And here is our new house.
And here is our new house.
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We are moving, our whole household fit into thi...
We are moving, our whole household fit into this little truck.
Taday is the day we move in to our first own ho...
Taday is the day we move in to our first own house. My parents own houses but this is the first time I co own it with my wife. It's not far away about 9km from here so our daughter can keep going to the same school but our little one has to switch kindergarten for the first time. It's an investment but at the same time we want to move in while our children still can enjoy living in a one family…
What's with the giant police man on top of the ...
What's with the giant police man on top of the roof by the Express Bus terminal in Seoul?
This year we're staying an Korea for the summer...
This year we're staying an Korea for the summer so we decided to try Glamping which is glamorous camping and it's amazing! We're also lucky to have such amazing weather, no humidity no heat, no rain, very uncommon for this part of the year. I recorded a short video: https://tube.jeena.net/w/2wfHrh7UxMexT5Vi3ME6zb
Annual leave
Annual leave
AI coding: loop engineering a translator
Since a week or two the term 'loop engineering' is coming up after 'prompt engineering' and 'agentic workflow' seem to not cut it anymore and we need more abstractions. The first time I tried to write something which would do something useful with a LLM was about two years ago in December 2024, I wanted to do translation of big documents from Korean to English on my local RTX 3060 with 12 GB VRAM.…
Paul Zimnol
This is an article from a Silesian newspaper, originally in the Silesian language, about my great grandfather. The journalist while researching did interview my grandmothers sister. English translation below. Paul (Polish: Paweł) Zimnol from Neu Bojschau was born on April 2, 1894. He was a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, prisoner number 15091. Our parents were named Zimnol and…
Makgeolli
I’ve always liked Makgeolli but lately my wife ordered a premium pack of them and a whole now flavor world opened. Now we already drank 2 of the 5 bottles but this limited edition made me make this post. It’s super thick and amazingly flavoufull. Also tastes quite strong. It’s very different to what you get at the convenience store, I’ surprised how different it is. My wife said she wanted to buy…
Currywurst at a German backary in Korea Ach ...
Currywurst at a German backary in Korea Ach So! - 125-7 Yangjae-dong Seocho-gu Seoul https://naver.me/xLEIEkbO
I've been on flickr since 2005 even before Twit...
I've been on flickr since 2005 even before Twitter, etc. and I payed for the Pro version for quite many ears too. I still think it's a awesome platform, it's just that the pro account is a bit too expensive for what I'm using it for nowadays. So today I canceled my pro account, exported my photos and Albums to https://flickr.jeena.net as static pages. I wanted to get off the pro account 4 years…
There is a interesting thing here in Korea, sin...
There is a interesting thing here in Korea, since my son was born people stopped calling me by my name and started calling me ' dad', even my wife!
Once a year my dad makes his cactuses bloom, he...
Once a year my dad makes his cactuses bloom, he just send me this picture, isn't it amazing, in the middle of Germany!
Today I went to Japan and by accident took the ...
Today I went to Japan and by accident took the car key with me. The car keeps working unto you turn it off. My wife also didn't realize it until she was at home after bringing me to the bus station, and we had no idea where the other car key was. A while ago I put those Samsung Tag 2 devices on the two car keys. On the one I took the battery was empty. But I could see on my phone that the other…
I asked my Korean PT if his other customers swe...
I asked my Korean PT if his other customers sweat as much as I do (they are all Koreans) and he said that I'm his most sweating customer.
Do you guys use AI coding agents? I started use...
Do you guys use AI coding agents? I started use in OpenCode and Claude Code. Somehow it's very useful for small projects which are specific for my own use cases where I can't really spent days coding and researching it, but I can have a agent doing that for me and me just reviewing the code. For example I'm dealing with my parent's paper mail in Germany. There are companies which scan the letters…
Rainy evening in Osaka, Japan.
Rainy evening in Osaka, Japan.
Little Hearts, Big Changes
It's interesting, our 3 years old had the same teacher since he was 1 year and three months old, now she resigner and he is starting a new class with bigger children on Monday. She had still had annual leave so she took it this week so he didn't see her. We asked her to meet as during the weekend because we thought he would miss her a lot. But once we arrived he didn't recognize her! Ok she had…
The Samsung Phones have a really cool feature w...
The Samsung Phones have a really cool feature which is a automatic translation when someone calls you. It works like that it listens to what you say in English and translates it to Korean and reads it out aloud. Then it listens to what the other person says in Korean, translates it and reads it out aloud to you. And I believe it's fairly accurate, I tested it with my wife. The problem is when…
Just a little 'hack' if you like me have the Ko...
Just a little 'hack' if you like me have the Korean SK Telecom Router H633G which is from Huawei, and you want to port forward one of the blocked ports like port 80 or 443. It's just a check in JavaScript so it's easy to bypass: Open the NAT page but without the stupid frame, so http://192.168.55.1/nat_functions.html then in Chrome right click -> Inspect -> Console. And there write: function…
We just went to the Moulin Rouge musical. It wa...
We just went to the Moulin Rouge musical. It was very interesting, even though I had jetlag and it was in Korean.
I'm just realizing how shortly lived everything...
I'm just realizing how shortly lived everything is and that change is the only constant. I have a nice setup at home wherr I have home assistant, Synology and ny Pc and I have everything accessible from the internet. I went for three weeks to Europe and while there my wife gor a new iPhone. That led to a cascade of changes. She changes the provider because if we all are at the same then it's a bit…
Waiting in the queue at the gate
I'm at the airport now, the gate has oppened, and like 80% of the people rushed to stand in the queue. I never understood that behaviour. Sure if you have children or are elderly or disabled then I get it that you need more time, but thos epeople have a priority entrance anyway. But if otherwise why do you race to be the first one on the plane where you'll spent the nex 14 hour on anyway? The…
Oh man, the whole English thing with my three y...
Oh man, the whole English thing with my three years old son is really interesting. No one actually speaks English with him. I speak German, and my wife, his sister, the kindergarten, and everyone else speak Korean. But somehow there is still so much English around him at home that the kindergarten teacher wrote today: > He finds activities on his own and enjoys playing with a variety of toys.…
My website was down
Yesterday evening I realized that I couldn't reach my PieFed instance anymore, that actually never happens other than if the load on the server gets unbearable so that it can't respond anymore. I checked this website and it also was not available anymore. From this happening before I knew that I won't be able to log in via SSH either and the best is to just reboot the server and then look around…
I've been vibe coding
At work I'm a Software Architect, I still code a little bit but mostly I do architectural work and developers code the things I come up with. I've always been writing small tools for myself like a RSS Reader because I couldn't find one I liked, or a tool which formats JSON when you paste it into it's window, or a OSX Timer app and many many more. It was always a painful process which took a lot of…
There is one thing traveling china which is ter...
There is one thing traveling china which is terrible which I didn't forsee, people smoking everywhere despite a huge amount of 'No Smoking!' signs. You can't go to a public toilet without meeting deep cigarette stench once inside. Oh you're having a awesome meal with the family and children? Don't mind the middle aged guy smoking at the next table while you're getting your food delivered, and so…
In Jilin City there is a natural phenomenon whe...
In Jilin City there is a natural phenomenon where when it's really cold the mist from the river sets on the trees during the nights and creates this beautiful view in the morning.
We in the village my wife was born in. I met he...
We in the village my wife was born in. I met her late in our lifes, so it's special to me to visit the places from her childhood.
We are right now in a “small” Jiaohe City (蛟河市)...
We are right now in a “small” Jiaohe City (蛟河市) in Jilin Province in China. To around here millions of Koreans fled during WWII and had here a huge Korean Minority with Korean schools, Korean shops, etc. You didn’t need to speak Chinese until you went to basically highschool. Anyway here is a lot of Korean culture left and it shown in the food they serve, like this cold sour noodles we just ate.
A very unexpected upside of self hosting your o...
A very unexpected upside of self hosting your own communication and social media is that when you travel to china everything slill works even over the Hotel Wifi without a VPN. I use PieFed, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube, and some more. Yesterday I wanted to call my Family in Germany and tried WhatsApp, Signal to have a christmas call with them. but nothing worked, the only thing which di was Matrix…
Every day the Kindergarten of my son is posting...
Every day the Kindergarten of my son is posting pictures to this app and we can see what he was doing during the day. Today this adorable picture came in, looks like four little friends on a big adventure :D
I've been listening to the This American Life p...
I've been listening to the This American Life podcast for more than 10 years and I really appreciate their high quality production, so much so that I went to check how I can pay for it because it promised add free listening. But The price is $10 per month, not per year, it's per month. I can't spent so much on entertainment, even if it's very high quality. If a podcast would offer a $1 per month…
In 2018 I found 'Falling in Reverse' with their...
In 2018 I found 'Falling in Reverse' with their Hair Rock song "Good Girls Bad Guys" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga2r8bpzo5k it's very fun concept video and fin music to listen to. Today somehow I remembered it and listened to the song again and wonderd what music they release now. Found their new song "God is a Weapon" which starts kind of like Depeche Mode but then steps it up and sounds…
Today I was at the FOSS for all https://fossfor...
Today I was at the FOSS for all https://fossforall.org/ conferace in Seoul. I had a lot of fun and met the local FOSS community for the first time. I posted during the day on Mastodon: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena/115511440599372193 And I met some of the guys from the Kore Lemmy community https://piefed.jeena.net/post/271523
I made my first DIY Ethernet cable today!
I made my first DIY Ethernet cable today!
Today marks 5 years since I arrived in Korea. L...
Today marks 5 years since I arrived in Korea. Little did I know that the 3 month business trip in the middle of covid would become my life. I'm very gratefull for my life since then, even though I really miss my friends and extended family in Europe.
Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary so ...
Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary so we decided to re climb the mountain we climbed on our second date back in 2020, so already 5 years ago! The picture on the top is also the very first picture there is of us as a couple, even if back then we weren't a couple yet :D And this was this spot on the map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bousYuHyEgGTLDEc9
Today on the way to the kindergarten, in the tu...
Today on the way to the kindergarten, in the tunnel we have to go through, we were walking slowly behind a grandma. When my 2.5 years old had enough, he screamed at her: '비켜!', which means "Get out of the way!" in Korean. She turned around smiling and asked him '비켜?'. She was nice and she went out of the way so we could walk faster 🤣.
I just saw this dog sitter with three small dog...
I just saw this dog sitter with three small dogs, each of them had some clothes on in a different color. But that was not the most interesting thing about him, not even the full face cloth similar to a niqab Muslim women wear to cover the face, which normally older women do here in Korea. The really striking thing was what is a bit difficult to see in the picture, so you need to zoom in a bit, but…
Visa hurdles put Korean investment in US at ris...
Visa hurdles put Korean investment in US at risk - The Korea Herald https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10570891 I think not only Korean investments. Actually I trained people in the US back in 2015 on the same visa those guys from Korea did this year, it's kind of common practice in a legal gray zone. Getting the real proper work visa takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money while the…
Ugh, apparently yesterday a bot visited my Forg...
Ugh, apparently yesterday a bot visited my Forgejo instance and queried everything, which caused Forgejo to create repo archives for everything. Git on the instance is 2.1 GB in size, but the repo archive filled up everything and is 120 GB. I really didn't expect such a spike. That meant that it filled up the whole hard drive and the server and all the services and websites on it went down while I…
I switched to Hyprland some time ago and now I ...
I switched to Hyprland some time ago and now I made a video showcasing all the features I've implemented for myself, check it out! https://tube.jeena.net/w/2EpbXJnMrDokc3362oXSTQ In this video I'm showing my current Hyprland setup as a demo. I'm showing features I implemented myself and my configuration of hyprland, waybar, tofi, wlogout, kitty and other tools. And here the link to my…
Mother in law made a traditional Korean birthda...
Mother in law made a traditional Korean birthday breakfast for me with beef seaweed soup and a mountain of rice just for me so I don't gohungry during my birthday :D
I made some Swedish chocolate balls.
I made some Swedish chocolate balls.
We ate wild scallops and it was so tasty that I...
We ate wild scallops and it was so tasty that I ordered a second order.
K-Pop Deamon Hunters is the next Frozen! Our...
K-Pop Deamon Hunters is the next Frozen! Our 11 year old told us that all her friends watched it already and everyone is talking about it so we watched it as a family last week together. Since then the whole family is in K-Pop Deamon Hunters feever. The music is on the TV on heavy rotation, the 2.5 years old is totally excited, mom is watching all the behind the scenes videos and I'm reading about…
When me and my sister were 6 and 4 our dad came...
When me and my sister were 6 and 4 our dad came in to our room to tell us a bedtime story. He lied down with us on the bed and started telling the story. It was just before Christmas and because our flat was small we had the Christmas tree with lights on in our room by the door, and we were on the other side of the room on the bed by the window, ca. 3 m away Once he was done withe the story…
Last couple of weeks were crazy at work, and I'...
Last couple of weeks were crazy at work, and I'm being pulled into different directions at the same time for different projects. I was hoping tat it would cool down with time but the opposite is the case. I'm so looking forward to the summer vacation even if it's only 2 weeks.
It's not easy to get to the Kindergarten when i...
It's not easy to get to the Kindergarten when it's raining and the only means of transportation is your Mini Cabrio and your driver is a crocodile.