Niels K.

Whatever I do in my work as a #sysadmin be it writing yaml for Ansible or Salt or programming, I always go back to #vim (or nowadays #neovim) on my local machine. I don’t even know why it feels so annoying to switch between a a non-cli editor like VS Codium, Pycharm, etc, even emacs and my terminal.

Spotifys interface feels very cluttered 😳

My reference is Apple Music.

My son is watching „Terminator 2“ for the first time. He can‘t take his eyes from the screen.

Tomorrow I will try bananas and raisins instead of energy gels on my long run. #running

On Tuesday I hope I will start with a new treatment (I will try Vumerity). I hope it won’t interfere with my #running-training. 😕 #ms

The year started with #running like last year ended - with VO2Max-training units. Yesterday 8x2x400m (plus warm up and cool down) and today 2x5x400+400 slow (plus warmup up and cool down). My legs are noticing it…Next units are an easy and a long run (only 22km - it will get longer the next weeks).

Die Heimfahrt läuft gut. ICE fällt aus und im neuen Zug kann ich keine Sitzplätze mehr für die Familie reservieren. #38c3

TIL: Der #38C3 hat eine Wäscherei #waschkatzen

My year in #running. There will be two runs added until the end of the year. I improved massively this year. Next year there will be a marathon I run outside of a race, the Berlin Marathon and probably my the S25 and the Nikolauslauf in Berlin. I am not sure yet about races with a shorter distance.

I lay today awoke for more than an hour thinking about which new therapy to choose after giving up Copaxone (Rebif or Vumerity). It is such a hard choice because I have no real idea how it will impact my quality of life and my running training. #ms

Meh…I had to cancel my last D&D-session of the year ☹️ #rpg

In my DnD-sessions today and next month there will be some warforged coming up. Is there a free (or low cost) voice changer-app for macOS available that I could use together with Zoom when I speak for them? #macos #rpg #audio

I have for my private computing purposes a Mac again. And even though I like #Linux and think that using Open Source is actually the better “ethical” choice in terms of computers, I have to say that using #macOS just feels like “Home”. And so I switched back.

Pro advice for working in data centers: bone conducting headphones still work when you have ear plugs in your ears. But ANC-headphones are great, too. #sysadmin

Yesterday I worked all day long with some UltraSparcs running SunOS 5.6. My only access was with via serial cable and for some reason Backspace/CTRL-H only worked in some sessions. Editing of files only via sed. Or booting from CD…Single Speed.

Not everything was better in the past.

#sysadmin #unix

I’m training for a marathon at the end of March with an app-made plan.

Total distance by then: 733km 😳

One week off for 38C3 (34km less than the 733km), but the plan doesn’t include my weekly running club sessions. #running

I like the medal of the run from today #running

26.8km-Race finished but wasn’t as fast as I wanted to be. I placed ok-ish though. And now my legs and feet are still hurting #running

Race Day!

26.8km.

Let’s see if I can reach my target time of 2:30:00.

#running

Berlin Marathon is a go in 2025. And a colleague of mine also had luck and will start 🚀

The tradition of the yearly Lego Christmas village begins.

This year we start with the Chinese New Years Temple 😅

My wife made Baklava. I read that you can store it or up to two weeks. I really doubt that this will be necessary 🤤

Ich lese ein IT-Sicherheitsbuch einer Professorin, dass sich wie eine Abschlussarbeit eines Studenten liest…

Und bei den Beispielen denke ich jedes Mal: das was der Nutzer da macht, ist nicht ok - aber wo hat denn die IT so verkackt, dass das überhaupt geht und warum ist das nicht der Schwerpunkt🤦

Improvement over a year:

Half-Marathon in December last year: ca 2h30 (first time ever that I ran the distance) at an average pace of 7'10"/km

Half-Marathon today: 1h55 (training run, but PB) with an average pace of 5'28"/km #running

So #garmin replaced my watch and I got new one. It has an old firmware and I can’t install my preferred watch face or the hydration tracker because of it.

But the one thing you read in the forum is that if you want a working watch, you don’t use a firmware which is 17.26 or newer…