And just like that, another month has flown by. Time for my usual look back. The month started with my longest single-day bike tour ever: 136 km from Braunschweig to Gifhorn, Celle, and back. It was pretty exhausting, but that didn’t stop me from trying again at Pentecost. I had planned to ride various national and...

Regarding my last post: While I spent plenty of thoughts on the whole implementation, most of the coding work was actually done by DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro, and I just supervised and criticized it. While I mainly used Amp Free in the last few months, Amp Free is dead. The daily free usage was cut to 5 dollars, and...

The moment when you finally deploy a change on which you worked over some days, trying to think through every possible use case and scenario, and you just hope it’s working flawlessly. 🙏 Such a moment was just now for me! I finally and drastically improved image optimization with GoBlog. Responsive images and AVIF...

As I wrote, I had planned a bikepacking trip covering a total of 224 km. Well, things didn’t quite go as planned. Shortly after my post, I changed the route due to a lack of good camping options along the way. I read some bad reviews about the campsite I originally planned to stay at. Instead of a round trip, I...

I planned a bikepacking trip for the coming weekend, but I am not really sure if I overestimate my power, if I will eat enough, and if I will be able to put up the tent on my own. 😅 I watched so many YouTube videos on bikepacking in the recent years that I really need to try a multi-day trip (just two days for now,...

Bad news about Bitwarden. Apparently their CEO changed, and everything looks like they are preparing for a sale. Bitwarden has also stopped listing “Inclusion” and “Transparency” as tentpole values on its careers page. On his LinkedIn page, Sullivan, Bitwarden’s new CEO, describes himself as having “robust...

Almost two months ago, I switched back to Ubuntu as my primary operating system. While I still have a Windows 11 VM, I never really use it. Ubuntu 26.04 fits all my needs I had since switching to it. While I installed it during the beta, the final LTS version has also been released since then. I used Linux already...

It is now almost half a year in my new job, and I think it was the right move. It feels like the time since I started has flown by, as if I had only started yesterday. Every day, I learn something new, both technical and regarding the topic of certificate management, while also contributing what I already know. The...

I’ve been a Tailscale user for almost five years. Today, I stumbled across NetBird again and largely replaced Tailscale with it. Why? For one, the reverse proxy feature: Setting up public services is much easier with it compared to Tailscale Funnel. It lets you use a custom domain or even multiple ones. It’s much...

Now I am 26 + 1 years old. My better half made me this delicious cake and gave me these beautiful flowers and some cool presents!

Upgrading the valves on my bike to Clik valves is a real game changer. Straightforward to use and fixes a few annoying issues with the previous Presta valves (for example, accidentally unscrewing the valve while removing the pump). Another cool thing: there are conversion kits from Schwalbe available for both Presta...

April is now over too, so it’s time to look back on the month. This time, I’ll keep it really brief.