• An Opinionated Guide to Operating a BookWyrm Instance

    Everything mentioned in this article is open-sourced as an Infrastructure as Code repository at chdorner/bookwyrm-infra. I’ve been running my BookWyrm instance for some time now, mainly as a means to get operating and admin experience while contributing to the development of the project. BookWyrm is a social reading and reviewing application, a sort of federated…

  • Book Notes: Sojourn

    Captivatingly random, like getting to know a new place In some sense, this short novel manages to capture the essence of coming to a new place. The randomness, fleeting encounters, few of them last, getting lost, etc.In many ways it reminded me of my own first few months after moving to Berlin. I’ve only gotten…

  • An Experimental Approach to Automated Walking

    Walking is the simplest form of locomotion. It probably is the most democratic one too, at least for able-bodied beings. At the same time, walking as a way to move from place to place has lost some of its prevalence, there are faster ways to reach your destination. Its slowness, however, is what makes it…