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Favorite Maps

What do you think of when hearing map ? These days my most commonly referred to map is in the form of Google Maps, with it abstract vectors outlining streets and buildings and parks. It covers a few use cases: How to go to some new destination; which route to pick with the least traffic; checking [ ]

Bogenschießen zu Hause trainieren

Also available in English; mehr übers Bogenschießen Nach etwa zweieinhalb Jahre mit Bogenschießen als Hobby und Sport merkte ich, dass mir eine Option fehlt, auch zu Hause zu trainieren. Ein reguläres Training mit Autofahrt dauert mindestens drei Stunden; in der Wintersaison steht unsere Halle nur an bestimmten Tagen und Zeiten zur Verfügung; draußen ist es [ ]

Training archery at home

Auch verfügbar auf Deutsch; more about archery Back in September 2025, after about two and a half years doing archery as a hobby and sport, I decided I need the option to train at home: A regular training session with driving is at least three hours; our indoor training during the winter season is only [ ]

How I enjoy digital music in 2026

tl/dr: I like to listen to music by full albums, in the original track order. Often I listen to all albums of one artist, in chronological order. When I tried Spotify some years ago, the only way to get that order was to create a playlist and add each album to that playlist, manually, for [ ]

Verkehrsbeunruhigung in Köln-Kalk

Ein Rückblick auf 5 Jahre kommunale Radverkehrspolitik im Bezirk Kalk Am 8. April 2021 war ich das erste mal für den ADFC bei einem “Runden Tisch Radverkehr” dabei. Für Kalk war das auch ein Novum, da bisher das Format ohne Verbände stattgefunden hatte. Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen einigen Mitgliedern der neu gewählten Kalker Bezirksvertretung mit der [ ]

Anatomie eines modernen Pfeil

Dies ist ein Eintrag in meiner Serie Things I learned. Hier ist ein Sammlung davon was ich bisher über Pfeile gelernt habe, die im modernen Recurve-Bogenschießen verwendet werden. Ein moderner Pfeil besteht aus mindestens 4 Elementen: Diese Elemente tragen in unterschiedlichem Maße zu der wichtigsten Variable eines Pfeils bei: der Steifigkeit, die auch im Deutschen [ ]

Anatomy of a modern arrow

This is an entry in my series Things I learned. Here is a brain dump of what I ve learned so far about arrows used in contemporary recurve archery. A modern arrow consist of at least 4 elements: These elements contribute to a varying degree to the most important variable of an arrow: spine. Spine describe [ ]

Making of a shared path

This is an entry in my series Things I learned. Here I learned the value of sending many emails and not to be afraid of dog poop. In December 2017 we moved into our current apartment. Back then, there was a path nearby, that looked promising, but ended after 5 meters. There was a sign [ ]

Things I learned: some 90s arabic pop

A few days ago I was in one of my favorite locations in my city quarter of Köln, Café Casablanca. While drinking my green tea with Morrocan mint, I noticed a song and especially it s very catchy hook. I used my phone to give me a title and saved it for later. Later at home, [ ]

Things I learned: transpiling React Native JavaScript with babel in 2025

At work we re using React Native to build our Android and iOS app. We use it with Hermes, a JavaScript engine Facebook/Meta built for React Native, which doesn t have a JIT compiler, but is instead optimized for fast startup, by compiling JavaScript to a type of bytecode during build time. Hermes supports plenty of modern [ ]