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Dominik Schwind
Hi, I'm Dominik Schwind, friend of the internet. And this is my blog.
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WebSub is one of those underrated technologies that quietly work in the background of the web and that I appreciate quite a bit. It’s not super hard to implement and at least in my experience it is super fast as well. (I think) WordPress...
Just like everyone else in this part of the world, I wanted to see the eclipse last Wednesday. Given that my living room windows face directly toward the sun around the time of the eclipse, I decided to just do that from home. Alas there...
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was Go by The Chemical Brothers. Reply by email
I started something on an impulse. I realised after a while that while it might be a great idea, it would be an even better idea as part of something already existing. Now I’m ignoring it altogether and for some reason started Captain of...
Another rather calm and warm week.Workwise I’m currently working on a big task with a technology I haven’t used before, so this takes up a lot of my mental energy and struggling with all the weird little mistakes one does when not fully...
This week we had two trailers for big Cyberpunk TV series: Blade Runner 2099 and Neuromancer. On the one hand: cool! On the other hand: hm. Let’s see if it’s a good idea to look at the future the 80s foresaw through a late 2020s lens....
After the shenanigans of the last two weeks, this one is clearly one to recharge my social battery. I’m not sure if this is the reason but I also slept particularly bad. At least during the night. Daytime naps were just perfect but...
Weird technology mistakes: on Saturday I just wanted to add one of our family gatherings to my calendar on the iPhone. I typed “Family gathering” and the phone helpfully used all the information from an old family gathering, (2019!)...
20 years ago I joined Twitter. I miss the old days of the internet. Reply by email
It was the best of times, it was the wurst of times. The first two days of the week were being spend in Munich, a friend of mine had a stopover there and we planned to have dinner for a few months already. The time I wasn’t eating wurst...
A birthday, a funeral and a train journey that actually went just fine filled the week that was over faster than I could look around. Just like I mentioned last week, the current weather has a bigger effect on me than the one during the...
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was I Can’t Stop Me by Twice and it is 100% because Instagram keeps showing me reels of that girl who screams along with it...
I added a dominik.md to a project that I only work on once in a while. It contains a list of things still unfinished and a documentation about my decisions I made so far and oh boy is one of my coworkers livid.Frankly, in a time when...
The “Years Ago Today” plugin on my blog just reminded me that I linked to GTA V GeoGuesser four years ago. I clicked just for a laugh, oh, maybe I still remember, haha – and I wasn’t really prepared what a deep feeling of nostalgia and...
Another data point for my thoughts about blog posts and especially weeknotes being personal or not: Roy read my post and decided to be less personal. Which is interesting – he does also mention that he is writing a private journal as...