TL;DR: In an attempt to unclog our shower, me and my roommate kinda flooded the flat of the neighbor living under us. In order to dry out the walls, we (and our neighbors) have to live with this noise for 10 hours for the next 14 days. Yay.

Made a Flammekueche with my roommate

Today was quite an eventful day. I am visiting my family over the weekend and we spend some quality time together today. We all gathered over a broken vacuum cleaner. It has been with my father for ~ 30 years, and was quite easy to dissemble. After we had it in pieces, a discussion followed what each part actually is and does. I got help from a colleague of mine, thank you at this point ;P Then we decided to cut the capacitor and temporarily replaced it with a very long power cord. The engine actually worked after we put everything roughly back together. My brother was able to find the (apparently) broken capacitor on the internet which was priced at 15 European bucks, so we were able to get a working vacuum cleaner for only 15 euros, or so we hope. Props to Miele for building such an easy to dissemble (and reassemble) cleaner.

Then I got a phone call and fixed some audio issues in my local church, for their Eastern stream this night. My takeaway from this event: Macs can not play Audio they get from an input source to their speakers. In Windows this is called "Listen to this device", and as simple as finding the correct option in the sound settings.

Over the span of Saturday to Monday, I developed an API \o/

On Tuesday, I wrote a wrapper for it. While doing this, @BiboJoshi was of tremendous help, thank you very much pushing me around pytest and mypy and such,

I spend The last three days setting up hosting of it, the server kindly provided by @d_Rickyy_b. Thank you very much for this and helping out tackling nginx. And also a big WOW towards letsencrypt.org, who made their certificate process even easier then it already was when I tried it out before.

The source code for this API is here, the wrapper here. If you have a usage for this project but don't want to host your own instance, you can PM me :)

Now I can go back actually following the lectures of my study program.

Tonight I learned that a poster which slowly detaches from the wall makes a very strange noise, and you will spend a certain amount of time in the dark trying to figure out what the heck is going on.

This is fun:

Update: My brother won the resulting GIF war, so he is going to get the phone. Sorry y'all.

Today, I finished reading the Rivers of London series. I read all of the works (roughly chronological) and bought most of them in their physical editions. I really like where the "universe" developes to in the latest writings, and am looking forward to the next entries into the series.

Writing blog posts can be exhausting. I was deeply involved in https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/release/irc-move/ and https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/release/newpipe-0.21.3-released/. The whole IRC network situation sucks because it was the result of very child like behaviour (bad children. Those in the kindergarten who just scream at each other and pull each other hairs. Those kind of children) of people in charge of the IRC network. It lead to me writing about four blog post and having to restart each of them, because of changing facts and our willingness to present these facts. And just having to read up on that situation sucked, not to mention having to use an IRC client for the time being.

On the other side, a very relaxed NewPipe version got released, so go on and download it because its a nice app.

I have a new keyboard which supports Bluetooth and RGB colours (those make your gaming experience faster I have been told).

Thanks grandma \o/

Look at it go

This is my solution to the programming task of my first semester and I just submitted that (sweaty palms). I think you need Visual Studio to run it, if you are interested in a very basic commandline calendar. I will publish the source code once I am allowed to (after presenting the solution). Btw, its written entirely in C. Yay requirements.

Back on that week in Canada, Nathaniel Woodthorpe held a presentation in the "start up slam" I visited. At that time, he was a Program Leader at GitHub. I talked to him after his presentation and told him how much I liked GitHub, but that there was one feature I personally would really appreciate: Being able to update Forks when the main repo/corresponding branch has new commits, from within the web interface. He said that he likes the idea and would forward it. Today I found out that you can now do this. Apparently since May 6th, tells you how often I work with forks.

I do not claim that this short talk had anything to do with the feature, I was just happily surprised that GitHub has this feature "now".

My big exam week (4 exams in 8 days) starts today. Wish me luck.

and that concludes that hell of a week. Now only one exam left in 7 days which I can actually prepare for.

Today I lend the E-Bike from my mother for a quick tour. It is tremendous fun riding with one of those up or down a hill, and you are fast!

Valve just announced the Steam Deck. I am a big sucker for Valve hardware and this one scratches the itch my Nintendo Switch leaves behind: Being able to play my steam library on the go with next gen hardware. It has pretty spicy price point and I won't buy it right away, but as soon as it goes on sale, I will.

https://github.com/Poolitzer/calender

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