I'm taking the afternoon off today – I have easily enough OT for that – for a spontaneous visit to Eva (where “spontaneous” means “organised the day before yesterday”) to deal with some computer issues and generally have a chat, which we didn't have an opportunity to do since before Christmas.
Read moreMore Team Week
Another “team week” day – this one was full of meetings to a point where slotting in some productive work was a bit of a challenge. But to be fair, some of the meetings were quite productive! And we went to dinner in a nice restaurant/bar in Darmstadt later, so that was OK, too.
Read moreTeam Week at Work
Every 4 to 6 weeks my colleagues and I come to the office for a few days – for a “distributed” development team with members in the Rhine-Main area, in Berlin, and elsewhere it is good to sit around the same physical table every so often, instead of only communicating via Microsoft Teams (argl).
Read moreSCD Class, 14. Januar 2025
Today's blog entry (in German) is over on the FSCDC e.V. web site.
Read moreFarewell Feedly, Welcome FreshRSS
For the longest time I've been using Feedly as my RSS feed aggregator. This is a reasonable service if you don't mind the ads that are randomly interspersed with your feeds, the persistent attempts at upselling you the paid version, the slow encroachment of AI features that I for one don't want, and so on. Plus the fact that a US company gets to see which RSS feeds I consume. Time for something new …
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