I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past - Mãori proverb

We are all we have.

“Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror.” - Albert Einstein

Testing the limits of our new 5G internet connection at home with pushing 1.5GB docker images into the cloud a bunch of times day...

It's really cool how my local public library's membership includes digital access to thousands of magazines and newspapers.

Reading “Man’s search for meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl

Enjoyed watching the movie Mighty Ducks (1992) on our family movie night.

I would like to drop Onedrive for Proton Drive and WhatsApp for Threema - I just need to convince my whole family to follow me with that.

I fell asleep again during snoozing, and started dreaming intensely. My own mind woke me up in time by setting everything I loved on fire within my dream. That jolted me awake alright.

The T on the cars made by the car manufacturer lead by E Musk really stood for Trump all along

Got my teeth cleaned professionally today and I am still feeling it. Recommendation is that I use an electric toothbrush... Health over sustainability I suppose.

Predicting what is to be expected in about four years in the USA : there is no way in Hell where Trump will allow any form of return to the way it use to be before he took hold of the country. He will let other people die to make sure his regime will stay on for as long as at least he lives.

Keep breathing and stay cool.

While the US politicians and tech billionaires are going full-on fascist mode, here is a reminder that there are European alternatives for many well known digital and online services: https://european-alternatives.eu

Simplifying my online presence further by removing my Known site. Goodbye social.johanbove.info - it was sometimes a little fun.

How long will it take for the opponents of the Trump regime to start mysteriously disappearing?

Cancelled Mastodon because the time spent on it could have been used for reading books instead and the level of interaction is not enough to keep me interested.

Shocked about the fires around LA right now. Following CNN mostly. It's devastating.

There is a reason why being a journalist is still a profession.

Your favourite social media platform should not be where you get your facts from. You get jokes and share with your friends, but facts they ain't. Get your world news from actual news sources instead.

In a rush in getting all my private data off from US - based company servers - the way it is looking, it might be that it would be good for us Rest Of The Worlders, to bring in our sheep and keep them close by.

Happy New Year to the readers of my little Twtxt feed! Wishing you and are your family all the best.

My 400th Twtxt Post will be about you: wishing you, reader of my Twtxt feed, all the best for the coming year and most of all love, health, and that your projects and work may contribute to the greater good of all mankind. I will be taking a social-media break for a couple of weeks to enjoy this special time with my family. I hope you will be able to do this with your family and friends too.

Aus Liebe fürs Leben

If there hadn't been a better time than now to leave the hatred filled cesspool network of right-wing craziness, aka X - then I wouldn't know when would be.

Enjoyed the eight christmas party at work today with some colleagues who I have known and worked with for more than ten years now. That is a nice feeling.

Imagine if all computer UIs would act like the UI from my NAS system... I feel I need to be waiting for output from the machine like it's 1973.

The web server in Calibre is pretty cool. Love how the UI was designed and made. Feels intuitive, yet powerful. Now i do need to organise the book collection a bit better.

Did I write here already that the reason why I love Twtxt so much is that it works without having to compile, install anything extra. Just the bin applications that come with 95% of all operating systems and you're good to read and participate, giving you have a domain name somewhere to host the twtxt.txt file.

We had a great weekend overall. N. loves ice-skating and we had a nice time with friends today playing a round of bowling and visiting the Dussy christmas market.

Organised my decades old ebook collection and cleaned up all the duplicates. The Czkawka application helped a lot with getting that done. Also - finally - using Calibre as our home digital library.

Got tickets for the Germany - USA 🏒 ice Hockey game in Düsseldorf on May 4th 2025

Cleaned up my npm package for twthash; made it CommonJS compatible, added more documentation and even a test. Current version is 1.2.2

Always a great feeling when you can solve npm install problems by simply copying over the whole node_modules folder from your own (linux) machine. One of the benefits of developing on a Linux machine I suppose.

Added TwtHash hashes to every message on my personal Twtxt HTML renderer. Code is not yet ready for prime-time. Need to work out some kinks still.

You can select some text from a web page and right/command click and select print... and select To PDF to quickly save snippets for save-keeping or further reading.

If I use Fedora on my PC, Vivaldi as my browser, Signal as my main messenger program, then which OS should my phone run on?

Getting my knowledge refreshed on web accessibility through a course on deque university.

I have been on Twtxt for five years straight now. Hurray me.

My 7-year old invented the word guakilijion which is a 1 with a bazillion zeroes following after it. He wants to be a word inventor.

Was on the receiving end of multiple robocalls originating from the UK so now I blocked the whole of the UK from being able to call me on my phone.

Listening to Buffalo Springfield's - For What it's Worth - the topic seems still very relevant these days sadly.

Wanted to share that we're so proud of our six year old son; after taking skating lessons himself, he taught me and my wife how to stop on skates today. He was so proud about that he could teach us something good. Enjoyed also playing table tennis with him in the park, even-though it got windy, we had fun and didn't give up trying to have a decent game. And at the guided tour at the old hot-metal plant in Duisburg yesterday, he asked the best questions and could be the guide's assistant - holding the flashlight.

Oh the joy of working half the day in remote desktop environments with intermittent Internet connection issues... Good thing there is still some LTE left.

I have ethical concerns about executing killall node in my console, regardless of how necessary it is.

Wishing all carnevalists around the World a great start of the fifth season of the year.

My German word of the week: der Einfallsreichtum

Not sure that I really like where Microsoft is taking VSCode - it looks like soon it will be just another frontend for them to sell Github Copilot subscriptions.

We turned the heating up/on in our home for the first time this year.

Let it sink in how the richest person on the planet was EXTREMELY directly involved in getting his preferred candidate in the US presidency seat.