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2026 87

  1. How to Remove Unwanted Elements from a Website with Browser Extensions
  2. Linkdump No 131
  3. Linkdump No 130
  4. Linkdump No 129
  5. Linkdump No 128
  6. Linkdump No 127
  7. Linkdump No 126
  8. Linkdump No 125
  9. Linkdump No 124
  10. Linkdump No 123
  11. Blaugust Wrap-Up
  12. My new old Micro Hi-Fi
  13. Linkdump No 122
  14. 5 Albums
  15. How I use AI
  16. Linkdump No 121
  17. I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore
  18. Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple
  19. Linkdump No 120
  20. Going viral is kind of scary
  21. Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change
  22. Linkdump No 119
  23. Why a Raspberry Pi shouldn't be powered through its GPIO pins
  24. Are we becoming too paranoid about AI slop?
  25. An OPML list of (most) blogs participating in Blaugust
  26. Let's do Blaugust
  27. Old Computer Challenge 2026 Day 4 - Making a Case in FreeCAD
  28. Old Computer Challenge 2026 Day 3 - Coding Part 2
  29. Old Computer Challenge 2026 Day 2 - Coding Part 1
  30. Old Computer Challenge 2026 Day 1 - Some Theory
  31. Old Computer Challenge 2026 - Make Something
  32. I bought a Sony Walkman
  33. Linkdump No 118
  34. Linkdump No 117
  35. Linkdump No 116
  36. Linkdump No 115
  37. Linkdump No 114
  38. Thoughts on the new Commodore phone
  39. Re: If I could be transported back
  40. Linkdump No 113
  41. Linkdump No 112
  42. Linkdump No 111
  43. Linkdump No 110
  44. Listening to every Album: AC/DC
  45. Windows 98 on a Thinkpad T41
  46. Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering
  47. Linkdump No 109
  48. Linkdump No 108
  49. Linkdump No 107
  50. Linkdump No 106
  51. Linkdump No 105
  52. Commodore's new (and my Dad's old) C64C
  53. It's CSS Naked Day
  54. Brace yourselves and hold on to your hats — the future is here!
  55. Linkdump No 104
  56. Linkdump No 103
  57. Linkdump No 102
  58. Linkdump No 101
  59. Emulating old OS X versions with QEMU
  60. Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?
  61. Mastodon (Bluesky/X/Instagram) is not the right platform for posting long-form content (a blog is)
  62. Cool tech you've never heard of: Wave Field Synthesis
  63. Listening to every Album: Gamma Ray
  64. Website Update: Links Page
  65. iPod vs Smartphone - which lasts longer?
  66. Linkdump No 100
  67. Linkdump No 99
  68. Linkdump No 98
  69. Linkdump No 97
  70. Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
  71. English speaking artists singing in German
  72. Linkdump No 96
  73. Linkdump No 95
  74. Linkdump No 94
  75. Linkdump No 93
  76. Thoughts about coding with AI
  77. Book review: Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins
  78. What is the oldest thing you own?
  79. Some internet history reading
  80. I'm a wanted criminal in Italy. Well, maybe. Probably not
  81. Spreading misinformation on the internet
  82. How does a smoke alarm work?
  83. Linkdump No 92
  84. Linkdump No 91
  85. Linkdump No 90
  86. Linkdump No 89
  87. Linkdump No 88

2025 108

  1. Running Unix V4 from 1974
  2. Building and running Linux off a Floppy Disk with Floppinux
  3. Linkdump No 87
  4. Linkdump No 86
  5. Linkdump No 85
  6. Linkdump No 84
  7. A roadmap of the Roman Empire
  8. Badly translated movie titles in Germany
  9. Some light entertainment to help recover from illness
  10. Linkdump No 83
  11. Linkdump No 82
  12. Linkdump No 81
  13. Linkdump No 80
  14. Goodbye Nuclear Power Plant
  15. nina.chat is gone
  16. Linkdump No 79
  17. Linkdump No 78
  18. Linkdump No 77
  19. Linkdump No 76
  20. Linkdump No 75
  21. Judas Priest, Ozzy Osbourne and Candlemass
  22. Is the ability to think going to become a rare and valuable skill?
  23. Linkdump No 74
  24. Linkdump No 73
  25. Linkdump No 72
  26. Linkdump No 71
  27. 'Techtember' is upon us and I think we should use it to get rid of some superfluous tech
  28. Making modern Debian look like 20 year old Ubuntu. Why? Because!
  29. When websites disappear: sizeof(cat)
  30. I fixed my MacBook Air, and it was kind of a nightmare
  31. Linkdump No 70
  32. Linkdump No 69
  33. Linkdump No 68
  34. Linkdump No 67
  35. Linkdump No 66
  36. Old Computer Challenge 2025 - Epilogue
  37. Old Computer Challenge 2025 - Protoweb and Browservice web proxies
  38. Old Computer Challenge 2025 - ICQ? moderately successful
  39. Old Computer Challenge 2025 - I'm back on ICQ
  40. Old Computer Challenge 2025 - Drivers, IRC, 3D and a more fitting keyboard and mouse
  41. Old Computer Challenge 2025 - Setup and Idea
  42. Black Sabbath played their final show and it was great!
  43. Linkdump No 65
  44. Linkdump No 64
  45. Linkdump No 63
  46. Linkdump No 62
  47. I turned today's Calvin and Hobbes comic into an animated GIF
  48. Join the Old Computer Challenge, 2025 edition!
  49. I moved my Instagram posts here
  50. I can't tell reality and satire apart anymore
  51. My Hometown has changed
  52. Blogs are still a thing
  53. What is an FPGA and why can it play retro games?
  54. Using a Raspberry Pi as a jumphost to ssh from an old computer into a modern one
  55. Linkdump No 61
  56. Linkdump No 60
  57. Linkdump No 59
  58. Linkdump No 58
  59. How DO you keep old software running? (old software still has value part 2)
  60. Old software still has value
  61. Testing BSSG - the Bash Static Site Generator
  62. The end of World War II - 80 years later
  63. Installing OS X Tiger on an old MacBook
  64. Coding then and now
  65. Bullying is never okay
  66. Linkdump No 57
  67. Linkdump No 56
  68. Linkdump No 55
  69. Linkdump No 54
  70. Linkdump No 53
  71. Getting a feeling for how much energy AI uses by running it on my laptop
  72. Coincidences
  73. I made the harddrives in my desktop computer swappable
  74. On blogging and negativity
  75. A perfect setup might not always be the right one
  76. Listening to every Album: Blue Öyster Cult
  77. Linkdump No 52
  78. Linkdump No 51
  79. Linkdump No 50
  80. Linkdump No 49
  81. This website is now generated with Zola - I'm still not sure I like it
  82. I'm trying to port my site to Zola and I'm not sure I like it
  83. The things we can learn from terrible people (CW: Musk)
  84. Blog Questions Challenge – TV Shows Edition
  85. Listening to every Album: Black Sabbath
  86. Linkdump No 48
  87. Linkdump No 47
  88. Linkdump No 46
  89. Linkdump No 45
  90. I'm constantly distracted and I need to do something about it
  91. Early generation Intel Core i3/i5/i7 computers are amazingly versatile
  92. Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition
  93. Black Sabbath are playing live again
  94. Replacing my phone's battery in 13 not so easy steps
  95. Linkdump No 44
  96. Linkdump No 43
  97. Linkdump No 42
  98. Linkdump No 41
  99. I stopped reading online news
  100. You don't need to be connected to the whole world
  101. Blog Question Challenge 2025
  102. I will never need to buy a new computer again
  103. New Year 2025
  104. Linkdump No 40
  105. Linkdump No 39
  106. Linkdump No 38
  107. Linkdump No 37
  108. Linkdump No 36

2024 107

  1. Celebrate Every Birthday
  2. My end of year review of 2024
  3. Linkdump No 35
  4. Linkdump No 34
  5. Linkdump No 33
  6. A Very Cool Internet Thing
  7. New Job
  8. Linkdump No 32
  9. Linkdump No 31
  10. Linkdump No 30
  11. Linkdump No 29
  12. Linkdump No 28
  13. Printing Articles from Websites in two column Layout
  14. The times of seeing my favourite bands live are coming to an end
  15. Linkdump No 27
  16. Linkdump No 26
  17. Linkdump No 25
  18. Buy our new product! It will be great in two years!
  19. Finishing unfinished Projects
  20. I joined the 3D printing revolution
  21. A post about trains and music and nostalgia
  22. We all carry our own baggage
  23. The books I read in August 2024
  24. Apple - You either die a hero...
  25. 100 days to offload - one year later
  26. Linkdump No 24
  27. Linkdump No 23
  28. Linkdump No 22
  29. Linkdump No 21
  30. 20 years in embedded development: Microcontrollers then and now
  31. What Am I?
  32. Time
  33. Resources about mental health
  34. Living in the Anthropocene
  35. Learning about HTML and the Internet in 1996
  36. We need a different internet
  37. Getting back into reading
  38. Linkdump No 20
  39. Linkdump No 19
  40. Linkdump No 18
  41. Linkdump No 17
  42. Linkdump No 16
  43. The benefits of therapy
  44. Porting my blog to the 90s (kind of)
  45. Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Conclusion
  46. Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 4
  47. Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 2 & 3
  48. Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 1
  49. One year of blogging
  50. Welcome to the Thrilling New Era of 82MHz.net!
  51. When the world went quiet
  52. Bad habits are easy (good habits are hard)
  53. Linkdump No 15
  54. Linkdump No 14
  55. Linkdump No 13
  56. Linkdump No 12
  57. Old Computer Challenge 2024
  58. Will we remember 2024 as the year the internet died?
  59. I was fired
  60. A very disappointing CD player
  61. Versioning my website with git
  62. Retiring the "thoughts" section
  63. The end of the good guy tech company
  64. Modern software is bloated
  65. The books I read in May 2024
  66. Linkdump No 11
  67. Linkdump No 10
  68. Linkdump No 9
  69. Linkdump No 8
  70. A civil disagreement online - it's possible
  71. Some thoughts about the usefulness of AI
  72. A very stupid thing - burning a Video CD in 2024
  73. Powering an old laptop from USB-C
  74. Cars are insane
  75. The books I read in April 2024
  76. Me vs AI - whose English is better?
  77. Apple is like the Matrix, Version 1
  78. Living in the (technological) past - part 2
  79. Linkdump No 7
  80. Linkdump No 6
  81. Linkdump No 5
  82. Linkdump No 4
  83. Linkdump No 3
  84. Announcing Blog Posts automatically on Mastodon
  85. Testing automatic reposting to Mastodon
  86. Stadtautobahn
  87. Entitled people
  88. My 46 Cents Watch from China
  89. PhysicsGirl and Long COVID
  90. The books I read so far this year (January through March 2024)
  91. Suzanne Vega and the MP3 format
  92. Goodbye Lenna
  93. Summer time
  94. Linkdump No 2
  95. Linkdump No 1
  96. Fixed RSS feeds
  97. Antisocial Behaviour
  98. Black Sabbath finally re-releases the Tony Martin era Albums
  99. More Context for Links
  100. Different RSS feeds for Posts and Thoughts
  101. Dark Mode
  102. New Microblogging Section
  103. Abandoning 100 Days to offload
  104. Reflections on Pacifism
  105. The books I read in December 2023
  106. The books I read in November 2023
  107. New Year 2024

2023 25

  1. Why Whatsapp is making me anxious
  2. Apps I'm using in 2023
  3. The books I read in October 2023
  4. Good Bye, Raspberry Pi
  5. Using two USB Sticks as a Raid on a Raspberry Pi
  6. Living in the (technological) past
  7. The books I read in September 2023
  8. The ongoing Enshittification of Whatsapp
  9. My Relationship with digital Communication - the Beginnings
  10. Cal Newport's "Deep Life Stack" - Layer 1: Discipline
  11. Cal Newport's " Deep Life Stack": 4 Months to reinvent your life
  12. Books I read in August 2023
  13. Blogroll or "I want one too!"
  14. 100 Days to offload
  15. Updated Design Part 2
  16. Website update with new sections
  17. New Design and now also in German
  18. Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Epilogue
  19. Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Days 6 and 7
  20. Old Computer Challenge - Day 5: Youtube Videos on an iPod Classic
  21. Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Day 4
  22. Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Day 3
  23. Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Day 2
  24. Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Day 1
  25. Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Preparation