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Completing the challenge
Today I completed #100daystooffload! My roundup following Doug Belshaw’s post a little. It took me 339 days to finish. I wrote about programming and people I find inspiring, about communities and platforms. I think I learned a few things along the way, writing a blog post was a motivation to try something which could eventually help me for my job. Summarizing and to put it in own words gives me a way to look up and recall terms and concepts.
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Ninety-nine
I am going to wrap up #100daystooffload with my next article. As I mentioned before, there were a couple of reasons I liked to participate in this challenge: I wanted to have a blog for a long time 100daystooffload gives you a chance to write tech articles different from those you see often in the web I liked the idea to offload things, which I kept thinking about for longer Articles are often much like “hey I figured this out and I am one of the first who did and like to tell you about it”.
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Poetry, yay!
Some fascinating aspect of CS comes from the need to name new stuff. Languages, frameworks, concepts. It striked me again when I first head about poetry. So funny to name a tool like this, very appealing. My new package manager in Arch Linux is called yay – same thing here. Names often relate to something or someone. Python to Monty Python and Django to the guitarist Django Reinhard. I believe inventors and creators come up with names like these to show their appreciation and to create little worlds they enjoy being in.
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Moving accounts in the Fediverse
Soon I am going to move my account from fosstodon to another instance of the Fediverse. Because fosstodon is an English speaking community but I am accouncing monthly meetings of the Freie Software Freunde e.V. in case we host a talk, which are conducted in German. So not sure yet where to go to, @social.tchncs.de maybe or some other knot. It’s interesting to have a choice though. This is day 97 of my #100daystooffload series, a challenge to write 100 blog posts in a year.
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Wissenschaft
Vor wenigen Tagen habe ich “Die kleinste gemeinsame Wirklichkeit” von Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim zuende gehört. Man kann das in den Rezensionen auch nachlesen, sie trifft mit ihrem Buch den Nerv der Zeit. Es werden aktuelle und diskussionswürdige Themengebiete wissenschaftlich beleuchtet und es geht um wissenschaftliche Methoden und Denkweisen. Ich möchte die Abschnitte noch einmal hören und mitschreiben, wenn Mai Signifikanz, wissenschaftliche Evidenz und die Wichtigkeit wissenschaftlicher Methoden erläutert. Sie möchte, dass Kenntnisse hierüber Teil der Allgemeinbildung werden.
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NOWHERE II
Today is the last day of rC3 – I liked the congress a lot. Much was different, not only because it took place remotely again. I checked one more time, fefe hasn’t blogged about the congress yet, he always did I believe. Frank Rieger twittered once, there won’t be a Fnord News Show just because it’s less fun without the audience. I wonder if there’s some more behind it. To show the club is changing, to give the next gen more visibility.
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rC3 NOWHERE
In a few days the rC3 NOWHERE begins, the annual congress of the Chaos Computer Club. This year again remotely. The FSFE Women work on their spot on the map, and I hope I can translate a few talks again with the lingo team. Looking back, Tom and I must have been to all the congresses 26C3 - 29C3. We never stayed four days, usually two days and booked a room in a hotel.
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2021
That was 2021 – the second year of the pandemic. I struggled less than in 2020 I believe. It was good to participate in #100daystooffload. Perhaps a mistake, too, it is hard to say. Isn’t it just time-consuming and pointless? I am still recovering from surgery because of my broken foot and I am with constant headaches. I have headaches occasionally but just for a day and then they disappear. Now I have headaches every day for a week or longer and I hope it is nothing serious which comes from my medication.
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Die App der LINKEN
Es gibt einen neuen Stern am Softwarehimmel und das ist die Wahlkampf-App der LINKEN. Als App für das Tablet oder Smartphone aus den App Stores installierbar kann sie auch als Webseite auf dem heimischen PC geöffnet werden. Gebaut wurde sie als Progressive Web App. Es können Events auf einer Karte angelegt werden und Leute zu den Events eingeladen werden. Schon diese eine Funktionalität allein kann ich mir vorstellen könnte für andere Initiativen interessant sein.
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English words
Einmal hatte ich über schöne englische Wörter und Redewendungen geschrieben und die Liste lässt sich fortsetzen. to uplift each other Mir fällt im Deutschen das Gegenteil davon sofort ein: sich gegenseitig in die Pfanne hauen. Bei der Übersetzung musste ich eine Weile nachdenken, vielleicht, sich gegenseitig zu bestärken. Sagt es etwas darüber aus, dass die eine deutsche Redewendung lustig ist und die zweite eher langweilig? Ich mag die englische Sprache.
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