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Orbit: VOLATILE
Welcome to my home away from home! Come on in, get yourself comfortable and take a cookie or two. This is where I store knowledge about things I find interesting or useful. Feel free to browse around, the navigation is at the top. There’s also an atom feed, if you prefer updates without style. If you’d rather be elsewhere, I’ve got some recommendations for you.
Don’t worry about the shibbles, should you encounter them. We don’t get many visitors here, so they’re curious, but I assure you they’re harmless.
Most articles have tags. If they do, they’re listed below the main navigation, usually with a date. Have fun exploring! If you want to get started, you can pick one of the recent articles below.
The Dressing Room
This page is used to showcase the CSS layout. It is based on Poor Man’s Styleguide, to which I made some adjustments to better reflect my setup. I use it when I want to test changes to the CSS.
Oct. 2025 in meta. Reading time: 4 minutes
Pandoc External Link Filter
This lua filter for pandoc sets a
link’s rel attribute to
external, if it starts with
http:
Oct. 2025 in tools. Reading time: 1 minute
Mother
Let me take you back to a fateful Saturday in the summer of 1988. My day begins as I violently hit the floor, immediately followed by my bedside lamp. Jolted awake by a terrible nightmare, I must have grabbed for it when I sensed myself falling. As I regain my bearings, the last fragments of that night fade away. I realize the lamp is smashed into a thousand pieces; shards of glass litter the floor. Mother will be angry, but there’s nothing I can do about it anyway.
Soyuz IDS Software
If you’re at all into space travel, chances are you’re familiar with the Soyuz spacecrafts. The first one was launched in the 60ies and they’re still in use today. The Soyuz is a staple of pop culture and can often be seen in the background of photographs and movies.
Toki Pona
Toki pona is a constructed language by jan Sonja. It is designed to be simple to use, with fewer than 150 words and minimal grammar. It is neither a pidgin, nor a cant, but a fully fledged language. It was designed to simplify communication and thought by reducing concepts to their essence.
Sep. 2025 in linguistics. Reading time: 5 minutes