a frame from 17 August 2026, 17:49:56 (+02:00)
Summer in Brandenburg. I am 43 now, and typing this on a new Keychron Q11 Ultra, brown switches instead of red, which turns out to be exactly the kind of small pleasure worth paying attention to.
The mornings belong to the dogs. Fimme is eight months old already. We are making new friends out here, which at this age is its own quiet skill.
Work is two weathers at once: stressful stretches at Yorizon, and genuinely creative problems at StoryKeep. Around the edges, the things I keep circling back to: the AI world moving under my feet, home assistant automations, and a renewed appetite for open source.
- reading:
- Achtsam morden, by Karsten Dusse.
- listening:
- Philine, Beck, Bowie, Gorillaz and Jordan Rakei, most played this week; the shuffle runs from Curtis Mayfield to Chappell Roan without asking. (last.fm, since 2007.)
- proud of:
- having a setup that runs, at home and at work, and that I enjoy tinkering with. It simply works again, instead of being one more todo list.
- chafing at:
- context switching. So many moving parts, so many topics that want attention, that it tips into overwhelming. The AI is starting to become one of them.
- body:
- getting back into training after being out since the first of June. CrossFit gave me the challenge and the injuries in equal measure; maybe Hyrox next, now that I have found somewhere close enough that I am not spending three hours in the car for forty-five minutes of work.
Out in the open this month:
mcp-readwise, stopped it dragging ten thousand feed items into every reading query. Seven minutes down to two seconds.
ha_bosch, opened the 1.4.0 line on the heat pump integration: optional entity discovery, appliance status, zone program selects, and one docs correction that admits an endpoint being present is not the same as it being available.
The machines carry more of my day than ever: they research before I decide, hold the specs while I build, and keep the books tidy. I mostly talk; they mostly type. For the record, this month that means:
model claude fable 5 daily, haiku 4.5 for small jobs
harness claude code, in terminal, browser and cloud
mcp 14 servers of my own behind one portal,
a dozen connectors, four local tools
habits specs before code, agents for research,
a server that remembers my mistakes
