After maintaining my Now Page for a few weeks, I realized that I’m using it to write weeknotes. But since I kept overwriting the page, things got lost that I’d rather see preserved for autobiographical purposes. That’s why I reduced my .plan, as I’m calling my Now Page, to short lists, and am going back to posting weeknotes again as well.

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Since I started practicing Karate again in September of last year, I’ve been constantly improving my flexibility. I have to. When I stopped training 20 years ago, I already didn’t have great range of motion in my hips and legs. And the following two decades of neglect, of just sitting in front of a screen, not only caused unhealthy weight gain, they also let my muscles deteriorate. Especially my hip and bum muscles have shortened to an extent that I can’t even do a side kick at mid-height.

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While updating my Now Page, it dawned on me that it would really help if I made my readers aware that this page exists in the first place! If you’d like a quick update what’s going on with me, this page is the place to go.

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Obsidian has been my long-term memory for many years now, but only yesterday I realized how easy it was to also make it my blog editor and thus greatly simplify writing new posts.

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One of the best things that happened lately was that I found a Karate club nearby. I have no idea why I didn’t earlier, because I wanted to get back into martial arts for years.

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Apple seems to have lost its way. It once built computers that would empower their users. Now they’re doing everything to cage them in.

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I’ve been a user and fan of the AeroPress since I get one for my birthday a few years ago. Unfortunately, it’s starting to show its age.

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Today I’ve learned that the MAME emulator project did a cooperation with the Internet Archive, Texas Instruments and HP to create software replicas of historic pocket calculators. The result is the Calculator Drawer.

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Recently, I noticed an increasing frequency in which I get presented with Captcha requests. In part, this might have been caused by me switching browsers or reinstalling my laptop. But still, thanks to their annoyance factor, it felt like I was getting more of them than in the past.

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When someone on Mastodon asked for help with a Ruby question, my friend and business partner Markus kindly referred them to me, knowing that I’m always happy to help other Ruby developers. Their question was about executing Mastodon code from a custom script. In this post, I describe how I solved this problem using the Rails console and a custom subclass.

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