Lifesign - 2017 edition
Oh wow...
Who would have thought, that there will ever be another posting at this blog after such a long time of silence. Well, now the silence is broken again, at least for this post and hopefully some more in the future again.
So what was the main reason for the long silence? To make it short: the Repair Café in Graz. After the initial successes it really took of like no one of us expected. By end of Jan 2017 we held our 22nd Repair Café event in Graz. I'm pretty that our location organizes the biggest events in Austria with 145 repair attempts during the last event alone. While this keeps being exciting all the time it also takes quite a lot of time to organize one event and do all the behind-the-scenes stuff in between. And that's mainly the reason for my reduced online presence. We also helped several other locations in Styria to start their own Repair Café events and I'm always trying to be present at as many as my tight schedule permits. Furthermore we got in contact with officials and many other initiatives working on social and environmental topics.
Were there any other major changes apart from the Repair Café? Sure, too many to count. But for a glimpse and completely unsorted:
- focus changed from computer/programming to repairing and hardware tinkering.
- blog webserver has been migrated to new hardware and hosting platform, backend engine updated and upgraded to HTTPS
- home heating system upgraded to include a proper buffer tank and access to the underlying control logic (squeezing out another ~30% efficiency compared to the state when the plumbers considered it finished)
- at daily job: changed positions and project assignments at my employer a few times, always trying to not let loose on quality and security issues on each assignment
Well, that's it for now again. I hope I find the time to post more regularly in the future. Some interesting topics are already circling in the back of my head.
Update: I just realized that the last activity on this blog had been EXACTLY 3 years ago, almost to the hour. This was not planned but is a nice coincidence :)