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Dominik Schwind
Hi, I'm Dominik Schwind, friend of the internet. And this is my blog.
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For the last couple of days when it was really hot I had my big fan running almost 24/7: during the day to bring some respite through moving air and during the night to make sure that the cooler air from outside makes it into the parts...
A few weeks ago I talked with Dirk about blogging and while this conversation got him to write a post about the state of the world he told me that week notes aren’t for him as they are too personal. I’ve been thinking about this...
I guess it was the heat that got to people’s brains. This week I more than ever in the just about nine years I’ve been on Mastodon I had to block and mute and filter to keep my timeline halfway sane. On Monday evening I went to a photo...
I have linked to videos from OTR a few times on my link blog but this one deserves a post on here. It’s a feature-length documentary about the “Golden Triangle” within Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, the history how it became the center of...
I mostly spend this week up in Cologne. A bunch of in-person meetings, a bit of hanging out with friends and coworkers, good (and some not so good) food and the days went by very quickly. For the first time in quite some while I took the...
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. (This one I really can’t explain. It’s not my kind of music. I can’t remember hearing it anywhere lately. And yet here we are.) This morning...
Another big 24 hour race this week, this time the Le Mans one. I’m usually not a WEC guy but this one is special, of course. Otherwise this week was a calm one, again. (Next week won’t. Foreshadowing!) Taskmaster Series 21 concluded,...
I very much prefer the fediverse aka Mastodon (yes, I know) over the other text-based social networks. Especially over the one that used to be so important to me.But it does have it downsides and I usually notice them when I am trying to...
A calm and rather cool summer week. Not quite as rainy as forecast but not the hot temperatures of the last few weeks.I didn’t do all that much – slept a lot, futzed around with my websites and learned more about Vietnamese addresses,...
This is a copy of an issue that I just created in the Nominatim repository. Sadly my skills in Python (and my knowledge of the OSM data model) aren’t good enough to poke around in the code on my own to figure out what is happening....
You get old and you start thinking, “Oh, I better make the world around me miserable. Then I won’t mind leaving so much.” That’s what you got to fight against.– Bob Mortimer Reply by email
Can you believe it’s Sunday already? It’s still nice and sunny but the weather forecast (and a look outside) tells me that this is going to be over soon. There was a lot of family this week – it would have been my grandmother’s 100th...
This series is an incredible deep dive into the cryptic short codes that are behind flight bookings and how the systems behind the curtain work all the way until the passenger reaches the destination. I’ve read them all the way through...
A sunny Sunday, a few clouds in the sky, windows wide open, iced coffee, Italo disco on moderate volume, this is a good early summer morning. My “cleaning out my personal side-projects”-project is moving very slowly. Mostly because I’m...
Last night I played some New Age easy listening music while reading and this morning I found out that my 100.000th scrobble is now “Age Of Loneliness” by Enigma. I’m not sure what to make of that. Reply by email