Jan Luca Siewert

In memory of better times.

I am really enjoying Microblogvember so far.

Posting each day is a nice challenge.

The good thing about rainy Sundays is that you don’t feel bad for spending the day on the couch.

Wandering down along closed restaurants on bars on a Saturday night still feels spooky. Emptiness where there should be joy and life.

Let’s at least hope that the partial lockdown helps!

Pizza time!

Backups are in place, I guess it’s Big Sur time!

I’ve been wearing my Apple Watch to sleep for a couple of weeks now but honestly I don’t know why. The alarm is nice and subtle, but that’s the opposite of what I usually need in the morning. And the sleep data feels kinda… pointless.

I’d say I just opened my first public GitHub issue. That was a long time coming.

The M1 Macs look like nice improvements. I am curious for some real-life experiences in the coming weeks.

Following the great news about Covid vaccines the first suggestions about who should receive it first were published: Doctors, nurses and the elderly.

Makes sense, but let’s see what will happen when the vaccine actually becomes available.

Time to dig into The Mandalorian Season 2 and our all favorite force baby.

Politicians use every horrible attacks to push through with their surveillance fetishes, like the most recent attempt to end end-to-end encryption in Europe. The attacker was of course well known to the police. But hey, never pass on such an opportunity.

There are no news like an EU encryption ban to get your blood boiling on a Monday morning.

Another Sunday, another bread.

Taste is great, texture is good, optics still have some potential. But we are getting there.

I am trying to bind myself to some more habits, building a more robust schedule. But some patterns are hard to overcome.

I don’t want to inflate hopes to much, but today was a good day for this world.

Biden takes the lead in PA. It is still puzzling why I can’t get my head away from election coverage. But hey, I take everything that keeps me away from blowing too much money at Apple preorders.

Looks like Apple finally got the Apple TV and HomePod integration right. Playing video always outputs to the HomePod but music doesn’t start the TV.

I am not that tall, but I still automatically stoop every time I enter a basement. How can taller people manage that?

Supermarkets near us declared the second Covid wave to be over. There was toilet paper, pasta and even flour in stock!

Wish I had this guys optimism.

Keep the faith, guys. We’re gonna win this.

– Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 4, 2020

Do I watch election coverage or do I preserve my mental health?

I thought about how to put it, but that sums it up nicely.

Good luck, America. I genuinely believe you’ve got it this time. I’ll be rooting for a return to sanity, decency, and hope from afar.

– Federico Viticci November 3, 2020

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

– Mark Twain

I am trying to get into the habit to mediate. It already helps me concentrate.