One of my leisure time activities is to develop KMyMoney, a personal finance management application. Most of my time is spent on development, testing, bug reproduction and fixing, user support and sometimes I even write some documentation for this application.
Akademy 2024
From Fri, Sep 6th to Tue, Sep 10th I attended the 2024 edition of KDE Akademy in Würzburg, Germany. I booked a room in a hotel downtown the same place CoLa, a fellow KDE developer, stayed. Since parking is rather
Getting ready for Akademy
Next Saturday, this year’s Akademy starts in Würzburg, Germany. After a rather long absence – the last Akademy I attended in person was in Mechelen (2008) – I am very much looking forward to meet old friends and make new
Make Firefox Private Again
Since the makers of Firefox unfortunately turned on private attribution by default (why? Mozilla, why?), the internet answers with an easy and automated way to turn it off again (at least on Unix style systems). https://make-firefox-private-again.com And here in short
Fibre’s coming (to my) home
Part 0 No, it’s not football this time but a fibre line into my house. A German telco operator offered to install an FTTH line directly into my house at no cost, the only thing is that I have to
Lageschieber’s sailing trip
Arrival / Day 0 After a little pause from sailing last year, I participated in this years trip around the islands in the Aegean Sea. Just as in years before, we arrived Thursday night in Lavrion (Λαύριο) via Athens. This
Incanto: from heart attack to incontinence
While recovering from the ‘heart attack‘ about a month ago, Incanto now suffered from incontinence. After descaling the machine I wanted to pull a new coffee and was wondering, why the brew cycle finished and my coffee pot was still
Incanto’s heart attack and a little ‘stroke’ to the rescue
Since the last serious health problem of Incanto, a lot has happened. I don’t want to go into details about them (ya’ll know, the virus and stuff) but want to mention that after Incanto’s last surgery five and a half
Linguistic adventures
It all started back in December of last year: I met the president of our local city partnership committee and we chatted about this year’s trip to our partner city in France in the Loire valley. I told her, that
Wildlife in the backyard
I had posted a video about wildlife on my patio before, which showes a single wild bee building her home in my awning. Today things were different: a whole bee swarm conquered our backyard. Finally, they rested in a European