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Training I started training 15 weeks before the race with a plan by YouTuber Ben Parkes. I had used plans before for triathlons, but this was my first marathon-specific plan. The workouts were challenging but manageable, gradually building my endurance and speed while keeping me injury-free. The plan built up to 80 km of weekly mileage with usually two rest days. At first, I wasn’t sure about having that many rest days (‘one is enough,’ I naively thought), but I quickly came to appreciate them, as they made me well-rested for the harder key sessions....

Heroku was one of the first platforms that made it easy to deploy your app without having to manage the underlying infrastructure - this was a revolution back in the days and introduced the concept of PaaS (Platform-as-a-service) to the wider developer community. The main idea was to abstract away as much of the infrastructure as possible, so developers could focus on building and deploying their applications. However, a lot of time has passed, Heroku was bought by Salesforce and has become less competitive in terms of pricing and features....

This post will show you how to easily deploy containerized applications using faasd. Based on OpenFaas - faasd allows you to run and deploy container applications on a single host. While its big brother OpenFaas was (mainly) designed for Kubernetes-deployments, faasd is meant to be a lightweight alternative for those who just want to run a low-traffic app on one machine - ideal for side projects! I am using faasd to host personal projects like geozip: a simple webapp to search for global postalcodes....

Yo I’m running again. I have decided to take up on running (again) at the end of July 2021. Having been plagued by knee injuries for the past few years I did’t think I would seriously take up running and be pain-free again. It’s been about 4 months now. Those Strava activity heatmaps sure look pretty. So what changed? I actually followed a plan towards running (in contrast to the I will just run as hard as possible approach)...

One of the latest tasks of Balaji’s 1729 project sparked some distant memories I had almost 20 years ago: how do you start a country? I still remember it quite vividly: I received a book as Christmas present in 2002 titled Katalog der Träume. It was a hard-cover online shopping guide filled with various cool-looking products and gadgets, like digital cameras and fancy looking flip phones. It was the kind of book that made you dream of cool things....