Christian Praß

Martha Wells Book Club: Fugitive Telemetery - Reactor In which Murderbot solves a murder mystery...

Murderbot + Murder Mystery = Fugitive Telemetry.

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social investigates if the Murderbotverse has room for cozy hardboiled detectives (and for understanding ART somewhere in there too). Let's check in on the Martha Wells Book Club!

An oven with a pot and a freshly baked bread inside.

A freshly baked wholegrain bread with fissures in its crust.

I love baking bread. Using organic flour and letting the dough rest for 24 hours at room temperature I get the most delicious and wholesome bread.

It‘s quite the opposite, the internet is full of good information, you can learn almost anything. You need to know to use this tool though. Some basic rules:
- use browser extensions/dns proxies to block ads and trackers
- write good search queries
- stay away from social media

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But - and here comes the famous argument that apparently beats poisoning children - if they would increase regulations the companies would go away and the workers would lose their jobs.
You hear this argument all the time, everywhere.
Capitalism seems to be one giant paradox.

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And I’m talking about the really dangerous stuff like heavy metal poisoning and substances that interfere with hormones.

Now, a reporter happens to show those alarming lab results to the spokesman for the textil industry in Indonesia and he of course knows this and is very sad about it…

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Why is the argument always „but we can’t do that because people would lose their jobs“?

Take Indonesia for example. The textil industry is pumping poison into the rivers, not hiding this fact at all, and this stuff is poisoning the local population. A lot of kids get sick.

Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Trying to find a good balance between „getting things done“ and „letting things go“ is hard in a society that wants productivity above all

Wenn man abends mal kein tv schaut bekommt man sogar noch bisschen was produktives am PC geschafft. Juhu 🙌

Es war mal wieder an der Zeit, Spielzeug auszusortieren. Eine ganze Box voller Zeug das nur immer ausgeräumt aber nie richtig bespielt wird ist doch Quatsch.

Powernaps funktionieren auch für Kleinkinder.
Davor: weinerlich, mies gelaunt, will herumgetragen werden und nen Schnuller.
Dann 10 Minuten Schlaf.
Danach: spielt allein, ist gut drauf, läuft herum etc.

Mass market, never had that kind in Germany. No need I think. Paperbacks here are quite expensive, but the second hand market is large. If I don’t get a book for free in the public library, I can get it used. Unless it’s a rare or very new book.

Hab gerade mit meiner Frau zusammen Bücher aufgestapelt, die wir noch lesen wollen. Das reicht für die nächsten ein, zwei Jahre 😅

#booksky #amreading #bücher

Papas Tagebuch
7:00 Uhr. Aufstehen. Den Kleinen zur Kita schaffen, zwischendurch schnell selber was essen und kurz Zähne putzen.
9:00 Uhr. Kurze Pause, Kaffee. Danach Kampf gegen die Entropie in der Wohnung. Saugen, Geschirr, Wäsche. Dann geht’s auch direkt weiter zu Kita, abholen.
#elternzeit

Buch Die Farbe Lila von Alice Walker, Verlag Nagel und Kimche.

Das Buch für Dezember im #buchklub: Die Farbe Lila von Alice Walker.
Gebraucht gekauft bei Medimops. Die Bib hatte es nicht vorrätig.
Ich bin dann doch froh, dass es die deutsche Version ist. Der Georgia Dialekt auf Englisch wäre etwas zu schwer zu lesen, auch wenn’s authentischer wäre.
#amreading

Question to bloggers and essay writers: when you write something nonfiction, do you have a certain person in mind you write to, or do you imagine talking to a group? I find it hard to relax my writing style and words can sometimes sound to eager or too forced.

#writersky #writingCommunity

Gerade gelesen: Der Schwarze Obelisk von Erich Maria Remarque. Ein autobiografisch angehauchter Roman über die Liebe, das Leben und den Zeitgeist der 1920er Jahre in Deutschland. #amreading #booksky 💙📚

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Spent what felt like an eternity #debugging an issue with cookies in an express js server. Turns out the max-age value in express is in milliseconds, not seconds like in the http spec for cookies. I’m sure the reason is developer convenience 🤪
#amcoding #webdev

I wish there was a tool that can open a #website as #book and save reading progress and sync that across devices.

I finished reading the collection of the first four of the Murderbot Diaries books by Martha Wells 📚🪐. This was a cool journey into the mind of a cynic robot with a lot of sci-fi action and mystery vibes. Then there is the Apple TV+ series adaptation which I’ll have to watch next
#amreading #booksky

So is this the best way to get #DRM free #ebooks?

1) find the publisher of the ebook (e.g. through Amazon)
2) go to the publisher website
3) hope that they have an online shop and that you can buy DRM-free ebooks there
4) load the book onto device

#Odin word-processor #devlog: Today I created an implementation of a doubly linked list that I will use in most of my document structure. I decided to start work on markdown parsing next, before continuing on layout processing and rendering.

I started to realize, my #Odin word processor project needs some serious project management. I keep coming back after longer stretches of inactivity to more complex code with more open todo items.

How to create a cross-fade page transition with a single line of CSS prass.tech/blog/view-tr...
#webdev #css

I finally found out how to fix the setup for #odin #vscode debugging using LLD. I added the -linker:lld flag in addition to -debug. Seems obvious in hindsight 🤦‍♂️
Now I can set breakpoints in VSCode and inspect the memory live. Much more convenient than printf debugging.
#programming #amcoding

so I'm using my old #splitkeyboard again. It's a #Glove80 with a slightly customized keymap. For the last two years it was a very expensive dust collector. The muscle memory is not gone but typing still feels painfully slow.
The worst part is that two keys are somehow swapped on #mac...

Cover of the book Contact by Carl Sagen showing a woman and a man in front of a large array of radio telescopes.

Just finished #reading Contact by Carl Sagan. The #book was trying to be very scientifically accurate with many descriptions and little story telling, but for sci-fi lovers like me it’s still a great book to pick up. 📚🪐

The cover of the book All Systems Red by Martha Wells, featuring a single figure in an armored, futuristic suit.

Next #bookclub #read is All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Really looking forward to this one. 💙📚🪐

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) In the first book of this series, Stephen King introduc…

A few days ago I finished reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King for my #bookclub.
The language was great, but the story was at times very confusing and the characters not very enjoyable. Without having read any other book of the series I’d give 3/5 at most. 💙📚🩸

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