I would not have believed to practice this sport that long if you told me so back in 2004. In the vast sport offerings of my university in Ilmenau I stumbled upon Floorball and as it sounded interesting, I decided to try it out. The people were great so I kept coming back. We went to a lot of tournaments, even to Twente in the Netherlands and it was so much fun! I could not get enough of this sport for that time while studying. It would’ve been great if there would exist some league in Thuringia but there was not. So we just played for fun.

In 2009 I ended up in Hamburg and looked for a Floorball group and found one. It was a fun group, too, with lots of skilled players. Over time less and less people came so I also left this group and joined another club in Hamburg, playing in a regional league. For some years this was awesome. I scheduled my winter weekends after the league schedule but with kids and family time it became harder to fit this in.

During Corona we had to take a break and I struggled without the training as I was used to it so much. It was a fixed part of my week since so many years already. To get some movement, surfskating was a nice discovery which I still enjoy very much. From then on, Floorball already was not the number one anymore.

The final drop that made me quit was a new time for our training: I can’t manage to leave before 22:30h and it’s still an hour to drive home. With a school kid and an early alarm to get up, these short nights really dragged me down the rest of the week. But playing and the team was so fun!

Sometimes one has to recognize if something is no fit anymore. It’s hard as I love that sport a lot. Maybe I return to it one day. For now I enjoy the short walks to a Basketball group around the corner – it is also a lot of fun, even though I broke my finger the first time. I guess I have a lot to learn.

The moment he is standing on the stairs out of a subway, responding to some text messages is hilarious. I also loved when he saw that (virtual) butterfly and tried it to land on some donut he bought – while standing in the donut store and people looking at him weirdly.

Seeing that it‘s basically unusable while moving, I wonder what those people walking / driving around with this thing strapped on actually do other than showing off…

Also, it is so dumb to wear this while driving, even in an autonomous car. I hope this never will be allowed in the EU.

The winter brought some early snow this December. Even Hamburg turned into a snowy winter wonderland. It would be so nice to have this until February instead of rain!

Together with friends from university back then I do a reunion every year in another place. Last week we cylced along the Elberadweg from Dresden to Meißen and back. This area is so beautiful and the weather was really nice. Loved it!

Seeing the examples on their site, my first thought is that you’ll end up with lots of not really matching components.

I guess people will create things with it, but I cannot imagine that you get a consistent, polished & accessible UI out of it.

Maybe it’s like what happened in photography: compact cameras and especially smartphones made photography available & cheap for everybody. Most people are no photographers though, they just take snapshots and that’s fine. Real photography requires lots of practice and patience.

It might be the same with AI coding: it makes creating available for lots of people, but professional developers bring the practice and patience and this will make a difference.

Do I fear for my job as a frontend developer? No, not a bit.

I think people will notice when a brand out person smashes together automatically created things as these will lack the personal note. Building a brand is hard. Gaining trust is hard. Building a relationship is hard.

These are the things that cannot be automated (yet?).

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Well, do something, so we can change it!

Helps a lot to overcome that hard moment to just get going.

The second week of our summer vacation in Sweden we went camping in the forest at lake Orranäsasjön near Orrefors. Now this is a beautiful lake! We went swimming a lot, canoed across the lake, discovering crayfish, walking through the forest and in general just being a lot outdoors.

One rainy day we went to an elk safari which was a tour with a tractor through an area full of elk. We even could feed them as they got really close. Impressive large animals.

A hike through the forest brought us to Orrefors, an old and small town which is a bit famous for its former glass industry. This time is gone and one can only see the old fabric that is surprisingly undamaged. During our time in the forest and at the lake we made a lot of contact with mosquitos in the evenings – annoying beasts! The days at the lake were worth it, though.

This was the second week of our vacation. We also spent a day in Malmö and stayed close to the beach in Ljunghusen & Skanör.

One day of our summer vacation in Sweden we went to Malmö. The city is quite nice but it cannot compete with Kopenhagen by far. I think there are lovelier Swedish cities to visit, even in the south. Nonetheless, we had a nice day and enjoyed it.

We also spent a week in Ljunghusen & Skanör and camped a week at lake Orranäsasjön.