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Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Slug: 5-minute-journal Location: Home Authors: Michiel Scholten Category: life Tags: life Status: draft Summary: I'm keeping a journal, was helped with this method and it makes me feel better about my life
In 2016 I learned of a method of journal keeping called the five minute journal, of which …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
The year 2017 has barely begun, but somehow it is already looking up. At least in my personal bubble.
Son is suddenly confident enough to try a lot of new words, with mixed success in pronunciation or even correctness, but he is leaping forward amazingly. I am really happy with …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
2016 was... interesting. Globally, it was overshadowed by some almost-disastrous events, and a lot of great and/or famous people left us (I won't even speak about the political... issues the world is having).
Personally, the year was challenging. Having a second kid eliminates all chances of getting some decent …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Er, weblog. Lots happened this year, lots of good and some less good things. We enjoyed our little girl growing from baby to toddler. We less enjoyed the continuing broken nights.
The world is a weird, scary, but also a wonderful place. Let's make 2017 great.
Posted by Michiel Scholten in howto
A while ago I wrote about getting notified on battery low. It is quite useful when you leave your laptop unattended for a while, to get a notification on your phone and/or smartwatch when that laptop is about to run out of juice. It has saved me a few …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in projects
A while back I started scratching an itch that I had and that wasn't relieved by some existing software or services I could find: a central place to keep track of interesting places on the web I wanted to follow up on, without having them saved as read-later in Pocket …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
A few weeks ago I started noticing an odd problem: my Pebble Time Steel didn't want to update its various apps anymore. The watchface showed stale weather data, the public transports apps didn't want to tap into the latest departure times and so on. This of course annoyed me a …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in howto
Edit at 2017-01-21: see the comments about better ways, especially comment 6.
Secure Settings (Google Play) is a really helpful app to help Tasker (Google Play) do things automatically on your Android device.
However, it has not been updated for quite a while (January 2015 at the time of this …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in family
In the night of Sunday to Monday, at 4:17, Nienke rushed into this world. Where Daan took his time being delivered, I was barely awake (Ineke woke me at 4:01) when Nienke saw her first lamplight.
Needless to say, she was born at home, in the tub where …
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
Today it's 12 years ago I officially started this weblog and I finally have taken some steps to get the next generation of the codebase working on my server. It's getting there, looking forward to continue dammIT in its Django incarnation :)
This year has been fascinating; junior went from barely …