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I have only ever used a laptop. To sit with a laptop at a desk is to sit hunched over. Fine for a time, but ideally you’d want to sit up, with your back straight and look straight ahead. This is a solved problem. Get a monitor or laptop stand and an external mouse and keyboard. Figure 1: A monitor and a laptop stand . As you see I already had the monitor setup, but not the keyboard. Since I…
A good completion system can make navigating an app like walking over clouds. A terrible one is like walking barefoot over spiky stones. Every step of the way will hurt. Unfortunately Emacs’ defaults make for quite the thorny walk. Fortunately that is very fixable. This guide will explain the necessary concepts and go through all of my configuration for the relevant packages of the “…
On Linux I’ve had a nice way to manage my windows for a long time now. On my work computer, a Macbook, I was using the inadequate built-in “Spaces” feature. An unsatisfying experience for to a lack of consistency and sane keyboard controls. This is where AeroSpace comes in, providing a nicer window management experience than what Apple offers. Before we setup the app, let’s…
This is a complete guide to my email setup. I wanted to provide and end-to-end experience showing everything and every step involved. That means the configuration at my hosting and DNS providers, mail sending, syncing and indexing tools and the user interface. This is not for a single mailbox, but sending and receiving from any address on multiple domains. All of my tool/provider choices in this…
I’m not writing this to convince anybody but myself. I have bad long-term memory. If I put my decision and the reasons going into it in writing it can help me sail through future seas of doubt. Why vegan? # I’m not going vegan for the animals. I’m doing it for me. Animal products are holding me - and humanity as a whole - back. Physically, ethically and spiritually. Definition of…
I have been letting go. It was obvious in some ways. I donated clothes I did not wear and books I will not read. It was more subtle in other ways. Along with the books I let go of the person I thought I was going to be. The person who would read those books. Letting them go was letting go of this hypothetical future me. That’s why it was so hard to do. I had hung onto that me for years (in…
Aliens challenge our western worldview. One dominated by a science based in the material world. What lies beyond our senses is disregarded. If you can’t see, touch, feel, hear or smell it, it’s not real . There is some physical evidence to the phenomenon of alien abductions. Enough to win over those who are prepared to believe. But not enough to convince the skeptic. As if the…
Becoming a better human being will make you a better trader. 1 What? # Day trading is sitting in front of a lower time frame chart (5 mins, 15 mins) and speculating on what is unfolding in front of you. Positions are only held for the duration of the trading session. Goal # Be profitable. Continuously increase the stake size (risk per point of movement in the underlying) up to 50€ 2 . Why? # What…
What? # I needed a name for my newsletter. It being called “Newsletter” just wouldn’t do. That “name” was a relict of Start before you are ready. Why? # Words mean things. The best names convey an essence of what lay beyond. “The Power of Now” is about the energy of the present moment, “The 4-Hour Workweek” about the idea that you can work…
NLP means a lot of things to a lot of people. There are many ways to define it. I will try to give you a sense of what NLP is at it’s core. The acronym # Often, NLP is “explained” by just dropping the expanded form of the acronym and leaving it at that. Like that’s the ultimate truth. (To be fair, I’ve done that :smile:.) “ N euro L inguistic P rogramming”…
When somebody tells me I don’t have time for that. , my response, or at least thought, is always: If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities. To which they say: Nothing. It’s not that they don’t have priorities. They have priorities and are expressing them by saying No to something. If it was important to them, i.e. a priority, they would make time for it. If…
What is the film about? # Shown are early days of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, from a civilian perspective, in one of the first cities that was hit. The footage is a raw, only lightly editorialized Ukrainian perspective on the ground. We see what the early stage of the war did to regular people. Main themes # Good people; bad people War is like an x-ray, all human insides become…
What are open ear headphones? # As the name suggests: your ears are not covered by putting something over them (over-ear) or into them (in-ear). The result is: you can clearly hear the outside world at all times. Why Oladance? # In late 2022, when I was looking for a pair of open ear headphones, the selection was very small. I got one of the available styles each and tried them out: *]:min-w-0 ">…
When I was 16 the most curious thing happened. My friend from kindergarten and I were in the backyard of his parents house in the countryside, mowing the grass with scythes. Halfway through we’re taking a break to sharpen our scythes with hand-sized grindstones. He cuts himself in the finger while grinding. Then I cut myself in the finger, much in the same way. I had nicked my tendon and…
I’ve tried to keep this review non-technical. The discussion is relevant not just to AWS, but to other low-cost providers like it. The hidden costs need to be considered. Especially compared to a more pricey option. What is AWS? # Amazon Web Services provides computing resources. They want to differentiate themselves on price. You only pay for what you use. They are the cheapest available…
Yeah, like I was saying… Imagine you’re walking down a windy forest path. You can only see some of the path in-front of you. There are turns, diverging ways and dead trees to climb over. You don’t exactly know where you are going to go, but you’ll figure it along the way. There is another person walking the path together with you. From time to time they just push you. Off the…
What are Neurostreams? # Neurostreams are a powerful tool for putting you into a desired mental state. The product itself is a collection of sounds. These sounds can make you more focused, calm you down, put you into deep meditation, give you energy and motivation and more. If you want to get an idea of what a Neurostream sounds like: A caveat up-front: There is not an official English version of…
Who is Jim Rohn # An author and motivational speaker. He is known for his various self-help books (7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness, My Philosophy For Successful Living), motivational tapes and speeches. Was he really a millionaire? # His claim to fame and what he proclaims each time he introduces himself is that he became a millionaire at 30. He is also open about going broke soon after. I…
10% off!!1! # My grocery store hands me some coupons after every purchase. 50 cents here, 10% there. I thought I am so smart for seeing the manipulation: 1) “Please come back to our store” and 2) “Why don’t you try something that you usually don’t buy?” Well, you not gonna have any luck with me: 1) I always come to you anyway and 2) “Fresh baked…
Overview of all Neurostreams with usage instructions. Recommendation: Familiarize yourself with the emoji descriptors . Applications # To improve your work # Track Effect Application IQ 7000 :page_with_curl: Increase attention and focus, reduce emotional distraction and hyperactivity :eye: , :headphone: , :writing_hand: Flow meets genius (Flow trifft Genie) :page_with_curl: :earth_africa: Get into…
The principle is simple. Start every day with the most challenging and important task (the slimy frog.) The consequent application of that principle is not as easy. It takes attention to work out what the most important task is. It takes discipline to not simply start with an easier, less important task. To face the worst that the day has in store for you head-on feels great though. You know that…
Project start: May23 2024 Offical project end: Nov17 2024 This project was aborted (i.e. the Project was stopped before completion.) See my conclusion . Challenge definition # I have decided to commit myself and take my writing to the next level. The challenge is: 365 days of writing every day. No off-days. No excuses. This challenge was inspired by Andy: CHALLENGE: Start a 365 Day Project and a…
A review of the Levoit Core 300S. What’s an air purifier? # *]:min-w-0 sm:float-right"> A white cylinder that captiously draws in air through a filter system. The filters trap particles like dust, mould spores, pollen and smoke. Resulting in cleaner air. How do we use it? # It sits in the middle of the apartment. That is, between the kitchen and the rest of the place. We have the machine…
A way to continuously apply self-development learnings and expand my comfort zone. Any self-development learning can only be as good as your application of it. If you don’t apply it to your life, that idea means nothing. Every week I am taking a self-development learning or something I want to expore and formulate it into an actionable challenge: A task for me to do every day, an idea that I…
I have this website. It will necessarily include errors. I would like to make it as easy as possible for other people to help me fix them. If somebody spots an error, there I would categorize people that want to help into the categories of: Known vs unknown : if the person knows the author directly Technical vs non-technical : if the person is capable of editing the source and submitting a patch…
The power plant doesn’t have power, it generates power. Your body is that power plant. What is the result of thoughts like “I don’t have the energy” or “I am so tired”? Will you feel energized and ready to go? Or will you feel like you need to lie down and take a break? What if you stopped believing about yourself that you don’t have the energy to do x ?…
Everyone is responsible for backing up their own data. In this guide I’ll walk you through how I do it. Code and configurations # My software projects and linux configurations are versioned via git and use GitHub as a remote backup. This relies on me committing and pushing changes regularly. My dotfiles allow me to completely recreate my linux setup in a few hours on a new device. Threat…
Each trip must have a singular reason for why you’re taking it. I used to live in the big city. Wanting more peace and quiet I moved out into the countryside. My work 1 , friends and family were still in the city though. Naturally I took regular trips 2 to the city. And while there, I might as well get some parts from my old bike store, visit this or that person, stop by at work, go to this…
A talk I held about how to approach technical problems. See the slides All developers spend a lot of time debugging and finding solutions to technical problems. We’ll step through some problems together and hopefully have some fun :) Audience: Developers and technically minded Testers Solutions # Here are my solutions to the presented problems in full. Simple # Just a random issue I picked…
If you’re not using a note-taking app that handles synchronization for you, you’ll have to find a different solution. This guide is going to detail how I use Syncthing for all my synchronization needs and how I use Signal as my notes inbox. Syncthing # Why Syncthing # it just works™ open source feels-like-instant sync works behind CGNAT routers (no outgoing IP address) nice…
What is intermittent fasting? # Restrict your eating to a certain time window. The notation for describing eating and fasting times is this: 16-8. Which means: 16 hours of fasting and 8 hours of eating. Why do it? # Digestion is an energy intense process for your body. If you give your body a window of fasting, it is able to actually finishing the digestion process and trigger repair mechanisms.…
This is a now page. · See also: about me I’m still happily living in rural south Brandenburg with my wife. I currently do not work and am planning next steps. Active Projects # These are the project I’m currently working on. (List is updated daily.) With JavaScript enabled you would see a dynamically included list of my projects here :) FAQ How do you define a project? My note-taking…