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herrherrmann

@herrherrmann@mastodon.social

💻 I’m a web developer.
🎵 I make a bit of music (as https://musician.social/@bm_128 and MØDI).
📷 I occasionally take photos.
🚲 I love cycling and public transport infrastructure.

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Edent, to FIRE
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🆕 blog! “An adult gap year?”

I've got about another 10 months left at my current job and after that... I don't know what I'll do. I've already moved down to 4 days a week in an effort to glide down to FIRE. Do I really want to go back up to 5 days? Could I find somewhere that would be […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/an-adult-gap-year/
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herrherrmann,
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@Edent Do the sabbatical! And afterwards, find an employer that offers a 4-day workweek (or ask for it early in the interview process – worked for me). Companies and organizations are slowly warming up to the idea that the 4-day workweek is working well (especially if they want to hire good people), and that people take sabbaticals and other breaks from their burnout-prone jobs. (1/2)

Edent, (edited ) to random
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From an artist's point of view, is there any difference between you buying a donated CD from a charity shop and downloading pirated music from a torrent site?

Neither gives the artists, songwriters, producers, publishers, or distributors any money.

Neither reports to a charts authority to show popularity.

Both have the same impact on secondary revenue like gig tickets & merchandise.

Vote now - and please show your workings.

herrherrmann,
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@Edent That feels almost like a trick question, because there’s currently barely any good “official” way to support artists, aside from buying stuff directly from them (Bandcamp, merch from their website, etc.). Let’s not pretend that Spotify & Co. are in any way good for artists at the end of the day.

sarajw, to random
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Oooohkay. There's a thing in Germany called Kinderturnen. It's like baby gymnastics, I suppose. Often like an obstacle course.

Anyway, one boy is chasing another using a rope like a whip. The younger, smaller boy is crying out. I give chase and get the bigger boy to stop whipping him.

He's like "it's my brother?" and I'm like "so? Doing that hurts!" then, their father tells me again that they're brothers, and it's up to him to deal with them, not me. I'm like, ok.

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herrherrmann,
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@sarajw It sounds like you did the right thing! I could imagine that the dad was just not very good at dealing with this (potentially embarrassing) situation, and maybe his reaction was therefore unnecessarily hostile/dismissive. 🤷‍♂️ Either way: I’m sorry this happened to you!

ines, to random
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If you're in Berlin this weekend, come join us at the Open Source ML Mixer to warm up for @pyconde 🐍✨

I'll be speaking, together with folks from Rasa and Outerbounds.

📆 Sunday, April 21, 5pm
📍 HOME Bar (Friedrichshain, just off Ostkreuz)
🎟️ https://lu.ma/oss-berlin

herrherrmann,
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@ines @pyconde Oh wow, this is the first time I’m seeing someone use the Luma events platform! I had the impression it’s some crypto-related nonsense that won’t survive for long. But I guess you’re also not the creator of the event on Luma, right?

christianselig, (edited ) to random
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Randomly curious: what email provider do you use?

herrherrmann,
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@christianselig Another one using Fastmail. ✋

matt, to random
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Wow whee - just got an email from to say that my yearly subscription price changed from $30 to $50.

Crazy stuff. I get that inflation is a thing; but the site is entirely user contributed data - from the scrobbling of the tracks to editing data and uploading images and links in the database.

And they sell that data to other companies. And haven’t updated their website or apps in so, so, long. The whole thing is pretty much in maintenance mode.

:lastfm: https://support.last.fm/t/price-increase-and-edit-scrobbles-locked-behind-paywall/91982

herrherrmann,
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@matt @okwithmydecay I received an email regarding the price increase last Friday. And, to be fair, they did build some new features around monthly/yearly listening reports. But I also agree that it’s hard to justify the new price. :/

dansup, to Pixelfed
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Experimenting with separate hashtags in the @pixelfed app

Before vs After

Wdyt?

Hashtag buttons
Inline hashtags
Hashtag buttons

herrherrmann,
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@dansup @pixelfed I think it’s helpful to have them shown in this new button style!
I’d also suggest increasing the line height of the description text. Currently, it’s very tight which doesn’t look great, and makes reading multiline descriptions harder.

Daojoan, (edited ) to random
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I’ve got some decisions to make for the new year.

Best password manager? Thoughts appreciated!

herrherrmann,
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@Daojoan 1Password has great UX, but I personally use @bitwarden because it’s open source, free and close enough to 1Password’s features and UX. ✌️

sdw, to random
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Insanely cool transitions and video work in the @verge Vision Pro review.

video/mp4

herrherrmann,
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@sdw @verge I’m only half surprised, since their web design is also great! 😍

brunoph, to random
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TIL that DHL is an American company, founded in San Francisco in 1969, and that it was acquired by Deutsche Post between 1998 and 2002, which then started using the DHL brand for all its parcel services.

herrherrmann,
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@brunoph I’m also always confused about who currently owns/manages it. But I guess the bottom line is that it’s a terribly-managed corporation that only cares about squeezing every last US/EU cent out of its services.

kepano, to random
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what do you wish to see for in 2024?

herrherrmann,
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@kepano The mobile (iOS) experience is still quite confusing. It’s never clear to me how to manage tabs and which button will display the sidebar. Perhaps the menus could be cleaned up a bit and there could be more ways added to close/manage tabs?

harryfk, to berlin
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🚋

herrherrmann,
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@harryfk 🚋🚋🚋

Edent, to random
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Delighted to say that I've got a new role as Principal Privacy Architect at a health charity - https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/

Looking forward to getting stuck in and making a difference.

I might occasionally post about some of the events we're running and interesting healthtech news.

But, as ever, this account and my blog are personal. I do not claim to represent my employer.

herrherrmann,
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@Edent Congratulations! Looks like a great place to work (and nice website design, too!). 👏

collinsworth, to random
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Does Apple Music's UI suck? Or do all music apps follow a set of conventions I'm unfamiliar with because I just haven't used any before now? (Or both?)

herrherrmann,
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@collinsworth Apple Music’s (desktop) client is generally very strange, super buggy and a weird Frankenstein’s monster made out of different technologies. The mobile app is more stable, but also has some very unintuitive UI/UX behaviors. It’s astonishing that they’re not better at building a music player.

herrherrmann,
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@kevinteljeur @collinsworth One feature that seems to get worse across Apple Music and Spotify (since you mentioned “playlists”) is the handling of favorites. I’m very close to migrating back to my own mp3 collection to have simple things like that working again (although I haven’t looked into mobile clients for that yet).

tante, to random
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Dear YouTube music. What the hell are you doing?

What the fuck is the use case for comments on tracks in an audio app that's basically only open briefly to pick an album?

herrherrmann,
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@tante I have the impression all streaming services just get worse and overloaded with unnecessary features automatically over time.
Nice song choice though! 👌

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I’m running a experiment. Please boost for reach.

When I say VS Code, what is the first word that comes to mind?

Please reply, but don’t peek at other people’s responses until you’ve done yours.

herrherrmann,
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@khalidabuhakmeh @dansup TypeScript!

catsalad, to random

All aboard! 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

herrherrmann,
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@catsalad @Gargron Universal Serial … Train??

herrherrmann, to firefox
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I’ve recently launched my first browser extension: Omnivore List Popup – A little helper tool to view and manage a read-it-later list on @omnivore! ✨
It’s out for Firefox already, support for Chromium-based browsers is coming soon as well. 😏
https://herrherrmann.net/omnivore-list-popup-browser-extension/

herrherrmann,
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@omnivore The extension is available for Chrome/Chromium now as well! 🥳 https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/omnivore-list-popup/dnfckbihnohkfoaclfckbcebclmhleni

bleeptrack, to random
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Weekend starts in 1h 20mins!

video/mp4

herrherrmann,
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@bleeptrack Enjoy! ⚔️

brunoph, to photography
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"Hmmmm"

herrherrmann,
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@brunoph Awesome insights! I should try out the raw format more often. Still mostly jpg-ing around… (Although I rarely go fully manual, so I’m mostly quite happy with the exposure by default.)

ednico, to ObsidianMD
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Hot off the press...PROPERTIES in Obsidian!

A simple and durable way to add tags, aliases, dates, and other metadata to your notes. Your properties can even include links to other notes.

Currently in Insider Testing only.

https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-07-26-desktop-v1.4.0/

herrherrmann,
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@ednico @Calixthe Noice!!

dimillian, to random
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Everyone is so salty here about Meta. I've been online my whole life, I'm ok giving away some privacy for services.I know it's not only public posts, but you know, an iOS app won't simply steal your data. Threads is not uploading all my photos, threads is not locating me, threads is not accessing my health data. Sure the privacy sheet is ugly. But iOS give you control.

To be honest tho, I don't give a fuck. If I wanted to be off the grid I would not have a phone or be on Mastodon.

herrherrmann,
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@dimillian In my opinion it’s not about being “off the grid” or “having nothing to hide” but about (even just indirectly) supporting a terrible company that constantly does deeply immoral things and is contributing to a lot of terrible things in today’s society. It’s your right to not care but please don’t forget that you’re not the only person around. ✌️

dimillian, to random
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I caved in and did the switch to a US App Store account just to download the Threads app. You can follow me there too now!

herrherrmann,
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@dimillian Sorry to hear that!

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