Due to a few coincidents, like me being too weak for powerlifting and people at my gym having a large collection of Atlas stones, I somehow slid into strongman and did a totally beginner meet in May 2025. To commemorate this and have a few takeaways, I immediately started writing …
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Sucking sucks
Sucking sucks. It has become a rare experience for me to truly suck at something, and even worse, suck at something important. I mean not like I suck at lifting, where I do most things pretty right and definitely are at the level of conscious competence, yet still, just by …
moreSwitching to consoomer linux
It has now been about a year or two since I made the switch from Funtoo to Linux Mint. The main reasons were
- Funtoo went directions I did not like and was ultimately discontinued
- after Funtoo, Gentoo just felt outdated
- I am closer to my friends/work environment and am …
Generating a login cookie for Nextcloud
When running a Nextcloud (or ownCloud 10 for that matter) you usually have a key-value database like redis, valkey, keydb or memcache for session handling. This introduces some complications for monitoring, because it does not suffice to simply check if the host is up.
Indeed, just the file storage failing …
moreSome notes on BMI and FFMI
The BMI (body mass index) is a well known formula to put the weight of a person in relation to their size. It does only work well in a small range and fails on muscular people, but at least with one small trick we can remove the influence of muscle …
moreDivine gym truths
There are things about lifting which are so overgeneralized that they are obviously wrong, but at the same time they are absolutely true. Sometimes our scientific view would suggest that there should be counterexamples, but there are not.
Most of these things are obvious and can be observed by anyone …
moreHow I sauna
I have been asked about how to structure a sauna routine twice in a single week, so I guess here is the generalized answer on this topic.
Most people figure out their routine over time, and it usually boils down to listening to your own body, but if you mimick …
moreBefriending oneself
People often throw around phrases like "practice self-compassion" or "love yourself". While this might be something that in theory possibly is helpful to some people, it is not immediately clear why it should be good and in practice the typical results seem to be bi-modally distributed around two poles:
- people …
Using endpoints and external services in kubernetes
Sometimes we need to access services in our cluster via network which are not yet part of the cluster, but we plan on migrating them at some point. Or there are webservices still running on some old piece of junk, but we'd like to have all the comforts of an …
moreMy kubernetes blogroll
This post contains a few links I refer to or share with other people. These links go to external sites and while I do my best to check them regularly for shady stuff, well you know how it goes in the wild wild web, so make sure to stay safe …
moreHow to finally fall in love with chin- and pullups
Few exercises are so noncontroversial as chin- and pullups. Medical professional, gym enthusiasts, calisthenic people, crossfitters, almost everyone seems to like them. 1 The only people honestly not liking them tend to be strong and jacked (I mean even fat people acknowledge that they are just too fat, so they …
moreUpgrading a kubeadm kubernetes cluster
Upgrading a kubeadm kubernetes cluster is not nearly as bad as it might seem in the first place, as it is all very well documented, but in the sea of documentation you always feel like missing something. In this post I summarize the most important links and the things I …
moreAgency, not attention is the most valuable resource
This is a correction to a former post of myself. I made the claim that attention, not time is the most valuable resource. This should read: Agency, not attention is the most valuable resource, and hence the title of this post, whereas agency refers to the capacity of an autonomous …
moreDiagnostics, communication and phenomenology
It is almost a meme in coaching, consulting and also just general problem solving in various areas of life and business: To outsiders it is pretty obvious what the issues are, whereas the insiders seem to be oblivious to them. Depending on the severity, you can sometimes even tell them …
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