A one hour lunch break at home is actually exactly the same amount of time as a half hour lunch break in the office.
A one hour lunch break at home is actually exactly the same amount of time as a half hour lunch break in the office.
Today I finished reading Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O‘Neil. Great book on how algorithms and machine learning are specifically used to target poor people and are used to undermine democracy and fairness.
We watched Detective Pikachu last night. Wow. What a weird ride. The story made no sense at all, but the Pokémon were cute. Top Corona Movie.
🎸 Another new release today: The Caretaker by Half Waif.
🎸 Saint Cloud, the new album from Waxahatchee is out today.
On a related note: I enjoy The Correspondent very much right now. They don’t have real-time coverage of current events, but rather well researched long-form articles on topics that are relevant.
🔗 The Correspondent: The coronavirus is reminding us that anxiety is good – as long as it doesn’t turn into panic
🔗 Good explainer of herd immunity from The Correspondent:
thecorrespondent.com/356/what-…
You can clearly see on which day we were not supposed to get out anymore.
On a related note: it takes exactly 32 steps to get from one end of my apartment to the other.
Yesterday the Austrian government announced that due to Corona all social life should be reduced to a minimum.
This is my Corona diary. Day 1.
Although my Saturday morning looks exactly like every other Saturday morning, cleaning up the apartment a bit and preparing food, I am bored.
🔗 I love this kind of posts: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
I hope that the palace Bezos bought is comfortable, but I also hope it’s full of angry ghosts.
Has The Verge suddenly turned anti-capitalist?
🎸 Today TORRES released her forth album, Silver Tongue.
I just wanted to point out to you that the scientist interviewed in this article about the effect of planting 1 trillion trees is called Forrest.
There were two main reasons while I wanted to switch from Gatsby to Eleventy:
1) Gatsby loads React on page load, which makes the initial page load time super slow
2) I work with React all day at work and I wanted to work with something different in my free time.
Yesterday I switched my website from Gatsby to Eleventy and I am super with the results. Page load should be a lot faster now.
I just found a fix for the most annoying Apple Music bug so far. When I wanted to listen to an Intelligent Playlist in iTunes it would tell me to log into Apple Music, but I could listen to albums when I played them from “Recently Added”. In the “For You” section I am also logged in. Turns out I needed to log into iTunes Match (for whatever reason).
The first book I read in 2020 was Das Flüssige Land by Raphaela Edelbauer. An absurd take on the Heimatroman, it deals with how Austria suppresses its Nazi past.
📝 In 2019 I missed by 52 books goal, but I managed to read 36. Let’s see if I can do better in 2020.
🎸 You can listen to all 15 of my favourite albums of 2019 in this Apple Music playlist:
📝 On my blog I have collected my favourite albums of the year:
Today we released cocur/slugify v4.0.0. This release includes support for PHP 7.3 and 7.4, Symfony 4 and 5 and Twig 3.
For some reason they dumped a bunch of snow in the center of Vienna
There is one alternative to social media sites and publishing platforms that has been around since the early, innocent days of the web. It is an alternative that provides immense freedom and control: The personal website.
📝 I posted a Recap of Webclerks Community Conference 2019 on my blog