Weekly Post 13

Hi there, it has been two weeks I missed. I had the writeup for the first one actually quite ready, but then the bachelor thesis just took so much head space I put this on the back burner. You have also not missed much actually. Since I basically only did my thesis, there was not a lot going on. But that is done now (I finished writing the first draft, now I wait on feedback and will hand it in next week), so I can go back to living.

Recap

Week 48

On Monday we had the first snow night/day in Hamburg.

It didn’t stick around long. Tuesday I worked pretty successfully on my thesis, and had an university meeting. Wednesday and Thursday was also just working on the thesis. Friday was not that successful, I am a bit behind where I want to be but its not an issue, yet 😅. I spend a lot of time with my girlfriend though. And then we went to a trip with other youth counselors of my home town, for the weekend till Sunday afternoon. Though I didn’t get a lot of sleep like last week, it was a lot of fun with them. And a great break from the thesis, I am more energized to return to the current rather annoying part now.

Week 49

There was me being busy with the bachelor thesis through the week. Huge thank you to my flatmate who was down to go to the library with me which pulled me through the end. A bit else happened though, I got a nice secret santa gift: A pokemon puzzle. I bought myself a reduced advent calendar, the EXIT one of this year. It is a lot of fun, maybe next year I will see if I can get my hands on the space one from last year I prefer the topic even more :D On the weekend I baked cookies at my grandparents, together with my parents, girlfriend and flatmate. And on Sunday the family of my girlfriend celebrated her birthday.

Culinary highlight

I baked some cookies on the first weekend on the trip, there was just a grate sadly so some got. Bendy. They tasted good all the same. And the last picture is the result of the second week baking with my grandparents.

Song of the week

This week' music recommendation goes to My Doctor by Katerina Lomis. This is a recommendation from my girlfriend. Katerina Lomis has an amazing way to modulate her voice, they like to sing in quite a vocal range, as well as play with pronouncing words in a very uncommon way. Checkout other songs from them as well, its a blast!

I did an improvement to the music listing, now there is a pinned post with all music links in one place.

Currently watching/reading/listening

I have started to collect a list of stuff I want to mention here, so that part of the blog post goes great! This week I’d like to mention Tom Scott’s weekly newsletter. I very much enjoy reading them, stuff he put in his newsletter have found their way into my blog posts a couple times. An example: Atomic Shrimp makes an apple pie out of 100% apple. No, really. 100% apple. No flour. No water. Just apple. What a video.

Games

I spend a bit of time on Friday trying out archipelagio.gg. It is a cross game randomzier, so you play through your randomized game with usually abilities and key items removed, you don’t know where they are or how to unlock the next stages, and your friends to the same with different games. If you find an item, it can be from your own game or is send to your friends one. I played A Hat in Time, which is my second favourite 3D Platformer, it was a lot of fun. I hope to repeat this in the future with multiple people.

Projects

Not nerdy christmas crafting stuff

Nerdy this website issue/improvement stuff

I included auto playing videos in my last blog post. Some time ago when those were really annoying, so browsers decoded to not allow auto playing of music/videos with an audio track. Not an issue for me, the LED matrix is silent. But chromium based apps on android apparently couldn’t be bothered to check if the video has an audio track or not, so I had to manually include a muted attribute into the HTML tag after someone told me that the media didn’t load. Annoying, because I ofc tested it before myself and since I use Firefox where it worked, I thought it was fine. And while debugging this issue, I saw that the chrome app I have on my computer apparently does check this and was able to play the video, it was just on Android.

And I decided to do the improvement with the music link. For a technical writedown, check out my Github comment.

Aaand I fixed the 404 error handling which needs special treatment for static sites. Thanks to Matthias Streidel who made a blog post about this where I could just copy paste the solution, amazing.

Random playground building picture

Here I was on Friday, definitely not procrastinating doing my thesis. And when I looked out of the window in our kitchen to the house which is being build there (when I moved in 5 years ago there was an unused house ruin with like broken windows and the like), I saw people building a small playground before that new house.

That must be such an amazing job :D You get to build stuff which brings people plain joy. Amazing.

As always, make the best out of your day!