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Andreas
I’m Andreas, and this is the place where I write about all the things that catch my interest. It could be books, it could be music, it could be tech (especially retro tech), it could be random musings about society and philosophy or psychology… whatever comes to my mind.
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I really like reading blogs. I also really like Mastodon as a social media, to keep in touch with people or to have a quick chat about random things. One thing I'm not a fan of though is when people post long articles which would be...
Linkdump number 99! We've reached the final two digit Linkdump. You know what this means? Next week we'll find out if the counter is three digit safe or if it will overflow and roll back to Linkdump -99, and then I will have to spend...
Around 20 years ago I went to University, studying electrical engineering with a specialisation in telecommunications engineering. I was particularly interested in everything that had to do with audio. Signal processing, sound...
This week felt like it was nothing but drama about AI slop everywhere and then every single tech journalist and Youtuber losing their minds over the latest Apple laptop. It's exhausting. Thankfully personal blogs are still a thing and...
It's been a while since I've done one of these! But I think it's time again. After listening through all albums from two 70s bands from the UK and the US last year, I felt like some change was in order, so I picked a German band from the...
It took a surprisingly long time, almost three years, but now it happened - the email address I have published here found it's way into the hands of spammers and now I get half a dozen spam mails every day. I guess it was bound to happen...
It's been forever since I changed something on this site, but I finally sat down and implemented something I already had in the past and wanted to bring back for a long time: A links page. It's still very much a work in progress. For now...
A few days ago I replaced the battery in an old iPod classic I bought a while ago, because the original battery only lasted for about an hour or so before it gave up. So I decided it was time to give the iPod some TLC and treat it to a...
We're exactly one month away from linkdump no. 100. If this were a social media channel I would now have to start drumming up hype for that... "Hey everyone, welcome back! Today's linkdump is a special one as we gear up for Number 100!...
I don't know about you, but I'm at the point which I seem to reach every year around the middle of February, where I'm just done with winter. It was grey and dark and snowing all day yesterday, and today it's freezing cold and I'm just...
This weekend and until Tuesday it's carnival over here in Germany and maybe where you live, too. I was never a big fan of carnival, but we had one tradition back home which was a lot of fun: Rußiger Freitag (sooty Friday), which is...
I mentioned a few times in the last few months that I'm dealing with some health issues, and I thought long about whether or not I should write about them... but I always feel inspired when people talk about the challenges they're...
Did you know you can 3D print a guitar? There are some amazing models online, like this one for example, or this. Printing a neck is probably not feasible (though I've seen it done), but a guitar body is really not that complicated (the...
Nowadays when you turn on the radio in Germany, you'll hear mostly songs which are currently in the charts or hits from past decades, which are almost all in English. Occasionally you'll get a song in German like "99 Luftballons", but...
My friend Dom wrote a long post yesterday about his feelings around coding with AI over on his blog titled "Vibe coding a Gemini Capsule and learning a life lesson in the process", which I highly recommend reading. As it happens, I...