barefootstache @barefootstache@qoto.org

#DailyBloggingChallenge (105/200)

After power watching a 5h tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JzDttgdILQ) on #processing at 4x speed (this can be changed via the developers console), I can see its use-case as an introduction to programming. The reasoning being that changes are visually presented in an GUI instead of the typically way in the console.

An alternate is #p5js and there are options to export processing to it. Though it seems that processing is the preferred choice when dealing with exporting to video.

Processing is probably the solution I have been looking for awhile to animate certain things easier using mathematics over the UI of specific tools like #Blender, or #Natron.

#introToProgramming

#DailyBloggingChallenge (104/200)

Learnt today of the news that #Instagram and #Facebook will be giving their users a third choice of using their product in the #EEA (European Economic Area) by subscribing to their services for a monthly fee of €9.99 for web users, and €12.99 for #iOS and #Android users.

Currently inconclusive how I feel of this development. The only thing I can say is that before I start paying for a service that I use as a complete distraction, I would forfeit it and support open source alternatives that can create similar experiences.

The side effect of this is that there might be an upswing of #Pixelled and #Friendica users, similar to the #Twitter migration. Some have speculate that some will migrate to #TikTok instead.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (103/200)

An interesting idea for #privacy is to go sim card free and use the pager instead to get messages when off the grid. Once on the grid one can continue with normal means of communication over the internet.

The main issue with pagers is that the messages sent out of the box aren't encrypted. Though this doesn't mean one couldn't setup one's own #encryption.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (102/200)

There I was running down the main road off to catch the train a kilometer away with only 5 minutes on the clock. Following the rules of the road running headway onto oncoming traffic, briefly thinking to myself this can in no way be the safest option, since more times than not I was in their blind spot due to obstruction by vegetation.

Right in front me the road went into a sharp bend and the vegetation is still dense enough not to peak through. From behind I hear how some vehicles are gaining up on me and just as they pass me in the narrow bend, I come face to face with an oncoming car.

I instantly jumped into the vegetation as a safety precaution and was surprise that there was no screeching of the tires on the road. It all felt like it was happening in slow motion and all parties left the situation as if nothing occured.

Reinvestigating what just happened is that I had the luck of the vehicles which just passed me on the narrow section, which in returned reduced the speed of the oncoming traffic and also gave them a sense of caution.

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Looking back at how the stress of missing the train to void another 20 minutes of waiting can cause so knee jerk stupid actions, fascinates me the most.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (101/200)

100 daily blogs gives a good taste of what is possible and it has slowly become second nature of writing them, thus continuing with another 100.

- Compared to the first 50, towards the end I started integrating more personal daily stories over just strict scientific blogs. This new form of content aligns with one my long lasting goal of becoming a better storyteller.
- Further through the new @rucking account, I have permitted to write posts for it and then boost it. Also will need to learn the in's and out's of #lemmy to use it as another source for content. Thereby, I might have to use the comment field as the hashtag holder not to spoil the post.
- Looking back at the content written via PC it has dropped from 52% down to 34% when comparing first 50 to first 100. This is a big improvement!
- When looking back at the #MappingChallenge the 200 day milestone was still very easily achievable and dreaded the 365 day one more. Or it could be that I dreaded that last one and it coincided with the 365 day challenge.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (100/100)

Today I briefly jumped onto my workstation to check the urgency of a bug that crept up. After learning that it wasn't a need to be resolved now type of bug, I put the workstation back to sleep as always.

Later when trying to wake up the machine, the typical method of touching the keyboard didn't work. I was quite confused, since I wasn't that sleep deprived earlier in the day, that I forgot what mode I put the PC in. For a second, I though I was going crazy.

My flatmate later told me that he killed the oven and that the fuse blew earlier while he was baking. Well that clarifies why the PC was turned off and not just in suspend mode.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (99/100)

The typical person would have stayed home, since it was cold and raining, nonetheless the #MunichRuckingCrew did today a 12 miler. Everyone was fully soak by the end of the event.

I had the opportunity to try out #rucking with an umbrella. This did ease up the navigation experience and kept the upper body dry. The down side was that it was a night ruck and my umbrella is white, so if I dipped the umbrella down while having my headlamp on, I blinded myself.

The pace wasn't too shabby for a six person crew and one mate twisted their ankle about an hour in. This made us to drop the pace from 6.6 kmh to 6.0 kmh.

#muenchen #NightRuck #12miler #FitoTrack @rucking

#DailyBloggingChallenge (98/100)

Just finished a virtual study hosted by #ColumbiaUniversity on the sense of fatigue and work performance relative to activity breaks at set intervals.

My dedicated interval time was two hours, which would have aligned quite nicely with my typical day. Though during participation I quickly noticed that I was barely ever able to get more than two activity breaks in a day. This was due to multiple factors like riding the flow, or already exercising during the dedicated period, or just forgetting. And although I quickly failed to align my schedule as the study saw fit, I realized that poor data is still better than no data.

Work performance was more influenced by if I drank coffee or not. And the fatigue was dependent on how much stress I had on the days leading up to the measurement. Like if the other day I did a tough workout, then I will be more fatigued on the following days independent off the activity breaks.

These personal observations makes me want to take other measurements to get a better individual reading.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (97/100)

On the 31st October was the Haunted Ruck in #Augsburg hosted by #AuxRuck. It consisted of a 12km #ruck with a nature portion that was moon and lantern lit and a city portion where various historic significant details were shared.

When thinking of the title "City of Bridges" Venice comes to mind and it has about 430 bridges, in contrast Augsburg has about 530, so 100 more. This is minute compared to other cities like Amsterdam and Hamburg having 1000 and 2000 respectively.

@rucking

#DailyBloggingChallenge (96/100)

There is a hypothesis that refraining from eating four hours prior to sleep promotes its quality. The idea is that the stomach would deal with most of the digestion by then and thereby getting some effects of fasting.

From the brief times that I have observed on myself, I can say it depends more on the food consumed, not just when last consumed. Like consuming UPFs, sometimes not even four hours are enough and one wakes up with cramps or consuming foods that create quick onset of flatulence can create a similar effect. Then on the other side eating a large meal that your microflora is used to doesn't bother slumber much.

These are flawed remembrances of the experience and should be taken with a grain of salt.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (95/100)

The last couple of days I have been working on slowly building up the #rucking community within the #fediverse. By first creating a rucking focused account (#mastodon): @rucking@muenchen.social and later creating a community (#lemmy): @rucking@feddit.de

Additional to these accounts, slowly building a resource page for #DACH based #RuckClub. This can currently be found at https://barefootstache.codeberg.page/MyRuckClub/@pages/

#indiehacker

#DailyBloggingChallenge (94/100)

The other day partook in a festive fraternity event that is heavily accompanied by drinking and smoking. The last time I did one to the size of this extent was more than 5a ago and at a time where I was a heavy binger, averaging at 4-6 litres of beer per event.

The hardest part of doing such events without #alcohol is to be in a social and active state of mind. With the sedative effects of alcohol and the energy boosting effects of nicotine, one can easily make any wallflower extroverted. Now try to do it without legal drugs, its not that simple.

I was quite astonished even after taking on the persona of a social butterfly, how much more courage is needed when specific anxious thoughts of embarrassment arouse.

There was this one part where each frat sings their verse of a song. I thought I knew my verse but I just couldn't remember line 4 of 8. In the past with alcohol I would have made something up so that it sounds correct, just to keep the embarrassment to a minimum. Though even this back up plan made my legs turn to jello.

One frat after the next one was being called, just wondering when they will be calling on me. The longer it took, the more and more uneasy my legs became.

In the end, I wasn't called on, though this experience reminded me of the absolute first time I had to do it alone. Back then I had the power of liquid courage which made me witty enough to wing it.

(Just recapping the story brings me back to the same emotional state.)

#sober #StoryTime #anxiety

#DailyBloggingChallenge (93/100)

The #nightlife in #Munich is fun when one lives on the edge of the city and is mainly dependent on the #SBahn. Especially on the weekends when they choose to do construction work on the #Stammstrecke and the S-Bahn line count reduces from 7 down to 1. Thus as an alternative is to use the regional trains, especially when traveling between the main train station and #Pasing.

If all goes to plan, the typical weekday trip of 40 min, can be achieved in 70 min during the night on the weekends. This is due to the less frequent occurrence of connection options and that the final two kilometers need to be walked.

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Let's add more distance between the main train station and home: tonight I started about 4km away from the train station. I just missed the #UBahn, which would have taken about 10min for the distance. By missing it, I also missed the connection train, thereby opening the option of walking the distance within 50 min.

At the same time the option of #walking directly came up, which is about 20km and typically takes less than 3.5h.

So the options exist of walking directly home in 3.5h or taking public transit and hoping everything runs as scheduled in 2h.

I chose the latter option, because I didn't have any water on me making a bit too risky for my taste as a night walk, although the train schedule was delayed by 20min.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (92/100)

The #rucking presence on #mastodon isn't as big as by other social media platforms. To change this I have decided to summon @rucking into existence.

The initial focus of the account is to share DACH based news and larger European based events like #goruck challenges. A highlight for next year is the 80 year anniversary of D-Day in Normandy in the beginning of June. Best to plan to take a week off for that. The 75a anniversary was already epic and this time they are bringing the #selection to Europe.

When looking over the DACH region over the past a good 5 #ruckclub|s sprouted with the newest being in #Augsburg, founded less than a month ago.

#DailyBloggingChallenge (91/100)

There are a couple ways to the #Chad1000x #WOD with the basic option just winging it or training for it. The issue with winging it is that it can cause lasting damages which in the best case will heal up within a year. The main issues are the joints, especially knees and hips, which is mainly due to weak hamstrings.

For those who want to train for it, the best training plans are ones that target the legs in all directions, not just forward movements, but also backwards and sideways movements. This will create a good foundation to tackle the workout with the least worry of lasting damages.

Here is an example workout:

buy in: 400m backwards ruck

* 100 step up
* 100 strict seated squats aka box squats
* 100 step up
* 100 ruck swings
* 100 step up
* 100 2-count reverse lunges
* 100 step up
* 100 2-count side lunges
* 100 step up

buy out: 400m backwards ruck

* _buy in_ is the price to attempt the workout and sometimes equates to the warm up
* _buy out_ is the price to finish the workout and sometimes equates to the cool down, also called _cash out_
* _n-count_ is the count of movements until considered one rep

The exercise that surprised me the most is the backwards ruck.

#fitness #exercise #ruckpt #pt