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Notes expressing the moment

Comment Eric Bailey makes…
Tobias Tom 26th January 2021 at 9:51

Eric Bailey makes good points in A website is like a puppy, but this one hit me the most:

Successfully taking care of it means you’ll need to stick to a routine.

Right now this website just works. Without touching it for month. I think it's a good sign, but it's also a bad one for me. I'd like to play more with it, I'd like to teach it new tricks and maybe make it unlearn some of the stuff that isn't working so good.

By comparing it with a puppy, I'm now a little scared that someone will call website welfare on me. 😱
Comment Mike Crittenden in…
Tobias Tom 13th January 2021 at 8:06

Mike Crittenden in If it will matter after today, stop talking about it in a chat room

you have to keep a steady eye on it and reply in realtime or the conversation will move on without you. Anyone who takes the time to ponder and respond thoughtfully with context and explanation will find that they’re too late.

Who hadn't the feeling coming back from a long weekend or a holiday, to open up all the team chats and declare what he describes as »declare chat room bankruptcy«. There are just too many messages.

I really agree with Mikes recommendation to move important discussions to a better structured medium. I'm actually trying to to that most of the time, but for me a new problem appeared: there are so many sources to check. Messages, Chats, Emails, Notifications, Discussions, Feeds… where to start, and… when to stop?

For me it helps to combine two things: priorities on the source and a fixed timeframe after which I have to stop no matter what. The internet is so rich of information, you have to accept to miss some things. While it is annoying to use so many services at the same time, it might actually be a good thing to help us app prioritise it better.
Comment This time based…
Tobias Tom 21st November 2020 at 19:09

This time based curfews really remind me of the The Purge movies. Especially if you hear the silence outside.
Comment LIS ✈️ FRA.…
Tobias Tom 5th August 2020 at 13:58

LIS ✈️ FRA.

Going to Siegburg to cancel the apartment and unregister as a Citizen. Not really looking forward to the trip in Corona times, but some things need to be done.
Comment After two and a half…
Tobias Tom 30th July 2020 at 16:32

After two and a half years, usually at least three times a week, today we did our last training in the gym for the foreseeable future.

It’s mostly because of Corona. Limitations that do not justify the monthly fee. Unbalanced and varying hygiene standards for everyone who goes there. Some people not caring at all. Saving money because who really knows what comes next. Multiple thing.

It feels strange to not go there anymore.

What comes next is planned and we have already tested it. Getting up early, run, do some HIIT or comparable training, run back home and we are done with sports for the day. At 7 o’clock in the morning.

It felt great in the past. Let’s hope it’s a good replacement for the gym. Time will tell.
Comment Things I did not…
Tobias Tom 23rd April 2020 at 19:10

Things I did not expect to happen some weeks ago: we ordered some face masks. Handmade from two local producers, one in Lisbon and one in Almada (close to our beaches).

It is somehow a depressing feeling that it is necessary but also a good one to support small businesses that adapted quickly to this strange times.
Comment What is the best…
Tobias Tom 17th April 2020 at 10:39

What is the best service to run swift on a server? Asking for… myself.
Comment On days like this I…
Tobias Tom 28th March 2020 at 23:40

On days like this I can believe again that all the technology we create can be used for good. I just ended the best video call I had.

Nothing fancy, just six faces talking to each other about all kind of topics for hours. Even if the distances between all of us varied between 1cm, three times about 20km and one time more then 6500km to the other side of the world, it kind of felt like we where sitting next to each other inside all our favorites beach bar. Like we did weeks ago.

These are hard times. Use the technology we have to connect to friends that give you strength. Connect to the friends that need your strength. Laugh. Talk. Discuss.

Use the technology we have available.
Comment Ordering the best…
Tobias Tom 28th March 2020 at 20:24

Ordering the best burger of the city through a delivery company for the first time feels very weird. It’s not the same as if you go to the restaurant, but the taste is almost the same. It reminds you of the good times before all this crazy stuff. It makes you happy. Thank you for everyone involved to let us enjoy this delicious dinner.

I cannot wait to go to the real restaurant again, see the people who work there and order the same stuff I had today. On my couch.
Comment Listening to scooter…
Tobias Tom 27th March 2020 at 20:38

Listening to scooter in a strange #stayhome environment. I don’t care about your judgement.
Comment Now: waiting in line…
Tobias Tom 15th March 2020 at 14:23

Now: waiting in line to enter the supermarket. Only 40 clients allowed only at the same time.
Comment Strange times we…
Tobias Tom 15th March 2020 at 13:24

Strange times we live in. Yesterday everyone stood on the balcony at 22 o’clock and applauded the portuguese health professionals.

A older lady past the balcony. She asked what happened. »Did they find a cure?«. Sadly we had to disappoint her, for now.

#somostodosSNS
Comment #somostodosSNS
Tobias Tom 14th March 2020 at 22:19

#somostodosSNS
Comment The longer you use…
Tobias Tom 12th March 2020 at 16:14

The longer you use SwiftUI, the more you understand it, get used to it and find ways to make something more elegant, the more you want to rewrite the things that you did not write that long ago.

Oh wait, this is not only the case with SwiftUI but with every (computer)-language.
Comment The longer I am on…
Tobias Tom 24th February 2020 at 16:43

The longer I am on this productivity train to actually get more free time to do non work stuff, the more this resonates with me:

If we wasted money the way we waste time, we’d all be bankrupt.
Comment I'm not publishing…
Tobias Tom 14th February 2020 at 11:43

I'm not publishing open source software myself, but if I would start, this would be a nice license model:

Treeware is a style of software distribution similar to Postcardware, distributed by the author on the condition that users buy the author a tree.

I especially like the »conditions of use«:

You're free to use this package, but if it makes it to your production environment you are required to buy the world a tree.

You can play with things as long as you want to, but if things get serious, you have to give back.
Comment Bus and Apartment…
Tobias Tom 10th February 2020 at 13:55

Bus and Apartment booked. Tomorrow I’ll wake up in Nazaré and hopefully see some bigger waves…
Comment There is something…
Tobias Tom 23rd January 2020 at 10:11

There is something I'm trying to say for some time. Unfortunately it does not get easier with time, so here it is:

Due to my plan to have a tighter budget I'll not make it to the awesome Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf this year.

Don't be sad for me, be happy for the new person that can buy a ticket and have an awesome time there.
Comment Our landlord has to…
Tobias Tom 10th December 2019 at 10:03

Our landlord has to put new windows into the winter garden on the backside of our apartment. Not that the ones aren’t good anymore. Actually they are more modern then all the ones from our neighbors, but that seems to be the problem. They look different. After three years living here they get exchanged. With what I expect will be less quality ones. We will see.

Portugal is a sunny country. During the winter, with no heating and some consecutive rainy days it still gets cold. Especially as the backside of our apartment does not get any sun at all during any day.

So what would be the worst time to replace windows? Exactly. They are doing it now, after the summer is over. We also got good news delivered: that manufacturing of the new ones will take about two or four days. After they got the measurements of them today. Which they did before. Two times.

Now, sitting here with freezing toes, I still cannot see any better place to live at. Sometimes it’s just… 🤷‍♂️.
Comment A little update to…
Tobias Tom 28th November 2019 at 15:35

A little update to myself on THE experiment: it's kind of working. I'm writing more (not yet publishing more). Some plans slowly emerge to remove the technical dept from this site. Programming that is a whole other story, but that's for another day. Continue, one day at a time.

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