The Wonderful World Of WordPress Wizardry For Working With Websites (kevq.uk)
A month ago I flipped back from Jekyll to WordPress and nobody noticed. That, my friends, it how performant WordPress can be. Back in early December I switched from WordPress to Jekyll. Since then I went all in on the whole static site generator bandwagon and life was good. However, the writing work...

This is also how awesome RSS can be. As long as the feed url is kept intact or redirected you can change your setup weekly for all I care 😜

Bundesrat beschließt Einsatz automatischer Kennzeichenlesesysteme (Baden-WĂŒrttemberg.de)
Das Land hat sich im Bundesrat erfolgreich fĂŒr den Einsatz automatischer Kennzeichenlesesysteme eingesetzt. Der Einsatz von automatischen Kennzeichenlesesystemen zur Strafverfolgung schafft mehr Sicherheit, da er die Fahndung nach gefĂ€hrlichen StraftĂ€tern erleichtert.

Bullshit. GefÀhrliche StraftÀter registrieren ja auch brav den eigenen Fluchtwagen.

Damit werden frĂŒher oder spĂ€ter Bewegungsprofile gebildet, ein TrĂ€umchen fĂŒr den nĂ€chsten Polizeistaat.

deep-work (rusingh.com)
I struggle with deep work. I think many of us do. There are so many buzz-buzz happening. Today, I tried to fight back, and work went well! I'm going to try and cultivate this "focus" more.

Dnd and zen mode in vscode 👍

Quick Assist on Windows 10 by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)
I just learned about a pre-installed tool on Windows 10 called “Quick Assist” (or “Remotehilfe” in German). It has basically the same features most people use from tools like TeamViewer or AnyDesk. It lets you view or control a remote computer to help your family with computer problems for e...

So.. like Gnome (or KDE) are doing it for years? Awesome 😜

Why I will never own a pair of noise-cancelling headphones by Becky Scarrott (What Hi-Fi?)

Thanks to @mdiluz@twitter.com I stumbled over https://web.archive.org/web/20210222010045/https://gramfree.best/features/why-i-will-never-own-a-pair-of-noise-cancelling-headphones today.

The author has a really interesting point of view about noise cancelling headphones (“ANC”) due to experiencing nausea and I came to realise how lucky I am that I do not experience this at all. Alas I am also not moving much, since I work on a desk all day long, and frankly wouldn’t be able to do my job without headphones any more.

I got my first ANC headphones due to a construction site next to our office that went on for years. It was horror. And they really helped again when I started bunking in my home office and especially in the wintertime when we all stayed inside most of the day getting into each others fur (FCK CVID).

The NHS widely encourages the use of ANC headphones, […], but because noise annoyance is a real health issue.

This basically sums it up for me. I get anxious from noise. My kids can tell, because kids tend to be, well, noisy little
 ah well, parents know the drill. Anyway, one of my biggest motivations for driving for example an electric car is also way less noise. Gods know I hate car noisiness and especially motor bikes. Living in a “biker friendly” landscape turned this into a slow hot burning hate for this brainless noise pollution some people do “for fun”.

Back to nausea. I sometimes wear my headphones during a workout. Yuk, I know. Anyway, even here I don’t experience nausea or balance issues but then I don’t to acrobatics (I don’t count whacking a pell as dancing). Still I can totally get behind the point that the ANC feature is a bad idea to use while moving and using headphones in road traffic is a recipe for disaster. This may sound (haha) like a contradiction to you due to me driving an electric car? It’s not. An EV is less noisy, not silent, and even has to emit artificial sound (yuk again) when it goes too slow to be noticed.

Is “ANC” perhaps the reason I get more and more anxiety from noise? Maybe. Maybe I’m also just getting old and more and more irritated by our fast moving noisy world without a way to escape. Experience complete silence and solitude may just be my way of coping with all this.

Plot twist: I mostly enjoy Rock and Metal on my headphones đŸ€˜

Updated link on 30. Oct 2021 link due to link rot

Blog reactions by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)
My girlfriend gave me the idea the other day, when I complained that sometimes I don’t know what to blog about, that I could “react” to my old posts. Kind of like how web video producers react to videos. And I think that’s not a bad idea. It’s a good way to see how one’s own views have c...

I can tell đŸ€“

WordPress Stories – a quick review by @edent (shkspr.mobi)
The WordPress app for Android prompted me to add a story! This is a new and experimental feature. Sadly, it isn’t very good. Here’s how it works. A pop up in the Android app. There’s a brief description and some aspirational screenshots. In product screenshot. You've got early access to Story ...

This feels so very wrong. Like a failed gamification attempt. It would sure drive me away o0

https://social.tchncs.de/web/statuses/105417379196923839 by Mike Kuketz :mastodon:Mike Kuketz :mastodon: (social.tchncs.de)
KeePassXC: Auto-Type und Browser-Add-on im Alltag nutzen – Passwörter Teil1 https://www.kuketz-blog.de/keepassxc-auto-type-und-browser-add-on-im-alltag-nutzen-passwoerter-teil1/

@kuketzblog@social.tchncs.de one of the best features of usually overlooked is it’s integrated ssh-agent making key management easy and secure.

See https://fedoramagazine.org/managing-credentials-with-keepassxc/ for example.