That's a very refreshing take and it reminds me of a simpler time, before "Web 2.0". I can do HTML/CSS no problem, I actually teach a web development course in high school. For my own blog it might be too much of a distraction though, I really want to focus on the content.

But I agree, building a website from scratch can be very rewarding :)

Thanks! I've already checked it out, and it looks promising. From what I've seen so far it's similar to Hugo but written in Rust instead of Go.

Paper drinking straws

I always thought cigarettes contain tar, as in the substance asphalt on the road is made from. It always felt weird to me, why would they put it in the cigarettes but I figured maybe they need it so the tobacco doesn't fall out or something.

Mir ist das letzte Mal in den USA vor allem die Farbe vom Fanta aufgefallen. Dieses intensive Orange gibt es bei uns nicht, ich glaube sogar, der Farbstoff ist in der EU nicht zugelassen.

I had such high hopes back in 2018, I think France was pushing for it. Now 7 years later with still no progress I think the best bet is to move to China, India, Russia or Hawaii, or any African country except Egypt. Or South America except Chile. You see the overwhelming majority of people in the world don't have the DST bullshit.

Link zur Studie: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000595

Not drinking alcohol when I'm alone or not in a good place mentally. And yes, this can be hard depending on the social circle.

Yes, exactly. The comic was published on October 13, 2008, according to Explain XKCD, that's probably why iTunes is in it.

Chinese food! More specifically, Sichuan and Northwestern style food.

I don't need to pick a second one.

Nicht vergessen, es gab 2019 die Ibiza-Affäre und viele FPÖ-Stimmen sind 2020 deshalb zur ÖVP gegangen.

Ich mag Seifenspender wo die Flasche transparent ist, also man reinsehen kann. Das ist besser als irgendeine Keramik wo man raten muss wie viel noch drin ist, außerdem hat diese zähflüssige Seife in der Flasche eine gewisse Ästhetik.

I've already looked into bear blog, I really like the philosophy behind it. The reason I don't use it is because ideally I want to self-host, and bear blog is not open-source (edit: cannot be self-hosted easily). Also, I want to embed images in my blog, and from what I've seen, you have to either take care of the image hosting yourself or pay a monthly fee. It also looks like the backups are only text, no images, which could make migration to a different platform painful. I had the same issue with blogger.com back in the day, it was possible to export the text, but then the image links were all still pointing to Google's CDN.

I don't really need comments, only RSS. Hugo is a great piece of software, I actually use it for my personal webpage. It would be an option for the blog too, my only gripe is that it adds some friction. For example if I want to embed images, I have to upload them somewhere, and manually insert the filename. I also need regenerate the site if I add new posts. I know this can be automated using scripts.

With Ghost it's very simple, I can just write a post, upload the images, hit "Publish" and done. There was even a mobile app for writing new posts, but it doesn't work anymore.

I would argue that people you are describing enjoying Tik Tok and being too lazy to look stuff up themselves, are not really engineers. You could also frame it as, information technology got so mainstream, even people with no technical background whatsoever are part of it. Engineers and tech nerds still exist, but they are a minority now.

more like a revival of early internet aesthetics, i.e. shitty 3D graphics, low quality digital images, and WordArt from the late 1990s

Am besten ein moderner Reiskocher, Zojirushi oder Cuckoo mit Gummidichtung und antihaftbeschichtetem Topf. Kann den Reis für mehrere Tage bei konstanter Temperatur warmhalten ohne dass er austrocknet.

Das ist ein guter Punkt! Für mich macht es ehrlich gesagt mental keinen Unterschied mehr, weil ich von der Arbeit her viel Englisch verwende und ich mich nicht mehr wirklich anstrengen muss. Aber ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass es für viele Leute anders ist. Es muss ja auch einen Grund geben, warum die Publisher die Übersetzungen fordern.

Check out https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/ There is a list of books he wrote with free PDF and links to Kindle store. "Mencious Moldbug" is one of his pseudonyms.

It should be possible to buy frozen durian in Germany, in asian supermarkets. Not sure if that's an option.