There is always this moment where you get a call and instantly go to a frozen state. Because you realize you have to clean up a lot of stuff in your house for the visit, you get it in 10 minutes.
You get a lot done in this time. More than at any other time when you try to clean up your house, right?
Why not make a habit out of it? Start a 10-minute timer and clean up as much as you can in this time. Repeat this every day.
For me, this sounds like a good idea, and I will try it out. You could also do it as a challenge with the family. Who can clean up the most?
If you also applied the Rule of 2, this 10-minute sprint should be even simpler. 🤔
I stepped on a nail. Got a spontaneous visit by the doctor for my vaccine for COVID and flew. And tomorrow I see one of my favorite bands for the last time, because they will split up at the end of the year. :(
The youngest has his birthday at the end of this week; this will be an interesting party for a blind child. The first 2 years were easy, but now that he is being more aware of his surroundings, we need to make a plan. Because he is not visually attracted to shiny gifts and, besides some important toys, not really attracted to new toys either.
Finally. I think over the latest update, the summarize option appeared. Or at least I've found it.
Now I can have tables like I had in Notion. 🥳 This feature marks the point where I can see a full migration. Now I only need to test how well Obsidian handles images. ✅
I was never confident enough to go into yolo mode in Claude Code after I had such a bad experience with Cursor…or I failed quite hard with the prompts. 🤷
Last weekend, I wanted to try it out for a task where I didn't want to sit next to Claude, watch it, and prevent it from failing. So I’ve made a new attempt. “We” planned the task together; I tried to be as precise as I could be with the prompt and got a first draft as a result. Then we iterated and refined the plan until I was confident with it.
On the weekend, we had planned some family time. It was the best opportunity to let Claude go wild with the planned task. Later in the evening when I was back with the family, I was a little excited about how it worked out. I took a first look, and Claude had completed the task. The result was working, and the tests were green. So this looked promising. I peeked at some files, and it looked good.
After I did a full review on the next day, I was quite happy with the result. There were some small adjustments where Claude was not following the rules exactly, but this is ok. Like checking a PR from another colleague.
Maybe I should try this more. One idea would be that after a finished workday, I go into yolo mode with Claude and review the results on the next day. But before I can do this with confidence, I need to refine my Claude settings. The settings are there, but I never touched them, really. There is potential here. :)
For the past ~6 days in the evening, I thought, “Huh, I should have written and published a new post.” But I felt no force in me that was pressing me into writing. So I paused. The last week was full of different stuff at work and in my private life. I also recognized that I was overloaded, because the last 2 days at work, I made some silly mistakes. Nothing that could have been bad for my client, only bad for my reputation.
I also saw that my page got recognized by spam bots. In the past 2 weeks I got 120 visits from Singapore. Furthermore, my pelletye app got some invitation requests, which at first sight felt really, really good, but later I noticed that many of them were known spam mails. :( But it is a start. So I did some research on how I can prevent this in the future. Now I need to implement all this. Maybe I can also document the process a bit and put it into posts.
After upgrading to the new ugly iOS26, the Sleep Tracker punishes me for getting in bed early. The last days I was 1-2 hours early in bed than usual, and the sleep index score got fewer points. Kind of frustrating. It should give me bonus points!
But I get the thinking behind it. “Go to bed regularly at the same time”. Which is mostly impossible if you have a life and other people who depend on you. 🤷
At the end, it’s just a number, and I don’t know why I complain. 😂😂😂
I thought, I can create a filler post and keep up my streak. But I realized that I have plenty of ideas for new posts.
Some weeks ago, I doubted that I could keep up writing daily. I started 3 weeks ago, and as of today, I still have ideas for new posts. They are not long or good, but at least I'm writing.
So, yep, no need for filler posts that are soulless. 💪
I made it to the end of the White Palace in Hollow Knight. In one go. Without dying. 🥳
For me, this is an achievement I thought I would never get. Sure, it is not the Path of Pain, which I will try out but never complete; I don't know if I have the patience for it.
The White Palace was challenging but never unfair, with plenty of safe spots and points to heal. So I never felt disappointment.
Today I had an interesting AHA moment. I never thought about my meeting participation when I'm a part of a team. But I automatically participate more in smaller teams and less in bigger ones.
Why is that so?
A simple explanation could be that in bigger teams, there are often people who are quite dominant, talk a lot, and usually know more than me. Maybe this influences me subconsciously. I’m not a dominant or submissive person. So I typically withdraw then and let the others be dominant. And say something if I have to or need to.
Perhaps it also has something to do with me not really being a speaker. I typically can talk a lot in a space where I’m confident. Most in small groups or 1-to-1. One example is presentations in school. I hated them. Preparing them was easy. But actually standing up in front of more than 5 people made me nervous. And I hated that feeling. Not the good part of feeling nervous.
What can I do with this new insight? I don't know. 🤷 I have to think about it, and I'm happy that I now have something I can work with. For the future, it would be best to get rid of this limiting behaviour.
Invincible Season 3 – After the disastrous second season, I did not think they could get me excited again. But they made it. I look forward to season 4.
Hollow Knight – Not the game itself, but I accomplished the awakening of the dream nail. 🥳
I've completed the frame of a new wall to hide a lot of electronics in our basement. For example, the battery of our photovoltaic plant and the control cabinet of our house.