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Category: Swiss walks

  • JavaScript Patterns, A Skipped Walk And A New Purchase.

    JavaScript Patterns, A Skipped Walk And A New Purchase.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I found a course about JavaScript patterns on Linkedin. I have been following course after course about Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Angular, React, EcmaScript, CSS and more, but most of them tell you how to do things. I watched plenty of their explanations and I managed to copy the code…

  • Playing with WP Rig

    Playing with WP Rig

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I started following the “Building Progressive Themes with WP Rig.” course on Linkedin Learning. Before you start playing with WP Rig make sure that you have installed Composer. Composer is required to use WP Rig during the build process. Composer itself requires that you have PHP on your machine. After…

  • Good Cycling Weather

    Good Cycling Weather

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite people doing what they can to keep the pandemic going, by not vaccinating, by not wearing masks, by not minimising social interactions, by avoiding busy shops we are in a 3000 new people infected per day routine in Switzerland. For some reason, fatalists and others have taken the decision that the…

  • Distracted Day

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDistracted Day

  • Water bottles and Oxydation

    Water bottles and Oxydation

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI often hiked with a Sigg one litre water bottle and it has served me well. It has been with me for rock climbing, via ferrata, hiking and more. I like it because it is light, easy to use and maintain. I liked the one litre version enough to get a…

  • A July September Day

    A July September Day

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat do I mean by such an odd combination of words? That today it was warm. 25°c at the time when I set off for my bike ride. It was warm enough to feel comfortable in summer cycling equipment. What was more unusual, for this time of year, is how dry the…

  • A Busy day

    A Busy day

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI did not write today, because I was busy.

  • Crops

    Crops

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThese are not ducks in a row. Tidy crops

  • Thrown or Dropped Out Of A Car

    Thrown or Dropped Out Of A Car

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI don’t understand why this would fall out of a car window.

  • Caution: Bees

    Caution: Bees

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI could have been closer to take a picture but I don’t want to run the risk of taunting Melissa, the bee, from Greek Mythology. I don’t like walking this close to hives. You see plenty of little flecks flying around and you know that’s you’re going to cross their flight…