I’m a bit under the weather today, so there will be no daily newsletter.

A welcome to this publication

This is absolutely fascinating. A rare recording of Hitler’s normal speaking voice.

For the work on my novel, I’ve been researching breathable gas mixtures for saturation diving.

What does Putin want to achieve with his attack on Ukraine? An attempt at analysing the invasion.

Microsoft killed my favourite text editor to make me switch to their other product. Only over my dead body, assholes!

Deadlyslob has this amazing new Bannerlord character…

World of Warships launched an update today that includes a number of graphics improvements.

My ongoing review of the real-time strategy roleplaying game Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. This is the first time I’ve played a game in this franchise or by this developer

In recent months, I’ve produced podcast episodes on such wide ranging topics as NFTs, Electrical Network Frequency Analysis, the Drachenlord, the Nord Stream attack and Elon Musk buying Twitter.

Spoiler from 1954 incoming!

I’ve just finished watching The Rings of Power…

Why am I on TikTok?

Dave Hause and his band The Mermaid delivered an excellent set last night at Die Kantine in Cologne. Stuff like this is why we go to see live music.

When I tell people that you can learn a lot while playing video games, I invariably get laughed at. But it is true.

Remember Private Internet Access and their SEO scams? Well, guess what, they are still at it!

One of my favourite words in the English language is the word boatswain.