I am not a writer and I don't plan to become one. And that's ok. What matters here is not the writing, is the communication. Is the exchange of ideas, and the sharing of experiences. That's why more people should have personal sites and why more people should write. Because those ideas matter, those experiences matter and are worth sharing.

💫 Opens Wins

There's lots of discourse on the net about What's To Be Done about this big event. Based on decades of experience with such launches, here's what I say. …. First and foremost -- don't panic. 😄#

I experienced a couple of these social network cycles in that quarter century I’m participating in that internets thing.
Dave a lot longer and he’s responsible for some of the most resilient social tech on it.

He knows his stuff and is constantly learning as well.

Some say the Internet is boring at the moment. I still find it exciting and have the feeling that things are being shaken up right now.

⛰️ Made it!

Me on the summit. It’s windy.

🥾 let’s go!

Lake glendalough

Good morning!

I love the Irish weather.

White cottage with a bench in front of it.

Packed. Looks like the backpack is enough!

Luggage for a 5 day trip neatly arranged

🍒 we picked our part. The rest stays for the birds, wasps and bees.

a bowl of deeply red cherries

Death is the only promise life makes to us.

Death is THE constant.

Happy 18th birthday, wuerzblog! 🎂

Arrived.

An old mobile home is parked in a meadow in front of a forest.&10;

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

Forrest in the evening sun with moon rising

🗒️ 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! 👋

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.

There’s even time for the hammock

😎Enjoying 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:

  • 🇦🇹 Austria
  • 🇧🇪 Belgium
  • 🇰🇭 Cambodia
  • 🇭🇷 Croatia
  • 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
  • 🇩🇰 Denmark
  • 🇫🇷 France
  • German Democratic Republic
  • 🇮🇪 Ireland
  • 🇮🇹 Italy
  • 🇱🇦 Laos
  • 🇲🇲 Myanmar
  • 🇳🇱 Netherlands
  • 🇸🇮 Slovenia
  • 🇪🇸 Spain *🇨🇭 Switzerland
  • 🇹🇭 Thailand
  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
    • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
    • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
  • 🇻🇳 Vietnam

~~ I’m sorry, but I’m too lazy for flags 😆~~

I’ve 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.

🤹‍♀️ ugprading about a hundred servers right now. Actually I'm just watching my scripts doing their work 😎