Tech, life and everything else
After September, now October is gone too, one more month, and not so long anymore until the next year. Even if it is already the third day in November, I still quickly want to fulfill my chronist duty.
Today, eight years ago, our time together came to an end, and the void you left behind is still immense.
But your values, your curiosity, the way you approached things, all of that shaped me and remains deeply rooted within me.
I miss you endlessly, Dad.
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I saw a few people in my newsreader do these posts (Henrique, Kev, Manu), and as I have nothing better to say but feel the urge to blog something, here’s my entry to this little blog challenge. 😄
I finally took a closer look at OpenRouter today, added some credits, and used it with the Kilo Code VS Code extension to vibe code (or at least guide the LLM to code) a bit on the wedding website I’m building for next year. I used the Grok Code Fast 1 model most of the time. Furthermore, I also switched this blog’s AI plugins to use Mistral Small 3.2 for summary generation and image caption generation.
I wish there would be a European alternative that is as simple and supports as many models as OpenRouter. Ideally, it would even support the audio transcription endpoint with models besides Whisper.
And I need to experiment with some other models for coding, as I don’t like it being from one of Elon’s companies. At work, I use GitHub Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4 or 4.5 most of the time.
But the AI world is moving fast; I guess it’s just a matter of time.
Yesterday, we came back from some much-needed vacation. We spent 9 nights in Fulda, went hiking a few times, visited some museums, and sometimes also just relaxed. On the way to Fulda, we also made a short break in Kassel and revived some memories.
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It’s Sunday, and tomorrow I don’t have to work, as I have two weeks of vacation. The first time since May. My only breaks from work were when I hurt my hand and wasn’t able to type for a week, and two free days last week, but those also weren’t really relaxing for me. So I am very much looking forward to the next two weeks! I really feel the exhaustion from the last few months with work sometimes being stressful, the start of my fiancée’s teacher training, and some other topics. But this year again showed me that biking and sometimes going for a walk or a bit of hiking is a great refuge in a stressful time.
The good thing about having a tablet now and spending time with it instead of my laptop the last few days is that I finally brought down my reading list in Miniflux a lot. I also answered emails and checked a few other tasks off my (mental) to-do list.
I don’t know why, but somehow I am less distracted with this device compared with my laptop. Maybe it’s also just because it’s new?
Anyway, today the keyboard book cover (and a tempered glass screen protector) arrived, and the tablet now feels a bit like the Surface Go I had for studying. Especially in DeX mode.
I received so many packages yesterday!
There are a couple of add-ons to block YouTube Shorts in the browser, but if you are using Firefox with uBlock Origin, you do not need to install anything extra. Just add this filter list to the uBO settings, and you are free from those annoying short videos! At least on the PC… Sadly, even with YouTube Premium, there is no option to just ban Shorts from the mobile app.
Bunny.net (previously BunnyCDN) keeps doing great things (like this free European non-logging JS CDN), but it would be even better if they also replaced the Disqus comments in their blog with a more privacy-friendly alternative.