- Thu 21 July 2022
- Spookyville
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- Michiel Scholten
Articles
- Tue 14 June 2022
- Home, nerdcave, low earth orbit
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- Michiel Scholten
Strawberry moon
Yesterday evening instead of getting to bed when I really needed to, I stayed up a bit longer to shoot the Strawberry Moon.

- Mon 13 June 2022
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- Michiel Scholten
Why Everyone Needs a Blog
The easiest way to see how much you need a blog is to do this thought exercise. Imagine going back in time to a 21-year-old in 1952 and asking them what their opinions are, and where you could find a book of those opinions. Here’s what they would say …

- Thu 07 April 2022
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- howto
- Michiel Scholten
Home Assistant: wake-up light
Today I was hanging around in #nlhomeautomation on IRC as one does, and for some reason we started talking about alarm clocks. I wake up with a self-built wake-up light that is triggered by my Home Assistant instance and manifests as a nicely glowing bowl on my night stand that …
- Mon 28 March 2022
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- Michiel Scholten
The End of Infinite Data Storage Can Set You Free
The belief that we could save endlessly online turned us all into information hoarders. What society needs instead is better systems for preserving public knowledge. One interesting find from this article: Perma which minimises link rot by converting hyperlinks in scholarly documents into “reliable, unbreakable link(s) to an unalterable …
- Tue 01 March 2022
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- Michiel Scholten
Infrastructure automation: hype
This weekend we did a big migration of our stack at work to a new data centre and I am stoked about how our applications and their virtual machines are set up now. Quite a bunch is already automated and having a decent base image is such a nice thing …
- Tue 22 February 2022
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- Michiel Scholten
Just a palindrome date
I'll just leave this here: 22-02-2022 #numbers
- Sun 06 February 2022
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- Michiel Scholten
Attention attenti-oh look, shiny
I have things to say about our attention spans, about how they are getting influenced by certain things, but I can't currently focus on typing a blog post so I guess it will be done later. Adds to todo list
- Thu 06 January 2022
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- Michiel Scholten
I run on solar energy
The dark days of the year I'm always reminded by my body that I really prefer brighter days over the gloomy ones. I don't mind the dark per se, but my energy level goes down noticeably when the gloom continues for too long. A day with sun really helps my …

- Tue 04 January 2022
- Home, couch
- reading
- Michiel Scholten
Under the Dome
I just finally finished Under the Dome by Stephen King. For several reasons it took me from last June till today to finish it; for one, I've been playing more games than in the ten years before combined (still not that much, but as my evenings are short, it eats …

- Sun 02 January 2022
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- Michiel Scholten
Mobile blogging
Today I cloned the dammit.nl repo on my phone, as apparently I hadn't done that just yet. I had wanted to post a short blurp on December 31th saying goodbye to 2021, but I was fresh out of laptop. I put it on my phone mostly to be able …
- Sat 01 January 2022
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- Michiel Scholten
Have a normal 2022
With a whole load of things being the new 'normal', wishing y'all a 'normal 2022' might not sound like how I intend it to. What I mean is, lets hope we get more of the normal that we were used to before that little virus found its way across the …
- Tue 21 December 2021
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Happy 18th birthday, dear diary
Today is a good day. We had some (well-spaced) fun at the office, our new TV arrived to allow us to spend some good times together oggling at inky blacks, and this sweet little website of mine turned eighteen, meaning it's now officially legal. Or doesn't it work that way …
- Mon 20 December 2021
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- Michiel Scholten
Do it, do it now
I stumbled upon this post by Vermyndax earlier today and felt the urge to type. His problem is one that I'm familiar with; I don't pretend to have a magic answer, but I learned some tricks to get myself started. First of all: I don't think it's weird to want …

- Thu 18 November 2021
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- Michiel Scholten
Fixing CS:GO on Ubuntu 21.10
Yesterday evening, my little gaming group came together online to play some Counter Strike: Global Offence (CS:GO), as a deviation from our regular battles in OpenRA (which is great fun by the way). We played CS:GO before, but for some reason when I launched it from Steam now …
- Sun 24 October 2021
- Dunes
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- Michiel Scholten
Shooting 'shrooms
Went on a walk with my loved ones in our very sunny dunes. Shot some mushrooms in the process. I so love dew drops.

- Fri 08 October 2021
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- Michiel Scholten
- Sun 03 October 2021
- Home, or a park rather
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Fall dawn in 2021
One of the ways I am attempting to keep my sanity, is by taking morning walks. Those walks serve both as some light exercise when working from home, and as a way of waking up and resetting my head by submitting myself to the fractals of nature, found in the …

- Tue 28 September 2021
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- Michiel Scholten
Get dressed to work
Draft has been collecting dust for a while, but I'd like to present you this from the COVID archives. This is a bit of an odd one. I normally do not write or even talk much about clothing, but something jumped to me: the sheer amount of sweatpants I notice …
- Tue 28 September 2021
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- Michiel Scholten
RQ Python queuing system
You might be acquainted with the Celery Distributed Task Queue, which is a proven way to process vast amounts of messages. Messages containing tasks for your software stack to eventually finish doing, for example. However, Celery is slightly cumbersome to set up (no rocket surgery, but the RabbitMQ message broker …
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