I’ve been avoidant towards patreon for quite some time, partially because I don’t want to use their payment methods (PayPal and credit cards), partially because they are taking such a big share of the payments, partially because I’m not so happy with the platform itself.

Anyway, today out of a sudden I’ve decided to give patreon another go and logged in after many years of leaving my account in abundance.

For now I’ve started pledging:

• Professor Dave Explains
• Applied Science
• NurdRage
• Fran “FranLab” Blanche

I’m looking forward pledging many more channels, I was very close pledging highest tier for The Thought Emporium because I’m so super excited about his yeast projects recently and generally he got me very excited about bio topics in general, but I have to see if my finances allow it at the moment.

Another person I’m thinking about supporting is Explosions & Fire - but I’m quite...

I never gave participating Hacktoberfest much thought, first of all because reading “Hacktober” makes me think of “Oktoberfest”, one of the worst events German society is maintaining every year - but also because until now I couldn’t consider myself much of “capable” contributing to open source software projects.

This year was different, a coworker asked whether we are up to participate at Hacktoberfest, you’ll get free swag. Free swag?!? Well, I need more t-shirts anyway. Few moments later I’ve signed up somewhere with my e-mail address and read through the guidelines…

Next days I was trying to get an idea what/where I’d like to contribute, soon I’ve figured out I’d like to “Add HCL Templating to AWS Secret Engine of Vault Project”.

Sadly instead of starting this contribution, I’ve exclusively followed the (negative) “public discourse” on whether Digital Ocean should be allowed to...

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What shall I say? Well, first of all: I’ve squatted this svbtle username some many years ago*, around that time I believe it was still unclear whether medium.com or svbtle is going to win the race and I have some bad news for everybody.

Anyhow. I was just greatly inspired by some shitty blogger that would randomly talk and fantasize about transgender people, I checked the other articles and turns out this person had been on a writing spree ever since. Which made me realize I should finally also put my hands onto a blogging platform and do brain dumps aka. finally losing my respect for writing and instead start publishing drafts.

I guess content is mostly centered around what puzzles me, so anything related to my life and struggles - in any aspect you could imagine.

Kiersten White tweeted Mar 13, 2019

Sometimes, as motivation, I reward myself before accomplishing a task. It’s...

I am infinity. I post oo everyday. I care about nothing, but all.