10 October 2024
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Lately i am really tired, physically, psychological and all
in between... perhaps being a father of a young child while also
the only IT guy in a company with crumbling infrastructure, 
combined with being the guy sorting out the financial and 
buerocratic mess my dad build up over the last couple of decades,
and ALSO somehow has to constantly keep our ancient half timbered
house from falling apart does somehow contribute to this 
tiredness... whatever.

Last week we indeed got our new car, as i had written in my 
last post, its an Opel Corsa F, and so far we are very happy 
with it. I especially like that its - in contrast to many other
cars of today - not a SUV of monstrous proportions while also 
having decent internal space. What i also like is that it 
mostly works like a normal car and not like a rolling computer,
it even has a normal key and can even be used with the electronic-
less backup key. So far, so good... the only thing that somewhat
caught me a bit off-guard is how much it takes to get back into
manual shifting after drivin automatic gearboxes for the last 
two decades. 

Recently, while skipping through articles on hacker news i 
stumbled upon the fact that "local first" apps are seemingly the
new hot thing. I find it... weird. Have we really completed 
another cycle of "Running things on Mainframe" > "Running locally
" > "Running things on Mainframe... ehmm 'Cloud'" > "Running
locally"? Perhaps its a sign of getting older, seemingly having
seen the same stuff coming and going repeately...

Yesterday i had an job interview for a system administration 
job at a local hospital, it really was interesting, but while
the payment really sounds interesting i think i will turn the
offer down, because... oh boy... if we have a crumbling legacy
infrastructure with tons of tech debt biting us constantly in
the arse where i work at the moment, the situation in the 
hospital is seemingly even worse. And at least my office is 
not in the broom cabinet like the one of the 'head of it' of 
that hospital.