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#weeklyreview 33/2026

Week 33 started with cooking tomatoe sauce from a bucket of tomatoes I got from my dad. Let it simmer for a good 8 hours. Eventually that made 4 portions of delicious pasta sauce.

Tried the new Korean restaurant in the Oranienburger Strasse named “Bandol”. I like it a lot. They put some effort in the decoration of the job and the food was delicious. Only complaint is about them handing out single use plastic gloves so people don’t get dirty hands. There are napkins and a bathroom. Why produce more plastic trash? At first we were a little puzzled why they add condoms to the meal?

Tuesday evening the Beer & Burger crew met at “Die Alte Turnhalle” in Friedrichshain. The verdict is: ok food. Little choice, high prices. Was a fun evening nevertheless with the folks.

Had to pass on the Hackerstammtisch though this month due to the scheduling conflict.

living dangerously

Our tenant renting a room in our flat really went over the top this week. I was working from home and all of a sudden my monitors went off. Odd time for a power outage I thought. Checked the rest of the flat and it became apparent that it must be something in our flat. The lights were still working. Just the power sockets were off. Checked the fuse box and found the FI (error current fuse ) triggered. Started checking all the power sockets to see what’s causing this. Eventually the tenant came out of her room complaining about the power loss. I asked her to remove everything from the power sockets to find the cause. Eventually the fuse stayed in. So that must have been something in her room. I asked whether I can check and she let me in. I found a power distribution unit sitting in the floor in a puddle of water. And she was happily operating it. The PDU was also wet.

Apparently she had accidentally poured water over it and didn’t bother to disconnect or dry it. Just kept on with her business of using her face sauna. I was utterly speechless about such stupidity and ignorance.

Contract terminated.

Praying Mantis

Next morning I saw a pretty large insect on our house door in Berlin. A beautiful green praying mantis. I had never seen them in the wild here before. Thought they are not endemic here. But turns out they are meanwhile. And just by accident I saw two other people post pictures about their sightings in the following days around here.

#project25

Got rid of a whole bunch of cardboard and started removing the floor in the next room. Also checked how thick the concrete in the ground floor is over the bare earth.

N8N, Paperless, Mastodon, LinkDing

Spent some time optimising my document workflow. When I upload new documents into my PaperlessNGX instance a N8N workflow is triggered. This will add a summary into a custom field and generate a meaningful document title. Things Paperless doesn’t do out of the box yet.

Since that depends on my Laptop with a running Ollama to be online, it fails when the laptop is not connected. So I split the workflow into a queue and processor. Adding documents in Paperless just adds them to a queue table in my N8n. A timer kicks off the processing workflow every 5 minutes. This one iterates over the documents one by one now and removes the document from the queue only when it finishes successfully. This way the documents get processed eventually. Even when my laptop isn’t online all the time.

Second workflow I was working on is the archival of my Mastodon Bookmarks. A regular check reads my latest bookmarks in Mastodon and adds them to my LinkDing instance if they are not already there.

LinkDing will also create an HTML Archive of every bookmark upon submission. This way I have a copy of content that might vanish over time.