#weeklyreview 10/2025

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Last week was a week of crazily beautiful sundowns. Clear skies and city scenery made for some spectacular photos.

A cityscape at sunset with vibrant hues of purple, pink, and orange filling the sky. Silhouettes of trees and a building are in the foreground, and a prominent tower is visible on the horizon. The building has multiple balconies, some with lights on.
A city street at sunset with vibrant orange and pink hues in the sky. Contrails cross the sky above tall buildings, and the Berlin TV Tower is visible in the distance. Cars and a tram are moving along the wet street, and a bare tree is silhouetted against the colorful sky.
City street at sunset with colorful sky featuring intersecting contrails. The skyline includes tall buildings and a distinctive tower. Traffic lights are visible, and some cars are on the road.

Hacker Stammtisch

Tuesday was this month session of the old nerds. There were animated discussion about a IT cooperative. One friends bugs us since years with that idea. It sounds nice and some of us kinda do have this with our self-hosting efforts at a small and family scale. But I doubt this can take off commercially. If you offer IT services to companies and need to respect SLAs and all the regulatory requirements it quickly becomes involved and expensive. Or someone is being exploited …

Plate of breaded schnitzel topped with a lemon wedge, served with potatoes. A glass of beer and a mug with utensils are in the background, alongside a bowl of salad.

Crocusses

On Friday I used to good whether to have a walk over the nearby cemetery. We can see it from our balcony and I could tell it’s full or crocuses.

A vibrant field of purple crocus flowers with orange centers, growing densely in a lush green meadow. The foreground is in sharp focus, while the background is softly blurred, creating a depth effect.
Close-up of a small patch of flowers featuring a blue blossom in the foreground and light purple crocuses with orange centers in the background, surrounded by green grass and brown undergrowth.
A cluster of blooming purple and white crocus flowers with bright orange stamens, emerging from the sunlit ground amidst dry grass.

Glorious mug

A friend gifted me this glorious golden mug for always bringing tea for our winter swimming group. Isn’t it gorgeous?

A reflective, gold-colored mug held in a hand, filled with frothy beverage, against a blurred outdoor background of grass and trees.

Rust programming

I also continued working on my little Rust program to batch upload images to Pixelfed. Adding support for various options to generate the image descriptions.

I gave up on trying to write the whole thing with help of tools like ChatGTP, Claude or Copilot. It just doesn’t work in my eyes. As soon as stuff gets more complex, one spends more time explaining context and functionality to the tools than writing code. I’m only using some help for short functions and lines that needs fixing or alternatives. But just doing the good old RTFM and reading blog posts with examples and explanations seems still a more effective way to get this moving forward.

It’s not fully done yet, but the code is available in the branch “Ollama” on my repo.

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