Hi and welcome!
I’m Andreas, and this is the place where I write about all the things that catch my interest.
It could be books, it could be music, it could be tech (especially retro tech), it could be random musings about society and philosophy or psychology… whatever comes to my mind.
Check out the different sections on top and have a look at my latest blogposts down below. You can also always get in touch via my Mastodon profile or just send me an E-Mail, I’d love to hear from you!
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Apr 25, 2024
Recently I came across a Post by Kev Quirk where he talks about how he uses a service called “Echo Feed” to cross post his blog posts to Mastodon. I had thought about implementing something like this too for a while, and this gave me the motivation to look into it again.
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Apr 12, 2024
That is not a typo in the headline, I really bought a watch for 46 (Euro)cents recently from Aliexpress. How come?
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Apr 6, 2024
I realize I haven’t written any book reviews this year so far, even though I’ve been reading constantly, but more slowly than in the past. So in order to catch up I’ll just summarize the books I read so far this year here, and I’ll try my best to be brief and not ramble on forever like I normally do.
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Apr 3, 2024
Yesterday I wrote about using an image from Playboy as a test image for testing image compression algorithms, and that reminded me of another anecdote from university where a piece of popular media was used in the development of a new technology.
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Apr 2, 2024
The IEEE Computer Society announced a few days ago that they will no longer accept publications about image processing research containing the “Lenna” image.
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