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  • Quiet Roads on a Sunday Bike Ride

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesYesterday I went for a bike ride. By my norms it was a relatively cool day, just 27 or so degrees, compared to the 30-37°c I have ridden in, in the past. I was comfortable on the bike, with a cool breeze to cool me down. I went by the lake and…

  • Heat Waves and Tarmac

    Heat Waves and Tarmac

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesHeatwaves and Tarmac When you cycle you feel the difference between different landscapes between seconds. You go from farming landscapes to wooded areas near forests before finally getting to the cities. In the process you notice the difference in temperatures between these different land uses. The Permanent Summer Heatwave This summer has…

  • Cycling With Different Levels of Fitness

    Cycling With Different Levels of Fitness

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOriginally I wanted to write about following route 50 from one village to Romainmôtier. I changed my mind as I created the title for this post. Yesterday I cycled with two people on electric bikes on my normal bike. I didn’t feel that I was making that great an effort, especially since…

  • Youth 😉

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat do you think gets better with age? The older you get the more appreciate that you were once young.

  • Personal AI – Your Personal Language Model

    Personal AI – Your Personal Language Model

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday chatGPT was down, yet again, so I browsed through the web looking for other Large Language Models to experiment with. In the process I came across personal AI. Personal AI is an app, at the moment, that runs on your laptop, but will eventually come to mobile phones and more. The…

  • Playing with Front Matter

    Playing with Front Matter

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor those who want to use Hugo, but find post creation and management complicated there is a FrontMatter plugin that should help. This is a plugin that makes it easy to create new posts in the category of your choice. It automatically creates the title, description field, that you need to populate,…

  • Heatwave Cycling and Place Des Nations

    Heatwave Cycling and Place Des Nations

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesCycling is one of the best sports to do during a heatwave because you have a 25 km/h breeze blowing over you, until you stop. If you flee the oven like cities, and head for the woods by a stream, you will feel the coolness provided by nature, rather than air conditioning.…

  • Road Side Fires and Hashtags

    Road Side Fires and Hashtags

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a level three risk of foresst fires at the moment. Now is a time when smoking and other forms of fire should be forbidden. Now is the time of year where the sides of roads catch alight easily. Forests are at risk. Yesterday when driving home I spotted a fire…

  • A Little Too Experimental

    A Little Too Experimental

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Fediverse is great because people are experimenting and trying new idea. It’s also great because we can be there through every step of the process. This is also why things could be better. I am now writing my blog in Hugo first, and then moving the content over to WordPress at…

  • Social Networks

    Social Networks

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesBefore 2006 we talked about social networks. it’s only with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram that the idea of social media emerged. With it came a golden age of online communities where Facebook was for Uni students to keep in contact with each other, Twitter was to microblog about project progress and more,…