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I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • Spontaneous Publibike Ride

    Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are all familiar with it. We get a phone call. "I will be in Nyon in 20 minutes, do you want to meet". We think, duck, that’s short notice. Do we take the bike? No, because we don’t want to leave it unattended. Do we take the car? No, because then…

  • MacBook Pro Battery Replacement

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have a 2016 MacBook Pro that now requires me to swap the battery. The issue is that because this is a machine from 2016 it is seen as obsolete by Apple. This means that Xcode and other apps no longer get updated. Neither does Final Cut Pro X and other apps.…

  • Audiobookshelf Two Hundred and Fourteen Days Later

    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo or three days ago I noticed that I have spent at least sixteen thousand three hundred and fifty seven minutes listening to 320 items over 214 days via Audiobookshelf and I can honestly say that of my self hosted experiments this is my favourite. What I Like What I like about…

  • More WordPress Thoughts

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days I ran ClassicPress rather than WordPress and it ran fine. I noticed that sliding between WordPress and ClassicPress is not as simple as it used to be. Now we need to find the build URL and I couldn’t find documentation about what the Build URL is. Having said…

  • A Linear Walk with Publbike

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI almost always go for walks that are a loop because I don’t like to go back and forth. I prefer to have new sights for the entire walk. Today I thought about how I could go for a walk but rather than come back by a variant of that route I…

  • Reaching Lactic Threshold

    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I thought that I would get breakfast for free before the ride but I didn’t. As a result of this I went for a bike ride in a fasted state. I considered having pasta for dinner the night before, even as breakfast but didn’t. The result is that the energy stores…

  • A Knackered Feeling

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor two days I rode twenty five kilometres, which, by my standards, are quite small rides. Today I rode with a group and for a while I was fine but then, when I climbed from Nyon towards Duillier I began to feel that I was fatigued. I slowed down and I couldn’t…

  • Self-driven Cars and Failing Infrastructure

    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the US people are obsessed with the lure of self-driving cars and robotaxies but I think these are looking in the wrong direction. If you’re looking in the right direction you improve bus services. You improve their frequency and you improve their coverage. You also improve the bike sharing infrastructure. If…

  • The Platform – Thoughts

    Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo nights ago I saw that Netflix was recommending that I watch The Platform 2, so I watched The Platform instead. The Platform is a Spanish film that takes place in a pit/prison. Within this prison every cell is stacked vertically and those on the first floor get first dibs on food.…

  • Threads and Its Toxic Design

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThreads, for the very beginning was an awful idea. Facebook already has Facebook, Instant Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram and more. It was greedy so it created Threads but Threads has one fatal flaw. It’s a web chat driven by algorithms rather than chronological conversations. The reason for which this matters is that it…