Posts of category: General

It tweeted out

I signed up for Twitter more than 14 1/2 years ago and for me it was the most beautiful and above all the most useful form of a social network. Not only could you follow interesting people or fun accounts, but you could also follow bots that flushed important tweets into your timeline. I have never used the web interface, but have always used Tweetbot as a client on all my systems. An excellent piece of software and it is hoped that there might be a Tweetbot for Mastodon in the near future.

But for me, Twitter is the end of it. I'm quite inconsistent and won't delete my account for the time being, I have to process the pain of my separation first. ;-) But I definitely won't post anything there anymore, or even feel the urge to miss something there. Too much has changed there in the past few weeks in terms of the apparent alignment of the network. If it is now possible for the boss to personally conduct surveys on his account (and thus his filter bubble) about far-reaching decisions, that is no longer consensual for me.

Mastodon feels quite nice, the decentralized architecture gives hope that no power structure can arise that could endanger the entire network. We'll see.

Everything must leave

In the last year which is not allowed to be called by name, I had so many plans and really achieved only a little bit of it. Because I'm doing something wrong (or different) than everyone else who was also in the home office and felt had have always leisure time or at least were so deeply relaxed, that I have started with meditation in the later summer to get to the same level. The meditation I've given up fast because that is a thing that just doesn't work for me. Apparently you have to believe in it just like with homeopathy, and that's just not what my brain is made for.

I didn't get into blogging as I had planned. Just write texts. For me. And put them on the Internet. For whatever reason. Because that's how it was done in the early times of the Internet. Where the internet wasn't quite as broken as it is today.

Maybe I'll even publish a blogroll here soon, because it there is it still there! The little blogosphere and also the tech bloggers. But I will start with a selection of articles and websites that I saved in Pocket last year and forgot. Of the almost 300 entries I will left these here, maybe one or the other will find something that will help them.

Web design

TYPO3

DevOps

PHP

Programming in general

Learned something again and more

I always plan to do more with this blog. To tell something and perhaps give some input to others that will help them. Like the other tens of thousands of blogs and websites I can learn  from every day.

The past few weeks I have been quite offline during my free time. We have build a new terrace, which was already planned when we moved into this house a few years ago. At that time, I just didn't think we would do it all alone.

Next to building and plastering a wall (at least 3,5 x 2 m in size), the extraction, the gravel, pulling of the grit and cutting the plates I've learned that there is simply no need to ask a craftsmen. If you ask how to do one or the other, you get two or three answers which are obsolet one week later. Almost like developers.

And then I taught myself how to solve a Rubik's Cube. My little son brought them in and actually wanted to learn it too. Because I can't help him, I had to have learn it by myself and so I can now solve the cube in a little bit over two minutes with the beginner method. If I will learn other algorithms to solve it in under a minute... I do not know yet.

I will start learning again for the certification of a TYPO3 developer (TCCD). I was able to extend the TCCI certification by one year last Friday, whereby I think that the procedure is worth considering. Just because I took part in a presentation of the innovations of TYPO3 10, which I held in my department in a similar way shortly after its appearance, I have collected a lot of suggestions, but I don't master them. Perhaps this is because I was one of the last ones where the certification is normally valid for three years, the new certificates are only valid for two years.

For the preparations I work through the Exam Study Guide for the Official TCCD Certification of the TYPO3 Association (https://leanpub.com/typo3certifieddeveloper-en) and this time I decided for me to write a blog post for each topic or question that I don't answer correctly when I was studying, in which I then work on this topic. The best way to learn is to write a cheat sheet. There will definitely be some posts. ;-)

A weird time

It's been a weird time when nobody can say, how it will develop. Everyone is swimming.
And even if the effects can already be seen on the horizon and they will be hitting us hard, are all people (TM) kind of friendly to each other. Okay, except the people you get too close to when shopping. They look pretty angry. Or fearful.