From this whole messenger discussion, I get the impression that it’s harder for some people to install a second messenger than it is to do a tax declaration in Germany.
2021-01
Email is the messenger you should migrate to
Today I have heard again a discussion about WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and Threema and there was the question to which messenger one would switch from WhatsApp.
Generics in Go
As someone who properly learned to program using Java and still works with Java almost every day, I am used to generics. Flexible parameters whose constraints do not yet have to be set during definition. The fact that there are no generics in Go took some getting used to.
Simple.css and classless CSS frameworks
Kev Quirk recently released his new project Simple.css, a CSS stylesheet that focuses on vanilla HTML without classes.
“Start a blog”
James Van Dyne reminds to start a blog:
For the first time in a long time it is snowing and the snow is lying there! 😍☃️

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WhatsApp drama
Right now, there’s drama because WhatsApp is changing its terms of service and wants to share even more data with Facebook (at least from users outside the EU).
My current Home Office (January ‘21)
It’s been a while since I shared a picture of my desk. But since that was at the beginning of the pandemic and I’ve only worked from home since then, things have changed too. So here is the current state.
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Blogging is sometimes like self-therapy. Sorting and sorting out thoughts in your head and finally you feel better.
It’s interesting how everyone (including me) starts developing their own blogging system: Colin Walker, but also James Van Dyne are some recent examples.