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Category: Switzerland

  • Twenty Seven Thousand Steps in BareFoot Shoes

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I took twenty seven thousand steps in barefoot shoes. My feet did not suffer at all from walking that far in such shoes. I did some of that walking in the vapor gloves and the rest in the Trail Gloves. The beauty of barefoot walking is that you…

  • Hiking in the Jura in Minimal Shoes

    Hiking in the Jura in Minimal Shoes

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for a short walk in the Jura with minimal shoes and I felt fine. The shoes, despite being thin soled, felt fine on the dry dirt paths. They do get wet when walking in dew covered grass but that’s what you would expect so that’s acceptable.  When you’re wearing…

  • The Lost Art of Silent Material Cutting

    The Lost Art of Silent Material Cutting

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor years now the noise in this village has been frustrating me. It is the noise of industrial cutting. The noise of an angle grinder on metal, of a circular saw on bricks, stone and wood. It is the constant wail of a circular saw cutting into something, every few seconds, or…

  • Seventy Kilometres Later – Adapting to Barefoot Shoes

    Seventy Kilometres Later – Adapting to Barefoot Shoes

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI walk from three to fie million steps per year. In doing so I wear through shoes and through socks every six months or less. It makes sense that I would experiment with barefoot shoes since I spend so much time walking.  The Experience Initially I tried the Vapor Glove 6 and…

  • Vapor and Trail Gloves After Twenty Kilometres

    Vapor and Trail Gloves After Twenty Kilometres

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe easiest sport to practice every day is walking. We can walk to the bus stop, train station or other places every single day. We can walk in the morning, we can walk at the shops, and we can walk at lunch time or in the evening. All of these walking opportunities…

  • The Unedited Podcast

    The Unedited Podcast

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when I wanted to listen to hours of podcasts a day, and I did. I would listen on my walks, on my commutes to work, while driving and more. I would love listening to podcasts so much that I would wish I had more time to spend on…

  • Minimal Walking – Day 2

    Minimal Walking – Day 2

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI went for a walk with the barefoot shoes for a second day in a row. I didn’t regret it. I need to pay more attention to how I walk, specifically I need to make sure not to slam my heel into the ground with each step and this takes focus, muscle…

  • On Mastodon Niches

    On Mastodon Niches

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesMastodon is a federated social network where people can join a server, based on their interests in tech and more. Most people join the servers that are open and easy to join but in doing so we have communities that grow, without becoming communal. I am on at least three different Mastodon…

  • The Wastefulness of Mobile First Design

    The Wastefulness of Mobile First Design

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few years now I have noticed a worrying trend, one that sees content become so sparse on a web page that you see one tweet or facebook post per screen height.  Before mobile first design, and the proliferation of React websites you would find pages that had twenty to thirty…

  • Colza, Sheep, Metamorphosis and Mindfulness

    Colza, Sheep, Metamorphosis and Mindfulness

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I took a picture of brilliantly yellow Colza with the Jura looking dark due to storm clouds overhead. If you walk at this time of year you will see a lot of cola. At the moment it is brilliantly yellow and at it’s prime. Later on, the colza will be passed…