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Category: Swiss walks

  • Playing With Harmonicas

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesDuring a walk a few weeks ago I came across L’Harmonica pour les nuls, Harmonica for Dummies, so I picked up the book and within a day or two I had ordered a harmonica to learn the instrument. The harmonica is a small versatile instrument. that can be used to play a…

  • A Storm Warning

    A Storm Warning

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I see that there is a nice storm warning. Storm warnings, during a heatwave are nice because it means that despite the heats we will have a short fun reprieve. I hope for thunder and lightning. There is every chance that the anticipated storm will not happen. We can sit and…

  • Playing With VIM

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a while I liked playing with VS Code but I grew tired of it because it autocompletes everything, to the extent that you end up deleting rather than writing code. For a while I was playing with Atom but Github have decided to retire that application so I decided to look…

  • A Field Filled With a Multitude of Flowers

    A Field Filled With a Multitude of Flowers

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe pandemic continues. People continue suggesting to do things in the physical world but I find little to no desire to be in close proximity to others, The only moment I am, is when I am cycling. Today I didn’t bother wearing a mask to recycle, not because I didn’t have…

  • A Weekend Walk During a Pandemic

    A Weekend Walk During a Pandemic

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for my daily walk and I saw a shape. I thought, “That looks like a fox” and as I approached i had a doubt about it being a dog and I felt fear but I continued forward anyway. Eventually the fox noticed me, looked at me and then fled…

  • Stormy Skies Near Nyon

    Stormy Skies Near Nyon

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe weather was finally dynamic today. The storm warnings were flashing towards Hermance, on the French side of the lake. This gave a nice contrast between the yellow of the Colza fields and the dark threatening clouds behind. At moments I thought that rain would begin to fall but luckily the doppler…

  • The Pandemic Duality

    The Pandemic Duality

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are currently two societies. On one side we have those who believe what they are told and take everything at face value. On the other side we have those that look at the bigger picture, that follow international news, and look at the big picture. The society that believes what they…

  • Wordle Attempts

    Wordle Attempts

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI like this collection of words. I think the experiments are more interesting than the result.

  • Just a Quick Embed test

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe pandemic situation in Switzerland. The pandemic is not over, but all safety measures are.

  • On Whether I Prefer Vanilla JavaScript or Frameworks?

    On Whether I Prefer Vanilla JavaScript or Frameworks?

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday someone on twitter asked this question, and rather than be reply: 320 of 10,000, I chose to write a blog post about it. The TLDR answer is Vanilla JS because if you learn how it works without the help of a framework you understand the language. This doesn’t mean that I…