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Hi, I'm Dominik Schwind, friend of the internet. I'm sending out my weekly post by email - if you like getting mails from me, you can do so on the weeknotes page.

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Week 17, 2024

There’s actually not much about my life to talk about – so maybe we’ll just jump straight into what the internet has to offer.

Ants! – most of us don’t really think about them much, but there is a lot going on.

Cables! – or to be more precise: the people who are working on ships to make sure the undersea cables all over the world that make sure that the internet stays global. This is an absolutely astonishing article about a world we don’t know much about.

Blogging! – Matthew Haughey is daydreaming his perfect blogging CMS and I found myself nodding along to it.

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Is it just me or does MySQL 8 need a lot more RAM than MySQL 5?

I just yolo-ed a server update here without any backups. Looks like everything works again, though.

On heavy rotation now: DJ Baby Glow’s H.A.H #13 ( DNB NEVER DIE!!! ) – not quite as fun as the party atmosphere of her WARNING!!!! H.A.H #11 ( ADULT VIDEO CONTENT 21+ ) set but still not bad at all.

Week 16-ish, 2024

Well. It’s Wednesday. I basically slept all day, which was pretty much needed after a few days of (mostly) sell-inflicted and not really fit-for-the-blog bs. So. Eh. Onwards?

I think I’ll keep this one this short for now and resume the usual program on Sunday.

I know I still owe you some weeknotes. I’ll get to it once I caught up on all the sleep I didn’t get in the last few nights. And they’ll not even be very interesting.

Week 15, 2024

What a week! My blog was naked and Amazon dropped the Fallout series, which was very good. Maybe a bit too good. So I mostly spend my days (and nights) binging it and some more lore videos on YouTube so I understand all the little easter eggs.

This week I went to an event in Basel and somehow I keep forgetting that being somewhere social in a city in the evening when it is warm out is a nice thing. I don’t do this often enough and frankly I’m not too sure how to change that. Oh well.

Meanwhile: It is apparently very dangerous to sing Sinatra songs at karaoke. Good to know for the next time I avoid karaoke.

Glorb is hitting it big with AI-generated SpongeBob raps.

Huh: When Sleep Deprivation Is an Antidepressant
Pretty fascinating and I’ve noticed that before, too – if I somehow end up in a flow state and forget to look at the clock, I am extremely elated in that moment. Up until when my body realizes what happened and then it’s pretty bad for a couple of days.

Huh. My MacBook battery completely drained over night. How peculiar.

All in all I’m not super impressed with how my blog looks like without CSS and it is something I’ll keep in mind while working on my new theme.

It’s CSS Naked Day! And if (big if) my if works properly, you should see my blog without any CSS on April 9th, 2024 in all timezones.

Week 14, 2024: Calima

Another week and what a lovely short one it was. Mondays should be part of the weekend all the time. And it suddenly turned into spring, too!
On Saturday the new season of endurance races on the Nürburgring started. I planted myself on the couch to watch the last two hours and immediately fell asleep. Congratulations, well done.

I learned the word Calima today and mostly because it is happening here at the moment. (Yes, I know that it’s only Calima when it is on the Canary Islands. Over here it’s just sparkling Sahara dust.) Either way: the air is very hazy and things will be pretty yellow the next time it rains.

This is a fun little game, especially if you don’t want to think for a while and just drive along: slow roads You don’t even need to race anyone, just cruise along a nice ocean road.

Week 13, 2024: Eggs! Z?

It’s Easter week, so happy eggs to those of you who celebrate! It’s also the weekend of the daylight saving time switch here in Germany, which I celebrated by staying up way too long and messing up my sleep schedule in more ways than a pesky hour ever could.

Meanwhile deep in the bowels of your computers’ operating system there are many little applications and libraries that usually just work because some rando somewhere likes to keep them around. This week we learned what happened when some bad actor with a lot of patience manages to get themselves in a position of trust with one of those maintainers.
It’s a pretty wild story.

Gmail is two decades years old this Monday and it hasn’t changed all that much since then. It was absolutely mind-blowing back then and even though it has gone quite stale it weidly enough is still the best webmail experience out there.

Spring

Morning Earworm #32: Toryanse

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

This morning it was Toryanse by Atarashii Gakko