You know what’s amazing about programming? The power to automate boring or repetitive tasks effortlessly. Renaming hundreds of files, downloading GPX files from Komoot, or updating the visibility of countless statuses on Traewelling – sure, you could do it manually, but why would you, when you can write a quick script to handle it for you? It’s hands down the best life hack I’ve ever discovered! Big thanks to my parents for putting me on this path!

Instead of banging my head on Advent of Code, I coded something useful today: Text-to-Speech for GoBlog using the official Google Text-to-Speech API. When posting, an audio file is generated automatically from the post content. And, I have to praise myself for this, I documented the feature as well! 😄

Day 16 of Advent of Code is so confusing that I will not finish today’s puzzle. I wonder if yesterday was my last day with Advent of Code, or will the puzzles become more understandable and easier again in the next few days? Maybe I’m just more the practical type. I like programming, but such complex algorithms are not really my thing. And in the end, Advent of Code is supposed to be fun…

Walking through the dark park is scary but fascinating at the same time. This is a night shot I tried capturing with my phone. In reality I can see even less.