Cory Doctorow created the term Enshittification for the current trend to make things worse on the web. Unfortunately, it’s not limited to the internet, it has entered the brains of everybody and everything is getting shit. Worse even, everybody notices it, everybody participates in it and everybody gets unhappy. It’s a downward spiral, dumbing the world down. Two stories from the last weeks: Parking I took somebody to the airport in Nuremberg.

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Blogging again…

I have been off work with burnout symptoms. Getting some distance from the daily madness made me think a lot of what I want to achieve in live, what I want from work, and what could I change to not run into a burnout again. I haven’t found a conclusion yet… One thing I want to try is to write regularly. So this page might get a bit more active.

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Schaerbeek

In the north of Bruxelles the railway museum of Schaerbeek is located. The museum is situated in an old train station with beautiful architecture, extended by a modern hall which contains the largest part of the train collections.

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Bruxelles

This year I was at FOSDEM for the first time. From the event I do not have any pictures, but from the sightseeing walk which I did in the afternoon and early evening.

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