A blog about personal projects and experiences

  • The flood came close

    The last big flood around here was in 2005. Back then I lived in Schwyz and worked in Unterägeri. I could not go to work for three days because all the roads were closed due to floods and mud slides. During this event, the apartment complex that we have been living in for the last […]

  • No internet at the Dolder Grand

    Today was our wedding anniversary. We usually celebrate this with a meal in a nice restaurant. Last year we went to the Swiss Chalet in Merlischachen. It was very nice and delicious. The reason we went there was that they accept payments in Bitcoin. So I decided to make this a tradition. Thing is, The […]

  • a decade of accepting Bitcoin for paragliding

    Today marks the 10th anniversary of an important blog post. It was the announcement that I started accepting Bitcoin for paragliding tandem flights. I had interest in the nascent internet currency for a couple of months prior to that. And I felt that what was missing were places where people could spend their coins. Only […]

  • My wive has a car now

    We are going to move soon. Since our new home is not as close to the supermarket, train station and school, my wive also needs a car. She wanted a very small and cheap one, but with at least four seats. For the whole family it was quite clear that it can’t be one that […]

  • My most special RunAndFly

    After I wrote the article for the SwissGlider magazine about my RunAndFly adventures, I thought that I should have written also about the most special of them. It happened last autumn, but I will write about it now anyway half a year later. It was a Saturday in September. The alarm clock rang as usual […]

  • Why was second factor authentication watered down?

    As far as I can remember, two factor authentication was used since the first time I used online banking with BBS like text interface over a 14.4bps modem. Back in the day the second factor was a printed list with numbered codes. The idea of using different factors is to prevent hackers form accessing your […]

  • Why I am sending back my Librem5

    After paying 0.163 BTC for a pre-order, I patiently waited two and a half years for the Librem 5 to finally arrive. Now after half a year with the phone, I finally lost patience. For some more context, please read my former blog posts The Librem 5 phone is still at an early stage and […]

  • A decade of blogging

    Yesterday it was exactly ten years ago, when I published the first post on my personal blog. Before that, I kind of blogged on the old, old version of ParaEasy about flying adventures. For our adventure in South America, we wrote our diary on a manually edited html page. On my personal blog, I still write […]

  • Our temporary tree house

    I have been fascinated with tree houses for as long as I can remember. I don’t know if everybody is fascinated as much, and I don’t remember how it started. It might have been Peter Pan or the Evok bear folks in the Star Wars movie. In my teenage years, I built a simple tree […]

  • Working from home during the Corona shutdown

    Like many people these days I currently work from home. Due to the corona pandemic, everything that is not essential is closed in Switzerland. Since I work in software development, it is possible to work at home. Most if not all people in my team do so. What is great about the new situation is […]