I went into the opening show of the Olympics in Paris, thinking I‘d just watch a few countries walk in and wait for who‘s lighting the fire. I spent all 4 hours in front of the TV, fascinated. That show was incredible! They destroyed this ceremony for all future cities to come. Just… wow 🥇🗼🇫🇷

Sportfreunde Stiller, live at Freilichtbühne Killesberg, Stuttgart

I love it when you can feel that the band has as much fun playing their music, like everyone else has listening and singing with them. Great atmosphere, great concert, lots of my favorite songs and a good friend. Great evening 👌🎸🎶

Good friends are the ones you see again after 2.5 years and it still feels like yesterday, you talk for hours on end and it’s always too short. Lovely day 🍀

You’d think they’re at least trying to be kind of serious… maybe being aware that the whole world is watching… and then Hulk Hogan shows up. That’s everything one needs to know.

Daring Fireball: Meta Won’t Bring Future Multimodal AI Models to EU

Another big win for Thierry Breton and Margrethe Vestager

Well… it actually is. And Gruber might as well fall from his high US horse one day. Maybe give it some thought… Maybe some Europeans are quite fond of their government not bowing and kissing Big Techs asses. Seems ok to find lousy excuses to not even try to not exploit their users.

Cloud Sync for Obsidian on the iPad hutaffe.blog

I’m not sure how I can manage to do it, or if it’s feasible at all… but lately, I increasingly get the urge to just stop reading the news altogether. I don’t want to know what’s going on in batshit crazy politics all over the world; I don’t want to know about how things in our own country get worse by the ... hutaffe.blog

"The typical situation is that I start something, switch to something else, get into a meeting, forget the very essence of what I was doing. Turn on autopilot, read all my emails, all my IMs. Then it’s 5PM, I’m exhausted, and I realize I’m at the same stage I was at 8AM, tell myself I should really achieve something that day, and open HN." This is precisely the reason I have used a work journal for a few months. It really helps me to keep focus, and actually gain focus in the first place. It’s part of my working system now, and it includes keeping track of and chipping away my to-do list. Without it... hutaffe.blog

I think I won’t post anything remotely related to politics anymore on my blog. It’s simply too dangerous. Great times we live in 👍

Whoever did this, did a disservice to the whole world. Trump will win now, no matter what Biden will do, even more certain… The world will lose. Thank you very much for nothing.

Woof. That week was crazier than I thought. I‘m still braindead and extremely exhausted, but I can’t really sleep. Let’s see if some movie will help. 🍿

What a week. Feels like Friday coming to a close already, but it’s still a full day of work left. Woof. I enjoyed it… but I wouldn’t mind being done for now 🥵

Everyone recommends new e-ink tablets lately, like the Boox Go. It sure looks like a great device! But it misses the point. The reason I, and so many others, adore their reMarkable is because of everything it can’t do. I don’t want all the apps or hundreds of editing tools on that thing. The less it can do... hutaffe.blog

And another beautiful thing arrived today… The infamous Apple Adjustable Keyboard. I’ve been looking for this since quite a while. It’s so weird, I had to have this! (Some people might think I have a mental issue 😉)

And here’s the IBM Model M from yesterday:

Oh boy… I received an IBM Model M keyboard today. Needs some thorough cleaning and I‘m still waiting for an adapter to connect it to my Mac, but I love the sound and the feeling of those keys already! I have a weak spot for really old keyboards. This one is from 1988, my absolute favorite, the Apple Extend... hutaffe.blog

Call me crazy, but l love Stage Manager on the iPad just like I do on the Mac. It’s not perfect, but it works great for me!

From today’s run 🏃‍♂️ Not the best idea 🥵 The good thing: no sauna necessary anymore 💪

Why is it, that every small idea has to become a humongous undertaking when thinking about the details 🤔 In other news: I finally ordered a Raspberry Pi. Now I have to think about what to do with it 🙃

I could not agree more: The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse

Holy smokes… what the hell. 30 years… this album was a defining moment in my musical brain forming process. I love this album so much! 30 years… 👨‍🦳 Weezer - The Blue Album LIVE | Spotify THIRTY - The 30th Anniversary 🎶

Alright… I thought I’d use the iPad again and do more work on it. Doing a late evening call with colleagues in the US or some emails in between is much more comfortable, because I don’t have to carry the MacBook upstairs from my office. But when I take notes, I always do that on my remarkable. Writing in t... hutaffe.blog

Bullshit… what a lazy ass excuse to play the blame game.

Daring Fireball: EU Users Won’t Get Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, or the New SharePlay Screen Sharing Features This Year, Thanks to the DMA

Recently, I have work enough to do to occupy three people. Usually, I catch up on some things in the evenings, sometimes until late at night. That’s not really sustainable and after a really shitty and long meeting today, I’ll leave things be. Some days are just not worth even being annoyed.

I do all my task management in Obsidian. Mike Schmitz on The Sweet Setup has a great overview of what’s possible with it. I learned some things and will optimize my workflow 🙃

If you decide to give task management in Obsidian a shot, there’s a mindset shift you have to embrace before it will click:

Location doesn’t matter.

This is the key thing that made this work for me and it’s the reason I love doing this in Obsidian. It frees me up. Tasks can be written everywhere! No Inbox or anything necessary anymore. Tasks are just there and collected where needed. Really amazing!

Sounds like an Apple Fanboy, but I really think they get the AI thing right. It’s integrated, personal, private. The AI companies say “Here! look! Cool Technolgy! Future! We’re not killing us all (we’ll totally do though)” Apple puts this technology into actual use that’s relevant to a normal human.