Music: Radiohead - a non-fan's view

Radiohead is a british alternative rock band with the reputation of most of their music being sad, depressive and overall not approachable. You basically have to make a deep dive and become a hardcore fan to like their material. But I don't think it's true - I like a lot of their material, but don't enjoy or don't care for a lot of the rest of it. I want to take you along and highlight a bunch of songs that even non-Radiohead-fans can enjoy.

Tutorial: How to setup your 11ty project for GitHub Pages

11ty is an awesome (and super fast) static site generator and GitHub Pages is a nice and free way to host a static website. The 11ty Deployment Documentation even mentions GitHub Pages, but doesn't document the small config changes you have to do to make your 11ty page work there. This post goes over two 11ty setups for GitHub Pages: one simple but a bit clunky, and one slightly more involved but also more comfortable in the end.

Reading recommendation: The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

The Ninth House is not a nice place to live. The climate is harsh, almost nothing grows in the soil, the day and night cycle takes months. One is surrounded by a small, aging population and by animated skeletons that take care of manual work. And when someone dies of old age or illness, their skeleton is reanimated through necromancy and joins the ranks of willless workers.
Gideon is an 18 years old orphan and foundling, and wants to get off the planet for good. The only other person her age on the entire planet is Harrowhark Nonagesimus, a necromantic nun and heir to the Ninth House. Also, she hates Gideon and Gideon hates her, with a fiery passion.
On the day of Gideon's 87th attempt at escaping the planet, a correspondence from the Emperor All-Giving, Necrolord Prime, Resurrection, King Undying, or, a bit shorter and to-the-point - a correspondence from God, reaches the Ninth House and links the fates of both young women together.

Tech: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) tools

Personal Knowledge Management tools are there to help you collect, combine, query and visualize your thoughts, notes and memories. If used correctly, this leads to a personal knowledge database that you can use as a "second brain". Store notes and information in a way that makes it easy to find and create cross references between them. Usually those tools also have a visualization feature which results in a graph that looks a lot like neurons connected with synapses.
In this post I'll share my brief experiences with the three PKM tools I tried out: Dendron, Foam and Logseq.

Music: Remembering Morning Parade

Hello monday morning, try and talk your way out of this one

Morning Parade was a five-piece alternative rock band from England. The band formed in 2007, released two albums, and dissolved in 2014. I really like their music and was heartbroken when they announced their breakup on Facebook.

Reading recommendation: The "Nevermoor" series by Jessica Townsend

Morrigan Crow is a cursed, almost 11 years old, child. As all cursed children in the Wintersea Republic, she is responsible for all accidents, mishaps und bad luck in her vicinity. Also, as all cursed children, she is supposed to die on her upcoming birthday.