Olhão, Again — A Community Experiment That Didn't Quite Take
Back to Pomar Coliving in Olhão for a summer in the eastern Algarve. One simple goal, a completely different outcome, and a community that was a gamble.
Everything, newest first.
Everything, in the order it happened: essays, journal entries, trips and rides in one undifferentiated stream.
The imported archive is kept separate, on the grounds that a decade of old posts shouldn't get to speak first. It is still there, under Archive.
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From Sevilla to Altea
From an overnighter to a trip throughout spain
Winter escape to the south of Portugal
Booked 1 month, stayed 3.
The Road to Denia
2,120 km from Cologne to the Costa Blanca in four days, undertaken largely to avoid flying.
The workation that took another turn.
Ended up in a neighbourhood I'd never considered. Turns out it has the best bakery I've visited.
Example — The wrong turn (full metadata)
Every journal sidebar field populated: verdict, verdict note, a timed timeline, related entries, and a thumbnail. Compare with a real entry to spot what's missing.
Once upon a time in Palma de Mallorca
Nearly 2 Months without a happy end
How to fuck up a project in 2025
It's 2025, and the playbook to failure is more or less the same.
Example — Alpine Passes (full metadata)
A reference ride with every field populated, so you can see what the rides layout renders when the frontmatter is complete. Compare its frontmatter with a real ride to spot what's missing.
Example — Three weeks in Lisbon (full metadata)
A reference trip with every sidebar field populated. Compare its frontmatter with a real travel entry to spot what's missing.
Co-Living in Porto 2022
Two months in Porto. Six weeks of rain. A coliving experiment in competitive isolation.
Eifel Rundfahrt
Eine kleine Rundfahrt durch die Voreifel
Dresden Blues
2 Months - Summer 2022
Tour nach Dresden
3-tägige Tour von Köln nach Dresden
Reflecting on past projects - Lead Software Developer
It's 2025, and the playbook to failure is more or less the same.
How to fuck up a project in 2022
Spoiler: the same way as in 2020, 2015, 2010, 2005, …
First time in a coliving space as a workaholic
7 years ago i got freelance for 2 reasons: to not work for idiots anymore and to get more around on our world.
First 2 month experience with Epost.de
Why Deutsche Post? Because the german postal market is basically a monopole and most of the post is handled by this company.
Just another example why Germany (as a country) struggles in modernizing it’s public service structure
It's 2025, and the playbook to failure is more or less the same.
Tofu-dreg software development
It's 2025, and the playbook to failure is more or less the same.
The right tool for the right person, for the right project.
It's 2025, and the playbook to failure is more or less the same.
Boring code is boring, and maintainable
Stay boring, stay maintainable.