Death is the only promise life makes to us.
Death is THE constant.
Hat Tip @stickerspotter
Arrived.
We should treasure small online communities because small communities are the best communities. Blogs with a handful of dedicated readers, forums with fewer than fifty users, group chats with a dozen participants. Those are success stories. Not becoming huge can and should be seen as a good thing.
Which is why micro.blog does it right. Not metrics are important. Not likes, not numbers of reposts.
Just the connections.
Finally some quiet time
๐๏ธ wrote the personal introduction for my new website, but since it’s just only a folder with some markdown in Obsidian I’ve added it to my profile page and as an introduction post on my mastodon.
Hi, I'm Markus! ๐
I'm a family guy with a loving partner, three great kids and a cuddly and very patient labradoodle.
Together with @geewiz we run freistil IT. There I am responsible to keep our servers happy and our customers efficient. Or the other way round, or both. I try all of it.
I love riding my bike and am quite proud and content that we as a family can live in our very rural town in the northwest of Bavaria, Germany with only one small car. But with plenty of bikes.
Thereโs even time for the hammock
๐Enjoying a very laid back holiday with the kids
Where have I been
Some folks on micro.blog have been posting this, e.g. Manton, maique and Marco and I thought it would be good fun to jump in and just get something out.
So these are the countries I have at least visited once:
- ๐ฆ๐น Austria
- ๐ง๐ช Belgium
- ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia
- ๐ญ๐ท Croatia
- ๐จ๐ฟ Czech Republic
- ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark
- ๐ซ๐ท France
- German Democratic Republic
- ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland
- ๐ฎ๐น Italy
- ๐ฑ๐ฆ Laos
- ๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar
- ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands
- ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia
- ๐ช๐ธ Spain *๐จ๐ญ Switzerland
- ๐น๐ญ Thailand
- ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom
- ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England
- ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Scotland
- ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam
~~ I’m sorry, but I’m too lazy for flags ๐~~
Iโve updated the post with flag emojis, a bot worked that out for me. There is no such flag for the GDR though. The DDRs Wikipedia page has one of course.
๐คนโโ๏ธ ugprading about a hundred servers right now. Actually I'm just watching my scripts doing their work ๐
๐งโโ๏ธ I think it's ok to bring my internet writing zombie state back to live. It was refreshing to take a break and finally drop that urge and completionist nonsense.
๐ I need a place for my local, german things to write. So I reactivated my german blog again, welcome back https://www.hammelblog.de/
๐ Traveling into a weekend vacation.
๐ค Rest in peace, my dear aunt.
Don’t mind me hunting some cars on this beautiful spring day.
โ๏ธ doing our weekly status call. how meta.
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