musings

It seems (and I have not done any kind of research on this topic) that the “approved” way of learning things or learn to do things, is to form habits. Starting a habit is easy - everyone that has tried to live through a new years resolution knows that - but ingraining a habit is quite difficult) There are apps (of course there are apps) that can help you - I stumbled upon lift. ...

Readers of this blog (there might be a few left) might have noted, that I haven’t blogged much the last months / years. I spend most of my online time on Twitter ( @jcfischer ) and the rest of the time I tend to work - Mobino is the company I have co-founded with J.F. Groff. and I’m acting and working as CTO. We are building a (nay, the) mobile payment system for 5 billion people, and I can tell you, it’s a ride. ...

Wir sind daran, einige Dinge aus unserem Haushalt zu entfernen. Da es sich um noch gut erhaltene Gegenstände handelt, wäre es schade, einfach alles “Hagenholz einfach” zu spedieren. Vielleicht findet ihr ja das eine oder ander Geschenk oder Schnäppchen: Soehnle Personenwaage, CHF 45 Situp Trainer, CHF 10 3 Schachteln Kapla, CHF 100 Kugelbahnlabyrinth, CHF 15 Holzburg, CHF 40 Playmobilzoo assortiert, CHF 50 Puzzle 1000 Teile, CHF 15 Noch ein Puzzle 1000 Teile, CHF 15 ...

I was trying to use my Mac to format a 16GB SD card with the unix tool ‘dd’, but I got a ‘permission denied’ error when trying to write to it - even as root (using sudo). Examining the SD card, the write lock switch was in the correct position, but the DiskUtil tool showed that the card was read only. Weird. Some trawling the Interwebs led to the usual “plz halp me - U good” crap that is all over the forums, but also this forum discussion on the Apple Support forums. ...

Just a quick test of a BitCoin payment button You are of course free to pay me ;)

Yesterday saw a lot of german speaking Rails developers receiving recruitment spam for a Rails Job in Zurich - german speaking people preferred. The “senior recruiter” had the good sense to have his job add translated to german - using a machine. Hilarity ensued. To make matters better (or worse), he sent the same offer today - and I couldn’t resist to write back to him. Please find below for posterity your amusement, our current dialogue: ...