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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Well, another week. This one completely without any trains, so there’s that. Messed up sleep schedule, again. All my life I heard that with age people go to bed earlier and get up earlier. I cannot confirm. While my natural sleep rhythm was midnight to eight for […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

It feels like bragging but this week I took long-distance trains again and once again, everything went smoothly. (Well, except that my original train was canceled but at least I knew that early enough. And I’m not going to mention the groups of retirees who […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I made the mistake of having a big breakfast before sitting down to write and now I’m lethargic and rather want to take a nap. I traveled for work this week, which was all nice and dandy. The trains were on time and pretty empty, taking them during the less […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Same week as every week, except yesterday I went to a small comedy show with my brother-in-law. It was _okay, I guess_ – four comedians. One was good, one was very obviously at the very beginning of their career, one was okay-ish and one was an ex-cop who joked […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Oh boy, running your own website(s) is tedious, isn’t it? I’m in the middle of moving stuff away from Digital Ocean. (We all know why.) I wanted to do that anyway but well, procrastination. Object storage is especially annoying – of course there’s `rclone` and […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

After last week’s sleep deprivation I decided that this week I’ll force myself to go to bed at nine every day. That didn’t exactly mean that I’d sleep at nine but I magically managed to read more than usual _and_ still sleep earlier than usual. Who knew. Alas […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I had plans for this weekend and I had to do some planning for future endeavours to do, instead I am paying the price for all the _revenge bedtime procrastination_ I did this week. So knackered, good god. The one thing I managed to do is to switch my “photo […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

A short (work) week – I had the Monday off and went to Basel for some shopping and lunch with my sister. Of course the Tuesday was very much a condensed Monday then, so that was _great._ In other news – we finally got some rain, but that seemed to have been a […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Just like everyone else in this part of the world, I wanted to see the eclipse last Wednesday. Given that my living room windows face directly toward the sun around the time of the eclipse, I decided to just do that from home. Alas there is a tree in the way and […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

_I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ This morning it was Go by The Chemical Brothers. #TheChemicalBrothers

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I started something on an impulse. I realised after a while that while it might be a great idea, it would be an even better idea as part of something already existing. Now I’m ignoring it altogether and for some reason started Captain of Industry again, which is […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Another rather calm and warm week. Workwise I’m currently working on a big task with a technology I haven’t used before, so this takes up a lot of my mental energy and struggling with all the weird little mistakes one does when not fully knowing something is […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

This week we had two trailers for big Cyberpunk TV series: Blade Runner 2099 and Neuromancer. On the one hand: cool! On the other hand: hm. Let’s see if it’s a good idea to look at the future the 80s foresaw through a late 2020s lens. #BladeRunner #BladeRunner2099 #Cyberpunk #Neuromancer #TVSeries

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

After the shenanigans of the last two weeks, this one is clearly one to recharge my social battery. I’m not sure if this is the reason but I also slept particularly bad. At least during the night. Daytime naps were just perfect but usually too short. And I think […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times. The first two days of the week were being spend in Munich, a friend of mine had a stopover there and we planned to have dinner for a few months already. The time I wasn’t eating wurst with her, her friend and […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

A birthday, a funeral and a train journey that actually went just fine filled the week that was over faster than I could look around. Just like I mentioned last week, the current weather has a bigger effect on me than the one during the _heat wave_ so everything […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

_I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ This morning it was I Can’t Stop Me by Twice and it is 100% because Instagram keeps showing me reels of that girl who screams along with it #KPop #Twice

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Another data point for my thoughts about blog posts and especially weeknotes being personal or not: Roy read my post and decided to be less personal. Which is interesting – he does also mention that he is writing a private journal as well, which I am not […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

I guess it was the heat that got to people’s brains. This week I more than ever in the just about nine years I’ve been on Mastodon I had to block and mute and filter to keep my timeline halfway sane. On Monday evening I went to a photo walk in Basel. The _vibe_ […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

I have linked to videos from OTR a few times on my link blog but this one deserves a post on here. It’s a feature-length documentary about the “Golden Triangle” within Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, the history how it became the center of the global drug trade and […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

I mostly spend this week up in Cologne. A bunch of in-person meetings, a bit of hanging out with friends and coworkers, good (and some not so good) food and the days went by very quickly. For the first time in quite some while I took the train instead of […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

_I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ (This one I _really_ can’t explain. It’s not my kind of music. I can’t remember hearing it anywhere lately. And yet here we are.) This morning it was Senza Una […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Another big 24 hour race this week, this time the Le Mans one. I’m usually not a WEC guy but this one is special, of course. Otherwise this week was a calm one, again. (Next week won’t. Foreshadowing!) Taskmaster Series 21 concluded, which is always a bit sad […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

A calm and rather cool summer week. Not quite as rainy as forecast but not the hot temperatures of the last few weeks. I didn’t do all that much – slept a lot, futzed around with my websites and learned more about Vietnamese addresses, reverse geocoding and the […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Can you believe it’s Sunday already? It’s still nice and sunny but the weather forecast (and a look outside) tells me that this is going to be over soon. There was a lot of family this week – it would have been my grandmother’s 100th birthday, so my aunts and a […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

A sunny Sunday, a few clouds in the sky, windows wide open, iced coffee, Italo disco on moderate volume, this is a good early summer morning. My “cleaning out my personal side-projects”-project is moving very slowly. Mostly because I’m faster at having new […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

A week with a public holiday is a pretty good week. I got talked into going for an indoor miniature golf outing with my nieces and nephews which went about as well as expected. I’ve been watching the Nürburgring 24h race and all the things around it for the last […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

_I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ This morning it was D:Ream with Things Can Only Get Better

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

Hm. I moved all the little scripts I had running on a Raspberry Pi to my Mac Mini so I could install Home Assistant to it. So far I haven’t done anything wild with it, except created a bunch of dashboards. Who’d have known that the carbon dioxide level is […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

I can’t help to note just how nice it is to wake up three days in a row without an alarm. I had a little bit too much beef (the food, not disagreeing with people) on Friday, so obviously I needed the whole of Saturday to recover. And today I went to visit two […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

Another calm week that went by very fast, not much to tell. I didn’t even take a single photo, that is all pretty remarkable. As I’ve written about on Thursday I started cleaning out my side-projects. Annoyingly enough it rather gave me more ideas instead of […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

First asparagus dinner of the season. Can’t complain except _someone_ wasn’t peeling them properly which was a bit of a problem. (That someone was me, obviously.) Went to have a quick planespotting evening with my cousin, which ended up being a bit […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

A short and rather quiet week. Helping out my coworkers in their project was a very welcome change of pace at work. The allergies came back with a vengeance after I ran around all Easter weekend, telling everybody that I think the worst for this spring is over […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

I hope you had a good Easter weekend, mine was very relaxed indeed. Today a (very) short little “hike” with the family, a bit of picnic, an early return home and a long nap with wide open windows with the birds singing, I can’t complain. (Yes, technically today […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

A little family trip to Strasbourg crowned a week that was otherwise similarly mundane as the last couple of them. The city is well worth a visit, it’s very pretty indeed. I started reading a Japanese whodunnit on Saturday which so far is very intriguing and […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

So, it’s already Monday and here are my notes for last week: Nothing to report, carry on. I know this is a bit boring to read. At the moment my brain seems to be in the same mode as my Wallabag installation, (which I did manage to get going again, for those […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Not much to report on this week. It was mostly cold and rainy, I got lost in Captain of Industry (yes, again. No, I don’t learn from past mistakes) and rewatched the first season of True Detective. I almost bought something online and about half an hour after I […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

_I often wake up with a random song as anearworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ This morning it was Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

It is allergy season, fuck yeah. So while I spend both days of the weekend outside (which was nice, don’t get me wrong. We even had sun!) I immediately crashed on the couch when I came back, defeated by the battle that my body is trying to fight against the […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

I spend my morning watching reels from expats in Dubai and yes, you’re right, iOS. I have indeed reached my limit on Instagram. Meanwhile I have fallen out of love with Wallabag. Mostly because it suddenly didn’t let me log in anymore and I don’t have the […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

That was in many way a very surprising week. A spontaneous decision meant that on Monday afternoon I drove into Köln. On Rosenmontag no less. I reached the town late enough that there weren’t any road closures, but being not very Karneval-minded, slowly rolling […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

I’ve been handling a lot of WordPress this week. At work, oh boy, and also around here on my blog. My database woes are documented, everything else doesn’t need to be mentioned and can get lost in the rivers of time. At least as far as I am concerned. I found a […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

Another rather unremarkable week. For a quick moment I really got into collecting and posting links, enough so, that I documented my workflow. All of this is good fun but also feels like something is missing. And weirdly enough it seems to be a _feedback loop._ […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Teymur asked me, probably hoping for some kind of automation. Alas, there is none. And still, here is my “workflow” for my link blog. ## Step 1: Input I find articles, links, etc. all over the place. Many of them come through Mastodon and almost all remaining […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

I went to a photowalk in Basel this weekend – the folks there and me did some calculations, it had been two years since the last one, which feels long. It has been fun and we’ll do it more often in the near future, I guess. (Related: meetup.com is a bad website […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

_I often wake up with a random song as anearworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment._ This morning it was It’s That Time by Marlon Hoffstadt aka DJ Daddy Trance

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

Same week as the week before. Still in this weird float state. At least today I managed to drag myself out of the house with a camera in my hand, which was helpful. Drowning out the voices in my head with a rewatch of The Wire, which is still so very, very good.

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

This is really not the best picture in the world. It’s a bit of a snapshot of a funny little sticker I saw today. And yet, I enjoyed taking that photo, which in many ways is my number one reason to take photos. I don’t even post-process anything anymore all that […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

Oh, the post-vacation blues hits me hard this time. Of course it doesn’t help that going from 35°C to (up to) -10°C is quite a jump. I had to travel for work right away after coming home and while during that time only my nose communicated its displeasure, once […] [Original post on lostfocus.de]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

I managed to reach the finish line in 4th place. Only 20 days after the winner! #sailnavsim

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