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Apr 14, 2025: Bill Maher‘s Visit to the White House is very interesting. Not sure what to make of it yet. I guess it is sad that the man he describes in his visit …
Apr 13, 2025: Title Test Testing Micro.social titles
Apr 13, 2025: Mach Dich Stark Für Pflege! This cause is close to my heart - please sign: Mach Dich Stark Für Pflege! Überblick: Die Pflege steht an einem politischen Scheidepunkt: Die …
Apr 13, 2025: Black Ink by @danielpunkass Did you know that Paolo Pasco, the winner of both the 2024 and 2025 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, uses MY APP, …
Apr 12, 2025: Meine Ärzte taugen irgendwie nichts Ich muss leider immer wieder aufs Neue feststellen wie wenig das Ärzteteam bei meinem Hausarzt taugt. Das letzte Mal hab ich fast meinen Arm verloren …
Apr 12, 2025: Watching Lost Odyssey: Godfall. Stellar cast: Matt Mercer, Felicia Day, Reggie Watts, Brandon Routh and Deborah Ann Woll.
Apr 11, 2025: It is exhausting People have no idea how much energy and focus it costs to live with chronic pain. How I need to muster every ounce of focus to not scratch myself all …
Apr 11, 2025: Andreas Hebgen Dr.. 📍 At the doctor‘s yet again. My fault for forgetting to talk about a crucial thing yesterday. Sigh.
Apr 10, 2025: L’Isola Dei Nuraghi. 📍 Time for some good pasta!
Apr 10, 2025: Andreas Hebgen Dr.. 📍 At the doctor‘s. Waiting… sigh…
Apr 10, 2025: Testing Micro.social drafts.
Apr 9, 2025: It’s really nice outside today.
Apr 9, 2025: Today‘s lunch: Fried potatoes, roasted cauliflower, roasted green beans, topped with a fried egg. (Image courtesy of MidJourney)
Apr 9, 2025: I’m a father and my wife runs a child daycare. Yet, I still can’t abide crying children.
Apr 8, 2025: My LLM codegen workflow atm | Harper Reed’s Blog I have been building so many small products using LLMs. It has been fun, and useful. However, …
Apr 8, 2025: I‘m thinking Maultaschen with a roasted fennel, cucumber salad glazed with a honey mustard dressing for today’s lunch. (Image courtesy of MidJourney)
Apr 8, 2025: Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat | Signal group chat leak | The Guardian Trump briefly …
Apr 7, 2025: Testing scheduled posts. This should go live at 6pm German time.
Apr 7, 2025: Silvia Rumpf Tanzwerk Ballett. 📍 The little one is dancing again.
Apr 7, 2025: Daring Fireball Dictators always lie about what they’ve done, but are often quite plain about what they want to do. Kasparov got it right there.
Apr 7, 2025: Maybe al forno instead of alla panna. Everything is better with a golden brown cheese topping.
Apr 7, 2025: Tesla‘s model lineup spells S,3,X,Y or sexy. Just in case anyone didn’t know yet. Real mature.
Apr 7, 2025: I’m thinking tortellini alla panna for lunch. (Image courtesy of MidJourney)
Apr 7, 2025: Daring Fireball: The Spectacle of Incompetence Stupidity and ignorance as a governing style. That’s it. They are exactly who they claim they are, and …
Apr 7, 2025: Inside the Mind of Claude: How Large Language Models Actually “Think” This issue persists even in newer models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet, …
Apr 6, 2025: We had a really nice Sunday dinner. Potatoes fluffed with parsley and butter, cauliflower and white asparagus. Topped with some honey glazed ham and …
Apr 6, 2025: Micro.social is shaping up to be a really great Micro.blog client. @gregmorris does a great job. Go on and support his efforts by trying it out. And …
Apr 6, 2025: Locations! by @gregmorris I had a terrible coding day yesterday but seeing people use @microsocial features makes me really proud. Incase you missed …
Apr 5, 2025: Universität Heidelberg. 📍 Heute war Nierenforum in der Uniklinik Heidelberg. Es gab wieder einige sehr interessante Vorträge. Aber je mehr ich über …
Apr 4, 2025: The Superman Sneak Peak looks great. They really captured having a pup that wants to play. However, I wonder how they will balance the story with that …
Apr 3, 2025: Hmm…
Apr 3, 2025: Off to visit a local pasta factory!
Apr 3, 2025: Is it just me or is Trump getting more orange?
Apr 2, 2025: A Difference of Opinion I always find it utterly baffling how people see the world totally different when presented with the same set of facts. (I had a discussion with my …
Apr 1, 2025: Off to the optometrist to get a pre-surgery checkup. Cataract is no fun. Let me tell you.
Mar 22, 2025: Has anyone else‘s constitution gone down in the last few years? It seems like me and my family are in a constant state of not quite well in the last …
Mar 15, 2025: I’m really bad at multitasking social connections. Contact to other people goes out the window first when things get busy at home. I can’t even hold …
Mar 15, 2025: It’s really weird to see someone you only know as an actor explain visual effects and production logistics and make it actually make sense. Huge props …
Mar 14, 2025: I really enjoy vibe coding as it has become to be known. Claude Code to be specific. It really helps me push along my iOS app nicely. Not very cheap, …
Mar 13, 2025: Quick question to all iOS developers. I want to add iCloud Drive to my app. How do I best test this? It seems to write the correct files in Simulator, …
Mar 3, 2025: Finally heard back from a support request I sent in January. About time. That’s a six or seven weeks response time.
Feb 28, 2025: When you run out of of two spools in one print.
Feb 27, 2025: Also der Rheinmetall Beitrag in den Tagesthemen vom 26.02.26 war ja wohl eher eine Werbesendung als ein ernsthafter Tagesthemen-Bericht. cc …
Feb 26, 2025: I am 3D printing a tiny rose for my wife’s birthday, experimenting with different settings and planning to paint it afterward.
Feb 23, 2025: I started listening to a couple of days ago: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson 📚 It feels good to be back.
Feb 22, 2025: 3d printing is addictive. I got my printer on Thursday and it’s been running non-stop except nights.
Feb 12, 2025: I’m playing with how far I can push Cursor AI to build an iOS app. 2 views down and it worked great. Still all basic stuff, but works nicely. On the …
Feb 8, 2025: I just clicked erase and install fresh on our iMac. Soon it will be ready for re-sale.
Feb 6, 2025: My new Mac mini arrived yesterday. I haven’t had time to set it up yet. So instead I spent the evening reading up on what has changed in macOS since …
Feb 6, 2025: I think I figured out what I don’t like about Tapestry. It makes me scroll up. So I’m scrolling past the whole articles from the bottom and if I want …
Feb 5, 2025: Testing out Tapestry. I’m still not sure the combined timeline is for me.
Feb 2, 2025: After about two years of sitting in the closet, I finally reconnected my Promise Pegasus R6. It is now running a hardware check across six 2TB disks. …
Jan 30, 2025: I’m taking a deep dive into 3D printing to prepare for a Bambulab printer we are going to get in a few weeks. Fun topic.
Jan 28, 2025: Bow & Wind Konzert im Hannah Arendt Gymnasium geht gleich los.
Jan 25, 2025: Gut gemacht Herr Merz. Seele der CDU. Zum ersten…zum zweiten…zum dritten…und verkauft!
Jan 24, 2025: Neat. I just heard that „The Seed of the Sacred Fig“ got an Oscar nomination. I did some VFX work on that.
Jan 23, 2025: Somehow the ones that complain the loudest about being labeled are the ones that have the least problems labeling people left and right.
Jan 22, 2025: Beware of having an opinion on the Internet. They will come. They will find you. And you will be chastised for not aligning with their opinion. All in …
Jan 22, 2025: Real rich. Claiming the moral high ground by calling someone a Nazi. Not only are you cheapening what happened in WW2. It’s just plain dumb.
Jan 21, 2025: I’m thinking about getting a Mac mini M4 16GB RAM. I was wondering how well it will handle 3D rendering, VFX compositing and coding/compiling. I mean …
Jan 21, 2025: It is really frustrating and sobering how the tech elite is stumbling over themselves to please their new commander in crime.
Jan 20, 2025: I‘ve seen a couple of established iOS developers gripe about SwiftUI and that they should have stuck with UIKit. Would you advise someone starting out …
Jan 15, 2025: Just came back from my monthly doctor‘s visit. Apparently my blood HB is too low, which explains why I could sleep all day long. Need to increase my …
Jan 14, 2025: Und noch eins. Aber dieses Interview ist etwas anstrengend zu schauen. Der Ton ist nicht gut und die Interviewerin ist leider nicht besonders. → …
Jan 14, 2025: Robert Habeck im Interview. Meiner Meinung nach der einzige wählbare Kanzlerkanditat. → Robert Habeck bei Abendblatt TV
Jan 10, 2025: I’m making ragu a la bolognese for tomorrow’s lasagna. I just stole a few spoons and turned it into a poor man’s chili con carne with some Tabasco and …
Jan 9, 2025: Watching the last episode of Shrinking. I’m going to miss this show.
Jan 8, 2025: Goodbye Threads. I just disabled cross-posting and deleted the app. I really hoped Meta had turned things around with Threads. But I guess not. There …
Jan 6, 2025: Just came back from getting a MRI. The surgeon spotted two shadows on my upper arm bone three weeks ago and wanted a closer look. No tumor. Just a …
Jan 4, 2025: Making Crumpets. Crumpets where one of the first UK „treats“ I fell in love with when I first worked in Manchester.
Jan 1, 2025: A happy and successful New Year’s everyone! May you be healthy, happy and content.
Dec 31, 2024: Also ich bin da ganz bei Robert Habeck muss ich sagen. Robert Habecks Neujahrsansprache
Dec 30, 2024: Der Klang-Gottesdienst war sehr schön. Für alle die ihn verpasst haben gibt’s ein Video. → Klang-Gottesdienst Video
Dec 28, 2024: Anyone using Kagi for search? How do you like it?
Dec 27, 2024: Workout day. Today: triceps, shoulders and back again. They are my weak points and will need a few weeks of focus to catch up.
Dec 27, 2024: Morgen um 19 Uhr ist Klang-Gottesdienst in der Kirche St. Peter und Paul in Geinsheim mit Harfenmusik und Flöten-Begleitung. Kommt vorbei und feiert …
Dec 26, 2024: I hope you all had a happy Christmas, some good family time and lots of good food.
Dec 24, 2024: Sneaking in a little Christmas’s workout before the festivities. Back, shoulders and triceps today.
Dec 23, 2024: Good morning. I think I’ll do a fasting day today. Seems appropriate before stuffing myself over Christmas.
Dec 13, 2024: And as I slip into bed, I realize, it is indeed Friday the 13th. Good night.
Dec 10, 2024: Petition zur Widerspruchsregelung für Organspenden Im Augenblick ist eine Petition am laufen die sich für eine Widerspruchslösung für Organspende einsetzt. Als jemand der auf ein neues Organ wartet, …
Dec 9, 2024: This weekend we had our little Christmas market in Geinsheim. MY wife had a stand to inform about the Bewegungspark project and it was a great …
Dec 9, 2024: Want to read: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell 📚
Dec 7, 2024: No idea why people constantly fiddle with cross-posting and what to post to which service. Seems like a whole lot of busywork to me.
Dec 7, 2024: I get that different people have different needs. I for one am perfectly happy with the way Micro.blog works. I have enabled cross-posting and it just …
Dec 7, 2024: I now have my own Python module to write Safari WebArchives. Neat. And not too hard to implement. So now Links also saves a WebArchive copy and …
Dec 6, 2024: Would you believer it? Not a single mention since I installed the Micro.blog beta build with a fix for notifications. Help me out here folks. Give me …
Dec 6, 2024: I rewrote my webcatcher Python script yesterday. It is now leaner, meaner and more resilient against failed downloads. Links is coming together …
Dec 5, 2024: Trying to decide between Trafilatua, Newspaper 4K and Readabilty for my Markdown and PDF creation.
Dec 3, 2024: Links Update Links, my barebones bookmark and archival solution is slowly getting better. Today I redid the CSS or started to. I still need to reimplement …
Dec 3, 2024: Please help me find good anime My son is into anime these days. But he’s watching what I can only describe as garbage. Either it’s Pokémon style stuff like Hunter x Hunter. People …
Nov 29, 2024: And boom goes the FDP.
Nov 28, 2024: I spent most of today setting up Sublime Text and PyLint. Also researched what alternatives there are to Sphinx. I also studied some of my old code to …
Nov 27, 2024: First version of Links is online! It is still missing a few things and needs more polish, but it works. → Links—a barebones bookmark and archival …
Nov 26, 2024: I just checked Links v1.0.0 into my Git repository. Almost ready to deploy!
Nov 26, 2024: Just a quick reminder that I have an Etsy store with unused designs from past projects. They make great presents for the holidays. Especially the …
Nov 25, 2024: Slow progress on Links today. I didn’t have much time and spent what little I had chasing syntax errors. Here’s to a more successful tomorrow. I’m …
Nov 25, 2024: Programming can be really annoying when you are having a dense moment. I was searching for a syntax error for probably two hours all in all only to …
Nov 25, 2024: When someone sends me an audio message, my reply will always be to send me a text instead. I have no patience to listen to your rambling to parse what …
Nov 25, 2024: Man. I’m so happy I am not on that Facebook train. So many dopes over there.
Nov 22, 2024: Current status of Links, my barebones bookmark and archival tool: creating links via the site works the site now also offers a Markdown preview …
Nov 21, 2024: My lack of PHP knowledge makes me run against walls in my little website project. I am making headway, but slowly. Had a little breakthrough just now. …
Nov 20, 2024: sag mal spinn ich oder hatte die Feeds Liste mal Favicons? Ich hab schon alle Settings durch und finde aber nichts was das Fehlen erklären könnte. Cc …
Nov 20, 2024: Links - a bookmarking/archival project I am getting closer to a working version of my own little bookmarking/archiving project. I tried Archivebox, Linkwarden, linkding and of course …
Nov 19, 2024: Have I mentioned how awesome @hallo@uberspace.social is recently? No? Well, they are awesome!
Nov 18, 2024: O2 developed an AI grandma called Daisy. Daisy is made to keep phone scammers talking to her, wasting the scammers time. Brilliant! → Story on …
Nov 16, 2024: My new water rower. It is great fun to use and our son loves it too. Since he usually is a couch potato this is a huge win for us.
Nov 16, 2024: Die Kommunionskinder haben heute Brot gebacken. Und wir Eltern sind jetzt da um es zu essen. Ich bin gespannt was serviert wird.
Nov 15, 2024: Playing Mr Robinson.
Nov 15, 2024: Starting now. Church in Colors Geinsheim.
Nov 15, 2024: At the Church in Living Color concert tonight. 
Nov 15, 2024: AI Coding After reading about GitHub Spark I felt inspired to see how good programming with an AI works. So I set about using Claude 3.5 Haiku to write a little …
Nov 14, 2024: Today my water rower arrives. I can‘t wait to set it up.
Nov 13, 2024: I prepped the first one shot of Chaosium‘s new book No Time to Scream in Foundry VTT for a friend and I. We played it yesterday to great fun. Highly …
Nov 8, 2024: Oh wow. Foundry have EOL‘ed Modo.
Nov 8, 2024: I‘ve treated myself to a water rowing machine this week. A Sportstech WRX1000 is headed my way next week. I can hardly await it.
Nov 8, 2024: Workout Done Blank text Transcript
Nov 7, 2024: Making some feta in the oven. Yummy!
Nov 6, 2024: Well, this sucks…
Nov 5, 2024: Is it just me or does it feel like I am spending more time correcting iOS‘ predictive autocorrect then I am typing actual errors.
Nov 4, 2024: Please help me find a knowledge dump/retrieval solution I am looking for a solution for my wife, who is not technically minded. So the solution should be very simple to use. I am looking for a way for her …
Nov 4, 2024: I fully expect riots when the US election results come out. The way Trump has already pushed the stolen election narrativeve you can bet that his …
Nov 4, 2024: „Go and vote. It could be your last.“ Had me in tears at the end. youtu.be/6bTpbDL5d…
Nov 2, 2024: Anyone else using DayOne and Micro.blog? Do you keep them separate? Combine them somehow? What’s your workflow?
Oct 27, 2024: Diving into Call of Cthulhu setup options for Foundry VTT. Sometimes I enjoy game prep more then actually playing.
Oct 26, 2024: Chaosium and HumbleBundle have a massive Call of Cthulhu sale going, which supports the World Wildlife Fund. Go grab yourself some Lovecraftian Horror …
Oct 25, 2024: The interesting thing about Trump is that he is unable to speak the truth about pretty much anything he says, while also speaking the plain truth …
Oct 21, 2024: Home at Last!
Oct 21, 2024: And I’m on my last leg home sitting in the RE from Karlsruhe to Neustadt. The whole trip was smooth and without delays.
Oct 21, 2024: Second leg of the journey has started without delay. On the IC to Karlsruhe for the next two hours.
Oct 21, 2024: Currently listening to: Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir 📚 for the second time. I love the narration and the story.
Oct 21, 2024: And thus my trip back home begins. On the ICE to Nürnberg now.
Oct 19, 2024: Zurück vom Klassentreffen. Zirka 48 von 108 Klassenkameraden sind erschienen und die meisten kannte ich sogar noch. Es war schon die alte Truppe …
Oct 19, 2024: Wow. Just wow
Oct 18, 2024: Magic Links Are a Bad Idea John Gruber in his piece DHH Argues Against Passkeys Also, I really dislike the practice of replacing passwords with email “magic links”. Autofilling …
Oct 18, 2024: I just treated myself to a Combustion Predictive Thermometer & Display. So many use cases. I cannot wait to try it.
Oct 17, 2024: Finally on route to my destination.
Oct 17, 2024: Forced layover in Munich. The signage was stupid and led me to walk along the train I was supposed to get on. By the time the signage was clear, the …
Oct 17, 2024: Breakfast time
Oct 17, 2024: Starting my trip to Regensburg. Weather is decent. Not too cold and dry.
Oct 15, 2024: Der Idioten-Apostroph Die Apostroph-Debatte: Anscheinend wird mal wieder die deutsche Sprache aufgeweicht. Der possessive Apostroph existiert im Deutschen eigentlich …
Oct 15, 2024: School Reunion I am leaving for our gymnasium reunion in two days. I haven’t seen any of my old school friends in at least ten years. I’ve never been …
Oct 13, 2024: Live from the Neustadter Winzerumzug
Oct 13, 2024: Winzerumzug is about to start
Oct 13, 2024: Neustädter Winzerumzug is about to start. About 80.000 visitors expected.
Oct 13, 2024: I am tempted to get Procreate Dreams and animate a bit again. I haven‘t animated in almost two decades. But I‘d need to replace my lost Apple Pen …
Oct 10, 2024: My Paper cursor didn’t only do backflip while it was bored waiting for my input. When I came back from a longer break it was sitting there asleep with …
Oct 10, 2024: I wrote my first long form post today with Paper. It was pure fun. What a great no nonsense writing app.
Oct 10, 2024: My Current Setup I thought I’d write down my current workflow setup since it has changed drastically since I last wrote about it. Not only am I exclusively working …
Oct 10, 2024: Did my Paper cursor really just make a backflip while it was waiting for me to enter some text‽
Oct 8, 2024: It looks like people really enjoy the gnome prints in our new Etsy store.
Oct 8, 2024: Dental Cleaning So, I went to the dentist today to get a dental cleaning. My last dental cleaning was about six months ago, and the one before that was about three …
Oct 7, 2024: Ah, the Paper Markdown paragraph behavior is actually configurable in the Settings.
Oct 7, 2024: Does anyone have any experience with light therapy devices like the Lumie? I am on the fence of ordering one for this winter season.
Oct 7, 2024: Bear App Test This is a test of the Bear app for writing and note taking. So it turns out Bear does not publish to Micro.blog. Also the writing environment is not …
Oct 7, 2024: Paper Test This is a quick test about how the Paper app works. I recently read the Paper review by Erlend on his Havn blog, which lead to me reading the terrific …
Oct 4, 2024: Testing Obsidian I’m just playing around a both with Obsidian for iOS and how the Micro.blog integration works.
Oct 4, 2024: Today is fasting day and also workout day. I need to get my arm back in shape after it got a hole the size of a tennis ball cut into my triceps.
Oct 2, 2024: Our Etsy shop is online! Come by and check out our shirts. They are super comfy and they look great on you.
Oct 2, 2024: Prepping about 30 graphics for my new Etsy shop today.
Sep 30, 2024: Discovering Printful and Etsy I recently stumbled upon a fantastic combo during one of our projects: Printful and Etsy. Imagine my excitement when I realized I could turn the …
Sep 27, 2024: Mein Fitter Freitag - 2304ml Mit Waterllama hydriert und glücklich bleiben! 💦🦙 Waterllama
Sep 25, 2024: Today’s lunch: homemade beef and veggie soup with maultaschen. Soooo delicious. No image today. Soup was gone faster then I was able to pull out my …
Sep 24, 2024: I‘m thinking crispy fried potatoes with spinach, topped with a fried egg for today‘s lunch. (Image courtesy of MidJourney)
Sep 23, 2024: I felt the need to look into playing around with Kirby CMS—again. I—once again—learned that it is not my world anymore. So I put away my old license …
Sep 22, 2024: Peter Pan - Tanzwerk Silvia Rumpf This weekend is our little one’s big performance. The ballet school is performing Peter Pan the whole weekend. Two full rehearsals on Friday and …
Sep 21, 2024: Rope Jumping Today marks the start of me getting back into rope jumping. I actually wanted to start rowing, but I have no space for a rowing machine right now and …
Sep 20, 2024: So that’s where they all went. Someone yelled „coffee and cake!“ and suddenly they come all a-running.
Sep 20, 2024: So CleanUpDay came and went and only three people—myself included—showed up. That’s about 0,158% of the village population. Or really embarrassing how …
Sep 19, 2024: Diesen Wochenende ist wieder CleanUpDay in Geinsheim. Wäre schön wenn viele mitmachen.
Sep 19, 2024: Today‘s lunch: Zürch‘er Geschnetzeltes with rice. (Image courtesy of MidJourney)
Sep 19, 2024: I just read Going old-school with the VFX on ‘Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F’ - befores & afters. The VFX breakdown while interesting just shows what a …
Sep 14, 2024: This whole new Reeder, old Reeder thing last week has pushed me to rediscover Fiery Feeds. It’s a great RSS reader that has a few intelligent folders …
Sep 12, 2024: Does anyone reading this own the Chase Hughes Ops Manual or the whole OP6 Bundel? I am itching to get it, but am not sure it is worth the hefty price …
Sep 12, 2024: I just downgraded three Kickstarter pledges to digital versions instead of hardcover. As much as I love physical books, I’m saving for a bigger …
Sep 9, 2024: I remember now what the app from Realmac Software was called. Socialite. It got canned somewhere around 2012. But it was essentially what Tapestry and …
Sep 9, 2024: Stalking a public profile I overheard someone today. They confessed to stalking a singer on Instagram. What they meant was clearly that the follow them on Instagram. Since when …
Sep 8, 2024: The new Reeder is not for me I tried the new Reeder app yesterday for about 20 minutes before deleting it again. It just didn’t fit my needs at all. Or maybe I simply didn’t get …
Sep 7, 2024: Zweite Hälfte des Chorauftritts des Chorona Chors Kostümwechsel.
Sep 7, 2024: Halbzeitpause beim Chorona Chor in Geinsheim. Bisher war mir das Programm erfrischend unbekannt. Der Chor singt gut und die Choreografie ist auch …
Sep 7, 2024: Chorona Chor in der Kirche Geinsheim Heute singt der Chorona Chor in unserer Kirche. Transcript
Sep 6, 2024: 14 hours left on the Drive Book 4 Kickstarter. Production quality on the first three books was stellar. You can still get books 1-3 when you join in …
Sep 5, 2024: I tried to use SubTXT. It failed at step one. Creating an outline from a story outline. It justt sat there spinning until I closed the tab and was …
Sep 5, 2024: For those who have played with 3D printing. Would you say it is still worth it to get one or would you rather use an online print service?
Sep 5, 2024: I find this whole Fediverse/Mastodon thing really confusing. For example, when trying to follow John Gruber, there are like 6 different accounts he …
Sep 4, 2024: Can someone explain the Rings of Power title sequence to me? To me it’s just meaningless particle animations. Do they make any kind of sense to …
Sep 4, 2024: A great video showing what Ember is all about.
Sep 4, 2024: It looks like Ember is a huge success! Join on in to get an expansive roleplaying world to play in.
Sep 4, 2024: Bad Robots - Uberspace writes about the damage badly behaved web scraping bots do to hosters and their users.
Sep 3, 2024: Testing if the feed.json has been fixed.
Sep 3, 2024: It is almost time. Ember is launching in a few hours on Kickstarter. It is a new roleplaying game from the guys that create the brilliant Foundry VTT …
Sep 3, 2024: With my whole sebaceous gland inflammation episode I had to (or opted to) take a break from weightlifting. It’s been two months this now and I started …
Aug 31, 2024: A receipt for another year of Micro.blog just came. Happy to pay it and support @manton Rock on Micro.blog!!
Aug 30, 2024: Based on today’s spam mails I’m a rich man. I was donated about €7.500.00 today alone. Not bad.
Aug 28, 2024: Dave Kellett Original Art Drawing of Nosh for Sale Edit: This item has sold and found a new owner. This original, signed, and numbered drawing of Nosh by Dave Kellett deserves to be displayed, not left …
Aug 26, 2024: I quit Twitter a little over a year ago officially. Similarly I haven‘t used any of the other services like Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Slack, Skype …
Aug 25, 2024: Kinderflohmarkt auf der Geinsheimer Ludwigskerwe.
Aug 23, 2024: Der Kerwe-Umzug war ein Erfolg.
Aug 23, 2024: I stumbled over Perplexity today and I must say I’m impressed. I think this will be my default search engine for quick things to look up.
Aug 23, 2024: Der Kerwe-Umzug in Geinsheim startet jetzt.
Aug 23, 2024: KunstFerien in der [kantine16] sind heute zu Ende gegangen. Die Kinder haben stolz ihre Kunstwerke präsentiert.
Aug 23, 2024: Heute startet die Geinsheimer Kerwe. Nachdem immer noch die 1250 Jahre gefeiert werden, ist dieses Jahr auch die Kerwe etwas besonderes. Kommt vorbei …
Aug 20, 2024: Wasting other people‘s time… People that are inconsiderate with other people‘s time piss me off to no end! My wife regularly makes appointments for new children/parents. About 30% …
Aug 20, 2024: After a 3 month (!!!) free trial of Strongbox Pro, today I paid the €80 for the lifetime Pro versions without batting an eyelid. Such great value …
Aug 19, 2024: Im [kantine16] in der Nähe vom Bahnhof Neustadt. Die Kinder haben hier fünf Tage lang „KunstFerien“. Ich bin mal gespannt was am Ende der Woche …
Aug 15, 2024: What’s up with all these Patreon recommendations I get all of a sudden from all my creators?
Aug 13, 2024: My two favorite Call of Cthulhu Keepers right now are Becca Scott ands Mark Meer.
Aug 9, 2024: Today was the first time my wife and my son were dressing my surgery wound. They both were really troopers. It’s not an easy a task since there is a …
Aug 7, 2024: Watching Graveyards of Arkham a Call of Cthulhu story. Great cast, great keeper, great story.
Aug 6, 2024: Man getting your credit carded locked sucks. I have a ton of service badgering me right now about missing payments. And I missed out on a few things …
Aug 6, 2024: Still alive with a cut in my arm that stings like a mother. Fingers crossed it now heals without complications.
Aug 5, 2024: Yesterday‘s 1250 years anniversary was a success. Thanks to everyone involved in setting this up and everyone that came and made it a great day.
Aug 4, 2024: New shirt. Get it from Michael. His shirts are great quality.
Aug 4, 2024: It has started. Geinsheim’s 1250 years anniversary kicks off with an open air service.
Aug 3, 2024: 1250 Jahre Geinsheim Das einmalige Erlebnis 🌟 Historischer Feldgottesdienst im Innenhof der Fronmühle Wann 🕰️: 4.8. um 10 Uhr Shuttelservice für Senioren 🛺: von der Kirche …
Aug 1, 2024: I simply do not understand the US republican mindset. There is no “trying to emphatically view it through their eyes”. How—for example—can you claim …
Aug 1, 2024: My credit card got locked yesterday due to a fraudulent transaction. Getting a new one next week. But guess what today is? Yep. It’s the 1st of …
Jul 30, 2024: So the surgeon thinks it’s not an inflamed insect bite, but an inflamed sebaceous gland. Go figure. Either way, that sucker gets cut open on Tursday.
Jul 26, 2024: Watching Aquaman with the kids. Our son has made it his goal to watch all of Marvel and DC back to back. Aquaman is actually not that bad. Not great. …
Jul 26, 2024: Our son has looked up his Pokémon cards online and apparently some cards are worth several hundreds. Not sure how accurately these marketplace values …
Jul 23, 2024: Tonight we are having session two of our DnD group. I’m hoping it goes better for the party then last session (where we had a TPK). Either way, they …
Jul 22, 2024: My blood pressure is acting up again. Around noon it goes into free fall for a couple of hours rendering me pretty much useless. Will need to adjust …
Jul 21, 2024: The progression of my son as he paints minis is obvious. (Owlbear at age six. Tiefling at age eleven.) However, the difference between him and his …
Jul 18, 2024: Out and about eating ice cream.
Jul 10, 2024: Home again! Super happy to see my wife and kids again.
Jul 10, 2024: Good morning on day four of my hospital stay. This night was a night of horrors. A big thunderstorm with lots of lightning paired with several people …
Jul 9, 2024: Day three at the hospital. I hope I’ll be able toe toTor to leave tomorrow.
Jul 8, 2024: Day two at the hospital. Cabin fever already setting in. I hate staying at hospitals.
Jul 7, 2024: At the hospital. This time it’s me and I’m staying for a while. I have an inflamed abscess probably from an insect bite. That sucker grew larger over …
Jul 5, 2024: Foundry VTT self-hosting or using The Forge My Foundry VTT journey continues. Last Tuesday we had our first session of Lost Mines of Phandelver and I promptly kill our party. It was a bit …
Jul 5, 2024: Why do printers still suck so much in 2024‽ Wireless printing should not be such an issue still.
Jul 2, 2024: Session One of our Lost Mines of Phandelver DnD campaign starts tonight. I’m very excited.
Jul 1, 2024: Oh my god! I Just opened Skype after a year so of not using it. What the hell did they do to this app? I am bombarded with news streams and lots of …
Jun 30, 2024: 2:30pm be there.
Jun 30, 2024: Lots of tasty cakes and pies today at the 1250 years anniversary.
Jun 30, 2024: Man. It’s freezing today. Bloody weather doesn’t know what it wants. 31°C yesterday and icy wind and rain today.
Jun 30, 2024: Church today and then another afternoon of 1250 years anniversary celebrations. I’m not particularly religious myself, but it’s a small village. Gotta …
Jun 29, 2024: So far so good. Only a few drops of rain.
Jun 29, 2024: It looks me like people aren’t bothered by the approaching weather.
Jun 29, 2024: So there is a strong thunderstorm warning for tonight at 6pm, exactly when tonight’s festivities are supposed to start. Let’s see how that goes…
Jun 29, 2024: Transcript of the 2024 US Presidential Debate
Jun 29, 2024: Geinsheim’s 1250 years anniversary starts tonight at 6pm. Be there!
Jun 28, 2024: Love me some AI Generators for Foundry VTT I am having way too much fun building out my Foundry VTT world with AI tools. Lots of Theatre of the Mind images with the help of MidJourney, …
Jun 28, 2024: Heute Mittag gibt’s Melonensalat
Jun 27, 2024: Just a quick service announcement. I am still in love with Uberspace. Their service rocks! @hallo@uberspace.social
Jun 27, 2024: Thanks MidJourney. I could chill out there today.
Jun 27, 2024: Another hot day today. 30°C and almost 80% humidity. This is going to be fun…
Jun 25, 2024: I just ran my first proper D&D session. It was chaotic. I did a decently poor job. And the players had great fun and I loved it.
Jun 21, 2024: Over three hours in the ER. And all that for a bandage. Sigh.
Jun 21, 2024: At the emergency room once again. Life with kids. What can I say? I guess once a year is the tradition in our household.
Jun 20, 2024: Back home and knackered. It was a great concert. The kids were great. All six thousand of them. :)
Jun 20, 2024: At SAP Arena for the 6K United concert. Our boy is among those 6K.
Jun 16, 2024: Feuerwehr Fest Geinsheim 2024 #dorfkultur
Jun 8, 2024: Spielplatz-Fest in Geinsheim
Jun 4, 2024: In town, sitting in the shade enjoying the rather quiet street while sipping my peppermint tea.
Jun 3, 2024: Foundry VTT Update Almost done converting the “The Lost Mine of Phandelver” campaign into a Foundry VTT Game World. ✔️ Maps loaded in. ✔️ Walls and doors drawn ✔️ …
Jun 2, 2024: Wow. ICQ was still around?? ICQ is shutting down
Jun 2, 2024: Foundry VTT and AI Voices via ElevenLabs I recently discovered Foundry VTT as a way to play role playing games with my friends from all over there the world. I have spent a few days …
May 21, 2024: Switching hosting from MidPhase to Uberspace So, after another round of failed communications with my current web host MidPhase—I have been waiting for over a week to hear back from support—I …
May 5, 2024: Ha ha. Not touching the snake was not an option in the end. Both girls conquered their fear. And it seems both were proud of it.
May 5, 2024: Sadly the girls were too scared to touch a snake. :)
May 5, 2024: At the Landau Reptile Zoo with Willow and her friend. It’s nice and warm in here and lots of little critters to learn about.
May 4, 2024: The village is coming together for some vineyard singing.
May 4, 2024: #kindeyforum is over. Some interesting talks and some new acquaintances later we are heading home.
May 4, 2024: Today’s schedule. #kidneyforum
May 4, 2024: Pretty full. #kidneyforum
May 4, 2024: In Heidelberg beim Nierentransplantations-Forum. Es ist ganz gut besucht.
May 3, 2024: Provokativ! Found my notes for a local CDU campaign meetup. Posted here for posterities sake. Provokativ! Viel Palaver Kein Ortsvorsteher weil die SPD auch …
May 3, 2024: Getting into rowing. Dark Horse Rowing has a great intro series on YouTube. → Rowing Fundamentals
Apr 17, 2024: Instead of striking back at Iran, Israel could should actual strength by showing restraint.
Apr 9, 2024: Sigh. Why do jobs always come in twos? I accepted a job yesterday. And today a second job comes a-knocking.
Apr 8, 2024: A really stubborn bug This year’s winter was really tough in our area. There is some bug going around our social circle that just won’t go away. Pretty much everyone is …
Apr 4, 2024: I’m making ragu a la bolognese right now for tomorrow’s lasagna. The smell in the kitchen is mouthwatering right now.
Apr 3, 2024: What’s for dinner? For us it’s steak with buttered veggies and rice. 🍚🥩🥕 (Image courtesy of MidJourney)
Apr 2, 2024: I sometimes forget I am talking into a void here.
Apr 1, 2024: Happy April‘s Fools! I didn‘t see any joke news so far. Maybe I was blind. What were your favorite April‘s fools jokes so far?
Mar 30, 2024: Happy Easter folks! 🥚🐰
Mar 17, 2024: Pizza tonight! The kids are starved from being in the great outdoors for two days learning to make campfires and all that encompasses including fire …
Mar 7, 2024: Curious. I just updated iOS to 17.4 and am in the EU. Yet, I didn’t get any default browser prompt. Is that only the case when you have several …
Mar 3, 2024: Just saw Dune - Part 2. Wow. The imagery was fantastic. Well told as well. Had me in tears at the end.
Mar 1, 2024: We did the Dracula escape room at Escape Rooms Mannheim today. It was great fun and we did beat it with 17 seconds to spare.
Feb 29, 2024: Oh jolly! The kids lost my Switch.
Feb 26, 2024: Currently reading: Dracula by Bram Stoker 📚 I found a really nice edition in the bookstore the other day. Every few pages there are inserts like …
Feb 26, 2024: Getting a iron infusion. Nothing like a little pickmeup on a Monday morning.
Feb 24, 2024: The organ tour was fun. Really interesting to see and actually step behind the pipes.
Feb 24, 2024: These are wooden rods that connect the organs keys to the pipes a few meters further up.
Feb 24, 2024: Tons of pipes.
Feb 24, 2024: One level down.
Feb 24, 2024: Behind the pipes.
Feb 24, 2024: At the top.
Feb 24, 2024: I suspect we are going up there later.
Feb 24, 2024: We are visiting a church this morning to get a tour of a disassembled pipe organ. Should be interesting.
Feb 23, 2024: Marvel’s Echo Just finished watching Marvel’s Echo. It was underwhelming. There was a good underlying idea in there somewhere. I think. But by the final episode I …
Feb 22, 2024: I finally managed to import all my old long form articles to Micro.blog. Had to do a bit of manual adjustments of my Kirby export to get it to work, …
Feb 22, 2024: Eschenfelder Grain Press Baking bread again today. We got a grain press (as opposed to a grain mill) in January and I have incorporated pressed whole grains in my pizza and …
Feb 22, 2024: BTW. @manton how is your support email queue looking? I vaguely remember writing your around end of 2023 about importing my Kirby posts and some error …
Jan 30, 2024: Today I learned about the Republic of Molossia and have become a fan. I mean, what’s not to like? A toy train as the national railroad? A space …
Jan 12, 2024: At an indoor playground for our little ones birthday party. 4 hours and I will leave a deaf man. 🧏♂️
Dec 24, 2023: Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you and your loved ones have a relaxing couple of days with nice company and great food. 🎄🎅
Dec 13, 2023: Sitting in the car, waiting to pick up my son from school, blasting Tubthumbing at full volume. Good times. 🎵
Oct 27, 2023: Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services Not sure how I feel about this yet myself. Budget is getting stretched a bit thin.
Oct 8, 2023: We went to Kletterwald Speyer yesterday and today I am sore and bruised as hell. So a couch day full of pain it is.
Oct 5, 2023: One thing I always wondered about game development: in order to make the game (and test the game) wouldn‘t the game developer need to be the best …
Sep 28, 2023: Listening to a discussion about the current medication shortage in Germany. We really dug ourselves into a hole there over the last two decades.
Sep 25, 2023: Dinner thoughts for today: chicken breast with pan sauce, ginger stir fried greens and some rice with a bit of chicken stock for flavor. 👨🍳🍚🥘🥬🍗 …
Sep 24, 2023: Sigh. I miss timeline syncing. I just scrolled past several days of old posts on my iPhone (again). I guess I should stick to a single device for …
Sep 24, 2023: At Holiday Park with the kids. They have no idea how awesome it is to have a yearly pass and a theme park quite literally four streets over. I was in …
Sep 23, 2023: Ingo Zamperoni did a great job showing the different political views in Italy in this little documentary. (German dubbing only.)
Sep 23, 2023: Does anyone have any experience with SmellWell or similar products? Our son is suffering from rather smelly shoes.
Sep 22, 2023: Big shock today. Our ten years old didn’t get home from school today. I drove around searching for him. Police was involved. He came home two hours …
Sep 20, 2023: At the radiology department getting a thorax scan. The joys of regular checkups.
Sep 16, 2023: Man, I am very much not a social person. We have a school celebration today and I couldn’t care less about “talking to people”.
Sep 13, 2023: I‘ve stumbled upon a great German cooking channel and have binge watched it for days now. Check it out: Kochen im Tal
Aug 27, 2023: Big kids flea market today in Geinsheim. Come around. Have some drinks and some good food, because it is also Kerwe (our local country fair).
Aug 24, 2023: Sweating again poolside while our little one learns swimming. The downside of peritoneal dialysis. No pool diving for me. 🤿
Aug 23, 2023: I wanted to show my mom what AI generated art is about and asked Midjourney to come up with „a young looking 80 years old woman sitting at a wooden …
Aug 23, 2023: Gotta love Midjourney. AI generated art is fun to play with.
Aug 23, 2023: This will be us in about 2 hours if all goes well. Barbie movie if anyone is interested. 📽
Aug 22, 2023: Hmm…home made burgers tonight? 🍔
Aug 22, 2023: I‘ve started to write again. Feels nice. It is a bit slow and tedious, but I do enjoy using Ulysses again. Also using ChatGPT as a writing coach is …
Aug 18, 2023: Goulash Vienna Style I am uncertain if I ever posted this, but I just found this write-up of one of my favourite recipes. It always reminds me of home. Serves 4 Takes at …
Aug 18, 2023: Now for an image that is attached to the Ulysses post. I expect this to fail, but let‘s see.
Aug 18, 2023: Image posting test. Since is just a simple URL, I expect it to work without any issues.
Aug 18, 2023: Micro.blog posting test I will be posting a couple of tests now. Please disregard. - The Author
Aug 17, 2023: Chris Ramsay is doing some amazing documentary work on Project Stargate and Remote Viewing. Area52 Patreon with lots of uncut interview footage and …
Aug 16, 2023: Really undecided on how to proceed. On one hand simply using Micro.blog for blogging is easy and simple. On the other using my own blog setup …
Aug 15, 2023: I‘d like to consider myself a writer, yet have not really written anything in years. I‘d like to consider myself a coder, yet haven‘t coded anything …
Aug 14, 2023: I finally managed to get babylondreams.de up and running again. I replaced the old Kirby CMS site with a simple HTML based version. My Kirby version …
Aug 14, 2023: So let me get this straight, @sunlit is a photo sharing app that does not allow me to take photos? That seems rather limiting, doesn‘t it? 📷
Aug 13, 2023: Small town politicians are the worst. Listening to one discuss with my wife right now. The level of hubris and „you have no idea what you are talking …
Aug 11, 2023: Drawing box at our local IKEA. 🎨
Aug 11, 2023: I remember Twitter clients having some sort of timeline sync. Was it called Tweetmarker? I wonder if Micro.blog supports something similar @manton? …
Aug 10, 2023: Reading about Webmentions reminds me why I never really liked all that „new web stuff“ for my own sites. It is the same issue I have with GUI programs …
Aug 10, 2023: It should be noted that one cannot add @manton‘s book about Micro.blog to the reading list. Boo! 📚
Aug 8, 2023: Just in case anyone is in the area. We are hosting a children’s flea market during this year’s Goisemer Kerwe.
Aug 7, 2023: Eggplant, tomatoes, Swiss chard, minced meat and puff pastry. What could go wrong? 🍆🍅🥬🔪🥩🥐🤤
Aug 7, 2023: This week‘s swimming lessons for the little one have been postponed by a week. It is just too cold outside. In the middle of August. Crazy weather. …
Aug 5, 2023: I am amazed that a tool (http://vrscenegui.de) I last updated 6 years ago and haven‘t thought of since still sells the occasional copy. Warms my heart …
Aug 5, 2023: Our big one has left for summer camp. His first time camping without us. We are pretty excited for him. He wasn‘t so sure what to make of it this …
Aug 4, 2023: Everything is set up for tonight’s pizza night. 🍕
Aug 3, 2023: I recently stumbled over my Micro.blog pins again. Is there a way to display them on my about page I wonder?
Aug 2, 2023: Watching Pirates of the Caribbean with the kids (again). It is really amazing how it turned out, considering how the original script had almost no …
Aug 2, 2023: We had a family trip to the library today. They have a two months reading campaign for school kids with prizes at the end. The older one really wants …
Aug 2, 2023: While nature gets some much needed rain, my body definitely preferred the hot dry spell we had. With this wet cold all my joints, muscles and …
Aug 1, 2023: I just reset my ActivityPub username to use my custom domain. It is now @alex@alexanderkucera.com Slowly getting there. Step by step. 👨💻
Aug 1, 2023: I wonder where the boardgame tagmoji is @manton. 🎲
Aug 1, 2023: By the way, a friend and I have started a monthly 30 minute talk podcast. It’s on Anchor.fm right now, but I am thinking of hosting it on Micro.blog. …
Aug 1, 2023: Getting an iron infusion today. Ah, the joys of failed kidneys. 🩸💉
Jul 31, 2023: Looks like I have ironed out most of the kinks. Theme works. Custom homepage works. Custom domain works.
Jul 31, 2023: Currently reading: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry 📚 It has an interesting way to tell the stories. So far I like it.
Jul 31, 2023: After years of online hiatus I have decided to make Micro.Blog my main site. Of course, it is not as simple as it sounds. For example, none of my …
Jun 27, 2019: Yesterday I came across one of the most German things I have seen in a long time. Apparently there is such a thing as an …
Sep 28, 2018: Go ahead. Don’t vote. You don’t want to anyway. YouTube Link
Sep 5, 2018: Drive Act 2 is on Kickstarter! Go get it if you even remotely like science fiction and/or comedy.
Jul 31, 2018: Ok. Let’s see. I’ll be trying out posting to Micro.blog directly again for a while. Usually I post to my Kirby blog, but my workflow for that is just …
Jun 29, 2018: Went to a vascular surgeon today for a checkup. Apparently I have “the veins of a twenty year old”.
Jun 12, 2018: I’m at a lack for words. -> Flat Earth
Jun 11, 2018: The commercial I did for Kaufland is online. It was a fun two weeks of compositing and grading. Kaufland Table Vimeo
May 31, 2018: Good morning Hamburg!
May 31, 2018: Oh boy! I didn’t expect this. Looks like I’ll be working with Blender in a professional setting for the first time since 2005.
May 30, 2018: Hamburg here I come again. Two weeks of sunshine (right Hamburg?), shopping, meeting friends…and oh yeah work.
May 16, 2018: 5 - Prepping the vrscene GUI Intro Video Recording while waiting for 3D scenes to load. Creating an intro video for an application is so not my thing… Duration: 3:00
Apr 28, 2018: 4 - FMX Closing Thoughts Taking a look back at last week. Duration: 3:25
Apr 26, 2018: FMX Day 3 Looking back at day 2 of FMX 2018. Duration: 2:56
Apr 25, 2018: Episode 2 - FMX Day 1 Quick recap of the first day of FMX and outlook of the second day. Duration: 4:33 Transcript
Apr 23, 2018: Episode 1 Welcome to my little podcasting experiment. Let’s see how this goes… Duration: 0:30
Mar 29, 2018: I’ll never understand how people don’t make seat reservations while booking their train ticket
Mar 28, 2018: I’m getting to play with the Milo MoCo today. Fun times ahead.
Feb 14, 2018: In the office this afternoon. I can’t wait to get the last few (known) bugs of vrscene GUI squashed. Then it’s on to figuring out trial mode and …
Feb 6, 2018: Ah…pink eye (iritis)…how I’ve missed you. Not.
Jan 18, 2018: Testpost
Jan 11, 2018: Life:0 Me:38 Boom
Jan 10, 2018: Finally managed to play 5 Minute Dungeon with Robin and Monika. It was awesome and they loved it as well. Highly recommended
Nov 6, 2017: Certifying three 3TB HDDs is testing my patience.
Nov 6, 2017: This is pretty cool tech. Let’s enhance
Sep 25, 2017: Today the cable technician will finally enable Internet access in the new office. Then I can move to the new rooms. About time.
Sep 13, 2017: So…iPhone X eh? Interesting. 🙂
Sep 13, 2017: So…iPhone X. Interesting. 🙂
Sep 10, 2017: Listening to What You Need to Know About Climate Change with Sam Harris. Some interesting thoughts in there.
Sep 10, 2017: micro.blog and short form posts To quote Manton Reece: Many of you remember the earlier days of the web. If you wanted to write on the internet, you created a web site. You could …
Sep 4, 2017: The perks of getting review copies.
Sep 2, 2017: I did an impromptu coding job two days ago and it was loads of fun. I could go for more paid development work actually. Much more straightforward then …
Aug 25, 2017: The village country fair is about to start. Three days of eating hearty food, lots of wine
Aug 22, 2017: My Affinity Designer Workbook has arrived and it is gorgeous.
Aug 11, 2017: Neat. A new Screenflow version. And it has some nice new features. But wow. The full price these days is double (or even more?) then what I paid for …
Jul 24, 2017: Great discussion. Although I must say I have a hard time to see Scott Adams' point of view. It’s just too detached from what I consider ethical. …
Jul 24, 2017: Work life balance by definition means you won’t excel in either. So be suspicious of people that claim to be at the top of their field and have …
Jul 16, 2017: Zelda today. Gotta crack those Master Sword trials.
Jul 15, 2017: Looking at my TestFlight I have amassed quite the beta app collection by now.
Jul 15, 2017: On the playground with the kids. Great weather. Happy kids. No stress. Camera at the ready. Perfect.
Jul 15, 2017: Working the water pump. A man’s summer workout.
Jul 13, 2017: Nailed my Git workflow. Now any changes on the site such as Micropub posts or quick HTML/CSS fixes will find their way back to the Git repo and also …
Jul 12, 2017: I am equal parts stressed, bored, overwhelmed and not taxed enough. Is that even possible‽
Jul 12, 2017: Triggering a Git commit from the server works. iOS workflow still on hold because of a bug. And desktop triggering almost there. This was easier then …
Jul 11, 2017: So close on a solution to combine Micropub posting with my Git workflow.
Jul 10, 2017: One more test. Sorry. 🙄
Jul 10, 2017: Testing MicroPub posting from the micro.blog iOS app.
Jul 8, 2017: No Time for Bullshit Hi, I gave you a link to this page following a discussion we likely had. Consider this the end of my involvement in whatever topic we were discussing. …
Jul 8, 2017: I hate it when people argue with me about something I never said
Jul 5, 2017: Great start to the day. Wanting to tackle the project changes that accumulated during my downtime aaand… I cannot find the change notes from the …
Jul 4, 2017: In a waiting room. Again… I’m getting tired of waiting rooms.
Jun 29, 2017: Testing Webmentions with Kirby’s Webmention plugin. Probably not going to work. Let’s see… Test 1
Jun 4, 2017: A cold is nothing to sneeze at.
May 26, 2017: A deer just bounced past us on our after lunch stroll. The perks of living on the countryside.
May 19, 2017: My BetterBack arrived yesterday and it is pretty great I must say. www.kickstarter.com/projects/…
May 13, 2017: Willow laughed for the first time. The first laugh has something magical.
May 3, 2017: Git Hooks and Merging Changes Any Git experts around? I am trying to modify the way my site gets updated. Right now I am using a post-receive hook to checkout the most recent …
May 3, 2017: Looks like I went to bed too late last night. So I’m calling it a day for today and am catching up on some rest
May 2, 2017: Interesting. A live connection between modo and other apps (working for Unreal at this point) is coming to modo 11.1 Push scenes wholesale back and …
May 2, 2017: On my way to FMX. It looks to be a fun week. I hope to meet many old friends and colleagues and meet lots of new faces.
Apr 29, 2017: Sick in bed two days before I leave for FMX. Oh the joy.
Apr 26, 2017: Now that micro.blog is live I guess I need to get my Kirby site in order. The hosted version @Manton provides is nice, but ideally I’d like to …
Apr 26, 2017: It’s here and it’s gorgeous!
Apr 26, 2017: First micro.blog post. So exciting. I love what @manton built here. Is that how you mention someone? Probably not. Hehe. So much to learn.
Feb 20, 2017: pixelfondue Newsletter pixelfondue will be releasing it’s first newsletter this week. If you’re interested in receiving it, please sign up at the bottom of the …
Feb 14, 2017: New update to the BabylonDreams Kit It now has a button “Copy/Paste Animated Channels”. Select two objects and it will copy the animated channels from the first object to the second one. …
Feb 11, 2017: So much for fake VFX. Vimeo Link Great idea and execution guys!
Feb 7, 2017: Compositing Bites - learning compositing one node at a time A new series on compositing by yours truly just went live on pixelfondue. In this new series on compositing we will look at the very basic techniques …
Feb 7, 2017: Houdini 16 is looking pretty awesome. I really need to find the time to learn it one of these days. Houdini 16
Feb 6, 2017: My current posting workflow while on the go Nick Parfene over in the Indie Microblogging Slack asked me to write about my posting workflow and since I haven’t written about how I blog for over …
Feb 5, 2017: Today I started meditating again. It felt good. I really need to get a more regular schedule going again.
Feb 1, 2017: Bluffworks Chinos My new Bluffworks Chinos just arrived and they are a great fit. Very comfortable to wear. The fabric is nicer on the skin then their regular travel …
Jan 30, 2017: "Shipment on hold" I find it astounding that you can order something from the US and it takes less then a day to arrive in Germany only to …
Jan 29, 2017: One last push. Come one guys! Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing
Jan 29, 2017: Today’s goal: take a bubble bath. (I know. I try to not set my goals too high. Also, achieving this goal is harder then it sounds.)
Jan 28, 2017: Pancakes for breakfast make for a great Saturday starter.
Jan 27, 2017: First micro.blog test post via Alfred and Git push. So exciting!
Jan 25, 2017: Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing Manton Reece has released his Kickstarter project into the wild. It’s his take on what a decentralized micro blogging—or short form …
Dec 26, 2016: Book Recommendation – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson has an entertaining writing style and enough insight to make this book a fun and interesting read. In this generation-defining self-help …
Dec 26, 2016:  You are always wrong. Via: Mark Manson – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
Nov 20, 2016: I'm a contributor at Pixelfondue now My first post over at Pixelfondue is online. Pixelfondue aims to be your resource for anything related to creating art with the help of modo, Nuke, …
May 2, 2016: Best Sound Effects Archive I usually find the sound I need in that compilation. Highly recommended. (youtube:www.youtube.com/watch width: 500 height: 375) Link: …
Apr 29, 2016: Interview with Lawrence Kasdan Great interview with a great screenwriter. John and Craig sit down with screenwriting legend Lawrence Kasdan to discuss Star Wars, Raiders, The …
Apr 29, 2016: Too many secrets This is very cool. Insanely geeky, but very cool. Brian Barto should be nominated for some sort of award. He’s recreated the “hacking” effect from …
Apr 24, 2016: Bored Beyond Belief L.A. Story
Apr 24, 2016: Pro Tip: If all your requests for app A are “add/change feature & make it work like in app B”, maybe you should be using app B instead.
Apr 23, 2016: FMX 2016 Next week is this year’s FMX in Stuttgart. I’ll be there as every year reporting for Professional Production Magazine, but I’ll also …
Apr 23, 2016: Don’t believe everything you think. Via: The Tim Ferriss Show
Apr 23, 2016: The closer you get, the slower I go. A Bumper Sticker Via: Stephen King
Apr 17, 2016: Gianluca Gimini renders people's drawing of bicycles back in 2009 I began pestering friends and random strangers. I would walk up to them with a pen and a sheet of paper asking that they immediately draw …
Sep 11, 2015: Tapp Malu - A Children's Book Published Today I am a proud to announce that my wife’s first children’s book illustration is available on Amazon. Tapp Malu was written by Angelika …
Jul 7, 2015: MacSparky Fields Guides Now Available On iPhone David Sparks has a great selection of iBooks for a wide range of topics. If you help back because they didn’t work on an iPhone then the wait is …
Jun 14, 2015: Ein echter Bayer Ich habe einen Kollegen, der ist auch ein Bayer. Gut, er kommt aus Serbien… Via: A Friend
Jun 14, 2015: Privacy, Security and User Experience Agreed on all accounts. Link: brooksreview.net/2015/06/p…
May 21, 2015: Lying by Sam Harris A great read that has me thinking about how to behave myself in the future. As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. …
May 21, 2015: The Chokehold of Calendars Calendars are a record of interruptions. And quite often they’re a battlefield over who owns whose time. […] In my experience, most people don’t …
May 21, 2015: Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule I never thought of it that way, but it makes perfect sense. I’m definitely on a maker’s schedule. Link: …
May 7, 2015: A New Path Trace Approach for "Finding Dory" - Christophe Hery - Pixar This post also appeared as part of a longer article on fxguide. Christophe took us on a journey through the history of Renderman. From the basics of …
May 6, 2015: Hyperion - Brent Burley - Walt Disney Animation Brent Burley talked us through the development of Disney’s new Path Tracer Hyperion in this session. Path Tracing is the third cornerstone in …
May 4, 2015: FMX Starts Tomorrow I’m on my way to Stuttgart as I write this to report from this years FMX. As always I’m writing for Professional Production Magazine. My …
Apr 30, 2015: Proud Dad Time I’m usually very reserved with being the typical proud obnoxious dad. Mostly, because I find that extremely annoying in other people as well. That …
Apr 20, 2015: Surround Yourself With People Smarter Than You I recently took stock of my video tutorial archive and it turns out I have 4,5 months of fxphd videos alone (assuming I watch them eight hours a day …
Apr 20, 2015: Not CG Who would have guessed? Then again, I’m sure there were a few shots that needed digital replacements and most of the shots are likely enhanced …
Apr 15, 2015: FMX 2015 FMX 2015, the 20th anniversary edition, of the Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia focuses on “Immersion & Virtual …
Apr 14, 2015: Standing Desk My workday consists, like pretty much everyone else’s these days, of about 99% sitting in front of a computer followed by more sitting on the couch …
Apr 13, 2015: Wipster - Online Video Review We have recently started using Wipster for our client reviews and it has been very well received. It works well most of the time. At times it can get …
Nov 8, 2014: Kirby 2.0.2 - Important Security Fix Text: Everyone running Kirby should probably update. getkirby.com/blog/kirb…
Nov 8, 2014: Most people are dead. Did you know that? It’s true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are wayyyy more dead …
Nov 8, 2014: What is going on right now that hasn’t happened ever since the beginning of time, but is soon guaranteed to never ever happen again? Today. Link: Nerd …
Oct 26, 2014: Tell me again how physically accurate your shader is. I’m a compositor you know. A Compositor Via: The Internet
Oct 19, 2014: Writing a Novel with Ulysses I’m actually in the middle of reading Mike Montero’s Design is a Job—which is recommended reading as well, by the way—but I couldn’t …
Oct 16, 2014: If you hand a client an estimate and slap them across the face and they complain about the slap, then the estimate wasn’t high enough. Via: Mike …
Oct 15, 2014: New Site You. Yes, you, the one person that has visited this site in the last year. You will likely not have noticed, but this site is once again looking 100% …
Jan 12, 2014: My iPhone App Playlist In the spirit of app recommendation lists that keep popping up everywhere I decided to make my own. I do have a lot of iOS apps. In fact, I went a …
Dec 11, 2013: Domain for sale Dear Spinning Beachball readers, the few of you that are still reading this RSS feed. I’m about to shut down the site for good. In fact, the …
Dec 6, 2013: Editorial & Drafts Workflow for Quick Capture of Story Ideas Inspired by Federico Viticci’s Open Tabs Editorial workflow, I created this little workflow to quickly capture and act on story ideas for blog …
Dec 2, 2013: The Creative Cringe I’m reading Shawn Blanc’s wonderful book Delight is in the Details and this one chapter rings especially true with me. It’s about …
Nov 28, 2013: fxguide's My friend (twitter: mattdleonard text: Matt Leonard) has been sorting through “The Art of” articles on fxguide and I thought I’d …
Nov 25, 2013: Blogging Workflow…again Yes, I finally am blogging again. Only 6 months of silence this time. Not too shabby. Anyway, a major hindrance was that my blogging workflow …
Nov 24, 2013: Assembling a VFX Camera Kit I don’t have my own camera kit specifically for VFX yet. Usually when I am on set, I either rent or get equipment from the production that is …
Nov 24, 2013: Check Your iOS iCloud Settings! Please go into your iOS device’s Settings.app and check your iCloud settings. Do it now. With a shock I just noticed that all my backups and …
Jul 25, 2013: Shadowrun Returns I got access to my copy of Shadowrun Returns right on release, July 25th, and immediately ended up playing it of about five hours. Probably your first …
May 29, 2013: Prisoners of the Sun Premiere Today,29.05.2013, was the official premiere of Prisoners of the Sun, the movie I was VFX producer for and that crashed and burned in 2008 due to a …
Apr 26, 2013: FMX 2013 - Iron Man 3 I planned to write about it, but the presentation was just blowing all our minds and I got sucked into simply watching to not miss anything. What can …
Apr 26, 2013: FMX 2013 - Crowdfunding, Risks and Chances Do not add tangible rewards below $60! Shipping and manufacturing is simply too expensive. You might not make any money for your actual goal …
Apr 26, 2013: FMX 2013 - Crowdfunding Phil Tippett had a dream. “Mad God” a film that he wanted to make, but for a variety of reasons got put on hold around the time of …
Apr 24, 2013: FMX 2013 - OpenSubdiv We startend the session with a quick history of subdivision surfaces. Invented by Pixar and first used in the short Gerry’s Game they made away …
Apr 24, 2013: FMX 2013 - Camera Physics This talk was very theory heavy with lots of formulas and photos of curves that summarize pretty badly. I still gave it a try here. The session …
Apr 23, 2013: FMX 2013 - Panel Discussion on the Future of the VFX Industry Not too much to record for this one. It was mostly company heads trying to weasel their way out of loaded questions by the audience and discussion …
Apr 23, 2013: FMX 2013 - The "unfilmable" Life of Pi Opening with a joke about the botched Oscar ceremony, this is promising to be a good yet sad talk. Rhythm & Hues went from 1000 artists to a small …
Apr 23, 2013: FMX 2013 - Le Big Shift in VFX Topics discussed center around what the industry can do to improve interoperability and workflow to strengthen the business instead of running it into …
Apr 23, 2013: FMX 2013 - Cloud Atlas Starting out with a short overview of RiseFX, his company, Florian dove right into the workflow for Cloud Atlas. RiseFX has garnered a reputation for …
Apr 22, 2013: FMX/fxphd Kickoff Meetup Yesterday evening was the first of likely many fxphd meetups this week. About 15 people showed up and had a relaxed chat. It was a great time to catch …
Apr 22, 2013: Remote posting to Kirby via iOS now working Next week is FMX, a great yearly convention about visual effects, games and virtual reality. I’m there every year reporting for Professional …
Apr 19, 2013: Please update your RSS reader Effective immediately, I switched over this site’s RSS to URI.LV to handle my feed subscriptions. With Feedburner going down in the near future …
Mar 6, 2009: Cartoon Movie 2009 — Lyon, France At the moment, I am in Lyon, France to write about Cartoon Movie 2009. At this conference, motion picture and games are presented to investors and …
May 17, 2008: VFX Coordination for Pixomondo I have been hired at [Pixomondo Images] 1 in Ludwigsburg to work as VFX Coordinator for some of their recent projects. This is an exciting …
May 1, 2008: Prisoners of the Sun put on hold It is official now. The production of “Prisoners of the Sun” has been put on hold. All employees and freelancers have been laid of as of …
Mar 8, 2008: Securing Your Laptop at Work I wanted to share this litte trick with you for quite a while now, but of course I have been busy and other things came in the way. They always do. I …
Jan 8, 2008: Blog Posts Transferred I finally found the time to transfer all posts from the old BabylonDreams blog over to their new home at this address. I only transferred posts I …
Jun 27, 2007: How to Behave as New Guy - I Guess, I Wasn't the Only One I just found an article on the BusinessWeek site entitled [“How Not to Be the Obnoxious Newcomer”] 1. It seems that author [Liz Ryan] 2 has also …
May 16, 2007: Solo - a Danish Documentary Hello everyone, I have to make a completely selfish plug for a movie I worked on lately. It is called Solo and is about Jon, the first winner of the …
Apr 10, 2007: How to Work Efficiently A lot of times I hear people complaining how slow this or that program is. “shake is so slow”, “motion is total crap” or “why is this taking so long?” …
Jan 28, 2007: Twitter for Colloquy I don’t know if you already know this service called [Twitter] 1. It can be described as a IM independent status message, so you can notify people of …
Nov 27, 2006: Naming Conventions - Part 02 - Real Life Application Last time I talked about the basic ingredients of a working naming convention, which got inspired by a topic covered on [Lifehacker] 1 and [43 …
Nov 23, 2006: UPDATED: Musicvideo “Var Minut” by Emilia Finished and Online Remember Emilia? She did this song called “Big Big World” about 7 years ago: Big Big World Guess what? She is back, with her new song “Var Minut”, …
Nov 21, 2006: Naming Conventions - Part 01 - the Basics special-test_final_3a_preview_5b Do you know filenames like this? Or even worse, do you still use them? I did too. But I learned how to avoid these …
Sep 1, 2006: If You Are a Newbie, Don’t Act Like a Pro! We met our new interns today and they all seemed very nice. One of them made a little bad impression though. Not only was he new in the company, but …
Aug 7, 2006: Shake Support Goes On It seems like a niche market that had to be filled sooner or later. After Apples decision to quit the development — and with it the support and …
Jul 29, 2006: Behold - I Give You Messiah for Mac OS X Yes, you understood it correctly. [Messiah] 1 is able to run on the [new Intel Macs] 2. And I am not talking about [BootCamp] 3 here fellows. I am …
Jul 29, 2006: Messiah on Mac OS X - Moving Proof Here you go guys. A screencapture for all of you who want to see the actual speed of this baby. I captured at 800×600, but had it also running at …
Jun 29, 2006: Renderman vs MentalRay - the Uproar Well, guess what? As I already thought it would happen, some people don’t seem to like the conclusions of my test. Zealots are so easy to predict and …
Jun 29, 2006: Renderman vs MentalRay Comparison - Update As so many people from the MentalRay community seem to have a big problem with my motion blur test - and only that is seems, they don’t even see the …
Jun 16, 2006: Renderman vs MentalRay Comparison Finally I found the time to do my little Renderman - MentalRay comparison. I used Maya 6.5 on a Mac OS X - which comes with MentalRay 3.4.1.5 and the …
Jun 11, 2006: Is CG Dull and Boring? Yes! …And NO! Is CG dull and boring. I asked this question in my last post. Well, since then I have seen a recent production called [“Elephants Dream“] 1, it is the …
Jun 11, 2006: Music Video “From London to Berlin” Gets a Review The [Doncaster Road End] 1 blog has posted about the Infernal video we re-did for the world cup (you can read about it in one of my older posts). In …
May 17, 2006: Project Round-Up I thought it is time to show a little of the work we have done so far. All videos should play fine in Quicktime player version 7, but might also run …
Apr 20, 2006: 3D Rendering Choices There are a lot of nice rendering choices out there. The range goes from free - like Aqsis, Blender or Yafray - to bundled renderers that come with …
Apr 12, 2006: Directory Structures and Workflow - Part 01 Last week we spoke about naming conventions, which got inspired by a topic covered on [Lifehacker] 1 and [43 Folders] 2. A great start to a more …
Apr 6, 2006: Is CG Dull and Boring? Are We? [Keith Lango] 1 has an interesting article on his blog concerning [CG pictures/movies and how they have become boring] 2. Keith is of the opinion that …
Mar 11, 2006: Feeling Like a Child at Play - Do You Know That Feeling? I was on set last week and I felt like back in school again. People preparing lamps and set pieces, just like preparing for a school dance. I have …