Wikipedia “Edited” 2025 year in review, summarizing from Wikimedia XTools queries, and Wikipedia itself, curated manually for my personal site:* 7 articles created (new personal best), with several firsts for me. In creation order: * "Take California" (https://en.wikipe...
Today was a good day, I think, for knitting together.
Today was a good day, I think, for knitting together.
The main feed of this site now automatically includes posts from my Photo Journal and Dan’s Polaroids.
This way, I do not have to manually link those here, and one can follow all my posts with a single feed. If you see a bunch of new entries, you now know it’s because I messed with my feed.
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Beyond aggregated and summarized stats, in 2025 I met a few amazing people (you know who you are), and started a few projects. Most of these projects started with an idea, or recognizing a problem, that inspired invention.Sometimes the ideas came from observations, shared, q...
🔗 Dan’s Polaroids
I created a new website where I share my Polaroid photos.
One instant photo per day.
🎬 Arctic
Like Cast Away in the snow. I would have like a little more reasoning regarding why he was in the situation in the first place. But I enjoyed Mads Mikkelsen and some great winter landscapes.
Snow in 2026
For some it might be nothing special, but over here it rarely snows and I embrace this right now.
Everything is so silent. The crunching snow under my feet. Our dog enjoys a good play with a snowball or playing catch me if you can.
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🎬 Sleuth
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Quite a clever movie. Was genuinely surprised.
👍 Recommended!
My Year in Sport, using data from my Strava, Swarm, and personal notes & recollections, assembled into a simpler summary on my personal site.2025 activities according to Strava:🏃🏻♂️1354mi + 160,077' hiking+running 👟 823mi + 119,453' running ⛰ 485mi trail runn...
My year in movies in theaters, using Fandango > My Orders > History, my Swarm Timeline, and personal recollection, to aggregate a few lists and stats:I saw 9 new movies in theaters in 2025, two of them multiple times (dates are first viewing)* 2025-02-20 👹 Captain Ameri...
Publishing my citation preferences
I was recently asked by a fellow blogger how I would prefer to be credited in a blog post they were working on. This brought to mind an idea I have been thinking about for a while: how could I indicate the way I would prefer a post on my website to be cited? By having this i...
As I promised myself late last year, rereading for the first time, not quite 60 years on.
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As I promised myself late last year, rereading for the first time, not quite 60 years on.
05.01.2026
📖 Between Meals ✍
The temptation, of course, is to review the book as one might a restaurant or a meal, to talk about savouring each witty gem while regretting that the meal must end, profess to being full without having overindulged, knowingly wink at past kitchen practices that today would ...
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Phone Apps
For the newly initiated digital independence day (short: di.day) during the 39c3 talk "Die Känguru-Rebellion: Digital Independence Day" by Mark-Uwe Kling.
This blog post is list of Apps that I use and and find good.
F-Droid
F-Droid is an alternative app-store to the google P...