Category: Switzerland

  • Learning to Slow Down with Electric Cars

    Learning to Slow Down with Electric Cars

    Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the weaknesses of Electric cars is that they take longer to refuel than a petrol burning car. One of the advantages of electric cars is that they take longer to refuel than a petrol burning car. For some people this is a deal breaker. They don’t want to be…

  • A Growing Fear of Wolves

    A Growing Fear of Wolves

    Reading Time: 2 minutes More Wolves In Switzerland they reintroduced wolves and they are thriving, to the point where a collection of 17 packs of wolves became a pack of 35 wolves. As the number of wolves increases so does the probability that humans will fall victim to wolves. They are thinking of reintroducing them…

  • On Potentially Removing Google Adsense from this Blog

    On Potentially Removing Google Adsense from this Blog

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently I have been toying with the idea of removing Google Ads from my site and adding a donation option instead. This escalated, when, yesterday I was seeing ads in the admin panel of my wordpress blog. Ads are disruptive enough for users, with full screen invasive ads that require you…

  • The Amplified Case for Car Free Cycling and Walking Routes

    The Amplified Case for Car Free Cycling and Walking Routes

    Reading Time: 3 minutes In the near future we may see many more self-driving cars from many different manufacturers. If this is the case then we should think about reducing the number of roads and lanes devoted to cars. As robots drive cars, rather than humans so safety distances no longer need to exist, because…

  • Hugo and Static Files

    Hugo and Static Files

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I was experimenting with the Static folder in Hugo. Hugo and other static site generators has a folder where you can usually put content that you don’t want to have changed. You can add php, css, js and more. By making this an option it is possible to have your…

  • iOS and Environmentalism

    iOS and Environmentalism

    Reading Time: 2 minutes If you use the weather app on iOS 17 the weather app provides you with information about average temperature and average precipitation. It tells you how different the temperature and rainfall are, compared to average. Today, for example, I see that the temperature is 4°c warmer than the average. It tells…

  • A Good Run

    A Good Run

    Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s good to vary between walking, cycling and running. I even threw in skateboarding but I am not confident at that sport yet. The beauty of walking, cycling and running is that these are sports that you can do straight from home, without getting into a car, and without having to…

  • Blogging with VS Code and Hugo

    Blogging with VS Code and Hugo

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I had no inspiration. In the end I did write about something but only after hours of staring at a hypothetical blank page. When I did start writing I used Frontmatter to generate the page but I forgot to open terminal and write the blog post using VIM. I used…

  • YouTube and AI

    YouTube and AI

    Reading Time: 3 minutes According to a recent article YouTube will use AI to direct the content that people make, how it looks how it sounds and more. In so doing YouTube will be even less interesting. AI tools will also begin informing what kind of content creators make. A new AI feature in YouTube…

  • Static Web Generators and CMSes

    Static Web Generators and CMSes

    Reading Time: 3 minutes For weeks, or even months, by now I have been playing/experimenting with Hugo, 11ty and other solutions. I really like that with Hugo I can use FrontMatter as a CMS to create new posts, add the appropriate meta data, and keep track of what is published and what is in draft…