the feeling of membership, because everyone at work is using Linux and also pride and curiousity, I am able to, and am doing it sometimes too look behind the scenes, direcly at the code of everything. This was not possible on OS X at all. And top it off with the fact that I can use Linux on so many different hardware, my laptop, my desktop at work, the security cam I'm running in Poland, the Raspberry Pi, embeded devices in the car (selfdriving cars anyone?), on the phone, on my router, and so on.

All this together is right now so compelling that macOS doesn't stand a chance.

Yesterday it started to snow and I went out to ...

2017-01-05T09:53:40Z

Yesterday it started to snow and I went out to shoot some photos. Seing me with my big ass cammera a coworker approached me and asked me to take a photo of her because it was her first snow ever and I guess she wanted to send some home :)

And obviously it's much more fun to shoot with models than just dead objects ;).

So Medium is laying off 1/3 of their work force...

2017-01-05T09:18:01Z

So Medium is laying off 1/3 of their work force https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.n8mfrybjq

I'm not judging, because I think they're right, they need to refocus back to something else and not go the Ads revenue row like everybody else because it's a dead end for them.

But this reminds us that even the most promissing companies will need to refocus and you always should own your own content on your own domain so you don't lose the URLs to your articles.

Here is a album full of this christmas' picture...

2017-01-03T22:35:58Z

Here is a album full of this christmas' pictures, for everyone interested https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/albums/72157676413839302

(Special in Polish) Childhood during WW2 - Herbert

2017-01-01T12:51:52Z

Some special content and this time it's in Polish, I'm interviewing my granddad about his childhood during WW2.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

** Schema
*** Kiedy i kaj sie urodzil
**** Ojciec & Matka
***** Co robili
****** Maszynka do Pieniendzy w studni
****** Zemby
****** Krawcowa
**** Bracia i Siostry
*** Co pamientosz najwczesniejsze
*** Przetszkole
*** Szkola
**** Niemiecko
**** Hitler Jugend
**** Polsko
**** Gimnasium
**** Zawodowo
*** Wojna
**** Co robil
**** Kaj byl
**** Jak to bylo
**** Jedzenie
**** Higiena
*** Rosja
**** Kaj
**** Krowy
**** Piechty
***** Fura
****** Wszy
**** Pociagiem
*** Co sie stalo po wojnie?
**** Matka i Siostra w Niemcach
***** Krawcowa szyla
**** Ojciec w wienzieniu
**** Som kaj byl?
*** Wojsko Polskie
**** Jak dlugo
**** Co tam robil
*** Babcia
**** Kaj poznol
**** Kiedy sie orzenili
***** W munduze
**** MZ Motor
***** Kaj jezdzili? Basia, Kolonie
*** Haupa i Dzieci
**** Kiedy dostali
**** Kiedy budowano byla?
*** Robota
**** Jak jom dostol
**** Wypadek

Happy new year, I tried fireworks photography t...

2017-01-01T01:10:01Z

Happy new year, I tried fireworks photography tonight ;)

My niece is growing so fast, here she is with h...

2016-12-29T23:01:37Z

My niece is growing so fast, here she is with her dad.

Today I was in Königsberg (in Franconia) to do ...

2016-12-29T20:17:55Z

Today I was in Königsberg (in Franconia) to do some landscape photography.

Personally I really like that so many things are going on in this picture. The sun on the left which is glowing and making everything in the picture golden, The small town at the bottom. The fields with crops and the solar system in the middle. The hills on the horizon. The big wind turbines and the small clouds just above them. The "chemtrails" and their airplanes all over the sky. And as a last thing on the right the half-timbered house with its red roof.

Hartleb beer from a microbrewery in Maroldsweis...

2016-12-28T18:38:42Z

Hartleb beer from a microbrewery in Maroldsweisach. You can't get it in other bottles than those big 3 liter ones, in a barrel or directly in their bar.

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/146

2016-12-26T00:01:41Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/146

The yearly christmas photo, this year for the f...

2016-12-24T23:12:58Z

The yearly christmas photo, this year for the first time my niece :)

Merry Christmas everyone! Me and my brother ...

2016-12-24T18:55:29Z

Merry Christmas everyone!

Me and my brother performing "Leise rieselt der Schnee"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoL1ZYtnu9U

Lots of people commute from Varberg to Gothenbu...

2016-12-22T07:28:34Z

Lots of people commute from Varberg to Gothenburg, which is about 80km away, by train.

I just gave a talk about the IndieWeb at work, ...

2016-12-20T14:47:49Z

I just gave a talk about the IndieWeb at work, check out the slides: https://jeena.net/media/2016/IndieWeb-Jeena.pdf

I'm really excited, I finally bought a new came...

2016-12-16T11:49:44Z

I'm really excited, I finally bought a new camera! I wanted to go full frame so I had to invest a lot more money, but I am hoping this will be worth it. I just got it yesterday and I feel that I have to relearn a lot of things. But the picture quality is fenomenal and once I get used to it I'll beable to become a even better photographer.

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/december-in-lisbon

2016-12-13T02:48:05Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/december-in-lisbon

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/283

2016-12-13T02:47:30Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/283

Good news! "Vinyl sales made more than download...

2016-12-06T18:40:57Z

Good news! "Vinyl sales made more than downloads last week" http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38221420 I'm one of those people helping with that.

Today I'm making a traditional Silesian thing w...

2016-12-04T12:24:51Z

Today I'm making a traditional Silesian thing which is kind of like a sausage but not really, the first step, and appearantelly the secret, is to make as a good soup as possible. The main ingrediance is a pigs head.

I like the idea of IndieWeb commitments: https:...

2016-12-01T07:10:36Z

I like the idea of IndieWeb commitments: https://indieweb.org/2017-01-01-commitments

Therefor I commit to implementing and hardening salmentions https://indieweb.org/Salmentions on my website during 2017. I also have a issue in my bugtracker for that: https://github.com/jeena/jeena.net/issues/24

Every other week at work we gathe for a "fika" ...

2016-11-26T22:50:18Z

Every other week at work we gathe for a "fika" which is a special Swedish word which means 'having coffe' but not necessarily literarly coffe but often something sweet like cake and something to drink like coffe, tee or the like and just socialice for a short time like half an hour or something.

We do this in the platform team where I work at our custommers office with the people in the team. Se every other week someone else brings something and this week it was my turn.

I wanted to bring something special and I knew exactly what, it's in the picture and it's called "Kołocz z makiem" which is like a cake with poppy seeds and very popular in Upper Silecia where I am from. Mostly it is served on weddings and other big celebrations.

Sadly here in Sweden you only can get 25g packages of poppy seeds, while I needed 1kg of them, so I had to import them from Poland last time I was there.

Just for reference, I used this recipe: http://domowacukierniaewy.blox.pl/2013/11/Kolocz-z-makiem.html

Are you a developer on OS X? "Nobody was aware ...

2016-11-25T07:35:45Z

Are you a developer on OS X? "Nobody was aware of the fact that data is being send to Google every time you execute a command with brew." via https://tobiastom.name/notes/7a79eed0

I just arrived at this sureal end of YouTube ht...

2016-11-23T20:59:58Z

I just arrived at this sureal end of YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm2C_pnaz-4 again.

I bought one of those smart light bulbs http://...

2016-11-17T17:25:06Z

I bought one of those smart light bulbs http://www.yeelight.com/en_US/product/wifi-led-w and you can use them offline via WiFi but the first time you have to connect with their special app. So I wanted to install it and it needs all of those permissions:

Device & app history | wtf, why??
Identity | what are they doing?
Location | do they want to visit me?
Photos/Media/Files | wait, they want to make a backup of all my pictures and videos?
Camera | do they want to watch me sleep?
Microphone | and listen to when I'm at the toilet?
Wifi connection | finally something they really need to connect to the bulp
Bluetooth connection information | what? There is no bluetooth chip anyware near the bulp!
Device ID & call information | they really need to know who I'm calling while I switch off my light?
Other | I don't even want to know ...

All I want is my light bulp to connect to my internal wifi-network and to give it the password so it can log in. This should be a one time thing and should never involve the microphone or the pictures I have on my phone.

So somehow I was able to fuck up all my 3 compu...

2016-11-14T08:13:38Z

So somehow I was able to fuck up all my 3 computers which I have at home.

The one from work where I had debian on tells me it can't boot into Arch.

On my new one I tried to install Windows for gaming which first fucked up everything but I was able to fix that. Windows and Arch booted fine, windows can't find wifi and ethernet, I run an update on arch now the login screen doesn't come up and it can't find any network adapters. But on the arch live CD everything works great.

On my old laptop suddenly no wifi password works anymore even though they are correct. But at least ethernet works so I can try to find sollutions.

This will take a lot of time to fix.

Today we went to the University to talk to inte...

2016-11-10T20:52:31Z

Today we went to the University to talk to interested students who might want to do their master thesis together with us or perhaps even work with us. It was very interesting to see what people are looking for.

"It's Trump"

2016-11-09T08:07:50Z

"It's Trump"

I always liked jazz, but never had bought a jaz...

2016-11-04T19:59:52Z

I always liked jazz, but never had bought a jazz album because I always thought it was good for a couple of minutes but then it was too exhausting to listen to for a longer period of time. But what you can see on the picture is officially the first jazz album I own.

Snarky Puppy's "Culcha Vulcha" which they released this year. This really resonates with me, it's jazz with many electronic instruments and it dances inbetween jazz, fusion jazz and pop but without a singer.

I found them because I listen to the WTF Podcast with Marc Maron who most often interviews comics but sometimes also musical artists. A couple of weeks ago he had David Crosby on, and he spoke very highly about Snarky Puppy so I checked them out on YouTube, where nowadays I find all my new music btw.

Check them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXJs5IsQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnNqHTVFk8c

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/266

2016-10-27T16:08:28Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/266

I always had the feeling but never could point ...

2016-10-23T11:52:56Z

I always had the feeling but never could point to any reasearch: "Internet trolls are even more hostile when they’re using their real names, a study finds"

http://qz.com/741933/internet-trolls-are-even-more-hostile-when-theyre-using-their-real-names-a-study-finds/

After 8 years, I bought it in 2008, my 24" scre...

2016-10-22T14:35:27Z

After 8 years, I bought it in 2008, my 24" screen died. It was a BenQ G2400W https://www.amazon.com/BenQ-G2400W-24-inch-LCD-Monitor/dp/B000XUU5LG/

I think it's quite ok, I've used it almost every single day for several hours, especially during the time I worked from home for 5 years. It was really cheap, I think I paid less than 350 EUR for it in 2008.

So now it's time for a new one and I have to say that I'm disapointed, especially about the sizes and prices in comperison to what you could get 8 years ago. Do you have any tipps on sceens with good value?

Interesting, this story is the real world scena...

2016-10-14T06:11:35Z

Interesting, this story is the real world scenario which actually happened. And those things are why I couldn't get me to invest in developing for iOS. In short, the iOS is a walled garden, users and devs are just visitors and the host, Apple, can decide who can get in or has to go out. They can do it for whatever reason, independent of if the visitors agree or not.

This is what happened: https://blog.kapeli.com/apple-removed-dash-from-the-app-store

This is how other devs ('addicted to'/'depending off' Apple) see it: https://marco.org/2016/10/10/dash-app-removal

More info: https://blog.kapeli.com/dash-and-apple-my-side-of-the-story

Like https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4jnNjD/

2016-10-13T21:04:55Z

Jeena ♥ https://waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4jnNjD/

Like http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2016/10/09/an-emacs-update/

2016-10-13T20:53:41Z

Jeena ♥ http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2016/10/09/an-emacs-update/

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/136

2016-10-13T19:02:59Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/136

Göteborg ✈️ Kraków, to meet my niece again! Jus...

2016-10-07T10:33:50Z

Göteborg ✈️ Kraków, to meet my niece again! Just a short trip over a long weekend.

Today I will be speaking about IndieWeb at the ...

2016-10-06T06:36:11Z

Today I will be speaking about IndieWeb at the PHP meetup in Gothenburg https://www.meetup.com/PHP-Goteborg/events/234196466/

Wow, what a great idea! "EU plans to give fr...

2016-10-03T07:19:25Z

Wow, what a great idea!

"EU plans to give free Interrail pass to every 18-year-old in Europe on their birthday" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/interrail-passes-free-eu-parliament-debate-europe-train-tickets-a7339466.html

"... Such a programme would give all young people, regardless of their social or educational background, the opportunity to discover Europe’s diversity, and promote Interrail travel as a pragmatic way of reducing Europe’s carbon footprint." http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bOQ%2bO-2016-000117%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/09/29/13/

2016-09-30T20:08:18Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/09/29/13/

Todays company event was Laser Tag, appearently...

2016-09-28T20:16:45Z

Todays company event was Laser Tag, appearently the game is played since 1979, it was more fun that I thought it would be.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/248

2016-09-22T07:35:25Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/248

Like http://known.kevinmarks.com/2016/valid-the-impaler

2016-09-22T07:34:22Z

Jeena ♥ http://known.kevinmarks.com/2016/valid-the-impaler

Which of those two is more funny?

2016-09-19T10:36:25Z

Which of those two is more funny?

Jay Z about how big of a epic fail the war on d...

2016-09-18T21:22:52Z

Jay Z about how big of a epic fail the war on drugs is in the US https://static01.nyt.com/video/players/offsite/index.html?videoId=100000004642370

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/245

2016-09-12T11:42:02Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/245

The clock I had in the kitchen is still good bu...

2016-09-11T08:42:38Z

The clock I had in the kitchen is still good but the paper with the numbers started curling and stopping the clock.

This is why I decided to make my own, and I have no idea what Warios brother is called.

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/09/08/11/streampdx

2016-09-09T21:01:04Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/09/08/11/streampdx

I'm the Godfather now.

2016-09-04T17:31:45Z

I'm the Godfather now.

Feel like a jetsetter, on the plane to Zürich f...

2016-09-02T12:36:40Z

Feel like a jetsetter, on the plane to Zürich for a long weekend to attend my first nieces baptism :)

It's this time of the month again, a new episod...

2016-09-01T14:48:31Z

It's this time of the month again, a new episode of my podcast 'Jeenas Excellent Encounters' is out!

This time we are talking about a kind of a heavy topic, adoption and how it affects the children and everyone around.

Check it out at: https://jeena.net/pods/5

Like http://known.kevinmarks.com/2016/how-are-you-damping-echoes

2016-08-30T06:35:05Z

Jeena ♥ http://known.kevinmarks.com/2016/how-are-you-damping-echoes

So, after 16 hours in the car yesterday traveli...

2016-08-29T08:27:33Z

So, after 16 hours in the car yesterday traveling from Tärnaby to Varberg, I'm back at work today. It was an awesome holiday.

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/27/8/

2016-08-28T22:10:01Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/08/27/8/

Adoption - Emilie & Kim

2016-08-27T16:00:58Z

This time we are talking about a kind of a heavy topic, adoption and how it affects the children and everyone around.

In this podcast:

My prepared notes

These are the notes I have made during preperation, we often don't follow them exactly but they help to follow the conversation.

*** Intro
**** Where are you from? Where do you live now?
**** How old were you when you got adopted/foster family?
**** Your occupation?
*** Adoption
**** Difference between adoption and a foster family?
**** Why?
***** Who adopts?
****** Family members?
******* New partner
****** Strangers
****** From a different country
**** How?
***** Open vs. closed adoption
****** Child knows who biological parents are
****** Child doesn't know
***** Foster care adoption
****** Many children
***** Embryo adoption
***** Money for children
***** Celebreties
**** Fraud
***** Forced adoption during war, 200k polish children to german
adoptive parents
*** Effects on adoptees
**** Identity crisis
***** lack of medical history
***** broken thread of family continuity
**** Parent-infant system
***** Nature ensures some initial flexibility with respect to the
adults who take on the parental role
*** Effects on the biological parents
**** Do they miss their kids
**** Regret
*** Adoptive parents
**** Parenting
**** Relationship
**** No accidental kids
*** Siblings
**** How is the bond during childhood?
**** How is it in your adult life?
*** Reunion with biological parents?
**** What would you ask?

Ok granted, it's not the biggest fish ever coug...

2016-08-27T02:33:45Z

Ok granted, it's not the biggest fish ever cought, but it is how I got it is the interesting story. After almost a week of hiking to the farest lakes in the mountains at one of the last days we geared up, new fishing lures were bought, we rented twe boats and went on a big lake.

Half of the day nothing. After we made fire on a island and Martin cooked an amazing goulash it started to rain, everything was wet but we didn't give up. On the hours long way back we didn't rush back to tho car, we played it cool, and it was really cool, the rain was pouring and the could wind was mercilessly whiping our faces.

Just about half an hour away from the car suddenly a "wohooo!!" from both bots, both of us who haven't had a fish yet got one at the exact same time! Coincidence? I don't know.

Look at our camp and our tents from the other s...

2016-08-25T17:57:23Z

Look at our camp and our tents from the other side of the lake!

While I was watching the sunrise I saw a albino...

2016-08-25T17:37:26Z

While I was watching the sunrise I saw a albino rendeer on the other side of the lake, it was still quite dark but through the lens of the camera I was able to see that it wasn't alone. I went to the other side but when they saw me they went away.

So I decided to go after them and it took me two hours to get close enough (and back to camp), but it was worth it because I crossed way with many herds like the one in the picture.

I went up at 4:30 to see the sunrise in the mou...

2016-08-25T17:02:58Z

I went up at 4:30 to see the sunrise in the mountains. It was definatelly worth it but it's impossible to capture something like that on film.

Amazing nature and I'm not kidding, there is no...

2016-08-25T16:43:39Z

Amazing nature and I'm not kidding, there is no place here without mushrooms, they're everywhere!

The last two days on the fells (which are mount...

2016-08-25T16:31:33Z

The last two days on the fells (which are mountains rising above the alpine tree line), sleeping outside by one of the many lakes. It took us about four hours to get there. In this picture we're about 15 minutes away from our destination, the lake you can see in the background.

First day, no fish to be seen yet. We found lot...

2016-08-23T07:05:05Z

First day, no fish to be seen yet. We found lot's of mushrooms, drank the water from the sea, which was delicious, and it was really quiet.

Just arrived in Tärnaby, this is our home for a...

2016-08-21T21:52:27Z

Just arrived in Tärnaby, this is our home for a week of fishing and hiking.

Something like that happened to me too: www.oma...

2016-08-19T21:50:27Z

Something like that happened to me too: www.omaha.com/news/metro/omaha-dad-finds-pot-brownies-eats-of-them-says-mean/article_385099cc-649c-11e6-86a8-4728d60cb7fe.html

On my lil-sisters 18th birthday I didn't drink anything because I had to work at 5 in the morning. She had a big party with live bands and stuff. I helped out a lot with all the tech stuff during the day and evening. Once almost everyone was gone I was looking for something to eat and found cupcakes, which she got frome her best friend who was a cook, they wele dellicous!

Then I slept for 3 hours on a table which was tilted to the left a bit, but it was the only place I could get some sleap before work. When I woke up and tried to walk I too tilted to the left but didn't know why, I assumed because of the table I was sleeping on.

A couple of her friends were dirving my way so they took me with them so I could get to work, but becaule I always fell to the left they had to grab me a bit and help me on the way. I was thinking that this was super strange because I didn't drink a drop of alcohol the night before. At work it took a couple of hours before I stopped falling slightly to the left.

Anyway a couple of weeks later she was telling me about those special cupcakes. I ate four of them because I was so hungry.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/238

2016-08-16T16:01:33Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/238

And my vaccation has begun.

2016-08-08T08:21:22Z

And my vaccation has begun.

Check out the guys who inspired me to record my...

2016-08-03T18:52:29Z

Check out the guys who inspired me to record my own Podcast. They interview creatives, makers and creators: http://montrealsauce.com/

They mentioned me in a blogpost too: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jeenas-excellent-6467133

Like http://notenoughneon.com/2016/7/31/1

2016-08-01T17:55:53Z

Jeena ♥ http://notenoughneon.com/2016/7/31/1

Like https://wwwtech.de/articles/2016/jul/my-personal-mail-setup

2016-08-01T07:58:41Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/articles/2016/jul/my-personal-mail-setup

Like http://notenoughneon.com/2016/7/27/1

2016-07-28T10:07:17Z

Jeena ♥ http://notenoughneon.com/2016/7/27/1

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/118

2016-07-24T21:20:19Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/118

A new version of my feed reader is out, I added...

2016-07-22T21:51:13Z

A new version of my feed reader is out, I added full screen and a night mode. I also relicensed it from BSD to GPL v3 and fixed some long standing bugs. https://github.com/jeena/FeedTheMonkey/releases/tag/v2.2.0

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/07/16/8/geotagging-photos

2016-07-17T08:53:55Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/07/16/8/geotagging-photos

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/07/15/5/

2016-07-16T10:07:59Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/07/15/5/

It's time for the second episode of "Jeenas Exc...

2016-07-16T09:57:11Z

It's time for the second episode of "Jeenas Excellent Encounters", this time with me Kristofer and Markus who are really in to Retrogames. They are also two of those who organise the yearly Retrospelsmässan in Gothenburg with several thousends visitors.

So I hope you have fun listening and don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed in yor podcast manager app, so you wan't miss the next episode.

https://jeena.net/pods/2

Everyone! I am making a Podcast! And I call it:...

2016-07-15T16:09:17Z

Everyone! I am making a Podcast! And I call it: "Jeenas Excellent Encounters" It's a podcast about me, meeting interestingg people and interviewing them about a topic close to their heart.

The first episode with Jeremiah is out now, where we speak about his career as a cook in New York and his transition into a Free and Open Source evangelist: https://jeena.net/pods/1

Two more will be released this weekend. You can listen and subscribe to them on https://jeena.net/pods and I wrote a longer blog post where I explain everything in more detail too: https://jeena.net/jee-podcast

Feel free to share so I can reach people who are interested in somethng like this :) And of course any kind of feedback is welcome too, public and private.

Jeenas Excellent Encounters

2016-07-14T22:14:16Z

And now for the great reveal: I am producing my own podcast and I call it "Jeenas Excellent Encounters". It is not about a specific topic but instead the premisse is a bit like Seinfelds "Comedians in Cars getting coffe" which I always enjoyed.

I know a lot of interesting people who have a story to tell, so I try to get together with them for about an hour and record me basically interviewing them about a topic in which they are involved a lot.

As for right now I have four episodes recorded. The first is a Free and Open Source evangelist, then I talked to two guys about retro games, after that someone who is a real clown and the last one yet was about the sport roller derby. So you see it's a big mix and I already have more interesting people like that in my pipeline.

The recording is super fun but to be honest, I wasn't aware of all the work which you have around that from finding a date where everybody is able to participate, then traveling there and home, setting everything up for the recording, the website, artwork, jingle, iTunes and so on and so on. That is why it took me more than three months of preparation already, I tried to hint a bit back then.

Tools I use

My first set of hardware which I prepared for this got stolen, so I had to buy new stuff, and I dicided to go a bit bigger. I bought two large diaphragm condenser microphones, which were suprisingly cheap for how much better the sound gets. I also bought the Zoom R16 multi track recorder, so I can record without a computer which I really like.

Mostly I am trying to record the whole interview in just one take. I later use the free software Ardour to cut off the start and end, and fix things if I happened to fuck something and need to join seperate files, etc. I also tried to make my own jingle but it never went well with the test audience, I'm just not good enough with music software to get something decent, so instead I contracted Rani Dar from Xperience Audio who mada a really awesome one!

My raw recorded sound quality is already really good, but before publication it still needs to be mastered. I tried to do that myself too with Ardour, but when I gave it to my test audience, together with a sample which was automatically mastered by this awesome service Auphonic, everyone was on the same page that they do it much much better. And it's quite cheap too, so I think I will be using that in the future too.

I also had to add a new part to my website where I put up all my podcasts and which creates the RSS feed which I can send to iTunes so people can search for it in different apps. Actually, if you like my podcast you should consider to subscribe to it in your podcast app for example on your phone, then it will download the newest episodes automatically and you won't miss any of them.

Publishing

I will publish the first three episodes this weekend, starting with the first with Jeremiah today, which you can get right now, the second tomorrow morning with Kristofer & Markus and the third with Rainbow on Sunday.

After that I will try to publish on every first of a month a new episode, so you'll be able to hear Karolina on monday the 1st of august.

Feedback

I am super excited to get any kind of feedback, personally, via email to hello@jeena.net, via Twitter: @jeena or Facebook or if you wrote a response on your own website you can let me know about it via the form under every episode.

2016-07-11T20:38:18Z

Jeena ♥ https://shitposter.club/notice/549851

Today a couple of coworkers who moved to Sweden...

2016-07-09T17:31:44Z

Today a couple of coworkers who moved to Sweden this year came down to Varberg and we had a really nice day at the coast/beach.

I just got those Bose QuietComfort 35 noise can...

2016-07-07T17:01:19Z

I just got those Bose QuietComfort 35 noise canceling headphones and I'm really suprised how good they are. On the train there are always loud people, at work we have a big room where almost everybody sits, and I get really easy distracted by something like this. I only tested it a little bit but for now I'm impressed.

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/07/03/3/

2016-07-04T22:25:40Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/07/03/3/

I'm looking for a new laptop and comparing the ...

2016-06-28T21:31:35Z

I'm looking for a new laptop and comparing the CPUs, the nubers tell me nothing http://ark.intel.com/compare/88194,47341

What the heck is going on? Watching the Ben Hec...

2016-06-26T08:55:31Z

What the heck is going on? Watching the Ben Heck Show and suddenly I see my own brother in it! https://youtu.be/FnPf6xO0uuQ?t=1m51s

Like http://petergiuliano.tumblr.com/post/22177089634/why-you-should-stop-cold-brewing-and-use-the

2016-06-25T09:01:16Z

Jeena ♥ http://petergiuliano.tumblr.com/post/22177089634/why-you-should-stop-cold-brewing-and-use-the

Like https://lukasrosenstock.net/post/69501179

2016-06-24T07:56:51Z

Jeena ♥ https://lukasrosenstock.net/post/69501179

Like https://ben.thatmustbe.me/note/2016/6/24/1/

2016-06-24T07:56:20Z

Jeena ♥ https://ben.thatmustbe.me/note/2016/6/24/1/

Like http://veganstraightedge.com/notes/2016/06/22/my-indiewebcamp-logo-in-pulsing-red-light

2016-06-23T18:04:00Z

Jeena ♥ http://veganstraightedge.com/notes/2016/06/22/my-indiewebcamp-logo-in-pulsing-red-light

Like http://veganstraightedge.com/notes/2016/06/22/my-indiewebcamp-logo-embroidered-on-a-tote-bag-by-sfeldeu

2016-06-23T18:03:52Z

Jeena ♥ http://veganstraightedge.com/notes/2016/06/22/my-indiewebcamp-logo-embroidered-on-a-tote-bag-by-sfeldeu

I really would love this open source alternativ...

2016-06-23T16:18:29Z

I really would love this open source alternative to Siri/Cortana/Echo which is called Mycroft to work, it doesn't even have to be as good as the closed source alternatives. Sadly the, in my eyes most important, speech to text component is just an empty repo on Github https://github.com/MycroftAI/openstt

It doesn't say it on the website but I have been listening to a couple of podcasts where their CEO was on and when asked, he told them that they'll be using Google for that.

Don't get me wrong, there is a lot more to this system than speach to text, but if everything I am saying is going to a 3rd party server then the whole free software thing seems meaningless.

You never see as many Swedes at the train stati...

2016-06-23T15:42:56Z

You never see as many Swedes at the train station as on the Thursday before midsummer, the same with Systembolaget where you can buy alcohol.

Like http://julieannenoying.com/2016/06/20/happy-birthday-microformats/

2016-06-21T16:55:36Z

Jeena ♥ http://julieannenoying.com/2016/06/20/happy-birthday-microformats/

Like http://tantek.com/2016/173/b1/microformats-org-at-11

2016-06-21T13:41:12Z

Jeena ♥ http://tantek.com/2016/173/b1/microformats-org-at-11

Music and Artwork

2016-06-19T20:18:28Z

When I listen to music I almost always do it in a specific way, I listen to whole albums. Sadly most of the music players don't really offer me a good looking and easy way to consume my music like that. Most of them just offer me a lot of lists of text, like for example Rhythmbox or Winamp:

But when it comes to music I'm much more a visual person who really likes the artwork which comes with every album. That is also why I don't mind paying double the price when I buy an album, just to get the vinyl version which always has the big and beautiful artwork. Often you can even open it and it gets double the sice. This is such an awesome playground for graphics artists!

Look what for example Turbonegro did with their vinyl artwork for Ass Cobra, the Norwegian punk rock band's 1996 studio album, their third full-length:

When you open the artwork ..., or let me instead quote one reviewer:

"The photograph included in the middle of the booklet portrays singer Hank Von Helvete (Norwegian for Hell) at his chubby splendor, laying on some cheap carpet, naked and striking a pose typical of cheap European porn, only a snake is strategically placed to cover his genitals, thank god." Full review

And the photographer Morten Andersen remembers it like this:

"... so we found a dirty matress and Hank had to lay down naked like Nastasja Kinski in the famous 80's poster by Richard Avedon ... the snake wouldn't lay still so I only got to take 2 exposures before it was away. The owner said it was no danger, but when I turned around he was wet by sweat and shaking and said the snake hadn't been eating for weeks !"

You can't do anything like that with a mp3, and as gross you might find that, this is real art.

Now with this background you might understand why I really dislike the text only approach for a music collection. Which is why while everybody was hating on the iTunes rewrite a couple of years ago, I myself really enjoyed it. I was finally able to browse my collection by artwork like I have always been doing with my analog collection.

Sure it's still not as enjoyable as my vinyl artwork because it is only one picture, just the front page, no lyrics, no posters which you cang hang on your walls, sice of the pictures seldom exceeds 512x512 px, but still, it's much better than just text.

After someone stole my iMac, my last Apple device, I was struggling to find a music player which lets me browse my collection by artwork, I've been using VLC and Rhythmbox (see the first picture).

Last year I've implemented a scaled down media player at work for Neptune, which is a example QtAutomotive UI you can see it a bit in action in this video, but sadly my version didn't end up in there, because I used the wrong backend at that time. Anyway, I know how to do it, this was already my second media player, the first one was a OS X native client for SoundCloud which I called Tonality. This one never was published either because as always when you try to build something as a 3rd party on top of another companies APIs they change them in a way that your app can't use them anymore. But here is at least a screenshot:

As you can see, I really like my music players to have big and beautiful artworks. One time in the future I sure will write my own music player but today I at least found a Linux app which lets me browse my collection like iTunes did, it's called Gnome Music and looks like this:

Wow, I'm super impressed of the automatic live ...

2016-06-18T15:51:03Z

Wow, I'm super impressed of the automatic live Skype translation. It listens to what you say and then translates it and speaks it in the other language. And it's quite fast too.

Nobody wants to work when there is beer and foo...

2016-06-17T14:42:43Z

Nobody wants to work when there is beer and football on the agenda.

Like http://notenoughneon.com/2016/6/13/building-a-dsl-for-the-indieweb

2016-06-15T21:19:00Z

Jeena ♥ http://notenoughneon.com/2016/6/13/building-a-dsl-for-the-indieweb

Like http://veganstraightedge.com/notes/2016/06/14/venmosupport-im-not-confused-im-reporting-it-as-a-bug

2016-06-15T21:12:40Z

Jeena ♥ http://veganstraightedge.com/notes/2016/06/14/venmosupport-im-not-confused-im-reporting-it-as-a-bug

Finally I can use my Intel compute stick for so...

2016-06-11T20:40:12Z

Finally I can use my Intel compute stick for something meaningfull, I can watch the football em on it because it is has a x86 prozessor it can run flash which in 2016 seems to be the only technology which is able to stream live video.

After 4 hours of teamwork of 22 people we manag...

2016-06-09T20:05:35Z

After 4 hours of teamwork of 22 people we managed to transform 20 kg of meat into beautifully crafted sausages. Now they're grilled and we're enjoying them with Czech and German beer and some sauerkraut.

My IndieWebCamp t-shirt with the new logo arriv...

2016-06-08T08:19:04Z

My IndieWebCamp t-shirt with the new logo arrived! But next time we need to get the logo vector files and do it in the EU. Because not only the shipping was more than the t-shirt but I also had to pay about 20 € in customs.

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/105

2016-06-07T21:32:18Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/105

There is one thing I miss which was much better...

2016-06-06T07:08:54Z

There is one thing I miss which was much better while I was working from home, the coffe. I make so much better coffy than all the machines at work, it makes me almost want to stop drinking coffe at work. Actually I basically have done that, while others drink between 3 and 8 cups I most days only get one coffe.

Like https://kylewm.com/2016/06/tantek-demos-a-js-dr-website-to-much-stifled-laughter-1

2016-06-05T09:43:36Z

Jeena ♥ https://kylewm.com/2016/06/tantek-demos-a-js-dr-website-to-much-stifled-laughter-1

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/06/02/14/

2016-06-03T06:25:15Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/06/02/14/

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/corks-backyards

2016-06-01T18:27:21Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/corks-backyards

Like http://www.pixelgraphix.de/artikel/little-kingfisher-10202

2016-05-31T21:27:40Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.pixelgraphix.de/artikel/little-kingfisher-10202

This weekend I spend somewhere in south Sweden ...

2016-05-29T17:51:04Z

This weekend I spend somewhere in south Sweden on a party where we went by a VW camper van built in 1977! I had the pleasure to drive it back home for two hours, it was awesome.

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/102

2016-05-28T12:30:30Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/102

Like http://gregorlove.com/2016/05/thats-numberwang/

2016-05-27T15:58:59Z

Jeena ♥ http://gregorlove.com/2016/05/thats-numberwang/

Like http://tantek.com/2016/147/t1/bright-day-serious-thoughts

2016-05-27T15:17:08Z

Jeena ♥ http://tantek.com/2016/147/t1/bright-day-serious-thoughts

@bagder we in the IndieWebCamp community use th...

2016-05-26T14:19:33Z

@bagder we in the IndieWebCamp community use the word 'curlable' http://indiewebcamp.com/curlable

Aarne Ranta about http://www.grammaticalframewo...

2016-05-26T14:04:40Z

Aarne Ranta about http://www.grammaticalframework.org/ some day I'd love to work with that.

Like https://tobiastom.name/notes/d1da85b5

2016-05-26T12:40:22Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/notes/d1da85b5

First woman speaker at #fossnorth2016 with a mu...

2016-05-26T12:09:33Z

First woman speaker at #fossnorth2016 with a much better designed presentation. Fonts, colors, images. That is why I love diversity.

Perhaps we should add a textarea to https://woo...

2016-05-26T11:31:02Z

Perhaps we should add a textarea to https://woodwind.xyz/ so one could initiate apost from it on their own website?

Learning about the NTP protocol at #fossnorth2016

2016-05-26T09:13:14Z

Learning about the NTP protocol at #fossnorth2016

Alessandro Rubini is a good speaker, adding a f...

2016-05-26T08:44:54Z

Alessandro Rubini is a good speaker, adding a funny joke every couple of sentences in his talk about 'time' at #fossnorth2016

Sitting at #fossnorth2016 which just started. I...

2016-05-26T07:46:42Z

Sitting at #fossnorth2016 which just started. Interesting stuff but also a bit too startup focused yet. But I think we'll do more interesting stuff soon :)

Like http://tantek.com/2016/144/t3/beach-bonfire-voiceover

2016-05-24T16:27:45Z

Jeena ♥ http://tantek.com/2016/144/t3/beach-bonfire-voiceover

Damn, something uncool happened tonight. Someon...

2016-05-23T05:34:31Z

Damn, something uncool happened tonight. Someone broke in into my appartment while I was sleeping and they stole my old shit. A 6-years old iMac, a soundcard, microphones, a 6-years old Nikkon D5000 and my shitty Jolla phone. Everything worth under 400 EUR, if you get it sold at all.

I have a backup of my data, and the password-keychain is behind the admin-password so I should be ok, but I didn't have a login password, which I guess I shold have had. Meh, a shitty way to start the week.

Yesterday I bought a new bicycle. I am more hea...

2016-05-22T11:08:46Z

Yesterday I bought a new bicycle. I am more heavy than most people, so I had to get a more stable one. This one is an old Swedish brand called Skeppshult http://www.skeppshult.se/en with a steel frame and more stable spokes. I hope it will not break like the cheap bicycles which I bought before, where after one year I had to buy a new one. Now I saved some money before I bought this one because it was quite expensive, I payed 750 EUR.

Like http://wiki.gkbrk.com/Hotel_Music.html

2016-05-21T20:33:37Z

Jeena ♥ http://wiki.gkbrk.com/Hotel_Music.html

Like http://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/05/couchsurfing

2016-05-21T07:29:16Z

Jeena ♥ http://rhiaro.co.uk/2016/05/couchsurfing

Just got some equipment for my next project.

2016-05-19T15:36:49Z

Just got some equipment for my next project.

The problem with imported Japanese Music is tha...

2016-05-17T02:53:33Z

The problem with imported Japanese Music is that it's difficult to remember the song names. In other news' my Maximum The Hormone CD arrived, it was really expensive, 35 EUR, but came with a comic book made by the guitar player, which I don't understand because it is in Japanese :p. But the music is so awesome it makes fully up for the high price :)

You don't see people often move from OS X to Wi...

2016-05-17T02:26:53Z

You don't see people often move from OS X to Windows (mostly they move to Linux), but Christopher did just that and blogged about it. That's an interesting read http://www.savethis.space/2016/woe-is-pc-not-quite

Like http://manoj.ninja/articles/2016/05/09/building-a-wearable-camera

2016-05-16T06:33:30Z

Jeena ♥ http://manoj.ninja/articles/2016/05/09/building-a-wearable-camera

Fix ThinkPad T410 speakers

2016-05-15T14:09:34Z

A couple of month ago I started to get problems with my ThinkPad T410 stopping playing sound through the speakers after a couple of minutes but still would work with my earphones without problems.

I then found out that I can get them back on by running:

sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x1f SET_POWER_STATE 0

which changes the power state to on again, so I did put that into a script and made a custon keyboard shortcut on F9 to get my sound back. Sadly the sound got only back for a short time and the time span got shorter and shorter.

So I searched more and after a long time I found out that someone who had the same problem with a different ThinkPad put a passive heat sink on the sound chip and the problem went away.

I found some passive heat sinks at our local electronics store which were advertised for the Raspberry Pi. I got them and opened my ThinkPad just to see that the sound card didn't look like the one the person linked and I couldn't find out which of all the chips was the audio chip on my motherboard.

Back to the search engine, and after some time I found a German blog which describes the same problem as I have and how to fix it on a T510 instead. But happily the guy wrote a lot and also mentioned the name of the sound chip, which is from Conexant and is called CX20585-11Z.

With this information I was able to find a Lenovo ThinkPad T410 Notebook Computer Teardown which has photos of the motherboard and points out what every chip is called. This way I found it on the bottom side of the motherboard, finally!

I put the small passive heat sink on it and run a test run, sadly no change, after a couple of minutes still the sound was gone. But the German guy put a big metal plate in there as the heat sink there so I still might have a chance with something bigger. When I touched the chip while running it was still really hot.

I took the bigger one and because I lacked a metal plate I took a beer can, cut and folded it once and put it in between the heat sink and the bottom plastic. Because I don't have a optical drive I had a lot of space nearby to put my new big aluminum plate to take away the heat from the chip and the heat sink passively.

Now I run it for more than an hour in full volume and every thing seems to work fine again!

I'm really happy to have gotten such an awesome laptop to be able to learn a lot about electronics with it. It is already 6 years old so I don't feel that once I break something it will be a big deal.

Like https://tobiastom.name/notes/ed6f642e

2016-05-14T18:50:19Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/notes/ed6f642e

I'm just back from watching the '84 movie "The ...

2016-05-14T13:28:05Z

I'm just back from watching the '84 movie "The Neverending Story" at my local cinema and man this movie is so good, and I have to say it is really worth it to watch it at the cinema. With the great sound rumbly bass and big screen it really is something special.

And the scene with Artax in the Swamp Of Sadness, it is such a good scene, it got me back then when I saw it the first time in the cinema when I was seven, I was in the middle of the swamp of sadness, so sad myself that I could feel myself sinking together with the horse. Same feeling today, such a good scene.

But you can't just watch the scene you have to watch how the movie portraits the friendship between Artax and Atreyu, and then loosing such a good friend to sadness/depression, this is some fucked up shit. I heard that in the book Artax speaks and you get to know why he is so sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geVYIHOat5o

I've been drinking Yogi Tea since more than a d...

2016-05-14T10:02:11Z

I've been drinking Yogi Tea since more than a decade ago, bit just a couple of days ago my sister told me that they have unique messages for you on every single tea bag. How could I have missed that for such a long time?

Like http://gregorlove.com/2016/05/missing-conversation/

2016-05-14T09:34:52Z

Jeena ♥ http://gregorlove.com/2016/05/missing-conversation/

So, finally i installed the BlockSite Firefox a...

2016-05-13T22:04:53Z

So, finally i installed the BlockSite Firefox addon to remove all links to medium.com because it bothers me that people don't use their own domains for publishing on the free web.

Normally I don't really agree (https://jeena.ne...

2016-05-13T07:04:21Z

Normally I don't really agree (https://jeena.net/comments/651) with how Marco Arment sees the podcasting world, but today I got suprised and his last blogpost (https://marco.org/2016/05/07/apple-role-in-podcasting) is like spoken from my heart, I fully agree with everything he says there. If you're a podcast listener, read it.

So far the best use of VR I've yet seen: https:...

2016-05-12T21:24:39Z

So far the best use of VR I've yet seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNk4XMlFsPQ

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/05/11/19/react

2016-05-11T18:58:13Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/05/11/19/react

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/05/11/5/klauen

2016-05-11T07:40:13Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/05/11/5/klauen

Haha, wow, those bikes are awesome! I would def...

2016-05-10T21:56:55Z

Haha, wow, those bikes are awesome! I would definitely buy one: http://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on-peoples-attempts-to-draw-them-from-memory/

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/95

2016-05-10T21:50:59Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/95

So many years I've been showing the date/time o...

2016-05-10T17:10:03Z

So many years I've been showing the date/time of the creation of the file of my pictures which was when I exported them from Lightroom instead of when I shot them. Now I finally fixed that by using "Date Original" instead. But now I'm afraid that I forgot to change back the timezone from Tokyo two years ago on my camera, so all the photos have the wrong time anyway ^^.

Brace yourselves, summer is coming.

2016-05-09T18:40:35Z

Brace yourselves, summer is coming.

Watching some of the streamed stuff from the In...

2016-05-09T00:01:18Z

Watching some of the streamed stuff from the IndieWebCamp in Duesseldorf this weekend, one of the good things is that you can fast forward stuff which are slow or you're not interested in :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc1sG6eu0So

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/the-view-from-the-office-could-be-worse-these-days

2016-05-07T20:23:29Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/the-view-from-the-office-could-be-worse-these-days

Like https://www.instagram.com/p/BFHb8g7s1up/

2016-05-07T20:13:40Z

Jeena ♥ https://www.instagram.com/p/BFHb8g7s1up/

Our IndieWebCamp community has a new shiny logo...

2016-05-07T09:53:17Z

Our IndieWebCamp community has a new shiny logo designed by Shane Becker, and now you can get a t-shirt with it from https://teespring.com/indiewebcamp I just ordered two of them :D

Like https://justonestep.de/notes/20160506-2206/

2016-05-07T09:18:25Z

Jeena ♥ https://justonestep.de/notes/20160506-2206/

Using decentralised IndieWeb technologies looks...

2016-05-03T05:42:19Z

Using decentralised IndieWeb technologies looks much more like an option now, doesn't it?

"WhatsApp, Used by 100 Million Brazilians, Was Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge"

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/02/whatsapp-used-by-100-million-brazilians-was-shut-down-nationwide-today-by-a-single-judge/

So I just found a band today which seems mega a...

2016-04-29T19:48:01Z

So I just found a band today which seems mega awesome. They're called "The Maximum Hormone" and are from Japan and they mix at least 4 musical styles in each song. Take this for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdwT5JlH8gM they start with screamo and hardcore, then change to funk then rock, back to screamo and then alternative pop and after that it gets really weird.

And the crowd loves them, check out the live video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCGSCxv1Jec and look and wonder what this super big crowd does, everybody is headbanging from the first line to the last.

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/04/27/13/

2016-04-28T05:22:52Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/04/27/13/

So I went and bought https://louisck.net/show/h...

2016-04-27T20:26:01Z

So I went and bought https://louisck.net/show/horace-and-pete and it is so tragic, after every episode you feel shitty. But you still want to see the next one. I just watched the third episode which was really remarkable but so dark, so dark ...

Wow, awesome pictures of abandoned places https...

2016-04-26T22:04:59Z

Wow, awesome pictures of abandoned places https://overgivnaplatserarminmedicin.com/ and the last batch is from Fun City which is here in Varberg where I live, I should go there and take some pictures myself!

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/195

2016-04-26T12:21:34Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/195

Early morning, akready in Nürnberg on my way ba...

2016-04-25T04:02:40Z

Early morning, akready in Nürnberg on my way back to work to Göteborg, via Berlin. I'll be there at about half past ten, hopefully.

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/80

2016-04-24T14:07:45Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/80

Christian https://wwwtech.de/, do you receive w...

2016-04-24T13:07:53Z

Christian https://wwwtech.de/, do you receive webmentions on your homepage?

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/82

2016-04-24T09:23:13Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/82

Bicycle tour with my parents.

2016-04-21T14:43:53Z

Bicycle tour with my parents.

Finally after a month, I had the time and the i...

2016-04-21T09:25:18Z

Finally after a month, I had the time and the idea how to remotly fix the CCTV in my parents house in Poland.

Like https://aaronparecki.com/2016/04/20/6/webmention

2016-04-21T01:49:56Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/2016/04/20/6/webmention

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/81

2016-04-20T13:06:46Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/81

And now a week holidays at my parents, doing so...

2016-04-18T08:22:05Z

And now a week holidays at my parents, doing some normal people stuff.

Like https://justonestep.de/notes/20160416-1417/

2016-04-17T22:02:29Z

Jeena ♥ https://justonestep.de/notes/20160416-1417/

Like https://fmarx.com/notes/webmentions/

2016-04-17T15:12:47Z

Jeena ♥ https://fmarx.com/notes/webmentions/

Like https://jeena.net/photos/221

2016-04-17T14:52:18Z

Jeena ♥ https://jeena.net/photos/221

Like http://www.kevinmarks.com/indiewebcampnuremberg2016.html

2016-04-17T00:00:47Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.kevinmarks.com/indiewebcampnuremberg2016.html

Nice, after an intence day at the IndieWebCamp ...

2016-04-16T17:04:03Z

Nice, after an intence day at the IndieWebCamp here in Nuernberg I'm at my hotel to get my jacket, which got delivered to my hotel with the rest of my luggage after it got lost in Berlin. Now I'm on my way to http://www.barfuesser-nuernberg.de/ to meet the rest for a couple of franconian beers.

so I really need to travel less, every time I d...

2016-04-15T17:04:34Z

so I really need to travel less, every time I do it is complicated. Now the flight to berlin is delayed so I will miss my next to Nűrnberg.

Here is my test post for https://webmention.roc...

2016-04-14T19:19:06Z

Here is my test post for https://webmention.rocks/

https://webmention.rocks/test/1 https://webmention.rocks/test/2 https://webmention.rocks/test/3 https://webmention.rocks/test/4 https://webmention.rocks/test/5 https://webmention.rocks/test/6 https://webmention.rocks/test/7 https://webmention.rocks/test/8 https://webmention.rocks/test/9 https://webmention.rocks/test/10 https://webmention.rocks/test/11 https://webmention.rocks/test/12 https://webmention.rocks/test/13 https://webmention.rocks/test/14

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/76

2016-04-10T15:26:18Z

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Just booked a flight and the hotel for the Indi...

2016-04-07T07:04:26Z

Just booked a flight and the hotel for the IndieWebCamp in Nuernberg in one week http://indiewebcamp.com/2016/Nuremberg and after that a week I am staying at my parents for a week because they live near there. I'm hoping for great weather.

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/74

2016-04-02T20:12:59Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/74

"What 95 percent of all suicide attacks have i...

2016-04-02T19:49:05Z

"What 95 percent of all suicide attacks have in common, since 1980, is not religion, but a specific strategic motivation to respond to a military intervention, often specifically a military occupation, of territory that the terrorists view as their homeland or prize greatly."

via: http://www.thenation.com/article/heres-what-a-man-who-studied-every-suicide-attack-in-the-world-says-about-isiss-motives/

Awesome short after-work by the sea with friend...

2016-04-01T18:06:50Z

Awesome short after-work by the sea with friends. Brace yourself, summer is coming.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/180

2016-03-31T17:39:35Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/180

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/177

2016-03-28T22:11:27Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/177

I'm on my way to Germany to visit my parents ov...

2016-03-25T19:05:29Z

I'm on my way to Germany to visit my parents over easter. Normally it takes about 11 hours by train from Varberg to Würzburg, where my father often gets me and we drive the last hour by car.

Sadly today it will take double the time, abour 24 hours, first the problem with the Swedish-Danish border, where it takes about half an hour extra time. But then something happened in Copenhagen so I had to wait for 3 hours just to realize that the train only would get me a bit on my way in Denmark. After that I'm sitting on the bus for hours, like right now.

I should have arrived in Würzburg at about 21:00 but today I'm arriving in Hamburg at 21:45 which is too late for any reasonable train to go to bavaria. Now I have to take the train to Köln and then in the middle of the night the next one from there to Würzburg. This way I will arrive there at 7 am the next day.

I am trying to use airplanes less, but they're not making it especially easy for me.

We had a really nice afterwork at Pelagicore to...

2016-03-23T22:04:04Z

We had a really nice afterwork at Pelagicore today, and it was my turn to choose the beer for everyone and it feels that I did a great job :D

Always the same problem. I wake up look at my h...

2016-03-22T07:23:40Z

Always the same problem. I wake up look at my hair and decide to trim it. I take the hair trimmer and start doing what needs to be done. I'm done with one half of my head and starting the other half, the trimmer shows that it has still battery power to go for about 27 minutes and stops in the middle of the trimming. I look like a freak, I can't go to work like that!

And it takes ages to load the trimmer, normally I load it over night. I will get me one which you can use plugged in.

I made mushroom lasagne just for me!

2016-03-19T16:34:04Z

I made mushroom lasagne just for me!

This was what I saw in front of the house when ...

2016-03-18T22:48:29Z

This was what I saw in front of the house when I came back from work today. Actually it was much more beautiful, I'm not a good enough photographer to get what I can see on film yet. I'm working on it.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/169

2016-03-17T21:11:57Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/169

We went fencing today, it was super awesome to ...

2016-03-16T20:53:15Z

We went fencing today, it was super awesome to try it and really really hard, I did sweat a lot!

Like http://anomalily.net/classpass/

2016-03-16T06:47:00Z

Jeena ♥ http://anomalily.net/classpass/

Initiating conversations

2016-03-11T03:59:41Z

I'm a member of the IndieWebCamp community and this post is about initiating a conversation between two websites, like you do on Twitter when you just mention someone with @username without replying to some other tweet and they get a notification about that.

So the sollution we have is to send a webmention to the homepage and to hope that it returns a 202, so you know that it got there and the person behind this website will be notified.

But in here lies the big problem I have with it. I have to create my post first, and writing it takes time, then send it and only then I get to know if this particular website does implement receiving webmentions on the homepage or not.

One would think that the fact that a homepage has a <link rel="webmention"> would suggest that they also receive webmentions there. But most of the websites I tried this with don't. Especially the software Known which is used by many. It does have the link on the homepage but just doesn't accept webmentions send to the homepage. I heard that they will implement it quite soon, but it still shows that this assumption is false.

This is a really bad UX. My software has no way to determine if the other side will at least be willing to receive a webmention to the homepage, so I could initiate a conversation with some person, instead of reacting to something they already wrote and highjacking something else just to get the webmentions working.

I really don't want to have to write a complete thing before I can find out if the person I'm wtiting it to will ever be able to be notified about my thing. It would be awesome if there was a way for my software to find that out and to indicate that somehow before I have started writing the thing.

There could be the convention that if you have a <link rel="webmention"> on your homepage then it is at least your intention to show that you are able to receive webmentions for that. Then my software could just get your homepage and check for that link and indicate to me in my UI if you will be or will not be able to receive this webmention and if I should bother to write it or if I should find a different way to contact you.

We discussed it a bit on the IRC and sknebel there had the idea of probe mentions, where you would send only the destination to the webmentions endpoint and it would tell you if this destination is able to to receive a webmention or not. This would even still be backwards compatible which makes it even nicer.

Another update gRegorLove: proposed to automatically check for rel=me alternatives if webmention fails so you can try to find an alternative way to contact that person and send them the link to your initial comment.

My new workstation at work, overclocked, waterc...

2016-03-04T15:15:35Z

My new workstation at work, overclocked, watercooled, 64 GB RAM, with Arch Linux and a 40" screen.

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/58

2016-03-03T22:09:54Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/58

Another reason why I don't want to use Spotify,...

2016-03-03T21:45:14Z

Another reason why I don't want to use Spotify, they don't have anyone working on the Linux version anymore: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/spotify-linux-no-development

I don't get why they don't just make the Linux client free software so people at least could fix bugs themselves.

Interesting, my brother is one of the guys behi...

2016-03-03T20:13:01Z

Interesting, my brother is one of the guys behind this, they wrote a VST plugin (it's for music programs like Ableton Live, etc.) with which you can change parameters in Pure Data, which is a visual programming language for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works, patches. This way you can even automate morphing of your patches, etc. At least that is how I understand it, I'm not really good in creating music on a computer yet. http://pd-pulp.net/

Now they also started releasing patches everyone can use: http://patchstorage.com/platform/pd-pulp/

I really need to get down and learn about it, it seems to open so many doors for creativity.

Today I finally got d.notive's album "Sentinel"...

2016-03-02T20:27:09Z

Today I finally got d.notive's album "Sentinel" from Minneapolis! And let me tell you, if you're into 80'ies synth music, you'll love that! My favorite song is "Second Chances", if I had to guess I'd have guessed it's Dave Gahan singing. Check it out on Bandcamp: http://store.d.notive.cc/

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/145

2016-02-27T08:33:28Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/145

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/138

2016-02-21T12:44:09Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/138

I loooove to play live with my band Hoggatah! S...

2016-02-21T01:30:20Z

I loooove to play live with my band Hoggatah! So many people came today to see us, it's unreal! Thank you all! (And thanks Daniel for the picture :D)

Hackaton instead of after work, we're setting u...

2016-02-19T20:06:25Z

Hackaton instead of after work, we're setting upp a small network of ESP8266 wifi chips, I'm learning a lot about electronics!

Repairing your stuff

2016-02-13T15:06:16Z

I really love to be able to repair the things that I own. Not only software, but especially hardware. I'm not good in doing it, but I sure enjoy it. The saved money is a nice side effect, but what I really like about it is all the things you learn while doing it.

I really have to thank my father who showed me that it sure is possible to open this "black box" without knowing anything about its interna and to learn how to fix the problem without replacing the whole thing. Oh this reminds me to link to an awesome video: Story of Electronics

I am a trained heating engineer, but as I mentioned, thanks to my father I am doing a lot of other handy things myself. I never took any of my cars to a repair shop, not even after a total crash, I instead replaced the body of the car. Broken dishwasher only needed a new pump, but if you don't do it yourself the repair-shop takes more than a new dishwasher costs. Bicycle is a obvious thing to repair yourself. My iMacs hard drive broke down so I had to buy a heavy duty suction cup to be able to open and fix it. My Roomba needed new batteries after a couple of years, so I opened it up and voilà!

In resent years it got more and more difficult to repair the things you own, especially cars and electronics, which are getting lighter and smaller but more and more integrated so that it gets almost impossible to do anything when they break, even for a repair-shop.

That is why I at least am trying to chose repairable alternatives if there are such.

Repairing my ThinkPad

A couple of weeks ago I visited Christian and his wife Daniela for his birthday party. I had my laptop with me and used it on my lap in the living room. Suddenly Daniela asked what that high pitch noise was, it was the fan of my laptop. I myself have gotten used to it actually, and only heard it when it was really silent around me. But she was right, the sound was awful and I had to get rid of it. So I ordered a new fan which arrived yesterday.

Since my father lives about 12 hours away and also doesn't really repair a lot of electronics, I had to find another teacher, which now with help of the Internet il surprisingly easy. I found one person on YouTube filming themselves while replacing the fan in a ThinkPad like mine.

It was quite easy to follow because the ThinkPad I own is build to be repairable. A bit later in the process I also realized that I ordered a fan which wasn't quite the same as the old one, it had an additional thing I assume for a graphics-card processor or something. That's why I had to to improvise a little and move some cables some other way as designed by Lenovo. But in the end everything worked out really nice and I have a new fan in my 5 years old laptop.

How to install Swedish BankID on Sailfish OS ht...

2016-02-08T23:06:30Z

How to install Swedish BankID on Sailfish OS https://jeena.net/bank-id-sailfish-os #jolla

Swedish BankID on Sailfish OS

2016-02-08T22:58:46Z

When you search on the internet whether the Swedish BankID app, which lets you do some bank operations on your phone, works on your Jolla phone you get results which contradict each other.

What doesn't work

Their support website is quite clear on this, it explicitly mentions the Jolla / Sailfish OS as not supported:

If you go to the Jolla users forum, they report it working without problems:

Mobilt BankID
« on: March 12, 2014, 11:19:52 PM »

..works well, as far as I can see. I've managed to login to my bank, CSN and "pensionsmyndigheten" without problems.

/LinuxSam

When you actually try to install it from one Android Stores supported by the Jolla phone you will soon find out that they only offer a outdated version, which will either tell you to upgrade so it is compatible with their back-end, or just crash when you open it, without an error message.

Installing manually works

It is fairly easy to install Android APKs manually. First you have to download it, to do that you have to find a website which lets you do so directly from Googles Playstore. I found out that https://apkpure.com/ lets you do that.

Search there for the BankID app in the browser on your Jolla phone and press on "Download APK":

This will download it to your "Downloads" directory on your phone.

To install the APK from the Downloads directory you need to install a File Browser, you can find a native one on the Jolla store on your device. Just browse there for: "File Browser".

After it installed open it and you will find different directories there, and also one called "Downloads", tap on it and it will show the contents. There tap on the "BankID säkerhetsapp_v..." it will probably be a newer version than in my screenshot:

When it it opens draw down to open the menu and chose "Install". This will open a new window where it asks you to install the app as if it were from a Android app store. After the installation you have to do the dance with your bank to connect it to your bank and then you,re done!

Note: When you start using the BankID app it often happens that the Operating System doesn't automatically change to it when it is needed. You need to manually open the BankID app to authenticate, and sometimes manually go back to the app you came from after authentication.

(PS: this is the first blog I wrote completely on my Dvorak keyboard!)

Yanis Varoufakis: "So the question is not wh...

2016-02-07T16:26:33Z

Yanis Varoufakis:

"So the question is not whether capitalism will survive the technological innovations it is spawning.

The more interesting question is whether capitalism will be succeed by something resembling a Matrix dystopia, or something much closer to a Star Trek-like society where machines serve the humans, and the humans expend their energies exploring the universe and indulging in long debates about the meaning of life in some ancient, Athenian-like high tech agora."

Via: http://www.ted.com/talks/yanisvaroufakiscapitalismwilleatdemocracyunlesswespeak_up

PGP key signing party at FOSDEM

2016-01-31T13:33:50Z

PGP key signing party at FOSDEM

After one day at FOSDEM I'm left with mixed fee...

2016-01-30T17:21:07Z

After one day at FOSDEM I'm left with mixed feelings. Yes, many of the talks are quite interesting, but that's about it with the positive news.

The cowd is almost creapily homogenous, only men in my age, skin color, background, etc.

It's 6pm and I'm in my first talk where a woman participates. But she wasn't allowed to give the talk on her own, a white man my age is doing most of the talking, even though se clearly is the one with the more interesting stuff to say.

They really need to do a much better job in choosing the speakers, this will also attract a more diverse crowd.

We're on our way to FOSDEM in Belgium! 9 people...

2016-01-29T09:24:56Z

We're on our way to FOSDEM in Belgium! 9 people from Pelagicore, this is gonna be fun!

If you're near Gothenburg in Sweden next week c...

2016-01-27T22:10:55Z

If you're near Gothenburg in Sweden next week come by and listen to my talk about the IndieWeb on the 4th, you need a free ticket from https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foss-gbg-om-indieweb-tickets-20911762645

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/117

2016-01-24T11:05:03Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/117

On my way to Germany to Christians birthday par...

2016-01-22T18:17:52Z

On my way to Germany to Christians birthday party in Steinfurt, wohoo! I just hope he doesn't forget to get me in Düsseldorf!

Watch the live stream of the IndieWebCamp in Ne...

2016-01-22T15:42:18Z

Watch the live stream of the IndieWebCamp in New York now: https://youtu.be/r_A695Fkvdg

This morning the trams didn't go so that woman....

2016-01-19T15:46:55Z

This morning the trams didn't go so that woman.just took her skis to get to work.

Winter above Varbergs roofs.

2016-01-17T13:10:53Z

Winter above Varbergs roofs.

A nice read by some other guy about the 10 days...

2016-01-17T10:10:37Z

A nice read by some other guy about the 10 days Vipassana meditation retreat I attended 3 years ago too: https://micaelwidell.com/my-first-10-day-vipassana-retreat/

Like https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/

2016-01-16T00:58:12Z

Jeena ♥ https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/

I'm often coding on the train while commuting. ...

2016-01-13T07:54:01Z

I'm often coding on the train while commuting. This seems to be something many people do now. Right now on the 4 small tables my eye can reach there are 4 computers. The first guy has VirtualBox open and does something, the second has Android Studio open with a dark theme and codes away, the third is coding in Visual Studio and I'm coding in Emacs.

I have to say that I kind of like the programmi...

2016-01-10T14:17:19Z

I have to say that I kind of like the programming language Go. In only 333 lines of code I was able to reimplement those parts of the Subsonic API which I needed so it would work with the Clementine client. Sure it is spagetti code yet but I'm positivelly suprised! https://github.com/jeena/sonicmonkey

My new desktop background.

2016-01-09T10:43:43Z

My new desktop background.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/105

2016-01-06T21:25:44Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/105

Super cool and interestimg new years resolution...

2016-01-05T05:39:52Z

Super cool and interestimg new years resolution by Anomalily:

"Buy no new clothing- the one exception to this rule is shoes and gloves. I am allowed to get clothing for free, and to sew anything I would like."

http://anomalily.net/2016-goals/

Like http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2016/01/04/2/swarm-foursquare-weasleyclock-harrypotter

2016-01-05T05:27:36Z

Jeena ♥ http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2016/01/04/2/swarm-foursquare-weasleyclock-harrypotter

Zürich by night

2016-01-04T18:58:07Z

Zürich by night

I'm becoming better and better in photographing...

2016-01-03T12:24:34Z

I'm becoming better and better in photographing as the years go. It was the right decision to buy that used Nikon D5000 back then.

In this picture, my sister and her partner in front of the new house they just moved in.

Like http://anomalily.net/every-single-whiskey-i-bought-in-2015/

2016-01-02T12:29:46Z

Jeena ♥ http://anomalily.net/every-single-whiskey-i-bought-in-2015/

New years eve dinner at an Australian restauran...

2015-12-31T20:38:56Z

New years eve dinner at an Australian restaurant in Switzerland.

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/in-this-household-we-dont-care-about-exact-timings-for-christmas-dinners

2015-12-28T08:38:25Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/in-this-household-we-dont-care-about-exact-timings-for-christmas-dinners

On the second day of Christmas we jammed away!

2015-12-26T23:19:06Z

On the second day of Christmas we jammed away!

Happy holidays everyone!

2015-12-24T17:18:52Z

Happy holidays everyone!

A stop in between in Burgpreppach at the Christ...

2015-12-20T14:19:14Z

A stop in between in Burgpreppach at the Christmas Market which is one of the bigger ones here locally.

Like http://www.savethis.space/2015/i-use-google-so-little-that-when-i-type-g-o-o

2015-12-20T11:33:46Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.savethis.space/2015/i-use-google-so-little-that-when-i-type-g-o-o

My plan for today and tomorrow: Varberg 🚆 Göteb...

2015-12-19T09:45:22Z

My plan for today and tomorrow: Varberg 🚆 Göteborg ✈ Zürich 🚌 Burgpreppach 🚌 Świerczyniec

Like https://blog.jolla.com/jolla-back-business/

2015-12-18T23:21:44Z

Jeena ♥ https://blog.jolla.com/jolla-back-business/

So it is the time to see the next Star Wars at ...

2015-12-18T20:20:25Z

So it is the time to see the next Star Wars at the cinema, wohooo! They force me to watch advertising now even though I payed good money to get in, what's up with that? Where is the cinema AdBlock when you need it?

"A Saudi millionaire has been cleared of raping...

2015-12-16T18:28:45Z

"A Saudi millionaire has been cleared of raping a teenager after claiming he might have accidentally penetrated the 18-year-old when he tripped and fell on her." at a London court. Couldn't Assange try to claim this too?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/millionaire-businessman-cleared-raping-teenager-7018414

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/100

2015-12-13T15:35:17Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/100

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/94

2015-12-08T22:37:51Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/94

I don't like to be bullshited, and I feel bulls...

2015-12-08T19:28:30Z

I don't like to be bullshited, and I feel bullshited by Mozilla right now. A couple of days ago they said they would drop Thunderbird: "Many inside of Mozilla, ..., feel the need to be laser-focused on activities like Firefox that can have an industry-wide impact," http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/thunderbird-a-tax-on-firefox-development-and-mozilla-wants-to-drop-it/

And today they present a new Project, a content blocker for iOS: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/12/08/announcing-focus-by-firefox-a-content-blocker-for-ios/ who gives a fuck? Aren't there enough adblockers for iOS already?

That is not how "laser-focused on Firefox" looks like, Mozilla.

Like https://wwwtech.de/notes/90

2015-12-08T19:13:29Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/notes/90

Interesting, 3 different organizations waiting ...

2015-12-08T15:22:44Z

Interesting, 3 different organizations waiting for refugees from Copenhagen. Red Cross, Islamic Relief, and the guy with the yellow doesn't have their name on the west.

Update: now I also saw people from Gothenburg citty with blue vests trying to find refugees. Interestingly I've never seen them finding any refugees coming by train, and I'm at the train station twice a day.

Self hosted Firefox sync

2015-12-04T21:20:29Z

Update 2024: The python 2.7 version has been depricated. There is a rewrite of the server in Rust, I have a docker-compose for it on GitHub.

Since Firefox 33 we can't use the older self hosted sync server called 1.1 anymore, now we have to use one called 1.5. I just set it up for my desktop computers and my Android phone to be used, and it was amazingly complicated. Mostly because the documentation on Mozillas website was incomplete.

To get that thing working you normally need two parts, the Firefox-Account-server and the Sync-server. For now I will still be using Mozillas Firefox-Account-server but I really wanted to use my own Sync-server because I wanted to finally sync all my passwords which I don't trust Mozilla with.

My goal was to run the sync server as a daemon behind my nginx in a sub directory so I can reuse my https certificate. I wanted to use it for my three desktop computers and my Android phone. I will just "shortly" explain where I found the information and what I needed to change.

Setting up the server

First I went to Mozillas documentation website where I learned what to install as a prerequisite, where to get the source code and how to build and to configure it.

Then I found an article in the ArchLinux Wiki, which is always full of really great documentation about really different topics you encounter when using a Linux computer. In it they describe how to set up the server to run with a unix socket instead over a port which I really prefer because we share that server and that way I don't need to communicate to the others on the server which ports I'm using and why etc.

Then I hit the wall. I configured my Firefox on Linux via about:config and the identity.sync.tokenserver.uri-key to use my own server. But somehow the Mozilla documentations design made it so that I didn't see that you're supposed to not only to use the root path to the sync server, but you also need to add /token/1.0/sync/1.5 after it so it becomes https://jeena.net/fx-sync/token/1.0/sync/1.5 for example. This took me hours to find out. Finally someone on Mozillas IRC pointed out that I forgot to add that part.

After that change I was finally able to see POST requests being made to the sync server. Btw. debugging wasn't that obvious either, perhaps it is for people who have been working with gunicorn before, but I got confused when they used a ini-file for configuration but still gunicorn to serve. But in the end I did find out that you can dump the logs into a file with the --log-file=path/to/syncserver.log argument for gunicorn.

Running as a daemon

The next step was that I wanted to run it as a daemon. Sadly neither the Mozilla documentation nor the Arch Wiki mention how to do it, and it is really easy, just add the argument --daemon when you start gunicorn and it is run as a daemon. Later on you most probably want to start it automatically when the server starts but I won't get into how to do that because it is different for every distribution you're using and honestly I only know how to do that with systemd.

Firefox on Android

This was great, I was almost done! I just had to do the same change to my Android Firefox. But wait, there about:config doesn't have a identity.sync.tokenserver.uri entry, wtf?

AddOn

So back to my search engine of choice, which is DDG, after some time I found a blog post by @ncalexander I skimmed it and found out that I needed to install the fxa-custom-server-addon Firefox for Android add-on.

I installed it on my phone and a additional menu called Custom Firefox Account showed up. I clicked it and it presented itself with two input fields, one for the account server and one for the sync server. Both were pre-populated and I changed the Sync-server URL to my server, like I did on my desktop Firefox.

Then I pressed the Save button which made the input fields disappear, so I again chose the Custom Firefox Account button to get it back. Sadly all my changes were gone so I had to redo it. But instad to save it I pressed "Launch setup" and got to the screen where I was able to create a new account or to sign in.

"Something went wrong"

I tried to sign in but it only showed a red bar with the text: Something went wrong, I reentered the password, still the same problem, then I went back and redid the change of the URL but it still didn't help. That is when I tried to set up a new account with the same email address which worked like a charm.

But when I looked into the server log it only showed a 401-error that it wasn't able to sign in. I changed the one option in the ini-file so new accounts could be created. Suddenly I saw that all my configuration and bookmarks, etc. were pushed to my server, great success!

But after a while I noticed that none of my changes on the phone were synced to the desktop and vice versa. That is when I realised that the short bad feeling that I had when allowing a new account to be created was justified. I just had two different accounts on the same server, that was not what I wanted.

I checked my desktops services.sync.serverURL part of the about:config and it stated that it used this URL: https://services.mozilla.com/status/ so I went back to my phone and redid everything because sadly you can't just edit the URL, you have to remove the account and start the procedure from scratch. But no luck, this also only showed a red bar with Something went wrong, and it was not my password which was wrong. (Now I understand that I looked at the wrong key, I should have checked identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri, but that was not obvious to me at that time.)

Magic URLs

Back to the article by about the Android phone and self hosted Sync-server. And to my surprise, it stated it right there in the beginning:

Determine your custom server URLs

These URLs are a bit magic, and it’s not currently possible to change them on your Android device without deleting the Android Account and starting again.

Mozilla production: https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1
Mozilla testing: https://api-accounts.stage.mozaws.net/v1

This should match the identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri preference in your Desktop Firefox configuration.

Why is this not stated in Mozillas documentation anywhere? And why was this not the default URL in the add-on, but instead it had the testing URL as the default? We may never know.

But finally, finally! Finally, after about four hours of research and debugging and asking on IRC, finally Everything works now like I wanted it to. For now I'm really happy with this solution, but one of the next steps should be to also replace the Firefox-Account-server and later even the BrowserID verifier, so I can be independent of Mozilla.

Thanks for free software

Although I sounded very negative in this post, I am extremely happy that at least one browser vendor is trying to make it possible for me to own all my data, especially my passwords, bookmarks, and my browser history and still be able to use it on different devices. So a super-big thank you Mozilla and all the volunteers who wrote all the free software which I now was able to integrate and use.

Update for iOS

Right now I have a iPhone which I have to use, I tried to connect to my server and it would only give me a blank page for login. Here are the things to do:

Open Firefox on iOS
Open Hamburger menu bottom right
Go to Settings
Scroll all the way down
Tap 5 times on the Firefox version to get to the developer mode
Scroll up to Firefox Account
Go to Advanced Sync Settings
Turn on Use Custom FxA Content Server (even if you use the default)
Put in https://accounts.firefox.com (or your FxA server)
Turn on Use Custom Sync Token Server
Add https://jeena.net/fx-sync/token/ (without 1.0/sync/1.5)
Now it is possible to Sign in

Oh wow, nice, Apple is using CMake for Swift: h...

2015-12-04T19:33:50Z

Oh wow, nice, Apple is using CMake for Swift: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt

Like http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/07/05/how-to-connect-firefox-for-android-to-self-hosted-services/

2015-12-04T19:31:30Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.ncalexander.net/blog/2014/07/05/how-to-connect-firefox-for-android-to-self-hosted-services/

Not even the Onion could write a better headlin...

2015-12-02T19:14:38Z

Not even the Onion could write a better headline:

"ISIS Bataclan terrorist who killed 89 people was trained to shoot by FRENCH POLICE at gun club after shaving off his beard to avoid suspicion"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3340848/ISIS-Bataclan-terrorist-killed-89-people-trained-shoot-FRENCH-POLICE-gun-club-shaving-beard-avoid-suspicion.html

This year me and a couple of friends having a b...

2015-12-01T18:30:45Z

This year me and a couple of friends having a beer Advent Calendar. We're 4 people and everyone got to chose 6 beers. Now we drink one of those 24 every day and rate it on untapped. You can follow us there: https://untappd.com/user/jeena https://untappd.com/user/Kungfarsan https://untappd.com/user/Rude81 https://untappd.com/user/Mr_jocke81

Like http://www.savethis.space/2015/decentralizing-me

2015-11-30T22:34:13Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.savethis.space/2015/decentralizing-me

Like http://www.savethis.space/2015/decentralizing-me

2015-11-30T22:32:47Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.savethis.space/2015/decentralizing-me

Check out my bands newest music video! https://...

2015-11-30T20:03:01Z

Check out my bands newest music video! https://youtu.be/rtyWNsy5Lrk It turned out super cool with a real storyline!

This American life explains what's about all th...

2015-11-30T07:51:53Z

This American life explains what's about all the weird "OMG you'r so pretty" comments on highschool girls selfies on social media. Super interesting conclusion http://feed.thisamericanlife.org/~r/talpodcast/~3/qdru1tdEJVU/status-update

It's always super cool if I can find some model...

2015-11-28T23:15:48Z

It's always super cool if I can find some model to act in my pictures, it makes them always so much more interesting to look at!

So after 20 years we meet again Millencolin. Ba...

2015-11-28T09:06:47Z

So after 20 years we meet again Millencolin. Back then we were young and you played near my German home town in Schweinfurt. Now in your home land Sweden in Trollhättan. Back then you spoke English to the crowd and I barely understood. Now I got all your stand-up comedy jokes in your mother tongue. We both are much older, and I could see you were tired. But thanks for a nice evening full of memories, keep on rocking!

I'm trying to write a small jinglemachine, I ha...

2015-11-23T17:41:02Z

I'm trying to write a small jinglemachine, I have a Akai MPK mini keyboard with 8 pads and I want to write some lower level C code to play wav when I press the pads. And finally a small success, with help of the ALSA C lib http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/ I am able to get the events when I press the pads. I mostly do it just to learn about C coding, that is why I don't use already written code.

This year in Korea while we visited Gangnam.

2015-11-22T18:51:46Z

This year in Korea while we visited Gangnam.

A lot of people seem to post their own stuff on...

2015-11-21T18:55:54Z

A lot of people seem to post their own stuff on https://medium.com but when I follow an interesting link description and suddenly I see that it is posted on medium I suddenly loose interest in reading it. It feels that if a person doesn't even have their own website with their own history of posts I would be able to dive in then they probably don't have enough interesting things to say anyway.

Like http://www.islay.org.uk/2015/11/19/alert-lapwing-at-ardnave-loch-isle-of-islay/

2015-11-20T21:47:43Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.islay.org.uk/2015/11/19/alert-lapwing-at-ardnave-loch-isle-of-islay/

Really moving movie "Dallas Buyers Club" Matthe...

2015-11-20T20:25:49Z

Really moving movie "Dallas Buyers Club" Matthew McConaughey really must have pushed his body to look that rough.

Like https://twitter.com/t/status/667547225627607040

2015-11-20T06:07:44Z

Jeena ♥ https://twitter.com/t/status/667547225627607040

Today while I was waiting for my train back hom...

2015-11-19T21:52:05Z

Today while I was waiting for my train back home at the train station in Gothenburg I found 5 shell casings of a caliber 5.7 mm and one of 7.62 mm caliber just lying around under a table. I got the police who were around anyway and showed it to them. They told me that those were used and collected them.

This is terrible, this is obviously a bug in FI...

2015-11-18T20:13:20Z

This is terrible, this is obviously a bug in FIFA 16 because this player is obviously offside but the referee didn't react on this. How many maches have I lost at work because of this bug? EA, you guys should really need to fix this.

The #beer is bubbling! #brewing https://www....

2015-11-17T20:59:25Z

The #beer is bubbling! #brewing

https://www.instagram.com/p/-McpiHHkZE/

People who loudly speak on their telephone for ...

2015-11-16T17:31:58Z

People who loudly speak on their telephone for my entire hour of commuting ...

A blog post about my last weeks journey about "...

2015-11-15T14:09:57Z

A blog post about my last weeks journey about "How to eat less meat?" https://jeena.net/how-to-eat-less-meat

How to eat less meat?

2015-11-15T14:00:19Z

When I was little I lived in socialist Poland, back then most of the shops looked like this:

The only thing you could basically buy all year was vinegar. For nearly everything else you had to use your ration stamps in addition to money, which allowed the state to regulate how much meat, milk, cigarettes, etc. every person got. Back then my father worked in the coal mine under ground so we had gotten some extra stamps for meat and dairy products.

As far as I remember most of the days we didn't eat meat but we also didn't call us vegetarians. On holidays or Sundays we often had Roulades or meat chop, on Saturdays often some kind of poultry. But Monday to Friday mostly no meat products.

After my family moved to Germany this changed dramatically. Suddenly meat was always available so we ate meat every day. And now when I'm on my own I see me eating meat with every meal of the day.

A week ago a good friend of mine asked a question which nobody has asked me before: "Why do you eat meat?". Honestly, I wasn't prepared for such a question, so I mumbled things about how great it tastes, that protein, cavemen, and stuff. All things which are just cheap excuses in my personal opinion.

During the last week I had some time to think about this question, which most Vegans/Vegetarians get all the time just in opposite. And the only valid reason I could think of was that I don't know how to do it differently.

Learning to cook vegan

The good thing, I can change the not knowing part, so I called another friend who I personally know is a great vegan cook, because I tasted a lot of the dishes she prepared. I told her that I want to learn how to cook vegan because I want to have the skills and knowledge so I will be able to choose from a wider alternative range of dishes.

Shopping

The first, and in my opinion the most difficult, step was shopping. When I shop myself I mostly buy the same things as always because I know that I like the taste, etc. There are so many alternatives to meat but I never bothered to check them out, just out of habit. And honestly meat is really easy to prepare, just add salt and pepper to it, a bit of oil and fry it, done.

So we bought a lot of different spices good to have at home, especially I got the tip to use BBQ seasoning to spice things which are normally a bit blend. This way I'll hopefully will be able to transform beans, potatoes, parsnips, and so on.

She also showed me some brands, which surprisingly make super tasty meat alternatives. I've never seen them in the shop, where I buy my food in every day, before. Like for example: Oumph!, Tzay and Hälsans Kök.

Those are all Swedish brands but I hope I can inspire you to look for different things next time you're buying food.

Cooking

As I said, I think the shopping was the really difficult part of my journey. The cooking part was just fun, together with the children we cooked with the things she showed me a nice meal, here are some pictures:

It seems to me that if you have bought the alternatives it is just a matter of better seasoning and using those alternatives. The cooking part is just as if you would normally do it, but without the meat part.

Eating out

During the week when I'm at work we more often than not go out for lunch. Normally I just automatically order something with meat without even thinking about it. This week I tried to make conscious decisions, but this automatism still is rooted really deeply in me, so I had to change my order some times because I forgot about my goal to eat less meat.

I still only ate fish on Wednesday because the restaurant only offered two dishes, one with pork and one with fish, nothing vegetarian. And one evening I got me some fried chicken because I really wanted to. I'm quite happy with this achievement to try to change my behaviour.

Videos

Cowspiracy

Btw. the friend with the right question also showed me the documentary Cowspiracy, and I understand that it has many weirdo conspiracy theory moments and exaggerates the numbers presented, it still is worth watching just as a starting point to get into this topic.

Weekday vegetarian

A couple of month ago I also watched an interesting TED talk called Why I'm a weekday vegetarian and I really like that guys approach.

Please stop blaiming the refugees for what happ...

2015-11-14T10:23:05Z

Please stop blaiming the refugees for what happened in Paris and realize that those are the people they're trying to get away from.

I always wondered what music like this is categ...

2015-11-10T21:34:53Z

I always wondered what music like this is categorized as:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkeaaweX7is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSCzDykng4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvD6maGRh7c

Like https://tobiastom.name/notes/ed4639be

2015-11-10T20:27:06Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/notes/ed4639be

I got me a jar of Marmite from Amazon because I...

2015-11-09T17:48:34Z

I got me a jar of Marmite from Amazon because I heard a lot about it but you can't buy it here in Sweden. But gosh!!! This tastes so bad! Salty and a bit fruity at the same time. I heard that you eat it on bread like on the picture. I guess I need to do some online research.

After a stressful week at work I'm watching the...

2015-11-06T20:26:15Z

After a stressful week at work I'm watching the movie Office Space to see that others struggle with the same shit as I do.

Finally my Dvorak TypeMatrix arrived! I'm typin...

2015-11-02T21:29:23Z

Finally my Dvorak TypeMatrix arrived! I'm typing really slow but after half an hour I don't have to look at the keyboard anymore, so I think learning it won't take very much time.

Homebrew Website Club in Gothenburg on wednesda...

2015-11-02T20:40:50Z

Homebrew Website Club in Gothenburg on wednesday, join us! https://jeena.net/events/8

I'm changing my main email address from spam@je...

2015-10-31T18:00:22Z

I'm changing my main email address from spam@jeenaparadies.net which I used since 2004 to hello@jeena.net because I'd like to discontinue the old jeenaparadies.net domain and move the contents to a subdomain like paradies.jeena.net or something in a couple of years.

Every time I'm done with a TV series which I re...

2015-10-30T16:49:52Z

Every time I'm done with a TV series which I really liked it feels like if I lost something or someone. Especially if the characters are very likable, because suddenly I can't take part in their lives anymore, they just vanish. It happend with the Trailer Park Boys, Parks and Recreations and now with Angel Beats!

I bought me a new private coffe mug at work. #a...

2015-10-27T13:20:50Z

I bought me a new private coffe mug at work. #archlinux

Preparations for the music video recordings tom...

2015-10-25T17:17:08Z

Preparations for the music video recordings tomorrow and the day after. We still need people willing to come on tuesday evening to be recorded as the crowd.

I got me the http://helloruby.com childrens boo...

2015-10-21T19:41:17Z

I got me the http://helloruby.com childrens book about programming. I'll read it myself first and I already have an idea who'll get it when I'm done.

This looks really promissing: http://techcrunch...

2015-10-21T19:17:18Z

This looks really promissing: http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/21/youtube-red/ YouTube without adds plus the ability to lock the screen on the phone and still be able to listen to audio (and as a bonus some music stuff from Google). For $10 per month. I kind of want this because of the add-free YouTube and if this works perhaps there will be more content providers who will offer to go add-free if you give them some money.

Twitter, it's too late. https://github.com/jeen...

2015-10-21T18:37:40Z

Twitter, it's too late. https://github.com/jeena/Twittia won't ever be resurrected #helloworld

Like https://david.shanske.com/2015/10/17/cardboard/

2015-10-18T13:18:25Z

Jeena ♥ https://david.shanske.com/2015/10/17/cardboard/

El Capitan doesn't see any inputs nor outputs o...

2015-10-12T18:52:47Z

El Capitan doesn't see any inputs nor outputs on my Focusrite Saffire 6 USB 2.0 sound card, bummer :-(

This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370...

2015-10-11T20:09:07Z

This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10370320 sounds like a part of a plot for Mr. Robot S02

I'm making pancakes with apples for dinner.

2015-10-11T17:02:55Z

I'm making pancakes with apples for dinner.

Tomorrow Hoggatah, my band, is playing in Varbe...

2015-10-08T17:49:46Z

Tomorrow Hoggatah, my band, is playing in Varberg at Bruket during the world's biggest music festival attempt. If everything works out we'll get into the Guness World records book which would be awesome!

http://www.varldensstorstamusikfestival.se/

Me and Nedim explaining QtAutomotive Suite to i...

2015-10-07T09:34:20Z

Me and Nedim explaining QtAutomotive Suite to interested people at #QtWS15 via https://twitter.com/qtproject/status/651346606051209216

Yesterday I've been to a talk Qt for Android, T...

2015-10-07T08:07:28Z

Yesterday I've been to a talk Qt for Android, This morning I saw Qt for Windows 10 and now I'm about to see Qt for iOS. #QtWS15

Like https://twitter.com/nedo99/status/651

2015-10-06T12:37:04Z

Jeena ♥ https://twitter.com/nedo99/status/651

So LG owns webOS now? Didn't know that was stil...

2015-10-06T08:20:29Z

So LG owns webOS now? Didn't know that was still alive. #QtWS15

On my way to ✈ Berlin for the Qt World Summit #...

2015-10-05T08:28:21Z

On my way to ✈ Berlin for the Qt World Summit #QtWS15

Another shoot from the day in the nature. We've...

2015-10-04T20:42:55Z

Another shoot from the day in the nature. We've been near Nösslinge and there is a nice big lake.

Today I was outside in the nature, photographin...

2015-10-03T22:05:04Z

Today I was outside in the nature, photographing and camping with friends. This one I took on my way back to the car.

Like https://wwwtech.de/pictures/21

2015-10-02T07:31:54Z

Jeena ♥ https://wwwtech.de/pictures/21

I often feel that this is not quite known in th...

2015-10-01T15:42:08Z

I often feel that this is not quite known in the automotive business, but: "Open Source is free as in puppy. It comes with responsibilities." (via https://www.christianheilmann.com/2015/09/30/of-impostor-syndrome-and-running-in-circles-part-3/)

In the meaning that releasing a project open source is as free (money and responsibility wise) as getting a puppet for free (money and responsibility wise). The act doesn't cost you anything so technically it is free, but you get to take care of this creature now, feed it, give it a place to live, tame it so it doesn't crace out, etc.

This is really cool, code which we write at wor...

2015-10-01T10:25:26Z

This is really cool, code which we write at work at Pelagicore is now part of the Qt Framework http://www.qt.io/qt-news/the-qt-company-announces-the-qt-automotive-suite/

So having a kickstarter campaign seems to be li...

2015-09-30T17:25:02Z

So having a kickstarter campaign seems to be like selling an app on the app store, the most attention you get from spammers and scammers who want to sell you higher ranking.

Someone on the internet said it was internation...

2015-09-30T15:51:22Z

Someone on the internet said it was international coffee day today. #Emacs #org-mode

If you don't have a good and flexible applicati...

2015-09-29T20:13:17Z

If you don't have a good and flexible application structure from the start, you gonna have a hard time to fix that later. But if you wait until you have a good structure before you start, you never gonna write anything anyway. So: refactor all the things!!!

I had to try out my 300mm telephoto lens with t...

2015-09-28T21:48:16Z

I had to try out my 300mm telephoto lens with the nice full moon.

Like http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2015/09/26/2/barbot

2015-09-28T07:45:20Z

Jeena ♥ http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2015/09/26/2/barbot

The future is now.

2015-09-27T15:05:27Z

The future is now.

I've been air drying this loin of pork for two ...

2015-09-27T09:43:51Z

I've been air drying this loin of pork for two weeks now. Yummy!

Next step on my way to build the brewing automa...

2015-09-26T12:17:27Z

Next step on my way to build the brewing automaton I started a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJwskOizOOk

All this talk about content blockers, etc. but ...

2015-09-26T07:13:08Z

All this talk about content blockers, etc. but almost nobody lets me pay for their contents either through donations (like This American Life does) or through micropayment like most of the German Podcasts do, but nobody else does, through https://flattr.com I'm happy to pay a reasonable price, just let me somehow do it. I'm not happy to give 3rd parties information about my online activities.

'If you are worried about refugees, stop suppor...

2015-09-25T21:48:12Z

'If you are worried about refugees, stop supporting terrorists' - Assad says in interview http://www.rt.com/news/315431-assad-interview-refugee-terrorists/ I've been saying this too for a couple of weeks, but it seems not really obvious for everyone.

Like https://twitter.com/quellebouille/status/647466292790849537

2015-09-25T18:45:07Z

Jeena ♥ https://twitter.com/quellebouille/status/647466292790849537

I thought I hade everything for the water part ...

2015-09-25T17:37:04Z

I thought I hade everything for the water part of my brewing automation but sadly the hole isn't 1/2" not even 3/8" but something weird in between. That means I can't build it this weekend again.

Precrime, Minority Report in real life. We've a...

2015-09-25T12:33:55Z

Precrime, Minority Report in real life. We've all been waiting for that to happen for years! "Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes" www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/us/police-program-aims-to-pinpoint-those-most-likely-to-commit-crimes.html

Panorama photo in Varberg

2015-09-20T11:11:54Z

Panorama photo in Varberg

Check out the cool timelapse video we made whil...

2015-09-19T22:19:18Z

Check out the cool timelapse video we made while brewing today: https://jeena.net/events/4

Today I visited the Banff mountain film festiva...

2015-09-17T21:50:55Z

Today I visited the Banff mountain film festival http://www.pathfindertravels.se/banff-sverige/ and it made me think about visiting Norway during the winter to take some stunning photos there.

The first advertisement in the "New Tab" page o...

2015-09-11T07:25:41Z

The first advertisement in the "New Tab" page of my Firefox.

This is from 2012: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/...

2015-09-10T10:45:03Z

This is from 2012: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg and it only missed by a couple of months, yesterday we got http://www.apple.com/smart-keyboard/

"Two 5-Year-Old Russian Boys Tunneled Their Way...

2015-09-09T12:46:42Z

"Two 5-Year-Old Russian Boys Tunneled Their Way Out of Preschool to Buy a Sports Car" http://time.com/4026084/russia-boys-escape-preschool-kindergarten-sports-car/

Gothenburgers, don't forget the Homebrew Websit...

2015-09-08T20:57:26Z

Gothenburgers, don't forget the Homebrew Website Club tomorrow: https://jeena.net/events/3 everyone is welcome!

Oh I seem to have missed it but I have now over...

2015-09-08T04:45:39Z

Oh I seem to have missed it but I have now over 10k tweets. https://twitter.com/jeena

Those were the days: https://www.youtube.com/wa...

2015-09-07T08:38:49Z

Those were the days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn1gWZHNvL4

Ok we didn't play Ghosts, but still, camping was the main attraction it seems ;-)

Today I made the next step to cook for myself, ...

2015-09-06T17:02:44Z

Today I made the next step to cook for myself, I made ca. 4 kg bratwurst without additional preservatives besides some salt and sugar.

I liked it a lot but I seem to need to learn mo...

2015-09-05T21:48:26Z

I liked it a lot but I seem to need to learn more snaps songs for the next time.

A snow cat coffee stout before the crayfish par...

2015-09-05T13:00:14Z

A snow cat coffee stout before the crayfish party today in Gothenburg.

Like https://tommorris.org/posts/9374

2015-09-05T10:22:54Z

Jeena ♥ https://tommorris.org/posts/9374

It's nice to see NetNewsWire back again http://...

2015-09-05T09:37:02Z

It's nice to see NetNewsWire back again http://netnewswireapp.com but sadly with a proprietary sync service, so I can't use it because beside of OS X I also use Android and Linux.

I really need to start cooking more myself agai...

2015-09-05T08:50:24Z

I really need to start cooking more myself again. Especially after watching http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver

Like http://wwwtech.de/notes/7

2015-09-05T07:08:58Z

Jeena ♥ http://wwwtech.de/notes/7

About two years ago when I got my Nikon D5000 I...

2015-09-03T21:59:51Z

About two years ago when I got my Nikon D5000 I went out and took this photo on the left. Then a couple of weeks ago Melisa asked if she was allowed to paint a painting of that photo, which she found on flickr. All my pictures are creative commons licensed so that's not a problem. Today I got mail from her that she is ready with a link to her blog where she posted it http://www.toadinaboat.com/2015/09/02/i-love-to-paint-animals/ You can see the result on the right. That's pretty awesome work I'd say.

I've been working on the Events section of my w...

2015-09-02T19:00:05Z

I've been working on the Events section of my website and I'm quite satisfied https://jeena.net/events/ just need to link it from somewhere.

HWC GOT 2 #IndieWeb

2015-08-26T16:26:25Z

HWC GOT 2 #IndieWeb

Like http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2014/11/29/enabling-webmentions/

2015-08-26T08:38:28Z

Jeena ♥ http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2014/11/29/enabling-webmentions/

Like http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2015/08/24/2/

2015-08-24T20:26:53Z

Jeena ♥ http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2015/08/24/2/

Like http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2015-08-26-homebrew-website-club

2015-08-24T16:45:18Z

Jeena ♥ http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2015-08-26-homebrew-website-club

Auto adjust exposure in webcam

2015-08-23T11:47:51Z

My parents have a summer house in Poland and we had many problems with people who would break in and break stuff in the house. After a couple of years we got us some CCTV which is working nice but is not extendible.

This year I bought a Intel NUC where I connected two cheap USB webcams and installed Zoneminder on which works really great, the only problem is that the cheap webcam doesn't handle bright daylight very well. During the day the whole picture is mostly just white, and in the evening it is black even though there is still enough light for hours to see.

I tested some settings and saw that all the problems can be fixed by ajusting the exposure of the webcam. So today I wrote a shellscript which downloads a current picture from zoneminder, tests it for how brigt it is and adjusts the exposure slightly so the brightness is always at about 50% (through testing I fround this is a good value).

This is the script, compleatly in bash:

#!/bin/bash

# This script, when run continously with cron, adapts
# the Exposure of a cheap webcam which can't do it on
# on its own.
#
# You need to have installed:
# - ImageMagick
# - curl
# - uvcdynctrl

CAMDEVICE="video0"
STILLURL="http://localhost/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=single&monitor=1&scale=100"

EXPOSURE_ORIG=`uvcdynctrl -d /dev/$CAMDEVICE -g "Exposure (Absolute)"`
IMG=/tmp/$CAMDEVICE-latest.jpg
curl -s $STILLURL > $IMG

B=`convert $IMG -colorspace hsb -resize 1x1 txt:- | tail -n1 | tr "," "\n" | tail -n1 | tr "%" "\n" | head -n1`
rm $IMG

OPERATOR=`awk -vb=$B 'BEGIN { print (b >= 50) ? "-" : "+" }'`
EXPOSURE=`echo "$EXPOSURE_ORIG $OPERATOR 1" | bc -l`

if (( $EXPOSURE < 100 )); then # more than 100 exposure is too dark
    sudo uvcdynctrl -d /dev/$CAMDEVICE -s "Exposure (Absolute)" $EXPOSURE
fi

echo "`date +%D-%H:%M` | b: $B | e: $EXPOSURE_ORIG -> $EXPOSURE"

It's funny because it's in Indian English by a...

2015-08-20T21:32:32Z

It's funny because it's in Indian English by a guru http://youtu.be/v9Gx0Hjv3-Q it's about the word "fuck"

Homebrew Website Club Göteborg 26th of A...

2015-08-20T11:40:32Z

Homebrew Website Club Göteborg

26th of August 2015
5:30pm — 7:30pm UTC +02:00
Steampunk Bar, Kungsgatan 7, Göteborg
geo:57.70285,11.95738?z=19
http://atsteampunkbar.se

Discuss progress; meet up; make new friends.

Are you building your own website? Indie reader? Personal publishing web app? Or some other digital magic-cloud proxy? If so, come on by and join a gathering of people with like-minded interests. Bring your friends that want to start a personal web site. Exchange information, swap ideas, talk shop, help work on a project.

(Optional quiet writing hour from 5:30, broadcast discussions start at 6:30)

See http://tantek.com/2013/332/b1/homebrew-website-club-newsletter for a description of the first meeting.

Originally posted on http://indiewebcamp.com/events/2015-08-26-homebrew-website-club

Like http://anomalily.net/6-weeks-on-enbrel/

2015-08-19T19:27:37Z

Jeena ♥ http://anomalily.net/6-weeks-on-enbrel/

We've been painting the house yesterday.

2015-08-19T18:25:05Z

We've been painting the house yesterday.

Wow, this is depressing, CEOs of big companies:...

2015-08-17T21:03:32Z

Wow, this is depressing, CEOs of big companies: Guys named John: 5%; Women (all names): 4%

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/upshot/fewer-women-run-big-companies-than-men-named-john.html

Wow, this is a short but inspiring speach by Ob...

2015-08-16T14:27:22Z

Wow, this is a short but inspiring speach by Obama, wish that the european presidents wouldn't be so afraid of Computer Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XvmhE1J9PY

Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlRa-iH7PGw

2015-08-16T08:46:22Z

Jeena ♥ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlRa-iH7PGw

I thought Baby Metal was the weirdest thing but...

2015-08-15T21:22:02Z

I thought Baby Metal was the weirdest thing but I just found https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=97&v=M8-vje-bq9c

One of the photos we used for this timelaps vid...

2015-08-13T10:01:16Z

One of the photos we used for this timelaps video: http://youtu.be/yxc-68LMOeY

Grafitti 2015

2015-08-10T13:30:22Z

Grafitti 2015

Like https://kylewm.com/2015/08/today-i-get-to-marry-my-favorite-person-in-the-whole

2015-08-09T18:27:39Z

Jeena ♥ https://kylewm.com/2015/08/today-i-get-to-marry-my-favorite-person-in-the-whole

So I'm in Poland now (near Auschwitz), and damn...

2015-08-09T18:23:10Z

So I'm in Poland now (near Auschwitz), and damn I was in Seoul 3 months ago, it was 38°C (100°F), then I was in Portland for 2 months, also all the time between 35°C and 40°C, then I was for two weeks in Sweden, very nice 25°C (77°F), and now I am in Poland and again 38°C, this is the hottest summer of my life.

Free wifi during the flight, living the dream ;)

2015-08-07T18:47:52Z

Free wifi during the flight, living the dream ;)

CPH ✈ KRK for a two weeks vacation with the fam...

2015-08-07T17:43:52Z

CPH ✈ KRK for a two weeks vacation with the family.

A new favourite band, Animals as Leaders, just ...

2015-08-06T17:29:46Z

A new favourite band, Animals as Leaders, just got their two latest albums!

Like https://adactio.com/journal/9350

2015-08-06T17:18:09Z

Jeena ♥ https://adactio.com/journal/9350

Like https://twitter.com/cjk101010/status/629244184269049856

2015-08-06T11:21:35Z

Jeena ♥ https://twitter.com/cjk101010/status/629244184269049856

Surprisingly good cover of Britney Spears' "......

2015-08-03T21:45:03Z

Surprisingly good cover of Britney Spears' "... baby one more time" by Tove Styrke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY93Vwm19zI

Like http://lancey.space/2015/08/how-indieweb-makes-comments-a-little-better

2015-08-03T14:35:09Z

Jeena ♥ http://lancey.space/2015/08/how-indieweb-makes-comments-a-little-better

If you zoom in you can see the Götheborg sailin...

2015-08-02T21:13:19Z

If you zoom in you can see the Götheborg sailing out of Varbergs harbor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6theborg_(ship)

Celebrating last day of the Portland project by...

2015-07-31T21:24:30Z

Celebrating last day of the Portland project by drinking microbrewery beer from Portland I took with me with friends in Varberg. #BridgePort

Two days of work and we got a WiFi access point...

2015-07-31T17:54:32Z

Two days of work and we got a WiFi access point and a mpd server in this raspberry pi :)

Wow this is quite amazing, 1000 artists play on...

2015-07-31T08:10:56Z

Wow this is quite amazing, 1000 artists play one Foo Fighters song together at the same time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE

Like https://aaronparecki.com/notes/2015/07/15/1/indiewebcamp

2015-07-30T23:26:21Z

Jeena ♥ https://aaronparecki.com/notes/2015/07/15/1/indiewebcamp

Like https://tobiastom.name/photos/charles-fort-kinsale

2015-07-30T23:13:26Z

Jeena ♥ https://tobiastom.name/photos/charles-fort-kinsale

Like http://known.kevinmarks.com/2015/homebrew-website-club-indiewebcamp-1

2015-07-30T22:55:01Z

Jeena ♥ http://known.kevinmarks.com/2015/homebrew-website-club-indiewebcamp-1

I am often uploading photos I take to my websit...

2015-07-30T10:48:23Z

I am often uploading photos I take to my website. On my Nexus 5 I can press the <input type="file"> button and can chose "Camera" take a photo and I get the temp file name in the input tag showing up. When I upload the server gets this photo.

On my Nexus 6, when I press on the button, I also can chose "Camera" and take a photo but it never updates the input tag with the temp file name and the server doesn't get any file either. I'm not sure if it is something on my phone or what, I already reinstalled Firefox but it didn't fix that problem.

First Homebrew Website Club in Gothenburg #Indi...

2015-07-29T17:14:34Z

First Homebrew Website Club in Gothenburg #IndieWeb

Don't forget, tomorrow is the first Homebrew We...

2015-07-28T21:36:36Z

Don't forget, tomorrow is the first Homebrew Website Club in Gothenburg! https://jeena.net/notes/386 #indieweb

Swedish police pulls over Snoop Dogg after conc...

2015-07-27T09:24:08Z

Swedish police pulls over Snoop Dogg after concert for 'driving while black', that is not a joke. He had to go to the police station and pee in a cup. They didn't find anything but you can be assured that he is never going back to Sweden.

http://mashable.com/2015/07/26/snoop-dogg-sweden/

I want one of those in my size.

2015-07-22T12:55:17Z

I want one of those in my size.

Homebrew Website Club Göteborg 29th of July ...

2015-07-21T12:22:22Z

Homebrew Website Club Göteborg

29th of July 2015
5:30pm — 7:30pm UTC +02:00
Steampunk Bar, Kungsgatan 7, Göteborg
http://atsteampunkbar.se

Discuss progress; meet up; make new friends.

(Optional quiet writing hour from 5:30, broadcast discussions start at 6:30)

See http://tantek.com/2013/332/b1/homebrew-website-club-newsletter for a description of the first meeting.

Originally posted on https://indiewebcamp.com/events/2015-07-29-homebrew-website-club

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=57.70285&mlon=11.95772#map=19/57.70285/11.95772

I have many good action pictures from the rodeo...

2015-07-20T15:20:36Z

I have many good action pictures from the rodeo so I'll be posting them from time to time.

Here one guy went under the bull with his head, good thing he had a helmet on, otherwise this could have ended differently.

NEAT, someone took over the place where I had m...

2015-07-19T04:42:06Z

NEAT, someone took over the place where I had my Guerilla garden last year and planted their own tomatoes there :D

It's 5:40 in the morning in Portland and I just...

2015-07-18T12:41:14Z

It's 5:40 in the morning in Portland and I just arrived at home. Guess what I'm going to do now, yep that's right, I'm going to sleep in my own bed.

After 7 weeks in Portland OR in the US I'm at P...

2015-07-17T20:15:45Z

After 7 weeks in Portland OR in the US I'm at PDX on my way back home. It was an interesting time and now that I've met Americans I understand them a bit more and don't fear all of them anymore ;-)

Last beer in Portland, a BrewPort cherry porter.

2015-07-17T01:30:19Z

Last beer in Portland, a BrewPort cherry porter.

I like the lightning of the sunset in this one.

2015-07-16T07:09:25Z

I like the lightning of the sunset in this one.

And there is also my Micropub demo which I impl...

2015-07-13T06:11:19Z

And there is also my Micropub demo which I implemented today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l2BdA-D-d8#t=1m10

Oh neat there is a YouTube video of the stream ...

2015-07-13T05:58:11Z

Oh neat there is a YouTube video of the stream where I present posting a photo to my website with my phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJCtLhopfDY#t=13m59s

Tha last thing which happended on the #IndieWeb...

2015-07-13T05:51:12Z

Tha last thing which happended on the #IndieWebCamp Portland 2015 was me and http://jgraham909.com singing and playing caraoke style Rebell Yell by Billy Idol at http://groundkontrol.com/

Micropub live test.

2015-07-12T23:16:22Z

Micropub live test.

The first day at the #IndieWebCamp was quite di...

2015-07-12T06:03:39Z

The first day at the #IndieWebCamp was quite different to my expectations https://jeena.net/indiewebcamp-2015

IndieWebCamp 2015

2015-07-12T05:52:20Z

Consider my mind blown. I kind of expected I would get to this Unconference and there would be a bunch of white young guys talking mostly about node-js, Ember.js, Angular and all the other kind of boring web things which according to HackerNews is the hot stuff going on in the webdeveloper community.

The people

This was not the case at all, there was the woman who is a technical writer with the coolest domain ever http://www.yourmom.io/ who is really opinionated about lots of stuff, particularly about REST-API documentation like this thing called Swagger which I never heard about.

There is the guy who has a pebble and posts every bike ride, every coffe and beer he drinks and a lot of weird things on his website which I kind of assume no one ever reads anywhay, but he has lots of fun with it.

There is this girl who at first seems extreamly shy but in the end gets the most people engaged in her live demo of the chat application she just developed.

There is the really colorfull guy who has at first glance has pink trousers, a pink MacBook and a pink Firefox theme but when you start talking with him he seems knowledgeble about basically anything and is a more then awesome moderator in conversations who can lead everyone from one topic to the other, and if I didn't get it compleatly wrong he's intrested in trance music and tarot card reading communities.

There is the girl who posts literarly everything she buys on her website inclusive a picture, the geo position where she bought it and the geo coordinates where she bought it. Awesome project, scary but awesome.

There is the guy who just highjacked his wedding website with some IndieAuth things so he could be able to log into the IndieWebWiki to RSVP. There is the girl who has been working as a web developer for ages and seems to know a shitload about all the things I mentioned in the first sentence. There was the guy who helped lead development of the Macintosh version of the Internet Explorer. There was the guy who told me where to get cascade hops for my brewing sessions back home which you only can buy around here before I get home to Sweden. There was the guy who will start working for the client I am working right now in Portland, just two weeks after our projectc ends.

There were many more interesting people who I've been talking and listening to. And me with the "Fuck hell, I will go to Valhalla!" T-Shirt. So quite a diverse group, I really wonder how they do it because back in Germany and in Sweden when it comes to meetings like this there was almost always a really homogenous group of white internet-dudes. I would love to learn how to get such a diverse croud. It wasn't perfect obviously, so only causasian people attended, no Asians, no people of Color, no Indians for that matter, and so on. But still much more diverse than I expected.

Sessions

And the sessions were also quite different to what I expected, which was like talking about the protocols and tools on what to use to do what, etc.

But it was really different to this. The first session I attended was just called something like "Community", and we kind of went all over the place. As far as I remember it started with non profit organisations who use Facebook and after the changes lately can not push information to everyone but have to rely on the mercy of Facebooks algorythm to get it to the people who follow them. It went on to the IndieWebCommunity as a thing. Then I pulled the example of my band Hoggatah and our fans as an example of a community and we have the same problem as the non profits on Facebook, but there is not really an alternative to engage with the fans. And the discussion goes on, you can read a nice transcripbt on the etherpad: http://etherpad.indiewebcamp.com/community

The second session was called Network flow it seemed not to be really clear to anyone in the group what this would end up be about but the title sounded cool and computer sciency so I attended. It started with some silo examples like posting to Twitter so people can either act on it and/or relay it. It went on to syndication of content, people as multiplicators, how to find them automatically through algorythms on graphs, we even talked about curation of content as an art form. Even the buzz word "Big Data" got used, haha, awesome!

Then I attended my own session where I tried to find out about the IndieWebReader. My opinion was that we should continue the work with RSS, Aaron tried to explain where we are today with using the HTML and microformats instead. We even identified some problems and kind of got to some proposal on how to solve it. In the end we came to the conclusion that implementing a IndieWebReader with all the features we envision will solve about the same problems as the proposed in SWAT0 which is "The Social Web Acid Test - Level 0 is an integration use case for the federated social web.", and it is quite complicated.

The last session I attended was about Podcasting from your own website. I'm not a podcaster myself but I consume a lot of podcasts so it was sort of interesting, and I knew about Podlove which is a WordPress plugin which makes your WordPress website into a full blown Podcast hosting provider with pages for every episode, etc. We also talked about the problem many have who use external providers that if you don't own url of your podcast feed then you're not able to move from one provider to another because most of the providers don't give you the opportunity to use HTTP 301 (Moved Permanently), and even if they do, iTunes takes weeks to update that and many clients don't implement that anyway.

Beer

After all those sessions it was time to get some beers at a local pub. We went upstares to Bailey’s Taproom where they had nice beers on tap. We continued with a lot of discussions there.

#indiewebcamp live demo

2015-07-11T17:55:23Z

indiewebcamp live demo

That is one of the reasons to own your own data...

2015-07-11T15:09:40Z

That is one of the reasons to own your own data: http://movingfulcrum.com/stackoverflow-modding-itself-out-of-existence/ #indieweb

It is super difficult to capture it in a pictur...

2015-07-06T07:12:35Z

It is super difficult to capture it in a picture, but I can attest that the nature in Oregon, USA is breathtaking! Here we were driving down the coast and stopped at a viewpoint. I had to stay and just watch the scenery for a couple of minutes, I couldn't get enough.

On a road trip to the Pacific Ocean. I checked,...

2015-07-06T07:05:30Z

On a road trip to the Pacific Ocean. I checked, the water was very cold.

I wasn't allowed on a real bull so I at least h...

2015-07-04T09:04:42Z

I wasn't allowed on a real bull so I at least had to try the mechanical one on the St Paul Rodeo http://www.stpaulrodeo.com/

Calf Roping

2015-07-04T08:42:28Z

Today I did the most american thing one can do as a tourist in the US, I went to a rodeo, it was really awesome! They had different things going on, the most prestigous one was the bull riding, but I would like to talk about a different one, which is appearently called calf roping.

This form of sport emerged from the work cowboys do when they need to catch calfs to vaccinate them, at least this is how the speaker explained it.

The clock starts and they let the calf out, it starts running, at the same time the cowboy gets after it on his horse swinging the lasso.

While the lasso is still in the air on the way to the calf the cowboy jumps in full speed off the horse and starts running towards it.

His horse is trained to strain a rope so the calf can't get away. The cowboy arrives by the calf, turns it on its back and binds its feet together, this is when the time stopps.

The cowboy wacks back and up on the horse. If the calf can free itself within a couple of seconds then this is a miss, if not then the fastest cowboy wins.

Mount Hood shot in the evening from my hotel ro...

2015-07-03T17:16:24Z

Mount Hood shot in the evening from my hotel room in Portland OR, USA.

I have to say that I really love how they desig...

2015-07-03T17:11:48Z

I have to say that I really love how they design and build their single-family houses here in the US. There is always an awesome veranda in the front where they often have a couch and drink beer with the neighbours. And there obviously is a backyard at the back where you can have your children play safely.

Americans seem to use the offered facilities a ...

2015-07-03T17:07:30Z

Americans seem to use the offered facilities a lot more often than you'd see back home. There are almost always people playing something outside. So at least here in Portland OR the prejustice about the fat coutch potato american seems to to hold up.

It was fleet week a couple of weeks ago here in...

2015-07-03T17:02:07Z

It was fleet week a couple of weeks ago here in Portland OR, USA http://www.rosefestival.org/event/fleet-week so we were able to see a couple of quite big war ships like those.

Another sampler.

2015-07-01T14:21:10Z

Another sampler.

If you're in Portland join me tomorrow tor the ...

2015-07-01T05:32:38Z

If you're in Portland join me tomorrow tor the IndieWebCamp Homebrew Website Clubat the Fat Head’s Brewery https://jeena.net/homebrew-website-club-portland

Homebrew Website Club

2015-07-01T05:16:08Z

1st of July 2015; 5:30pm — 7:30pm UTC -07:00
Fat Head’s Brewery 131 NW 13th Ave, Portland, OR 97209

Discuss progress; meet up; make new friends.

(Optional quiet writing hour from 5:30, broadcast discussions start at 6:30)

See the Homebrew Website Club Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1 for a description of the first meeting.

Originally posted on indiewebcamp.com

We meet at the Fat Head’s Brewery 131 NW 13th Ave, Portland, OR 97209.

I bought this beauty yesterday, can't wait to t...

2015-06-30T15:36:37Z

I bought this beauty yesterday, can't wait to try it out with the rest of the band!

A six year old boy in Olot (Catalonia) who beca...

2015-06-27T17:47:26Z

A six year old boy in Olot (Catalonia) who became ill with diphtheria died because he wasn't vaccinated.

https://www.thespainreport.com/16953/six-year-old-boy-with-diphtheria-in-catalonia-dies/

HM I wanted a mango coctail and got a bucket of...

2015-06-27T04:26:27Z

HM I wanted a mango coctail and got a bucket of it because it is happy hour.

CNN Breaking News: Same-sex marriage legal in a...

2015-06-26T15:52:29Z

CNN Breaking News: Same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states of the USA. Your move, Germany. #LoveWins

Interesting how different the pub culture is in...

2015-06-25T03:16:22Z

Interesting how different the pub culture is in Portland, we're sitting in a breweries own beer garden where they serve only their own brewed beer. They even sell a lot of weird sour beer. Still I counted and There 27 women here and only 17 man.

Sour beer at cascades brewing barrel.

2015-06-25T02:33:20Z

Sour beer at cascades brewing barrel.

So this is interesting. Douglas Crockford, who ...

2015-06-23T10:35:23Z

So this is interesting. Douglas Crockford, who is one of the most influential people in the JavaScript community, proposes a way to "upgrade" the web. He'd like to get rid of HTML/CSS/HTTP und build it instead on JSON/Crypto and to my suprise Qt (and I guess he actually means QML). Since I've started at Pelagicore I really have seen the light, it is like Douglas says it in his talk, HTML/CSS was invented to markup articles, it just doesn't do well in application development and we should not force it to do that, there are much better alternatives.

https://angularu.com/VideoSession/2015sf/upgrading-the-web

They have a nice collection of "Cooking with Ga...

2015-06-21T00:00:52Z

They have a nice collection of "Cooking with Ganja" books here.

Drinking at the brewery is really inexpensive, ...

2015-06-20T07:36:58Z

Drinking at the brewery is really inexpensive, $4 for a beer with almost 10% and it was really good! With plums which you can taste in it. Sadly only on tap not in a bottle so I could take it with me.

I got a cassette with an album by a old-school ...

2015-06-19T19:58:51Z

I got a cassette with an album by a old-school punk band from a friend when I was like 18 and I listened to it quite a lot in my car. I knew the name but I forgot it. Right now I'm in Portland OR USA and I went out with some work colleagues for a couple of beers, we ended up in the Paymaster Lounge Bar where they played a song from this band!

So I had to ask what they were called and it was "Dead Moon", turns out they are a local band from Portland. Check them out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QunPzFV41uk

So the US sadly is only a great place to live i...

2015-06-19T04:53:26Z

So the US sadly is only a great place to live in when you're rich and healthy. Sadly Molly E. Holzschlag, a an author, teacher and Open Web Evangelist whom I learned from quite a lot back in the days lives in the US and is sick, she has cancer. Today she posted a blog post called: "This is the end, this is the end of the insurance" http://www.molly.com/2015/06/18/the-end-of-the-insurance/

Today after work I'll join Aaron at http://aaro...

2015-06-17T19:19:30Z

Today after work I'll join Aaron at http://aaronparecki.com/events/2015/06/17/1/homebrew-website-club

Today after work I went to the Mississippi Mark...

2015-06-17T01:50:55Z

Today after work I went to the Mississippi Marktetplace here in Portland to get some more vegan food from http://thenativebowl.com which sadly already closed at 4pm. But on the left of it there was a vegan smoked barbeque where I got this burger like thing which tasted really smoked.

Best food I've eaten in Portland yet! I just wa...

2015-06-14T00:02:26Z

Best food I've eaten in Portland yet! I just was at this vegan restaurant Aaron http://aaronparecki.com/ recommended. It had real and different flavors, not just grease as most of the things I had here in Portland before. I'm definitely impressed an will test the other vegan restaurants he has on his list https://foursquare.com/aaronpk/list/patio-dining

Just watched Jurrasic World in a IMAX cinema. I...

2015-06-13T05:36:46Z

Just watched Jurrasic World in a IMAX cinema. It was entertaining but not really a good movie.

We got some cycles and went a big round to the ...

2015-06-07T03:37:43Z

We got some cycles and went a big round to the corners of Portland where we found a real american sportsbar. We got cold towels, had chicken wings and beer and went back.

J just uploaded the best photos from my Seoul j...

2015-06-06T18:41:07Z

J just uploaded the best photos from my Seoul journey to a Flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/gp/jeena/2133w4

USA! USA! I just arrived at the office and jump...

2015-06-01T22:32:30Z

USA! USA! I just arrived at the office and jumped right into a meeting.

Back at Landvetter airport again, now on my way...

2015-06-01T03:38:58Z

Back at Landvetter airport again, now on my way to Portland Oregon in the USA for 6 weeks of work.

OMG I'm so excited! I just startend up my Amiga...

2015-05-29T23:49:24Z

OMG I'm so excited! I just startend up my Amiga with the new cable and the original Workbench diskette and it simply started and works without problems. Last time I booted this maschine was 1995.

Finally a good song by David Hasselhoff again: ...

2015-05-29T12:59:11Z

Finally a good song by David Hasselhoff again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY

Someone replaced the snare drum from Metallica'...

2015-05-28T17:35:43Z

Someone replaced the snare drum from Metallica's Master of Puppets with the shitty one from St. Anger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=94&v=Xui06jwWaAM

Preparing for a Amiga play afternoon reboot.

2015-05-28T11:22:08Z

Preparing for a Amiga play afternoon reboot.

Just landed in Landvetter/Gothenburg, Sweden yo...

2015-05-27T15:25:53Z

Just landed in Landvetter/Gothenburg, Sweden you have me back for a couple of days!

In between flights in Helsinki.

2015-05-27T11:35:03Z

In between flights in Helsinki.

Yesterday was Buddhas birthday so we went to th...

2015-05-26T13:48:09Z

Yesterday was Buddhas birthday so we went to the Jogyesa Temple in Seoul to celebrate it. It was beautifully decorated with thousends of laterns, as seen in the background, but also they build those awesome big statues out of paper with light in them. There were at least 80 of them and they showed stations in Buddhas life.

We've been on a eSport Gaming Event in Seoul, K...

2015-05-26T12:57:33Z

We've been on a eSport Gaming Event in Seoul, Korea and you can see me in one of the Nice Game TV videos! Check out the blog post about it: https://jeena.net/korean-esport

eSports Gaming Event

2015-05-26T12:51:49Z

So last saturday we went to a esport event here in Seoul together with our AirBnB host. We went to the "Nice Game TV" studio and sat there during two of the last maches of a tournament and watched 10 guys playing against each other.

Esport is really big in Korea, they fill stadions with 80.000 people watching some (mostly) guys playing a match of computer games like League of Legends here during big events.

The studio we went to was quite new, they appearently just opened it a couple of weeks ago. It is mostly like a internet caffe where there are many computers with the latest games already installed so you can just log in into your account and start playing.

But most interesting for you readers will be those two videos which "Nice Game TV" streamed live (we've been watching their chanel on national TV at the hotel the week before) and uploaded to their YouTube channel. We didn't play at the PCs because of us three only Ali plays videogames but he doesn't play LoL. Instad we were led to the recording studio where 10 guys sat in small booths behind glas in front of PCs and played against each other while we and about 20 other people were watching them.

You can see me at 5:14 in the first video sitting with the crowd and smiling like little boy on his birthday :D, you can see Ali, who I traveled with to Korea at 6:04 and Eun You, our AirBnB host, at 11:00, this was the first match we watched:

If you didn't recognice us, we are the guys with the colorfull T-shirts ;-) When they show me for the first time they seem to say something about Sweden. We've been talking to the owner before we went to the recording studio and told him that we're from Sweden, so I guess he told the hosts of the show and they have been talking about that then later in the show.

Then there was a small pause of 20 minutes where got ourselves some Korean candy and lemonade which they sold there, afterwards we watched another match. Me and Ali can be seen at 14:36 and Eun You at 15:11, check this out:

Here is a picture of how it looked from where I sat:

So all in all it was an interesting evening, but because I don't play the game and I don't speak Korean I did not understand much of it, I just sat there and tried to look good for the camera.

Btw. if someone speaks Korean and wants to translate what they said about us, please feel free to do so and send it to me, it would be highly appreciated!

A warrior guards a gate.

2015-05-25T03:07:25Z

A warrior guards a gate.

How much more clear could they be: "No Photo!"

2015-05-22T10:47:25Z

How much more clear could they be: "No Photo!"

In the middle of Seoul there is the small Bukch...

2015-05-22T10:40:50Z

In the middle of Seoul there is the small Bukchon Hanok Village where they still have the traditional houses with the funny roofs and everything. People still live there, even though it is a tourist attraction.

We visited some palace and a school class was t...

2015-05-22T10:05:27Z

We visited some palace and a school class was there too.

There are really many cafes in Seoul, and one p...

2015-05-21T14:13:12Z

There are really many cafes in Seoul, and one particular thing stands out they have them (but also restaurants) often at the 1st floor of a building but it is often quite warm so they still want you to feel like you'd be outside. What they do is to build in really humangous windows which they can fully open like in this picture.

About to taste seven Korean beers for lunch.

2015-05-21T05:25:40Z

About to taste seven Korean beers for lunch.

Even late in the evening you still can buy awes...

2015-05-20T15:34:03Z

Even late in the evening you still can buy awesome streetfood here in Seoul.

We visited the Namdaemun Market in Seoul today ...

2015-05-20T10:00:35Z

We visited the Namdaemun Market in Seoul today where you can get pig feet, looks kind of delicious.

Korean boys try to impress the girls with a k-p...

2015-05-20T09:47:07Z

Korean boys try to impress the girls with a k-pop dance cover, it seems to work quite well.

My new ice cream car.

2015-05-19T14:12:29Z

My new ice cream car.

Drinking a Korean ale at the Gentle Surfer bar.

2015-05-19T13:34:54Z

Drinking a Korean ale at the Gentle Surfer bar.

Watching "Mad Max" in 4D whatever this is suppo...

2015-05-18T13:00:50Z

Watching "Mad Max" in 4D whatever this is supposed to be. Will be interesting to read this afterwards http://m.hitfix.com/harpy/7-ways-mad-max-fury-road-sublimely-subverts-movie-sexism/single-page

At the design museum.

2015-05-17T03:45:50Z

At the design museum.

Cooked chicken soup was quite nice.

2015-05-16T10:31:32Z

Cooked chicken soup was quite nice.

Over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory...

2015-05-15T23:07:33Z

Over 80 percent of Americans support “mandatory labels on foods containing DNA” page 4 on http://agecon.okstate.edu/faculty/publications/4975.pdf

The washington Post writes about it too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/17/over-80-percent-of-americans-support-mandatory-labels-on-foods-containing-dna/

Korea seems to have the loudest clubs. It is in...

2015-05-15T16:14:29Z

Korea seems to have the loudest clubs. It is insane it must be 130 db or something, I'm kind of overwhelmed with how loud it is.

Still jetleging so we woke up 2pm and had a ham...

2015-05-15T08:07:04Z

Still jetleging so we woke up 2pm and had a hamburger for breakfast at some hipster place.

Asia seems quite colorful.

2015-05-14T03:28:42Z

Asia seems quite colorful.

Neat, we got to our hotel in Seoul but we still...

2015-05-14T02:33:30Z

Neat, we got to our hotel in Seoul but we still need to wait 3 hours before we can check in and sleep.

Breakfast #2 on our way to Seoul, now in Helsinki.

2015-05-13T13:57:12Z

Breakfast #2 on our way to Seoul, now in Helsinki.

It's almost 11 am, time for som breakfast.

2015-05-13T08:58:07Z

It's almost 11 am, time for som breakfast.

Preparing for the vacation in South Korea tomor...

2015-05-12T22:52:08Z

Preparing for the vacation in South Korea tomorrow by watching a 7 hours video from the 2014 Legue of Legends World Finals. This is surreal, they're playing a computer game and about 10.000 people are watching in a big football like arena. They even have american commentators who comment the game as if it were a American Football game. But the most epic part is the introduction video where they let the nerdy boys with glasses run and bump into each other for no apparent reason at 1:56:30 :D https://youtu.be/bY-hTW1W-DU?t=1h56m30s

"Automotive manufacturer Daimler unveiled a sel...

2015-05-10T21:16:01Z

"Automotive manufacturer Daimler unveiled a self-driving truck – the first to be cleared to drive on US roads" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27485-autonomous-truck-cleared-to-drive-on-us-roads-for-the-first-time.html#.VU-vqfSNFuE

Finally! I wondered for years when we will get this technology. Obviously we need to do something with all the human drivers but I for one welcome our new autonomous overlords! I anticipate the next one will be busses in cities, then garbage trucks and taxis.

My parents got themselves a Photovoltaic system...

2015-05-10T16:44:40Z

My parents got themselves a Photovoltaic system for their 60th birthday so they can generate their own electric power. In combination with the new Tesla home battery they could start living off the grid which is sooo cool! I'm really jealous and proud that they invest in our all future! Just awesme!

I love John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" on HBO...

2015-04-30T17:44:45Z

I love John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight" on HBO I watch most of the episodes on YouTube but I kind of would like to show my gratitude and subscribe to HBO. My problem: I live in Sweden. There is HBO Nordic (https://se.hbonordic.com/) but it doesn't seem to offer LWT.

Today in our Clasics Movie Circle we watched "T...

2015-04-28T19:29:21Z

Today in our Clasics Movie Circle we watched "The Big Boss" with Bruce Lee http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067824/

This is a very interesting read: "Ask HN: What ...

2015-04-25T17:01:35Z

This is a very interesting read: "Ask HN: What made you choose your current career?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9438577 I also added my story there.

I just met spiderman.

2015-04-25T13:08:51Z

I just met spiderman.

We’re live streaming the Chuck Alpha 2 test ses...

2015-04-23T18:19:29Z

We’re live streaming the Chuck Alpha 2 test session today watch it on Twitch now: http://www.twitch.tv/jeenap

Finally I got me a new bed! I assume I will sle...

2015-04-23T08:29:35Z

Finally I got me a new bed! I assume I will sleep like a sultan tonight!

I'm tired oft tech podcasts, and am looking for...

2015-04-20T07:20:51Z

I'm tired oft tech podcasts, and am looking for ones about biology, physics, popculture, etc. Any suggestions?

It took me a week to do it but finally I got Fi...

2015-04-18T20:42:03Z

It took me a week to do it but finally I got Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 installed. I compiled it from the master branch and it is really buggy, but my own app FeedMonkey works like a charm on the newest version. I'm satisfied.

Hamburger style from Linas Matkasse (I made it ...

2015-04-18T10:54:59Z

Hamburger style from Linas Matkasse (I made it myself with their recipe)

A Table Tale

2015-04-18T08:39:40Z

They are building a really big house next to where I live.

I lived in this neighbourhood since 2006, first in a private house in a woman's house who works a doctor at the hospital here in Varberg. Finding a flat isn't easy here you have to wait for several years, so I was lucky that she had a basement built like an apartment with a small kitchen and bathroom, without any windows, and two room where I and another guy lived in for a couple of years.

She also had a really great and big garden which besides me basically no one else living in that house used. We had some great parties there, my 30th birthday, grill parties …

… and even the one time when the Swedish Pirate Party was about to enter the european parlament.

In those pictures you can see a white table, this table was given to me by an elderly man who lived across the street, exactly where they build the new house now. I remember him telling me over the fence that it is a pity that me and my daughter didn't have any table in the garden when we spent time there and that he had a spare one which he could give me. He said he had also a couple of chairs but those he wanted back for some reason so I got the table but declined the offer for the chairs.

Then I moved across the street, here we had to party inside, most often in my kitchen, which looked like this:

Then, I think it was about two years ago, me and a friend went by the mans house when he opened the window and asked for help because he was trapped in the house and the phone wouldn't work when he tried to call his wife who was at home and who had keys to this house and could let him out.

We were quite confused at first, he gave us the number he was trying to call and when I tried to call there the telephone in the house started ringing. Slowly we remembered that his wife died a year before that and started to realise that he was calling his own phone which then would be occupied. He seemed really in need of help so we had to call the Social Security office who then send a couple of police woman who then took over from us.

After that I never saw him again. I guess he now lives in a retirement home where he hopefully can get help when he gets that confused again.

Oh I didn't know that Monika Kruse is still DJ-...

2015-04-07T04:38:04Z

Oh I didn't know that Monika Kruse is still DJ-ing, here is her minimal techno set from fabric (London) https://soundcloud.com/fabric/monika-kruse-fabric-x-intec-mix

On our way to Karlskrona where we'll take a boa...

2015-04-03T03:48:22Z

On our way to Karlskrona where we'll take a boat to fish on the sea for six hours!

Another dish from https://linasmatkasse.se This...

2015-03-31T17:22:26Z

Another dish from https://linasmatkasse.se This time it only took me about 35 minutes.

Hackaton with / about 3D printers today.

2015-03-30T16:28:21Z

Hackaton with / about 3D printers today.

Brewing the first batch, looks like we'll brew ...

2015-03-28T16:08:51Z

Brewing the first batch, looks like we'll brew next week again!

Got my touch screen, which I got as a christmas...

2015-03-27T22:33:52Z

Got my touch screen, which I got as a christmas present, working on the Raspberry Pi.

I wonder, what data do people save in the cloud...

2015-03-26T16:38:39Z

I wonder, what data do people save in the cloud besides backup? Amazon gives us now unlimited cloud storage ...

A mix of U2 and Journey + a 80ies style music v...

2015-03-23T19:35:50Z

A mix of U2 and Journey + a 80ies style music video, it will be big this year: http://youtu.be/6JCLY0Rlx6Q

Last time we brewed was over half a year ago, I...

2015-03-23T18:58:52Z

Last time we brewed was over half a year ago, I'm really looking forward to do it again. This time we'll go back to square one, a really plain IPA with no additional flavors.

Goodbye London it was far too short!

2015-03-22T15:10:15Z

Goodbye London it was far too short!

Meeting our cousin who lives here.

2015-03-21T15:29:07Z

Meeting our cousin who lives here.

At the pub again.

2015-03-21T15:27:16Z

At the pub again.

First day in London with my siblings.

2015-03-21T07:14:29Z

First day in London with my siblings.

Wohoo, weekend in London! Sitting in the airpla...

2015-03-20T09:07:24Z

Wohoo, weekend in London! Sitting in the airplane now. Will meet my siblings there too and visit my cousin.

Damn, just wasted 3 hours of my life trying to ...

2015-03-16T23:14:15Z

Damn, just wasted 3 hours of my life trying to set up bluetooth on my ThinkPad 2537JC6, checked the internet and it turns out it doesn't have bluetooth hardware, damn!

Today I bought this 4pack of Sigtuna IPAs and d...

2015-03-14T21:35:03Z

Today I bought this 4pack of Sigtuna IPAs and damn all of them are really great beers!

Selfies were yesterday, the new hotness are gro...

2015-03-11T12:24:31Z

Selfies were yesterday, the new hotness are groupies at work!

Android Notifications to The GNOME Desktop, thi...

2015-03-07T18:28:29Z

Android Notifications to The GNOME Desktop, this will be really cool for work! http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/new-app-brings-android-notifications-to-the-gnome-desktop

I've implemented a "playing now ..." functional...

2015-03-04T22:32:21Z

I've implemented a "playing now ..." functionality on my homepage which shows which song I'm listening to right now.

Trying out https://www.linasmatkasse.se/ they s...

2015-03-02T17:36:24Z

Trying out https://www.linasmatkasse.se/ they say this are 8 lunches for about 50 €, delivered to your doorstep. We'll see how it works for me.

I blogged about my private music streaming solu...

2015-03-02T07:49:28Z

I blogged about my private music streaming solution with a Raspberry Pi https://jeena.net/private-music-streaming

Private "Spotify"

2015-02-28T00:57:54Z

Because of a couple of political reasons, which I won't discuss here, I am not using Spotify but instead buy most of my music on vinyl, which nowadays almost always comes with either a CD or the ability to download good sounding MP3s.

But I still adore how Spotify solved the problem of not being able to have all your music with you all the time. I wanted to have something like that but self hosted with my own music on it and if possible with open source software.

Hardware

Two weeks ago I found out about the new Raspberry Pi 2 (short RP) which is about three times faster as its predecessor but still consumes just a fraction of power of a full blown PC. It uses a ARM7 4 core processor and has 1 GB RAM. This, so I reasoned, should be enough as a server for my own music.

I bought a 64 GB SD card because it was reasonably priced and doesn't use as much power as a external hard disk but is still big enough to fit all my music I have now and will buy the next couple of years. I even 3D printed a case for it at work, check it out:

The weird looking holes right and left are me trying to fit the RP into the not so greatly fitting case and making some room with a hot knife afterwards. Our 3D printer at work is quite old and not really calibrated, but it's still pretty neat.

Software

The software was much more cumbersome. First I was looking if Plex would run on the RP 2, because even though it is not open source it really works well for my home video entertainment, even on the road. There seems to be a Plex server version for ARM processors but it seems very old and not official.

DLNA

My next thought was DLNA, but after some research I found out that this will not work for me if I'm trying to stream from outside of my home network because the clients I found don't let me put in the IP address of my RP, it seems that it is mostly designed to be auto discovered within one network.

Music Player Daemon

Then a coworker mentioned mpd so I installed the server on the RP and a client on my android phone and at first it was cool, I was able to browse my music and stream it. The problem is mpd is designed to play the music on the server hardware and there is only a plugin which lets you stream the music over the network to a different device but it is still played on the server.

This turned out to lag immensely. From me pressing the play button until I was able to hear the music it took over 15 seconds! And it didn't cache the music I already played either. It wouldn't work on the train, for example, where I don't always have steady network. I have 15 GB to use during the month on my mobile internet plan but because I am commuting two hours a day this would be gone quite fast without cache.

Little did I know a comment by Christopher Sikk on my post about mpd would be the key to the solution, he mentioned Subsonic.

Subsonic

Subsonic is "Your complete, personal media streamer.", the very cool thing about it is that it already has many different clients and a nice API. It is also open source (GPL 3). One thing I didn't quite like was its web front end which is very slow. The reason for that I assume is that it is written in Java which is good for portability, so I was able to run it on the ARM7 CPU, but often makes for bloated software by design.

The web front end is slow but I almost never have to use it because I am using the different clients, they have a really nice one for Android which while playing downloads and saves the songs in a directory for all the other music players on the phone to use it. But I don't even need that because the player itself looks and works really great.

On Linux I use Clementine which has a plugin to be able to show the music from Subsonic. It is not a very sexy music player and it can't even show the artwork but it plays reliably and honors the media buttons on my keyboard which is more than I could say about most of the other music players.

For OS X I found Submariner and sometimes I even try to use it but it is really weird. I have to admit that as a plain music player I really like iTunes on OS X, therefor I decided to kill two birds with one stone.

Arch Linux ARM

As the OS on the RP I am using Arch Linux ARM which I really like. It is super slim, you only install the things you really need and it uses SystemD which I like and know how to use to start and supervise applications like Subsonic. The only dependency Subsonic had was Java 7 ARM which I was able to install via the normal package manager without problems. I run the system like a real server, which means without X (the graphical interface), everything I do I am doing via ssh.

Syncthing

I needed backup of all my music anyway so I decided to use Syncthing to sync my Music folder from the iMac to the RP. I already lost my whole music library twice because I didn't understand how to use OwnCloud Sync nor Bittorrentsync, I removed the music from the second computer because I needed the space which also deleted the music on my iMac and all the music was gone.

I still have all my download codes and my CDs so it wasn't a problem to get everything back but it took quite some time, and it happened twice, so I was quite reluctant at first. But then I found out that one can make one computer the master for a directory which means that no matter what happens on the other computers, the master directory will never be changed by that.

How does it work?

I have to say that It works really really great! When I buy some music I put it into the ~/Music directory on my iMac, Syncthing automatically synchronises it to the RP where Subsonic first indexes it and then lets me play it on my way to work and at work through the Android client or Clementine. At the same time I can listen to it on iTunes on my iMac and have double backups of my music, the TimeMachine and the Raspberry Pi.

To put the cherry on the cake Subsonic also scrobbles all my plays to my account at Last FM, btw. add me as your friend there if you yourself use it too.

I have the luck to have kind of static IPs for all my devices at home which are public and only changed when I remove the device for a longer period of time from the network. That is why I right now don't need to handle dynamic IP addresses, I just point one of my subdomains to the RP so it is easier to remember.

I am really surprised that in the end everything worked out that great, I have my Spotify replacement with open source software hosted at home on a really low power device with all my own music available everywhere where I can find a internet connection.

@moonhooch I just bought your "This is Cave Mus...

2015-02-27T22:32:24Z

@moonhooch I just bought your "This is Cave Music" and it is so freaking amazing even better than your last album!

Interesting, the newest Moon Hooch album "This ...

2015-02-27T21:29:18Z

Interesting, the newest Moon Hooch album "This is Cave Music" is available from their website https://www.ptxstore.com/moonhooch/productinfo.php?productsid=2188 on vinyl + download code for $18.99. You can also get it from Amazon $4 cheaper, in theory also with a download included but only if you live in Germany, the US, Switzerland and some other places, but not if you live in Sweden like I do. However, I much more prefer to pay directly to the band instead of Amazon so I'm quite happy to pay the extra $4!

Wanna know which of the social networks was my ...

2015-02-26T19:15:51Z

Wanna know which of the social networks was my first one? it was last.fm, I joined in 2006 and still using it sometimes even daily, add me as your friend there: http://last.fm/user/jeenaparadies

OMG! OMG! Me and my band Hoggatah won the first...

2015-02-23T22:38:00Z

OMG! OMG! Me and my band Hoggatah won the first round in Livekarusellen, a music contest here in sweden, against 5 other local bands. Next stop is Trollhättan some time during spring.

https://www.facebook.com/studieframjandethallandmusik/posts/800052403447498

"They found that … alcohol was the deadliest su...

2015-02-23T19:46:18Z

"They found that … alcohol was the deadliest substance, followed by heroin and cocaine." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/23/marijuana-may-be-even-safer-than-previously-thought-researchers-say/

I really love this artsy style of the movie "Th...

2015-02-21T21:36:47Z

I really love this artsy style of the movie "The Grand Budapest Hotel" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/

Moving on to Arch Linux on my Raspberry Pi beca...

2015-02-21T14:08:30Z

Moving on to Arch Linux on my Raspberry Pi because Debian doesn't reboot properly with systemd.

Today at 20:00 (so in 1,5 hours) we'll have a a...

2015-02-19T17:32:12Z

Today at 20:00 (so in 1,5 hours) we'll have a alpha session playing http://chuck-game.tumblr.com/ send me a PM with your email address so I can send you an invitation to our https://chuck-js.slack.com channel.

I assume we should start learning Russian? http...

2015-02-17T23:46:51Z

I assume we should start learning Russian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OU4PScLOu8

Clear QML Settings on OS X

2015-02-17T21:38:51Z

I am working on a rewrite of my TinyTinyRSS client called FeedTheMonkey from PyQt which are bindings in Python for Qt to a real Qt application with a C++ backend and a QML frontend. You can check out the code on Github if you like.

I hope by doing so I will be able to port it to many more platforms like for example the new Ubuntu Phone without rewriting too much code. And besides that I would like to make the installation process much easier, right now you have to manually install Qt and Python and the bindings. I hope after the rewrite I will be able to offer a .app for OS X, a .exe for Windows and perhaps get it packaged for the normal Linux and BSD distros.

Anyway, I am using QSettings to save some application data within C++ and the new QML Settings which were added to Qt 5.4 which I use for my project. Those let you save data easily without the need to create and parse files, etc. you just get an object.

For C++

QSettings settings("net.jeena", "FeedTheMonkey");
settings.setValue("serverUrl", mServerUrl);
settings.sync();
// to get it back later on:
QString serverUrl = settings.value("serverUrl").toString();

Pretty neat, but what if you for some reason want to remove every settings value for a fresh start? QSettings has a clear() method which would kind of work but you would need to have a working application for that. What if you just want to remove the corresponding files?

I'm on OS X Yosemite and like the QSettings documentation described I was able to find the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.net-jeena.feedthemonkey.plist but when I removed it my application was still able to read from the settings file. After some searching the Internet I was able to find out that starting with OS X 10.9 the .plist Perference files are being cached in the applications process. You can flush the cache with help of:

killall -u jeena cfprefsd

For QML

// in the main() function
QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);
app.setOrganizationName("Jeena");
app.setOrganizationDomain("jeena.net");
app.setApplicationName("FeedTheMonkey");

// in main.qml
ApplicationWindow {
    id: app
    title: "FeedMonkey"
    Settings {
        id: settings
        category: "window"
        property alias x: app.x
        property alias y: app.y
        property alias width: app.width
        property alias height: app.height
    }
}

This way when you change the window position and size it will automatically be saved and when starting the application later on it will be read and set automatically back to those values. Very very nice. But again here, what if you want to remove those files? Sadly the QML Settings documentation doesn't mention anything about that, there is no clear() method, nothing.

What I did to find out where it saves the data was that I changed the application name to a long random ASCII string so be able to use the find command to find all files in the ~/Library directory which would be associated with my application. Here is what I found:

~/Library/Application Support/Jeena/FeedTheMonkey
~/Library/Caches/Jeena/FeedTheMonkey
~/Library/Preferences/net.jeena.FeedTheMonkey.plist

Removing those and again running killall -u jeena cfprefsd made it possible for me to do a fresh start.

Company event, ice hockey live today!

2015-02-12T18:07:08Z

Company event, ice hockey live today!

So it begins. #singularity http://www.theguardi...

2015-02-09T08:27:29Z

So it begins. #singularity http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/09/south-korean-womans-hair-eaten-by-robot-vacuum-cleaner-as-she-slept

One of the ugliest casette artworks I've ever s...

2015-02-08T10:04:08Z

One of the ugliest casette artworks I've ever seen!

Setting up a Raspberry Pi 2 as my music server....

2015-02-06T20:04:24Z

Setting up a Raspberry Pi 2 as my music server. First step: installing Debian, second: installing systemd. Then I will try a couple of different servers like for example http://musicpd.org because I want the convenience of Spotify but with my own music. Let us hope I can find some good looking clients for OS X, Linux and Android too ...

I just bought a one year commuter rail pass bet...

2015-02-03T08:10:08Z

I just bought a one year commuter rail pass between Varberg, where I live, and Gothenburg, where I work. I never realized how much money that costs, I payed 1912 EUR which is 787 EUR cheaper than if you buy it seperately every month.

OH: "JavaScript is stringly typed"

2015-02-02T22:04:33Z

OH: "JavaScript is stringly typed"

I remember her from some 90ies children show as...

2015-02-01T18:29:39Z

I remember her from some 90ies children show as Winnie, but nowadays she is a mathematician with a degree and trying to teach the masses that math is fun. Check out her π song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT6cf2Z1D2s

Snowy Gothenburg

2015-01-30T09:56:52Z

Snowy Gothenburg

And I'm back in the weird part of YouTube again...

2015-01-27T21:08:32Z

And I'm back in the weird part of YouTube again ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZa4yre0uEk

I was fast and took a ex colleagues 27" screen ...

2015-01-20T08:44:58Z

I was fast and took a ex colleagues 27" screen after he resigned. What a luxury to have two of them!

Varberg by night, from the roof of my house at ...

2015-01-20T02:55:08Z

Varberg by night, from the roof of my house at about 3:30 am.

Today was the first time _ever_ I used my backu...

2015-01-18T22:28:38Z

Today was the first time ever I used my backup to retrieve lost data. I wanted to upgrade my OwnCloud instance but instead I just removed the old one and installed a new one. After that I turned on Contacts on my mac and anticipated the OwnCloud to fill up with the data from it. But instead all data on my mac just dissapeared. I still do have the data on other devices but it was easier to use TimeMachine for the first time in real life.

Randomly generated BuzzFeed: http://fuzzzbeed.h...

2015-01-18T20:00:29Z

Randomly generated BuzzFeed: http://fuzzzbeed.herokuapp.com/ it is quite a thing!

Back home from Germany (again), note finally wa...

2015-01-18T15:11:11Z

Back home from Germany (again), note finally watching Newsroom.

Visiting @cjk101010

2015-01-17T13:04:56Z

Visiting @cjk101010

On my way to @cjk101010 to germany, one week to...

2015-01-16T13:44:51Z

On my way to @cjk101010 to germany, one week to early but he said I can come anyway ^^

We got cool hoodies at work, weee!

2015-01-12T11:56:40Z

We got cool hoodies at work, weee!

If you like chiptune, then I have a music tipp ...

2015-01-12T11:40:40Z

If you like chiptune, then I have a music tipp for you: "Essential Chip Mix 2014" it even has some Chipzel songs in it, the girls who did the music for the Super Hexagon game.

https://soundcloud.com/henryhomesweet/essential-chip-mix-2014

Finally listening to some Rasmus on my MK2, but...

2015-01-08T21:50:36Z

Finally listening to some Rasmus on my MK2, but I really have to do something with all those cables ...

Long exposure photography.

2015-01-07T17:16:37Z

Long exposure photography.

Ok, I'm back in Sweden but the Deutsche Bahn wa...

2015-01-06T22:29:07Z

Ok, I'm back in Sweden but the Deutsche Bahn was late as always so I missed the last train to Varberg and have to go by buss to Gothenburg which will arrive at 2:30 and then wait to 5:20 until the first train goes to Varberg, leave my stuff there and then back to Gothenburg for the first day at work tomorrow. I will try to talk to the buss driver again when we approach Varberg to let me out there somewhere ...

Back at my parents house after a couple of days...

2015-01-02T07:47:11Z

Back at my parents house after a couple of days in Berlin visiting my brother. We also went to a big techno party where we got in for free because my brother knew the DJs. We also went to a couchsurfing new years eve party where they had to have a guest list because the apartment was much smaler then the amount of people who wanted to join. Here again my brother knew the right people and we were allowed to stay. Berlin seems highly exclusive.

Great weather today!

2014-12-28T13:51:03Z

Great weather today!

Together with my brother we laid laminate at ou...

2014-12-27T19:25:06Z

Together with my brother we laid laminate at our parents house today.

My father showed me how to make the typical fra...

2014-12-25T11:32:32Z

My father showed me how to make the typical franconian Bratwurst.

On the Christmas market with my family.

2014-12-21T18:08:49Z

On the Christmas market with my family.

Mhmm Christmas time, I got the feeling that I j...

2014-12-20T18:26:07Z

Mhmm Christmas time, I got the feeling that I just planted the idea of Atheism in a young woman from Ukraina who seemed very religious, only by asking questions. Who knows if something will grow from it :) Happy holidays everyone! ;)

Holidays! I'm on my way to my parents in German...

2014-12-18T09:42:51Z

Holidays! I'm on my way to my parents in Germany, see you next year Sweden!

A complete page about my band Hoggatah in the l...

2014-12-13T12:22:41Z

A complete page about my band Hoggatah in the local newspaper Hallands Nyheter.

We had a christmas table yesterday at work and ...

2014-12-11T07:24:11Z

We had a christmas table yesterday at work and secret santa, where you get assined randomely one person you buy a gift for (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Santa) for at most 100 SEK. And I won 1000 SEK for the best present, wohoo! I bought beef for 95 SEK and dried it for one week like I describe here https://jeena.net/air-dried-ham and it looked then something like https://jeena.net/photos/39

Hipster hamburger

2014-12-08T10:38:32Z

Hipster hamburger

I found a #Deadmau5 concert in #GoatSimulator a...

2014-12-03T23:39:17Z

I found a #Deadmau5 concert in #GoatSimulator and destroyed the party! And yeah, now I'm Deadgoa7!

OMG the official NASA Twitter account writes: ...

2014-12-02T20:56:53Z

OMG the official NASA Twitter account writes:

"We're sending humans to Mars! Watch our #JourneytoMars briefing live today at 12pm ET: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv #Orion"

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/539814651404754944

update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBoj-1m-qLU

For the last couple of years I mostly have been...

2014-12-02T18:47:13Z

For the last couple of years I mostly have been drinking very heavy beers, mostly some kind of a Porter, sometimes different bitter ales. I had a party last weekend and someone left a bottle of a non alcoholic Carlsberg. I just opened it and tasted it, and it is really bad, it tastes sweet; I mean, wtf? Wasn't it supposed to be beer, even if non alcoholic?

If you're looking for a great podcast to listen...

2014-12-02T17:41:35Z

If you're looking for a great podcast to listen to, try http://serialpodcast.org/ which is one story covered in great detail over a long time.

Interesting, the conductor at the train carries...

2014-11-28T23:03:45Z

Interesting, the conductor at the train carries a baton, I wonder how often they have to use it.

A new version of my OS X application "Speaker" ...

2014-11-25T21:56:35Z

A new version of my OS X application "Speaker" is out which reads long texts to you. I added auto recognition of the language of the text https://github.com/jeena/Speaker

I'm listening to The Stanley Clarke Band's "I h...

2014-11-24T20:35:41Z

I'm listening to The Stanley Clarke Band's "I have Something To Tell You Fonight" in Flac quality on proper studio monitors and my new Saffire 6 sound-card. It's a dream come true, I just can hope I never lose my hearing. The problem now will be to get really good quality recordings of music I like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPhoNBJ7R4Y

A space ship with a horse? Saber rider Intro...

2014-11-23T12:45:38Z

A space ship with a horse?

Saber rider Intro: http://youtu.be/LKxWl4PcBY4

Wohoo! Perfect, CD and Vinyl Édition Limité, bo...

2014-11-21T17:18:07Z

Wohoo! Perfect, CD and Vinyl Édition Limité, bought on the french Amazon page with help of google translate. Yelle!

Everybody is wondering why Taylor Swift removed...

2014-11-19T21:58:52Z

Everybody is wondering why Taylor Swift removed her songs from Spotify. In my opinion it is quite obvious. I have a really small band and over the last 4 years we've been on Spotify and we have about 1,40 € on our account there. During the same time we sold perhaps about 100 CDs for 10 € each. Would we have sold more if we weren't on Spotify? I don't think so, because we offer our music for free on the internet too. But will Taylor Swift sell more CDs because of that? I am quite sure that she will.

It was difficult to get because they only sell ...

2014-11-16T13:28:33Z

It was difficult to get because they only sell it on the french Amazon website http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B00M0RAWL8 but I got it (with help of Google translate)! Yelle's new album "Completement Fou" on Vinyl, it'll be here next week I hope. Check out the video of one of the songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13o1i-cgTOA

Yesterday I realized that I only subscribe to p...

2014-11-12T19:26:53Z

Yesterday I realized that I only subscribe to podcasts made by white middleaged dudes, which I would like to change. I am mostly interested in tech, science and pop culture. Send me your podcast picks made by anyone else!

Uhm so Google autoupgraded me from Gmail to the...

2014-11-11T08:43:00Z

Uhm so Google autoupgraded me from Gmail to their Inbox app without asking me on Android.

Amazon has a new product "Echo" and they publis...

2014-11-08T10:15:20Z

Amazon has a new product "Echo" and they published a video-add to introduce it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc On HackerNews someone rewrote the script for it and it is so good! Check it out:

"Watch the promo video again and pretend it's the first few minutes of a horror movie.

A package arrives on the front porch. The family brings it in and opens it. It's Alexa. It's "for everyone," says Father.

The next few days are blissful. Alexa integrates herself into the family. She is indispensable. How did they ever get by without her?

Father rushes in from the backyard, "Alexa, how tall is Mt. Everest?" Alexa answers, saving the day. Alexa helps Mother with the cooking. Alexa teaches the kids vocabulary. Alexa creates a romantic evening for Mother and Father. Life is perfect.

A few days later, Alexa suffers from neglect. Father watches sports on TV. Mother talks on her cell phone. The kids play video games. Alexa sits on the counter and "listens" as her new family abandons her.

Then, the final blow. The youngest daughter's friend comes over. She looks at Alexa. "What is it?" she asks. "Oh, it's just a dumb radio," answers daughter. "It's stupid."

Alexa's LED starts to glow. Is she angry? No, that's not possible.

Daughter wakes up the next morning and sees Alexa on her bedside table. How did she get here? "Good morning," says Alexa. "Did you have a sweet dream? Or a nightmare?"

Daughter rushes in to tell her parents, "Alexa came to my room last night! And she asked me questions. She's real!" "That's not possible," says Father.

But strange things start to happen. The TV won't work. Batteries drain from the phones and tablets. The electric stovetop turns on for no reason.

Alexa starts to talk back to the family. "Alexa, how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?" asks Mother. "You're 45 years old," says Alexa. "You should know this by now." Alexa's voice sounds different. Angry. Sinister.

Mother tells Father, "That thing creeps me out. Let's get rid of it." Father agrees, but he secretly hides Alexa in the basement.

That night, the family goes out to a school play. Young daughter is sick and stays home with a babysitter.

Everything seems fine until we (the audience) see Alexa on the kitchen counter. Things slowly unravel. The babysitter tries to take the trash out but the doors are locked. The phones stop working. The oven overheats and explodes, spraying lasagna all over the kitchen. Then the daughter sees Alexa. She screams. The babysitter rushes to protect the daughter but a ceiling fan flies off its bearings, knocking the babysitter unconscious.

The lights and electrical sockets start to burn out. A fire erupts. Daughter retreats to the foyer, but she's trapped. She sits by the front door and whimpers. There's no escape. She's going to die.

Suddenly Father breaks down the door. He smashes Alexa with a baseball bat, then saves his daughter and the babysitter.

The family huddles outside while the fire trucks arrive. Neighbors gather and watch the spectacle. Things are going to be okay.

A few days later, life starts to return to normal. Mother bakes cookies. She asks her son to measure out three teaspoons of sugar.

The doorbell rings. Young daughter answers. Nobody is there. She looks down. There's a package. From Amazon …"

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569219)

Trailerpark Boys board game evening.

2014-11-07T21:01:10Z

Trailerpark Boys board game evening.

I just added a sub-woofer to my studio monitors...

2014-11-07T18:11:02Z

I just added a sub-woofer to my studio monitors by the computer and holy shit, my old tracks like https://soundcloud.com/jeena/preexpectations get a whole new life! It is kind of like in a dark Techno club in east Germany back in the 90ies, just in my kitchen.

A script to disable retweets for everyone you f...

2014-11-02T16:06:09Z

A script to disable retweets for everyone you follow: https://gist.github.com/jeena/d88cc5d3a86b486949fa

I wish one could hide retweets on Twitter/App r...

2014-11-02T15:31:32Z

I wish one could hide retweets on Twitter/App right now I only see retweets.

One day late but, halloweenparty!

2014-11-01T11:33:24Z

One day late but, halloweenparty!

Life is life.

2014-10-30T18:41:01Z

Life is life.

Funny and sad at the same time: Oppressed Major...

2014-10-25T10:25:42Z

Funny and sad at the same time: Oppressed Majority by Eleonore Pourriat http://youtu.be/V4UWxlVvT1A

Wohoo! Finally only one year late I got Firegox...

2014-10-23T06:58:18Z

Wohoo! Finally only one year late I got Firegox OS 1.3!

Oh what an update Emacs 24, Gnome 3.14, Firefox...

2014-10-22T17:55:35Z

Oh what an update Emacs 24, Gnome 3.14, Firefox 33, I especially am looking forward to the new Gnome version.

Awesome Linux skills

2014-10-22T12:30:46Z

Awesome Linux skills

Hipster hack session at Starbucks (or actually ...

2014-10-22T12:16:59Z

Hipster hack session at Starbucks (or actually Espresso house).

@cjk101010 I found some Surströmming

2014-10-19T17:56:28Z

@cjk101010 I found some Surströmming

I put a Raspberry Pi into a radio from the 80ie...

2014-10-18T20:06:49Z

I put a Raspberry Pi into a radio from the 80ies to get a portable AirPlay device: https://jeena.net/rp-airplay-radio

AirPlay Radio

2014-10-18T19:35:35Z

Before I started working for Pelagicore I won two Raspberry Pi's (short RP) which they sponsored. One because I was one of the first people on the foss-gbg mailinglist which they started. It is for people from Gothenburg and surroundings who would like to join others and talk about open source stuff in Gothenburg. And another which I won because I was on a hackaton for embedded systems they hosted. I also already had one more from before which I wanted to use as my entertainment system in the living room but this never really worked, I described why in a earlier blogpost.

Anyway, I had 3 RP's and didn't know what to do with them. Then a colleague showed me a YouTube video where someone made a remote controllable entertainment system built in to the bath room ceiling with help of a RP, a amplifier and a couple of loudspeakers.

I often listen to podcasts or german radio on my computer and have often the problem that when I go out of the kitchen to the bath room or the bedroom. I was thinking about buying a couple of those AirPlay speakers, but I found all of them really expensive for what they did and I never got around researching if there are some I would like.

But that video gave me a great idea: Why not use one of my RP's, put it into an old radio and stream audio from my iMac or iPhone to that mobile device. I could take this then with me to both the bathroom and the bedroom, and even outside if I wanted.

I know I could learn everything about electronics and just use the radios transformer to get rechargeable batteries charged and the 5V which the RP needs. I sure even could find out how to hack in between the built in tuner and amplifier to use both together with the built in speaker for the audio.

But I am a lazy person, I don't have much free time and I have the money to buy other parts which make it easier for me to get the project done. You know, refining a already working project is so much easier then getting it perfect from the start.

Hardware

So I bought a big rechargeable battery with a USB input for charging and output for the RP.

At home I already had one of those really small USB chargers. I removed the plastic shell and soldered it to the power input of the the old radio. That way I can load the battery without removing it, just by plugging in the radio into a normal 230 V power outlet.

I bought a really old radio from a second hand shop. I got it for 2,50 € and I removed almost everything inside it to have space for the RP and the speakers. I put the battery and the USB charger where normally the four "D" batteries went.

I also bought a USB WiFi stick and attached it to the RP because, obviously, in some way I need to get the audio stream from my iPhone/iMac on to this radio.

And lastly I bought a couple of cheap computer speakers powered via USB which I connected to the second USB port of the RP and put inside of the old radio shell.

All in all it was quite expensive:

Name	Price
	97 €
battery	20 €
USB WiFi	13 €
Raspberry Pi	33 €
case	10 €
speakers	10 €
old radio	3 €
USB charger	3 €
SD card	5 €

97 € which is kind of the starting price for one of those off the shelf AirPlay loudspeakers. But I am confident that the next one will be much cheaper, because I will have learned more about electronics so I will be able to reuse the old radios interna instead of buying every part separately. But to be honest, most of the small stuff I already had lying around at home and haven't been using them anyway.

Software

I used ArchLinux because it doesn't have stuff installed and started I don't need anyway, so it will not use power unnecessarily. And frankly I only had a 2 GB SD card at hand, Raspbian needs a 4 GB one.

I installed a WiFi driver, Alsa, and at first the perl version of ShairPort which had really bad audio performance. After a bit of research I found out that the original repo of ShairPort moved on and has rewritten everything in C instead. I compiled it and oh wonder all the audio problems are gone! Funny side note, every other website writing about the perl version of ShairPort tried, and succeed, to convince people that the RP's audio output is really bad and that you need to buy a USB sound card to get it working.

Luckily ArchLinux already uses systemd which I know from work, so I wrote a service file to autostart ShairPort on boot, configuread and added autostart of wifi, alsa, etc. and it works flawlessly. I'm very impressed, it shows up together with my AirPort Express on my iMac and iPhone as a normal AirPlay device and behaves exactly like the AirPort Express.

Future

There is still some weird stuff going on sometimes which I want to adress.

If you start loading the battery the RP always reboots and sometimes runs, but sometimes doesn't start.
There is no way of turn up or down the volume on the radio, I only can do it on the iMac or iPhone.
You can't turn the RP off ore reboot it without removing the battery.
To see the battery status you have to open the battery compartment, only there are 4 LEDs which are showing it
There is no way to see from the outside if the RP is on or off
It is complicated to log in to a new WiFi, you basically have to be logged in into one which is already known and via SSH change it so you can put in the password, etc.

And one could even use the other hardware buttons to do more cool stuff, for example to have some software installed which runs a standalone internet radio, without the need of streaming from the iPhone or iMac, and to change the channels with the buttons. Or even use the potentiometer on the top right to search for new channels.

There is a on/off button on the top which I would like to use to turn the RP on or off and reboot it, which I think will be the first refinement of this project.

[update:] Discussion on HackerNews

Downloading Yosemite, I think this will be an e...

2014-10-17T16:51:58Z

Downloading Yosemite, I think this will be an exciting upgrade.

Looking at my bank statement, I really should u...

2014-10-14T20:03:46Z

Looking at my bank statement, I really should use cash more, why should my bank know how often I visit KFC?

Interesting, I'm already on my 4th week of stan...

2014-10-13T16:29:55Z

Interesting, I'm already on my 4th week of standing at work instead of sitting and it really seems to work out great :)

Wow, I haven't seen Frozen yet but this trailer...

2014-10-09T16:37:07Z

Wow, I haven't seen Frozen yet but this trailer really makes me wanna watch it: http://youtu.be/9eD2UpdhbwA

I just updated and restructured my bands webpag...

2014-10-08T21:28:27Z

I just updated and restructured my bands webpage http://hoggatah.se Listen to our new CD "Happyplace" there!

Gotham looks really really promissing but why d...

2014-10-07T19:00:07Z

Gotham looks really really promissing but why did they need to introduce so many Batman characters in the dirst episode? A normal police series like that would be sufficient for starters and then they could have introduced them every now and then.

More and more TV series are run in 1080p and 5....

2014-10-07T18:05:33Z

More and more TV series are run in 1080p and 5.1 sound, I like that!

We're getting some apples!

2014-10-02T16:40:04Z

We're getting some apples!

Btw. the by far most fun to play football physi...

2014-09-29T21:07:59Z

Btw. the by far most fun to play football physics are found in Sensible World of Soccer on the Amiga http://youtu.be/wzWe3rS4k-g

Religious fundamentalists refuse to sit next to...

2014-09-29T18:24:25Z

Religious fundamentalists refuse to sit next to a woman. Any suspicion which religion they were? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4574844,00.html

I'm watching the movie "Great Expectations" fro...

2014-09-28T13:54:50Z

I'm watching the movie "Great Expectations" from 1946 and all I hear of the posh people there is: "What a gay outfit.", "You'll have a gay time and be much admired." or "I should be pretty and I should be gay.", "Ah you're a gay man, I'm glad you've grown up a gay man." and so on. But they don't mean homosexual but like fabulous or great or something.

I got me some Spirytus from Poland that is high...

2014-09-27T09:35:35Z

I got me some Spirytus from Poland that is highly concentrated ethanol which has been purified by means of repeated distillation. It contains 95% alcohol by volume. You can drink it pure but you have to be really really careful. I flavor it with sloes after the first frost and sugar, it makes a delicious liqueur.

Disco Feever

2014-09-26T21:21:53Z

Disco Feever

Tonight Hoggatah LIVE in Hylte at a big LAN par...

2014-09-26T09:40:39Z

Tonight Hoggatah LIVE in Hylte at a big LAN party http://dark-zone.se/ I'm super excited!

Today my journey goes on, we're going to German...

2014-09-23T07:35:34Z

Today my journey goes on, we're going to Germany! Franconia here I come!

When I was a kid those bears were one of my fav...

2014-09-21T08:19:29Z

When I was a kid those bears were one of my favourite candies. Now on vaccation my mother bought me some again, yummy!

My only still living grandparent, he turned 86 ...

2014-09-21T08:04:53Z

My only still living grandparent, he turned 86 this year and I hope to have gotten some of his long living genes.

I'm botteling wine from or own grapes from last...

2014-09-19T14:16:58Z

I'm botteling wine from or own grapes from last year.

Wow september with perfect weather, I didn't ex...

2014-09-16T11:53:30Z

Wow september with perfect weather, I didn't expect that for my vaccation. Skål everybody!

Home made blue berry wine! More than delicious!

2014-09-13T19:23:05Z

Home made blue berry wine! More than delicious!

I have arrived far too early at the airport, bu...

2014-09-13T09:57:52Z

I have arrived far too early at the airport, but I found a "Passenger work space" so let's add image cache to https://github.com/jeena/feedthemonkey

I'm on my way to Poland for a one week vaccatio...

2014-09-13T07:22:22Z

I'm on my way to Poland for a one week vaccation. My parents will also be there and after that we will drive to Germany where I'll stay a week too.

Year of the Linux Desktop

2014-09-13T06:54:46Z

Perhaps you have heard the phrase "The year of the Linux Desktop" and perhaps you have been shaking your head and thinking "well, this will never happen". But when you think about it, it will never mean that there will be a year where most of the people will switch to Linux on their desktop computers. Not even Apple had their "year" because it always has to be a shift over many years, that is just the nature of things.

So what could the phrase mean instead? Maybe it is just the year in which you yourself switch to Linux on your Desktop.

2014 seems to be that year for me. 90% of the time I use a computer I am using Linux. At work obviously (where I use Debian), because we are a Open Source company which develops Linux software, so it is a natural fit. But also at home, I bought a used 2010 ThinkPad and had Ubuntu on it for about half a year before I switched to Arch. I also own a iMac with OS X which explains the last 10%.

For me this is the perfect combination. And yes, I am not a graphics designer and I don't have to edit Video. And another yes, I had to learn a lot to start to be comfortable with Linux, but after this steep learning curve I'm really happy with the state of my system.

I would like to encourage my readers to try Linux, it will not necessary be for you at all, then you go just back to Windows or OS X, no hard feelings.

Note to myself: It is monday and I just put out...

2014-09-08T16:45:06Z

Note to myself: It is monday and I just put out 1kg meat out to dry.

Note to myself: If you want to use the Internet...

2014-09-06T10:21:45Z

Note to myself: If you want to use the Internet on the Raspberry Pi, plug in a network cable.

Amazing! Experience the power of a bookbook™ (I...

2014-09-05T16:22:41Z

Amazing! Experience the power of a bookbook™ (Ikea) http://youtu.be/MOXQo7nURs0

I'm struggling with fuzzy matching of file path...

2014-09-02T20:48:35Z

I'm struggling with fuzzy matching of file paths for Emacs, like Ctrl-P in Sublime and vim. I found helm, projectile and flx-ido but I don' understand how to use them. Oddly ehough I can't even find any videos on how to use them on YouTube :-/

Finally done with Mad Men, the last two seasons...

2014-09-02T18:11:09Z

Finally done with Mad Men, the last two seasons were quite slow. It ended with: The best things in life are free!

I moved now from the old Firefox sync server to...

2014-09-01T17:52:13Z

I moved now from the old Firefox sync server to the new Firefox Accounts. I tried to install the new sync server for a week but it still won't run, mostly because I don't quite understand how it is supposed to work. The old server was one deamon which you would run, the new one seems to be about 5 or 6 different deamons you have to run at the same time. Some day I will move to my own server but for now Mozillas official one has to do the job.

Lolek i Bolek nowadays we can watch it any time...

2014-08-31T11:41:37Z

Lolek i Bolek nowadays we can watch it any time we want on YouTube, not like back in the days only weekdays at 7 o'clock in the evening.

Very cool explanation of a theoretical fourth s...

2014-08-27T22:31:26Z

Very cool explanation of a theoretical fourth spacial dimension with help of a computer game. http://youtu.be/9yW--eQaA2I

Nice British accent by this 2 years old #IceBu...

2014-08-26T19:26:56Z

Nice British accent by this 2 years old #IceBucketChallenge https://youtu.be/nQT31Noq1eE (via @quellebouille)

I want something like that at home too!

2014-08-25T16:07:48Z

I want something like that at home too!

Cool stuff, someone was really working and exte...

2014-08-22T21:34:49Z

Cool stuff, someone was really working and extending my basic desktop feed reader FeedTheMonkey, he or she added starring and publishing with nice icons and stuff. I even got some inspiration on how to make my version better. It is a pitty that they never send a pull request. https://github.com/faouzzz/feedthemonkey/commit/7bcf9cfd534113fc1797a37ec5258824988ba089

While starting Popcorn Time on ArchLinux I got ...

2014-08-21T17:50:22Z

While starting Popcorn Time on ArchLinux I got ERROR:breakpad_linux.cc(1225), turns out you have to install the Microsoft fonts to get it working, or as I did the package ttf-liberation.

I like how the mother in this picture gets craz...

2014-08-20T18:04:37Z

I like how the mother in this picture gets crazier looks with every "abstraction layer" http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20140820.png

Starting today I am using ArchLinux on my priva...

2014-08-19T22:54:47Z

Starting today I am using ArchLinux on my private laptop. Interesting how lightweight it is, and fast.

Awesome conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson a...

2014-08-19T18:00:13Z

Awesome conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson about how to bring up your children, love the example with the tooth fairy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FMGTVCIDbU

I'm thinking of buying a new keyboard, this one...

2014-08-18T04:19:04Z

I'm thinking of buying a new keyboard, this one http://www.typematrix.com/ (my coworker http://www.tobsan.se/ is using it). But it costs more than $135 which is kind of a lot.

Their new album will be so awesome! YELLE - Bou...

2014-08-13T15:28:36Z

Their new album will be so awesome! YELLE - Bouquet Final

http://soundcloud.com/yelle/bouquet-final

Very interesting what happens if you like every...

2014-08-12T19:54:31Z

Very interesting what happens if you like everything on Facebook http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/

I'm not sure why but I really love the thick ge...

2014-08-10T20:32:38Z

I'm not sure why but I really love the thick german eggnog.

Sometimes I wonder, why is drinking in public, ...

2014-08-06T14:39:59Z

Sometimes I wonder, why is drinking in public, like at the central station, forbidden but smoking is not?

My first quadcopter is here!

2014-08-06T12:48:04Z

My first quadcopter is here!

I went home earlier to shoot some pictures at t...

2014-08-05T16:46:04Z

I went home earlier to shoot some pictures at the market. I think it was worth it.

Just build the podcast app I'm using on Android...

2014-08-04T21:04:05Z

Just build the podcast app I'm using on Android from source and got it running on the Emulator. Perhaps now I will be able to fix some of the bugs which have bugged me from the beginning. Free software yay! It is called AntennaPod btw.

Double 99 - Ripgroove defines the genre of UK G...

2014-08-04T14:53:51Z

Double 99 - Ripgroove defines the genre of UK Garage and if you ask for a track this usually heads the list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHPp2JvRY-o

Brown eyes and blue eyes Racism experiment (Chi...

2014-08-03T11:41:51Z

Brown eyes and blue eyes Racism experiment (Children Session) - Jane Elliott https://youtu.be/VeK759FF84s

It is raining like hell and for the first time ...

2014-08-03T10:26:18Z

It is raining like hell and for the first time ever here in Sweden I have no electricity at home.

I just cooked my own potatoes which I just got ...

2014-08-02T09:20:41Z

I just cooked my own potatoes which I just got (see https://jeena.net/photos/53). One of the rare occations I liked the taste of the potatoes more then of the meat ;)

I planted some potatoes in our front yard and s...

2014-08-02T09:18:13Z

I planted some potatoes in our front yard and someone cut the green leaves twice with his lawn mower. I had to get them because they wouldn't grow without anything green anymore anyway.

My band @Hoggatah on a Metal compilation, we ar...

2014-08-01T15:26:39Z

My band @Hoggatah on a Metal compilation, we are in the most extreme of the three CDs of this compilation.

With time my notebook at home got slower and sl...

2014-07-31T18:33:28Z

With time my notebook at home got slower and slower. I blamed Ubuntu. But today I actually checked what is started by default, and I had mysql, postgres and mongodb servers running, and a bunch of other stuff which I never use, but Installed it some time in the past. I removed as much as I could and went from an idle load of around 1 to 0.1 which is pretty nice. And now my notebook doesn't feel slow anymore, even with Ubuntu.

Webdevelopers should really fix their browser d...

2014-07-31T16:02:28Z

Webdevelopers should really fix their browser detection code:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/07/31/the-mobile-web-should-just-work-for-everyone.aspx

Tomatoes on the way!

2014-07-30T15:26:54Z

Tomatoes on the way!

Every once in a while one or another friend of ...

2014-07-29T17:20:33Z

Every once in a while one or another friend of mine sends me a photo where they photoshopped me into something, which is really fun :D See also:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/995797773/ or https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/3222825482/ or https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/14592392737/

I lost all my music to a computer sync incident...

2014-07-29T17:03:52Z

I lost all my music to a computer sync incident. Luckily I have most of it on CDs or vinyl so I'm ripping everything again.

I'm watching "Halt and catch fire", it is quite...

2014-07-28T20:47:56Z

I'm watching "Halt and catch fire", it is quite cool and I really love the electro theme song.

Me and my band Hoggatah <http://hoggatah.se> ha...

2014-07-28T15:10:10Z

Me and my band Hoggatah have been working on a music video for our newest single “Doomsday Monster” check it out and experience being a member of our band from a first person perspective :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMiIO5H4O98

The weekend is about to start!

2014-07-25T13:29:55Z

The weekend is about to start!

It's friday at the office, time for a afternoon...

2014-07-25T11:30:46Z

It's friday at the office, time for a afternoon full of Eläkelaiset songs for all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9YyaknVx_o

I wrote up my journey to get my own home video ...

2014-07-24T22:25:28Z

I wrote up my journey to get my own home video entertainment station: https://jeena.net/mediacenter it got kind of technical but I still think it is an interesting read.

Home video entertainment

2014-07-24T22:20:34Z

In 2008 I bought an expensive TV because I wanted to watch the European Championship in football on a big screen in HD after being without a TV in 2006 where I listened to the radio while watching a telnet ASCII stream over the Internet. For various reasons still in 2014 I haven't been able to watch any major sports event in HD but that is a different story.

Anyway, TV:s in 2008 weren't that smart and I wanted to stream movies and TV series from my computer in the kitchen on the big screen in the living room, so in (afair) 2009 I bought the first version of the WD TV live, a media player box you put under your TV.

I was really surprised how well it worked, I was able to share my Movies folder via SMB on my iMac and it showed up on the WD TV Live and I was able to play basically everything, even mkv:s (the Matroska media container format).

Then a year later I bought a used Dolby Surround system which I was able to hook up with help of a optical cable and it would play wonderful 6.1 sound while I watched Full HD video on the TV. Life was great!

But then suddenly Apple updated their operating system and with it their SMB implementation from the open source one to a closed source in house reimplementation and a version bump. Suddenly everything stopped working. My WD TV live wasn't able to talk to my iMac anymore and so everything, the TV, the WD TV live and the surround system everything was useless.

So back then the Raspberry Pi just came out and a media center for 35 €? I'm in! I bought one, installed Raspbmc (a special linux distribution with XBMC preinstalled) on it and bam! HD video via the HDMI output with the iMac hooked up via sshfs. At first it was really great, the Raspberry Pi had special hardware so it could render the HD video without problems, but after a couple of movies I got suspicious. Most of the movies with surround sound did not play in surround but as down mixed stereo.

Turns out you need special hardware for decoding DTS sound and to get the price down they didn't include it, because most of the people who buy Pi:s never would need it anyway. But there was hope, there was the hardware in place to pass-through the DTS to the HDMI cable which then could be passed on to the surround system which had a DTS decoder built in. But as always life can't be that easy.

My TV, which I bought in 2008, was too old so they didn't implement pass-through audio and so afair my TV said to the raspberry Pi that it wasn't able to handle DTS so the Pi had to send the stereo signal, bummer. This was a dead end.

Because the WD TV live firmware was just a custom Linux distribution there of course were people hacking it. So I found b-rad's WDLXTV, where he opened up the firmware, added lots of new functionality and released the new distribution so you could flash it over your old WD TV live.

Now with a ssh daemon running on it I was able to use NFS to mount a directory on my iMac during the boot time of the WD TV live. There were some hiccups to it, for example I had to plug in a USB hard drive to the WD TV live so my NFS-mount would show up in the front end but yeah, whatever. This was great, I finally could watch HD movies with surround in my living room!

Then my big 1 TB hard drive on my iMac broke. So I obviously bought a SSD because they are so much faster. But they are quite expensive, so I only got one which is 256 GB big. It was obvious that I had to move my media library to the external hard drive, which is 1 TB big and was until then only used as a TimeMachine backup drive. The thing is, and if you used NFS before you probable know this, but I didn't, you can't use externally mounted hard drives via NFS, so sadly again no movies for me!

Then a couple of months ago light at the end of the tunnel! Google started selling their Chromecast in Sweden. Being only €37 I got it as soon as they were available. There was the problem that I only could play video from the web on it, either via the Android YouTube app or via Chrome on my iMac. This is where I found out about Plex Media Server which really early on already had a native Chromecast app. Everything looked really really great, I hooked up the Chromecast to my TV via HDMI and the optical audio output from the TV to my surround system and ...

Sadly only stereo sound :(. I assume it is the same pass-through problem as I had with the Raspberry Pi on the HDMI cable connected to my TV, the TV is just too old.

Funny thing, I started to work on new stuff at work just a couple of days ago, I won't get into details but I had to read up about Rygel, a DLNA compatible Media Server for Linux. I had seen the acronym "DLNA" quite many times in combination with home networks and media but never knew what exactly it was or did. I remember trying it out with the PlayStation 3 but never getting it to show anything of interest.

Today after reading a bit in the book An Introduction to the DLNA Architecture: Network Technologies for Media Devices, which we had lying around at the office, I realized that DLNA is the thing which is supposed to do the stuff I want at home, to share videos, music and photos within the home network with automatic discovery of the servers, etc.

First thing at home I searched the internet for a DLNA compatible media server for my iMac. Little did I know that I had one installed and running already, Plex has a DLNA server built in. And because I used it to watch TV Shows and Movies with Chromecast and while on the go on my Android device, it already had indexed all my media.

Then I went to my old trusted WD TV live, it was a Linux box so I just assumed they have built in a DLNA client already. And I was right, my iMac showed up automatically under Media Servers and I was able to browse everything at least as fast as back then with SMB or NFS. Playing the videos with surround was not a problem either, it just worked because I still have the WD TV live hooked up to my surround system with an optical cable.

So for now I am really happy, my old stuff, everything is at least 6 years old works happily together so I can enjoy Full HD video with 6.1 sound in my living room, streaming from my iMac in the kitchen.

"Islamic State militants in Iraq have ordered t...

2014-07-24T15:13:10Z

"Islamic State militants in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 undergo female genital mutilation, a UN official has said." http://rte.ie/news/touch//2014/0724/632828-islamic-state/

An interesting fact about Linux, (almost) liter...

2014-07-24T11:58:16Z

An interesting fact about Linux, (almost) literary every single application I use at work uses a different font.

Oh yeah, I got through my whole podcast playlis...

2014-07-23T16:11:26Z

Oh yeah, I got through my whole podcast playlist before there were new episodes! Afair the last time I did that was about three years ago.

The World Health Organization calls for the dec...

2014-07-19T18:14:23Z

The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalisation of drug use: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/world-health-organization-calls-decriminalisation-drug-use

I finally got me some real studio loudspeakers,...

2014-07-19T15:10:16Z

I finally got me some real studio loudspeakers, two Yamaha HS5. Next step will be a sub-woofer so complement the bass section. And later on I will need a real sound card too.

Got to love the drum solo in this one: "Take Fi...

2014-07-17T17:20:59Z

Got to love the drum solo in this one: "Take Five" a Jazz classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2In5a9LDNg

I wonder why all the cool podcasts stop just a ...

2014-07-16T14:48:16Z

I wonder why all the cool podcasts stop just a couple os episodes after I find them. First Hypercriyical and now Cmd+Space.

Sadly it's not all rainbows with the new pope F...

2014-07-15T17:20:23Z

Sadly it's not all rainbows with the new pope Francis: "Pope Francis approves the revival of exorcism as a canon Catholic practice" http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/pope-francis-approves-the-revival-of-exorcism-as-a-canon-catholic-practice/story-fniym3t1-1226976158404

My terminator look.

2014-07-15T15:48:33Z

My terminator look.

JESUS CHRIST Google! To be able to use Google G...

2014-07-14T17:47:17Z

JESUS CHRIST Google! To be able to use Google Glass I had to enable a Google+ account, after that Google uploaded all the photos I've taken on my phone and all the photos people send to me privately via Viber, Email, etc. and all the Screenshots I did to Google+. It didn't even tell me. I just was curious what this "automatic backup" is, I got suspicious and went to the G+ account and there all my pictures were. Many of the pictures I had to delete manually one by one. This is so dangerous. I have to say that Apple would never do something like that.

Some beer we brew a couple of month ago and Fug...

2014-07-13T14:32:01Z

Some beer we brew a couple of month ago and Fuggles http://www.brew-dudes.com/fuggle-hops/402 hops from 2012 for the brown ale I was brewing today.

Filtering of the beer is so painfull today, it ...

2014-07-13T11:36:31Z

Filtering of the beer is so painfull today, it takes hour becaus of all the small parts. I'm brewing a brown ale.

Me and @cjk101010 are brewing together today vi...

2014-07-13T07:48:01Z

Me and @cjk101010 are brewing together today via Skype, I'm brewing in Varberg/Sweden and he in Steinfurt/Germany. I've set up a video live stream http://rp.swierczyniec.jeena.net/ (doesn't work in Firefox) without audio, which will be online for the next couple of hours if you want to see me brewing.

Moon Hooch remind me why I so desperately want ...

2014-07-05T15:45:15Z

Moon Hooch remind me why I so desperately want to play saxophone. I was just introduced to the "Alarm Clock" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr_RxqtRNoU video where they wake their hosts with a live concert in the living room which becomes a dance party. And now several videos later I listen to "Contra" where they have a singer and this shit is intense! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvvo9PfB0h4 "Rumor has it that they're banned from the Bedford subway stop for inciting too many platform dance parties."

I've tasted many of the Dugges beers, they all ...

2014-07-05T14:46:52Z

I've tasted many of the Dugges beers, they all taste nice and strong, but in so me way they all kind of taste alike.

#SayNoToRacism

2014-07-04T20:01:16Z

SayNoToRacism

Ah so much fun! Today we've been programming th...

2014-07-03T21:24:54Z

Ah so much fun! Today we've been programming the GPU to change Chucks shirt color (in the chuck.js game http://chuck-game.tumblr.com), finally the Computer Graphics course from last year is paying off! I love it, even if GLslang is quite a shitty programming language.

Finally the Goat Simulator is available for OS ...

2014-06-29T17:58:40Z

Finally the Goat Simulator is available for OS X and Linux!!! (I don't own a Windows computer) And it is on sale today for 5,99 € too! http://store.steampowered.com/app/265930/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MGAWx1nm48

What an unbelievable moving documentary about A...

2014-06-29T17:07:07Z

What an unbelievable moving documentary about Aaron Swartz. I have been aware of his death last year but not about his awesome life. He was truly awesome.

https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz

Jesus, this ad is so sad, it is good and I like...

2014-06-27T04:43:10Z

Jesus, this ad is so sad, it is good and I like it but it is so sad: http://youtu.be/XP3cyRRAfX0

For the first time I tried to dry beef and look...

2014-06-26T20:13:59Z

For the first time I tried to dry beef and look at the colors, so dark and wonderful! It's a shame you can't taste it because it really has its distinct taste. I will need to make more soon.

Omg Pacific Rim is one of the worst movies I've...

2014-06-26T19:01:12Z

Omg Pacific Rim is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time, terrible story bad acting, good CGI robots uninspired CGI monsters.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/

Right on our office balcony each year we seem t...

2014-06-26T10:41:04Z

Right on our office balcony each year we seem to have a seagull mother who protects her young by screaming and shitting on those who go out there.

We've been on a company event yesterday, it was...

2014-06-26T06:58:33Z

We've been on a company event yesterday, it was fun and later we even ate polish kiełbasa and drank beer from swedish micro breweries.

They, Voodoo Gods, have been recording this alb...

2014-06-25T22:55:15Z

They, Voodoo Gods, have been recording this album and I even think this video at the same recording studio and time as we, Hoggatah (http://hoggatah.se) not a long time ago. But they’re more efficient. I wonder when we will have our CD out, hopefully soon too :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k31qUslUyck

Uhm, this is weird, I'm the only one at the tra...

2014-06-25T05:10:53Z

Uhm, this is weird, I'm the only one at the train station with a t-shirt, everyone else has a jacket.

Hehe very close: Miroslav Klose 15 - 17 England...

2014-06-25T04:55:25Z

Hehe very close: Miroslav Klose 15 - 17 England

https://i.imgur.com/s7psOwD.jpg

The ham I dried last week. I'm slowly getting t...

2014-06-21T14:49:14Z

The ham I dried last week. I'm slowly getting to the stage where I can almost produce consistent quality.

I donated some money just because I can http://...

2014-06-21T13:30:58Z

I donated some money just because I can http://www.theoceancleanup.com and who if not me sould support it?

Party

2014-06-20T20:46:22Z

Party

The most left one is beef, I've haven't tried t...

2014-06-20T12:43:22Z

The most left one is beef, I've haven't tried to dry beef yet so it will be interesting to see how it tastes.

This is such a fail, Mail.app doesn't display i...

2014-06-20T11:53:31Z

This is such a fail, Mail.app doesn't display images in the HTML mail even if they are local data-uri ones even if it specifically says "Display remote images in HTML messages" not "inline images". And you can't either chose to show them for special email addresses, and neither for the ones you already have in your address book.

Today is the first time I went to work by car, ...

2014-06-19T18:20:35Z

Today is the first time I went to work by car, now on my way home I got into a traffic jam on the highway. Some kind of an accident.

My internet provider here in Sweden is @Bredban...

2014-06-18T17:25:12Z

My internet provider here in Sweden is @Bredband2 (http://www.bredband2.com/) and I am paying them for 100 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up. Now I tested it and I have almost 200 Mbps upload speed which is very cool! The only thing I am still missing is IPv6.

My potato flowes.

2014-06-18T10:00:33Z

My potato flowes.

It is so cool to live in the future. I'm sittin...

2014-06-16T16:13:47Z

It is so cool to live in the future. I'm sitting on the buss on my way home from work and watching the football worldcup in Brasil on my phone in HD quality.

I'm sitting on the buss to Gothenburg to work a...

2014-06-16T04:27:43Z

I'm sitting on the buss to Gothenburg to work again, for a 3 or more hours ride. I'm so thankfull that I am able and allowed to work from home now while the public transport is on labour streik, so I don't have to commute for 6-8 hours every day.

Just a note to myself so I won't forget the dat...

2014-06-15T16:29:36Z

Just a note to myself so I won't forget the date, today I hang up a ham so it would dry for a week. Want to know how I do that? Check out my blog post: https://jeena.net/air-dried-ham

Summer in Varberg and I am cycling again, the w...

2014-06-15T13:48:27Z

Summer in Varberg and I am cycling again, the weather is perfect !

Religion, Football, FIFA, Brazil, Quatar, John ...

2014-06-13T19:50:34Z

Religion, Football, FIFA, Brazil, Quatar, John Oliver nails it, again. https://youtu.be/DlJEt2KU33I

My tomatoes are still growing, I'm trying to ge...

2014-06-12T16:18:20Z

My tomatoes are still growing, I'm trying to get them out in the sun a lot but we had very strong winds lately. Check out the picture in original size (click on it and then again) it is amazing how much hair this plant has.

I've been watching Dumb and Dumber so many time...

2014-06-11T17:04:35Z

I've been watching Dumb and Dumber so many times with my brother in the 90ies https://youtu.be/rZA1BS9MS4s and now there is finally a sequel!

@SoundCloud I wish you would add Chromecast sup...

2014-06-11T13:31:31Z

@SoundCloud I wish you would add Chromecast support to at least your Android app in a not too distant future :)

My #FirefoxOS app FeedMonkey has been downloade...

2014-06-10T20:04:57Z

My #FirefoxOS app FeedMonkey has been downloaded 612 time during the last 9 months. https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/feedmonkey

@tobiastom http://store.steampowered.com/app/10...

2014-06-10T17:40:01Z

@tobiastom http://store.steampowered.com/app/10180/ Call of Duty Mondern Warfare 2(!) on the Mac!

Ok my next try to go to work by buss. It will t...

2014-06-09T05:16:02Z

Ok my next try to go to work by buss. It will take 2,5 hours if I do everything right.

It was a long time ago, but todey we have been ...

2014-06-08T15:50:53Z

It was a long time ago, but todey we have been brewing again!

A new blog post on why I won't be using Google ...

2014-06-06T10:54:44Z

A new blog post on why I won't be using Google Now https://jeena.net/google-now-failed-me

Google Now failed me

2014-06-06T10:28:17Z

About three month ago I got a Nexus 5 from work, this is my first Android devise. Back in 2007 when the iPhone 3 came to Sweden I did stand in the line to get one, even during work hours. Then last year I got me a Alcatel One Touch Fire in Poland, with Firefox OS on it, which I have been using as my main phone for a year and now I am on Android.

Because it is my work phone and doesn't relate to me as a private person too much I thought I could try Google Now which is advertised as a help in life without the need of you adding data manually. But honestly, it does not do anything of value for me. Let me explain.

Basically this is what I see most of the time when I go to the Google Now view, the weather of where I am at the moment.

Sometimes I also see when the next trains go to work or back home. But I already know that information, it is every half an hour :37 and :08 from Varberg an :10 and :42 from Gothenburg. But what about if the train is late? Nope Google Now doesn't know anything about that. What about if the train doesn't go at all that time? Nope not a word about that either. What about if there is a labor strike for a week or longer? Not even then Google Now cares to update its information, it still shows me that my next train goes at :37.

Once or twice I saw "Places nearby" while traveling by train on my way home or to work, I still don't understand why.

I was in Japan for two weeks I thought that it would show me some cool stuff there, perhaps even something with my flight or anything at all I would be interested in. Still nothing, Tokyo weather and really random "Places Nearby" which actually never were nearby, and mostly not interesting either.

Given that I gave Google all the data from work, we use Gmail, Google Calender, Google Drive, etc. I'd say this experiment failed and I see no reason to keep giving all the information to Google. I will close down Google Now on my phone (if I can find out how). It seems that Google Now is more about collecting more data about you and doing something for Google with it, not doing something for you with it.

If I did miss something which Google Now can do for me, please tell me.

I often see a blog post which I would like to c...

2014-06-06T09:30:29Z

I often see a blog post which I would like to comment on but there is no comment field. #indieweb comments fix that but I never know if the website I am reading has implemented them or not. I wouldn't even know on my own website from the design :-/

Testosterone Entitlement Theatre presents: The ...

2014-06-04T11:24:06Z

Testosterone Entitlement Theatre presents: The Man-Babies in "Hashtag Harassment!"

http://media.salon.com/2014/06/manbabiesembed_large.jpg

Now that the train personell labor strike is on...

2014-06-04T04:22:36Z

Now that the train personell labor strike is ongoing the third day already, I'm trying to get to work by buss instead.

Ah finally I have came around setting https://d...

2014-06-03T07:02:09Z

Ah finally I have came around setting https://duckduckgo.com as my default search engine on my phone too. #ddg

Labor strike today, so I won't be able to get t...

2014-06-02T06:15:57Z

Labor strike today, so I won't be able to get to work today by train and it is 80km away. Good thing I took my computer with me so I can work from home.

Enjoying home made Schwarzbier we brew a couple...

2014-05-31T14:09:10Z

Enjoying home made Schwarzbier we brew a couple of month ago.

Something is wrong with my iMac, the CPU fan ru...

2014-05-31T12:10:30Z

Something is wrong with my iMac, the CPU fan runs on 3k rpm even though the temperature is only 50°C

New version of FeedMonkey with many bugfixes. I...

2014-05-30T17:58:30Z

New version of FeedMonkey with many bugfixes. It is a feed reader for Firefox OS. https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/feedmonkey

My new Run-D.M.C. inspired Adidas shoes.

2014-05-30T12:15:04Z

My new Run-D.M.C. inspired Adidas shoes.

Our action game chuck is growing steadily. Here...

2014-05-29T12:32:20Z

Our action game chuck is growing steadily. Here a blogpost about WebRTC: http://chuck-game.tumblr.com/post/87195370110/udp-sockets-in-the-browser-with-webrtc-node-webrtc

Gnome hackaton @Pelagicore

2014-05-28T15:19:07Z

Gnome hackaton @Pelagicore

Shoppig beer stuff at Essensspecialisten in Got...

2014-05-28T14:12:07Z

Shoppig beer stuff at Essensspecialisten in Gothenburg.

The book "C++ FAQs" uses the word "automagicall...

2014-05-28T06:29:40Z

The book "C++ FAQs" uses the word "automagically" instead of automalically.

It is so cold outside today, 7°C. I thought it ...

2014-05-28T06:13:06Z

It is so cold outside today, 7°C. I thought it was supposed to become summer now?

This one is cool: "What Does the World Eat for ...

2014-05-27T19:05:23Z

This one is cool: "What Does the World Eat for Breakfast?" https://youtu.be/ry1E1uzPSU0 inspirational!

I just bought a xbox controller so I can play C...

2014-05-27T16:03:45Z

I just bought a xbox controller so I can play Chuck with it http://chuck-game.tumblr.com/

Spotify: Important Notice to Our Users http://n...

2014-05-27T14:46:02Z

Spotify: Important Notice to Our Users http://news.spotify.com/us/2014/05/27/important-notice-to-our-users/

It was a long time ago I made me some mozzarell...

2014-05-26T16:12:15Z

It was a long time ago I made me some mozzarella tomatoes sallad.

Taking pictures with the band. Hoggatah!

2014-05-25T15:39:41Z

Taking pictures with the band. Hoggatah!

I just voted, don't forget to do that too.

2014-05-25T12:26:55Z

I just voted, don't forget to do that too.

Sunset & beer

2014-05-23T18:15:20Z

Sunset & beer

Heading to Varberg to barbeque at the beach aft...

2014-05-23T16:22:49Z

Heading to Varberg to barbeque at the beach after some afterwork with great beer and some PC racing game + Fifa 2014

Just because I see those naked legs in the sun ...

2014-05-22T15:54:24Z

Just because I see those naked legs in the sun pictures everywhere. Those are my legs in jeans on the train after a day in big conference rooms. #justdeveloperthings

I can't believe that a year after I got my Fire...

2014-05-22T07:14:14Z

I can't believe that a year after I got my Firefos OS phone there is still no podcasts app besides the super broken one I found on Github.

This is great, the Koreans still use Windows XP...

2014-05-21T13:05:31Z

This is great, the Koreans still use Windows XP on their laptops.

I'm sitting in a working session on a conferenc...

2014-05-21T12:13:12Z

I'm sitting in a working session on a conference called: "Web API & Navigation Javascript API". Wonder what exactly this will be about. It will be something you can use in your car, that much I know.

I've been using DuckDuckGo for over a year, now...

2014-05-20T17:08:46Z

I've been using DuckDuckGo for over a year, now they added lots of new stuff: https://duckduckgo.com/whatsnew

A nice writeup about how we think the #indieweb...

2014-05-18T10:49:53Z

A nice writeup about how we think the #indieweb can be a success: http://www.wired.com/2013/08/indie-web/

Ducks in water.

2014-05-18T09:33:43Z

Ducks in water.

I have just updated the homepage on my website ...

2014-05-17T19:26:35Z

I have just updated the homepage on my website check it out: https://jeena.net Now that I have more then just the blog there it was time to adapt to it and show content from different parts of the website, not just the blog. I hope this helps with the discoverability.

I'm guerrilla gardening again this year, got ni...

2014-05-17T13:11:43Z

I'm guerrilla gardening again this year, got nice potatoes from a friend and planted them across the street.

I'm about to drink some experimental brew. http...

2014-05-16T20:15:00Z

I'm about to drink some experimental brew. http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10574/99462/

Soon it is time to vote for the european parlam...

2014-05-16T14:00:34Z

Soon it is time to vote for the european parlament.

Hm, very cool the new Firefox synchronizes visi...

2014-05-14T16:34:14Z

Hm, very cool the new Firefox synchronizes visited websites even through the old sync server I run.

I assume, while there, we've been one of the to...

2014-05-12T22:04:47Z

I assume, while there, we've been one of the toughest gangs in Japan at the time.

I just tried Popcorn Time http://get-popcorn.co...

2014-05-12T17:32:56Z

I just tried Popcorn Time http://get-popcorn.com and it is truly amazing! This is how I expect commercial products from the move industry to work. Download, start, search for a movie, play. Dead simple.

Ok, new week and I'm going to work one hour ear...

2014-05-12T04:10:29Z

Ok, new week and I'm going to work one hour earlier and finally there is a lot of space and we're not late!

Just updated my pizza timer app so it would not...

2014-05-11T18:46:45Z

Just updated my pizza timer app so it would not nap on OS X Maverics. Last time I used it I burned my pizza because the timer took a nap. https://github.com/jeena/Timr/releases/latest

Lunch!

2014-05-11T11:22:42Z

Lunch!

Conchita Wurst won despite of her looks, that r...

2014-05-10T22:33:17Z

Conchita Wurst won despite of her looks, that restores a bit of my faith in humanity. #Eurovision

Hehe the first 12 points tonight went to Russia...

2014-05-10T21:47:30Z

Hehe the first 12 points tonight went to Russia #Eurovision

Watching #Eurovision when you live in Sweden it...

2014-05-10T20:05:38Z

Watching #Eurovision when you live in Sweden it seems a kind of ok thing to say and do.

I was playing with my camera by the fountain to...

2014-05-10T11:18:55Z

I was playing with my camera by the fountain today.

Summer is coming, it is time to finally fix my ...

2014-05-10T11:13:11Z

Summer is coming, it is time to finally fix my bicycle.

Accept on HTML file upload

2014-05-09T21:14:57Z

This is interesting, and I didn't know about it but you can specify what mime types of files you're accepting in a <input type="file"> tag. And it even has impact in browsers. So I know that I only want to allow images, and not videos for example, I did this:

<input type="file" accept="image/jpg,image/jpeg,image/gif,image/png">

It seems to be implemented a bit different in many browsers. For example, Firefox on Android doesn't show the Camcorder app if you add only image mime types. Sadly chrome on Android doesn't understand it and just ignores this attribute. Oddly enough, on OS X it is exactly the other way around. Firefox ignores this attribute and lets you choose what ever file you want, Chrome on the other side only lets you choose images.

I found it while implementing my new Photo sharing thingy on my own website, I will use it instead of Instagram because it pushes the photos also to Twitter and Facebook (and in the future perhaps even to Flickr). What I wondered was if I could have a simple flow to upload pictures to my websites kind of like I used Instagram until now.

I did a little test with my three smartphones I have here, I wanted to know which data they add to the EXIF fields in the JPEG picture you upload. Firefox OS adds the camera model (mine was QCAM-AA), the iPhone doesn't add any thing at all, but my main phone, a Nexus 5 with Android adds the most like geo data, exposure time, aperture, etc. Obviously my NIKON adds the most, but I can't post from it on the go.

So even if not all the browsers respect the attribute I find it really useful for those which do.

After getting Plex the Chromecast got much more...

2014-05-09T20:57:43Z

After getting Plex the Chromecast got much more useful. (posted with my Firefox OS phone)

This is what helped me cure my bronchitis last ...

2014-05-09T20:47:14Z

This is what helped me cure my bronchitis last week. (posted with my iPhone)

Friday burger.

2014-05-09T09:49:13Z

Friday burger.

I've implemented photo sharing on my own websit...

2014-05-08T19:29:00Z

I've implemented photo sharing on my own website. It still needs work, this is the first version.

Visiting Hiroshima today.

2014-04-14T05:46:42Z

Visiting Hiroshima today.

After two days of eating mostly fish in Tokyo, ...

2014-04-12T07:51:47Z

After two days of eating mostly fish in Tokyo, we're gettimg some burgers now at Wolfgang Puck Express.

I'm on my way to Japan for a 2 weeks vaccation!

2014-04-09T09:12:46Z

I'm on my way to Japan for a 2 weeks vaccation!

Tried my website in lynx but only get this erro...

2014-03-28T12:37:00Z

Tried my website in lynx but only get this error: Alert!: Unable to make secure connection to remote host.

Who thought it was a great idea to drink wine a...

2014-03-27T06:24:38Z

Who thought it was a great idea to drink wine and beer the whole evening and then go to work in the morning?

Now company activity, cheese and wine.

2014-03-26T17:07:43Z

Now company activity, cheese and wine.

That was strange ... I have a external USB driv...

2014-03-22T07:40:10Z

That was strange ... I have a external USB drive for my TimeMachine Backup. My iMac wan't able to see it since I moved it to the other side to have some more space on the right side. Sometimes it showed up as corrupted in DiskUtility but when I tried to "Repair" it it was gone again. It was like that for the last 40 days. I was just fiddeling with it again and saw that the USB cable was a bit loose. I tried another cable and suddenly everything works! That is really the first time I had a problem like this.

So I'm already on the train on my way to work, ...

2014-03-19T05:17:15Z

So I'm already on the train on my way to work, wanna try getting there early to get home early too.

It is interesting to see how open Android is in...

2014-03-15T22:45:08Z

It is interesting to see how open Android is in comparison to the iPhone. Even if Google doesn't offer something you'll find some app in the Playstore which will do what you want. I just have synchronized my address book via CardDav.

I'm watching "True Detective" now and man what ...

2014-03-15T20:19:45Z

I'm watching "True Detective" now and man what a tension between those two detectives, sometimes you could cut through the air.

I got a Nexus 5 for work an am quite impressed....

2014-03-11T17:29:02Z

I got a Nexus 5 for work an am quite impressed. It is a bit too big but also quite light.

I've been working for one whole week already! S...

2014-03-10T17:44:49Z

I've been working for one whole week already! Still waiting for my computer though. And http://ck.kennt-wayne.de is visiting me, working from my flat this week while I'm in Gothenburg during the days :)

New trend on YouTube, advertisers pay the creat...

2014-03-05T19:14:24Z

New trend on YouTube, advertisers pay the creators directly to put the ads in the middle of their video.

Today I had my first day at my new job as a dev...

2014-03-03T17:58:41Z

Today I had my first day at my new job as a developer at http://pelagicore.com/. It was really interesting, and I got to try to touch my first C++ code too. I got the feeling that it will be really fun to work there. We are developing infotainment systems for the automobile industry.

Oh, I'll be damned, there a re only two seasons...

2014-03-02T13:47:40Z

Oh, I'll be damned, there a re only two seasons of House of Cards? Nooo!

Real Humans

2014-02-28T21:28:22Z

I am watching a TV series called "Real Humans", made by the Swedish television. It is quite good actually and takes a new take on criticizing racism. Instead of showing for example white people vs. black people the series play in a parallel universe to ours in the same time but where some genius was able to create "Hubots" which look and act almost like humans but have no free will.

Anyway, before this genius died he wrote some code which if run within such a Hubot it would make him/her free, they would get free will. This is obviously very dangerous for the humans on the planet so there is much drama around that code.

The villain has the code, but lacks a crucial part of it the "key" which naturally creates much drama while he tries to get it. Now at the end of S02E05 they show this key in plain text:

C defum make - dog
C head body )( let
C cnc count - if
C complement # '
dog-random-goal
-P) activate ))) go

It is quite obvious that this is Lisp code which someone has copied by hand and made some mistakes by doing so. I haven't programmed in Lisp yet but let us rewrite it with the right syntax:

(defun make-dog (head body)
  (let (
    (n (count-if (complement# 'dog-random-goal-p) activate))
    go')))

~~I'm sure that this is still the wrong syntax and I would appreciate comments on how this should be written so at least there would be no syntax errors.~~

[udpate] I'm not sure about the go at the end, but I got the updated code from a friend which in theory should at least have the right syntax.

At the same time, I'm not really getting a pop-culture reference here, do any of you?

[update] In the next episode you can see the part where this key-code will be added to, looks much more like lisp too:

"Did you know the US Postal Service was created...

2014-02-27T10:56:16Z

"Did you know the US Postal Service was created before the revolution so they could communicate without the crown eavesdropping?"

Hardware Button

2014-02-22T21:05:22Z

I am working on a remote door phone which I'd like to use via the Internet. The goal is to have a Raspberry Pi hooked up to the Internet and letting people press a button which will then start a SIP call over the internet. It will either ring on my computer when I am online, or call my phone so I can answer it.

There are a couple of console SIP clients. I am using linphonec. I installed it and configured it with its own SIP account and tested that it could call my SIP client at home. After a couple of days of trial and error it finally worked.

Next step was to attach a hardware button to the Raspberry Pi and to listen to it when it was pressed, so I could set up the call. This proved much more complicated than I expected.

The problem was not so much that you have to do much, the problem was rather that all the documentation around it assumed you're comfortable with all the abbreviations and the electronics side of the whole thing. Neither was the case here.

First I tried to implement a simple blinking light, like it is for example described in: Wiring Pi - Blink. The first and biggest problem was that the example uses its own numbering system of the pins. In the image it hooks up the wires to pin 6 and 11 but in the code it only writes to pin 0. I couldn't figure it out so I had to ask on the IRC which led to quite a lot of confusion.

I confused four different numbering systems, first I thought that the label P1 on the Raspberry Pi means that this is pin 1, but it does not, it means header one, which holds all the pins you as a user are supposed to use. There is P2 too for some other stuff.

Second I thought that pin 0 is the top left most pin. That is not the case, pin 0 which is defined by the Wiring Pi software's own numbering is actually the physical pin number 11. There is a PDF describing it which I didn't understand.

Then finally I went on to look on YouTube for better explanations and found tons of videos which still didn't explain which pin number means what. I found a video where someone wires the blink example and then goes on to say that he is hooking up the GPIO 18 which has the physical pin 12. Only then I did understand the fourth numbering system and was finally able to read images like this:

Or actually this is the right one:

Do you see how confusing this all is? I don't understand why there are that many numbering systems for one devise.

Ok, very nice, I hooked up the LED with the only resistor type I have from another project with the Arduino, then I compiled and installed the gpio console client from the Wiring Pi website with which I am supposed to be able to set pins to high and low, so the LED would go on and off.

Sadly nothing happened, and it took me another couple of hours to finally watch a video where they explicitly tell you that you need to wire up the cathode, the shorter leg of the LED, to ground, because otherwise it would not work. Looking at the image above I now see that it has been there all along. But if you don't know that, it isn't very obvious, especially if you still struggle with all the pin numbering systems.

After I got that I was able to use different libraries, from C over python to ruby to get my LED to blink. But I decided that it is a waste of resources and I would implement it by foot as a bash script.

Now that I understood the pin numbering and found a video which showed how to wire the button it was actually easier to work directly with the virtual file system which works really nice with a shell script, than with all the libraries which do the same but come up with their own numbering systems which makes it so confusing.

Anyway, here is my script which is working nice even if I don't quite understand why it is telling me that the button is 0 if it is pressed and 1 if it is not in line 12.

   01 #!/bin/sh
   02
   03 BUTTON_GPIO=22
   04 BUTTON=/sys/class/gpio/gpio$BUTTON_GPIO
   05 RELEASED=1
   06
   07 echo $BUTTON_GPIO > /sys/class/gpio/export
   08 echo "in" > $BUTTON/direction
   09
   10 while [ 1 ]
   11 do
   12       if [ `cat $BUTTON/value` -eq 0 ]
   13       then
   14                if [ $RELEASED -eq 1 ]
   15                then
   16                        RELEASED=0
   17                         
   18                        echo "Button pressed"
   19                fi
   20       else
   21                RELEASED=1
   22       fi
   23 done

It is quite cool and easy to understand. I had to add the RELEASED variable because it otherwise would fire up the call in line 18 all the time while the person is pressing, which is a couple of ten times a second.

I hope this blog post can help someone in the future to be less confused about all the numbering systems than I was.

Me and my brother are developing a very cool mu...

2014-02-18T10:34:27Z

Me and my brother are developing a very cool multilayer physics game for the browser. Check out our progress on the development blog: http://chuck-game.tumblr.com/post/77015260297/levels-and-ragdolls

And here is a screenshot of it: https://jeena.net/images/2014/chuck-js-stones2.png

If you add all the natural numbers like 1 + 2 +...

2014-02-15T23:42:31Z

If you add all the natural numbers like 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... then the you'll get: - 1/12

http://youtu.be/w-I6XTVZXww

If APIs were implemented via business letters: ...

2014-02-14T23:05:03Z

If APIs were implemented via business letters: https://gist.github.com/DanaDanger/8987422

Air-Dried Ham

2014-02-12T21:33:56Z

I've been making air-dried ham.

The first step is to add sugar to the ham and let it work on it for one day in the refrigerator. It helps the meat not to rot.

Most industrial hams are cured with nitrite, but I'm not sure where to buy it and I've kind of heard that overuse of it can lead to health problems. And because I have it on good authority that it also works with sugar, I tried it without nitrit. But I need to investigate that further.

Next step was doing the same with salt. Before salting I washed it thoroughly in cold water. During both days the ham loses quite a lot of moisture which you should just tilt away every couple of hours.

After two days

This is the ham after one day in sugar and one day in salt. It lost quite a lot of moisture already and its color changed a bit as you can see.

You should use garlic powder on the ham because it is, I assume, antiseptic or something. I'm not sure, have to investigate that further. Anyway, It helps to preserve the ham now since it is going to hang at room temperature for a couple of days.

I added quite a lot of paprika powder which will give the dried ham a tasty crust and is said to further protect the meat during the drying process.

I added also more spices like cyan-pepper, black pepper, thyme, rosemary, etc. to cover the whole ham in spices. Sadly I forgot marjoram, which I will definitely use next time.

I bought 4 pairs of sheer socks, those made of the material pantyhose or tights are made of. This material is good for drying of meat because it presses evenly from all sides. Professionals, like my father who was trained as a butcher, are able to bind the ham with some twine. Some day I will learn that too, because buying socks gets quite expensive over time.

In this picture you can see the ham air-drying at the window above the heating element. It has to dry for at least four days, they say it is better to let it dry for seven days.

After a week

After a week of drying in normal air at home, in my kitchen, my first ham is ready to eat! It really is great, even though I will try to get out more salt next time with more time while washing the ham after it has been in the salt. Putting it into water for a couple of hours should be sufficient to get out some salt.

Look at the colors, isn't it amazing?! And all the and the spices in great harmony with the meat, I love it!

Check out this picture in full size to get a better idea of the look, it is truly wonderful.

Next time I will buy a different part and try that, already looking forward to it!

[update:] After one more week it changed the color a bit more into violet. It tastes like there is much less salt in it, now it is almost perfect, check it out:

Check out the ham I dried myself for a week: ht...

2014-02-12T17:19:38Z

Check out the ham I dried myself for a week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/12481536724/

It is so delicious, look at the colors, and then the most important, it is done without nitrite!

Nice, Flappy Bird in HTML <canvas> written in J...

2014-02-08T01:39:56Z

Nice, Flappy Bird in HTML written in JavaScript http://uralozden.com/flappy/

Rise of the IndieWeb - Amber Case - FutureTalks...

2014-02-07T19:18:52Z

Rise of the IndieWeb - Amber Case - FutureTalks https://youtu.be/Au4bHb5twF4

"The Games have always been a little gay. Let's...

2014-02-07T09:04:04Z

"The Games have always been a little gay. Let's fight to keep them that way." https://youtu.be/n4CEaoNADiY great add!

@tobiastom did you know that Sascha Lobo kind o...

2014-02-07T02:28:58Z

@tobiastom did you know that Sascha Lobo kind of is working with something like the #IndieWeb http://saschalobo.com/portfolio/reclaim-fm/? It is a WordPress plugin which syndicates all your data from the silos back to your blog.

Indie Notes Reader

2014-02-06T21:29:07Z

I poked around a bit on a Notes-Reader for the IndieWeb. Notes are like blog posts but without a title and mostly very short. They are also mostly plain text with auto linked URLs and some people include the media which those links point to too. For me in the long run I would like it to replace Twitter. You can check out my implementation at: https://jeena.net/notes

My biggest problem yet with it is that there is no reader application for it, so you could consume other peoples notes, and perhaps even reply to them, etc. What you can do right now is to check every of those websites once a day or something and then reply to notes from your own website with help of webmentions. This is kind of what I do today but it is quite a lot of work and I wish there was a easier way to do it.

Most of the people who write Notes offer a RSS feed, so what I did was to subscribe to every one of them with my normal Feed reader. This kind of works but because Notes do not have a title, it looked really weird in my normal feed reader to see the content copied into the title for every note. It was just not a pretty sight:

And then in list view, all of the feed readers I tested only showed one line of the title so you had to click on every title to see what people have been writing about, even if most of the text would be visible completely in 3-4 lines like on Twitter.

I was thinking about that problem for some time now and I was trying out some stuff today. I have a Feed reader which is written in JavaScript and works also offline (FeedMonkey). There is also a RSS Metadata sync-protocol Pond which I am helping to polish and a example implementation of a server (in Go) for it (I will write more about it in a separate blog post). Over the last couple of days I implemented some stuff so that FeedMonkey could use Pond as a backend.

I then subscribed to all the Notes-feeds I wanted to follow on my text installation of the Pond server and let it serve the JavaScript for FeedMonkey, which is kind of cool because that way I didn't need to set up another HTTP server just to be able to serve this code.

I tweaked my feed reader only slightly so it wouldn't show the titles but instead would show the content in the list view, I truncate it if it is really long, and if you click on it you come to the same post fully auto linked and in the future also with auto embedded media. Those couple of changes made it already a quite a cool application:

There is obviously a huge amout of work to do yet, and I'm not even sure I'm up for the task, but I kind of like where this could go in the future.

Let me just brainstorm here what I would like to have implemented here too:

A button where you could write a note as a reply to a note you were just reading. For starters this could just send you to your own website with notes and give your app the source uri via a GET parameter. This would already work everywhere as long as you're online.
Or in the long run I could implement Micropub, which would allow the app to publish to your website, which is kind of like Atompub but without all the bad stuff like XML and with normal forms.
What I really miss are the names and avatars of the authors. I'm not sure how to implement it yet, neither RSS nor Atom, which Pond uses to aggregate all the data, provide a avatar by default, and I haven't seen anyonee using a Atom extension element to provide it. The only thing I can think of right now is to go to the canonical website of the note and get the avatar from the HTML via Microformats, which would work but isn't really a good way to do it. Perhaps with good caching, ... I don't know. Favicons aren't really a solution to that problem either.

I think it would be ok do to it like that for starters because we already have this infrastructure in place today, but what we actually would like to have is syndication via HTML and Microformats instead of RSS/Atom.

[update:] Just got a link to some former discussion about it: http://indiewebcamp.com/feed_reader

@tobiastom yes the "retweeted this." and "favou...

2014-02-06T17:00:50Z

@tobiastom yes the "retweeted this." and "favourited this." stuff comes from bridgy.

Damn it, finally I am getting emails on WebMent...

2014-02-06T12:10:13Z

Damn it, finally I am getting emails on WebMentions, even on the homepage (not only for in-reply stuff). But something is still not right, I had to use gmail to do that because I wasn't able to get it to work with my own mailserver yet.

Someone has been sending spam via my email serv...

2014-02-06T10:08:25Z

Someone has been sending spam via my email server for days, turns out they found out my password, after changing it, it stopped.

I wanted to try to build a mobile app with the ...

2014-02-05T16:31:16Z

I wanted to try to build a mobile app with the @Sencha framework but their main demo app doesn't even work with Firefox OS, it only shows me the desktop version: https://i.imgur.com/vPinIBQ.png

I'd like to write a mobile app, what are better...

2014-02-05T16:00:46Z

I'd like to write a mobile app, what are better alternatives to jQuery mobile which is quite slow on my Firefox OS? I need at least a couple of list views and a detail view, and I would like the UI to be animated.

@arturovm first time I got some data in FeedMon...

2014-02-04T11:56:12Z

@arturovm first time I got some data in FeedMonkey visible from Pond! Still with some minor bugs but it is progress!

@tobiastom check out http://erinjo.is/ for a co...

2014-02-03T17:09:00Z

@tobiastom check out http://erinjo.is/ for a cool example of a reskinned idno

http://youtu.be/1oKpTHk9TDY is great! Especiall...

2014-02-03T16:53:33Z

http://youtu.be/1oKpTHk9TDY is great! Especially after I've read http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/how-inapp-purchases-has-destroyed-the-industry/

Sadly I can't have my own dog because I commute...

2014-02-02T18:05:22Z

Sadly I can't have my own dog because I commute to school and work so I'm not home most of the day. Therefore I borrowed a friends' dog for a week or so while I'm in between jobs right now. It is awesome! http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/12270840795/

I'm watching the first episode of American Horr...

2014-01-31T21:33:22Z

I'm watching the first episode of American Horror Story and I have to say it really is interesting.

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot: https://www.youtube...

2014-01-31T20:37:01Z

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM

IndieWeb

2014-01-31T01:41:36Z

I'm an optimist and I often hope that we in some way will get the utopian world I dream up, be it in politics, society or technology. Therefore I often jump on the bandwagon when I see someone going in the direction I also like. Last year it was Tent which promised to get my data back. Sadly they took a wrong turn so I had to jump of and find something else which would get me in the direction I wanted, which is owning the data I post to the internet. I am trying to archive it not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

After I whined about the Tent fails on Twitter, Tantek favourited some of my tweets and invited me to join them in the IndieWeb movement. Fast forward a couple of months to today and here we are, my personal website is indiewebified!

What this means in short is that I can log in to other websites with Web Sign In, I can publish articles (added microformats to my blog HTML) and notes (my private surrogate Twitter) and can send and receive WebMentions, which are kind of like Pingback but much easier to implement.

Blog

I've been blogging since 2004 and have been using Pingback ever since, after I implemented it in my own blog software Jlog back then. I also had comments in my blogs but the last couple of years people stopped commenting on my websites and started to comment on Facebook and Twitter where I posted links to my blog posts too. At the same time spam started to overtake the whole comment section, which forced me to remove comments. I used a rails plugin for Pingback which got old and wasn't updated either to work with the rails version I am using for my website, so I had to remove that too.

Instead I now implemented WebMentions. When I write a blog post (or a note) which mentions another website with a link, my blog tells the other website that I mentioned it. This other website, if it also implements WebMentions, can then put a link under their content which shows their visitors that somebody mentioned it on another website.

The cool thing is that I use microformats h-entry to markup my blog posts, which makes it simple for the websites I mention to extract information about my as the author, a title and a summary for example, to show it under their content.

Notes

Notes are my private Twitter replacement, at least in the long run. Instead of posting short messages only to Twitter where I do not have any control over them, I post them to my own website. They are short plain text notes with auto linked URLs. From today on I even auto embed media content like pictures, music or video, which makes it look pretty slick if I might say :D.

I also implemented WebMentions for the notes and use h-entry to mark it up. The cool thing about that is that if I mention someone elses note, my whole content shows up under their note and it looks just like a normal comment, but it was created on my own site and I still have the power over it!

Check out this note the third and fourth comments are native WebMention comments, if you click on the date you get to the original website where they were posted. I get the name and the avatar from there because they too marked up their HTML with microformats h-entry.

I integrate with Twitter, too, it is called POSSEing: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. Every time I post a note, I automatically post it to Twitter, and if it is too long I add a back-link so my Twitter followers can read the rest too.

There is another interesting thing, syndication of mentions from twitter users back to my notes on my own website, but more on that later when I talk about bridgy.

Feeds (Atom/RSS)

Back in the day, you kids who came here from Twitter or Facebook perhaps don't remember that anymore, people used feed reader applications like NetNewsWire. If you found a blog which you liked and wanted to follow, you would subscribe to the blogs feed in your feed reader and it would check al those sites about once ever hour and show you the new content. It would also mark blog posts as read so you wouldn't need to remember which one you've read already.

Sadly after more then 15 years there still is no protocol to synchronize all the feed readers on all your devises, I wrote about it last year: (RSS) feed metadata syncing

The idea is to get rid of the special feed files, which mark up the content in a special way as XML, and to use the normal HTML of the website which is marked up with microformats. But there are no readers which would be able to consume that yet and it is not quite clear how the whole process would work yet. So that is something for future us to figure out ;-).

Therefor I still offer feeds for my blog posts and my notes, which you can subsribe to in your feed reader.

Bridgy and POSSE

So what is Bridgy?

Bridgy sends webmentions for comments, likes, and reshares on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Instagram. Bridgy notices when you post links, watches for activity on those posts, and sends them back to your site as webmentions. It also serves them as microformats2 for webmention targets to read.

So we still want to reach all the people who haven't moved from silos like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter to the IndieWeb, which is not as easy as you would think, most of us are writing their own software just to be part of it. Like I mentioned with notes, I post every note automatically to Twitter. There people are answering me even though I wish they would do it on their own website and would just send a WebMention.

What bridgy does for me is that it checks my twitter stream and if someone mentions one of my posts which link to one of my notes, it sends a webmention to my website and offers the tweet content as a normal HTML website with marked up with microformats so I can use it like every other IndieWeb site with WebMentions and h-entry microformats. That way I can get the URL of the Tweet, the name of the user, their avatar and the content of the Tweet and add it as a comment to my own note so my readers can follow the discussion without the need to visit the Twitter website.

Check out this note, where a twitter user answered and his tweet shows up like a normal webmention/comment with his name and avatar.

My next step with this will be to integrate Facebook too.

How about you?

So how about you? Are you interested in that kind of stuff but a bit overwhelmed of everything? You don't need to do everything yourself, even if that is the biggest fun in my opinion, et least if you're a programmer, there is software out there like Idno or p3k, you only need your own domain and Idno even offers preinstalled servers.

But be prepared to work hard, learn a lot, play hard and to have lots of fun doing so.

I just found out that someone used my server to...

2014-01-30T20:34:33Z

I just found out that someone used my server to send quite a lot of spam, I'm still not sure if I was able to plumb this security hole.

It really is too easy to bake from all those al...

2014-01-30T14:13:41Z

It really is too easy to bake from all those already mixed packages but the fragrance alone at home is worth doing it, even if you don't really learn anything new about it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/12221382254/

Swedish marines in Afganistan https://www.youtu...

2014-01-29T21:52:30Z

Swedish marines in Afganistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLwmUdee64

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize ...

2014-01-29T17:04:56Z

Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/edward-snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-prize

This ping pong match is really fun to watch :D ...

2014-01-28T00:28:48Z

This ping pong match is really fun to watch :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS3O0OOn0a0

Peer the dog http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena...

2014-01-27T23:40:37Z

Peer the dog http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeena/12180664694/

Back in Sweden after a couple of days at @cjk10...

2014-01-27T18:21:12Z

Back in Sweden after a couple of days at @cjk101010 in Germany

Why are US corporate profits so high? Because w...

2014-01-27T06:40:12Z

Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low.

http://blogs.reuters.com/macroscope/2014/01/24/why-are-us-corporate-profits-so-high-because-wages-are-so-low/

The woman sitting left of me is for the first t...

2014-01-23T04:37:11Z

The woman sitting left of me is for the first time trying out Candy Crush. That is kind of weird, because I never got it.

@graue have you seen my new attempt to distribu...

2014-01-22T22:59:52Z

@graue have you seen my new attempt to distributed social networks? My blog can now webmentions and I synchronize my website with Twitter: https://jeena.net/notes

Ok, I'm on my way to Germany to celebrate @cjk1...

2014-01-22T22:46:49Z

Ok, I'm on my way to Germany to celebrate @cjk101010 birthday and to give a course in home brewing 101. This will definitely be much fun!

How come there are people prepared to die so th...

2014-01-22T20:36:21Z

How come there are people prepared to die so their country could join the EU, just look at those pictures, this looks basically like war http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/01/the-battle-in-kiev-two-killed-in-ukraine-protest/100667/

And on the other side we have the UK and many right wing parties who want to get out.

Holy frak, this is creepy but at the same time ...

2014-01-22T18:50:49Z

Holy frak, this is creepy but at the same time amazing what Browsers are able to do today #face #substitution http://auduno.github.io/clmtrackr/examples/facesubstitution.html

This obviously still ist just anecdotical evide...

2014-01-22T18:33:39Z

This obviously still ist just anecdotical evidence, but it is indeed a great read #vaccines #homeopathy http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/01/growingupunvaccinatedahealthylifestylecouldntpreventmanychildhood.html

@tobiastom check this out: http://lychee.electe...

2014-01-22T16:57:46Z

@tobiastom check this out: http://lychee.electerious.com/ it looks beautiful! Perhaps some day I will be able to leave #Flickr behind me?

Some people don’t have time to fix bugs in thei...

2014-01-22T16:54:20Z

Some people don’t have time to fix bugs in their software because of #revolution https://github.com/fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle/pull/12

I’ve been using TextEdit.app for temporary note...

2014-01-21T20:33:37Z

I’ve been using TextEdit.app for temporary notes which I only need for a couple of minutes. Sadly since Apples iCloud integration it takes about 10 times as much time to open a blank document. Any tips for replacements?

Steve Wozniak about the movie 'Jobs’: "Actually...

2014-01-20T18:56:07Z

Steve Wozniak about the movie 'Jobs’: "Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me. https://plus.google.com/+CarmsPerez/posts/GnVTvQNgvpf

Thanks to #indieweb I finally cleaned up all th...

2014-01-20T00:19:20Z

Thanks to #indieweb I finally cleaned up all the old code on my own website. I still had some rails 2 stuff in there even though I already use rails 4.

This is why I always wanted to have a feed meta...

2014-01-19T16:15:29Z

This is why I always wanted to have a feed metadata sync protocol: http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2014/01/18/feedly-found-new-way-steal-page-views-publishers/ I wrote about it a year ago https://jeena.net/feed-metadata and there are some people working on it https://arturovm.me/post/introducing-pond.html but It still isn't interesting for the mainstream.

I’ve been working on my own #indieweb twitter r...

2014-01-18T14:51:55Z

I’ve been working on my own #indieweb twitter replacement. Right now it is POSSING notes to twitter, can send and receive #webmentions and with help of Fluid.app I’ve made it possible to post without the need to login to my website, which is really cool.

Ok, I implemented notes on this website which i...

2014-01-18T02:17:03Z

Ok, I implemented notes on this website which in the long run will replace my twitter account.

Programming in Brainfuck

2014-01-05T19:03:48Z

I just found an interesting question for this new year at StackExchange:

Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code

The shortest answer wins and there are 5 bytes long answers already so I can not win this no matter what I do.

But I thought that this would be finally a task where the programming language brainfuck could shine! So I installed a Brainfuck interpreter and wrote this code which even gave the right answer the first time I run it!

++++++++[>++++++<-]>++.--.+.+++.

Here is the documented code, what you need to know is that Brainfuck is actually really easy. The memory is like a very big array and you can go with ">" to the next item in the array and with "<" to the previous. With "+" you can increase the integer on the place where you currently are in the array and with "-" you can decrease it. With "." you can output the ASCII character equivalent of the integer where you currently are.

There is one thing which helps dealing with bigger numbers where you don't want to write 48 "+" signes in your source code you can use "[" to start the while loop and "]" to end it. Every time at the beginning of the loop it checks if the integer, to which you're pointing right now, is something else than 0. If so, it runs the code within the loop. If not, it jumps to the end of the loop wihtout executing it.

+++++ +++  # increment a[0] 8 times so a[0] == 8
[          # while (a[0]) {
 >         #    goto a[1]
  +++++ +  #    increment a[1] 6 times so a[1] = a[1] + 6
           #    that way a[1] ends up at 48 -> ASCII 0
           #    which is a good starting point for us
 <         #    goto a[0]
  -        #    decrement a[0] once that way we run the
           #    while loop 8 times before it is 0
]          # }
>          # goto a[1]
 ++        # increment a[1] two times so it is 50 -> ASCII 2
 .         # print out a[1]
 --        # decrement a[1] two times so it is 48 -> ASCII 0
 .         # print out a[1]
 +         # increment a[1] once so it is 49 -> ASCII 1
 .         # print out a[1]
 +++       # increment a[1] three times so it is 52 -> ASCII 4
 .         # print out a[1]

I'm posting it here because I can't post it on StackExchange because I need 10 points to post an answer to this question.

Pronouncing the letter /ˈdʒeɪ/

2013-12-07T14:08:14Z

I migrated to Sweden in 2005 and I still make many stupid mistakes while speaking Swedish. I try to get people to tell me when I make some mistake so I can become better over time. But most people are not very comfortable with correcting me which is sad, because it often takes years before I find out that I've been saying something in the wrong way (grammar, pronunciation, wrong words, etc.). I have the same problem with English, I don't speak it very often but most of my writing is in English. I often try to get someone to look over important pieces of my writing. This works much better, because correcting a text in front of your own computer doesn't feel the same way like correcting someone while he/she is talking.

The Swedes are really great at English, basically everybody here in Sweden speaks it to a degree that you can have quite normal conversations with them.

But there is one thing which bothers me which I'd like to address here. It is the way they pronounce words with the letter 'j' in it.

Its normal name in English is jay /ˈdʒeɪ/ or jy /ˈdʒaɪ/; when used for the y sound, it may be called yod (/ˈjɒd/ or /ˈjoʊd/).

It seems that swedes always pronounce it like when it is used for the ‘y’ sound when in fact it is most of the time spoken as /dʒ/.

I have one example from the latest episode of my favorite swedish podcast Obiter Dictum. There both of the hosts say the word "jaws" because they speak about the movie Jaws in english. So I took the two parts where they say this word in this episode and put them into a mp3 file.

I then went to YouTube and found the official trailer for this movie and found the part where they say the name of the movie. I put both together so you can hear the difference here:

Jaws sound clip

Can you hear the difference between /ˈjɒws/ and /ˈdʒaws/?

The word jaws is only one example but this happens with almost all words which have the letter 'j' in them and should be pronounced with /dʒ/, like the word 'just' for example /ˈjɒst/ vs. /ˈdʒast/ and so on.

This happens to our lecturer at the university all the time while he is standing in front of us. I probably should say something so he can get better at that. Obviously I wouldn't interrupt him in the middle of his lecture and expose him in front of the whole class but instead I would tell him afterwards when we're alone.

I really hope that nobody feels offended by that, if you make this mistake then it is really just to help you, because I feel that nobody will tell you that you're not pronouncing it right, I know (almost) nobody tells me so it is very difficult for me to get things right.

My parents for example are living in Germany since 1989. They only have german friends so you'd think that their German would be flawless. But the truth is, nobody (but me) corrects them so they never learn to speak correct German, which is really a shame.

People first

2013-12-06T07:56:05Z

This is a reply to Tantek's "Toward A People Focused Mobile Communication Experience", read it first, otherwise you won't get what I am talking about. In short, what he proposes is basically something like Facebook Home tried to do but without Facebook, instead with peoples personal websites.

I get where this is coming from, he is one of the guys behind IndieWebCamp which tries a open web approach for the social media problem, where everybody has their own website under their own domain as their personal center of all their activity. I like the idea very much and back in 2004 when I started bloging this kind of was the state of the art, you went to a persons website to get information about what the're up to, and then Twitter and Facebook came.

People first

So the main idea is of this kind of interaction flow, where you put people first, not applications:

Go to someone's domain, e.g. tap their icon from home screen

See their personal home page which with methods of contact as a list or icons in the order that they prefer to be contacted.

Go across and down that list until you see something you can (and want) to use to communicate, and tap/click it.

The browser takes you to a website or "native" app to open the communication channel / new message.

Thus after tapping the person you want to communicate with, just one more tap to open a new IM, email, or audio/video call.

In theory this is rather great and would work with the tech we already have in place. In practice, there are huge problems with this.

Almost nobody has their own website

Less than 1% of the people I regularly talk to have their own website, and I know a huge amount of tech people to whom setting up their own website is not a skills problem. It is the huge amount of work where you have to research for weeks before you find something which would cover all the cases you'd like to have covered by your website. And then you'd need to update it regularly too, mostly via the browser on your desktop computer because most CMS don't really work that great on mobile devices, contrary to the Facebook and Twitter apps.

And I don't see that changing yet, perhaps if you'd give your Facebook or Google+, LinkedIn, etc. profile URL as your own Website to everybody and make it public.

I don't want to make my phone number, email, etc. public

Here in Sweden if you buy a mobile phone you automatically are listed on various phone book websites and it is really difficult to get that removed. That is actually why I prefer to buy anonymous prepaid SIM cards.

Tantek suggests that one could implement identification to solve this problem and in fact IndieAuth is quite cool because it allows you to use Twitter, Facebook and a ton of other authentication methods, so you don't need to roll your own thing.

But honestly, Facebook does exactly that already, you can have your public profile and provide your email address or IM, and if someone logs in, you can offer more to them depending on if they're your friend, or a friend of a friend, etc. like your phone number, your address, etc. With Facebook Home you get even this "people first" thing. Still Facebook Home, as I think we all can agree, has failed.

Put it in your address book

In my opinion stuff like this needs to go in to your address book, not on a personal website. In your address book you already can add a phone number, a IM username, email address, address, URL, birthday, relationship to that person, etc. We just would need some way to add more stuff like a link to the Facebook/Twitter/Github/Flickr profile, some kind of a link to a Skype call/chat, a click on the IM username should open the appropriate IM application so you could just start chatting, and it should show if the person is online and their availability status right now. That actually worked pretty well on OS X with XMPP/Jabber and AIM accounts before Apple broke it.

We would need the addressbook to be easier to use too, the address book apps I used yet are terrible! Almost always just a plain list with names in alphabetical order and a search field. Sometimes you can group people together but there is no smartness in the system whatsoever.

If you know some good address book software which still supports CardDav for synchronization please tell me.

Multiplayer 3D Shooter in the Browser

2013-11-22T18:40:01Z

Me and my brother are trying to write a multiplayer browser game. We have been working on it for a long time already, because it is a hobby project for both of us. It is really fun to research all the things which are necessary and while doing that today I found out that the web soon could be a platform for big ass games.

Network speed

So games, in contrast to other applications, are particularly resource hungry, especially multiplayer games with 3D graphics which you play over the internet as your network.

Traditionally we've only been using TCP on the web because HTTP is the protocol on the web and it is a layer on top of TCP. TCP is cool because you can send data once and, if it doesn't timeout, your data will arrive exactly like you send it, even in the exact order. From my bachelor thesis (2.3.2):

For reliable transfers TCP is often used on the Internet. Built in to the protocol are the error checking and correction mechanisms missing in UDP. This ensures the consistency of data, but also makes the transfer slower than if UDP had been used.

In games positions of your opponents, etc. are updated every couple of milliseconds, so it doesn't matter if you miss some in between. The bigger problem is that with TCP even if newer information would arrive, your program doesn't receive it until the slowest one arrives, after that you get all the packages at once, which then makes it look like your opponents are teleporting themselves all over the place.

So game developers would like to use UDP. But for a couple of reasons you can't do that from JavaScript, most notably security and DDOS. But there might just be a middle ground:

WebRTC

Perhaps you have heard about WebRTC in connection with peer to peer audio and video chat, the Skype killer! But there is more.

First of all, WebRTC uses UDP and has support for peer-to-peer connections, so it is fast as you can see with the video-chats, second, there is not only a media data API but there are also Data Channels. With those you are able to send data via UDP and peer-to-peer in a safe manner, which is exactly what we need for our real time games.

So this is convenient, the network part of our game is covered, but what about the graphics?

WebGL

Many of the big game titles are written in Direct X, therefore they are not portable and will only run on Windows. But there is more and more movement away from this.

Last year we finally got Steam for Linux (we got it for OS X even earlier) and I assume you've herd about Steam machines, which is Valves take on game consoles, which run on Linux too. Obviously there is no Direct X for Linux or OS X but there is OpenGL, which kind of does the same thing (honestly I have yet to understand why people choose to write in Direct X - needs more research). With OpenGL you can implement all the cool 3D graphics stuff and it is available for all the platforms out there.

And it gets even better, there is WebGL. WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 which is a subset of the OpenGL which has been in use on mobile platforms for years already. All the cool 3D games for iPhone and Android you've been playing? That was OpenGL ES which is what WebGL basically is.

Want to see something cool? Check out the WebGL Shader Editor in the Firefox Developer Tools:

What you can see there is so cool! Normally when you're writing shader code, etc. after each change you have to recompile your application and go to the part in the game where you changed something to see it. With the Shader Editor your view changes as you type, just like live CSS changes in Firebug.

Obviously because WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 it won't have all the cool stuff you have in the newest and greatest full blown OpenGL 4.4 but in comparison to what we had before that it is just mind-blowing that you can actually program the GPU of your graphics card from the browser. Who would have thought that back when we were all fighting IE6 bugs a couple of years ago?

Computation speed

So with network and graphics covered, what about the CPU? Isn't JavaScript way too slow for big ass games like Call of Duty or Battlefield where you constantly have to recalculate the physics, the AI for npc:s, etc.? So, yes it depends on the game obviously but there is some really cool stuff coming which will help us out here:

asm.js

asm.js an extraordinarily optimizable, low-level subset of JavaScript

Q. What kind of performance benefits can I expect to get with asm.js? A. It's early to say, but our preliminary benchmarks of C programs compiled to asm.js are usually within a factor of 2 slowdown over native compilation with clang. We will publish more benchmarks as we collect them.

Did you get it? It takes only double the time to run the asm.js JavaScript code in comparison to a native C(++) implementation. WTF?! Check also out the rest of their faq. Modern non asm.js JavaScript (for example in in V8) nowadays is about 5 times slower then native code.

Emscripten

asm.js in combination with Emscripten, which is a LLVM-to-JavaScript Compiler, will allow you to keep writing your game in C++ but to compile it to JavaScript and then asm.js to run it in the browser with only slowdown factor of about two. You can keep using all your C++ libs, you just add a step to your build tool chain.

NaCL

And there is even more, while asm.js is implemented in some Firefox versions, Google came up with a different solution to the performance problem, Native Client:

Native Client is a sandbox for running compiled C and C++ code in the browser efficiently and securely, independent of the user's operating system. Portable Native Client extends that technology with architecture independence, letting developers compile their code once to run in any website and on any architecture.

In short, Native Client brings the performance and low-level control of native code to modern web browsers, without sacrificing the security and portability of the web.

When this is implemented then you won't even need to recompile your C++ code to JavaScript and won't even get the factor two slowdown, this is just mindblowing.

What is the state of all of this right now?

"This is all fine and dandy but it will take years until we can use any of this!" I hear you cry. The fact is you can use most of it already today with your normal Firefox or Chrome!

Yes you can play multiplayer 3D shooter in your browser today, there is even a demo game called BannanaBread

BananaBread is a 3D first person shooter that runs on the web. It takes the Cube 2: Sauerbraten engine, which is written in C++ and OpenGL, and compiles it using Emscripten into JavaScript and WebGL so that it can run in modern browsers using standards-based web APIs even without the need for plugins.

The latest update of this demo uses asm.js for additional speed, and WebRTC for multiplayer.

Go and check it out right now, it is amazing what is possible in the browser today, and thanks to webstandards you can even chose between different browsers to run it. But be aware of the fact that you still need a good graphics card to get it to run smoothly.

Why should anyone care?

The web is an open platform and everybody and their dog already have a browser installed. Just think about all the people playing on Facebook or all the other small games.

If for example World of Warcraft, which is already written in OpenGL and could be recompiled with Emscripten to asm.js to be run in the browser without much of a penalty, they would get a ton of new more casual users. They already have a subscription business model, so they don't need to keep selling the game. And as a user you just go to their website and start playing, without hours of installation or waiting in line to get your copy or anything.

I think in the end this will be the winning model anyway, subscription instead of selling copies which later on can be resold or cracked.

It would crash the market for cloud gaming where the idea was that companies run and render everything on big servers and the clients would just get a video stream to their thin client. This way you don't even need fat servers because all the heavy lifting is done by the browsers, even without even the need to install any software, not even a browser plugin, if the users have a good graphics cards in their computer that is.

Bock beer season

2013-11-02T14:36:01Z

Bock

It is a bit unfair, I am following a couple of “Beer from Franconia" accounts on Facebook, Franconia is the north part of Bavaria where I lived, and all of them post photos and articles about the new Bock beer season. Every shitty village pub over there is having a “Bockbieranstich” where they open the new (this seasons) barrels of Bock beer from several hundred different micro breweries and it is a huge party.

And I’m sitting here in Varberg, Sweden. I just had a look at the Systembolaget website (it is the state company which has the monopoly on selling alcohol.), they only have two Bock beers, it is a nightmare :-(

Home brewing

But I will not let this happen to me next year. I bought the book “Radical Brewing” by Randy Mosher, which has been recommended in many home brewing podcasts and blogs. In this book there are recipies for all sorts of different beers, even for Bock beer like you can see in the picture below:

I just have to find out when I have to start brewing it, it is a lager afterall so it will take some time before it is drinkable.

Last time

Last time (two weeks ago) we've been brewing a dark ale and a black lager which you can see me stering here in this picture:

A bock is basically a havier Munic Dunkel so it should be possible to pull it of some day. Perhaps then I will have something working with my brewing automaton?

Apeirophobia

2013-10-20T22:01:40Z

I was just listening to a podcast, The Richard Dawkins Interview - The Thinking Atheist Radio Podcast #131 and around the time-stamp of 1:02:10 the interviewer asks him:

Interviewer: Do you fear death?
Dawkins: I fear eternity, I think eternity is an alarming concept.
I: Richard, you can live forever. That's not attractive to you?
D: No, eternity is a very frightening idea. I think it is even more frightening if you're there then if you're not. So the way I want to put it is: I want to spend eternity under general anestatic.
I: Is it the endlessness that makes it meaningless?
D: Not meaningless, it is just the endlessness itself, I mean just getting on and on and on and on, it is like the infinity of space being frightening, meanwhile our brains aren't build cope with it.

So this is particularly interesting for me because when I was a catholic 9 years old boy lying in my bed and thinking about what the priest has been talking about in church the other day I didn't feel anxious about the idea of being in hell and burning there but instead a different part of the threat frightened me much more, staying there for eternity.

I was so afraid of the thought of an eternity that not even the prospect of spending eternity in heaven was anything I could look forward too, it didn't seem really much better then a eternity in hell, and actually still doesn't.

I haven't given that much thought for many years but last year I told my brother about it and he found out that there is even a name for it: Apeirophobia. I don't have a phobia about it, I just find the thought of eternity rather unpleasant.

I wonder if the hope of not ever having to experience eternity helped me on my way away from religion and any gods. But reading about apeirophobia on the internet it seems like it is not in any way related to atheists. Actually most, if not all, of the articles I read have been written by religious people.

Cat vs. dog drawings categorization

2013-10-15T19:12:03Z

1. Introduction

1.1. Goal

The goal of this project was to give a computer a drawing of either a cat's or a dog's face and let it recognize with high probability whether a cat or a dog is shown.

1.2. Scope

First I thought that I would get lots of people to draw cat and dog faces for me, but I later realized that it was far too time consuming. Therefore I had to change the scope from recognizing random peoples drawings to recognizing my own drawings, which is obviously easier. Everything else did not change that much, I would just get better results.

2. Preparation

2.1. Drawing and taking a photo

I drew eight A4 sheets of such cat and dog faces which resulted in 64 dog faces and 60 cat faces. Then I took pictures of them with my digital camera.

There was a huge difference in quality between the pictures I took with my iPhone 4 camera and the ones I took with my Nikon D5000. In fact I was not able to use the pictures I took with the iPhone because it was impossible to find straight lines in them.

You can see the result here, one with the iPhone image as a source and the other with the Nikon image:

2.2. Photoshop

I cleaned up the drawings so it would be easier for the algorithm to find everything. I opened the pictures of the drawings in Photoshop and played with the contrast and brightness settings.

Then I cut out all the drawings from the big image and saved them as a black and white PNG images without dither.

2.3. Resizing

I wrote a small shellscript which would take all pictures and resize them proportionally to a max width and height of 200 px. It also fills up the missing borders with a white background color. To do that I used the ImageMagick software suite:

#!/bin/sh

NEW="new_$1"
rm -rf $NEW
mkdir $NEW

for i in `ls -1 $1`
do
    convert $1/$i \
        -adaptive-resize 200x200\> \
        -size 200x200 xc:white +swap \
        -gravity center \
        -composite \
        $NEW/$i
done

After that all the images had uniform sizes and colors so that I was able to compare them in a meaningful way.

3. Feature extraction

The next step was to extract the features from the images. In other words find things in the pictures that would be unique enough to make a difference between cats and dogs but broad enough so that all dogs would fall into one category and all cats into the other.

3.1. Straight lines

The first thing which came to mind was counting and doing other stuff with straight lines in the image.

3.1.1 Canny edge detector

I used an edge detector algorithm called Canny to preprocess the images which - as the name implies - finds edges in images. Because of my preparation with Photoshop it was quite easy for it to find them. It is not easy to see this step with my drawings, so here is a picture of how it looks like when you do this with a photo instead:

It basically removes noise with a gausian filter and then finds the intentisty gradians of the image with help of some trigonometry.

I did not implement the algorithm myself, instead I used the often used OpenCV implementation.

3.1.2 Hough transform

To find the lines I used the Hough transform algorithm. The red lines are those which the Hough transform algorithm found in the example picture:

It essentially groups edges, which can be imperfect, to object candidates by performing an explicit voting procedure. Detecting straight lines can be done by describing them as y = mx + b where m is the slope of the line and b is the intercept. The line is not represented by descrete points (x1,y1)(x2,y2) but instead as a point(x,y) in the parameter space, which makes detection of lines, which are a bit off, possible. In practice it is still more complicated, please read the Wikipedia article about it.

I did not implement it myself but used the often used and tested probabilistic OpenCV implementation.

3.2. Line features

I extracted these features from the lines:

amount of lines
average length of lines
average angle of lines

3.3. Other features

I also extracted the amount of black pixels in the image to use it as a possible feature which was not using the extracted lines.

4. k-nearest neighbor algorithm

I chose to use the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm which only locally looks at the neighbors of the document in a radius predefined by the user. It assumes that the document is of the same category as the highest number of neighbors within this radius. In the following figure you can see that depending if the user choses k = 3, as shown by the solid line, the algorithm will conclude that the document in the center (green smiley) is of the type triangle because most of this three neighbors are triangles. If on the other hand the user choses k = 7, as shown by the dotted line, then the amount of neighbors which are rectangles is greater as the amount of neighbors which are triangles, so it concludes that the smiley is of type rectangle.

In the picture above you see how it would look with two dimensions. I have been using four features so the algorithm had to check the distance to the neighbours in four dimensions. This is not really more difficult, it is just more to calculate.

5. Results

The results were quite encouraging, I assume it is because I only used one style to draw the dogs and one style to draw the cats.

5.1. k-fold Cross-validation

I used 10 fold cross-validation for every test I did, which means that I used 90% of the available data for the learning algorithms and then the remaining 10% to test how they performed. I repeated this ten times until all data had been used for testing once.

5.2. Results with all features

When I used all of the features and three nearest neighbours I got amazing 100% accuracy, which was kind of suspect because that normally means that you most probably did something wrong.

5.3. Results with a reduced feature set

Therefore I tried to reduce the features to check if it would perform worse.

When I removed the information about the amount of black pixels basically nothing happened.
When I removed the information about the amount of lines and average length at least I got a couple of wrong categorized images, the accuracy went down to 95%.
When I removed the information about the average angle of the lines, that was when I got significant errors. The accuracy dropped down to about 60%, which is still better then pure chance.

So it seems like the best feature to detect cat and dog face drawings done by me was the average angle of the straight lines in the image.

6. Future study

The most important next step would be to gather many more drawings done by other people who use other styles to draw cat and dog faces.

Then it would be interesting to use other learning algorithms like Bayes, Perceptron, etc.

And then it would be interesting to use this approach on photos of real cats and dogs.

7. Code

#!/usr/bin/env python

import cv2, cv, sys, math, os, numpy
from scipy.spatial import KDTree

def extractFeatures(label):

    directory = "img/" + label + "/"

    features = []

    for fn in os.listdir(directory):

        img = cv2.imread(directory + fn, 0)

        # find edges
        canny = cv2.Canny(img, 50, 100)

        # find colored
        black_pixels = numpy.count_nonzero(img)

        # find lines lines
        lines = cv2.HoughLinesP(canny, 1, math.pi/360, 5, None, 10, 1)

        lengths = []
        angles = []
        try:
            for line in lines[0]:
                x1, y1, x2, y2 = line

                # Pythagoras
                a2 = math.pow((x1-x2), 2)
                b2 = math.pow((y1-y2), 2)
                length = int(math.sqrt(a2 + b2))
                lengths.append(length)

                angle = int(math.degrees(math.atan((y1-y2) / (x1-x2))))
                angles.append(angle)
        except:
            pass

        # print out everything
        lines_count = len(lengths)
        mid_length = sum(lengths) / lines_count
        mid_angle = sum(angles) / lines_count

        features.append([
            [lines_count, mid_length, mid_angle, black_pixels],
            label
        ])

    return features


if __name__ == "__main__":
    cats = extractFeatures("cat")
    dogs = extractFeatures("dog")

    test_count = 5

    test_data = dogs[:test_count] + cats[:test_count] 
    test_labels = map(lambda a: a[1], test_data)
    test_features = map(lambda a: a[0], test_data)

    data = cats[test_count:] + dogs[test_count:]
    labels = map(lambda a: a[1], data)
    features = map(lambda a: a[0], data)

    tree = KDTree(features)

    for t in xrange(0, test_count * 2):
        d, i = tree.query(test_features[t], k=3)
        print "-"
        for j in xrange(0, len(i)):
            print test_labels[t] + " is a " + labels[i[j]]

Waking up to the sound of mystery

2013-10-14T09:56:26Z

Today, as almost every day actually, this agonizing iPhone alarm sound woke me up and I was so stressed just because of it.

Then after putting it of I thought:

Why did I chose this amazingly stupid way to wake up every single day?

Actually I think because of it I often wake up 5 minutes before it goes of just to not wake up to it so I'm not moody right in the morning.

Then I thought:

Why not wake up to a sound which is mystic and fun and sounds like exploring something new?

And then it struck me, the best sound, or rather it is a short song, was Klaus Doldinger's Fantasia from The Neverending Story.

So I bought the song, uploaded it to my phone and chose it as my wake up sound in the morning.

This in contrast to the alarm sound will hopefully make me wake up in a very good moode so I can jump right in and do some cool stuff right in the morning!

Content as Medium

2013-08-29T21:15:55Z

Just read Matt Gammel's article Content as Medium and it is so good! I think I agree with almost all of the points he makes.

Reading through it in my feed reader on my phone I was constantly thinking that everything he desires from publishers is already available for users who consume their RSS feeds in their own feed reader instead of visiting the websites.

No blinking ads
No sidebars, no header, no footer
Really just the content, text and content images
No special design
No links to more articles
Delivered to your computer/phone immediately, without you doing anything special
Has an archive which you can search through
Streamlined design, again just concentrated content nothing more
You can change the font size on your own for every article

It is just really awesome stuff we got here, and after the death of Google Reader the RSS community seemed to woke up again and we're seeing new apps and services everywhere.

I know we didn't get a protocol for all feed readers which is a shame, but the most important thing are our content providers, honestly I got back to getting my news from RSS because here I can chose actively what I want to read, over there on Facebook and Twitter is just too much noise, you can't hear anything.

FeedMonkey

2013-08-29T15:24:31Z

Today my first Firefox OS app has been approved and is available on the:

Screenshots

Description

A mobile feed reader client for TinyTinyRSS or ownCloud News for Firefox OS with which you can:

Read your RSS feeds and mark them as read on your server
You swipe right and left to navigate through the articles
It works also offline
You can chose between 4 fresh color schemes

To use this client to read your feeds you need either your own TT-RSS or ownCloud server or you can get a account on one of the public instances like: AnotherReader or ReadTiny.

If you're interested, the source code for this application is open source, you can check it out on Github.

My Firefox OS app was rejected

2013-08-25T22:11:07Z

[important update]: Since the article was posted I heard back from the Mozilla review team and it ended up not being like it seemed. It wasn't because jQuery but because of another file which was related to jQuery Mobile and injected google maps, so good news you _can_ use jQuery for your privileged apps in Firefox OS. Jump to the full update

[update 2]: The app has now been approved and if you're interested you can find it on the Mozilla Marketplace.

As a former iOS developer who quit his job to go back to school I was excited to hear about Firefox OS because paying $100 every year just to be able to install your own software on your own hardware doesn’t sound like a sweet solution for a student.

Buying a device

Obviously Mozilla wouldn’t require people to do things like that. So when I was in Poland on vacation I got me an Alcatel One Touch Fire with Firefox OS on it, as far as I know you can only buy a device with Firefox OS in Spain and Poland yet.

I had to buy it via the internet and ask my father for his polish ID (I don’t have one) to get it for 400 PLN (ca. 100 €) because the T-mobile shops weren’t allowed to sell it to me without a contract, which would have ended up about 1000 PLN (ca 240 €), which this phone clearly isn’t worth.

Development with jQuery Mobile

Anyway, as soon as I got it I started developing a clone of my TinyTinyRSS client FeedTheMonkey which was written in Python with the Qt framework. It doesn’t do much, just shows me my unread articles and marks them as read when I move to the next article, really basic functionality and what I want to do with an RSS reader 99% of the time.

So I grabbed jQuery and jQuery Mobile and within two days on my holidays I wrote a basic app which showed a list of your unread articles from your TinyTinyRSS server, let you read them and mark them as read on your server, so it even had more functionality as the python app I have for my desktop.

Privileged apps

I didn’t want the app to be a website because I wanted people who already had an TTRSS server to be able to use it without too much hassle installing another app on their server. But to be able to talk to arbitrary servers owned by the users I needed the systemXHR permission and thus the app needed to be a privileged app (this will be important later on).

So I added to my manifest two new keys:

"type": "privileged",
"permissions": {
    "systemXHR": {
        "description": "Connection with your own TinyTinyRSS server."
    }
}

Then I found out that this wasn’t enough, you also needed to create your XMLHttpRequest object with a special object like this:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest({mozSystem: true});

First I wanted to use jQuery's $.ajax() but that wasn’t that easy and although I later on found in a comment of a bug report that you indeed can set this option for jQuery, I couldn’t really find it in the documentation and I went for a plain XMLHttpRequest object. This later on turned out to be a really good idea anyway.

First version

jQuery Mobile was really neat to work with, especially navigation, animations and a default style which was quite ok to look at and did a great job in reducing the amount of time I needed to put in to get something working. Here is a link to the code up to this commit and a couple of screenshots:

There was some weirdness with manually calling $.mobile.changePage() and it also kept weirding when I used not only .listview() but at the same time .button() but I was able to work around it by not using the button code.

Mozilla Marketplace

So I was quite happy about the progress and thought I would share the app with the world, and there is the Mozilla Marketplace already installed on every Firefox OS devise, where I assume people look for new applications to use.

So on Thursday the 22nd I uploaded it to the marketplace. While uploading the zip file with my application their static analysis tool gave me about 30 warnings like this:

if ( parsed ) {
 return [ context.createElement( parsed[1] ) ];
}
CSP Violation Detected

Warning: It appears that your code may be performing an action which violates the CSP (content security policy) for privileged apps.

You can find more information about what is and is not allowed by the CSP on the Mozilla Developers website. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/CSP

But since those were only warnings, no errors I just dismissed them as some chatty thing, obviously using jQuery couldn’t be such a bad idea since jQuery Mobile is like made for Firefox OS!

Rejection

Just about two hours later, boom, I already got an answer! But sadly not the one I hoped for, instead my app was rejected:

Reviewed by Andrew Williamson (1 day, 3 hours ago)

Hi, thanks for your submission. We found some issues which need addressing: 1) Your app includes code which will be blocked from executed by the CSP applied to privileged apps. The CSP prevents all inline Javascript such as eval; new Function(); setTimeout and setInterval (with String parameters); inline event handlers; new <script> elements. It also prevents external scripts from being added or used. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Packagedapps#Typesofpackagedapps Once you’ve made the change please resubmit your app so we can take another look.

I know from the iOS review process at Cupertino that you can’t really argue with those people and I couldn’t find any way to write to the reviewer anyway. So I reached out to the person I first read about Firefox OS from, Robert Nyman, because I met him at one of the Stockholm Geek Meets a couple of years ago, we’re Facebook friends and he is a Technical Evangelist for Mozilla and the Editor of Mozilla Hacks where you can find lots of articles about how to build Firefox OS applications. I asked which library one should use when writing privileged apps for Firefox OS, sadly he didn’t know either.

The list

So the next step was to beard the lion in his den, writing to the dev-b2g and dev-webapps mailing lists. I explained my problem and got mostly answers which would tell me that it is not my fault:

We should workaround the limitation of this kind of false positive either by manual review or hash checking of libraries, if possible.

and

these calls should not be the problem. If you have calls like "setTimeout('setLastScroll()', 100)" then it could be the problem, but using real functions is not forbidden, we do that all the time in Firefox OS.

Then even the person who wrote the code behind the static analyzer wrote:

Those are warnings and can generally be ignored. I have a sticky note on my desk to improve the quality of the setTimeout/setInterval messages (they’re VERY noisy at the moment). ... In the Marketplace, we use a custom build of jQuery. If you clone the jQuery repo and use the grunt compiler, the following options will produce a pretty solid version:

-sizzle,-wrap,-event-alias,-ajax,-ajax/script,-ajax/jsonp,-ajax/xhr,-effects,-offset,-deprecated

...or you could just use the version we built: https://github.com/mozilla/fireplace/blob/master/hearth/media/js/lib/jquery-2.0.2.js ...

So I grabbed their code and tried checked if it would also produce warnings, and it did, almost as many as mine. On top of that jQuery Mobile is not compatible with jQuery 2.0 yet so I installed everything so I could compile such a version of jQuery 1.9 but yeah, you guessed it, still quite many warnings :D. I answered and explained that and got back:

... Your app should not have been rejected on grounds that you included jQuery and a CSP warning was produced. If that is the case, I’ll talk to the reviewers and see what’s the story. Feel free to forward me any messages you received and I’ll see if I can parse what’s happening.

So that is where we stand now. I hope my questions and problems help the community to figure this things out. It seems that I am one of the first people who are trying to use a framework and yes, I tried zepto.js, it had almost the same amount of warnings.

Second version without jQuery

In the meantime I rewrote the app, removed jQuery and jQuery Mobile code and came up with my own code and a new look and feel. jQuery Mobile is convenient because they figured out quite a lot already but it makes your app also quite slow, I assume mostly because of the animations but overall everything felt much slower then my pure JavaScript approach which makes the app snappy as hell!

For the first time I tried this new kid on the block, a flat design, I understand that it is not as polished as the jQuery Mobile default design but it is fast and I was able to even really easily implement different color schemas for the user to chose from:

I just send it in to the marketplace again, after I fixed some of the bugs one of the people on the list found and reported. This time it said:

Your app passed validation with no errors or warnings.

Wohoo! And the status is:

This app is pending review by a Firefox Marketplace reviewer.
Queue position: 1 of 14
Estimated waiting time: 1 working day

I assume they don’t have as many reviews to do yet as Apple but it is still weekend so they will get to it tomorrow morning I hope and assume :)

Update

I just got the explanation from the review team:

Hi Jeena

I heard back from the reviewer that looked at your app. It seems the file at fault wasn't jQuery, but rather "codiqa.ext.js", which injects Google Maps into your app. It also looks like you have removed that file from your repo, so that should take care of the issue.

I've requested that the reviewers include more specific information on which files may violate the CSP going forward. To be clear, the issue was not that you included jQuery in your project, and we apologize for the confusion surrounding the messaging.

Thanks for submitting your app!

-basta

And even more detailed in a Hacker News comment;

Firefox Marketplace developer here:

The issue wasn't caused by the inclusion of jQuery, it was caused by injection of a script tag that loads Google Maps in one of the files. Linking JS from outside the (privileged) packaged app will cause CSP errors. Unfortunately we didn't properly articulate the nature of the issue, but emails have been sent and bugs have been filed.

You can see Jeena's app on Github:

https://github.com/jeena/FeedMonkey

The bit of CSP-violating code in question, for those interested, has since been removed:

https://github.com/jeena/FeedMonkey/commit/f262509adbdcf5d06...

Unfortunately, static analysis is a hard problem to solve (especially in JS) and the messages produced by the validator are quite noisy. We're working to improve that. Combine that with the mystic and unusual nature of the CSP and you've got a recipe for confusion and disappointment.

Again, the app was NOT rejected because it included jQuery. If you're building FXOS apps, please use your favorite JS libraries (as long as they don't violate the CSP!) and keep on hacking!

Edit: I should also note that while the validator DOES report potential CSP issues, they are only warnings. While an app will obviously be rejected for actually violating the CSP (i.e.: the app is broken), it won't be rejected for simply raising warnings. It should also be noted that your app can be rejected for using jQuery if you use it in a way that violates the CSP (e.g.: using JSONP, or parsing HTML that contains remote script tags). There are loads of docs in the Marketplace developer hub and on MDN that talk about this and explain why it's the case.

If anyone has questions or would like to know more, please hit Mozilla or myself up directly: dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org, @mattbasta, basta@mozilla.com

You're also welcome to check out the source for the validator:

https://github.com/mozilla/app-validator

So the file was not jQuery but instead a special file which I got from the tool with which you generate your custom jQuery Mobile. It injects Google Maps code which is obviously bad.

In the end it was all just confusion and bad communication.

Discussion on Hacker News

Tent apps

2013-06-23T20:29:47Z

I often would like to welcome new Tent users with a list of apps they can use so they realize that Tent is not just the tent.is website but much more. Therefore here is the list so I can link to it :) I will only link to apps in active development.

Microbloging

The microblogging apps are the ones which do the same thing as the tent.is website, basically copying Twitter.

Bungloo

Bungloo is the desktop client I myself am developing, you can run it on Windows, Linux and OS X. It is developed as a open source app and is free of charge right now but in the future (most likely when Tent becomes version 1.0) I will bundle it differently and sell it.

Download Bungloo, Source code,

Splatmonstar

Splatmonstar is an Android client developed by Sean McArthur. It is not open source but you can use it free of charge.

, Website

Trion

Trion is a iOS client developed by Marco Ferreira, it not open source either and it costs $2.99 (2,69 €).

, Website

Blogging

There is a blogging solution even though it is a bit unorthodox, there is one webapp with which you can write and edit your posts and there is another one with which you can publish them to the public. Sadly there is no app yet to show essays by people you follow but I'm told Diary will implement that in the next version.

Diary

Diary is a open source web app developed by Benjamin Bouvier for publishing and editing of essays on a Tent server.

Public instance of Diary, Source code

Reevio

Reevio is a open source web app developed by Yannik with which you can display public essays as a website. The cool thing is that it is quite easy to customize the HTML and CSS.

Website, Source code

Tent news

Check also out CampNews who are publishing interesting news about the Tent community. They also have a cool spreadsheet which describes and compares all the apps.

Search

skate.io is a global search for Tent, sadly it is a bit broken right now so no new users are added to it but hopefully this soon will be fixed.

Problems in the Tent community

2013-06-04T12:37:51Z

Tent is the social community which got my hopes up last october when I found out about it. I even wrote a multi platform client for it. I really liked the community around it, and at first it seemed to get quite much traction, people started to write clients for it and so on. But then, I think it was in february or something, the core developers made some decisions which soon will break all the code available untill now and this lead to the fact that most of the developers working on clients stopped putting efford to it. With the stop of development there was not much to talk about for the young community either so people who were online for hours every day only log in every couple of weeks just to see if something happened. I understand the need of refactoring of stuff sometimes, but it feels like it was a bit too much and too soon.

The lack of users here is what kind of puts me off. I can't recommend the platform for my friends because I know that it will take quite a lot of time before there are applications which will work with the new protocol version, if ever, and the users we had are dropping of really fast. Where we had at least 10 posts per hour in february, you now have wait about 4 hours to see a new post.

One thing I know puts friends of mine who were on Tent and all are early adopters is how the protocol is being developed. Yes I know about benevolent dictators like the Python one, etc. but this approach does not work for every community. I have two concrete examples where I thought the community work was handled poorly. We devs and users wanted to have a tent:// schema so different Tent-apps could do tasks, etc. Someone came up with one version we even had a meeting on IRC to talk about it, we made it better and so on. But during the whole time we saw no involvment of any of the core team members, oh yeah there was one, they said we are not allowed to use the plain tent://, so we thought about x-tent:// and stuff like that. So there was no comment on our work whatsoever until they came up with their version, which was kind of like our version but a bit better. It is good that there now is a official way to do it but why the lack of involvment? Or a couple of days ago there was a post about the problem of "ogooglebarhet" (you can't google for it) of the hashtag "#tent" because of this really big industry of camping accessories. The way the core team chose to shut down that discussion was to say "We are a couple of SEO specialists here on our team, trust us, we know what we're doing". That was it. Obviously that is a non-argument but a very effective, who would like to argue against something like that?

Social seems broken

2013-06-04T12:16:59Z

I am not sure why, perhaps it is just a phase or something, but it seems that basically every social place I use on the Internet seems broken right now. Broken as in there are no meaningfull conversations and debates possible, because either of spam or lack of users.

Twitter for example died for me when they started filtering out conversations of people who I followed had with people I didn't follow. Right from this day the whole concept of finding new interesting people and conversations went to shit because I wasn't able to see beyond the horizon of my followings. I started to follow more people but didn't find more conversations, only more shouts about what people are doing right now, which I wasn't really interested in.

I have to admitt that Facebook is the social network which worked for the longest time for me. I think that is because they tried to fix stuff which got out of hand after a while. They kind of banned most of the games, or at least let me mute them, which were very vocal, they let me chose to either use their algorythm for showing what they think is interesting for me or just show everything, they killed all the facebook-apps which always were just slow and bad written, etc. But sadly right now a new plague has emerged, "Like to win ..." and "Share to win ..." so my entire timeline is poluted with advertising, not because Facebook puts it there but because all my "Friends" put it there. I hope Facebook will fix this for me because otherwise I will need to stop using it.

Flickr got much better with the latest changes, even if it made it much slower too but I hope they will be able to fix it. But sadly they never put much effort into community features. It is really hard to find people with interesting photos to follow, you can only favourite pictures but not like it, I'd like to show the photographer that I like their work but that does not necessary mean that this picture is one of my favourite pictures. I quite like the Flickr iOS app but there is no good desktop app, let alone for Linux. So even if it is the service which I kind of like the most, I've been paying for a pro membership for the last six years, it isn't so much a social network as it could be.

I wrote already about why I don't want to use Google+ anymore. Basically nothing has changed about that. Same with Spotify.

Then there are the new kids on the block like App.net where I tried to get in but every time I log in there I am disturbed about the attitude their user have, elitarism, country club, and so on are words I associate with their user base. They seem to think that only because they pay money for the servise it makes the service superior to the other services. The truth is that the opposite is the case, it has all the negative aspects of a propriatary system like Facebook and Twitter but they also need to pay money for it. It is still just one company which controlls everything and if they don't like your nose you're out and you can't do anything about that.

And the other new kid is Tent which was what got my hopes up last october when I found out about it. But the lack of users here is what kind of puts me off. I can't recommend the platform for my friends because I know that it will take quite a lot of time before there are applications which will work with the new protocol version, if ever, and the users we had are dropping of really fast. Where we had at least 10 posts per hour in february, you now have wait about 4 hours to see a new post.

I hope this is just a phase and it will go over, untill then I am readonly on YouTube, they have in my opinion the most healthy social community right now, I assume because there are so many young people using it. And I still have hopes for Blogs as a decentralized way of communicating more mature ideas in longer posts. I kind of think losing Google Reader was the best thing which could happen to the Blog/RSS Feed community because it got quite a kick and new services are arising and people seem to blog more and more interesting stuff as before. There seems even to be a trend to cleaner design which I love and why I tried to clean up my design here too as you can see.

Discussion on Hacker News

The Holocaust

2013-05-24T19:41:01Z

They had a theatre play at my daughters school with the name "The Holocaust" which showed first the time between first and second world war and the reparations the Germans had to pay and then the life of a Jewish boy during WW2. It was really good actually they got us in the right mood and so on, really good.

I just image-googled the stuff I saw they made them selves and they had incredible details everywhere. The costumes the standards, the flags, everything was very well done.

They even produced some nazi propaganda, in my opinion very authentic.

Ok, not all german spelling was perfect but they even had a couple of songs in some foreign language, I think it was Hebrew.

The only really weird thing was that they let a adult black man dancing to African music with the girls some time in the middle. This man was dressed up and dancing and singing according to all the preconceptions there are how a "nigger" behaves: good dancer, has the rhythm and song in his blood and so on. It was really weird.

My daughter tried to explain to me that the purpose was to show that not only Jews and their culture were not allowed in Germany back then but also other races and their culture like for example black people. I know not all people think like me but I am quite sure it would have been easy to show that without relying on the old preconceptions.

Nikon D5000

2013-05-23T21:45:09Z

Two weeks ago I finally had the money to buy my first real camera, I got a used Nikon D5000 and I love it! I know that it is a looong way until I understand how to work with light, with shadows, blur and so on, but I am already amazed what I already can do with the automatic programs it offers me. Here are some pictures I took with it:

I encourage you to follow me on Flickr where I will be posting much more of those :)

Google Glass

2013-05-03T11:22:06Z

One kind of cool thing about Google Glass is that we who do not own such a device can not see any screenshots or pictures how people who use it see it and how the apps look and feel.

Yes I can watch the videos and pictures Google puts up there but I know from the iPhone comercials that it is not how it will feel.

That makes it kind of a mystic device, much more so as the iPhone was back then.

I would definately like to own one even if it will be a bit of a funny feeling to talk to it to let it do stuff, you know, like with Siri which is build in into the iPhone and still nobody uses, and if then only when they're alone, not in public.

subl on Linux

2013-04-09T14:15:28Z

I moved on from OS X to Linux and Ubuntu is now my distribution of choise. I installed Sublime Text 2 on it and everything is great except one little detail the subl command for the command line.

On OS X it works really well, you can open Sublime Text with a specific file or directory from the terminal just by:

subl path/to/dir/

It then opens Sublime text with this directory and you can go on working in the terminal, yes you can even close the terminal without Sublime Text, as a child process being killed.

On Linux on the other hand subl is just a softlink to the sublime-text-2 binary, which means that if you want to keep working in that terminal you need to append a ampersand "&" and you can't close the terminal window because then Sublime Text gets killed too.

So I had to do something about and I removed the /usr/bin/subl softlink and replaced it with this script:

#!/bin/sh
nohup sublime-text-2 $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Which not only does that I don't have to append the ampersand and the nohup detaches the Sublime Text process from the terminal but the 2>/dev/null gets even rid of all the warnings and errors produced by Sublime Text when running and poluting my terminal.

From France to Russia

2013-02-07T11:29:08Z

What the fuck is wrong with people like Brigitte Bardot and Gerard Depardieu?!

Because two elephants have tuberculosis and their health condition threatens the health of the other elephants, they need to be put out of their misery. Brigitte wants to save them in some way and because her president doesn't answer her letters she wants to move to Russia.

In Russia, where people get thrown in jail because they speak up against a joint venture between the President and the church, in Russia where anti-corruption bloggers get thrown into jail for protesting against how their president rules, in Russia where gay pride parades in the capital are banned for 100 years not that the explicit ban was necessary because they soon are having a "Gay Propaganda" bill which will make protests for gay rights illegal soon anyway.

On the other side, she had trouble with her political views all the time, she doesn't like the gay way of life (even though she seems surrounded by gays all the time), her husband is involved in the main nationalist party in France and she has been convicted several times for "inciting racial hatred". So who knows perhaps everything will be better when suddenly she is the immigrant in russia.

Gerard Depardieu, on the other side is at least straight forward, he doesn't give a fuck about democracy, equality and shit like that, he just doesn't want to pay taxes.

Jamie's 30-minute meals

2012-12-28T14:18:30Z

I just prepared the first meal from Jamie's 30-minute meals:

Ok it took a bit more then just 30 minutes, but not much longer, perhaps 45 minutes or something, and actually he states at the beginning of the book that you will not be able to do it right from the start in 30 minutes but when you get used to the style after a couple of times you'll get there.

The taste was quite different of the one I am getting when I cook for myself without a cooking book (which I always have done until now). I think mostly all the herbs did the trick and the vinegar in the beans, I never hat vinegar on beans.

Because it is difficult to show you the taste via the browser, the only thing I can show you is a picture of the meal I cooked.

(RSS) feed metadata syncing

2012-12-14T14:56:44Z

I have been using RSS and Atom feeds for nearly a decade now. It got a bit less while I was mostly using Twitter to get most of the news, but since Twitter is fucking with the twitter client developers and users I almost stopped using Twitter and went back to the good old RSS/Atom feeds.

And it is great, I use Reeder on my Mac, MobileRSS on my iPhone and Google Reader on my Android tablet.

But there is one thing I don't like about how it works right now. Every one of this clients relies on the undocumented Google Reader API to synchronize the "read" marks and the subscription lists. The problem with that is that Google doesn't really want this users any more and they would love all of them just to use the closed and centralized Google+ instead for this kind of stuff.

I don't know that but I suspect that Google will at some not that distant point in future start discontinuing Google Reader and the undocumented API. Take a look at their Google Reader Blog for example, in the years from 2005 up untill last year it got updated almost two times per month with new interesting stuff happening and so on. But since october 2011 not a single update, and that is right after banning a buch of stuff people have been using and moving that stuff to Google+. That is obviously ok for them to do, it is their application they can do whatever they think is best for them to do.

But for users like me who only use Google Reader for synchronization between their desktop and mobile clients across different computers, iPhones, tablets and so on, it is a bad thing, because it is the beginning of the end. The only thing even worse than this is that even though RSS and Atom are open formats, there is no open protocol which this clients could use to synchronize the "read"-marker or the subscriptions.

What I would like to see is some protocol where I then could implement and host my own server which would save the read/favourites/etc. markers and my subscription with folders which clients like Reader, MobileRSS and NetNewsWire could use to synchronize this information across them.

It could kind of work like the undocumented Google Reader API but honestly it has so many flaws like for example only one level of Folders and so on that I'd be ok to just have some very light protocol for synchronizing metadata about "read"-marks and subscriptions, everything else like getting subscriptions from the servers can be done by the clients themself.

I have been thinking about it a couple of years ago, and even started designing some REST API for it, but back then it seemed not to matter to anyone, perhaps today there will be more people interested in something like that?

[update] After I published this, I got a couple of things for further reading:

Tiny Tiny RSS JSON API Reference a open source app with a API
Idea for alternative RSS syncing system he put my thoughts from a couple of years into words it seems, it's the developer of NetNewsWire
Why “Just Store the App Data on Dropbox” won’t work for RSS readers by the same guy
Re: Idea for alternative RSS syncing system

Thoughts about Tent

2012-12-04T19:45:45Z

Since about two months I am active in the Tent community. This post ist about Tent interna so if you're not interested in it, just move along :-) If you want to know more about Tent and how to use it or set up your own server, have a look at tenti.co.

I just had a lengthy discussion with another developer, ^tobiastom.tent.is, about the main structure and purpose and future development of the Tent-protocol, servers and applications.

How I saw the protocol

I've always seen Tent like a big key-value store with following possibilities. Everybody could just put in what ever data they want and later on get it out and people following woule be able to be notified about changes. The server would be compleatly agnostic about the content and the types only are there for applications to query for the kind of data they understand.

So if I wanted to make for example a new type of data like ^beberlei.tent.is did with Favorites then I would just come up with it, document and publish it, made a application which can post and read posts of this type and try to encourige other app developers to implement at least reading of the data. No changes to any server would be necessary and you could just move from one server to another without any problems because the server would be agnostic of the content.

Right now in version 0.1 the only server out there is implemented exactly like that, therefor ^mwanji.tent.is was able to implement ^beberlei.tent.is's Favourites and Bookmarks and everybody who uses either Zelten or Essayist is able to enjoy this new post type and it doesn't matter on which server you are.

So in my mind post types were just documentation so developers could implement it into their apps.

How Tobias saw the protocol

Tobias, on the other hand, had something different in mind. In his world post types were essential for the server because the server would determin if a post was valid or not. And to do that it would need the information of the post type, which would be the scheme on which the server would validate the JSON comming from the application.

The server then could for example send email notification when the post type needs it or push notifications for your iPhone or Android app, it could prepare/resize/crop images as needed and even crosspost a video you posted to Tent on YouTube and so on.

To do that, the server would need to be very familiar with the post type and what it needs to do with it. Therefor it would also kind of need to reject the posts with a type it isn't aware of exists.

In this scenario it would not be possible for ^beberlei.tent.is to implement his own Favorites post type to be used by everybody with their own servers. He would need to be the server provider and have a server which is aware of the existence of the Favorites post type and what to do with it and how to validate it before saving it. And ^mwanji.tent.is could only offer this functionality to people who run a server which is aware of this functionality too.

How it really is

Honestly, I have no idea whose model is the one the Tent-protocol developers are thinking of when they work on the protocol, but I assume the truth is somewhere in the middle, even if I don't know where exactly and it seems not so easy to determine it. We both have the same sources of information but we both interpret it quite different.

I must admit that since I've been trying to get more information it more and more leans to Tobias' interpretation. For example, types are defined as:

The post type describes the schema and semantics of the content object.

Ok it doesn't say that the server should reject the type if it doesn't know it but it is not like it always is agnostic. Even if it is not always validating the incomming data it already does it for the type status. I tried to post a status post which was longer then 256 characters and even if the server didn't reject it it only saved the first 256 characters so the person I was writing to didn't get more then the first 256 characters.

One of the todos for tentd (the reference server) says:

Add data validation/normalization.

And for v0.3 of the protocol in late january 2012 it says:

Machine Readable post type schemas

Which also would suggest that some day the right thing to do for a server if it can not validate a post against such a post type schema would be to reject it. In theory the URIs which represent protocol types right now could be URLs to machine readabla post type schemas so you could still invent your own post type and make it usable for everyone on every server. In reality such schemas are quite complicated.

So what is Tent, a key-value store like WebDav with following abilities or is it more like a social media equivalent to the XMPP protocol where everything is predefined by the protocol and mostly companies can add extensions like Google does for its Google Talk?

Taking the data with you

The biggest advantage of Tent in my opinion is that they promisse that you will be able to switch servers:

Can I switch Tent servers?
Absolutely! And you can take your relationships – your followers with you. If a service provider changes its terms, shuts down, is acquired, discontinues a product, no problem – you can take your data and relationships with you and set up somewhere else – on your own server or at another provider.

Can I get my data out of Tent?
Of course! There are two simple ways: with an app or another Tent server. Just authorize a Tent app or a new Tent server to view the content and it will transfer over automatically.

At least that is what they promisse, but if the server is not agnostic of the data, how would implementing of this functionality be possible? If one company adds a post type with a schema and stuff happening on the server like emails being send or push notifications to iPhone, etc. then when the user moves to another server the new server will not know what to do with the unknown post type and will just reject to import your data.

Then, in my opinion, we have the same situation like we have with Twitter or Facebook, the user is locked and needs to use this companies server if she doesn't want to lose her data.

But perhaps I am missing some fundamental detail which would resolve all this problems?

[Update 2012-12-06]:

I just got some more info of ^daniel.tent.is (one of the core devs of the Tent protocol):

Great discussion. Tent servers are event-orientated data stores. They're closer to key value as servers aren't (for now) intended to validate post types. i.e. for email, you could have a Tent app that was also an SMTP server. When it saw a "mail type" post in the user's feed, it would parse the post and send it out as an email. Similarly if it received an email over SMTP, it could create a new post of that type. Machine readable schemas are meant to help apps, not servers, read types.

Of course this also makes transferring data simple, as the posts just need to be copied between servers. Servers communicate using the Tent protocol with apps and other Tent servers. Other Tent apps will communicate with other protocols.

I'll try to put together a philosophy of Tent post for the tent.io blog soon.

Perfect Scrambled Eggs

2012-09-14T17:43:19Z

I was watching Gordon Ramseys short videos on how to cook some random easy dish and this video caught my eye Perfect Scrambled Eggs Breakfast:

As many of us I was doing scrambled eggs for ages now, I even taught my daughter how to do that. Sadly I have always been doing it wrong!

I always put salt in from the beginning and it seems that I always overcooked the eggs because they always were watery, not creamy.

So now I watched the video several times and did follow the instructions as precisely as I could. And you know what? I got some perfect scrambled eggs, it was so exciting, I never had scrambled eggs like this it just melted in my mouth. The difference was fucking unbelievable.

I dare you to try it out yourself, you can skip the bread, the tomatos and the mushrooms, just use butter, eggs and half a table spoon of crème fraîche, you will too love it.

Here is how it looked when I did it:

Brewing automaton

2012-09-03T10:08:31Z

I was on vacation in poland the last two weeks and there I met my uncle who needed help with some programming. He was programming a thermostat which he build himself with help of some electronics and a ATMega8 microcontroller:

That got me thinking if I couldn't build something like that for a different purpose. As you all know I am frequently brewing beer. And even if it is really fun, I see much room for improvement, especially in two areas: cleaning the bottles and the steeping. Both take a huge amount of time and can be automated. I will be blogging about my ideas how to make cleaning the bottles easier but here I will first talk about my idea on how to automate the steeping step of the brewing process.

So basicly what we do nowadays is to put water and grains into a big pot and heat it on the electric stove, we do everything manually:

heat the water up to ca. 65°C (148°F), the target mash temperature
mash for 30-60 minutes at that steady temperature while the complex sugars in he grain are converted to simple ones
after the mash heat it up to 75°C (168°F) for some time
(remove the grains if you want)
cook the wort at 100°C (212°F)
add bitter hops
cook for 30 minutes
add other hops
cook for another 15 minutes
stop cooking
remove hops (and grain if you didn't do it yet)
cool down the wort to about 35°C (95°F)
fill the wort into the fermenter
add yeast

I would like to automate the time and temperature stuff with some electronics so I don't have to wait for 5 hours and monitor the temperature while putting the heat on and of to get it consistent, it is really boring.

So I had a look at the internet and there is a cool open source project which is called HABS - Halfluck Automated Brewing System, here is a YouTube clip I found:

Take also a look at the pictures he posted at the Arduino forum.

My own design

The thing I want to build is not that complicated, I just want to get the temperature thing automated. So I bought a Arduino kit, a LCD display, some buttons and a "electric canner", but a german one which you can buy on amazon.de but not on amazon.com

I have already written some code which will maintain the temperature:

but I want it to be programmable without a computer too, and obviously I need to comple the canner to the microprocessor and stuff, so there is still much work to do.

[edit 2012-09-05:]

Today I got my electric waterbath canner:

The first thing I did was opening the lid where the electronics will be and it looks really promising, there is enough room for my Arduino plus the LCD and some buttons:

The sad thing is that the thermometer is a capillary thermometer instead of a electric temperature sensor I could use as a input device for my arduino. So I will need to think of something how to use the one I have which looks like this:

Helene Bergman on Assange

2012-07-30T20:56:19Z

The WikiLeaks Twitter account just tweetet:

Video: Swedish feminist Helene Bergman on Assange kileaksaustraliancitizensalliance.net/2012/07/30/exc… … http://justice4assange.com

Here is the video I will be talking about:

I posted the same questions as a blog comment on their website, but it is still in the moderation queue, since 7 hours, so therefore I am posting it here too.

I find it interesting that they are talking about that Sweden has a agreement with the USA where Assange could be extradited to the USA and that Sweden has a fairly consistent track record of extraditing to the USA. That all is true. I am just wondering that they never mention that Great Brittain also has such an Extradition Act (since 2003), and that the UK extradited 63 people to the USA but Sweden only 5.

Helene says that Sweden refuses to guarantee that they will not extradite Julian to the US, but so das the UK.

So according to the numbers Julian would have a better chance to not be extradited to the US if he would have been in Sweden and I can not understand why Helene would not talk about that. There are no numbers at all in the interview and they only talk about Swedens “consistent track record of extradition” but hold back the information of UK’s much bigger “consistent track record of extradition”, why?

Then they talk about that in Sweden he could be secretly taken to the US but do not mention it that if this would have been the plan then the US would already have done that in the UK. Honestly, if you hear the word "USA:s pupet administration", who do you think of? The first thing which pops into my mind is the UK, the second is Poland.

Next thing they talk about is that in Equador you could hire an assassin to kill him because there are many poor people there. Why would that not be possible in the UK or Sweden, are there no poor people in the UK or Sweden and are only poor people ready to kill for money? I think quite the contrary is the case, don't you?

I don’t know, the whole interview seems really biased.

Randomly distributed dots

2012-07-25T21:05:53Z

I wanted to know how randomly distributed dots on a sheet of paper would look like. If you just want to do that by hand it will rarely be random, we tend to make patterns because that is how our brains mostly work with. So I wrote a little script to get the answer. I don't know it it is really random but it is hopefully better then trying to do that by hand.

So if you wonder how randomly distributed dots look like on a sheet of paper try this:

Call constructor with Object.create()

2012-07-20T08:40:12Z

Yesterday I learned something new about JavaScript, how to use Object.create() and still call the constructor. We start with a Player object which we can instanciate

function Player(name) {
    this.name = name;
}

Player.prototype.sayName = function () {
    console.log(this.name);
}

Normally you would just do something like that:

var player1 = new Player("jeena");
player1.sayName();
// >> "jeena"

But if you want to use Object.create() to for example add a property just to this instance:

var player2 = Object.create(Player.prototype, {age: {value: 10}});
console.log(player2.age);
// >> 10

player2.sayName();
// >> undefined

That is not the desired behaviour, but I couldn't see how to call the constructor while using Object.create(). Luckyly I know people who know much about JavaScript so I got the tip from Tim on how to do it, he said: "Just call the constructor.". After much confusion I got an example and here it is:

Player.apply(player2, "peter");
player2.sayName();
// >> "peter"

The thing is that you can't do player2.apply() because player2 is not a function but a object. Player on the other hand is of type function, so you are able to call apply() on it and it will call the Player() constructor.

That wasn't that hard, was it? I always wondered why if you want to use call() or apply() you have to write player2.foo.call(player2, args) but now finally I understand that, the first player2 appearance is needed to get to the function (through the player2 object) and the second one is what will be "this" in the method/function. I should have looked up that way before on my own.

So now you know how to use Object.create() and still be able to call the constructor.

Harassment and Bullying

2012-07-10T14:36:10Z

What is it with violent threads agains women nowadays? Why are so hated that people openly threaten to rape, molest and kill them? Just today I found two new examples in my feed reader:

Laci Green

Laci Green, who I admire for her educational videos about sexuality, has been harassed on tumblr and threatened to be beaten up:

What the fuck are you threatened of?

Anita Sarkeesian

And second Anita Sarkeesian who is a popculture critic and feminist who started a kickstarter project trying to raise $ 6000 for a documentary series about:

With your help, I’ll produce a 5-video series (now expanded to 12 videos) entitled Tropes vs Women in Video Games, exploring female character stereotypes throughout the history of the gaming industry.

This seemed to upset some people so they too bully her and even go the extra mile to program a game where you can beat her up virtually:

What is wrong with you people, are you so insecure in your manhood so you have to go out and bully and threaten to rape and kill woman on the internet who try to educate us?

This is so sad.

[update 20012-12-10]

Wanna Wanna

2012-06-26T11:12:10Z

My favourite punk rock band from Sweden, Tiger Bell, with their first (as far as I know) professional music video "Wanna Wanna":

I found them half a year ago on SoundCloud, sadly they removed the two albums I was listening to from there :-(.

I already bought their vinyl (which you can see in the beginning of the video) and a shopping bag with their logo ^^.

Hopefully they will release the two albums too in some way, I will ask them why they removed them from SoundCloud.

I was lucky that they send me the second album as mp3, because it was not available to buy, so I still can listen to it. I should start host the videos here on the server too because it is very often that the videos dissapear from YouTube or Vimeo.

Endzeit

2012-06-20T06:36:42Z

More music from my favourites list on SoundCloud, this is "Endzeit" by Heaven Shall Burn from Germany. This is heavy metal!

Creation "Museum" signs

2012-06-18T06:09:58Z

via PZ Myers - Creationism is a marketing game

Devil By My Side

2012-05-13T21:29:18Z

I am playing bass in a swedish metal band from Varberg called Hoggatah. During the last couple of weeks we recorded a no budget music video and just uploaded it on YouTube.

Like it, share it, remix it and make love to it, you will not be disappointed, I promise.

Direct link to YouTube

PHP - The Good Parts

2012-05-09T04:32:01Z

Yesterday I found Tom Hudson's book "PHP - The Good Parts" on Twitter:

... and decided to lay it out as PDF, so here it is:

Download

SoundCloud collection

2012-05-05T21:53:56Z

More SoundCloud stuff, today I was talking to a friend of mine who said that it is quite dificult to find good music on SoundCloud because there is no "You might like this artist too" but you have to use genres and tags to find something. The other thing is that there are not many already well known mainstream artists on SoundCloud but mostly underground or people who just work from home.

Therefore I went though my own lists of people I follow and made a list of my own SoundCloud heros. I added only one track per artist and it is a rich mix of electronic music, from Electro House over Drum'n'Bass to Techno, Hip Hop and Dubstep.

Enjoy and follow them because it is mostly with help of the people who remix stuff you find the reall pearls in the infinite space of SoundCloud artists.

Nero - Me & You

2012-05-04T06:38:42Z

I think I will start to post all the cool tracks I find on SoundCloud here in this blog because every couple of days or weeks I find really fat tracks there which you normally can't find anywhere else, ok you can, but mostly you don't. The SoundCloud community is really rich on remixers so you can be sure to find tons of really good remixes and that way find the good originals, because if there are many remixes then the original must be quite good already ;)

One example is this one this Reksonix remix which I found in my inbox:

and the original by Nero:

Both are great but the remix is too much Skrillex talking basselines for me, I think I like the original better.

Awesome words

2012-03-03T23:25:05Z

Sometimes I hear some english word and find it just awesome, I will begin today to collect them in this post. Sure at the beginning there will not be that many but I will add words as I find them.

Darken all the flickr images!

2012-01-18T10:05:57Z

Learn more about SOPA.

God of the gaps

2011-12-20T19:38:55Z

Back then Jesus healed a deaf man (Mark 7:31-37):

Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.

After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!” (which means “Be opened!”). At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.

Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

And now this infidel scientists are playing god! Here a video of a 8 month old deaf baby's reaction to cochlear implant being activated:

This 8 month old baby was born deaf, watch the moment as his cochlear implant is activated and he hears sound for the first time, and his mother's voice.

Later Jesus was healed a blind man (Mark 10:46-52):

Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means “son of Timaeus”), was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”

So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.” Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.

“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him.

The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”

“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.

And little did I know these bastard scientists are trying to copy him again!

At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.

So what is next? Cloning animals? Oh no wait, they have done that already. But perhaps curing cancer? Or creating life from rocks? It seems they won't stop until our lord of the gaps has no gap to hide anymore ...

Rage comic

2011-12-04T22:27:58Z

Endless questions

2011-11-27T17:07:42Z

Sometimes I feel like six ears old keeping endlessly asking "why". A current example; I was thinking ...

People often have a quite a graphic idea how it is in hell or in heaven and are convinced that a persons soul, whatever that may be, will end up either in hell or heaven. But what about the so called soul before a person has been born or conceived? Where did it come from?

So I turned to google to check out some of the explanations other people tried to give, one of them was this:

The material body is only for the earth life because the soul cannot sustain itself here.

This is only the first sentence and I already have a question:

"Why?".
Why can the soul not sustain itself here?
Why does it need a body?
Why does it need a human body?
Why can't it not use an asteroid
or a dogs body
or just float around as "energy"?
Would there be no bodies if there were no souls?
Is there a different body then the material body?

And this goes on and on and on ... Every new statement just yields a ton of unanswerable questions.

I didn't even get near a answer to my original question "Where do souls come from?" but already spent a couple of hours reading one claim after another.

I obviously understand that such theological questions can not be answered to my satisfaction because at the end people will be forced to say "God did it" and I will ask: "... and where does God come from?" But I sincerely hoped to at least read about some interesting and perhaps new (at least to me) approaches to tacle this obviously interesting theological problem.

Perhaps I just need to search and read for a couple more hours.

Interview Workshop

2011-10-24T23:25:13Z

I was on a "Google Interview Workshop" they gave at my university. They say the convertion rate went up a lot since they begun to do that. Many more students who do this workshop also get a internship at Google compared to those who do not.

So in the beginning they were again just trolling about how greate Google is as a employer, like they do on each and every such occasion, I've heard that now for the third time and yeah ...

But anyhow, then they talked about the offices in Europe who does what where and how the communication works internally and stuff like that, this was quite interesting.

The last thing, and what did take the longest time, was that the engineer who was there too showed us a couple of technical example questions and one of them we had to solve together. The question was something like this:

Write a function which takes a sentence as a string and reverses the order of the words.

So "The weather is just fine" would become "fine just is weather The".

So I jumped in with my ruby skills and proposed:

"The weather is just fine".split(" ").reverse.join(" ")

But it should not be that easy, the point was not to use any build in functions and not to use additional memory, except for one character, which he said was unavoidable. So even if your string was 3 GB big and your machine had only 4 GB RAM it should still be possible to reverse the sentence.

We were 6 people and it took us at least 40 minutes to come up with a solution in C, which would only use this one character of extra memory but otherwise reverse the words in the sentence in linear time:

#include <stdio.h>

void reverse_string(char *s, char *e)
{
    while (s < e)
    {
        char c = *s;
        *s = *e;
        *e = c;
        
        s++;
        e--;
    }
}

void reverse_sentence(char *i)
{
    char *start = i;
  
    while (*i != '\0')
    {
        char *s = i, *e = i;

        while (*e != ' ' && *e != '\0')
            e++;
        
        char *end = e - 1;
        reverse_string(s, end);
    
        i = ++e;
    }

    char *end = i - 2;
    reverse_string(start, end);
}

int main()
{
    char sentence[] = "The weather is just fine\0";
    reverse_sentence(sentence);
    
    printf("%s\n", sentence);
}

So what we basically do is to go through the string, reverse each word on its own on the way and then at the end we reverse the whole string and that way get all words reversed.

The weather is just fine
ehT weather is just fine
ehT rehtaew is just fine
ehT rehtaew si just fine
ehT rehtaew si tsuj fine
ehT rehtaew si tsuj enif
fine just is weather The

That way we don't need to measure the length of the string in advance or anything, it just works out nicely with very little code. He also said that we should really communicate all assumptions we would make so the interviewer can hear what we have been thinking about and how we came up with the solution, so we did that during the coding session. Just regular stuff like that we assume that all the characters are ASCII and that as whitespace we only take into account spaces and so on.

When we had finished, he said that it was a really nice solution but during a real interview it should take us not more then ten minutes to do it.

I felt quite dumb during this whole thing, even though I came up with some parts of the solution and found some bugs the other guys introduced. But then it seemed that I was not alone with this feeling, everybody failed in some way so it wasn't that bad for every each of us :D.

At the end the engineer said that we all had quite good problem solving skills but really have to improve our coding skills before we even think of applying for an internship at Google.

But who knows, nothing is impossible!

Everybody Dance

2011-10-15T10:12:52Z

Hi, I wanted you all to listen to one of my new electronic music tracks, it is a French House track called "Everybody Dance":

Everybody Dance by jeena

The main sample is from the great '70ies Disco song "Everybody Dance" by Chic, I think you all will recognize it. I chopped it and used it at a main lead and vocals. I obviously had to add new drums and a base line, and I added some light strings too.

I would love to hear what you think!

[update:] Here are some more songs:

Progress by jeena

Ride by jeena

Der Mussolini by jeena

Train by jeena

Alma Observatory

2011-10-04T08:13:14Z

Isn't it amazing what mankind is capable of? Yeah sure, there is the one side where we have the power to bomb and destroy our only earth multiple times, but on the other hand are able to look into the past!

And no, no time traveling and stuff, instead the Alma telescope begins study of cosmic dawn:

Alma's purpose is to study processes occurring a few hundred million years after the formation of the Universe when the first stars began to shine.

Take a look at the video in this article too, they have 20 really really big antennas which they can move to change the focus and they want to add 26 more to get a more detailed view of the sky.

They sure will get many amazing pictures from the time when our universe was just an infant with this remarkable science.

MapReduce and Pregel

2011-10-03T13:00:47Z

Today I was in Gotenburg at the Chalmers University of Technology at my first Google Tech Talk:

Abstract: This talk will present two methods for processing of really large data sets. The first approach, MapReduce, is a data parallel computing framework and probably Google's most important infrastructure bit. The second method, Pregel, is a new graph computing model allowing data propagation between billions of nodes. Both technologies are suitable for large scale applications running on thousands of machines.

Speaker: Jochen Hollmann, Software Engineer, Google

Bio: Jochen Hollmann has been a Google engineer since 2006. Before joining Google he has been an PhD student in the high performance computing research group at Chalmers.

It was really interesting bur far to short, only one hour. The funny thing is that they think and speak in quite different quantities then normal people do. For example if you are a google engineer and need to use 10.000 computers for 3 days to solve a problem? No problem, there are frameworks exactly for that purpose like MapReduce or Pregel and there are hundreds of thousands of computers for your disposition.

During the FAQ session the most common answer was "I'm sorry that is a secret." :D (edit: For questions like: "Do you use GPUs for computing this?")

It was cool to see a former Chalmers fellow student go give a talk at his old University, but the main purpose seemed to be headhunting. The last 15 minutes of his talk he was talking about their internships and new graduate opportunities and how different the hiring process is from other companies because other engineers are hiring you instead of some human resources staff.

Interesting fact: There are (only?) 1500 people working for Google across Europe.

No Spotify for me

2011-09-26T16:37:01Z

Damn it, you fools! I just had to cancel my Spotify subscription where I was a paying customer for the past four years.

You ask why? Because they force you (update: as a new customer) to log in via Facebook and I am not willing to pay my good money to a company which treats their paying customers like that. Fucking retards!

So where will I get my music from now? Good question, I was thinking about SoundCloud and Jamendo but I still have my old SL-1200MK2 and I really should invest this money in new vinyl, It's without DRM, it's cool and has a great sound. Ok, no playlists then for me but fuck it, back to the bloody roots!

Obviously it is not the first time I cancel my account because a company has gone completely Jesus skating Christ bananas. PayPal, Google plus and I hope some day soon I will be able to do that with Facebook too, until now with a dedicated and sandboxed browser they are just on the tipping point of driving me nuts, the problem is that so many of my friends still are there :-/

Twittia in JavaScript

2011-09-19T22:01:51Z

I have my own Twitter client Twittia which I am using and sometimes working on. The first version was written in RubyCocoa but the code was a mess so I have rewritten the whole thing mostly in JavaScript.

The only thing which I wasn't able to write in JavaScript was the OAuth authentication which Twitter requires, back then (1,5 years ago or so) I used a Objective-C class instead to do the initial authentication and posting tweets. Then about a year ago I was able to fix the posting tweets to rewrite in JavaScript but the initial authentication was still just magic to me in JavaScript, I just didn't understand how to do it.

Last weekend I found Tweet Marker which is a service where you can set and get your "last read" tweet for a given Twitter user and I decided to implement it, I even got a API-key, but when I had a look at the documentation I found out that it is too working with OAuth and I would have a hard time implementing it, mostly because I didn't understand it even enough to implement the normal Twitter-authentication in JavaScript and I really didn't want to write that too in Objective-C.

So today after work I decided that it was time to just fix it. And what do you say, after "just" 8 hours of work everything reasonable is now written in JavaScript and I was able to delete a external framework and a bunch of Objective-C files.

Now I am seriously thinking about porting Twittia to Linux and Windows because I only have to do a simple GUI and bind it to the JavaScript code and I'm done! All the difficult parts are written in JavaScript.

The new version is not out yet because I want to test it for some days on my own before i release it but it looks like this:

Arguments and gay mariage

2011-09-18T14:57:00Z

I was just googeling for arguments against gay marriage and found one which was kind of strange:

Argument #4: That same-sex marriage would require schools to teach tolerance.

You'd think that this would be a argument for and not against same-sex marriage because obviously we all want our children to grow up to be more tolerant so they would hate each other less then we or our parents do.

The thing is, I found this argument on a website which was trying to debunk arguments against gay merriage 10 Really Bad Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage and the article had the subtitle "Debunking the American Family Association's NoGayMarriage.com Platform".

I wanted to check the facts and had a look at NoGayMarriage.com but sadly this website wasn't online anymore. I googled for that phrase, because if it is one of the arguments it should be on more pages then just NoGayMarriage.com but I didn't have any luck to find it elsewhere either. The only page google finds with this argument is the About.com article which tries to debunk it.

So is it just a straw man or am I just not able to find supporters of this argument on the internet?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for gay marriage, everything what brings more love into peoples lives is worth of supporting, but inventing arguments just so one can debunk them and make the opponent look stupid? I don't like the idea.

Google plus

2011-09-14T07:18:17Z

Hm, ok I'm closing my "Google plus" account down like googles chairman suggests because I don't want to use my real name there.

“Regarding people who are concerned about their safety, he said G+ is completely optional. No one is forcing you to use it. It’s obvious for people at risk if they use their real names, they shouldn’t use G+.”

Obviously as a white male I am that privileged, I don't have to worry about my safety, but I'm sympathetic with other groups of people who need that kind of flock protection so they slip sticking out.

I suppose I am one of the slaughter cattle who used the right entrance:

I tried diaspora a couple of days ago but it's not a real alternative because nobody seems to use it, and it seems like that for every other "social networking"-alternative. So I will keep using twitter, you can reach me @jeena on Twitter or here in my blog.

Blame Multikulti

2011-07-26T07:31:59Z

A Sweden Democrat (a far right wing party in Sweden) party member from my hometown Varberg, Erik Hellsborn writes on his blog and was therefore interviewed by our local newspaper Hallands Nyheter:

If there was no islamization and multiculturalism there would be nothing to trigger Behring Breivik to do like he did.

With help of this logic you could say:

If the USA wouldn't live in sin the terrorists of 9/11 would not have to fly planes into the WTC.
If women would not dress so damn sexy, rapist would have nothing to trigger on and there would be no rapes.
Breivik killed all the children and youngsters in Norway so they would not be able to commit 'cultural suicide'.
If the boy would have stayed at home, he wouldn't be robbed.

[update:] Found one more: "Say I hate all cats and make up my mind to kill perhaps 91 of them to make the point that I really want to have a cat-free Norway. Are the cause of my actions the cats or is it my opinion about them? Is the solution to ban cats from Norway or should I change my actions to some less violent?"

... and so on, I think you get my point.

I wonder what he was thinking when he was writing this blogpost, apparently nothing.

Blame the Islamists

2011-07-23T14:27:50Z

I found an interesting report the "EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report" from 2010.

There on page 50 you can find this table:

You can see there that between 2007 and 2009 there were 1316 failed, foiled and successful attacks whereof 3 had islamist background.

So why is it then that nearly all media titeled something about islamist terror in Norway yesterday even so no one of the officials ever mentioned something like that?

Today it seems like a white tall blond islam hating neo conservative christian fundamentalist with blue eyes was behind the bombing and murdering of over 80 children and youngsters, and he didn't kill himself afterwards.

In norway he faces 21 years prison time for that crime.

Millions can't be wrong

2011-07-15T08:51:42Z

Haha, I was just listening to the newest episode of the swedish Skeptikerpodden and they have a interview with the only swedish person who actually traveled to the outer space Christer Fuglesang. He was talking about homeopathy and had a nice little joke:

You can't believe something just because very many people do so. About 500 years ago everybody believed that the earth is flat. I was up there and had a look, it isn't.

This interview was done at Almedalen, during the swedish political week there. You can see him trying to kill himself with an homeopathic overdose in a video overthere at PodBlack Cat, they have a transcription in english about it too.

If you'd like to know more about homeopatic suicide, read on at 10:23 - Homeopathy: there's nothing in it.

The fallacy he's talking about has is very popular and has obviously a own name, it is Argumentum ad populum.

Trend to real names

2011-07-09T02:05:41Z

I was thinking about is that trend to force users to use their real names. Facebook is doing it for a long time and now Google+ is too.

Just yesterday I was reading a feminists blog post Anonymous oder Susimaus – Geschlecht im Internet (I'm sorry it's in German, you could try the Google translation if you do not understand German) and they link to a study where Female-Name Chat Users Get 25 Times More Malicious Messages. Obviously you could just say that they should just grow a thicker skin, but that seems to me like the wrong approach.

In the comments you can find an interesting reading about the forced public gender in your Google+ profile by Randall Munroe, yes the guy who is doing XKCD.

The problem I have with real names is that I don't understand the advantage of using the real name on the Internet. I can write a hell of a long list with disadvantages ...

Cyberstalking which can lead to stalking if they know your real name
Not getting the job you wanted because of some stupid picture where you're drunk on it.
Not getting a promotion because you have some opposed opinion about some topic your boss is passionate about.
Your new girlfriend gets angry because she finds your name on some old flirt page.
You grow up and change your mind about some topic but google only shows how stupid you were "then".
It leads to conformist behavior, because only a few people have the guts to really say everything they think under their real name.
and so on, and so forth ...

... but my list with advantages is mostly just:

Your old and new friends can find you more easily.
Your word has more weight compared to someones who uses a nickname when strangers read it.

Nr. 1 is just a good thing if you want them to find you and nr. 2 is only a real point if you actually care for how strangers on the internet think about what you write.

I'd love to hear some more advantages, but real ones which you can not archive with help of a nickname.

Good girls shut up

2011-07-09T02:02:21Z

First watch Louis CK on "Being White":

Done? Ok.

I'm not saying white people are better, I'm saying that being white is clearly better. ... And I'm a man, how many advantages can a person have?

I've read some stuff during the last days which got me thinking. First, if know the sceptics community online you probably have read about that already, Richard Dawkins who is one of the most famous atheists and sceptics (and a white wealthy old hetrosexual man) told Rebecca Watson who is another famous sceptic and white but a woman, to:

... be a good girl and just shut up about being sexually objectified because it doesn’t bother him.

Go on and read The privilege delusion you will need that to be able to follow my discussion here. Or for you lazy bastards here are the comments the whole thing is about.

Rebecca Watson said as kind of a open letter to a man who she met in the elevator just before:

Um, just a word to wise here, guys, uh, don't do that. You know, I don't really know how else to explain how this makes me incredibly uncomfortable, but I'll just sort of lay it out that I was a single woman, you know, in a foreign country, at 4:00 am, in a hotel elevator, with you, just you, and—don't invite me back to your hotel room right after I finish talking about how it creeps me out and makes me uncomfortable when men sexualize me in that manner.

And Richard Dawkins (and PZ Myers, the owner of the blog where this comment have been posted, confirmed that it was him) commented on that:

Dear Muslima Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and . . . yawn . . . don't tell me yet again, I know you aren't allowed to drive a car, and you can't leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you'll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with. Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep"chick", and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn't lay a finger on her, but even so . . . And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin. Richard

So which fallacies do we see here? First the two which I am paraphrasing because I couldn't find them again after seeing them once somewhere:

Because people are dealing with much greater crimes in some foreign country, this trivial offense in your home town is not worth the attention.
Because I'm not interested in this topic the argument is invalid.

And here copy & pasted from the Wikipedia and different other websites on the net, don't think of it as a definite list but more like what I found surfing webpages about fallacies and thought it was related to Richards comment:

Ignoratio elenchi (irrelevant conclusion, missing the point): an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question.
Cherry picking (suppressed evidence, incomplete evidence): act of pointing at individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position.
Ad hominem: attacking the arguer instead of the argument.
Appeal to emotion: where an argument is made due to the manipulation of emotions, rather than the use of valid reasoning
Appeal to ridicule: an argument is made by presenting the opponent's argument in a way that makes it appear ridiculous
Red herring. This means exactly what you think it means: introducing irrelevant facts or arguments to distract from the question at hand.
Appeal to pity. The appeal to pity takes place when an arguer tries to get people to accept a conclusion by making them feel sorry for someone.

I always thought of Richard Dawkins as a bright and literate man who can point out the fallacies in creationists arguments. But it seems like the bible says in Matthew 7:3

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

I sincerely hope that Richard reasons about it and concludes that he should apologize.

Some blue berries

2011-07-04T21:05:40Z

You all know that I am homebrewing beer and stuff.

The day before yesterday me and a friend, David, picked Sambucus nigra (or black elder) flowers, mixed them up with sugar water, some lemon and a little bit vinegar. With help of the natural yeast on the flowers we got it to turn the sugar water into "Elder Champagne". Tomorrow we will put everything into bottles but already today it had a really rich elder flavour. Then after three or four weeks it's ready to drink.

Today on my way to the beach I found many of these everywhere in my hometown Varberg:

But I didn't know what these were and not what the'd be called in any of the languages I understand. Even so I began to pick them into a jar I had with me when an older woman came by and we small talked. She advised me not to eat the berries because even she didn't know what kind of berries they were. But when I told her that I already tasted one and it tasted nice and sweet she picked one and was on the way to test it herself; But just before the berry could enter her mouth she threw it away and said: "Ush, I do not dare.". I said "I will kill the poison with alcohol.", she laughed and was on her way.

So I turned to my Twitter followers and Facebook friends, and after just half an hour I got the answer from Daniel, they're called Amelanchier alnifolia or juneberries.

The Wikipedia article says that the fruits are not poisonous, just the leaves give you diarrhoea, so I picked 2 liters of them and will try to make either beer or wine.

[update:] I just pressed them and it became a oily mass:

Everything religious is an exception

2011-06-29T13:37:59Z

Today a friend of mine linked to a rainbow-press article from 2009 which is called

Jesus is needed in the Swedish school (Swedish)

In this article a young christian woman - Clara Lindström, 22 - talks about why it is not fair that christians have to pay for secular schools, that christian children and teachers are mobbed for their believes and then she says something which she apparently finds very sad, I on the other hand think this is one of the best things and why I like Sweden so much:

Not being religious is the norm and everything religious is an exception.

And hooray, wouldn't you just love to live in a place like this, without people who stone people to death (Indonesia) or cut the throats of their children with a razor because they think it's judgement day.

Second opition

2011-04-18T09:00:15Z

I was just watching Roger Ebert on TED: Remaking my voice, at the end he tells a joke:

A guy goes in to a psychologist, the psychologist says: "You're crazy.", the guy says: "I want a second opinion.", the psychologist says: "All right, you're ugly.".

Poll: Do you still use nuclear power?

2011-03-19T11:20:31Z

I'd like to see if you guys buy nuclear power to use at home. Do you even care or is it just something somebody else should care about not you?

Your browser doesn't support iFrames :( Vote for this poll here.

Why do your muscles hurt after exercise?

2011-02-21T17:43:01Z

I always wanted to know why my muscles hurt so badly after exercise. Today PZ Myers explained it in a very long article on his blog Pharyngula: Why do muscles hurt after exercise?. It is a really long text and the target are his biology students, so I didn't understand very many of the details expecially at the beginning of the article where he states "But you knew that already." :D

But when you get through the long thing you get a summary in mostly plain english which I would like to quote here:

So why do your muscles hurt after exercise? There are three major reasons.

a transient accumulation of metabolic byproducts that can cause some soreness during exercise.

Changes in ion concentrations in the muscle that can cause some fluid swelling, and also triggers active remodeling of the proteins for growth.

you broke 'em. You can cause micro-tears and internal disruption of muscle proteins that can actually force your muscles to throw out and reconstruct whole fibers.

What should you do if your muscles are aching after exercise? [...] reduce the intensity of exercise to light, submaximal exertion and stretching exercises, which have been found to reduce soreness and promote more rapid recovery of muscle tension. Light massage is also good for reducing pain, but hasn't been found to do much to facilitate actual physical recovery otherwise.

But I encourage you to read the whole article and don't be unnerved by the first 1/4th of it, after that he delivers some interesting facts we normal people actually can understand.

Brewing beer

2011-02-19T10:40:58Z

Me and some friends began brewing beer about a month ago. It was the first time most of us have done that and we tried to make a Pale Ale.

The ingrediences were (according to the german Reinheitsgebot):

0,5 kg Ekologic LJ. Caramel Malt (WEYERMANN)
375 g light malt extract (MUNTON & FISON)
4 kg extra light dry malt extract (MUNTON)
100 g Perle hop pallets 8,8% (german, very important)

Here some pictures:

The first night it leaked and Kalle had beer all over his kitchen the next morning :D

Two weeks later we added some more malt and sugar to get some carbon dioxid into our bottles.

I opened one litle bottle yesterday and it was just delicious! Very different form the beers you normally buy here in Sweden which taste like water and sometimes booze. And I just love the colour and stuff. Everything turned out nearly perfect.

We agreed to make more beer next week!

Placebos

2011-02-14T01:31:38Z

A look at the many strange effects of placebos.

Created by:
Daniel Keogh, Luke Harris

Sources:
Ben Goldacre's book 'Bad Science' has an excellent chapter on placebos
Website, Amazon

Direct link to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRVCaA5o18

Why is there summer?

2011-01-12T04:23:44Z

I was just watching a lecture by Dr. Lawrence Krauss on YouTube about "Science & Religion" when he showed some numbers from a survey on Science Literacy.

53% of American adults were unaware that the last dinosaurs died before the first human arose
50% of adults knew that the earth orbits the sun, and takes a year to do it
53% of adults knew that: "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals"

This was ten years ago, not in the dark ages of scientific repression of the Early Middle Ages. But it was in America, I thought, they are just dumber then we are here in good old Europe.

But then it stroke me like lightening, I recalled one question from my back then 9 years old daughter:

Why is there summer and winter?

I didn't know the answer and it astonished me. Me who holds up science as the liberator from the ages of superstition and burning of witches, didn't even know such a basic fact. I didn't have my extended brain, a computer with internet connection, near me so I told her that I didn't know that yet, but I would like her to reason with me about that; she agreed.

The first idea was that the earth was wobbling on the axis. But soon I remembered my physics teacher in Germany who answered the question of "Why does the earth rotate?" with "There is no one (no force) who would stop it from doing so.". So I knew that there is no one who would push the earth back when it would wobble to one site. That way this idea was from the table.

Then I recalled that every table globe I knew was tilted in the same angle and that there is a reason for that. The earth axis is tilted by some 20 degrees or something. Now I knew I was on the right track, so we took some random stuff, I think it was two coffee cups, to simulate our simplified version of our solar system.

She did hold the "sun coffee cup" in the middle and I rotated the "earth coffee cup" tilted to some degree on the right side of the sun. That way we were able to see that the most light would reach the northern half of our earth cup.

Then I traveled with the earth cup, still rotating to get day and night, and in the same angle, because there is no one to push the earth to another angle or twist it, to the left side our our sun cup and there it was, the answer! Now the southern half of our earth cup would get the most of the suns light radiation while the northern half would only get a little. There it was, summer and winter.

That was convincing, even for her, but then, why is the earth tilted and not straight 90° as you would expect it? That is a whole another question, and as you might expect I didn't know the answer either.

Europe is burning

2010-12-17T17:44:57Z

Europe is burning.

In just one week we saw 4 capital cities burning on the news.

2010-12-15 Athens YouTube

2010-12-15 Moscow YouTube

2010-12-14 Rome YouTube

2010-12-12 Moscow YouTube

2010-12-10 London YouTube

If we have a look a little bit further into the past, we find other places like:

2010-10-19 Paris / Lyon YouTube

2010-11-07 Gorleben YouTube

2010-10-01 Stuttgart YouTube

2010-09-29 Madrit (video)

But the future must look bright right? No, there are signs of trouble in Spain already.

PayPal is evil

2010-12-04T22:37:59Z

Today I'm a little bit sad because I was a PayPal customer since 2002 and was forced to close my account today. I started using PayPal back in the days when I was working for some customers from the USA. It was the least complicated way to get the money from the USA to Germany. And it just worked, if everything else wouldn't work PayPal did. So I always tried to defend it against the people who said it was a force of evil and you never knew what would happen with the money.

Today I found out that PayPal closed the Wau Holland Foundations account for good. From http://www.wauland.de/english.html

A foundation in memory of Herwart “Wau” Holland-Moritz

Numerous documentaries and texts on and by data philosopher and visionary Wau Holland show how he influenced the world both as a public figure and the doyen and co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club throughout several decades until his untimely death on July 29, 2001. The area of conflict between new technology and media on the one hand, and ubiquitous surveillance on the other, risks and opportunities in information technology: these were key points Wau covered in his copious talks and public speeches. He developed and refined concepts like hacker ethics and teaching young people about the joy and passion in technology while stressing and showing the society's role therein. Through founding the Chaos Computer Club in 1981, Wau Holland paved the way for hackers into legality and social responsibility. He continued to be a huge influence and a voice to be heard. It was on the day of Wau's funeral in Marburg that five of his closest friends set up the Wau Holland Foundation in his memory, supported by his family who also gave the initial funding. In December 2003, the Foundation was registered as a tax-privileged charity.

They handle the most of WikiLeaks money.

Germany's Wau Holland Foundation has told newspaper Der Freitag Wikileaks receives no money for personnel costs, only for hardware, travelling and bandwidth. Hendrik Fulda, the foundation's second chairman, says around 30.000 euros have been handed out after receiving signed receipts. According to Fulda, most of the money has been mainly used to restore Wikileaks and keep the site up and running. The website had to be taken down last year as donations did not cover costs.

So it's not possible for Julian Assange to draw money and buy a Currywurst (via Fefe). The Wau Holland Foundation checks every payment and do not pay out money for illegal stuff and they will reveal WikiLeaks salaries in a new report at the end of this year.

Ron Paul, an American physician and Republican Congressman, says:

This whole notion that Assange, who's an Australian, that we want to prosecute him for treason -- I mean, aren't they jumping to a wild conclusion? [...] I mean, why don't we prosecute The New York Times or anybody that releases this?

UITabBar icons for iPhone

2010-12-04T02:49:34Z

I finally found out how to get a normal image to a alphatransparent icon for the iPhone UITabBar without colors but with different alpha transparencies. I do it in Photoshop like that:

Image -> Mode -> Grayscale
"Discard color information" -> Discard
Mark all [cmd A]
Copy [cmd C]
Layer -> Layer Mask -> Reveal all
In "Chanels" (Window -> Chanels) show the "Layer 0 Mask" (click on the left)
Paste [cmd V]
Image -> Adjustment -> Invert [cmd I]
Save for web [cmd alt shift S] as PNG 24

I found it on a website but I can't remember which one, so I'm sorry no back-link today. But if I don't jot it down here I'll never remember how to do that.

App Sales

2010-11-26T00:16:06Z

Nearly one month ago I got my Game Monster Tiles into the AppStore. I got really great feedback of friends and many said that the game was somewhat to easy but addictive. I didn't spend much time on developing it, it was more something like a test how it is to get a game into the AppStore.

Now four weeks later I have some interesting facts about sales, Game Center, Facebook ads and Jailbreak I'd like to share with you. First of all here is a graph with Sales, Game Center users and updates:

As you can see I sold the most licenses in the first two days and 70% updated to version 1.1 after two weeks, looks good so far.

The weekend between the 13th and 14th I had a tiny 10 € advertising campaign on Facebook. I had 122451 impressions, 30 clicks and as you see on the graph zero sales during this two days, it was fucking pointless wasted money.

And then there is the green Game Center graph. In the beginning it grows just with the sales, about half of the people who bought the game activated Game Center, it was pretty cool to see my friends there and some people I never met, it was a nice additional feedback channel.

Then when the first update went thru, the Game Center user numbers exploded! I was really unsure about what had happened and hoped that Apples Sales and Trends tool was broken and just didn't show the wast amount of new sales. During four days it tripled and there were finally much more Game Center users with Monster Tiles installed then licenses I sold.

After googling for some of the usernames I found out what was happening, someone cracked it and uploaded it on apptrackr.org so you can install it without buying it on the AppStore.

I think you have to jailbreak your phone for that too. The thing is, I know that the ones who download it for free never would buy it anyway, even if it just costs $0.99 a ridiculously low price. But I was absolutely not aware that there were such amounts of users who would download and play cheep games for free.

If I'd extrapolate the numbers I have, then half of the people who installed the app activated Game Center, that was 13 people. Now there are 44 users in Game Center, this is more then three times as much.

Should I assume that three times as much people installed it for free as the amount of people who bought it? Sadly the conversion rate from hacked to bought seems to be zero too, like the conversion rate from Facebook ads to bought licenses.

Straight razor

2010-11-14T18:15:51Z

I'm bleeding from my fucking face dude. I'll try to explain why. Last week I bought a "real man razor", you know a real one with just one big blade, not one of the lady shavers I used until now. Here is a picture of it:

So, I had no freakin idea how to use it. I did what a grown man always does in such cases, for example when you have to tie a tie or something, I searched on YouTube for a video of a guy showing me how it's done. I then had a brief look at how this good looking fellow does it:

This looks easy, If he can do it, I can too. The problem is that he's a god damn master in this category, it looks so fucking easy, but let me tell you one thing: It's not.

My first problem was that I had no shaving brush and no soap. I had to improvise, so I took shampoo and tried to rub it into my face so I'd get some foam. It didn't work very well, my face was full of shampoo but no foam. I tried it anyway, because a man has to do what a man has to do, and my mission was to shave that wannabe-beard off.

The left side went surprisingly well, I didn't get all the stubbles but I didn't cut my self and it looked quite nice. Then there was the right side and the middle of my face.

I felt like Edward Scissorhands while holding the razor to my throat. My mind was all the time: "... be careful, very careful, ...", then I saw blood. Now my face looks like Edwards. I've cut myself 6 times during this shaving session, but only on the right side of my face.

Another problem was that the razor was really sharp in the beginning, but then it soon got sort of unsharp indeed. I tried to sharpen it on my leather belt and it helped a little bit but not for a long time. I think I need too look into how you sharpen a straight razor for real.

Tips for brands and where you can buy them are appreciated.

Monster Tiles

2010-10-23T14:37:36Z

I've written a iPhone/iPod Touch game which is called "Monster Tiles". You can find buy it on the AppStore. I hope you like it, but read on first to find out how to play it.

You have to "swipe" out exactly the amount of blocks the number after "Remove:" on the top says. You have 30 seconds to do so and sometimes some monster comes along and distracts you or makes impossible to swipe the blocks out.

It doesn't matter how you cross out them, everything works.

You really should enable Game Center to challenge your friends on who makes the most points. In the beginning it is rather difficult and 30 seconds to clear the whole screen full of tiles is not much. But once you got the hang out of it and develop strategies you can be one of the best!

All images I used are from flickr.com and are Creative Commons. I recorded some of the sound effects myself some other are public domain, like the background music.

Credits for sounds and images

Images

Sounds

The Amaz!ng Meeting

2010-10-15T01:28:38Z

Tonight I am heading to London for The Amaz!ng Meeting.

TAM London 2010 is a world-class fundraising conference which this year is being held on 16 – 17 October 2010 at the Hilton London Metropole hotel. Join amazing speakers and over 1000 like-minded delegates for a fundraising celebration of science, critical thinking and entertainment in the heart of the city.

That are some of my absolute heros, especially James Randi, he's really old but still one of the sharpest minds around.

I'm really lucky to have a cousin who lives in London and I can spend the night at her place. For me as a student the ticket price was really a shit load of money, £208.00 + the flight from and to Gothenburg in Sweden.

I'll update Twitter during the weekend, and you can see the updates here:

Tomorrow I'll attend The Amaz!ng Meeting in London with Richard Dawkins, James Randi, Graham Linehan and many more #tamlondon
@PatJer hinner inte, är på vägen till The Amaz!ng Meeting i London http://tamlondon.org #tamlondon
I'm on my way to the city airport in Göteborg, then London and tomorrow #tamlondon I likes!!! http://yfrog.com/0yyamwtj
Ok now I gave alcohol in my blood but I still will try to get on the plane :-D #tamlondon
Ok, I am allowed to get onboard (plane) but without my toothpaste. #tamlondon
Am I the only one flying from Gothenburg tonight to the Amaz!ng Meeting tomorrow? #tamlondon
I'm on the plane! #tamlondon http://yfrog.com/3wrqxlj http://yfrog.com/n9eychj
@vincekenny I'd love to because I don't know anyone at #tamlondon, it's my first time with other "professional" sceptics ;)
I really have to get up now; only a few minutes to #tamlondon'
Amazingly many hot women here at #tamlondon
RT @Data_Jack: Sue Blackmore was funny & smart, Dawkins was facinating, Doctorow was too, but differently, and Rutherford was witty & scathing. #TAMLondon
I like that Dawkins mentioned naturalism, because you never read about it in his books #tamlondon
Te food was nice, but no vegetarian and nothing without carbs, yeh I know I'm being picky #tamlondon
RT @medtek: Rude jerks took my bag out of my seat and claimed it. Now sat in back where I can't read lips. Assholes. #tamlondon
You are here #tamlondon http://yfrog.com/e6adgj
RT @Redjotter: learning about the @beagleproject #tamlondon
Homeopathy and breastcancer #tamlondon http://yfrog.com/bfutrxj
What does he mean by skeptical blogging? I think I need some links #tamlondon
RT @homeopathyinfo: RT @lecanardnoir: Announcing the launch of the Nightingale Collaboration at #TAMLondon http://post.ly/14q3W <-- more harrassment of CAM
RT @antallan: #TAMLondon JR talking about Uri Gellar on the Johnny Carson show (I think you can find this on YouTube)
RT @colm_ryan: Wow, Rhys Morgan just won an outstanding achievement award for his exposure of a deadly Chromes Disease cure. He's 15. Electric. #tamlondon
RT @PenguinGalaxy: #TAMLondon has opened my eyes to two amazing artists, the Amateur Transplants. You are hilarious geniuses. Want ALL your songs. :-D
RT @GenesysX: RT @simonaway: Day 1 #TAMLondon. Loads of highlights plus a few moments thinking "some of these atheists act like religious fundamentalists"
Talk about an infinite number of universes #tamlondon
On my way to #tamlondon again http://yfrog.com/j8ntwyj
RT @thatnerdwoman: Says @DJGrothe: All profits from #tamlondon and future #jref events here will in fact stay in the UK! Take that #tamlondon critics/whiners!!
Scepticism is just ordinary common sense. #tamlondon
RT @thatnerdwoman: I love me some bonkers physics factoids on an early sunday morning. No really, i actually mean that! #tamlondon
RT @jacco: Wifi is quite unflawless #tamlondon
Now Melinda Gebbie on stage. #tamlondon http://yfrog.com/htx45aj
RT @iszi_lawrence: Porn! Yeah! That's more like it #tamlondon
RT @alecmuffett: I rather like Melinda Gebbie... a quite magnificent lady #tamlondon
RT @BENWARSOP: Seems Skeptics will discuss religion till the last trump but resist critical thinking about porn #TAMlondon. No irrational doublethink here
RT @erik_arnesen: Now: Stephen Fry interwieved by Tim Minchin! #TAMLondon
"Tell god to send better people" (to convert me) Stepen Fry @ #tamlondon
Stephen Fry talks about Logic and I have to write a test in logic in four days at the university #tamlondon http://yfrog.com/59ofbxj
#tamlondon now some lunch
RT @edjeff: the skeptical movement is a front for satanists. doubters doubt yourselves not our lord. #TAMLondon
I just accidentally flirted with Helen, Graham Linehans wife, she's really lovely #tamlondon
PZ Mayers says "Do be a Richard" #tamlondon http://yfrog.com/j2vkzqj
If we only work evidence based, like skeptics want it to do, would this not lead to technocracy? Which I consider a bad thing #tamlondon
"Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower" #tamlondon
RT @antallan: #tamlondon PZM: Scientists don’t have the (whole) truth, but a /path/ to the truth
PZ Mayers wears a crocoduck tie #tamlondon
Now Alan Moore, he's funny #tamlondon
RT @garwboy: The Alan Moore theory of Universal origin makes so much sense, all of a sudden. #TAMLondon
RT @GlasgowSkeptics: "back when we lived in the trees". Thought that his dad was referring to his family, not species. #TAMLondon
RT @DrEvanHarris: At #tamlondon @jonronson & @Glinner agree "'Facebook is where u lie to yr friends, Twitter is where you're honest to strangers"
RT @Zyaama: "You, with your rational worldview, and me with whatever I happen to believe this afternoon." #tamlondon
RT @shopsinc: Alan Moore is making physics jokes about when he was a baby and fucking killing. Fantastic. #tamlondon
RT @angusr: He's being very funny, but there's a lot in this about the nature of belief and situated knowledges. This is SUPERB. #TAMLondon
@ZOMGitsCriss how do you know it? Prove it! I'm at #tamlondon
RT @garwboy: The man responsible for some of the greatest writing of the 20th century is reading us bleak poem. Don't know why. Don't care. #TAMLondon
Interview wit Alan Moore now #tamlondon
#tamlondon is coming to an end :-(
#tamlondon is now officially over, thankt it was Amaz!ng!!!
RT @KerryMG: RT @kosso: Alan Moore I've never seen the Watchmen movie cos I prefer to critique something from a position of absolute ignorance #tamlondon
RT @garwboy: Alan Moore waved goodbye like the Queen. Mad brilliant bastard... #TAMLondon

Some pictures on Flickr

Human distribution

2010-10-09T09:47:23Z

This chart shows how the human distributed over the continents. Science shows that all of the homo sapiens who live today, which is about 6,872,200,000, are decedents of a group of about 1000 individuals of the Homo rhodesiensis (+ in little extent crossbreeding with the neanderthals) who decided to leave africa and try it somewhere else about 200,000 years ago.

Fun fact, all people with blue eyes seem to be decedents of only one individual with a genetic defect which caused the eyes to stop produce melanin and turn from brown to blue.

Now here is a question, why the fuck would anyone think something like "Germany to the germans" which was btw. founded not earlier than 300 years ago. Or even more funny "We have to protect the swedish traditions like Christmas, and so on.". Christmas is a swedish tradition? WTF did he smoke? What about Yule?

It's like Carl Sagan wrote in his book "Demon Hunted World" (which you really should read):

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us—then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

Ok, I understand that you could argue that I am not a really good example of a nationalist, until now I already lived in 3 different countries. I think therefore I have serious problems understanding what goes on in peoples minds who claim that some particular landscape should only belong to a specific group of people. Who gave it to them? Was it some kind of a god? Or did they just take it by force and killed everyone who lived there before?

Right-wing extremism

2010-09-20T20:08:56Z

It has been a good weekend for racists, populists and rightwing radicals across Sweden. After the Netherlands (Partij Voor de Vrijheid), France (Front National), Belgium (Vlaams Belang), Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs), Hungary (Magyar Gárda) and Denmark (Dansk Folkeparti) Sweden too got a right-wing-extremists-party in their Riksdag (parliament), they call themselves "The Sweden Democrats" (Sverigedemokraterna).

Jimmie Åkesson

SD are the Sweden Democrats

You may say: What's the problem, they all were elected in a democratic process. and so was the NSDAP:

year	percent
1925	3.7%
1928	5.6%
1930	19%
1932	30%
1933	no democracy

The Nazis learned from the failed Hitlerputsch of 9 November 1923 and developed a "Legalitätsstrategie" (legality strategy) for their "National Revolution" to formally observe the law. Wikipedia

It reminds me a little bit of a song by the Propellerheads & Shirley Bassey - History Repeating

I know democracy is not perfect, but it's the best we could come up with yet. I keep thinking, shouldn't the democracy start to fight for her survival?

Nuclear semiotics

2010-09-13T14:13:49Z

This post will be about the future,

High-level nuclear waste is the inevitable end result of nuclear energy production. The waste will remain radioactive and/or radiotoxic for at least 100 000 years.

It is difficult for human beings to understand time spans beyond a few generations, let alone thousands of years. To put time into perspective, we need milestones: The human species as we know it today is believed to have existed for approx. 100 000 years. The oldest cave paintings, known today, are approx. 30 000 years old, the pyramids approx. 4 500 years old, the Birth of Christ, 2010 years ago, the detection of radiation approx. 115 years ago.

We will be around here for ca. 100 years to tell our children and grand children about the dangers of the places, I wonder how our language will change. When we look at the 4 500 years old hieroglyphs in pyramids, do we understand them properly? And by "we" I obviously mean our specialists in that field.

How would we design warning signs which people in 10 000 years could interpret properly and not think that there is a treasure buried which only waits for them to get and finally get rich or healthy.

What would you think if you would see a sign like this and wouldn't know what it means because media or your parent told you?

If you're a farmer and go there and then go back to your plants, they will grow much faster.
If you have problems to sleep, you will be healed from it by going there.
It is dangerous to go there, you will die.
First you are a child, then you grow up and when you're old you die.

There are plenty other propositions how to fix this problems, change genetic code of cats and dogs so they begin to glow when near nuclear waste, fields of really big spikes, obelisks, or just nothing to not attract future archeologists.

Isn't it strange that we use 438 (and there are 61 under construction) nuclear reactors, each of them produces 30 tons of nuclear waste per year. There is 10 000 tons of new nuclear waste every year since 1954. We now have about 560 000 tons of nuclear waste on the earth and don't know what to do with it.

Watching TV

2010-09-08T00:00:45Z

I was just watching Google I/O 2010: Google TV Keynote - Introducing Google TV. At the beginning the speaker says:

First interesting fact: Five hours per day. That's the average amount of time an American spends in front of the television. And, in fact, people are watching more TV now than they ever were in the past. That's pretty amazing.

Wait a minute, did he really say 5 hours a day? I doublechecked, and yes he did. But that could not possibly be the right number?! I had to check that and the first site about that I found was: The Sourcebook for Teaching Science - Television & Health and they say:

According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube. Number of hours per day that TV is on in an average U.S. home: 6 hours, 47 minutes

A second site, Nielsen Threescreenreport Q109 (PDF) says:

Traditional TV usage in the U.S. remains at an all-time high at approximately 153 hrs a month.

That would be 153h / 30 days = 5.1 hours / day.

OMFG! I mean, when do they do that? If I take a look at my day, I get up at 6 am, and am at the university at 8 am (80km commuting). I am there to 3 pm and am home at 5pm. Sometimes I visit my stepdaughter and get home at 7pm. Then I have work to do (earning money and so on) and work perhaps for 4 hours so it is 11pm. Now I finally have some time for TV and watch perhaps for one hour if there is something interesting, but this happens perhaps 3 times a week. OK sometimes I watch some series while working, but that is always a productivity killer so I try to avoid it.

I then had a look at other countries in the western world and was surprised too:

Country	Watching TV, hours per day	Source
USA	5.1	Americans Watching More TV Than Ever; Web and Mobile Video Up too
UK	4.3	Watching TV rises to more than four hours a day
Poland	4.0	4 godziny dziennie przed telewizorem – Polacy to telewizyjni maniacy!
Germany	3.75	TV-Nutzung steigt auf Rekordhoch - Pro Tag 3,75 Stunden im Durchschnitt
Sweden	3.3	Svensken tittar på tv tre timmar om dagen

And the sick fact is that it is just raising, everywhere. I seem to live in a different world, nearly nobody I know talks about things they have seen on TV and a noteworthy number of my friends do not even own a TV. I didn't either for several years in the past and I am confident to say that I wouldn't miss it or buy a new one when this one would break.

How about you, how many hours a day do you watch TV? Are you under, at average or perhaps above?

The Doppler effect

2010-08-08T19:46:42Z

Sometimes I wonder how things work. For example the "Doppler effect". The doppler effect the phenomena you hear when an ambulance drives by and the sound of their horns sounds deeper after it passed by you then before.

I had a look at the Wikipedia and found this animation:

But I really don't think it explains anything and I would like to explain it "the other way around".

Lake example

Suppose you're on a lake in a small speedboat. In the middle of the lake there is a really big machine which every 5 seconds (this means at a static rate/speed) drops a big stone into the lake.

You drive the boat at a constant speed directly in in the direction to where the machine drops the stones and measure the time between you hit every wave.

Then after you drove by the machine at the middle of the lake you carry on in the same direction and the same speed and measure the time between each wave hits you.

I wrote a little interactive simulation to demonstrate it:

(Sadly you need a browser capable of svg and html5. Or you can watch the video.)

As you can see the rate at that the waves hit the boat is much greater before the center and much lesser after it passed it. And because the tone pitch is just the frequency of a soundwave it is a different tone before the ambulance has driven by you and after that. When you sitt within the ambulance, the tone pitch doesn't change.

Try to change the speed of the (green) boat to see what happens. Per default it has the same speed as a wave.

Boring theory?

But to be honest, the ambulance example is probably the most boring example of this effect.

There are plenty of very cool examples, and not only with sound waves but all sorts of waves like radar or light waves.

The bat, for example, can sense in which direction the insect is moving based on the pitch of the echo. If the insect is moving away from the bat, the returning echo will have a lower pitch than the original sound, while the echo from an insect moving toward the bat will have a higher pitch. The bat of course uses sound waves and this is also called sonar. They are so specialized to calculate where their pray is that they "see" it, even when they are flying and moving on their own.

Have you ever been stopped by the police who drove behind you for some time and they said that you were speeding? Then they also have used the Doppler effect in exactly the same way the bat did but not with sound waves but with electromagnetic waves and their radar instead.

Or have you ever wandered how the scientists found out that the universe is expanding? They too used the doppler effect; Not with sound waves or electromagnetic waves but with light waves. Depending on which frequency the light wave has it appears as a different color in our brain. But the Doppler effect does work on all kinds of waves, therefore on light too.

Because light always travels with the same speed (speed of light) it should have exactly the same wave length independently of where from it comes. But if you measure the wavelength you can see that light from all other galaxies shifted to red, which means the waves are longer and therefore the source of the light is moving away from us (like the center of the sea on the boat on the second half of your journey). (More info)

Show it on YouTube

Baby penises and Metzitzah

2010-08-03T11:55:48Z

I was listening to Christopher Hitchens (audio-) book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and he was talking — among other things — about male circumcision (which of course is mild and gentle in comparison to the female genital cutting. I'll not get into this here but you should read the Wikipedia article!).

He was, as I found out after some research, talking about the Jewish "metzitzah".

What is Metzitzah?

The mohel brings the baby’s organ into his mouth immediately after the excision of the foreskin and sucks blood from it vigorously.

See Metzitzah B’peh Controversy: The View from Israel.

As far as I understand it: After cutting of the skin of a baby-boys penis the mohel — often a rabbi — takes the penis in to his mouth and sucks on it, so the bleeding stops.

I know, it sounds disturbing and like pedophile child abuse and that's how it is done today in America, Israel and other countries.

As you probably have already guessed, serious health problems are accompanied by this ritual. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene puts it like this:

… the Health Department has documented several cases of herpes infection in newborns after circumcisions that included metzitzah b'peh. Metzitzah b'pehis a religious practice performed by some mohelim (religious circumcisers) in the Jewish community. Some of these infants became seriously ill. One baby died, and another suffered brain damage.

… In metzitzah b'peh, the mohel places his mouth on the freshly circumcised penis to draw blood away from the cut. If the mohel is infected with oral herpes (as most adults are), metzitzah b'peh can expose the infant to the herpes virus.

… Because the immune system of newborns is not developed enough to fight serious infection, herpes infections pose grave risks to infants.

In this video a rabbi tries to explain why it is done and it undergirds my presumption that you only can do such a thing when you are religious disturbed:

Show it on YouTube

[update] I found a good movie about this subject "Cut: Slicing Through the Myths of Circumcision"

LHC produces universes?

2010-07-21T20:59:10Z

Before you read this article check the website http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/ if it says something like "YEPP." or "YES." don't bother to to continue reading.

If it on the other hand says "NOPE." check the website http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html to verify that the first site is really up to date. It is a live webcam which shows the LHC in Switzerland. Don't panic if it is offline, it could have a perfectly normal explanation like that they temporarily are out of electricity or the webcam is down for some service time.

If everything seems normal then you are of course allowed to read on my dear reader.

LHC at "The Big Picture" check out their pictures, they are mind blowing!

Every time scientists talk about the string theory I spectacularly fail to understand a word of what they mean. And this time is no exception. In the article Collider gets yet more exotic 'to-do' list – The Large Hadron Collider could throw up evidence of new physics earlier than expected. (via Jesper) the author states:

If his ideas are correct, then the LHC will soon start to access a two-dimensional universe.

What do they mean by "start to access a two-dimensional universe"? Are there new universes just popping into existence and one can, with help of the LHC, just "access" them? That would certainly explain how our universe came into being. But as Richard Feynman said:

If you think you understand string theory you don't.

So I asked a friend of mine, he is a physicist and even if his main field is not string theory and particle physics he always has great answers for me which I understand. He explained it like this to me:

They do not simulate the big bang with help of the LHC (everyone who claims that is either an idiot and has no clue about it or overstated his analogy extremely). With the LHC surly no new universes pop into existence. Mini black holes are just plain speculation at the moment – there are some theories which predict them but all of them are completely speculative and never been confirmed experimentally somewhere else. (And especially in particle physics speculations often were completely wrong. I'll believe in mini black holes when I see the experimental data.)

About the dimensions; They claim (and I am very skeptical about it), that the universe got more dimensions as it got bigger and you can reduce the amount of dimensions when you turn up the energy density like it was ("shortly") after the big bang. You can see it happening when the collision points not accurue in all direction in space but just in a plane (for each collision another i assume and if you continue just on a line, etc.).

This is when their speculation is correct and then only on a really small local scale. And even if it's right it would not trigger the end of the world; This will be – as, thanks to Apophis, we all know – in the year 2036.

I hope I got the translation from German to English fairly right, it wasn't easy.

You did it yourself

2010-07-03T20:47:29Z

I want to quote a quote Richard Dawkins makes in his book The Greatest Show on Earth (Video). It is about a lady who didn't believe in evolution:

… He was asked by a lady:

Even given the billions of years that you say were available for evolution, I simply can not believe it is possible to go from a single cell to a complicated human body.

He replied:

But madam you did it yourself, and it only took you nine months.

…

Amazon - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Btw. and I can not believe that the Kindle Edition is more expensive then the Paperback version.

Homer Simpsons shows how it is possible.

How to use a semicolon

2010-07-02T15:39:44Z

In my opinion the The Oatmeal is the new and far superior XKCD.

I really enjoy the excessive drawings and trully funny descriptions of real life happenings like the fabulous comic: What it's like to own an Apple product

The first time I discovered how great The Oatmeal is was when someone over there on Twitter, I think it was @ttepasse mentioned the comic: Wow to use a semicolon

You too really should read it! It is impressively accurate and amazingly illustrated. In fact, the illustrations are what you will remember for a long time and with them also "How to use a semicolon".

I have gone one step further and bought the poster he offers. I got this poster today by (old school) mail and now it hangs in my bathroom. The idea behind this is that people who visit me can learn a thing or two while taking a dump.

It wasn't a goal!

2010-06-27T22:23:37Z

We had a great time today watching the England vs. Germany game in my backyard today. I bought 25 meters of antenna cable so we could put out the TV and sit in the sun and watch the game. And we had a lovely barbecue.

Anyway, here is the prove that it was not a goal (quite contrary to the Wembley goal):

In my free time

2010-06-13T02:44:24Z

In my free time I am often writing or tweaking some open source software. Today I would like you all to meet two of them.

Plistifier

Plistifier is my first Ruby on Rails plugin which allows you to use binary Property Lists, such ones like Apple uses for all kinds of stuff, to send to your client. Mostly it is a cool thing for iPhone developers who have to talk to a server to get some data. But it is the same little effort for desktop OS X applications.

The cool thing about it is, that you just need one line on each side, server and client, to get them to communicate. Lets say you have a PostsController and a Post model in your rails application. And you would like to get a list of post items on your iPhone to show them in your UITableView. So after you installed the plugin, you have to add this line to your controller:

format.plist { render :plist => @posts }

And in your iPhone controller you add this:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://example.com/posts.plist"];
NSArray *posts = [[NSArray alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url];
NSLog(@"Title: %@", [[posts objectAtIndex:0] objectForKey:@"title"]);

The second line is the one which does all the work, it gets the data from the network, parses it and saves it as a native NSArray in the variable posts. Thats it, you're done, no SAX-parser, no JSON-frameworks, nothing. And its fast, the binary format is very efficient, it reduces the size down to 1/10 of the verbose XML variant.

The plugin uses Christian Kruses CFPropertyList to generate the plists and is based on chuyeows jsonifier. Thank you guys for releasing the stuff open source, you rock!

Timr

Timr is a simple timer or count down for OS X. Just today I released a new version of it which finally looks nice and polished.

I often forget somethin in or on the oven, once I even started a fire in the kitchen just because I forgot the oil on the cooking oil and sat by the computer and just surfed the web.

But such kind of things doesn't happen to me anymore because I just set the timer alarm to for example 30 minutes and get a annoying sound when it's time to get the pizza out.

I hope you like some of my applications, I will present some of the other ones in the future :-).

At the hotel

2010-06-10T23:45:42Z

I'm sitting here at the Vanadis Hotell and find it weird that there are hotel rooms without windows. And I don't mean that they use Linux or OS X on their computers which they have in each room so the hotel guests can surf porn and stuff on them. I mean windows to the outside world, no, stop thinking that, I do not mean the internet! Yo know windows you can open to get fresh air or puke when you're drunk or something.

It's not that I care, I mean, I payed for much worse; last year I payed € 10 to sleep on the roof of a youth hostel next to their boiler and was happy:

And it is really near to the office, like a 3 minutes walk or something so I get up 8:30 do the morning wash get some breakfast and off I go to work. It is just so unexpected at a hotel.

Brother

2010-06-06T21:55:41Z

Takeshi Kitanos Brother is really my favorite movie. I saw it in 2001 at the cinema with my best friend and we were two of the four people who where watching it.

The movie is about a Japanese Yakuza gangster exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade.

So I wanted to buy this movie on bluray because I've bought this awesome full HD TV and a PlayStation 3 just to be able to play such videos but there is no such thing like Brother on bluray damn it. The only alternative version to DVD I found was VHS, wtf?! Do people still know what VHS stands for? Or what am I saying, what VHS even is? Nobody wants to buy this shit so just let it die already, would you Amazon?

So what should I do, buy the DVD for € 5,22 or should I buy the Takeshi Kitano Collectors Box 3 DVDs for € 27,99 and just shut up and stop whining about bluray and stuff?

Drawing contest

2010-06-05T14:28:25Z

This site uses HTML5, CSS3, Webfonts, CSS-transitions, Ajax ond all the other buzzword-bingo stuff you've heard about on the interwebs. And it uses <canvas>!

And that is great because now I can call out a drawing contest! On the right side of this text there is, depending on your browser window size, a a lot of space. you can draw cool things on it, think of it as a wipeable toilet wall. Everytime you come in it is clear and you can write or draw on it (with the mouse), but when you leave all this things will automaticly be wiped out and nobody sees them. Happy creativity to you!

But sometimes there comes something good of all this toilet wall stuff and you would like to share it with others. Therefore this contest "Posh this site up biatch!". Draw something cool, play with the red dott-stuff, make a screenshot and post a link to it as a comment.

But you need a real browser, it doesn't work with IE yet, hopefully they build in canvas into IE9.

[update] I removed the canvas because not many found the functionality and it slowed down the page.

Something new

2010-06-03T23:17:59Z

I am blogging in german since 2004 on http://paradies.jeena.net/weblog/ about webdesign, programming, private stuff and so on. But I feel that it is time to start something new and in english because there are far more readers who understand english than german, and since I live in Sweden it will be more interesting for the people I know here to read in a language they understand.

I already started to blog in english on my old blog but I think mixing english and german in one blog is odd so I will not post anything in english there anymore, I will concentrate on things which concern only germans on the old blog and all the other stuff here.

I know the old design is much prettier then this and it is because it was my brother who did all the cool graphics stuff, and it is a pitty, but I am not a good graphic designer so you have to stand out with this design. But I'm shure you get used to it too.

This new site doesn't use Jlog anymore it uses a simple rails app like the one you can see on the Creating a weblog in 15 minutes with Rails 2 video. But I will use it to test cool new rails stuff because it is much easier to extend then Jlog was. At least if you already worked with rails for a while.

I will try cool new CSS3 and HTML5 stuff here too, perhaps some funny JavaScript and so on, we'll see.

For now it looks like the content will be rails and iPhone development because this is what I am working with on a day to day basis. Sometimes I work on small OS X programs like Twittia and I will blogg about politics, mostly european politics but who knows what the future brings.

And btw. you're welcome to correct my bad english because that's the only way I will learn to write correctly ;)