Posts

2025

Still alive, but this blog not really - February 24, 2025
Where did all the time in the world go?

2024

Optical media lifetime - one data point - October 15, 2024
Surprised that normal media holds this well!
Corydalis 2024.12.0 released - March 20, 2024
No accidental zooming anymore!
Finally learning some Rust - hello photo-backlog-exporter! - March 9, 2024
Wow that's a long title 😛
New corydalis 2024.9.0 release! - March 3, 2024
Solving the one _major_ annoyance I had 😎
New skis ⛷️ , new fun! - February 18, 2024
They are awesome, and look awesome 😎

2023

Happy New Year! - December 31, 2023
Hoping 2024 will be better…
Life, getting sick and unfit - December 3, 2023
Where's the summer?
Corydalis: new release and switching to date-versioning - November 5, 2023
I would like an order of extra free time, please!
Raspberry PI OS: upgrading and cross-grading - October 31, 2023
It's doable, but worth the cost 🤔?
OS updates are damn easy nowadays! - October 24, 2023
Living in the future, clearly :)
How to set a per-app locale in MacOS - October 20, 2023
Where is the good MacOS documentation?
Not-quite-announcement: this blog is not entirely dead - October 11, 2023
Hint: But also not far from it
Quick note: nftables and TCP MSS clamping - April 16, 2023
Hint: It's always safe to enable :)

2022

Note to self: Don't forget Qemu's discard option - August 21, 2022
If one likes their disk space, at least…
Experiment: A week of running - June 20, 2022
Maybe not the brightest idea, but…
Somewhat committing to a new sport - June 12, 2022
Not sure if this is about the gear or the actual sport, but…
Still alive, 2022 version - June 10, 2022
Where did second half of 2021, and first of 2022 go?!

2021

Goodbye Travis, hello GitHub Actions - June 6, 2021
Change is good, especially when it brings progress
Raspbian/Raspberry PI OS with initrd - January 25, 2021
Can't wait for plain Debian on Raspberry PI!
Dealing with evil ads - January 10, 2021
Ads might be needed, but they don't need to be revolting
Year 2020 review - January 4, 2021
Surviving, but what a year…

2020

Serendipity - October 18, 2020
An unplanned picture and its story
Late report for Nationalpark Bike Marathon 2020 - October 6, 2020
A single race for a special year…
New internet provider ☺ - May 16, 2020
Finally completing a long term plan, yay!
System load and ping latency strangeness - January 4, 2020
Having fun with computers :)

2019

Actually fixing a bug - October 13, 2019
… and so many remain :/
IronBike Einsiedeln 2019 - October 6, 2019
Moving up in the world!
Nationalpark Bike Marathon 2019 - September 6, 2019
Fitness has many meanings
Aftershokz Aeropex first impressions - August 23, 2019
This is cool!
Corydalis v0.4 released! - May 26, 2019
Next time, let's not wait another year…
The rain _will_ come - May 25, 2019
Most things still worked, so all good :)
Yet another man to epub converter :) - April 21, 2019
The world's simplest shell script! But it does the job…
Debian DPL election 2019 - April 19, 2019
Just voted! Did you?
A small presentation on Linux namespaces - April 3, 2019
How does this all work? Hmm…
Kobo Forma eReader review - March 31, 2019
Suprisingly good form-factor!
The last 10 percent - March 25, 2019
Gamification!
The perils of continuous upgrades - February 23, 2019
Funny downsides of living with Debian ☺
QEMU SCSI Tape passthrough - February 21, 2019
Uh oh, what am I doing?
Notes on XFS: raid reshapes, metadata size, schedulers… - February 8, 2019
How to shoot yourself in the foot…
HGST HUH721212ALN600 - February 3, 2019
New hard-drives! After many many years…

2018

Why on earth are 512e HDDs used? - December 17, 2018
Never ever getting rid of the old things…
Looking for a better backup solution - December 9, 2018
DIY is fun, but time-consuming…
Still alive ☺ - October 28, 2018
Uh-oh…
o-tour 2018 (Halbmarathon) - September 12, 2018
Sometimes, life gets easy for no reason!
Printing paper: matte vs. glossy revisited - September 9, 2018
Also, ink cartridge lifetimes are way too conservative
A change of scenery - September 6, 2018
From land to water
Nationalpark Bike-Marathon 2018 - August 28, 2018
Results and analysis of NBM 2018
Disqus comments - August 26, 2018
A sick/recovery/photography/rant week - August 20, 2018
Eiger Bike Challenge 2018 - August 13, 2018
How to get crushed, once more!
Hakyll basics - March 21, 2018
New site layout - March 18, 2018
~username belongs to last century
Goodbye Ikiwiki, hello Hakyll! - March 18, 2018
change for the sake of change :-P
Corydalis 0.3.0 release - March 9, 2018
Releasing Corydalis - February 8, 2018
SSL migration - January 13, 2018

2017

A recipe for success - March 12, 2017
Fine art printing—at home - February 11, 2017
Solarized colour theme - February 9, 2017
Short review of La La Land - February 5, 2017
The snow is gone - February 1, 2017
Languages, part 1 - January 26, 2017

2016

Printer fun - December 18, 2016
Usefulness of real-time data during cycling - September 4, 2016
Nationalpark Bike Marathon 2016 - September 3, 2016
Main conclusion: Gravity rules!
More virtual cycling - July 26, 2016
Energy bar restored! - July 17, 2016
A (forced) relaxation week - July 3, 2016
Random things of the week - brexit and the pretzel - June 26, 2016
Short trip to Seattle area - June 19, 2016
Elsa Bike Trophy 2016—my first bike race! - June 12, 2016
Short trip to Opio en Provence - June 5, 2016
Mind versus body: time perception - May 29, 2016
First run in 2016 - May 26, 2016
mt-st project new homepage - February 7, 2016
X cursor theme - February 4, 2016
Orcas Island day trip, June 2015 - January 3, 2016

2015

Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6E ED VR tests - December 20, 2015
Server upgrades and monitoring - October 17, 2015
Finally, systemd! - August 24, 2015
A few macro photos - August 17, 2015
Nikkor 300mm f/4E tests and happy dogs! - August 16, 2015
Effects of a PSU upgrade - March 21, 2015
Got some unexpected results from a hardware upgrade
Morning snow - February 1, 2015

2014

Jump!!! - December 4, 2014
SSD adventures - December 1, 2014
SSD adventures and fun times!
Debian, Debian… - November 23, 2014
Day trip on the Olympic Peninsula - October 12, 2014
Edge of Tomorrow, book vs. movie - June 15, 2014
What's in a community? - January 16, 2014

2013

Got my Christmas present! - December 24, 2013
A not so dark sky - December 3, 2013
Zürich at night - November 22, 2013
no-reply@… - May 14, 2013
Types as control flow constructs - March 14, 2013
Old batteries are old - February 21, 2013
Garmin Montana - February 15, 2013
Garmin Montana notes

2012

Interesting tool of the day: ghc-gc-tune - December 30, 2012
Open Source collaboration, 2012 - October 28, 2012
Thumbnails and other EXIF metadata fun - July 8, 2012
Webfonts, github, icons - May 12, 2012
pbuilder and binary-arch packages - May 8, 2012
GP der Stadt Dübendorf 2012 - April 15, 2012
Statictics for GP der Stadt Dübendorf 2012
Männedörfler Waldlauf 2012 - April 3, 2012
Nikkor 24mm f/2.8D - March 4, 2012
Zürich city run—rain, rain, rain - March 4, 2012
Laufsporttag Winterthur 2012 - March 3, 2012
doc-rfc update - February 27, 2012
First running event of 2012 - February 26, 2012
Running in the snow - February 15, 2012
Perf stats for doing "nothing" - February 11, 2012

2011

New harddrives — WD RE4 - August 1, 2011
Second system effect - April 23, 2011
Videocards and power consumption - April 18, 2011
Sysadmins and auto-configuration - April 16, 2011
LaTex fun - April 16, 2011
More Haskell - January 5, 2011

2010

No gaming: one week left - November 26, 2010
ICFP 2010 short report - October 4, 2010
Debian Thanks - September 19, 2010
Virtual hardware failures - September 15, 2010
3ware raid resize via pivot_root - September 13, 2010
How `pivot_root` won against a stupid RAID controller
Xen PVM under VirtualBox - September 12, 2010
New harddrive: WD6000HLHX - September 10, 2010
Spooky harddrive - August 31, 2010
My first NMU - August 25, 2010
First post - August 22, 2010