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Keychron Layout Tweaks

While moving clutter around my desk I often accidentally actuate the backlight cycle button in the upper right of my Keychron Keyboard and then it moves in a light pattern until I press it again until the light is permanently on again.

Slowly moving my projects off GitHub

My GitHub Account is actually my second one. The first I created in 2010 after I was introduced to Git the OG way, you know, like one did back in the day:

Trip Report: Nabada

As is tradition now, I attended Nobada in Ulm and since I had a few extra days of vacation left to spare, I connected a mid-sized road trip through Bavaria.

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After having driven the Zero S for 10.000 Kilometers, one crash and lots of trips in cold, hot and rainy weather, here’s a quick résumé. Reach anxiety doesn’t exist in practice When riding solo for several hours, it is a welcome change to make a quick charging stop. Both to rest mentally and physically. And when riding with others, the required speeds and acceleration decrease the bigger the group…

Missing iOS features

Lately there was an uproar of people against the new overly simplified new macOS App Icons.

Apple Container as Docker replacement

With macOS 26 Tahoe, support for running OCI-style containers is directly built into the OS. Similar to Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Platform, which is a subset of their Hyper-V offering.

Chinese Domain Scam

About once a year I receive an email from a Chinese (Domain) Registry that claims to supposedly inquire for a company that is about to register the alphadev.cn, alphadev.com.cn, alphadev.net.cn and alphadev.org.cn domains.

Running modern Git on ancient Synology kernels - revisited

In the original post I had made small shim that redirects calls from libc getrandom to the Kernel device.

Trip Report: Munich

This post is written in July 2026, but was dated back to when the trip originally happened.

Gear Replacements

Peak Design Everyday Backpack 35L v1