Sorry for some mess
I am reorganising my site using some new plugins (and trashing others) so there are some weird things displayed – at the moment my menu is awkward, the posts seem to be ok. My main goal is to switch to […]
Martin Dougiamas: Moodle (or any Open*) as a political statement
When I first wrote this blogpost it was 2017. Revisiting I found it even more current. I did not change anything but added a summary. When I first watched the video from Martin Dougiamas keynote at Moodle moot 2017 in […]
Wikipedia to Markdown
When I begin researching a topic I often start by reading WikiPedia. Unfortunately there is no direct download in Markdown format which is used in many programs I use. On MacOS some simple commands can be used to achieve this […]
Scrintal Workflow
As some of you may have noticed I transitioned from Obsidian to Scrintal for my personal knowledge management. As a first draw I want to share this video from Bianca Pereira explaining a workflow which is very similar to my […]
PKM and Thomas Bayes – Tags vs Folders
I am/was struggling with a well known problem: how to organize my knowledge? There are numerous recipes available, lately supported by computer software. I tried many of them – Notion, Obsidian, Logseq, Heptabase, Rem, Capacities, Kosmik, Muse, Scrintal. I tried […]
OpenCore Legacy Patcher gifted a brand new Macbook to me – and an iMac 27″. Sonoma 🥳!
10 years ago (almost exactly) I invested a very significant amount of money (more than 3000 €, then!) to buy a MacBook Pro, the almost the best one available (quad core I7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Nvidia Geforce […]
AI Fake News – Hallucinations
Only lately I was in the mood for joking and sent a picture of my breakfast — a Müsli topped with the rest of the milk remaining from preparing my cappuccino to my daughter naming it “Cappucciüsli”. Being in a […]
Why I chose Apple Notes instead of Notion
This article could have been named “Notion vs Apple Notes vs Onenote vs Redmine” but it is no thorough comparison: this are very capable applications, each of them living in a different ecosystem, each with impressive strengths and some weaknesses. […]
Staingate solved for my MacBook Pro
For the ones in a hurry: YES, this worked for me, the stains on my MacBook Pro (Late 2013) display are gone completely. NO, you will not be bamboozled, fools day was two days ago. YES, do try this at […]
iPad only — a Self-experiment
Spoiler alert: I am writing these lines with a pencil on my iPad, scribbling and/or typing on the onscreen keyboard. When I use a german word it is translated on the fly not leaving my editor or installing something. I […]
