diff --git a/content/posts/2025/11/nostalgic_memories/index.en.md b/content/posts/2025/11/nostalgic_memories/index.en.md index 9916146..deb1071 100644 --- a/content/posts/2025/11/nostalgic_memories/index.en.md +++ b/content/posts/2025/11/nostalgic_memories/index.en.md @@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ cover = 'cover.png' ## Times are changing {id=times-are-changing} -No one really knows one way or the other—it's an unprecedented situation. And yet, somehow, we have to deal with it. A virus is spreading, and suddenly the whole world is barricading itself behind windows and front doors. Clearly, we are talking about the coronavirus pandemic and the accompanying lockdown. Schools were also closed for a long time during this period, with homeschooling replacing face-to-face teaching. For some, the internet was still uncharted territory, while for others, this new reality created unexpected opportunities (including in terms of time). I was one of them - at the time in seventh grade at a Bavarian high school. +No one really knows one way or the other - it's an unprecedented situation. And yet, somehow, we have to deal with it. A virus is spreading, and suddenly the whole world is barricading itself behind its windows and front doors. Clearly, we are talking about the COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying lockdown(s). Schools in Germany were also closed for a long time during this period, with homeschooling replacing face-to-face teaching. For some, the internet was still new territory (”Neuland”, as some famous female german chancellor once said), while for others, this new reality created unexpected opportunities (including in terms of free time). I was one of the latter - at the time in seventh grade at a Bavarian high school. ## The Project {id=the-project} -In the subject NuT, which combines physics and computer science, there was an extensive assignment: after studying graphs and the Internet as a huge network that can be represented as graphs, it was time to put theory into practice. The goal: to build a website using HTML (and CSS) in order to better understand how the World Wide Web (WWW) works as a whole—the name was quite telling: “**Project WWW**.” +In the subject “NuT”, which combines physics and computer science, there was an extensive assignment: after studying graphs and the Internet as a huge network that can be represented as a giant graph, it was time to put theory into practice. The goal: to build a website using HTML (and CSS) in order to better understand how the World Wide Web (WWW) works as a whole - the name was quite telling: “**Project WWW**”. -“Great! Finally, I get to do something at school that I'm really interested in anyway,” or something like that, I thought at the time. In any case, I immediately got to work with a classmate (I don't remember exactly how immediately), we thought about the structure, wrote poems, collected pictures, and looked up definitions. I was mainly responsible for the technical stuff, while he was more responsible for the content and supervision. +“Great! Finally, I get to do something at school that I'm really interested in anyway,” - or something like that - I thought at the time. In any case, I immediately got to work with a classmate (I don't remember exactly how immediately), we thought about the structure, wrote poems, collected pictures, and looked up definitions. I was mainly responsible for the technical stuff, while he was more responsible for the content and supervision. ## Why all this? {id=why-all-this} diff --git a/public/en/index.html b/public/en/index.html index eea3e52..0c06f16 100644 --- a/public/en/index.html +++ b/public/en/index.html @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -Privacynerd's blog

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My Name is Benjamin, and I’m mostly known as BlueFox.

Welcome to this blog! I love tinkering around with electronics, 3D printing stuff and working with wood, but I also do a bit of programming and am an avid self-hoster. This is where I post about my activities from time to time.

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Between Homeschooling And Web Design - nostalgic memories of seventh grade

Between Homeschooling And Web Design - nostalgic memories of seventh grade

Times are changing

No one really knows one way or the other—it’s an unprecedented situation. And yet, somehow, we have to deal with it. A virus is spreading, and suddenly the whole world is barricading itself behind windows and front doors. Clearly, we are talking about the coronavirus pandemic and the accompanying lockdown. Schools were also closed for a long time during this period, with homeschooling replacing face-to-face teaching. For some, the internet was still uncharted territory, while for others, this new reality created unexpected opportunities (including in terms of time). I was one of them - at the time in seventh grade at a Bavarian high school.

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Self-built UV exposure unit (LED)

Self-built UV exposure unit (LED)

If you’ve been around the (electronics) DIY scene for a while, at some point you can’t avoid circuit boards (printed circuit boards/PCBs). The main advantages over soldering circuits by hand on perforated or strip-grid boards are that they are easier to replicate (once designed a circuit can theoretically be produced as often as you like) and that space can be used more efficiently (a board is almost always smaller than a soldered perforated grid board with the same circuit). Ultimately, devices with circuit boards also simply look more professional. There are certainly more advantages (and of course also disadvantages!), but I will not list them here for the sake of simplicity.

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How everything began - or: the first post!

How everything began - or: the first post!

Initial considerations

I’ve been thinking about how to write this post for a long time. What needs to be told, what is unimportant? A lot has to be left out for the sake of clarity, and I might not even remember some of it. In any case, I would like to use this article to explain my intention in starting this blog. But to explain that, you have to understand the origins.

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