Category: travel
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A Quiet Whatsapp Experience
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a year or more I was part of GoSocial, because I’m curious. The experimental community is based on Whatsapp group chats. There is “one” chat per city, whether Nyon, Bale, Lausanne and others. I was part of Lausanne and Geneva. The first thing that struck me is that the community uses…
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The Woodpecker Walk
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt would be tremendously easy for me to go to Pampigny and do the usual three or four walks. Today i didn’t. I decided to explore a new route. Rather than walk up to the walks, and then turn, and walk along fields, I went into the woods. The reward was the…
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Saving Energy with Convivial Cycling
Reading Time: 4 minutesI have seen either the same headline, or a similar headline three times. It speaks about the revival of nuclear energy as a solution for Europe’s energy problem. Given how Europe gave up on COVID zero as soon as vaccines arrived, I’d strongly recommend against nuclear. If governments don’t follow through with…
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On a Slow Puncture and the Cyclplus AS2 Pro
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is an experience review, rather than a product review. During yesterday’s group ride I noticed that my rear tyre was feeling flat. I stopped to re-inflate it because the problem seemed minor but I made the mistake of not closing the valve properly before setting off again so the inner tube…
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The Zero Second Not a Number Strava Mystery
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I noticed that I had an unusual workout that was getting likes. It had zero minutes of exercise, zero distance travelled, and NaN speed in km/h. In other words I had a track that should not have been counted by Strava as a workout. Everyone is familiar. If you go for…
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On the Blank Page and Time Spent Thinking
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe more I read about AI generating blog posts and other content, the more I feel that we should write for ourselves, rather than our readers. I noticed, recently, that no one is reading my posts. There could be three reasons for that. The first is that what I’m writing interests no…
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The White Noise Roomba
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome people like to listen to music but those people don’t like to use headphones or earphones. The result is that you hear it, whether you want to. That’s why, sometimes, instead of using a fan for white noise, I use a roomba. Roomba White Noise The Roomba as white noise serves…
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An Eleventy Strava Experiment in Three Parts
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the last two days I have been experimenting with reproducing my Strava timeline in Eleventy using a CSV file, for a change, as well as a JavaScript file to import new GPX files and map them correctly for the CSV file. That CSV file is then read by Eleventy to populate…
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On Quitting Whatsapp Chatrooms
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I worked as a deicer I was working such unsociable hours that my personal life took a hit. Friends would often discuss going to climb at 19:00 or so but I couldn’t. I had to be up at 02:00 to be at work by 04:00 ready to deice planes. After a…
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A Simpler WordPress Federation Process
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I spent some time looking into why my WordPress blog was de-federated. My suspicion is that when I switched from FTP to rsync, to upload the latest changes, it modified the .htaaccess file or the .well-known/webfinger file. That’s why my blog stopped posting to the Fediverse. I blamed Jetpack because I…