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I hope you had a good Easter weekend, mine was very relaxed indeed. Today a (very) short little “hike” with the family, a bit of picnic, an early return home and a long nap with wide open windows with the birds singing, I can’t complain.
(Yes, technically today is Monday and already the week of the next weeknotes, but all rules fly out of the window on these weekends when Monday is a public holiday.)
I started working on a new look for this website last week, but suddenly lost interest again. I hope I can find the momentum again. Otherwise this will end up like all the many other half-finished ideas and things will look the same for another couple of years.
Dominik
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A little family trip to Strasbourg crowned a week that was otherwise similarly mundane as the last couple of them. The city is well worth a visit, it’s very pretty indeed.
I started reading a Japanese whodunnit on Saturday which so far is very intriguing and quite different from the usual European ones I read. Apparently it’s part of a longer series, two of them have been translated so far.
After I added the human.json file I installed the browser plugin as well and it is quite interesting to see how many blogs out there are already setting this up. I might need to clean up my plugin and actually put it in the WP plugin repo. Even though the idea of doing that really doesn’t appeal to me at all.
Dominik
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human.json is exactly the kind of nerdy metadata silliness that is designed to amuse me. It’s a protocol to vouch for people’s websites created by Beto Dealmeida.
It basically works by offering a little json file with a list of websites one trusts to be human who doesn’t use AI to write their blog posts. It’s nice and not super complex. So after reading about it on Terence Eden’s blog I knew that I needed to add this to this website as well.
I turned it into a WordPress plugin, which you can download here at Codeberg.
As for me – for now I added people I have met in real life. Maybe I’ll add people I only know online but still know for a fact that they’re humans. We’ll see.
Dominik
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The constant urge to keep a grievances.md file while knowing fully well that this would be extremely silly.
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So, it’s already Monday and here are my notes for last week: Nothing to report, carry on.
I know this is a bit boring to read. At the moment my brain seems to be in the same mode as my Wallabag installation, (which I did manage to get going again, for those keeping score) things go in, to be processed at a later time. The buffer still has space, so let’s see what happens when there’s an overrun.
Dominik
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Three K-pop(-ish) songs I enjoyed recently: Hypnotize by XG, Catch Catch by Yena and Bang Bang by Ive.
Dominik
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Not much to report on this week. It was mostly cold and rainy, I got lost in Captain of Industry (yes, again. No, I don’t learn from past mistakes) and rewatched the first season of True Detective.
I almost bought something online and about half an hour after I asked the seller to use the marketplace’s secure payment system, I got an email that the seller has been kicked off the platform for fraud reasons.
At least I saved some money this way.
Dominik
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I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment.
This morning it was Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio
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I’m thinking a lot about adding a blogroll lately. I’m considering everything from a simple list to a full-blown reader experience. My WordPress installation is old enough to still have the Links Manager, so I might just use that.
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It is allergy season, fuck yeah. So while I spend both days of the weekend outside (which was nice, don’t get me wrong. We even had sun!) I immediately crashed on the couch when I came back, defeated by the battle that my body is trying to fight against the pollen. And I’m sure the antihistamines didn’t help, either.
Dominik
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Oh boy. The pollen allergy season is in full swing already. And of course I forgot to order my antihistamines.
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It is a bit baffling. I’m working with a whole bunch of WordPress installations, every single one of them with the server time zone set to UTC and the WordPress time set to Europe/Berlin. It works fine in all of them – except with one client, where there’s always a weird mismatch of times.
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I spend my morning watching reels from expats in Dubai and yes, you’re right, iOS. I have indeed reached my limit on Instagram.
Meanwhile I have fallen out of love with Wallabag. Mostly because it suddenly didn’t let me log in anymore and I don’t have the energy to look into what happened. Ugh.
While I already mentioned that I like the new Gorillaz album, I want to add that I also like the animated video they created.
Manuel was nice enough to contact me for his People and Blogs newsletter – I still don’t know why and I hope I didn’t embarrass myself too much with my answers.
Dominik
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PSA: The new Gorillaz album is out today and it is very good, indeed.