Each trip must have a singular reason for why you’re taking it. I used to live in the big city. Wanting more peace and quiet I moved out into the countryside. My work1, friends and family were still in the city though. Naturally I took regular trips2 to the city. And while there, I might as well get some parts from my old bike store, visit this or that person, stop by at work, go to this event, get groceries from the specialty stores (Asia, Turkish), etc.

Week 47 of 2023 Talk: How to approach technical problems I held a talk for a company internal event (dev week: talks and events focused around the development discipline). See the relevant page (I’ll make the recording available after I pieced it together). It completely took up my focus for Mon-Wed and some of last week as well. I went with a very interactive format that asks the audience to propose how they would approach a given problem that I presented and then step by step revealing more information as they take the right steps and ask the right questions.

Week 46 of 2023 Update for the No Complaints challenge Plenty of resets this week. While the absolute number of fails is not decreasing, I’m noticing a shift from vocalizing complaints/cursing to only thinking them (external -> internal.) There were a lot of judgments of myself and others. I did stop myself multiple times from swearing or complaining. Swearing generally is getting better, though I’ve noticed some phrases utilizing “fuck” or “shit” are hard to shake.

Week 45 of 2023 Update for the No Complaints challenge After two consecutive non-failing days it was back to complaining about circumstances with the work VPN and the “incompetence” of some colleagues. Also a lot of resets for cussing (mostly “fuck”), which we paid more attention to. After getting my mom, brother and their yoga group to join the challenge, I found out that they interpreted the challenge stricter than we did.

Week 44 of 2023 New habit: Getting out of bed in the morning Place your alarm out of reach, so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. When my alarm rings in the morning I’m ready to go. Despite this even I will stay in bed if I have my phone right next to me. Staying in bed means no starting my day. It cuts into my most productive work block and sabotages my body clock1.

Week 43 of 2023 New Challenge: No Complaints This week I’m starting a new challenge of not complaining, together with my wife. It was inspired by Tim Ferriss. We have a bracelet1 on that we have to switch from one wrist to the other if we complain. The goal is to make it 21 days without complaining. The definition of complaining we use is: describing an event or person negatively without indicating next steps to fix the problem.

Week 47 of 2023 Talk: How to approach technical problems I held a talk for a company internal event (dev week: talks and events focused around the development discipline). See the relevant page (I’ll make the recording available after I pieced it together). It completely took up my focus for Mon-Wed and some of last week as well. I went with a very interactive format that asks the audience to propose how they would approach a given problem that I presented and then step by step revealing more information as they take the right steps and ask the right questions.

Week 46 of 2023 Update for the No Complaints challenge Plenty of resets this week. While the absolute number of fails is not decreasing, I’m noticing a shift from vocalizing complaints/cursing to only thinking them (external -> internal.) There were a lot of judgments of myself and others. I did stop myself multiple times from swearing or complaining. Swearing generally is getting better, though I’ve noticed some phrases utilizing “fuck” or “shit” are hard to shake.

A talk I held about how to approach technical problems. See the slides All developers spend a lot of time debugging and finding solutions to technical problems. We’ll step through some problems together and hopefully have some fun :) Audience: Developers and technically minded Testers Solutions Here are my solutions to the presented problems in full. Simple Just a random issue I picked out for demo purposes. Preowned Here’s an example of looking for newly added used Polo shirts on Momox, Zalando and AboutYou:

Week 45 of 2023 Update for the No Complaints challenge After two consecutive non-failing days it was back to complaining about circumstances with the work VPN and the “incompetence” of some colleagues. Also a lot of resets for cussing (mostly “fuck”), which we paid more attention to. After getting my mom, brother and their yoga group to join the challenge, I found out that they interpreted the challenge stricter than we did.

Week 45 of 2023 Update for the No Complaints challenge After two consecutive non-failing days it was back to complaining about circumstances with the work VPN and the “incompetence” of some colleagues. Also a lot of resets for cussing (mostly “fuck”), which we paid more attention to. After getting my mom, brother and their yoga group to join the challenge, I found out that they interpreted the challenge stricter than we did.

Week 44 of 2023 New habit: Getting out of bed in the morning Place your alarm out of reach, so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. When my alarm rings in the morning I’m ready to go. Despite this even I will stay in bed if I have my phone right next to me. Staying in bed means no starting my day. It cuts into my most productive work block and sabotages my body clock1.

Week 43 of 2023 New Challenge: No Complaints This week I’m starting a new challenge of not complaining, together with my wife. It was inspired by Tim Ferriss. We have a bracelet1 on that we have to switch from one wrist to the other if we complain. The goal is to make it 21 days without complaining. The definition of complaining we use is: describing an event or person negatively without indicating next steps to fix the problem.

Week 44 of 2023 New habit: Getting out of bed in the morning Place your alarm out of reach, so you have to get out of bed to turn it off. When my alarm rings in the morning I’m ready to go. Despite this even I will stay in bed if I have my phone right next to me. Staying in bed means no starting my day. It cuts into my most productive work block and sabotages my body clock1.

Walkthrough for my setup. It’s not specific to my VPN provider or server. Though I will name them as examples. This setup is heavily based on this reddit post. With some adjustments to make it work. WireGuard Obtain the config Go to your VPN providers website and generate a WireGuard configuration file. For the example of mullvad: Go into the WireGuard configuration section inside your account and select these options: