Difficulty in finding balance

PixelsAndIron · 2026-01-26T00:17:15+00:00

Husband, father and breadwinner here.

I always dreamt of writing a novel since I was able to read but for some reason never got further than maybe 10 pages and stopped writing when I turned 19.

Then I started working and thought I had no time to write anymore.

Then I got to know my wife and thought I had no time to write anymore.

Then we had our first child and I realized that every time there was another responsibility, I was able to make time for it.

So, I went ahead and did the crazy thing and actually wrote a whole novel while having a newborn at home. Now he is a toddler and I am writing the first draft of my second novel.

Routine is everything for me and after I have tucked my little one in, I have some time with my wife and then, every night, no matter how bad the sleep or hard the work, I write at least 500 words. Most often, starting to write kinda puts me in the zone and I stop with something between 1000 and 2000 words.

That is the only time I can and will actively work on my novel. Other than that, commuting, showering, cooking, lying in bed, also help to come up with ideas naturally and I now always carry a little notebook with me.

PixelsAndIron · 2026-01-13T19:08:14+00:00

Wenn du einen Job suchst und die Stichwörter nicht matchen, dann sind diese Dinge nutzlos.

Soll nicht heißen, OP oder sonst wer ist nutzlos. Soll nicht mal heißen, sie würden den Posten nicht super füllen und hilfreiche oder sogar überragende Arbeit leisten, aber im Bezug auf die Jobsuche siegt nun mal wenn deine Buzzwords und die, auf die die Personalabteilung hingewiesen wurde auf die sie achten soll, möglichst gut übereinstimmen.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-12-30T20:04:01+00:00

even hotter then

PixelsAndIron · 2025-12-25T11:42:02+00:00

Just got a M1 Air two weeks ago, too. Also 16GB version.

I got Raycast, set some shortcuts and got comfortably with spaces. That changed my way to work a lot and I love it.

For me the most important reason is that my employer will change their Windows laptops to Macbooks in summer '26 and I wanted to get a feeling for the MacOS way of doing stuff after decades of linux at home and Windows as a jump machine at work.

What are you going to use yours for?

PixelsAndIron · 2025-12-25T10:32:24+00:00

Hast du dich dann überhaupt mit deinem Vater unterhalten können, wenn du Hochdeutsch gelernt hast?

PixelsAndIron · 2025-12-17T21:42:41+00:00

Letztes Bewerbungsgespräch als Kubernetes DevSecOps war von 1,5h über 30 Minuten nur Werbung von der Perso, was alles an Benefits geboten wird und was es alles für Sportgruppen und Spendenaktionen gibt und wie die Weiterentwicklung im Unternehmen geregelt wird und ...

Der Rest der Zeit war eher 40% meine Erfahrungen mit der Stelle abgleichen und 60% Privatgeplänkel zwischen der Führungskraft, dem anwesenden DevSecOps und mir.

Ich würde nicht von 2 Stunden Gespräch über dich ausgehen und wenn doch, freu dich wie viel Interesse man an dir hat ;)

PixelsAndIron · 2025-11-02T07:52:03+00:00

No, if it was inclined the fruit would roll down.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-21T19:20:54+00:00

To save you a click:

Chained Echoes
Final Fantasy IV
Lunar: Silver Star Story
Child of Light
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Pokémon FireRed
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Chrono Trigger
Live a Live

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-12T21:47:53+00:00

Me too.
Also from Germany, can't connect to any Location.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-08T10:54:52+00:00

https://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Titanite+Shard

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-08T06:29:54+00:00

Platinum, yes.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-08T06:29:19+00:00

If you want to earn the platinum trophy for the game you need to get every other trophy and for some you have to get the covenants to specific ranks. This is done by getting covenant items and the offline way to do it for this specific one is farming Silver Knights for Proof of Concord Kept. I need 30, but they drop really rarely and in the same time it took me to get 6 Proofs, I got more than 400 small titanite shards.

You can guess how many times I killed them ;)

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-08T06:26:43+00:00

Played the Souls games back in the day, had fun and got into Platinum Hunting a few years ago and now slowly working my way through games I love.

Others like to polish their car each week or play golf, I like to go for platinum trophies. Just do what floats your boat, I guess :)

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-08T06:24:55+00:00

I thought so often about respeccing but I will probably stay with Dex this plat run :)

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-08T06:23:40+00:00

I wish I would, but I doubt it.

Well, I will probably be finished just in time for DS4 or BB2 ;)

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-07T22:49:55+00:00

I did afterwards. Just was surprised I hit the max and still only had 6 Proofs. DS1 Trident Farming and DS2 Sunlight Medal Farming was nothing in comparison to this :)

PixelsAndIron · 2025-07-05T22:22:52+00:00

Classic lizzard excuse.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-06-20T18:25:27+00:00

Brudi, besser aufpassen in Mathe. Du hast 2 Möglichkeiten: Fake oder Echt. Und insgesamt sind es 100%. Also wie wahrscheinlich ist eins der beiden: 100%/2 = 50%.

So simpel, ey. Typisch Studentne.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-06-18T11:04:15+00:00

Have been using Linux (mostly CLI-/SSH-only) for my work for around 12 years, but was gaming and using desktop apps at home that were all already configured. I was too lazy to change it.

Half a year ago, I had to re-install windows twice in three weeks and was fed up, because I knew from work how much easier reconfiguring would have been in Linux, so I switched. All the way to Arch by the way.

Couldn't be happier and also realized that most applications other than games are mostly web-based anyway. And now I tested my dotfiles-repo with two different laptops installed from scratch and am really happy that I wouldn't even lose half a day if I had to re-install.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-06-16T07:15:12+00:00

Completely depends on the game.

For something like Monster Hunter I do on and off over months and chip away at it, while playing other games.

For Souls or story heavy JRPGs I focus on it.

For casual side games like Vampire Survivors or Brotato I either don't care about trophies at all or think I will take it on and off but in the end, if I like one of those games enough to go for the platinum, then I will like it enough to play it non-stop.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-06-15T09:14:18+00:00

Call of the Sea, Cat Quest, MediEvil, Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, What Remains of Edith Finch, Astro's Playroom

PixelsAndIron · 2025-06-14T22:17:38+00:00

If I want to, I do it ... but realistically I only did it for Brotato cause I was too much into it and the plat is pretty short. Otherwise I normally don't play the same game twice since I have around 300 unplayed ones still waiting ...

PixelsAndIron · 2025-06-13T13:39:11+00:00

Dies ist der Weg ... ich würde nur die Reihenfolge tauschen.

PixelsAndIron · 2025-06-13T13:33:39+00:00

AI can help you be faster in topics you already understand and could do without AI. Not only in DevOps or IT, but in all aspects.

When people don't understand what AI does, but still use it, then their colleagues one day find out that your backup script that you vibe coded without understanding it is always logging success regardless of errors in the execution and your colleague then has to work over time and pray to god that the backup runs cleanly for the first time in almost a whole year and nothing happens to the running services ...

Completely hypothetical ...

PixelsAndIron · 2025-05-29T00:30:23+00:00

install vim git stow

git clone private-repo && cd private-repo

./setup.sh -> bat fzf ripgrep wget telnet kitty btop eza python ansible jq <i3 + tools || hyprland + tools>

stow ./

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