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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 · 10/10/2026

The Mastodon instance on which I’m almost the only active user has been offline with a 503 for about 16 hours now. Given that “Opening Ivory” is the first thing I do after unlocking my phone, even before thinking what it is that I actually unlocked the phone for, this is a rather distressing […]

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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]

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]

Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

There are many, many reasons to be angry at the AI crowd. One of mine is that they took the term _vibe coding_ – how else am I going to describe the flow state when I have some repetitive music running in the background and am just breezing through some programming work? (And don’t get me […]

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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

Oh no. I should not have seen those “day live-blogs in timeline format” posts today. Like this and this. Very nerd-snipy, now I want to play with a format like that as well. (Old-school readers might know that I used to have something like that a few years back, showing the aggregated posts from […]

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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]

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 · 22/08/2026

I like to geo-tag all my “stuff” so of course I also like to geo-tag my blog posts. I just wrote a tiny little plugin to do that. I looked at a whole bunch of plugins, I used Simple Location for a while until I realized that all of them are doing way too much. All I need are two input fields […]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Just for the records: The first morning of the year where I had to turn on the lamp at my desk when starting to work.

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

WebSub is one of those underrated technologies that quietly work in the background of the web and that I appreciate quite a bit. It’s not super hard to implement and at least in my experience it is super fast as well. (I think) WordPress has it by default, many of the feed-reading services use […]

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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

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 · 21/07/2026

* Weird technology mistakes: on Saturday I just wanted to add one of our family gatherings to my calendar on the iPhone. I typed “Family gathering” and the phone helpfully used all the information from an old family gathering, (2019!) copied them into the new entry – and then sent out an […]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

20 years ago I joined Twitter. I miss the old days of the internet.

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Twttr seems to be simple sms-blogging.

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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 · 07/07/2026

@mrcgrtz Thanks! I actually think it would be great if everyone did that. Like a less format architecture decision record.

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

I added a `dominik.md` to a project that I only work on once in a while. It contains a list of things still unfinished and a documentation about my decisions I made so far and _oh boy_ is one of my coworkers livid. Frankly, in a time when people add markdown files for a mysterious person with a […]

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

The “Years Ago Today” plugin on my blog just reminded me that I linked to GTA V GeoGuesser four years ago. I clicked just for a laugh, oh, maybe I still remember, haha – and I wasn’t really prepared what a deep feeling of nostalgia and (I guess?) homesickness this would trigger. A long time ago […]

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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 · 02/07/2026

For the last couple of days when it was really hot I had my big fan running almost 24/7: during the day to bring some respite through moving air and during the night to make sure that the cooler air from outside makes it into the parts of the apartment where there isn’t much of a natural flow of […]

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

A few weeks ago I talked with Dirk about blogging and while this conversation got him to write a post about the state of the world he told me that week notes aren’t for him as they are too personal. I’ve been thinking about this conversation a lot since then. I read a lot of blogs, through my […]

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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]

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 · 15/06/2026

@Shrike Thanks, that looks really good! I’ll have to dive a bit deeper when I have the time

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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 · 11/06/2026

I very much prefer _the fediverse_ aka Mastodon (yes, I know) over the other text-based social networks. Especially over the one that used to be so important to me. But it does have it downsides and I usually notice them when I am trying to see who else besides the people I follow is talking […]

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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 · 04/06/2026

This is a copy of an issue that I just created in the Nominatim repository. Sadly my skills in Python (and my knowledge of the OSM data model) aren’t good enough to poke around in the code on my own to figure out what is happening. # Reverse Geocoding in the Ho Chi Minh City center return wrong […]

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

> You get you get old and you start thinking, “Oh, I better make the world around me miserable. Then I won’t mind leaving so much.” That’s what you got to fight against. > – Bob Mortimer #Ageing #BobMortimer

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 · 31/05/2026

This series is an incredible deep dive into the cryptic short codes that are behind flight bookings and how the systems behind the curtain work all the way until the passenger reaches the destination. I’ve read them all the way through yesterday and I’ll likely read through them again today. I […]

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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]

Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

Last night I was feeling like playing some _New Age easy listening_ music while reading and this morning I found out that my 100.000th scrobble is now “Age Of Loneliness” by Enigma. I’m not sure what to make of that.

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

I really managed to mess up my sleep schedule beyond anything resembling smart. I’m wide awake now. I won’t be tomorrow morning, quite the opposite.

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Dominik @dominik.lostfocus.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

By now you might have noticed that I use week notes to keep myself from abandoning this blog. And yeah, I quite enjoy writing them, too, most week. Even though lately they’ve been a bit calmer than I’d like them to be. It is what it is. On my travels through the internet I found a service for […]

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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 · 16/05/2026

Back when we did things like “buy a cd and use iTunes to turn the music into mp3s” I used MusicBrainz Picard a lot to get all the metadata I needed. And then I kind of forgot about MusicBrainz. Turns out: it is still going strong. It does lack quite a lot of the music I listen to, though. Which […]

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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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