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Preparing for my first Pelikan Hub

Whenever Brad Dowdy and Myke Hurley on The Pen Addict talk about “pen shows” and other stationery events I also want to go there one day. Unfortunately, this hasn’t happened yet especially since I can hardly argue for trave...

EURO 2024 is finally over

After exactly one month, the UEFA EURO 2024 is over. There were quite a few surprises during the group and tournament phases. I hadn’t expected for the Austrian team to do as well as they did, reaching the top of their group but then b...

Review: Going Zero

It’s been a while since I’ve read a book that I simply could not put down. “Going Zero” by Anthony McCarten (German edition) managed that. The story is about an experiment where CIA/FBA/NSA cooperate with a Facebook-l...

Review: Rivers of London: Winters Gifts

To get a bit of a mix between all these technical books that I want to read this year I also picked up the latest novel in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. Set at the shores of Lake Superior “Winter’s Gifts” ...

Lamy acquired by Mitsubishi Pencil

What a weird day. First that weird stuff around Automattic and now this: Lamy just announced that they had been acquired by Mitsubishi Pencil. This came out of the blue for me and I don’t have any extreme feelings about it. I have tons...

Communicating online and building relationships

Right after returning from FOSDEM I stumbled upon the IndieWeb Carnival, something I hadn’t heard of before, thanks to Ben Werdmuller. The whole concept sounded like a nice idea to get slightly more diverse topics onto this blog and so...

All major passenger train lines on a PDF

Thanks to the Kraftfuttermischwerk I stumbled upon this awesome map of all major passenger train lines world-wide! When you travel around, you usually only see the regional network but Zhaoxu Sui zoomed out and create a map connecting them ...

Review: Moxy Brussels City Center

After a few years at the Motel One in Rue Royale my partner and I thought it might be nice to try something different. After looking around we found the Moxy Brussels City Center right on the route of the bus line 71 to ULB which meant we wo...

Review: Learning GitHub Actions

While I’ve already used GitHub Actions on various projects over the years I wanted to get a slightly broader overview and so picked up Learning GitHub Actions by Brent Laster. As the name somehow suggests, this book at first mostly is ...