[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"all-zeug-en":3},[4,231,507,711,907,1108,1287,1583,1881,2151,2525,2858,3150,3386,3554,3729,3905,4100,4260,4412,4565,4720,4893,5053,5200,5394,5541,5693,5866,6041],{"id":5,"title":6,"badge":7,"body":8,"category":205,"date":206,"description":207,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":210,"link":211,"linkText":212,"meta":213,"navigation":214,"path":215,"pinned":208,"publishTime":216,"seo":217,"stem":218,"tags":219,"verdict":228,"visual":229,"__hash__":230},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fsurefeed-mikrochip-futterautomat.md","SureFeed Microchip Pet Feeder: how three cats finally eat their own food","Game Changer",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":194},"minimark",[11,15,18,21,24,27,30,32,35,38,41,46,54,57,59,62,65,68,72,75,77,80,83,87,90,92,95,98,100,103,106,110,144,148,151,154,156,159,162,164,167,170,173,176,180,183,185,188,191],[12,13,14],"p",{},"For years, I stood next to the bowls at every meal.",[12,16,17],{},"Purely as a supervisor, because otherwise the fastest cat clears all three bowls.",[19,20],"spacer",{},[12,22,23],{},"We have three cats, and they eat so differently that \"just put down three bowls\" has never worked as a plan.",[12,25,26],{},"Two of them eat slowly, spread across the whole day. Both need a specific food because of physical conditions, one hypoallergenic, one gastrointestinal. There is no room to negotiate on that.",[12,28,29],{},"The third one eats everything. At roughly three times the speed.",[19,31],{},[12,33,34],{},"Anyone who has run a multi-cat household with two prescription diets knows how that ends. The fast cat finishes her portion before the others have properly started, then chases them off their bowls and eats their food too.",[12,36,37],{},"So there were two options. Stand there until everyone is done. Or sort the cats into separate rooms for every meal.",[12,39,40],{},"Both work. Both are ridiculous in the long run.",[42,43,45],"h2",{"id":44},"what-the-surefeed-actually-does","What the SureFeed actually does",[12,47,48,49,53],{},"The ",[50,51,52],"strong",{},"SureFeed Microchip Pet Feeder"," from Sure Petcare dispenses no food at all, despite the name. It is a bowl with a lid and a chip reader.",[12,55,56],{},"When the right cat stands in front of it, the lid opens. When she steps away, it closes again.",[19,58],{},[12,60,61],{},"What it reads is the microchip the cat already carries under her skin. The feeder handles the usual chip formats, 9, 10 and 15 digits, and stores up to 32 animals. For a cat without a chip, an RFID collar tag is included.",[12,63,64],{},"You also get a normal bowl, a split bowl for two kinds of food and a mat for whatever ends up next to it. Capacity is 400 ml, so two pouches of wet food fit.",[12,66,67],{},"Power comes from four C cell batteries that last at least six months according to the manufacturer. So the bowl can sit where the cat eats anyway, rather than wherever the nearest socket happens to be.",[42,69,71],{"id":70},"setup-minutes-if-your-cats-are-chipped","Setup: minutes, if your cats are chipped",[12,73,74],{},"All three of ours are chipped, so setup was unremarkable. Press the button, let the cat eat, chip stored.",[19,76],{},[12,78,79],{},"For nervous animals there is a training mode where the lid stays put at first and then moves further in stages, until the cat accepts the sound.",[12,81,82],{},"That barely mattered here. Where there is food, skepticism turns out to be negotiable pretty fast.",[42,84,86],{"id":85},"what-changed-day-to-day","What changed day to day",[12,88,89],{},"Feeding is no longer an event.",[19,91],{},[12,93,94],{},"The two slow eaters can take their time. Their food sits out in the open and is still unreachable for the third one.",[12,96,97],{},"Between bites the lid is closed, so the wet food does not dry out. For cats that keep coming back over several hours, that matters more than any other feature.",[19,99],{},[12,101,102],{},"And I no longer stand there.",[12,104,105],{},"That sounds like a small thing, but it is the entire difference. Before, every meal was an appointment I had to attend. Now it is just food, sitting there.",[42,107,109],{"id":108},"what-i-like-about-it","What I like about it",[111,112,113,120,126,132,138],"ul",{},[114,115,116,119],"li",{},[50,117,118],{},"The key is already inside the cat."," No collar, no tag, no accessory to lose.",[114,121,122,125],{},[50,123,124],{},"It solves exactly one problem, and solves it properly."," Who eats which food is no longer up for negotiation.",[114,127,128,131],{},[50,129,130],{},"Prescription food becomes reliable again."," With hypoallergenic or gastrointestinal food, it genuinely matters whether the right cat ends up with the right food inside her.",[114,133,134,137],{},[50,135,136],{},"The split bowl is a thoughtful touch."," Wet and dry side by side, without the two developing a shared consistency.",[114,139,140,143],{},[50,141,142],{},"It needs no attention."," No app, no firmware, no account. Batteries in, cat registered, done.",[42,145,147],{"id":146},"the-honest-limits","The honest limits",[12,149,150],{},"Now the part that actually annoys me.",[12,152,153],{},"One of our cats eats like a toddler. With commitment, and in every direction.",[19,155],{},[12,157,158],{},"When gravy runs past the bowl insert and works its way into the gaps of the housing, it gets unpleasant. The bowl can go in the dishwasher, the mat and lid are hand wash. But the housing must never go in water, you only wipe it with a damp cloth. And taking the whole thing apart only works with a lot of patience and a feel for it. It certainly does not feel like the manufacturer had disassembly in mind.",[12,160,161],{},"With dry crumbs, none of this matters. With dried gravy in an edge your finger cannot reach, it does.",[19,163],{},[12,165,166],{},"Three more things worth knowing beforehand.",[12,168,169],{},"It does not portion anything. \"Feeder\" here only means controlled access. If you want a device that serves breakfast at seven on its own, you want something else.",[12,171,172],{},"It costs around €130, and in a household with several cats you rarely buy just one.",[12,174,175],{},"And it manages the bowl, not the mood in the room. A cat that sits down next to it and waits will still sit there. The lid stays shut, but the device does not do social work for you.",[42,177,179],{"id":178},"would-i-buy-it-again","Would I buy it again?",[12,181,182],{},"Immediately.",[19,184],{},[12,186,187],{},"For a single cat it is probably a luxury, unless the wet food should stay fresh longer or somebody who is not allowed a snack keeps taking one. A dog in the house counts here too.",[12,189,190],{},"For a household with several cats, one of which eats fast while the others need a specific food, it is close to irreplaceable.",[12,192,193],{},"You will never get it properly clean. But it took over a job I did myself for years, and did it worse than the feeder does.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":197},"",3,[198,200,201,202,203,204],{"id":44,"depth":199,"text":45},2,{"id":70,"depth":199,"text":71},{"id":85,"depth":199,"text":86},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":146,"depth":199,"text":147},{"id":178,"depth":199,"text":179},"Gadget","2026-08-06","My experience with the SureFeed Microchip Pet Feeder in a house with three cats, two prescription diets and one cat that eats three times as fast as the others.",false,"md","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fsurefeed-mikrochip-futterautomat-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Flink.amazon\u002FB0d9kTjzO",null,{},true,"\u002Fzeug\u002Fsurefeed-mikrochip-futterautomat","11:00",{"title":6,"description":207},"zeug\u002Fsurefeed-mikrochip-futterautomat",[220,221,222,223,224,225,226,227],"surefeed","surefeed mikrochip futterautomat","futterautomat mit chip","mehrkatzenhaushalt","katzen","spezialfutter","sure petcare","futterneid","I no longer stand next to the bowls keeping track of who empties which one. Every cat gets her own food, including the slow one.","halftone","Pkf3r5HzcKMaYBDCRmwrKMGyyqdiAage_b9-LQHrPtA",{"id":232,"title":233,"badge":7,"body":234,"category":205,"date":484,"description":485,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":486,"link":487,"linkText":212,"meta":488,"navigation":214,"path":489,"pinned":208,"publishTime":490,"seo":491,"stem":492,"tags":493,"verdict":504,"visual":505,"__hash__":506},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Ftrmnl-bwry.md","TRMNL BWRY: An E-Ink Display Against Expired Yogurt",{"type":9,"value":235,"toc":476},[236,239,242,244,247,250,254,257,260,263,265,272,275,278,280,283,286,289,293,296,299,301,304,313,315,318,321,325,328,331,334,336,343,346,349,351,354,357,365,369,372,375,377,403,405,408,411,413,416,418,450,454,457,459,462,465,467,470,473],[12,237,238],{},"There is this moment that probably everyone knows.",[12,240,241],{},"You clean out the fridge, and in the back left corner sits a yogurt that expired eleven days ago. Bought with good intentions. Forgotten with a system.",[19,243],{},[12,245,246],{},"For a long time I blamed my character.",[12,248,249],{},"By now I believe: it is a data problem.",[42,251,253],{"id":252},"the-expiry-date-lives-in-the-worst-database-in-the-world","The expiry date lives in the worst database in the world",[12,255,256],{},"The information exists.",[12,258,259],{},"Every package has a best-before date. Printed tiny, preferably on a fold, preferably facing away from the door, behind the milk, at five degrees.",[12,261,262],{},"To know what needs eating this week, I would have to open the fridge and rotate every single package. Nobody does that, obviously.",[19,264],{},[12,266,267,268,271],{},"One quick word in defense of the date: I am fully aware that a ",[50,269,270],{},"best-before"," date is not an expiry date. It says best before, not deadly after. Yogurt does not turn at midnight, and hard cheese and mustard are still laughing about it weeks later.",[12,273,274],{},"The number is useful anyway, because it is the only one I have to sort what needs eating first.",[12,276,277],{},"And with genuinely perishable things, the joking stops. Ground beef and fresh fish do not carry a best-before date, they carry a use-by date, and that one means it. Those are exactly the items I want to keep an eye on before I have to start sniffing a package.",[19,279],{},[12,281,282],{},"We tried a note on the fridge door. The note itself expired after four days.",[12,284,285],{},"And there are plenty of pantry-tracking apps. But an app I have to actively open is an app I do not open. Certainly not at six in the evening with a pan in one hand.",[12,287,288],{},"So the problem was never missing information. The problem was that the information was never where the what-are-we-cooking decision actually happens.",[42,290,292],{"id":291},"so-i-built-a-fridge-tracker","So I built a fridge tracker",[12,294,295],{},"The first half of the solution is a small self-built web app.",[12,297,298],{},"After grocery shopping, everything gets scanned: barcode in front of the phone camera, the app pulls name and picture from Open Food Facts, I type in the expiry date, done. Over time it even learns how long a product typically lasts in our house and suggests the date right away.",[19,300],{},[12,302,303],{},"For things without a barcode, like the fresh meat from a HelloFresh box, there is the photo path: take a picture, a vision model reads name, quantity, and expiry date off the packaging, and I confirm.",[12,305,306,307,312],{},"Confirm is the important word here. The AI may suggest, but it never writes anything silently. If the date was hard to read, it honestly says so. Same rule as my ",[308,309,311],"a",{"href":310},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fgmail-zu-kalender","Gmail-to-Calendar automation",": AI detects, I decide.",[19,314],{},[12,316,317],{},"And when something leaves the fridge, there are exactly two buttons: eaten or thrown away.",[12,319,320],{},"More on that later. That button is meaner than it looks.",[42,322,324],{"id":323},"why-an-e-ink-display-of-all-things","Why an e-ink display, of all things",[12,326,327],{},"Now the honest part: the app alone would not have solved the problem.",[12,329,330],{},"See above, apps have to be opened.",[12,332,333],{},"The list had to go where the decision happens: onto the kitchen wall.",[19,335],{},[12,337,338,339,342],{},"That is exactly where the ",[50,340,341],{},"TRMNL BWRY"," now hangs. A 7.5-inch e-ink display that can do exactly four colors: black, white, red, and yellow. Hence the name. It runs for months on battery, does not glow, does not hum, and wants no attention. It just hangs there as a calm piece of information.",[12,344,345],{},"Four colors sounds like very little.",[12,347,348],{},"For a fridge, it is exactly the right amount: red means expired or due today. Yellow means the next three days. Everything else can stay black and white and quietly wait its turn.",[19,350],{},[12,352,353],{},"At the very bottom there is a black bar with the next bin collection days: organic, recycling, paper, general waste. If a bin is due within the next two days, it gets a yellow highlight. That is also one of those things you somehow always need to know exactly when you are standing in the kitchen.",[12,355,356],{},"Technically, TRMNL is pleasantly open. There are ready-made plugins for calendars, weather, and the like, but also private plugins: the display fetches JSON from your own endpoint at fixed intervals and renders your own template. My endpoint serves the fridge list, sorted by due date.",[12,358,359,360,364],{},"The app behind it is a small Nuxt project and runs where my TypeScript things always end up: on ",[308,361,363],{"href":362},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fvercel-typescript-hosting","Vercel",".",[42,366,368],{"id":367},"what-actually-changed","What actually changed",[12,370,371],{},"The everyday effect is unspectacular, and that is exactly why it works.",[12,373,374],{},"You walk over for morning coffee and see in passing: two things due soon. Dinner surprisingly often gets planned off the display now. Fine, tonight it is the thing with the bell pepper.",[19,376],{},[111,378,379,385,391,397],{},[114,380,381,384],{},[50,382,383],{},"The information is where the cooking happens."," No opening an app, no thinking, a glance in passing is enough.",[114,386,387,390],{},[50,388,389],{},"Red and yellow work instantly."," Nobody reads tables on a kitchen wall. A colored edge on the row is plenty.",[114,392,393,396],{},[50,394,395],{},"One push a day, no more."," Every phone can set its own time and its own look-ahead window. No notification machine-gun fire.",[114,398,399,402],{},[50,400,401],{},"The stats keep you honest."," Eaten or thrown away turns into a waste rate and a small hall of shame of the most frequently discarded products.",[19,404],{},[12,406,407],{},"That last point is the one that got me.",[12,409,410],{},"A number telling you what percentage of tracked food ended up in the bin does not argue. It just hangs there. And it has actually been dropping since the display went up, because the soon-to-expire things now get eaten instead of discovered.",[42,412,147],{"id":146},[12,414,415],{},"The setup is good. It is not magic.",[19,417],{},[111,419,420,426,432,438,444],{},[114,421,422,425],{},[50,423,424],{},"Tracking stays manual."," Every product has to be scanned or photographed. Stop doing that after two weeks and you own a very calm display with very wrong data.",[114,427,428,431],{},[50,429,430],{},"There is no magic camera in the fridge."," Nothing automatically detects what goes in or out. The display only shows the truth you gave it beforehand.",[114,433,434,437],{},[50,435,436],{},"E-ink is calm, not fast."," The display updates at fixed intervals, and a color refresh is a short, visible flicker. Completely irrelevant for an expiry list, fatal for real-time dreams.",[114,439,440,443],{},[50,441,442],{},"Without the tinkering itch, you miss the best part."," The TRMNL works fine with ready-made plugins. But this exact fridge setup cannot be bought, it has to be built or copied.",[114,445,446,449],{},[50,447,448],{},"BWRY is a limited edition."," If you cannot get one anymore: the regular black-and-white TRMNL does the same job, just without red and yellow. It works, but loses half the point.",[42,451,453],{"id":452},"would-i-recommend-it","Would I recommend it?",[12,455,456],{},"Yes, with one clear footnote.",[19,458],{},[12,460,461],{},"The TRMNL BWRY is great for people who have a real recurring information problem and enjoy solving it with a small tool of their own. The fridge is my case. For others it is the calendar, the weather by the bike rack, or the train to work.",[12,463,464],{},"It is wrong for anyone expecting technology to solve the problem without any personal discipline. The display does not make anyone tidier. It just mercilessly shows how tidy you currently are.",[19,466],{},[12,468,469],{},"For me, that is precisely the point.",[12,471,472],{},"The TRMNL does not make anything smarter. It just hangs the right information on the right wall.",[12,474,475],{},"And sometimes that is exactly what good stuff looks like.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":477},[478,479,480,481,482,483],{"id":252,"depth":199,"text":253},{"id":291,"depth":199,"text":292},{"id":323,"depth":199,"text":324},{"id":367,"depth":199,"text":368},{"id":146,"depth":199,"text":147},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-08-02","My experience with the TRMNL BWRY as a kitchen display for a self-built fridge tracker: expiry dates, bin collection days, and an honest food-waste stat.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Ftrmnl-bwry-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Ftrmnl.com",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Ftrmnl-bwry","09:00",{"title":233,"description":485},"zeug\u002Ftrmnl-bwry",[494,495,496,497,498,499,500,501,502,503],"trmnl","trmnl bwry","e-ink display","epaper dashboard","fridge tracker","expiry dates","food waste","diy","self-built","nuxt","Four colors, one glance while getting coffee, and expired yogurt went from the rule to the exception in our house.","rings","kqwF_7WEOlUEBc-3TePUqOGpMSljsjOK7vYtRkg-66w",{"id":508,"title":509,"badge":7,"body":510,"category":686,"date":687,"description":688,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":689,"link":690,"linkText":212,"meta":691,"navigation":214,"path":692,"pinned":208,"publishTime":693,"seo":694,"stem":695,"tags":696,"verdict":708,"visual":709,"__hash__":710},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fsigenergy-pv-anlage.md","Sigenergy solar system: four weeks without a single real kilowatt-hour from the grid",{"type":9,"value":511,"toc":678},[512,515,518,520,523,526,528,531,535,538,540,543,545,548,550,553,557,560,562,565,567,570,573,577,580,582,585,587,590,592,595,597,623,625,628,631,633,636,638,641,644,646,649,651,654,656,659,661,664,667,669,672,675],[12,513,514],{},"I have had solar panels on the roof for four weeks now.",[12,516,517],{},"And for four weeks I have had a slightly embarrassing new hobby: the first thing I do in the morning is check how much power my own roof has produced again.",[19,519],{},[12,521,522],{},"That sounds like a topic for people who enjoy talking about feed-in tariffs and payback periods.",[12,524,525],{},"That was my fear, too.",[19,527],{},[12,529,530],{},"The reality is much more mundane and at the same time far more satisfying: in four weeks I have not pulled a single real kilowatt-hour from the grid.",[42,532,534],{"id":533},"what-is-actually-on-the-roof-and-in-the-basement","What is actually on the roof and in the basement",[12,536,537],{},"A quick word on the hardware, because this is supposed to be good stuff, not just a feeling.",[19,539],{},[12,541,542],{},"On the roof there are 30 modules totaling almost 14 kWp. One of them was thrown in for free on top, which gives me a disproportionate amount of joy as a human being.",[19,544],{},[12,546,547],{},"In the utility room hangs a Sigenergy Sigen hybrid inverter with 12 kW, plus the SigenStor battery with 9 kWh.",[19,549],{},[12,551,552],{},"The battery is modular, so I could add to it later. Right now the 9 kWh are easily enough to carry the sun from the day into the evening.",[42,554,556],{"id":555},"four-weeks-not-one-real-kilowatt-hour","Four weeks, not one real kilowatt-hour",[12,558,559],{},"The weather is good right now. I have to say that honestly, more on it later.",[19,561],{},[12,563,564],{},"But at the moment exactly what the glossy brochures promise is actually happening: during the day the roof produces more than we use. The surplus charges the battery. In the evening and at night the house runs off the battery.",[19,566],{},[12,568,569],{},"Meanwhile the meter for grid consumption basically stands still.",[12,571,572],{},"Four weeks without a single real kilowatt-hour I would have to pay for. It feels a little like cheating every single time.",[42,574,576],{"id":575},"why-home-assistant-makes-the-difference","Why Home Assistant makes the difference",[12,578,579],{},"The system has its own app, and it is genuinely good. Clear, fast, I see generation, consumption and battery level at a glance.",[19,581],{},[12,583,584],{},"But the real fun starts once I pull everything into Home Assistant over Modbus TCP.",[19,586],{},[12,588,589],{},"Suddenly the system is no longer a closed product, but part of my smart home. I do not just see numbers, I can shape my behavior around them.",[19,591],{},[12,593,594],{},"Dishwasher, washing machine, charging the bigger loads: it all mentally moves into the hours when the roof is producing more than we need anyway. Data turns into behavior, and that is exactly the part that gets addictive.",[42,596,109],{"id":108},[111,598,599,605,611,617],{},[114,600,601,604],{},[50,602,603],{},"Grid consumption stands still."," In good weather the power comes entirely from my own roof, directly during the day, from the battery in the evening and at night.",[114,606,607,610],{},[50,608,609],{},"The app is really good."," Generation, consumption and battery at a glance, no tinkering required.",[114,612,613,616],{},[50,614,615],{},"Modbus TCP in, Home Assistant happy."," The system becomes part of the smart home instead of staying an island.",[114,618,619,622],{},[50,620,621],{},"The battery is expandable."," I do not have to decide for eternity today.",[42,624,147],{"id":146},[12,626,627],{},"Now the part the brochures like to leave out.",[12,629,630],{},"It is summer right now. Four weeks without grid power are impressive, but they are also the result of long, bright days.",[19,632],{},[12,634,635],{},"In winter it will be different. Over a full year, realistic self-sufficiency is closer to around 70 percent, not 100. Physics stays physics, and in December the sun simply shines for shorter and wearier hours.",[19,637],{},[12,639,640],{},"But there is an honest lever for exactly that: the inverter can react to the price signals of dynamic electricity tariffs. So I can deliberately charge the battery when grid power is cheapest, instead of when it happens to be most expensive.",[12,642,643],{},"In summer I do not need this. In winter it is exactly the difference between \"power is just expensive\" and \"power is at least bought cleverly\".",[19,645],{},[12,647,648],{},"On top of that, the obvious point: this is a five-figure investment, in our case around 15,000 euros. It pays off over years, not overnight.",[19,650],{},[12,652,653],{},"And honestly: the Modbus hookup and the whole Home Assistant part are nerdy. If you just want power from your roof and are happy with the app, you do not need any of it. I enjoy it, but it is optional, not mandatory.",[42,655,453],{"id":452},[12,657,658],{},"Yes. With a clear head, but without hesitation.",[19,660],{},[12,662,663],{},"If you have a suitable roof, can think a few years ahead and are willing to carry the five-figure investment, then a system like this is one of the few big purchases that feels right from the first sunny day.",[12,665,666],{},"If, on the other hand, you expect the system to make you as self-sufficient in January as in June, you will be disappointed. That is not how it works.",[19,668],{},[12,670,671],{},"For me, the combination of Sigenergy, the SigenStor battery and Home Assistant has become exactly what I had hoped for.",[12,673,674],{},"Instead of a closed black box, it is a piece of the house I understand, see and can control.",[12,676,677],{},"And watching your own roof make money is, every single time, pretty good stuff.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":679},[680,681,682,683,684,685],{"id":533,"depth":199,"text":534},{"id":555,"depth":199,"text":556},{"id":575,"depth":199,"text":576},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":146,"depth":199,"text":147},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"Hardware","2026-07-23","My first four weeks with a Sigenergy solar setup, a SigenStor battery and a Home Assistant hookup over Modbus TCP: why I am not pulling a real kilowatt-hour from the grid right now, and where the catch is.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fsigenergy-pv-anlage-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.sigenergy.com\u002F",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fsigenergy-pv-anlage","09:30",{"title":509,"description":688},"zeug\u002Fsigenergy-pv-anlage",[697,698,699,700,701,702,703,704,705,706,707],"sigenergy","sigenstor","photovoltaik","pv anlage","solaranlage","stromspeicher","home assistant","modbus","wechselrichter","autarkie","erfahrung","Four weeks, not one real kilowatt-hour from the grid, and a slightly embarrassing new hobby: watching my own roof make money.","stripes","-iMd1XuxIzbWXluOZgdV-5C5ftBT_wREEbBf5V2jhnk",{"id":712,"title":713,"badge":7,"body":714,"category":887,"date":888,"description":889,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":890,"link":891,"linkText":212,"meta":892,"navigation":214,"path":893,"pinned":208,"publishTime":693,"seo":894,"stem":895,"tags":896,"verdict":905,"visual":709,"__hash__":906},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fwisprflow.md","Wispr Flow: Talking to Agents Instead of Enter-Enter-Enter",{"type":9,"value":715,"toc":880},[716,719,722,724,727,730,733,735,741,745,748,751,753,756,759,762,766,769,772,774,777,797,800,804,807,810,812,815,818,820,823,826,833,836,840,843,845,848,851,853,856,858,861,864,866,869,872,874,877],[12,717,718],{},"There is this moment in every long session with an AI agent.",[12,720,721],{},"The agent asks back, puts three options in front of you, and you don't really want any of them.",[19,723],{},[12,725,726],{},"Option A is too rough. Option B goes the wrong way. And what you actually mean would be some mix of B and C, with a caveat that isn't in any of the three.",[12,728,729],{},"But to type that out properly, you'd have to write five sentences now.",[12,731,732],{},"So you take A. Because A is closest. And because A is one keystroke.",[19,734],{},[12,736,737,738,364],{},"That is exactly where something changed for me once I started talking to my agents instead of typing. The thing that does it is called ",[50,739,740],{},"Wispr Flow",[42,742,744],{"id":743},"why-i-talk-to-my-computer-at-all","Why I talk to my computer at all",[12,746,747],{},"I was skeptical for a long time.",[12,749,750],{},"Dictation always had this aftertaste for me: \"works 80 percent of the time, and you spend the other 20 percent fixing it.\" In the end you type again anyway, just more annoyed.",[19,752],{},[12,754,755],{},"Wispr Flow is the first attempt where that isn't true for me.",[12,757,758],{},"I hit a shortcut, just start talking the way I think, with \"um\" and false starts and sentences I restart halfway through. And what lands in the text field is clean. No filler words, punctuation sits right, and the half-sentences I threw away are gone.",[12,760,761],{},"It doesn't feel like dictating. It feels like talking with a good editor covering your back.",[42,763,765],{"id":764},"what-wispr-flow-actually-does","What Wispr Flow actually does",[12,767,768],{},"Short, no feature list:",[12,770,771],{},"It's a voice input that works in any text field, whether terminal, browser, editor or chat. Your voice doesn't just run through a transcription, but through several layers.",[19,773],{},[12,775,776],{},"One writes along. Another throws out the \"um\", \"like\" and \"kind of\", adds punctuation, and cleans up when I correct myself mid-sentence.",[111,778,779,785,791],{},[114,780,781,784],{},[50,782,783],{},"It lives everywhere."," No separate window to switch into first. Cursor in, shortcut, talk.",[114,786,787,790],{},[50,788,789],{},"It cleans up after me."," I talk messy, it comes out clean. That's the actual trick.",[114,792,793,796],{},[50,794,795],{},"It knows my words."," Technical terms, tool names, the mixed-language jargon I use anyway can be taught to it, instead of correcting it every time.",[12,798,799],{},"It's on Mac, Windows and mobile, and your own words and settings travel with you.",[42,801,803],{"id":802},"what-changes-in-long-sessions","What changes in long sessions",[12,805,806],{},"This is where the real payoff is for me, and it has little to do with \"typing faster\".",[12,808,809],{},"I often run long sessions where an agent systematically drills into me. Grill-me rounds where an idea gets taken apart. Wayfinder sessions where I get walked to a decision step by step.",[19,811],{},[12,813,814],{},"Sessions like that hit 70 questions and up pretty quickly.",[12,816,817],{},"And typed, a session like that eventually turns into dull Enter-Enter-Enter. You click through the suggested options because spelling it out is too much effort. You give the model exactly as much context as one keystroke allows. Which is almost none.",[19,819],{},[12,821,822],{},"Talking flips that.",[12,824,825],{},"When I can just start speaking, I automatically give the answer with substance. I don't say \"A\", I say why neither A nor B fits, what I actually mean, and what the agent should be thinking about right now. Without it costing me more effort than a single sentence.",[827,828,830],"callout",{"title":829},"The actual difference",[12,831,832],{},"Typed, I pick from what the model offers me. Spoken, I tell the model what I really want. That's a different context, and you notice it in the answers.",[12,834,835],{},"Dull clicking-through turns back into a conversation where I actually think about what I answer. That's more tiring for the brain. But the results are on another level.",[42,837,839],{"id":838},"what-you-should-know","What you should know",[12,841,842],{},"It's a subscription. 15 dollars a month, a bit cheaper annually, and there's a free tier with a weekly word limit so you can feel it out at all. There is no one-time purchase.",[19,844],{},[12,846,847],{},"Your voice goes to the cloud for processing. Fine for me, because I know what I'm dictating. Anyone working with very sensitive content should settle that for themselves first.",[12,849,850],{},"And it's not for every situation. In a full office or on a call I don't talk out loud to my computer. At the desk at home, though, it has become the default.",[19,852],{},[12,854,855],{},"Recognition isn't perfect either. With wild mixed-language jargon and technical terms, something slips through now and then. But rarely enough that I don't want to go back.",[42,857,453],{"id":452},[12,859,860],{},"Yes, and more clearly than I expected.",[12,862,863],{},"Not because talking is generally better than typing. For a short command I still type.",[19,865],{},[12,867,868],{},"But because it saves exactly the sessions where typing becomes the bottleneck. If you work a lot with agents, run long question-and-answer rounds, and catch yourself clicking the next-best option out of laziness, then Wispr Flow is a game changer.",[12,870,871],{},"For people who dictate the odd sentence now and then, it's probably too much subscription for too little daily use.",[19,873],{},[12,875,876],{},"For me the effect is simple: I give my agents answers with substance again, instead of clicking through options that only half fit anyway.",[12,878,879],{},"And that of all things talking is what brought that back is pretty good stuff.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":881},[882,883,884,885,886],{"id":743,"depth":199,"text":744},{"id":764,"depth":199,"text":765},{"id":802,"depth":199,"text":803},{"id":838,"depth":199,"text":839},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"Software","2026-07-15","My experience with Wispr Flow as voice input for long sessions with AI agents, where typing is too slow and I would otherwise just click option A.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fwisprflow-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fwisprflow.ai\u002Fr?MARC3951",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fwisprflow",{"title":713,"description":889},"zeug\u002Fwisprflow",[897,898,899,900,901,902,903,904],"wispr flow","wisprflow","spracheingabe","diktier-app","voice to text","ki-agenten","claude code","produktivität","Not as a dictation gimmick, but because I finally tell my agent what I actually mean instead of clicking the next-best option.","6n-dMcqGKDRNq1r9ttFBArvb0teIXy2hxsTx409VK5k",{"id":908,"title":909,"badge":910,"body":911,"category":205,"date":1088,"description":1089,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":1090,"link":1091,"linkText":212,"meta":1092,"navigation":214,"path":1093,"pinned":208,"publishTime":693,"seo":1094,"stem":1095,"tags":1096,"verdict":1106,"visual":229,"__hash__":1107},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fninja-luxe-cafe-premier.md","Ninja Luxe Café Premier: the honest middle ground between a portafilter and a bean-to-cup","Würd ich wieder kaufen",{"type":9,"value":912,"toc":1080},[913,916,919,921,924,928,931,934,936,939,942,944,947,950,952,955,959,962,965,967,970,972,975,977,980,984,987,990,992,995,997,1005,1007,1033,1035,1038,1041,1043,1046,1048,1051,1053,1056,1058,1061,1063,1066,1069,1071,1074,1077],[12,914,915],{},"We like good coffee.",[12,917,918],{},"Less in the \"as long as there is caffeine\" sense, more in the \"the first sip should be the moment you look forward to in the morning\" sense.",[19,920],{},[12,922,923],{},"The only problem with good coffee at home is the path to get there. It usually runs through two extremes. And both of them did not work for us.",[42,925,927],{"id":926},"why-a-portafilter-and-a-bean-to-cup-both-failed-us","Why a portafilter and a bean-to-cup both failed us",[12,929,930],{},"The portafilter machine was the honest attempt to do it properly.",[12,932,933],{},"For a while I even found it romantic: grind, tamp, the perfect shot.",[19,935],{},[12,937,938],{},"But at seven in the morning, before anyone in the house is approachable, I do not want a barista internship. I want coffee.",[12,940,941],{},"The constant effort just was not worth it in the end.",[19,943],{},[12,945,946],{},"So, the opposite: a bean-to-cup machine. Press a button, done.",[12,948,949],{},"Sounds like the solution. It was not.",[19,951],{},[12,953,954],{},"The result was never actually good for our taste, only ever okay. And then the part nobody talks about: a bean-to-cup machine is a nightmare if you really want to keep it clean. Milk system, brew group, lots of little corners where things collect that you would rather not see.",[42,956,958],{"id":957},"what-the-ninja-luxe-café-premier-does-differently","What the Ninja Luxe Café Premier does differently",[12,960,961],{},"The Ninja Luxe Café Premier sits exactly in the gap between those two extremes.",[12,963,964],{},"It is half portafilter, half assistant.",[19,966],{},[12,968,969],{},"There is a real portafilter and a proper brew group, but the machine takes the annoying decisions off my plate. It grinds fresh, helps with dosing and tamping and evens out exactly where I kept missing with a real portafilter.",[19,971],{},[12,973,974],{},"Meaning: I get an espresso that actually tastes like espresso, without turning into a hobby barista every morning.",[19,976],{},[12,978,979],{},"It does milk foam too, and in a way that makes a morning cappuccino not a project.",[42,981,983],{"id":982},"what-changes-day-to-day","What changes day to day",[12,985,986],{},"The real difference is not a single feature.",[12,988,989],{},"It is that good coffee is uncomplicated again.",[19,991],{},[12,993,994],{},"I do not have to weigh up whether I feel like the whole portafilter ritual right now. And I do not have to accept that the bean-to-cup machine only ever delivers mediocrity.",[19,996],{},[12,998,999,1000,1004],{},"The fact that I then regularly let the freshly made coffee go cold because I disappear into a problem is a separate matter. That is what ",[308,1001,1003],{"href":1002},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fember-mug-2","the Ember Mug 2"," is for.",[42,1006,109],{"id":108},[111,1008,1009,1015,1021,1027],{},[114,1010,1011,1014],{},[50,1012,1013],{},"Real espresso without portafilter religion."," Freshly ground, with help on dosing and tamping, and a shot that actually tastes good at the end.",[114,1016,1017,1020],{},[50,1018,1019],{},"Far easier to keep clean than a bean-to-cup machine."," No hidden milk system you would rather not look into.",[114,1022,1023,1026],{},[50,1024,1025],{},"Milk foam that is not a morning project."," Cappuccino without fighting the technology.",[114,1028,1029,1032],{},[50,1030,1031],{},"One machine for several coffee moods."," Espresso, drip coffee, cold brew, depending on the day.",[42,1034,147],{"id":146},[12,1036,1037],{},"It is not a true high-end portafilter machine.",[12,1039,1040],{},"If you want to fight for the perfect shot manually and philosophize about brew pressure and grind size, you will miss the last few percent here. That is by design, but you should know it.",[19,1042],{},[12,1044,1045],{},"It also needs space. This is not a small device that quietly disappears into a corner, but a visible roommate on the countertop.",[19,1047],{},[12,1049,1050],{},"And it does not work entirely without cleaning either. Knock out the portafilter, wipe the milk wand, flush it through now and then. It is just honest, visible cleaning instead of a hidden bean-to-cup interior.",[19,1052],{},[12,1054,1055],{},"It is not cheap, either. But it plays in a different price league than a serious portafilter plus a separate grinder.",[42,1057,453],{"id":452},[12,1059,1060],{},"Yes. For exactly one type of person, very clearly so.",[19,1062],{},[12,1064,1065],{},"If you want good coffee but do not want to put in the full portafilter effort every day, and at the same time you are disappointed by bean-to-cup mediocrity, then the Ninja Luxe Café Premier is pretty much exactly your middle ground.",[12,1067,1068],{},"If, on the other hand, you are a portafilter purist who loves the process, stay with your machine. You will not be happy here.",[19,1070],{},[12,1072,1073],{},"For us it was the first coffee machine where we stopped looking any further.",[12,1075,1076],{},"It is not the best at everything. But it hits exactly the middle we wanted to be in the whole time.",[12,1078,1079],{},"And that is exactly the kind of good stuff this site is about.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":1081},[1082,1083,1084,1085,1086,1087],{"id":926,"depth":199,"text":927},{"id":957,"depth":199,"text":958},{"id":982,"depth":199,"text":983},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":146,"depth":199,"text":147},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-07-08","My experience with the Ninja Luxe Café Premier: why it is the perfect middle ground between portafilter effort and bean-to-cup mediocrity.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fninja-luxe-cafe-premier-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F441vdJK",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fninja-luxe-cafe-premier",{"title":909,"description":1089},"zeug\u002Fninja-luxe-cafe-premier",[1097,1098,1099,1100,1101,1102,1103,1104,1105,707],"ninja luxe café premier","ninja luxe café","kaffeemaschine","espresso","siebträger","vollautomat","kaffee","küche","gadget","No portafilter theater, no bean-to-cup compromise. The first coffee machine I stopped looking past.","H8nWN2iChQjp6EAgrd0iuyqtyF22YaJiIHHivDV8GWQ",{"id":1109,"title":1110,"badge":1111,"body":1112,"category":205,"date":1270,"description":1271,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":1272,"link":1273,"linkText":212,"meta":1274,"navigation":214,"path":1275,"pinned":208,"publishTime":693,"seo":1276,"stem":1277,"tags":1278,"verdict":1285,"visual":505,"__hash__":1286},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fquooker-cube.md","Quooker Cube: expensive, unnecessary, and worth it every single day","Daily Driver",{"type":9,"value":1113,"toc":1263},[1114,1117,1119,1122,1125,1127,1130,1133,1137,1140,1143,1145,1148,1150,1153,1157,1160,1163,1165,1168,1171,1173,1176,1179,1181,1184,1186,1212,1216,1219,1222,1224,1227,1229,1232,1235,1237,1240,1242,1245,1247,1250,1253,1255,1258,1261],[12,1115,1116],{},"We drink a lot of water and a serious amount of tea.",[19,1118],{},[12,1120,1121],{},"For both, there has basically always been a simple solution: a kettle for the tea, a crate of sparkling water from the basement.",[12,1123,1124],{},"It works.",[19,1126],{},[12,1128,1129],{},"And yet there is now a tap in our kitchen that cost a multiple of what a normal tap costs.",[12,1131,1132],{},"And I would not give it back.",[42,1134,1136],{"id":1135},"what-the-quooker-cube-actually-does","What the Quooker Cube actually does",[12,1138,1139],{},"The Quooker itself is, first of all, a tap that delivers boiling water at the push of a button.",[12,1141,1142],{},"Not hot. Boiling.",[19,1144],{},[12,1146,1147],{},"The Cube is the unit that lives in the cabinet underneath. It turns the tap into a source of chilled still and chilled sparkling water as well.",[19,1149],{},[12,1151,1152],{},"In practice: one tap, three things. Boiling water for tea, cold water for drinking and sparkling water, without ever carrying a crate again.",[42,1154,1156],{"id":1155},"why-it-matters-so-much-day-to-day","Why it matters so much day to day",[12,1158,1159],{},"The real trick is not the technology.",[12,1161,1162],{},"It is the \"right now\".",[19,1164],{},[12,1166,1167],{},"Tea runs all day in our house and is nobody's weekend event. That used to mean: switch on the kettle, wait, forget about it, boil again.",[12,1169,1170],{},"Now I hold the cup under the tap and the tea is basically ready instantly.",[19,1172],{},[12,1174,1175],{},"With water it is the same thing, cold. No hauling crates, no empty bottle at the worst possible moment, no deposit-bottle Tetris in the hallway.",[12,1177,1178],{},"Sparkling water is just there.",[19,1180],{},[12,1182,1183],{},"This sounds like a luxury problem, and it is one. But it is one of those small things you use several times a day without ever thinking about it again.",[42,1185,109],{"id":108},[111,1187,1188,1194,1200,1206],{},[114,1189,1190,1193],{},[50,1191,1192],{},"Boiling water with no waiting."," Tea, coffee, quickly pouring over something. The kettle just gets in the way now.",[114,1195,1196,1199],{},[50,1197,1198],{},"Sparkling water without crates."," No hauling, no deposit, no \"oh, the last one is empty\".",[114,1201,1202,1205],{},[50,1203,1204],{},"One tap instead of three solutions."," Kettle, water crate and filter jug are suddenly redundant.",[114,1207,1208,1211],{},[50,1209,1210],{},"It becomes normal immediately."," After a week you wonder how it ever worked before.",[42,1213,1215],{"id":1214},"the-honest-downsides","The honest downsides",[12,1217,1218],{},"The price is steep. There is no way to make that sound reasonable.",[12,1220,1221],{},"A Quooker with a Cube costs a multiple of what you would purely functionally spend on hot and sparkling water.",[19,1223],{},[12,1225,1226],{},"On top of that: this is built-in tech under the sink. Not a gadget you move somewhere else on a whim, but a small decision for the house.",[19,1228],{},[12,1230,1231],{},"And it needs CO2 for the sparkling water.",[12,1233,1234],{},"The good news: you are not stuck with the expensive original bottles. Compatible CO2 bottles from third-party suppliers are a lot cheaper, and that makes the running cost bearable.",[19,1236],{},[12,1238,1239],{},"Still, honestly: if you rarely drink tea and do not care about sparkling water, none of this makes sense.",[42,1241,453],{"id":452},[12,1243,1244],{},"Yes. But with a clear if.",[19,1246],{},[12,1248,1249],{},"If water and tea run all day in your home anyway, the Quooker Cube is one of the few expensive things that feels like everyday life rather than waste.",[12,1251,1252],{},"If, on the other hand, you rarely need hot water and are happy with tap water, stay away. Then it is simply a very nice, very expensive tap.",[19,1254],{},[12,1256,1257],{},"For us it was an investment that made me swallow hard at first.",[12,1259,1260],{},"But boiling water for tea and cold sparkling water at the push of a button are worth it every single day.",[12,1262,1079],{},{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":1264},[1265,1266,1267,1268,1269],{"id":1135,"depth":199,"text":1136},{"id":1155,"depth":199,"text":1156},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":1214,"depth":199,"text":1215},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-06-29","My experience living with the Quooker Cube: instant boiling water for tea, chilled sparkling water on tap and whether the steep price is actually worth it.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fquooker-cube-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.quooker.de\u002Freservoir\u002Fcube",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fquooker-cube",{"title":1110,"description":1271},"zeug\u002Fquooker-cube",[1279,1280,1281,1282,1283,1104,1284,1105,707],"quooker","quooker cube","kochendes wasser","sprudelwasser","wasserhahn","tee","An absurdly expensive tap that never feels spectacular, and is worth it every single day for exactly that reason.","DY_VoNqr3-I58brtgwtsjaBN8tYTtvx9RONKBcJNDmY",{"id":1288,"title":1289,"badge":1111,"body":1290,"category":887,"date":1566,"description":1567,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":1568,"link":212,"linkText":212,"meta":1569,"navigation":214,"path":1570,"pinned":208,"publishTime":693,"seo":1571,"stem":1572,"tags":1573,"verdict":1581,"visual":505,"__hash__":1582},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fgmail-zu-kalender.md","Gmail to Calendar: The Only Email Automation I Actually Wanted",{"type":9,"value":1291,"toc":1557},[1292,1295,1298,1300,1303,1306,1308,1311,1315,1318,1321,1323,1326,1329,1332,1335,1338,1342,1345,1348,1350,1353,1356,1359,1363,1366,1369,1372,1374,1377,1380,1387,1390,1393,1396,1399,1403,1406,1409,1411,1414,1417,1420,1423,1431,1435,1438,1441,1444,1446,1476,1479,1482,1485,1489,1492,1495,1497,1500,1526,1529,1532,1534,1537,1540,1542,1545,1548,1551,1554],[12,1293,1294],{},"I do not want AI to answer my emails.",[12,1296,1297],{},"At least not automatically. I have enough respect for my inbox and for misunderstandings that the idea feels roughly as relaxing as giving a robot my house key and a bad mood.",[19,1299],{},[12,1301,1302],{},"What I do want: appointments should stop disappearing inside emails.",[12,1304,1305],{},"Doctor appointments, contractor windows, delivery notices, club things, contract things, medical practice things. Somewhere in there is a date, usually a time, sometimes a location, and my brain says: I will do that in a minute.",[19,1307],{},[12,1309,1310],{},"Spoiler: Usually not.",[42,1312,1314],{"id":1313},"why-appointments-disappear-inside-emails-so-well","Why appointments disappear inside emails so well",[12,1316,1317],{},"Email is fine for many things.",[12,1319,1320],{},"For appointments, it is weirdly bad.",[19,1322],{},[12,1324,1325],{},"An appointment inside an email is not an appointment yet. It is a piece of text I have to read, understand, remember, transfer into the calendar, and ideally not copy incorrectly.",[12,1327,1328],{},"In a normal single-person household, that is already annoying.",[12,1330,1331],{},"In a family calendar, it quickly becomes absurd. If it is not in there, it basically does not exist. It may still be somewhere in Gmail, but Gmail does not get anyone to the concert on time.",[12,1333,1334],{},"That was the gap I wanted to close.",[12,1336,1337],{},"It does not take a huge AI that organizes my life. A small automation is enough, one that asks a single question better than I do: does this email look like an appointment?",[42,1339,1341],{"id":1340},"why-normal-email-notifications-do-not-help","Why normal email notifications do not help",[12,1343,1344],{},"The obvious solution would be: more notifications.",[12,1346,1347],{},"That is almost always the worst solution.",[19,1349],{},[12,1351,1352],{},"I do not need another push notification telling me that something in an email might be important. I also do not need a filter that marks every semi-official email as important. Then everything is important, and my brain goes back to doing what it does best: ignoring it.",[12,1354,1355],{},"The number of signals is not the issue. They are too vague for me.",[12,1357,1358],{},"An email with an actual appointment should be treated differently from a shipping confirmation, a newsletter, or a polite reminder that some terms of service were updated somewhere. The latter may be legally fascinating. For my life, less so.",[42,1360,1362],{"id":1361},"why-direct-calendar-automation-would-be-risky","Why direct calendar automation would be risky",[12,1364,1365],{},"The other obvious solution would be: AI writes appointments directly into the calendar.",[12,1367,1368],{},"Sounds efficient.",[12,1370,1371],{},"I hate it immediately.",[19,1373],{},[12,1375,1376],{},"A calendar is not a notepad. Especially not a family calendar. If something is in there, other people plan around it. A wrong appointment is not just a small data error. In the worst case, it becomes an actual everyday problem.",[12,1378,1379],{},"Emails are also mean.",[12,1381,1382,1383,364],{},"They do not simply say: ",[1384,1385,1386],"code",{},"Dentist, Tuesday, 10:30",[12,1388,1389],{},"They say: the original appointment is cancelled, the new suggestion would be Tuesday, Thursday would also work, please confirm by tomorrow. Or: the event is not at the location in the letterhead, but in room 2.14. Or: the date is just a deadline, not an appointment.",[12,1391,1392],{},"I do not want that in my calendar without checking it first.",[12,1394,1395],{},"Automation is good.",[12,1397,1398],{},"Blind automation is a very fast way to create very precise nonsense.",[42,1400,1402],{"id":1401},"the-good-middle-ground-detect-summarize-ask","The good middle ground: detect, summarize, ask",[12,1404,1405],{},"That is why my Gmail-to-Calendar automation is deliberately boring.",[12,1407,1408],{},"It should not take over my inbox, not reply to anything, not delete anything, and definitely not add appointments behind my back.",[19,1410],{},[12,1412,1413],{},"It checks whether an email probably contains an appointment. If it does, it pulls out the relevant pieces: occasion, date, time, location, and the context for why it thinks this could be a calendar entry.",[12,1415,1416],{},"Then it asks.",[12,1418,1419],{},"That last step is the important one.",[12,1421,1422],{},"That click costs me a second and turns an automation into a tool. The AI detects. I decide.",[12,1424,1425,1426,1430],{},"That is the same kind of AI usefulness I like about the ",[308,1427,1429],{"href":1428},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fhermes-agent","Hermes Agent",": no big future theatre, just one annoying little handoff made cleaner.",[42,1432,1434],{"id":1433},"what-works-well-about-it","What works well about it",[12,1436,1437],{},"The magic is not that AI can operate a calendar.",[12,1439,1440],{},"A script can do that if it has to.",[12,1442,1443],{},"The useful part happens before that.",[19,1445],{},[111,1447,1448,1454,1460,1470],{},[114,1449,1450,1453],{},[50,1451,1452],{},"Appointments become visible."," An email turns into a concrete question: should this go into the family calendar?",[114,1455,1456,1459],{},[50,1457,1458],{},"The context comes with it."," Date, time, occasion, location, and the short reason why the email might be relevant at all.",[114,1461,1462,1465,1466,1469],{},[50,1463,1464],{},"I search less."," No later ",[1384,1467,1468],{},"Where was that again?",", no frantic digging through Gmail right before we need to leave.",[114,1471,1472,1475],{},[50,1473,1474],{},"The calendar stays clean."," Because nothing is added without approval, the family calendar remains a place for real decisions, not AI guesses.",[12,1477,1478],{},"All of that sounds small.",[12,1480,1481],{},"It is.",[12,1483,1484],{},"But those small handoffs are often exactly where everyday things get lost.",[42,1486,1488],{"id":1487},"what-deliberately-stays-unautomated","What deliberately stays unautomated",[12,1490,1491],{},"I do not want AI acting as if it has authority.",[12,1493,1494],{},"Especially not with email.",[19,1496],{},[12,1498,1499],{},"So a few things intentionally stay human:",[111,1501,1502,1508,1514,1520],{},[114,1503,1504,1507],{},[50,1505,1506],{},"No unchecked calendar entry."," The automation may suggest, but it does not decide on its own.",[114,1509,1510,1513],{},[50,1511,1512],{},"No email replies."," Nothing gets confirmed, cancelled, or politely phrased in the wrong direction.",[114,1515,1516,1519],{},[50,1517,1518],{},"No interpretation as truth."," If an email is ambiguous, it is ambiguous. Then I need to look at it.",[114,1521,1522,1525],{},[50,1523,1524],{},"No productivity religion."," The goal is not to optimize every second of my life. The goal is to make one recurring small mistake happen less often.",[12,1527,1528],{},"And yes: with something like this, you have to think honestly about access and privacy.",[12,1530,1531],{},"An automation that reads emails is not harmless just because the word AI is involved. For me, the idea only works if the access is narrow enough, the purpose stays clear, and a calendar helper does not suddenly become an everything-reader.",[42,1533,453],{"id":452},[12,1535,1536],{},"Yes.",[12,1538,1539],{},"But not as a big AI productivity promise.",[19,1541],{},[12,1543,1544],{},"I would recommend it if appointments regularly land in your email and you then have to move them into a calendar manually. Especially if multiple people depend on that calendar and a forgotten entry does not stay your problem alone.",[12,1546,1547],{},"I would not recommend it if you already have a perfectly maintained calendar system, barely use email as an appointment source, or generally feel uneasy about automation with email access. That is legitimate. The gut gets a vote with these things.",[12,1549,1550],{},"For me, this automation is exactly right because it pauses at the decisive point.",[12,1552,1553],{},"Instead of playing secretary, it only says: this looks like an appointment. Do you want to take it over?",[12,1555,1556],{},"And sometimes the best automation is exactly the one that asks before it does something.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":1558},[1559,1560,1561,1562,1563,1564,1565],{"id":1313,"depth":199,"text":1314},{"id":1340,"depth":199,"text":1341},{"id":1361,"depth":199,"text":1362},{"id":1401,"depth":199,"text":1402},{"id":1433,"depth":199,"text":1434},{"id":1487,"depth":199,"text":1488},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-06-14","My experience with a small AI automation that detects appointments in Gmail, summarizes them, and asks before anything lands in the family calendar.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fgmail-zu-kalender-cover.webp",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fgmail-zu-kalender",{"title":1289,"description":1567},"zeug\u002Fgmail-zu-kalender",[1574,1575,1576,1577,1578,1579,1580],"gmail to calendar","gmail automation","google calendar","ai automation","ai agent","family calendar","productivity","The automation spots that an email looks like an appointment and asks me about it. Adding it stays my job.","MlzS9WgNX6evXFtIfGUJJPQt-GQlvHRSoF3_dRrFMzo",{"id":1584,"title":1585,"badge":1111,"body":1586,"category":887,"date":1861,"description":1862,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":1863,"link":1864,"linkText":212,"meta":1865,"navigation":214,"path":1866,"pinned":208,"publishTime":1867,"seo":1868,"stem":1869,"tags":1870,"verdict":1879,"visual":229,"__hash__":1880},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fvercel-typescript-hosting.md","Vercel: my favorite host for TypeScript projects",{"type":9,"value":1587,"toc":1852},[1588,1591,1594,1597,1599,1602,1604,1610,1612,1615,1619,1622,1625,1627,1630,1638,1641,1643,1646,1650,1653,1656,1658,1661,1663,1666,1668,1671,1673,1676,1678,1681,1685,1688,1691,1693,1696,1699,1702,1705,1708,1710,1748,1750,1753,1756,1758,1761,1765,1768,1770,1773,1775,1778,1780,1783,1785,1788,1790,1793,1795,1798,1800,1803,1807,1810,1813,1815,1818,1821,1824,1828,1830,1833,1835,1838,1841,1844,1846,1849],[12,1589,1590],{},"Hosting is actually one of those topics I do not like thinking about.",[12,1592,1593],{},"Not because it is unimportant.",[12,1595,1596],{},"More the opposite.",[19,1598],{},[12,1600,1601],{},"When hosting is annoying, suddenly everything is annoying: deployments, previews, environment variables, domains, logs, builds, edge cases, rollbacks and that one tiny thing that of course refuses to just work on Friday at 4:47 pm.",[19,1603],{},[12,1605,1606,1607,1609],{},"That is exactly why I like ",[50,1608,363],{}," so much.",[19,1611],{},[12,1613,1614],{},"For me, privately and at work, Vercel is the host where TypeScript projects move fastest from “runs locally” to “is online” without immediately turning into an infrastructure hobby.",[42,1616,1618],{"id":1617},"why-typescript-fits-so-well","Why TypeScript fits so well",[12,1620,1621],{},"I build almost everything web-related in TypeScript somehow.",[12,1623,1624],{},"Nuxt, small internal tools, landing pages, APIs, admin surfaces, experiments, prototypes. Sometimes planned cleanly, sometimes honestly more like: I want to quickly see whether this idea holds.",[19,1626],{},[12,1628,1629],{},"Vercel fits exactly that range.",[12,1631,1632,1633,1637],{},"Connect a Git repository, let it detect the framework, set environment variables, get preview deployments, put a domain on it, done. Of course in real projects it is never ",[1634,1635,1636],"em",{},"only"," that simple. But the entry often feels like that.",[12,1639,1640],{},"And that is worth a lot.",[19,1642],{},[12,1644,1645],{},"Especially with TypeScript projects, I do not want to first pet a server, explain build paths and meditate over deployment YAML. I want to push and see whether the app works.",[42,1647,1649],{"id":1648},"preview-deployments-are-everyday-protection","Preview Deployments are everyday protection",[12,1651,1652],{},"The strongest Vercel feature for me is not the most spectacular one.",[12,1654,1655],{},"It is Preview Deployments.",[19,1657],{},[12,1659,1660],{},"Every branch, every pull request, every change can exist as a real URL. Not as “imagine this were online”, but as an actually clickable thing.",[19,1662],{},[12,1664,1665],{},"At work, that is worth gold.",[19,1667],{},[12,1669,1670],{},"You can show features before they are merged. You can collect feedback on a real interface. You can test things without explaining the same local setup to every person involved.",[19,1672],{},[12,1674,1675],{},"Privately, it is just as pleasant.",[19,1677],{},[12,1679,1680],{},"Especially with projects like this site, I want to see how an article, an image or a layout actually looks when deployed. Locally and with a good feeling about it is not enough for me, I want to see it in the real hosting context.",[42,1682,1684],{"id":1683},"vercel-takes-the-boring-parts-off-my-plate","Vercel takes the boring parts off my plate",[12,1686,1687],{},"Vercel does many things I do not want to decide from scratch every time.",[12,1689,1690],{},"Builds, caching, CDN, framework optimizations, Serverless Functions, Routing Middleware, Environment Variables, domains and SSL.",[19,1692],{},[12,1694,1695],{},"Those are not small things.",[12,1697,1698],{},"But Vercel manages to make them feel small in everyday work.",[12,1700,1701],{},"When I deploy a Nuxt or Next app, I do not have to start from zero. Vercel recognizes a lot automatically and wires the usual pieces together so I can work first.",[12,1703,1704],{},"Of course you can argue about details. Of course there are limits, cost questions and cases where your own infrastructure or another provider is better.",[12,1706,1707],{},"But my default is still: if it is TypeScript on the web, I think of Vercel first.",[42,1709,109],{"id":108},[111,1711,1712,1718,1724,1730,1736,1742],{},[114,1713,1714,1717],{},[50,1715,1716],{},"Git push feels close to production."," A pretty direct path instead of ten intermediate steps.",[114,1719,1720,1723],{},[50,1721,1722],{},"Preview URLs are incredibly practical."," For work, feedback, clients, colleagues and my own checks.",[114,1725,1726,1729],{},[50,1727,1728],{},"Framework support is strong."," Next is obvious, but Nuxt and other modern setups feel at home there too.",[114,1731,1732,1735],{},[50,1733,1734],{},"Serverless Functions are often enough."," Small APIs, webhooks, backend logic and integrations do not immediately need their own server project.",[114,1737,1738,1741],{},[50,1739,1740],{},"Domains and SSL are pleasantly unspectacular."," Exactly how it should be.",[114,1743,1744,1747],{},[50,1745,1746],{},"Logs and deployments are quickly reachable."," When something is broken, I do not want to first read an infrastructure treasure map.",[19,1749],{},[12,1751,1752],{},"And maybe that is exactly the point: Vercel does not feel like a separate hosting world.",[12,1754,1755],{},"It hangs directly on the way I already work.",[19,1757],{},[12,1759,1760],{},"Change code, push, look, improve.",[42,1762,1764],{"id":1763},"the-limits-are-still-real","The limits are still real",[12,1766,1767],{},"I do not want to romanticize Vercel.",[19,1769],{},[12,1771,1772],{},"If a project needs very specific infrastructure, long-running processes, unusual runtime requirements or full cost control on every level, then Vercel is not automatically the best answer.",[19,1774],{},[12,1776,1777],{},"Especially if you come from the “old world” of web development, where you have a virtual machine with a disk and a whole operating system available, you will stare stupidly at one or two places in the serverless world first.",[19,1779],{},[12,1781,1782],{},"Just upload a file in a form? Just send an email?",[19,1784],{},[12,1786,1787],{},"Yes, technically these things all somehow work the “old way”, but not sensibly and certainly not well for long.",[19,1789],{},[12,1791,1792],{},"Then services like Vercel Blob\u002FS3, Postmark and so on quickly enter the picture, because they solve real problems you maybe did not even know you had before.",[19,1794],{},[12,1796,1797],{},"But that does not change the fact that Vercel hits exactly the right sweet spot for a lot of TypeScript web projects.",[19,1799],{},[12,1801,1802],{},"That does not mean everything is fine. The normal things are simply solved normally.",[42,1804,1806],{"id":1805},"why-i-keep-landing-there","Why I keep landing there",[12,1808,1809],{},"I use Vercel privately because it gets my small projects from my head onto the web faster.",[12,1811,1812],{},"I use Vercel at work because Preview Deployments, clean integrations and fast iteration make real team life easier.",[19,1814],{},[12,1816,1817],{},"And I like Vercel because on many days it turns hosting back into what it should be for me: infrastructure in the background, not a side career.",[12,1819,1820],{},"When I work on an idea, I want to think about product, text, UI, data and users.",[12,1822,1823],{},"Not about the 14th YAML block.",[42,1825,1827],{"id":1826},"would-i-recommend-vercel","Would I recommend Vercel?",[12,1829,1536],{},[12,1831,1832],{},"For TypeScript web projects, Vercel is my absolute default.",[19,1834],{},[12,1836,1837],{},"It does not fit every architecture and it does not fit every system.",[12,1839,1840],{},"But for very many projects where deployment should be fast, clean and repeatable.",[12,1842,1843],{},"Vercel is good stuff for me because it gets deployment out of the way without feeling like a cheap shortcut.",[19,1845],{},[12,1847,1848],{},"It is a host that understands the way I work.",[12,1850,1851],{},"And that is surprisingly rare.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":1853},[1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860],{"id":1617,"depth":199,"text":1618},{"id":1648,"depth":199,"text":1649},{"id":1683,"depth":199,"text":1684},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":1763,"depth":199,"text":1764},{"id":1805,"depth":199,"text":1806},{"id":1826,"depth":199,"text":1827},"2026-06-11","Why Vercel is the most pleasant host for TypeScript web projects, Nuxt, Next and fast deployments for me, both privately and at work.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fvercel-typescript-hosting-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fvercel.com",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fvercel-typescript-hosting","09:15",{"title":1585,"description":1862},"zeug\u002Fvercel-typescript-hosting",[1871,1872,1873,1874,503,1875,1876,1877,1878],"vercel","hosting","typescript","next.js","deployment","frontend","serverless","web development","Vercel is the host where I can focus on my project instead of all the surrounding infrastructure.","4SCAAifn9gLiqEzfJSO_YZrDfmuZlHmHitYY33L7PUI",{"id":1882,"title":1883,"badge":1884,"body":1885,"category":2133,"date":2134,"description":2135,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":2136,"link":2137,"linkText":212,"meta":2138,"navigation":214,"path":2139,"pinned":208,"publishTime":216,"seo":2140,"stem":2141,"tags":2142,"verdict":2149,"visual":505,"__hash__":2150},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fproject-hail-mary.md","Project Hail Mary: the film where the cinema really went quiet","Heißer Tipp",{"type":9,"value":1886,"toc":2124},[1887,1890,1893,1896,1898,1901,1904,1907,1909,1912,1915,1917,1920,1922,1925,1928,1931,1935,1938,1941,1943,1946,1948,1951,1954,1958,1961,1964,1966,1969,1972,1976,1979,1982,1984,1987,1990,1994,1997,2000,2003,2005,2008,2011,2014,2016,2019,2022,2025,2029,2061,2063,2066,2069,2072,2074,2077,2080,2082,2085,2088,2091,2093,2095,2098,2100,2103,2106,2109,2111,2114,2116,2119,2121],[12,1888,1889],{},"I really do not watch many films or series.",[12,1891,1892],{},"That is not proud cultural criticism.",[12,1894,1895],{},"More a mix of time problems, tiredness and the unpleasant ability to mentally check out after eight minutes when something smells like filler.",[19,1897],{},[12,1899,1900],{},"That did not happen with Project Hail Mary.",[12,1902,1903],{},"Not even briefly.",[12,1905,1906],{},"I sat in the cinema, watched the film in original audio and was simply in it.",[19,1908],{},[12,1910,1911],{},"And I had read the book before. I knew at every point what was about to happen.",[12,1913,1914],{},"Still, I was on edge every second, waiting to see how it would continue, because it was just so damn well staged.",[19,1916],{},[12,1918,1919],{},"No minute felt boring, and no scene felt like a required piece that had to exist so something later would work.",[19,1921],{},[12,1923,1924],{},"That sounds very big now.",[12,1926,1927],{},"Maybe it is.",[12,1929,1930],{},"But I was genuinely surprised by how completely this film had me.",[42,1932,1934],{"id":1933},"why-that-surprised-me","Why that surprised me",[12,1936,1937],{},"I am not the obvious target audience for cinema hype. The person who sits in a cinema every week, analyzes five trailers and then talks for two hours about editing choices is definitely not me.",[12,1939,1940],{},"You can do that. I am sure it is nice.",[19,1942],{},[12,1944,1945],{},"Most of the time I am happy if I actually manage to watch the one series I planned to watch this year.",[19,1947],{},[12,1949,1950],{},"That is why Project Hail Mary is less a film review for me and more a rare experience: I did not look at the clock.",[12,1952,1953],{},"Not out of politeness, and not because my phone was in cinema mode. I simply wanted to know what would happen next.",[42,1955,1957],{"id":1956},"what-is-it-about-at-all","What is it about at all",[12,1959,1960],{},"A scientist finds himself far away from Earth under mysterious circumstances.",[12,1962,1963],{},"Bit by bit, he discovers why he is there and why his task is more important than everything that came before.",[19,1965],{},[12,1967,1968],{},"If you are genuinely interested in watching the film and have not already done so, I can only advise you not to watch trailers or anything similar either.",[12,1970,1971],{},"In my opinion, they already spoil absolutely important parts of the story.",[42,1973,1975],{"id":1974},"original-audio-was-the-right-decision-here-as-it-almost-always-is","Original audio was the right decision here, as it almost always is",[12,1977,1978],{},"I have not seen the German dub, so this is not dubbing-bashing.",[12,1980,1981],{},"But in original audio, Project Hail Mary worked exactly right for me.",[19,1983],{},[12,1985,1986],{},"It was not only about dialogue.",[12,1988,1989],{},"It was about pauses, breathing, small shifts in voices and those moments where a film briefly stops explaining and simply trusts the scene, the room and the audience.",[42,1991,1993],{"id":1992},"the-silence-was-not-empty","The silence was not empty",[12,1995,1996],{},"The strongest moments for me were not necessarily the loud ones.",[12,1998,1999],{},"There were moments where, for a few seconds, there was no sound at all.",[12,2001,2002],{},"And exactly those moments were masterful.",[19,2004],{},[12,2006,2007],{},"That silence was not awkward and not empty. It was so tense that the whole cinema suddenly became part of it.",[12,2009,2010],{},"You could have heard a pin drop.",[12,2012,2013],{},"And for once I do not mean that as a pretty phrase, but quite literally.",[19,2015],{},[12,2017,2018],{},"Nobody rustled, nobody coughed as if it mattered. Everyone was there.",[12,2020,2021],{},"That does not happen in the cinema all the time.",[12,2023,2024],{},"At least not in my life, which admittedly is not a representative cinema statistic.",[42,2026,2028],{"id":2027},"what-the-film-gets-right-for-me","What the film gets right for me",[111,2030,2031,2037,2043,2049,2055],{},[114,2032,2033,2036],{},[50,2034,2035],{},"No minute feels like filler."," The film does not just manage its runtime. Every scene had a reason for me.",[114,2038,2039,2042],{},[50,2040,2041],{},"It is tense without constantly getting loud."," That sounds banal, but it is surprisingly rare. Tension does not always have to prove that it is tension with volume.",[114,2044,2045,2048],{},[50,2046,2047],{},"It takes its quiet moments seriously."," That is where it got me the strongest, and it did it with less rather than more.",[114,2050,2051,2054],{},[50,2052,2053],{},"It stays emotional without becoming sticky."," There is feeling, but not that music-over-it-now-please-cry feeling.",[114,2056,2057,2060],{},[50,2058,2059],{},"It held me completely."," That is not a technical analysis. But for me, with a film, it might be the most important criterion.",[42,2062,839],{"id":838},[12,2064,2065],{},"This is not an objective film review.",[12,2067,2068],{},"I cannot place Project Hail Mary inside a huge science-fiction history and pretend I have all relevant comparison works fresh in my head.",[12,2070,2071],{},"I do not.",[19,2073],{},[12,2075,2076],{},"I can only say how the film landed with me.",[12,2078,2079],{},"And there, it was unusually strong.",[19,2081],{},[12,2083,2084],{},"If you fundamentally do not like science fiction, this film might not convert you either.",[12,2086,2087],{},"If you use cinema more as background entertainment, it is probably wrong too.",[12,2089,2090],{},"It wants too much for you to really look and listen.",[42,2092,453],{"id":452},[12,2094,1536],{},[12,2096,2097],{},"Very much.",[19,2099],{},[12,2101,2102],{},"Especially in the cinema.",[12,2104,2105],{},"And, if possible, in original audio.",[12,2107,2108],{},"Whether Project Hail Mary is the objectively best science-fiction film, I have no idea. People who watch films more often than I do are welcome to have that discussion.",[19,2110],{},[12,2112,2113],{},"For me, something else is enough: the film did not lose me for a single minute.",[19,2115],{},[12,2117,2118],{},"I came out of the cinema with that rare, slightly annoying urge to immediately text someone: go in there.",[19,2120],{},[12,2122,2123],{},"And if a film can make an entire cinema so quiet for a few seconds that you really could hear a pin drop, then that is pretty good stuff to me.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":2125},[2126,2127,2128,2129,2130,2131,2132],{"id":1933,"depth":199,"text":1934},{"id":1956,"depth":199,"text":1957},{"id":1974,"depth":199,"text":1975},{"id":1992,"depth":199,"text":1993},{"id":2027,"depth":199,"text":2028},{"id":838,"depth":199,"text":839},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"Pop culture","2026-06-07","My spoiler-light recommendation for Project Hail Mary in original audio, a science-fiction film that did not lose me for a single minute.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fproject-hail-mary-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.imdb.com\u002Ftitle\u002Ftt12042730\u002F",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fproject-hail-mary",{"title":1883,"description":2135},"zeug\u002Fproject-hail-mary",[2143,2144,2145,2146,2147,2148],"project hail mary","project hail mary film","science fiction","cinema","original audio","film recommendation","I barely watch films, but this one held me so completely that even the silence was tense.","dKPXGPVHHjBJ2xSJmbp3_GecwCeIQtis5vBdZZ0TeBs",{"id":2152,"title":2153,"badge":1884,"body":2154,"category":887,"date":2503,"description":2504,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":2505,"link":2506,"linkText":212,"meta":2507,"navigation":214,"path":2508,"pinned":208,"publishTime":2509,"seo":2510,"stem":2511,"tags":2512,"verdict":2523,"visual":505,"__hash__":2524},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fllms-fuer-pi-coding-agent.md","My LLMs for Pi: GPT, Claude, GLM, Kimi and DeepSeek",{"type":9,"value":2155,"toc":2495},[2156,2159,2162,2165,2167,2170,2173,2181,2184,2186,2189,2191,2194,2198,2201,2208,2210,2213,2216,2219,2222,2225,2229,2235,2238,2240,2243,2246,2259,2261,2264,2266,2273,2275,2278,2280,2283,2285,2288,2290,2293,2295,2298,2300,2303,2305,2308,2312,2323,2325,2328,2330,2333,2335,2338,2340,2343,2345,2348,2351,2353,2356,2359,2362,2364,2367,2370,2374,2377,2380,2383,2385,2405,2407,2410,2413,2416,2420,2423,2426,2428,2434,2437,2439,2445,2448,2451,2454,2458,2461,2463,2466,2469,2472,2475,2477,2480,2482,2485,2487,2490,2492],[12,2157,2158],{},"With coding agents, I like talking about harnesses.",[12,2160,2161],{},"Terminal. Tools. Sessions. Context. Permissions. Extensions.",[12,2163,2164],{},"All those things that turn a chat window into a useful tool.",[19,2166],{},[12,2168,2169],{},"But at some point, a pretty simple question remains:",[12,2171,2172],{},"Which brain are you actually putting into that harness?",[12,2174,2175,2176,2180],{},"I already covered the harness part in the article about ",[308,2177,2179],{"href":2178},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fpi-coding-agent","Pi as a coding agent",". This text is the less philosophical and slightly more expensive part.",[12,2182,2183],{},"The models.",[19,2185],{},[12,2187,2188],{},"And because LLM prices, limits and model names change faster than I can say “just a quick refactor”: this is not an eternal ranking.",[19,2190],{},[12,2192,2193],{},"It is my state of things in June 2026.",[42,2195,2197],{"id":2196},"why-the-model-question-feels-calmer-in-pi","Why the model question feels calmer in Pi",[12,2199,2200],{},"Pi is pleasantly unromantic about models for me.",[12,2202,2203,2204,2207],{},"I do not have to change my entire workflow just because I want to try a different LLM. I open ",[1384,2205,2206],{},"\u002Fmodel",", choose a model and keep working.",[19,2209],{},[12,2211,2212],{},"That sounds banal.",[12,2214,2215],{},"But it is one of the reasons I like Pi so much.",[12,2217,2218],{},"A model is not the entire identity of my setup. It is a component. An important, expensive, sometimes astonishingly annoying component. But still a component.",[12,2220,2221],{},"And Pi treats it exactly like that.",[12,2223,2224],{},"OpenAI through Codex, Anthropic through API, DeepSeek, Z.AI, Kimi, OpenRouter, OpenCode Go and custom providers can all land in the same workflow. Not always with exactly the same strengths, not always with exactly the same limits. But without that absurd tool switch where you start from zero again every time.",[42,2226,2228],{"id":2227},"my-default-gpt-55","My default: GPT-5.5",[12,2230,2231,2232,364],{},"If I could choose only one model, my default right now would be ",[50,2233,2234],{},"GPT-5.5",[12,2236,2237],{},"Not for everything, but for a lot.",[19,2239],{},[12,2241,2242],{},"OpenAI positions GPT-5.5 pretty clearly for coding and professional work.",[12,2244,2245],{},"You can feel that too.",[12,2247,2248,2251,2252,2258],{},[2249,2250],"br",{},"\nMy personal opinion has been for months that 5.4\u002F5.5 are the \"best\" models, and apparently there are now more and more ",[308,2253,2257],{"href":2254,"rel":2255},"https:\u002F\u002Fdeepswe.datacurve.ai",[2256],"nofollow","benchmarks"," that support me there 🎉",[19,2260],{},[12,2262,2263],{},"It is strong at refactors, debugging, codebase navigation, planning, sober execution and those sessions where the model should please not forget after three tool calls why it is here in the first place.",[19,2265],{},[12,2267,2268,2269,2272],{},"On top of that, GPT-5.5 brings more than one million tokens of context, ",[1384,2270,2271],{},"xhigh"," reasoning and very large outputs. For agent work, that is not a small side note. Long contexts are not automatically smart, but they often prevent a model from acting every five minutes as if it had just met the project.",[19,2274],{},[12,2276,2277],{},"The actual sweet spot for me is Codex.",[19,2279],{},[12,2281,2282],{},"The Codex subscriptions are surprisingly generous if you regularly work with coding agents. Pure API usage can get very real very quickly. A subscription often feels calmer there, at least if you actually use it.",[19,2284],{},[12,2286,2287],{},"And this is the important difference to Claude: you are also officially allowed to use the ChatGPT or Codex subscription for that.",[19,2289],{},[12,2291,2292],{},"Pi directly supports login for OpenAI Codex subscriptions instead of making you dance around with questionable token workarounds.",[19,2294],{},[12,2296,2297],{},"That makes a big difference to me.",[19,2299],{},[12,2301,2302],{},"The caveat: frontend.",[19,2304],{},[12,2306,2307],{},"For visual work, layout, courage, taste and the question of whether a page at the end again looks like a very polite SaaS landing page, GPT-5.5 is not always my first grab. It can do that. But I trust it less blindly there than with backend, tooling or logic.",[42,2309,2311],{"id":2310},"claude-sonnet-and-opus-strong-but-expensive","Claude Sonnet and Opus: strong, but expensive",[12,2313,2314,2315,2318,2319,2322],{},"Of course ",[50,2316,2317],{},"Claude Sonnet"," and ",[50,2320,2321],{},"Claude Opus"," belong on this list.",[19,2324],{},[12,2326,2327],{},"Anything else would be nonsense.",[19,2329],{},[12,2331,2332],{},"Sonnet is often the sensible Claude default: fast enough, strong enough, good at code, good at explanation, pleasant on longer tasks.",[19,2334],{},[12,2336,2337],{},"Opus is the variant I want to take when a task is really long, branched and potentially expensive because mistakes there would be even more expensive.",[19,2339],{},[12,2341,2342],{},"Anthropic describes Opus exactly in that corner: complex reasoning, long-horizon agentic coding, a lot of autonomy. The newer Sonnet and Opus versions also move in the area of 1M context, which is obviously tempting for large codebases and longer agent sessions.",[19,2344],{},[12,2346,2347],{},"The quality is not the issue. The price and the practical usability in a small subscription are.",[12,2349,2350],{},"And important: a normal Claude subscription is not a Pi ticket for me.",[19,2352],{},[12,2354,2355],{},"With a Claude subscription, I would not use the Claude models in Pi. Not because there are no technical workarounds. There are. But that is not the clean allowed path, and if Anthropic evaluates that as subscription circumvention, the worst case is a suspended Claude account.",[12,2357,2358],{},"That would be far too stupid for me for a few cheaper agent runs.",[12,2360,2361],{},"If Claude in Pi, then for me only through clean API access or an explicitly allowed provider.",[19,2363],{},[12,2365,2366],{},"If I am only playing around a little, that is irrelevant. But if I seriously let agents loose on projects, tokens suddenly stop being abstract. Then they are no longer “a bit of usage”, but a bill with personality.",[12,2368,2369],{},"Claude therefore remains a model I respect a lot, but do not always burn through casually.",[42,2371,2373],{"id":2372},"glm-52-kimi-k27-and-deepseek-v4-pro","GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 and DeepSeek V4 Pro",[12,2375,2376],{},"This is the corner where it gets really interesting for me.",[12,2378,2379],{},"Not because these models are always better than GPT or Claude.",[12,2381,2382],{},"But because they are often good enough to very good while smelling much less like luxury panic.",[19,2384],{},[111,2386,2387,2393,2399],{},[114,2388,2389,2392],{},[50,2390,2391],{},"GLM-5.2 is the underrated worker."," Z.AI describes it as a model for agentic engineering and long-horizon tasks. 200K context, large outputs, tool use, coding focus. Especially in the old GLM Coding Plan, this was a small cheat code for me: a lot of model for surprisingly little money. Unfortunately, exactly that plan has recently become significantly more expensive. The model still remains strong.",[114,2394,2395,2398],{},[50,2396,2397],{},"Kimi K2.7 is the pleasant OSS lane."," Moonshot has released the weights, the model is natively multimodal, has 262K context and is clearly aimed at coding, long-horizon execution and agent work. It is not my model for every delicate production rebuild. But for cheap, good agent runs, it is far too strong to ignore.",[114,2400,2401,2404],{},[50,2402,2403],{},"DeepSeek V4 Pro is the cost drawer that is surprisingly often worth opening."," 1M context, Mixture-of-Experts with 1.6T total parameters and 49B active, strong coding and reasoning orientation. Depending on route and provider, it is extremely cheap. For small things, cleanup, searching, explaining and agentic work where I do not want to count every token internally, that is very pleasant.",[19,2406],{},[12,2408,2409],{},"DeepSeek is also amusingly direct: the official DeepSeek docs even have a Pi integration. That naturally earns bonus points on my very scientific sympathy scale.",[12,2411,2412],{},"Very scientific here means: not at all.",[12,2414,2415],{},"But still.",[42,2417,2419],{"id":2418},"openrouter-opencode-go-and-the-model-zoo","OpenRouter, OpenCode Go and the model zoo",[12,2421,2422],{},"The point is not that I need five models every day.",[12,2424,2425],{},"The point is that I can try them without dismantling my setup.",[19,2427],{},[12,2429,2430,2433],{},[50,2431,2432],{},"OpenRouter"," is almost dangerously convenient for that. One API key, hundreds of models, different providers, fallbacks, routing by price, throughput or availability. If I want to know whether a new model works in my real workflow, that is often the fastest way.",[12,2435,2436],{},"The test then happens in my project, with my files and my badly named variables, rather than in a benchmark.",[19,2438],{},[12,2440,2441,2444],{},[50,2442,2443],{},"OpenCode Go"," is the other practical lane. It is a cheap subscription for open coding models, currently with models like GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, Qwen and DeepSeek. Do not understand it as a magical everything-flat. Limits remain limits. But as a playground for strong open models, it is very decent.",[12,2446,2447],{},"And the best part: both are not exotic in Pi.",[12,2449,2450],{},"OpenRouter and OpenCode Go sit as providers in the Pi model cosmos. Add direct providers like DeepSeek, Z.AI and Kimi For Coding. If a model annoys me, I switch. If it surprises me, it stays in the rotation.",[12,2452,2453],{},"That is how model hopping should be.",[42,2455,2457],{"id":2456},"would-i-recommend-this-setup","Would I recommend this setup?",[12,2459,2460],{},"Yes, but not as a fixed best-of list, more as an attitude.",[19,2462],{},[12,2464,2465],{},"If I want a strong default, I take GPT-5.5.",[12,2467,2468],{},"If a task is really difficult and cost is not the first pain point, I look at Claude Sonnet or Opus, but only through clean access, not through Claude subscription workarounds.",[12,2470,2471],{},"If I want to try a lot, work agentically or be cheaper on the road, GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7 and DeepSeek V4 Pro are much more interesting than the western model conversation sometimes gives them credit for.",[12,2473,2474],{},"And if I do not know what is good right now, I take OpenRouter or OpenCode Go and just try it.",[19,2476],{},[12,2478,2479],{},"Trying it means in Pi and with real code, not theoretically.",[19,2481],{},[12,2483,2484],{},"That is the real strength for me: I do not have to religiously decide on one model.",[19,2486],{},[12,2488,2489],{},"I can just work.",[19,2491],{},[12,2493,2494],{},"And sometimes exactly that is the best model strategy.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":2496},[2497,2498,2499,2500,2501,2502],{"id":2196,"depth":199,"text":2197},{"id":2227,"depth":199,"text":2228},{"id":2310,"depth":199,"text":2311},{"id":2372,"depth":199,"text":2373},{"id":2418,"depth":199,"text":2419},{"id":2456,"depth":199,"text":2457},"2026-06-04","Which LLMs I currently like using in Pi for coding agents, why GPT-5.5 is my default and where OpenRouter or OpenCode Go become useful.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fllms-fuer-pi-coding-agent-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fz.ai\u002Fsubscribe?ic=H42QOGJABT",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fllms-fuer-pi-coding-agent","12:15",{"title":2153,"description":2504},"zeug\u002Fllms-fuer-pi-coding-agent",[2513,2514,2515,2516,2517,2518,2519,2520,2521,2522],"llm","coding agent","pi","openrouter","opencode go","gpt-5.5","claude","glm-5.2","kimi k2.7","deepseek","Not every model has to be my favorite model. The strong part is that Pi makes switching between them almost boring.","kVaZgY5YI7m_MRIu9AetoGcGnTT9MvRiPxrIz-dY6jU",{"id":2526,"title":2527,"badge":1111,"body":2528,"category":887,"date":2503,"description":2843,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":2844,"link":2845,"linkText":212,"meta":2846,"navigation":214,"path":2847,"pinned":208,"publishTime":2509,"seo":2848,"stem":2849,"tags":2850,"verdict":2856,"visual":709,"__hash__":2857},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fpi-coding-agent.md","Pi: there are many coding harnesses, but this one is mine",{"type":9,"value":2529,"toc":2833},[2530,2533,2536,2538,2544,2547,2550,2553,2560,2564,2567,2570,2572,2575,2578,2605,2608,2611,2615,2618,2621,2623,2626,2633,2636,2639,2642,2646,2649,2651,2654,2657,2660,2663,2667,2676,2679,2682,2684,2687,2689,2692,2694,2699,2701,2705,2709,2712,2715,2717,2720,2723,2726,2729,2733,2771,2773,2781,2789,2793,2796,2798,2801,2804,2807,2810,2813,2817,2819,2822,2824,2827,2830],[12,2531,2532],{},"Coding agents are everywhere now.",[12,2534,2535],{},"And I do not only mean the models themselves. I mean the whole layer around them: terminal, tools, file access, Bash, sessions, context, prompts, shortcuts, UI, small safety rules and all the things that turn a chat window into a tool.",[19,2537],{},[12,2539,2540,2541,364],{},"That layer is a ",[50,2542,2543],{},"coding harness",[12,2545,2546],{},"What it describes is the harness you put the AI into, rather than the AI itself. The model thinks and writes. The harness decides which tools it gets, how it reads files, how it runs shell commands, how context is loaded, how sessions are saved and how I, as the human, can interrupt in between.",[12,2548,2549],{},"And that is where it gets interesting.",[12,2551,2552],{},"Because there are many coding harnesses.",[12,2554,2555,2556,2559],{},"But ",[50,2557,2558],{},"Pi"," is currently the one that feels most like my own.",[42,2561,2563],{"id":2562},"why-pi-feels-different","Why Pi feels different",[12,2565,2566],{},"Pi describes itself as a “minimal terminal coding harness”.",[12,2568,2569],{},"At first, that sounds like understatement.",[19,2571],{},[12,2573,2574],{},"In practice, it is pretty much exactly the point.",[12,2576,2577],{},"Pi does not come with the attitude: “Here is your new workflow, please get used to it.” It feels more like: “Here is a slim core, build the rest the way you need it.”",[12,2579,2580,2581,2584,2585,2584,2588,2318,2591,2594,2595,2584,2598,2318,2601,2604],{},"By default, the model gets only a few tools. At the core, those are ",[1384,2582,2583],{},"read",", ",[1384,2586,2587],{},"write",[1384,2589,2590],{},"edit",[1384,2592,2593],{},"bash",". Additional built-in read-only tools like ",[1384,2596,2597],{},"grep",[1384,2599,2600],{},"find",[1384,2602,2603],{},"ls"," can be added, but the basic idea stays a terminal harness with clear edges instead of an overloaded agent spaceship.",[12,2606,2607],{},"I like that a lot.",[12,2609,2610],{},"Fewer features are not automatically better. But less hard-coded opinion usually means I have to fight the tool less.",[42,2612,2614],{"id":2613},"barebones-does-not-mean-weak","Barebones does not mean weak",[12,2616,2617],{},"Pi deliberately leaves out things other tools build in directly.",[12,2619,2620],{},"No built-in plan mode, no subagents, no todo lists. Permission popups are not a basic assumption, and MCP is not a mandatory layer.",[19,2622],{},[12,2624,2625],{},"Depending on your expectations, that can sound almost cheeky.",[12,2627,2628,2629,2632],{},"But I understand the approach: Pi does not want to decide ",[1634,2630,2631],{},"how"," I should have those things. If I want plan mode, I can build or install it as an extension. If I want subagents, I can solve that through extensions, tmux or a package. If I need permission gates, I build them for my setup instead of clicking through generic popups.",[12,2634,2635],{},"That is not more comfortable for everyone.",[12,2637,2638],{},"But for me, it is exactly right.",[12,2640,2641],{},"I like tools that have a good basic shape and then get out of my way.",[42,2643,2645],{"id":2644},"the-really-good-part-everything-is-pluggable","The really good part: everything is pluggable",[12,2647,2648],{},"With Pi, minimal is the starting point and not the result.",[19,2650],{},[12,2652,2653],{},"Pi can be extended through TypeScript extensions. And this is not a small “you can change the color” plugin system. Extensions can register custom tools, add slash commands, intercept events, block or modify tool calls, add custom UI components, change the footer, register custom providers, customize compaction or even retrofit things like subagents and plan mode.",[12,2655,2656],{},"On top of that, there are skills, prompt templates, themes and Pi packages.",[12,2658,2659],{},"Skills are for reusable workflows. Prompt templates are small callable prompt building blocks. Themes change the terminal feel. Packages bundle all that stuff and make it shareable.",[12,2661,2662],{},"By that point Pi feels less like a tool to me and more like a workbench for coding agents.",[42,2664,2666],{"id":2665},"what-i-actually-use","What I actually use",[2668,2669,2674],"pre",{"className":2670,"code":2672,"language":2673},[2671],"language-text","$ pi list\n\nUser packages:\n  npm:@howaboua\u002Fpi-glm-via-anthropic\n  npm:@sting8k\u002Fpi-vcc\n  https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fleandr0ck\u002Fpi-find-skills\n  npm:@aliou\u002Fpi-processes\n  npm:pi-mcp-adapter\n  npm:pi-web-access\n  npm:@tintinweb\u002Fpi-subagents\n  npm:@marckrenn\u002Fpi-sub-bar\n  npm:pi-quit\n  https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fpatriceckhart\u002Fpi-btw\n  npm:pi-rtk-optimizer\n  npm:pi-tool-display\n  npm:@marckrenn\u002Fpi-sub-core\n  https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fmuffe\u002Fpi-kimi-usage\n  npm:@eko24ive\u002Fpi-ask\n  \u002Fopt\u002Fpi-ext-sync\n  npm:pi-crofai\n","text",[1384,2675,2672],{"__ignoreMap":195},[12,2677,2678],{},"At first glance, that obviously looks like quite a lot.",[12,2680,2681],{},"But if you consider how bare Pi is when naked, this handful of extensions gets the harness exactly to the point where I want it.",[19,2683],{},[12,2685,2686],{},"Not less, not more.",[19,2688],{},[12,2690,2691],{},"And thanks to the good documentation, the self-made extensions mostly happened because I wrote a prompt along the lines of",[19,2693],{},[12,2695,2696],{},[1384,2697,2698],{},"Build me an extension for yourself that does xyz.",[19,2700],{},[12,2702,2703],{},[1634,2704,2686],{},[42,2706,2708],{"id":2707},"the-short-system-prompt-is-not-an-accident","The short system prompt is not an accident",[12,2710,2711],{},"One detail I especially like about Pi: the default system prompt is surprisingly short.",[12,2713,2714],{},"At its core, it says: you are a coding assistant inside Pi, you can read files, run commands, edit code and write new files. Then it lists the available tools, a few guidelines like “be concise” and “show file paths clearly”, plus project context, skills and relevant Pi docs when the topic is Pi itself.",[19,2716],{},[12,2718,2719],{},"That is almost it.",[12,2721,2722],{},"Of course the prompt grows dynamically when project rules, skills or extensions are added. But Pi does not start with a novel about how the agent is supposed to think.",[12,2724,2725],{},"I think that matters.",[12,2727,2728],{},"Many agent problems do not only come from the model, but from too much harness opinion in the prompt. Too many rules, too many rituals, too many implicit product decisions. Pi feels lighter there without coming across as dumber.",[42,2730,2732],{"id":2731},"what-i-like-in-daily-use","What I like in daily use",[111,2734,2735,2741,2747,2753,2759,2765],{},[114,2736,2737,2740],{},[50,2738,2739],{},"It runs in the terminal."," Exactly where my projects already are.",[114,2742,2743,2746],{},[50,2744,2745],{},"It stores sessions cleanly."," Including branching, forking and tree navigation when you want to jump back.",[114,2748,2749,2752],{},[50,2750,2751],{},"It supports many providers."," Subscription logins and API-key providers are not locked to a single vendor.",[114,2754,2755,2758],{},[50,2756,2757],{},"It is open to custom models and providers."," Local models, proxies or custom APIs are not immediately special cases.",[114,2760,2761,2764],{},[50,2762,2763],{},"It can run interactively, as print\u002FJSON, over RPC and through an SDK."," That makes Pi a layer you can embed as well, and not only an app.",[114,2766,2767,2770],{},[50,2768,2769],{},"It feels honest."," When something is not built in, it is usually a deliberate decision, not a forgotten feature.",[19,2772],{},[12,2774,2775,2776,2780],{},"Especially together with small tools like ",[308,2777,2779],{"href":2778},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fterminal-token-tool","RTK",", it gives me a very pleasant agent environment: less noise, less product magic, more control.",[12,2782,2783,2784,2788],{},"I deliberately moved the model question into its own article: ",[308,2785,2787],{"href":2786},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fllms-fuer-pi-coding-agent","My LLMs for Pi",". The model question quickly becomes its own little zoo.",[42,2790,2792],{"id":2791},"what-pi-does-not-do-for-you","What Pi does not do for you",[12,2794,2795],{},"Pi is not a softly padded agent amusement park.",[19,2797],{},[12,2799,2800],{},"If you want a tool that makes every decision for you, bakes in best practices everywhere, cushions every dangerous command with popups and ships a full project-management philosophy, Pi may not be the most comfortable starting point.",[12,2802,2803],{},"Pi trusts you more.",[12,2805,2806],{},"That is nice if you know what you want.",[12,2808,2809],{},"And dangerous if you were actually looking for a guardrail.",[12,2811,2812],{},"That is why I would not recommend Pi to everyone as their first agent tool. But I would recommend it very quickly to people who, after two weeks with other tools, think: “Can I not just have this differently?”",[42,2814,2816],{"id":2815},"would-i-recommend-pi","Would I recommend Pi?",[12,2818,1536],{},[12,2820,2821],{},"For me, Pi is currently the coding harness that best fits the way I work.",[19,2823],{},[12,2825,2826],{},"And precisely because it deliberately does not build everything in.",[12,2828,2829],{},"It gives me terminal, model, tools, context, sessions and a very open extension layer. I get to decide the rest.",[12,2831,2832],{},"And that is exactly why Pi is good stuff for me: it lets me build my own agent workflow instead of trying to be one.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":2834},[2835,2836,2837,2838,2839,2840,2841,2842],{"id":2562,"depth":199,"text":2563},{"id":2613,"depth":199,"text":2614},{"id":2644,"depth":199,"text":2645},{"id":2665,"depth":199,"text":2666},{"id":2707,"depth":199,"text":2708},{"id":2731,"depth":199,"text":2732},{"id":2791,"depth":199,"text":2792},{"id":2815,"depth":199,"text":2816},"My experience with Pi as a minimal, pluggable coding harness for agent work in the terminal, without forcing someone else's workflow on me.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fpi-coding-agent-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fpi.dev",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fpi-coding-agent",{"title":2527,"description":2843},"zeug\u002Fpi-coding-agent",[2515,2851,2543,2514,2852,2853,1873,2854,2855],"pi.dev","agent harness","terminal","ai","developer tool","Pi is strong for me because it does not try to become my entire workflow. It gives me a good frame and lets me shape the rest myself.","TcLK81qeV9vLOdxG19zS06JZ7ulXgshFNtx9oyp_6Q4",{"id":2859,"title":2860,"badge":910,"body":2861,"category":205,"date":3132,"description":3133,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":3134,"link":3135,"linkText":212,"meta":3136,"navigation":214,"path":3137,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":3138,"stem":3139,"tags":3140,"verdict":3148,"visual":229,"__hash__":3149},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fgoogle-fitbit-air.md","Google Fitbit Air: the Whoop alternative for normal people",{"type":9,"value":2862,"toc":3124},[2863,2866,2869,2871,2880,2883,2891,2894,2898,2901,2904,2906,2909,2911,2914,2917,2920,2923,2925,2928,2931,2933,2940,2944,2947,2949,2952,2954,2961,2963,2966,2970,2973,2976,2979,2981,2984,2987,2990,2992,2995,2998,3000,3003,3005,3007,3069,3073,3075,3077,3080,3083,3085,3088,3090,3093,3095,3097,3100,3102,3105,3108,3111,3113,3116,3119,3121],[12,2864,2865],{},"I am the kind of person who usually only sees running shoes on the shelf in a shoe store.",[12,2867,2868],{},"But I am also the kind of person who likes technical gadgets and prefers to base decisions on data that is, more or less, grounded in reality.",[19,2870],{},[12,2872,2873,2874,2879],{},"In the past, a ",[308,2875,2878],{"href":2876,"rel":2877},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.whoop.com\u002Fde\u002Fen\u002F",[2256],"Whoop band"," filled that gap.",[12,2881,2882],{},"It did that well, but for my use case it was hopelessly oversized.",[12,2884,2885,2886,364],{},"Especially ",[308,2887,2890],{"href":2888,"rel":2889},"https:\u002F\u002Fsupport.whoop.com\u002Fs\u002Farticle\u002FMembership-Pricing?language=en_US",[2256],"price-wise",[12,2892,2893],{},"So this is mostly my Google Fitbit Air experience as a normal everyday user, not a sports-performance review.",[42,2895,2897],{"id":2896},"everyday-life-instead-of-sports","Everyday life instead of sports",[12,2899,2900],{},"For me, this thing is not a training computer.",[12,2902,2903],{},"I do not use it to chase personal bests or to convince myself that a walk was suddenly an athletic masterpiece.",[19,2905],{},[12,2907,2908],{},"The value is somewhere else: I get a feeling for how my body is doing right now.",[19,2910],{},[12,2912,2913],{},"How did I sleep?",[12,2915,2916],{},"Am I reasonably recovered?",[12,2918,2919],{},"Was yesterday really as stressful as it felt?",[12,2921,2922],{},"Did I move at all, or did I just teleport between desk, kitchen and sofa?",[19,2924],{},[12,2926,2927],{},"None of this is revolutionary data.",[12,2929,2930],{},"But it lands in exactly the right place: in the morning, just before the question of how I want to approach the day.",[19,2932],{},[2934,2935],"content-image",{"alt":2936,"src":2937,"align":2938,"size":2939},"Screenshot of the Google Health app","\u002Fimages\u002Fcontent\u002Farticles\u002Fgoogle-fitbit-air\u002Fscreenshot-der-google-health-app-mpwdrzvg.webp","right","small",[42,2941,2943],{"id":2942},"sleep-tracking-is-the-real-point-for-me","Sleep tracking is the real point for me",[12,2945,2946],{},"Sleep tracking is the part I find most interesting.",[19,2948],{},[12,2950,2951],{},"Not because I want to scientifically evaluate every sleep phase. I know a tracker like this is not a sleep lab. But the rough direction is enough for me: Was the night okay? Did I actually sleep enough, or did I just spend a long time in bed?",[19,2953],{},[12,2955,2956],{},[308,2957,2960],{"href":2958,"rel":2959},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=tGD9CS2YOiY",[2256],"And the quality of the data does seem to be pretty decent.",[19,2962],{},[12,2964,2965],{},"Those small patterns are especially helpful. When I see that several nights in a row were bad, I plan the day differently. Less ambitious. Fewer appointments packed too tightly. Maybe not starting a third thing in the evening just because I happen to feel briefly motivated.",[42,2967,2969],{"id":2968},"the-whoop-alternative-for-normal-people","The Whoop alternative for \"normal\" people",[12,2971,2972],{},"I completely understand why Whoop has so many fans.",[12,2974,2975],{},"Recovery, strain, sleep, all very focused.",[12,2977,2978],{},"But to me, Whoop feels a bit too much like commitment.",[19,2980],{},[12,2982,2983],{},"You can do that.",[12,2985,2986],{},"I am sure it is right for many people.",[12,2988,2989],{},"For me, absolutely not.",[19,2991],{},[12,2993,2994],{},"The Fitbit Air hits the better spot for me: enough health and sleep insights without making me feel like I have joined a sports program.",[12,2996,2997],{},"More everyday help than athlete tool.",[19,2999],{},[12,3001,3002],{},"And all of that in a compact form factor that does not get in the way on the wrist, even while sleeping.",[19,3004],{},[42,3006,109],{"id":108},[111,3008,3009,3019,3029,3039,3049,3059],{},[114,3010,3011,3014],{},[50,3012,3013],{},"Sleep becomes more tangible.",[111,3015,3016],{},[114,3017,3018],{},"Not perfect, but good enough to recognize patterns.",[114,3020,3021,3024],{},[50,3022,3023],{},"The data works for everyday life.",[111,3025,3026],{},[114,3027,3028],{},"I do not have to interpret everything like a sports scientist. At least with the Premium subscription, the AI does that for me.",[114,3030,3031,3034],{},[50,3032,3033],{},"It motivates without getting annoying.",[111,3035,3036],{},[114,3037,3038],{},"At least if you do not turn it into a control machine yourself.",[114,3040,3041,3044],{},[50,3042,3043],{},"It is less hardcore than Whoop.",[111,3045,3046],{},[114,3047,3048],{},"For me, that is a plus, not a compromise.",[114,3050,3051,3054],{},[50,3052,3053],{},"It helps with the feeling of the day.",[111,3055,3056],{},[114,3057,3058],{},"I do not start blind, but with a little context.",[114,3060,3061,3064],{},[50,3062,3063],{},"No forced subscription.",[111,3065,3066],{},[114,3067,3068],{},"The data is useful and usable even without a subscription.",[2934,3070],{"alt":3071,"src":3072},"Fitbit colors","\u002Fimages\u002Fcontent\u002Farticles\u002Fgoogle-fitbit-air\u002Ffitbit-farben-mpxqsjjm.webp",[19,3074],{},[42,3076,839],{"id":838},[12,3078,3079],{},"Of course, this is not a magical health device.",[12,3081,3082],{},"The values are clues, not tablets of truth.",[19,3084],{},[12,3086,3087],{},"If the tracker says I slept badly but I feel good, I do not blindly believe the score. And if the score looks good but I am completely wiped out, the number does not help me either.",[19,3089],{},[12,3091,3092],{},"This thing does not replace body awareness.",[42,3094,179],{"id":178},[12,3096,1536],{},[12,3098,3099],{},"Especially because I am not sporty.",[19,3101],{},[12,3103,3104],{},"For someone who already trains in a structured way, the data is probably somewhere between nice and useful.",[12,3106,3107],{},"For me, it is more of a small reality check.",[12,3109,3110],{},"I see faster when I am taking on too much, when I am actually tired and when a quieter day might be the better decision.",[19,3112],{},[12,3114,3115],{},"For me, the Google Fitbit Air is not a gadget that optimizes me.",[12,3117,3118],{},"It is more like one that briefly stops me and asks: \"Are you sure you want to act today as if you slept eight deep and solid hours?\"",[19,3120],{},[12,3122,3123],{},"And sometimes, that question is pretty good stuff.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":3125},[3126,3127,3128,3129,3130,3131],{"id":2896,"depth":199,"text":2897},{"id":2942,"depth":199,"text":2943},{"id":2968,"depth":199,"text":2969},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":838,"depth":199,"text":839},{"id":178,"depth":199,"text":179},"2026-06-02","My experience with Google Fitbit Air as an everyday fitness tracker for sleep, recovery and health context, not hardcore training. A Whoop alternative without a forced subscription.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fgoogle-fitbit-air-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4fl4v5M",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fgoogle-fitbit-air",{"title":2860,"description":3133},"zeug\u002Fgoogle-fitbit-air",[3141,3142,3143,3144,3145,3146,3147],"google fitbit air","fitbit air experience","whoop alternative","fitness tracker","sleep tracking","recovery","everyday life","Useful as a small reality check for sleep, recovery and everyday life, less so as a sports coach.","1f6Q00Zf7EKh3j_4sI6gTlifMCudRGdFwc4PoEeCUhY",{"id":3151,"title":3152,"badge":7,"body":3153,"category":3370,"date":3371,"description":3372,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":3373,"link":3181,"linkText":212,"meta":3374,"navigation":214,"path":3375,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":3376,"stem":3377,"tags":3378,"verdict":3384,"visual":229,"__hash__":3385},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Funifi-hermes.md","Analyzing UniFi with an AI agent: my Hermes experience in the home network",{"type":9,"value":3154,"toc":3362},[3155,3158,3161,3163,3166,3168,3171,3174,3176,3185,3188,3191,3195,3198,3200,3203,3206,3209,3211,3214,3218,3221,3223,3226,3228,3231,3235,3238,3241,3244,3247,3250,3253,3256,3258,3261,3264,3266,3269,3272,3276,3302,3304,3307,3310,3312,3315,3318,3320,3323,3326,3328,3331,3334,3336,3339,3343,3346,3349,3351,3354,3356,3359],[12,3156,3157],{},"I have a UniFi setup that I recently rolled out across the whole house: a few access points, one switch too many, VLANs I once wanted to set up \"properly\" and then mostly slapped together.",[12,3159,3160],{},"Works.",[19,3162],{},[12,3164,3165],{},"But \"works\" is not the same as \"good\".",[19,3167],{},[12,3169,3170],{},"That was exactly the part that annoyed me. The WiFi was there. The devices were online. The UniFi interface did not look like anything was currently on fire.",[12,3172,3173],{},"Still, I had this feeling: something is probably wrong somewhere, I just do not see it right now.",[19,3175],{},[12,3177,3178,3179,3184],{},"So I did something that felt absurd at first: I let an AI agent, specifically ",[308,3180,3183],{"href":3181,"rel":3182},"https:\u002F\u002Fhermes-agent.nousresearch.com",[2256],"Hermes",", loose on my network and asked it to check it.",[12,3186,3187],{},"I did not care whether that sounded like the future.",[12,3189,3190],{},"I cared whether anything would actually be better afterwards.",[42,3192,3194],{"id":3193},"why-hermes-was-interesting-in-the-first-place","Why Hermes was interesting in the first place",[12,3196,3197],{},"I had not completely written off AI agents before, but I was not really convinced either.",[19,3199],{},[12,3201,3202],{},"My first attempts with agents often felt like demos: exciting, a bit wobbly, a lot of fiddling, and in the end I was sitting there again doing the actual work myself.",[12,3204,3205],{},"Hermes was the first tool in that direction where it felt different.",[12,3207,3208],{},"Neither perfect nor magic, but calm enough to give it a real task.",[19,3210],{},[12,3212,3213],{},"And a UniFi home network is a pretty good test for that. There is real data, real configuration and real consequences. If an agent only throws buzzwords around there, you notice quickly.",[42,3215,3217],{"id":3216},"what-i-did","What I did",[12,3219,3220],{},"Not much, actually.",[19,3222],{},[12,3224,3225],{},"I created a local read-only user in my UniFi console and gave the agent the credentials plus the IP of my Dream Router.",[19,3227],{},[12,3229,3230],{},"From there, it logged in independently, got a session and checked out the necessary APIs.",[42,3232,3234],{"id":3233},"what-the-agent-actually-did","What the agent actually did",[12,3236,3237],{},"Hermes pulled an overview through the UniFi API.",[12,3239,3240],{},"Devices.",[12,3242,3243],{},"Firmware versions.",[12,3245,3246],{},"Channels.",[12,3248,3249],{},"Transmit power.",[12,3251,3252],{},"VLAN assignments.",[12,3254,3255],{},"Firewall rules.",[19,3257],{},[12,3259,3260],{},"That sounds dry at first. It was.",[12,3262,3263],{},"But that was exactly the good part.",[19,3265],{},[12,3267,3268],{},"The agent did not just unpack the classic reflex and recommend \"more power\" everywhere. It looked for patterns: which access points were interfering with each other? Which devices were connected to the wrong AP? Which settings looked like leftovers?",[12,3270,3271],{},"That was the moment where \"AI plaything\" became a useful audit.",[42,3273,3275],{"id":3274},"the-things-that-actually-made-a-difference","The things that actually made a difference",[111,3277,3278,3284,3290,3296],{},[114,3279,3280,3283],{},[50,3281,3282],{},"Untangled the channels."," Auto is not always smart. Fixed, non-overlapping channels noticeably lowered latency in the living room.",[114,3285,3286,3289],{},[50,3287,3288],{},"Transmit power down, not up."," Sounds wrong, but it is right: less power, cleaner cell boundaries, better roaming transitions.",[114,3291,3292,3295],{},[50,3293,3294],{},"Pinned devices to one AP."," Some clients stubbornly kept connecting to the much farther away access point.",[114,3297,3298,3301],{},[50,3299,3300],{},"Made leftovers more visible."," Not everything was critical. But a few settings were only still there because I had created them at some point and then forgotten them.",[19,3303],{},[12,3305,3306],{},"The most important point was not a single magical recommendation.",[12,3308,3309],{},"The most important point was that someone, or something, stubbornly checked every corner.",[42,3311,839],{"id":838},[12,3313,3314],{},"I would not let an agent blindly make changes to the network.",[12,3316,3317],{},"Absolutely not.",[19,3319],{},[12,3321,3322],{},"A home network is not a text document where you briefly press undo and everything is fine again. If an agent misunderstands a firewall rule, misclassifies a VLAN or makes an assumption about devices, that can get annoying.",[12,3324,3325],{},"For me, Hermes works here as a very thorough second look.",[19,3327],{},[12,3329,3330],{},"It can check, sort, suggest and explain.",[12,3332,3333],{},"I still have to decide.",[19,3335],{},[12,3337,3338],{},"That is not a downside. That is exactly how I want it.",[42,3340,3342],{"id":3341},"would-i-do-it-again","Would I do it again?",[12,3344,3345],{},"Yes, and regularly.",[12,3347,3348],{},"I could do it myself. But an agent stubbornly checks every corner while I say \"good enough\" after ten minutes.",[19,3350],{},[12,3352,3353],{},"That stubbornness is the value.",[19,3355],{},[12,3357,3358],{},"What I learned: the agent does not replace understanding. It replaces gut feeling with data.",[12,3360,3361],{},"And my gut feeling was wrong in two out of three cases.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":3363},[3364,3365,3366,3367,3368,3369],{"id":3193,"depth":199,"text":3194},{"id":3216,"depth":199,"text":3217},{"id":3233,"depth":199,"text":3234},{"id":3274,"depth":199,"text":3275},{"id":838,"depth":199,"text":839},{"id":3341,"depth":199,"text":3342},"Netzwerk","2026-05-22","My experience with a UniFi audit by the Hermes AI agent: which network problems it found, what it optimized and whether I would do it again.","\u002Fimages\u002Funifi-hermes-terminal.svg",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Funifi-hermes",{"title":3152,"description":3372},"zeug\u002Funifi-hermes",[3379,3380,3381,1578,3382,3383],"unifi","unifi audit","hermes agent","home network","network optimization","Would do it again immediately. Saved me half a Saturday and three gut-feeling mistakes.","-Gw5GzRXkNP47Q6fIJQmg6E02zJPYyUypYDiLlxfhZw",{"id":3387,"title":3388,"badge":1884,"body":3389,"category":686,"date":3536,"description":3537,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":3538,"link":3539,"linkText":212,"meta":3540,"navigation":214,"path":3541,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":3542,"stem":3543,"tags":3544,"verdict":3552,"visual":709,"__hash__":3553},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Flogitech-pro-x2-superstrike.md","Logitech PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE: a gaming mouse where the click is the real feature",{"type":9,"value":3390,"toc":3529},[3391,3394,3397,3399,3406,3409,3413,3420,3423,3425,3428,3431,3434,3438,3441,3443,3446,3449,3451,3477,3479,3487,3491,3494,3496,3499,3502,3505,3509,3512,3514,3517,3520,3523,3526],[12,3392,3393],{},"For a long time, I thought gaming mice had basically reached the point of \"okay, enough\".",[12,3395,3396],{},"Light, wireless, good sensor, done.",[19,3398],{},[12,3400,3401,3402,3405],{},"Then Logitech shows up with the ",[50,3403,3404],{},"PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE"," and somehow makes the click interesting again.",[12,3407,3408],{},"No RGB, no wilder shape, no \"now with 0.3 grams less packaging heaviness\". The click.",[42,3410,3412],{"id":3411},"what-superstrike-means","What SUPERSTRIKE means",[12,3414,3415,3416,3419],{},"Logitech calls the system ",[50,3417,3418],{},"Haptic Inductive Trigger System",", or HITS.",[12,3421,3422],{},"The idea behind it: the main buttons use a combination of inductive sensing and haptic feedback. On top of that, you get adjustable actuation and reset points. Put simply: you can influence how early a click triggers and how quickly it is ready again.",[19,3424],{},[12,3426,3427],{},"That sounds extremely like esports marketing.",[12,3429,3430],{},"Of course it partly is.",[12,3432,3433],{},"But at least it is marketing in a place I actually find interesting on a mouse. The click is what you constantly use. If something there feels more direct, shorter or more controlled, you notice it more than the next number on the box.",[42,3435,3437],{"id":3436},"who-this-is-interesting-for","Who this is interesting for",[12,3439,3440],{},"Not everyone. If you play a round every few weeks and your mouse mostly handles email, browser tabs and cat videos, the PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE is probably overkill.",[19,3442],{},[12,3444,3445],{},"But if you are sensitive to mouse feel, play fast shooters or simply enjoy tuning input devices very precisely, it becomes interesting.",[12,3447,3448],{},"I like products like this because they do not only claim to be \"better\". They try to change a concrete feeling.",[42,3450,109],{"id":108},[111,3452,3453,3459,3465,3471],{},[114,3454,3455,3458],{},[50,3456,3457],{},"The click is the focus."," That is rare and much more interesting than another LED zone.",[114,3460,3461,3464],{},[50,3462,3463],{},"LIGHTSPEED is familiar and strong."," Logitech is not this present in wireless gaming mice by accident.",[114,3466,3467,3470],{},[50,3468,3469],{},"Adjustability makes sense."," It is aimed at people who really notice click behavior, less at everyone else.",[114,3472,3473,3476],{},[50,3474,3475],{},"The PRO series stays focused."," A tool for fast inputs, without overloaded extras around it.",[19,3478],{},[12,3480,3481,3482,3486],{},"Together with a good keyboard like the ",[308,3483,3485],{"href":3484},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fmechanische-tastatur","Keychron Q3 Max",", you quickly notice how much input devices shape everyday work and play. You touch these things every day. When they are good, the setup becomes calmer.",[42,3488,3490],{"id":3489},"the-honest-take","The honest take",[12,3492,3493],{},"This is not a mouse I would blindly recommend to everyone.",[19,3495],{},[12,3497,3498],{},"It is new, expensive and very specific. That is exactly why you should ask whether adjustable click behavior truly helps you, or whether you are just curious about the next high-end gaming thing.",[12,3500,3501],{},"Both are allowed.",[12,3503,3504],{},"Only one is a good buying decision.",[42,3506,3508],{"id":3507},"would-i-classify-it-as-good-stuff","Would I classify it as good stuff?",[12,3510,3511],{},"Yes, but as special good stuff.",[19,3513],{},[12,3515,3516],{},"The Logitech PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE is not the sensible default recommendation for everyone.",[12,3518,3519],{},"It is more of a mouse for people who do not immediately check out when they hear \"click latency\", \"reset point\" and \"actuation feel\".",[12,3521,3522],{},"For normal people, that sounds absurd.",[12,3524,3525],{},"For tech people, it sounds like a Saturday night.",[12,3527,3528],{},"And that makes it pretty at home here.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":3530},[3531,3532,3533,3534,3535],{"id":3411,"depth":199,"text":3412},{"id":3436,"depth":199,"text":3437},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":3489,"depth":199,"text":3490},{"id":3507,"depth":199,"text":3508},"2026-05-21","My experience and take on the Logitech PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE, a new LIGHTSPEED gaming mouse with SUPERSTRIKE technology and a tunable click feel.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Flogitech-pro-x2-superstrike-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4xmLgPR",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Flogitech-pro-x2-superstrike",{"title":3388,"description":3537},"zeug\u002Flogitech-pro-x2-superstrike",[3545,3546,3547,3548,3549,3550,3551],"logitech pro x2 superstrike","logitech g","gaming maus","lightspeed","superstrike","hits","gaming","The PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE is not for people who do not care. It is for people who want to feel what a click feels like.","QDUREgpOI5SChICZeV8e-zlHdXAWxtLx5gXMMy4mEzg",{"id":3555,"title":3556,"badge":910,"body":3557,"category":3370,"date":3711,"description":3712,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":3713,"link":3714,"linkText":212,"meta":3715,"navigation":214,"path":3716,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":3717,"stem":3718,"tags":3719,"verdict":3726,"visual":3727,"__hash__":3728},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Funifi-dream-router-7.md","UniFi Dream Router 7: the small network cylinder that can do a lot",{"type":9,"value":3558,"toc":3703},[3559,3562,3565,3567,3570,3576,3580,3583,3585,3588,3591,3595,3598,3601,3603,3606,3608,3611,3614,3616,3642,3644,3647,3650,3652,3655,3657,3660,3663,3667,3670,3672,3682,3685,3689,3692,3695,3697,3700],[12,3560,3561],{},"I have a weakness for network gear.",[12,3563,3564],{},"That is not cool, I know.",[19,3566],{},[12,3568,3569],{},"Other people buy nice speakers or plants. I get excited about a device that can handle VLANs cleanly, does not look completely ugly and, ideally, does not give me a new puzzle every second evening.",[12,3571,48,3572,3575],{},[50,3573,3574],{},"UniFi Dream Router 7"," hits exactly that uncomfortably specific corner of my brain.",[42,3577,3579],{"id":3578},"why-the-dream-router-7-is-interesting","Why the Dream Router 7 is interesting",[12,3581,3582],{},"The Dream Router 7 is basically a compact UniFi starting point for people who want more than a classic ISP router, but do not immediately want to plan a network rack in the hallway.",[19,3584],{},[12,3586,3587],{},"Router, UniFi console, integrated WiFi 7, small switch, a bit of PoE and enough ports that you do not instantly need another box. On paper, it reads like a small all-rounder.",[12,3589,3590],{},"In everyday use, that is exactly the appeal: fewer separate pieces, less \"where does the controller actually run?\", more overview.",[42,3592,3594],{"id":3593},"pretty-nice-for-a-house","Pretty nice for a house",[12,3596,3597],{},"In an apartment, a router can simply be a router.",[12,3599,3600],{},"In a house, it becomes a small infrastructure project.",[19,3602],{},[12,3604,3605],{},"Suddenly there are floors, thick walls, garden corners, cameras, access points, home office, streaming, smart lights and some device that insists on connecting to the wrong access point.",[19,3607],{},[12,3609,3610],{},"The Dream Router 7 does not automatically solve every one of those problems. WiFi is still WiFi, and walls are unfortunately still walls. But it gives the whole thing a clean base.",[12,3612,3613],{},"That is what I like about UniFi: I can see what is happening. Not just \"internet works\" or \"internet does not work\", but devices, channels, clients, load and the places where my gut feeling is talking nonsense again.",[42,3615,109],{"id":108},[111,3617,3618,3624,3630,3636],{},[114,3619,3620,3623],{},[50,3621,3622],{},"Everything feels cleaner."," One device as the center feels better than a stack of accidental gear.",[114,3625,3626,3629],{},[50,3627,3628],{},"WiFi 7 is built in."," None of my devices need it yet, but I dislike routers feeling old after one year.",[114,3631,3632,3635],{},[50,3633,3634],{},"UniFi stays UniFi."," Overview, device management, networks, rules and the small feeling of owning a tiny control room.",[114,3637,3638,3641],{},[50,3639,3640],{},"PoE on the device is practical."," Not for everything, but exactly for that one corner where you would otherwise hunt for another power brick.",[19,3643],{},[12,3645,3646],{},"The most important point is less technical: the Dream Router 7 makes me want to build the home network properly.",[12,3648,3649],{},"That is dangerous, but good.",[42,3651,147],{"id":146},[12,3653,3654],{},"If you just want internet, this is too much.",[19,3656],{},[12,3658,3659],{},"UniFi has become more approachable, but it is still a system for people who want to know what is happening. If you never open settings, you may get more surface area than you need.",[12,3661,3662],{},"And for a larger house, the integrated access point probably will not be the whole truth. Depending on the building, you will need additional APs. Physics is sadly not cancellable as a subscription.",[42,3664,3666],{"id":3665},"fits-nicely-with-hermes","Fits nicely with Hermes",[12,3668,3669],{},"My UniFi setup became really interesting when I stopped only setting it up and started questioning it regularly.",[19,3671],{},[12,3673,3674,3677,3678,364],{},[308,3675,3676],{"href":1428},"Hermes as an AI agent"," helped with that surprisingly well. I wrote the concrete network deep dive in ",[308,3679,3681],{"href":3680},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Funifi-hermes","my UniFi AI agent audit",[12,3683,3684],{},"The Dream Router 7 is a nice foundation for that: enough control, enough data, enough UniFi, without turning the basement into a tiny data center.",[42,3686,3688],{"id":3687},"would-i-buy-it","Would I buy it?",[12,3690,3691],{},"Yes, if I want to build a home network intentionally.",[12,3693,3694],{},"It is not the cheapest solution, and not one you plug in and never look at again.",[19,3696],{},[12,3698,3699],{},"It is the central base for a home where tech is allowed to be a little more orderly.",[12,3701,3702],{},"And if you can get excited about routers, the Dream Router 7 is pretty good stuff.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":3704},[3705,3706,3707,3708,3709,3710],{"id":3578,"depth":199,"text":3579},{"id":3593,"depth":199,"text":3594},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":146,"depth":199,"text":147},{"id":3665,"depth":199,"text":3666},{"id":3687,"depth":199,"text":3688},"2026-05-14","My experience with the UniFi Dream Router 7 as a compact way into UniFi, WiFi 7 and a cleaner home network in my own house.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Funifi-dream-router-7-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Feu.store.ui.com\u002Feu\u002Fen\u002Fproducts\u002Fudr7",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Funifi-dream-router-7",{"title":3556,"description":3712},"zeug\u002Funifi-dream-router-7",[3720,3721,3379,3722,3723,3724,3725],"unifi dream router 7","dream router 7","wifi 7","heimnetz","router","netzwerk","The Dream Router 7 is not a toy router. It is the moment where a home network suddenly wants to become tidy.","cone","wLhGMyiQoG2_jqm_rYPcQOdTfRgJVcIX0rFZ9KKGQ0U",{"id":3730,"title":3731,"badge":7,"body":3732,"category":887,"date":3892,"description":3893,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":3894,"link":3181,"linkText":212,"meta":3895,"navigation":214,"path":3896,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":3897,"stem":3898,"tags":3899,"verdict":3903,"visual":229,"__hash__":3904},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fhermes-agent.md","Hermes Agent: everyday AI that does not feel like a demo",{"type":9,"value":3733,"toc":3885},[3734,3737,3740,3742,3745,3748,3750,3752,3756,3759,3761,3764,3766,3769,3772,3776,3778,3782,3785,3811,3813,3816,3819,3823,3826,3828,3831,3833,3836,3842,3846,3849,3852,3854,3857,3859,3862,3865,3869,3872,3874,3877,3880,3882],[12,3735,3736],{},"I was skeptical of AI agents for a long time.",[12,3738,3739],{},"Not of AI in general. I use that every day. But agents often felt like this to me: impressive demo, then a lot of fiddling, then half an evening gone, and in the end I would have been faster doing it myself.",[19,3741],{},[12,3743,3744],{},"Hermes was the first agent that felt less like a side project and more like everyday use.",[12,3746,3747],{},"It is neither perfect nor magic, but useful enough that I wanted to reuse it after that first curious start.",[19,3749],{},[19,3751],{},[42,3753,3755],{"id":3754},"everyday-ai-not-just-nerd-demos","Everyday AI, not just nerd demos",[12,3757,3758],{},"What I like about Hermes is that I do not have to turn every task into a big project.",[19,3760],{},[12,3762,3763],{},"I can ask it to sort a topic, prepare a decision, compare technical options or work through some annoying little thing in a structured way.",[19,3765],{},[12,3767,3768],{},"That sounds boring at first. It kind of is. But that is exactly the point.",[12,3770,3771],{},"The really useful AI things are often not the ones where you later tell everyone the future just happened. They are the ones where you notice: I just did not spend 40 minutes researching, and I still got a better result than with my usual \"I'll just google myself into a hole\" routine.",[2934,3773],{"align":2938,"alt":3774,"size":2939,"src":3775},"Hermes cronjobs","\u002Fimages\u002Fcontent\u002Farticles\u002Fhermes-agent\u002Fhermes-cronjobs-mpxwk95b.webp",[19,3777],{},[42,3779,3781],{"id":3780},"what-i-use-hermes-for","What I use Hermes for",[12,3783,3784],{},"For me, Hermes mostly ends up in these corners:",[111,3786,3787,3793,3799,3805],{},[114,3788,3789,3792],{},[50,3790,3791],{},"Preparing tech decisions."," What are the real differences, what is marketing, what fits my setup?",[114,3794,3795,3798],{},[50,3796,3797],{},"Structuring everyday projects."," Not \"run my life\", but \"sort these options and tell me where to start\".",[114,3800,3801,3804],{},[50,3802,3803],{},"Working through documentation."," Especially with tools, devices or APIs where I do not want to fight through five pages of vendor logic first.",[114,3806,3807,3810],{},[50,3808,3809],{},"Repeating annoying checks."," The agent stays stubborn when I have mentally given up.",[19,3812],{},[12,3814,3815],{},"That stubbornness is underrated.",[12,3817,3818],{},"I am good at quickly getting into a topic. I am also very good at saying \"good enough\" after ten minutes. An agent does not do that. It keeps going through the list.",[42,3820,3822],{"id":3821},"the-best-example-was-my-home-network","The best example was my home network",[12,3824,3825],{},"The moment it really clicked for me was my UniFi setup.",[19,3827],{},[12,3829,3830],{},"I let Hermes inspect my home network and check what was actually going on. Access points, channels, transmit power, devices clinging to the wrong AP. Things that worked, but were not clean.",[19,3832],{},[12,3834,3835],{},"What came out was far more useful than AI magic: a structured, sober analysis that saved me from gut feeling.",[12,3837,3838,3839,3841],{},"The detailed version is in ",[308,3840,3681],{"href":3680},". That is the technical deep dive. This article is the broader idea: Hermes earns its place on the small decisions in between, not just on spectacular tasks.",[42,3843,3845],{"id":3844},"what-hermes-does-not-replace","What Hermes does not replace",[12,3847,3848],{},"Hermes does not replace thinking.",[12,3850,3851],{},"And it should not.",[19,3853],{},[12,3855,3856],{},"If a suggestion sounds weird, it is still weird. If an agent makes an assumption, I need to check it. And if I have no idea what I am doing, I can absolutely move in the wrong direction with AI too, just with more confidence.",[19,3858],{},[12,3860,3861],{},"The difference is: Hermes helps me get to the right questions faster.",[12,3863,3864],{},"Not always the perfect answer. But often the better next question.",[42,3866,3868],{"id":3867},"would-i-recommend-hermes","Would I recommend Hermes?",[12,3870,3871],{},"Yes, if you want to use AI as more than a chat window.",[19,3873],{},[12,3875,3876],{},"For me, Hermes is strongest where everyday life and tech overlap: home office, house, network, tools, small decisions, product comparisons, setup questions.",[12,3878,3879],{},"Not as an autonomous super assistant, more like a very patient, slightly overmotivated intern with internet, tools and surprisingly little need for a break.",[19,3881],{},[12,3883,3884],{},"And sometimes, that is pretty good stuff.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":3886},[3887,3888,3889,3890,3891],{"id":3754,"depth":199,"text":3755},{"id":3780,"depth":199,"text":3781},{"id":3821,"depth":199,"text":3822},{"id":3844,"depth":199,"text":3845},{"id":3867,"depth":199,"text":3868},"2026-04-20","My experience using Hermes as an AI agent for everyday life, tech questions, research and small decisions without turning everything into a sci-fi project.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fhermes-agent-cover.webp",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fhermes-agent",{"title":3731,"description":3893},"zeug\u002Fhermes-agent",[3381,1578,3900,1580,3901,3902],"everyday ai","tech","experience","Hermes is the first agent where I often think: yes, this is what I wanted AI to be useful for.","ZY2N0k-Eg4hCB-rADvv9h6fuNEISwHiLIbQKDuO3Gis",{"id":3906,"title":3907,"badge":3908,"body":3909,"category":887,"date":4085,"description":4086,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":4087,"link":3956,"linkText":212,"meta":4088,"navigation":214,"path":4089,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":4090,"stem":4091,"tags":4092,"verdict":4098,"visual":709,"__hash__":4099},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fterminal-token-tool.md","RTK: less terminal noise for coding agents","Geheimtipp",{"type":9,"value":3910,"toc":4078},[3911,3914,3917,3919,3926,3931,3934,3936,3939,3944,3947,3951,3959,3962,3965,3967,3970,3974,3977,3980,3982,3997,3999,4002,4004,4007,4013,4017,4020,4023,4025,4028,4031,4034,4038,4041,4044,4046,4049,4052,4056,4059,4061,4064,4067,4069,4072,4075],[12,3912,3913],{},"Coding agents are surprisingly good at working through code.",[12,3915,3916],{},"They are also surprisingly good at filling their context with terminal output nobody needed at that length.",[19,3918],{},[12,3920,3921,3922,3925],{},"A ",[1384,3923,3924],{},"git status"," here.",[12,3927,3921,3928,3930],{},[1384,3929,2597],{}," there.",[12,3932,3933],{},"A test run that prints 200 lines of success noise when only three error lines mattered.",[19,3935],{},[12,3937,3938],{},"And suddenly terminal noise fills the context that the problem actually needs.",[12,3940,3941,3942,364],{},"That is why I like ",[50,3943,2779],{},[12,3945,3946],{},"It is not spectacular. It just makes a very boring thing smaller.",[42,3948,3950],{"id":3949},"what-rtk-actually-does","What RTK actually does",[12,3952,3953,3954,364],{},"RTK stands for Rust Token Killer and lives here: ",[308,3955,3958],{"href":3956,"rel":3957},"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Frtk-ai\u002Frtk",[2256],"github.com\u002Frtk-ai\u002Frtk",[12,3960,3961],{},"The idea is simple: RTK sits in front of common terminal commands and gives the agent a condensed version instead of the full wall of text.",[12,3963,3964],{},"Status, relevant files, errors, diffs, summaries.",[19,3966],{},[12,3968,3969],{},"None of that is about hiding information. It cuts away what is only eating space in an agent context.",[42,3971,3973],{"id":3972},"what-changes-in-practice","What changes in practice",[12,3975,3976],{},"The difference is not that my terminal suddenly becomes exciting.",[12,3978,3979],{},"Thankfully.",[19,3981],{},[12,3983,3984,3985,3988,3989,3992,3993,3996],{},"The difference is that an agent sees what is going on faster. ",[1384,3986,3987],{},"rtk git status"," is not a small Git novel. ",[1384,3990,3991],{},"rtk git diff"," points more directly at the relevant parts. ",[1384,3994,3995],{},"rtk grep"," feels less like a raw wall of matches. And with tests, I usually do not care which 97 things passed. I care what broke.",[19,3998],{},[12,4000,4001],{},"That sounds small.",[12,4003,1481],{},[12,4005,4006],{},"But those small things often decide whether an agent session stays clean or slowly drowns in text junk.",[827,4008,4010],{"title":4009},"The real win",[12,4011,4012],{},"It is not about saving for its own sake. It is that I see what is going on at a glance, instead of scrolling through a wall of text.",[42,4014,4016],{"id":4015},"why-this-fits-agents-especially-well","Why this fits agents especially well",[12,4018,4019],{},"I work a lot with coding agents. They are strong, but they eat context.",[12,4021,4022],{},"Raw terminal output is often absurdly wasteful there: 200 lines when only three matter.",[19,4024],{},[12,4026,4027],{},"RTK sits exactly at that point and turns \"here is everything\" into \"here is what you probably need\".",[12,4029,4030],{},"It has integrations and hooks for several agent setups, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Pi and others.",[12,4032,4033],{},"You can also just call RTK directly in front of commands.",[42,4035,4037],{"id":4036},"what-it-is-not","What it is not",[12,4039,4040],{},"RTK is not a substitute for understanding.",[12,4042,4043],{},"And it is not a magical \"makes everything faster\" layer.",[19,4045],{},[12,4047,4048],{},"If I need the complete output, I want the complete output. If a tool needs raw debugging, I skip RTK.",[12,4050,4051],{},"That matters to me: RTK should not decide what is true. It should only sort the first look.",[42,4053,4055],{"id":4054},"who-it-is-worth-it-for","Who it is worth it for",[12,4057,4058],{},"People who live in the terminal and work with LLMs or coding agents.",[19,4060],{},[12,4062,4063],{},"If you regularly throw logs, diffs, search results and test output into an agent context, RTK is one of those tools that disappears after setup.",[12,4065,4066],{},"Best compliment.",[19,4068],{},[12,4070,4071],{},"It is not a big productivity promise.",[12,4073,4074],{},"It is just less noise exactly where noise gets expensive.",[12,4076,4077],{},"And that is pretty good stuff.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":4079},[4080,4081,4082,4083,4084],{"id":3949,"depth":199,"text":3950},{"id":3972,"depth":199,"text":3973},{"id":4015,"depth":199,"text":4016},{"id":4036,"depth":199,"text":4037},{"id":4054,"depth":199,"text":4055},"2026-04-18","My experience with RTK, a fast Rust CLI tool that shortens terminal output for LLMs and coding agents while keeping context cleaner.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fterminal-token-tool-cover.webp",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fterminal-token-tool",{"title":3907,"description":4086},"zeug\u002Fterminal-token-tool",[4093,4094,4095,4096,4097,2513,2853,1580],"rtk","rtk cli","rust token killer","cli tool","coding agents","RTK is beautifully unspectacular: less terminal noise, less token waste, faster orientation.","qDAN5-BeImPs36XSMU7U3vcM3Siu6VDNuX9mYcT8qeQ",{"id":4101,"title":4102,"badge":1111,"body":4103,"category":205,"date":4244,"description":4245,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":4246,"link":4247,"linkText":212,"meta":4248,"navigation":214,"path":4249,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":4250,"stem":4251,"tags":4252,"verdict":4258,"visual":505,"__hash__":4259},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fember-mug-2.md","Ember Mug 2: the smart mug for a very real luxury problem",{"type":9,"value":4104,"toc":4237},[4105,4108,4110,4113,4116,4118,4121,4127,4131,4134,4137,4139,4142,4145,4149,4152,4155,4157,4160,4162,4165,4168,4171,4173,4199,4201,4204,4207,4209,4212,4215,4218,4220,4223,4225,4228,4231,4234],[12,4106,4107],{},"A smart mug sounds like the final boss of unnecessary tech.",[19,4109],{},[12,4111,4112],{},"I get it.",[12,4114,4115],{},"A mug has been a pretty solved problem for a few thousand years. Liquid in, drink, done.",[19,4117],{},[12,4119,4120],{},"And yet I regularly sit in my home office, forget my coffee, take a sip and get reminded that room temperature is not a flavor.",[12,4122,48,4123,4126],{},[50,4124,4125],{},"Ember Mug 2"," solves exactly this very small, very real luxury problem.",[42,4128,4130],{"id":4129},"what-it-does","What it does",[12,4132,4133],{},"The idea is simple: you set a drinking temperature, and the mug keeps your drink warm.",[12,4135,4136],{},"Not boiling hot, and not \"I underestimated the microwave\" either, just pleasantly drinkable.",[19,4138],{},[12,4140,4141],{},"On the coaster, it stays ready. Away from the coaster, the battery lasts for a while depending on the size. Ember says the Mug 2 can hold temperature for up to 1.5 hours with the smaller version and around 80 minutes with the larger one.",[12,4143,4144],{},"That is more than enough for my everyday life, because my problem is not an eight-hour coffee. My problem is a coffee I forgot for 20 minutes too long.",[42,4146,4148],{"id":4147},"why-it-makes-sense-in-the-home-office","Why it makes sense in the home office",[12,4150,4151],{},"In an office, you often drink coffee while moving somewhere.",[12,4153,4154],{},"In the home office, it sits next to the keyboard and waits for me to disappear into a problem.",[19,4156],{},[12,4158,4159],{},"A debugging loop, a longer call, a message that was supposed to be a quick reply, and suddenly good coffee has become a sad brown memory.",[19,4161],{},[12,4163,4164],{},"The Ember Mug 2 does not stop me from getting distracted.",[12,4166,4167],{},"But it punishes me less for it.",[12,4169,4170],{},"That is nice of it.",[42,4172,109],{"id":108},[111,4174,4175,4181,4187,4193],{},[114,4176,4177,4180],{},[50,4178,4179],{},"Coffee stays in the good window."," Not too hot, not lukewarm, just drinkable.",[114,4182,4183,4186],{},[50,4184,4185],{},"It is unspectacular in daily use."," Put it on the coaster, use it, done.",[114,4188,4189,4192],{},[50,4190,4191],{},"The app does not feel mandatory."," Set it once, then I do not need to keep playing with it.",[114,4194,4195,4198],{},[50,4196,4197],{},"It makes a small ritual better."," That sounds cheesy, but it is true.",[42,4200,1215],{"id":1214},[12,4202,4203],{},"It is expensive for a mug.",[12,4205,4206],{},"There is no way to make that sound reasonable.",[19,4208],{},[12,4210,4211],{},"It is also not a travel thermos and not something you throw into the dishwasher without thinking. It wants to be treated a little more consciously than a normal mug from the kitchen cabinet.",[12,4213,4214],{},"And yes: you could simply drink coffee faster.",[12,4216,4217],{},"Theoretically.",[42,4219,453],{"id":452},[12,4221,4222],{},"Yes, but not to everyone.",[19,4224],{},[12,4226,4227],{},"If you drink coffee or tea immediately anyway, save the money. But if you regularly sit next to a half-forgotten mug like I do, the Ember Mug 2 is surprisingly pleasant.",[12,4229,4230],{},"It is not a necessary gadget.",[12,4232,4233],{},"It is a comfort gadget.",[12,4235,4236],{},"But a very good one.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":4238},[4239,4240,4241,4242,4243],{"id":4129,"depth":199,"text":4130},{"id":4147,"depth":199,"text":4148},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":1214,"depth":199,"text":1215},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-04-10","My experience with the Ember Mug 2 in the home office: holding temperature, not forgetting coffee and why a smart mug is less silly than it sounds.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fember-mug-2-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F3RALMt5",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fember-mug-2",{"title":4102,"description":4245},"zeug\u002Fember-mug-2",[4253,4254,4255,4256,4257,1105,707],"ember mug 2","ember mug","smarte tasse","kaffeetasse","homeoffice","The Ember Mug 2 is completely unnecessary until you use it. After that, cold coffee feels personal.","QrdZZOImx6miI-GNPk8xR8GVHryvBvnMKDgFPjDt4QE",{"id":4261,"title":4262,"badge":1884,"body":4263,"category":205,"date":4394,"description":4395,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":4396,"link":4397,"linkText":212,"meta":4398,"navigation":214,"path":4399,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":4400,"stem":4401,"tags":4402,"verdict":4410,"visual":709,"__hash__":4411},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fgovee-neon-rope-light-2.md","Govee Neon Rope Light 2: a light toy that starts making sense surprisingly fast",{"type":9,"value":4264,"toc":4387},[4265,4268,4271,4273,4279,4283,4286,4289,4291,4294,4296,4299,4302,4306,4309,4311,4314,4317,4320,4323,4327,4353,4357,4360,4362,4365,4368,4370,4373,4375,4378,4381,4384],[12,4266,4267],{},"I have a very simple weakness: if lighting makes a room feel cozier, I am vulnerable.",[12,4269,4270],{},"Very vulnerable.",[19,4272],{},[12,4274,48,4275,4278],{},[50,4276,4277],{},"Govee Neon Rope Light 2"," is exactly the kind of product where you first say: \"I do not need this.\" Then you see it mounted somewhere, think for a second, and suddenly you are standing in front of a wall with clips, an app and far too much optimism.",[42,4280,4282],{"id":4281},"it-is-not-just-a-light-strip","It is not just a light strip",[12,4284,4285],{},"A normal LED strip is usually background light.",[12,4287,4288],{},"The Neon Rope Light 2 is more of a visible design element.",[19,4290],{},[12,4292,4293],{},"It is flexible, diffuse, much more present and can be shaped so it feels like a line in the room. More like a small piece of light graphics than \"there is RGB stuck behind the monitor\".",[19,4295],{},[12,4297,4298],{},"That sounds far too serious for colored light.",[12,4300,4301],{},"But it is true.",[42,4303,4305],{"id":4304},"why-i-like-it-in-the-home-office","Why I like it in the home office",[12,4307,4308],{},"My home office is a work room, tech room, sometimes gaming corner and sometimes simply the place where I try something for five more minutes, which of course is never five minutes.",[19,4310],{},[12,4312,4313],{},"Good light helps more than you think.",[12,4315,4316],{},"During the day, I want it calm. In the evening, it can be warmer, softer or a little more playful. The Neon Rope Light 2 handles that switch well without making the room explode into a Twitch backdrop.",[12,4318,4319],{},"If you do not overdo it.",[12,4321,4322],{},"That part matters.",[42,4324,4326],{"id":4325},"what-is-good-about-it","What is good about it",[111,4328,4329,4335,4341,4347],{},[114,4330,4331,4334],{},[50,4332,4333],{},"The line looks clean."," The diffuse neon look feels more finished than visible LED dots.",[114,4336,4337,4340],{},[50,4338,4339],{},"Shapes are the fun part."," With the clips, you can create curves and accents instead of only following straight edges.",[114,4342,4343,4346],{},[50,4344,4345],{},"The app gives enough room."," Scenes, colors, effects, all there. You do not have to use everything.",[114,4348,4349,4352],{},[50,4350,4351],{},"Matter and smart-home integration are practical."," If your setup fits, lighting does not have to live as an island.",[42,4354,4356],{"id":4355},"what-can-be-annoying","What can be annoying",[12,4358,4359],{},"Mounting is always the moment where pretty product photos and reality briefly go separate ways.",[19,4361],{},[12,4363,4364],{},"You should know where it is going before you start. Just \"holding it up quickly\" otherwise ends in crooked lines, offended clips and the moment you realize that wall, cable and outlet did not cooperate with your plan.",[12,4366,4367],{},"Also: less is more. Permanent rainbow looks funny for five minutes and then like an electronics store with sleep deprivation.",[42,4369,179],{"id":178},[12,4371,4372],{},"Yes, if there is a specific place for it.",[19,4374],{},[12,4376,4377],{},"Without a specific spot it ends up in a drawer. For a wall, desk area, gaming corner or room that could use a little more character at night, the Govee Neon Rope Light 2 is strong.",[12,4379,4380],{},"It does not solve a problem that sits high on a priority list.",[12,4382,4383],{},"It just likes creating a mood.",[12,4385,4386],{},"And sometimes, that is enough.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":4388},[4389,4390,4391,4392,4393],{"id":4281,"depth":199,"text":4282},{"id":4304,"depth":199,"text":4305},{"id":4325,"depth":199,"text":4326},{"id":4355,"depth":199,"text":4356},{"id":178,"depth":199,"text":179},"2026-03-27","My experience with the Govee Neon Rope Light 2 as a flexible RGBIC light for a home office, gaming corner and rooms that should feel less boring at night.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fgovee-neon-rope-light-2-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4fmoWzg",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fgovee-neon-rope-light-2",{"title":4262,"description":4395},"zeug\u002Fgovee-neon-rope-light-2",[4403,4404,4405,4406,4407,4408,4409],"govee neon rope light 2","govee","neon rope light","rgbic","smart lighting","home office","light","Technically it is just colored light. In reality it changes a room faster than I want to admit.","LnJC7o4RejrfHA5lquhBLZR4LRnI07-PQ1dWjCssh1g",{"id":4413,"title":4414,"badge":1111,"body":4415,"category":686,"date":4549,"description":4550,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":4551,"link":4552,"linkText":212,"meta":4553,"navigation":214,"path":4554,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":4555,"stem":4556,"tags":4557,"verdict":4563,"visual":229,"__hash__":4564},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Finsta360-link-2.md","Insta360 Link 2: the webcam for people who do not want to look like 2012",{"type":9,"value":4416,"toc":4542},[4417,4420,4423,4425,4428,4434,4438,4441,4444,4446,4449,4452,4456,4459,4462,4464,4467,4469,4472,4475,4477,4503,4505,4513,4515,4518,4520,4523,4526,4528,4531,4533,4536,4539],[12,4418,4419],{},"Some devices show you how long you have been pretending something was fine.",[12,4421,4422],{},"Laptop webcams are pretty high on that list.",[19,4424],{},[12,4426,4427],{},"Sure, they work. You are recognizable. Usually. But there is a surprisingly large gap between \"a human is visible\" and \"this looks reasonably decent\".",[12,4429,48,4430,4433],{},[50,4431,4432],{},"Insta360 Link 2"," is exactly that kind of upgrade for me: not life-changing, but immediately visible in the home office.",[42,4435,4437],{"id":4436},"a-webcam-that-does-not-look-like-a-fallback","A webcam that does not look like a fallback",[12,4439,4440],{},"I do not need a Hollywood camera for video calls.",[12,4442,4443],{},"I just do not want to look like someone filmed me through a doorbell.",[19,4445],{},[12,4447,4448],{},"The Link 2 brings 4K, a larger sensor than typical cheap webcams and the whole package of auto-framing, tracking, HDR and software modes. On paper, that sounds like a lot of marketing. In practice, the effect is simple: the image looks cleaner, brighter and less embarrassing.",[12,4450,4451],{},"Especially if you spend a lot of time working from home, that is nice. No call needs to be a production. You just stop fighting bad picture, wrong angle and muddy light.",[42,4453,4455],{"id":4454},"tracking-is-nice-but-not-the-main-reason","Tracking is nice, but not the main reason",[12,4457,4458],{},"The Link 2 can follow you and frame you automatically.",[12,4460,4461],{},"That is technically impressive and sometimes practical.",[19,4463],{},[12,4465,4466],{},"But I am more on team \"please not too much camera choreography\". If the image dramatically follows me in every meeting, I quickly feel like a product demo accidentally went live.",[19,4468],{},[12,4470,4471],{},"Set up calmly, it works well: subtle correction, better framing, less fiddling at the start of a call.",[12,4473,4474],{},"And if I want to show something on the desk, the special modes are much more useful than the classic \"wait, I'll hold it awkwardly into the camera\" move.",[42,4476,109],{"id":108},[111,4478,4479,4485,4491,4497],{},[114,4480,4481,4484],{},[50,4482,4483],{},"The image is immediately better."," No endless tuning, no webcam voodoo.",[114,4486,4487,4490],{},[50,4488,4489],{},"It fits the home office."," Small enough to stay out of the way, good enough to feel like a real setup.",[114,4492,4493,4496],{},[50,4494,4495],{},"Auto-framing helps when set quietly."," As comfort, not as a show effect.",[114,4498,4499,4502],{},[50,4500,4501],{},"Low light is much more relaxed."," Especially on gray days, which feels like 280 days a year.",[19,4504],{},[12,4506,4507,4508,4512],{},"Together with a proper microphone, it quickly becomes a setup where I stop thinking about the tech. I like the direction I describe in the ",[308,4509,4511],{"href":4510},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fshure-mv7","Shure MV7 article",": picture and sound do not need to be overdone, they just need to stop being annoying.",[42,4514,839],{"id":838},[12,4516,4517],{},"A good webcam does not create good light out of nothing.",[19,4519],{},[12,4521,4522],{},"If you sit in the dark, the Link 2 will not simulate the sun. It can save a lot, but it cannot insult physics.",[12,4524,4525],{},"Also, you do not need every function. If you just want a good picture, set it up, adjust two things and leave the rest alone. That is completely fine.",[42,4527,453],{"id":452},[12,4529,4530],{},"Yes, if video calls are a real part of your everyday life.",[19,4532],{},[12,4534,4535],{},"Nobody has to look like a YouTuber. It is simply nice when a device visibly does its job better and then quietly disappears into the setup.",[12,4537,4538],{},"The Insta360 Link 2 is not a spectacular life hack. It is simply a very good answer to the question: \"Why does my expensive laptop still look like this?\"",[12,4540,4541],{},"And that makes it good stuff.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":4543},[4544,4545,4546,4547,4548],{"id":4436,"depth":199,"text":4437},{"id":4454,"depth":199,"text":4455},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":838,"depth":199,"text":839},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-03-04","My experience with the Insta360 Link 2 as a 4K webcam for home office, calls and a picture that finally stops looking like a laptop compromise.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Finsta360-link-2-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4vi4sMy",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Finsta360-link-2",{"title":4414,"description":4550},"zeug\u002Finsta360-link-2",[4558,4559,4560,4257,4561,4562,707],"insta360 link 2","webcam","4k webcam","video calls","ai tracking","The Link 2 is one of those upgrades you see immediately and stop wanting to give up after two weeks.","9UweOVsrcr52iGXjlxKuI1XiAk4_8VdBaUqqtWCcPKs",{"id":4566,"title":4567,"badge":7,"body":4568,"category":205,"date":4703,"description":4704,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":4705,"link":4706,"linkText":212,"meta":4707,"navigation":214,"path":4708,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":4709,"stem":4710,"tags":4711,"verdict":4718,"visual":229,"__hash__":4719},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Froborock-qrevo-curv-2-pro.md","Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Pro: the home robot that finally sounds like relief",{"type":9,"value":4569,"toc":4696},[4570,4573,4576,4578,4584,4587,4591,4594,4597,4599,4602,4604,4607,4611,4614,4616,4619,4622,4625,4627,4653,4655,4662,4666,4669,4672,4674,4677,4680,4682,4685,4687,4690,4693],[12,4571,4572],{},"A robot vacuum always sounds a little like the future.",[12,4574,4575],{},"In reality, it sounds more like: \"Why are there crumbs again?\"",[19,4577],{},[12,4579,48,4580,4583],{},[50,4581,4582],{},"Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Pro"," is interesting to me because it does not only vacuum. It tries to push the whole floor-care topic as far out of my head as possible.",[12,4585,4586],{},"And honestly: that is where it belongs.",[42,4588,4590],{"id":4589},"why-i-am-careful-with-robot-vacuums","Why I am careful with robot vacuums",[12,4592,4593],{},"I never expected a robot to completely solve household cleaning.",[12,4595,4596],{},"That would be nonsense.",[19,4598],{},[12,4600,4601],{},"Chairs are in the way. Cables exist. Rugs have opinions. And somewhere there is guaranteed to be an object that was not there yesterday and today wants a career as an obstacle.",[19,4603],{},[12,4605,4606],{},"A good robot does not have to be perfect for me. It has to take over enough regular work that, by the end of the week, I notice the floor was simply less of a topic.",[42,4608,4610],{"id":4609},"what-the-qrevo-curv-2-pro-tries-to-do-differently","What the Qrevo Curv 2 Pro tries to do differently",[12,4612,4613],{},"Roborock puts a lot into this one: strong suction, rotating mop pads, obstacle recognition, an anti-tangle system, a slimmer design, an adaptive chassis idea for carpets and a dock that hot-washes the mops and automates as much maintenance as possible.",[19,4615],{},[12,4617,4618],{},"That is a lot of tech.",[12,4620,4621],{},"In daily life, I only care about the translation: it should not constantly need my attention.",[12,4623,4624],{},"If a robot has to be cleaned, untangled, rescued or lovingly motivated after every second run, it is not a helper. It is a pet without charm.",[42,4626,109],{"id":108},[111,4628,4629,4635,4641,4647],{},[114,4630,4631,4634],{},[50,4632,4633],{},"Vacuuming and mopping in one run makes sense."," Especially in a house, small messes build up faster than you think.",[114,4636,4637,4640],{},[50,4638,4639],{},"The dock is the real comfort."," The less I have to do after each run, the more likely it is to actually run regularly.",[114,4642,4643,4646],{},[50,4644,4645],{},"Obstacle recognition is everyday protection."," Not perfect, but better than blindly charging ahead.",[114,4648,4649,4652],{},[50,4650,4651],{},"Anti-tangle matters."," Hair and rollers are a relationship nobody wants to supervise.",[19,4654],{},[12,4656,4657,4658,4661],{},"As with smart-home lighting or network gear, this is not about automating everything completely. It is about making recurring little things smaller. With the ",[308,4659,4277],{"href":4660},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fgovee-neon-rope-light-2",", that means atmosphere. Here, it simply means floor peace.",[42,4663,4665],{"id":4664},"the-limits-remain","The limits remain",[12,4667,4668],{},"You still have to tidy up.",[12,4670,4671],{},"Sadly.",[19,4673],{},[12,4675,4676],{},"A robot can do a lot, but it cannot turn a chaotic room into a minimalist showroom. If cables, socks or toys are everywhere, even an expensive robot will eventually bump into them with quiet resentment.",[12,4678,4679],{},"Corners, edges, tight spots and special cases also remain exactly that: special cases.",[42,4681,453],{"id":452},[12,4683,4684],{},"Yes, if you truly want a robot vacuum and mop to run regularly.",[19,4686],{},[12,4688,4689],{},"It costs enough that it only pays off if it actually runs every week. When it does, it takes real work off a household where floor care otherwise keeps running in the background.",[12,4691,4692],{},"The Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Pro is not a magical cleaning butler.",[12,4694,4695],{},"But it is close enough that I am happy to give it space.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":4697},[4698,4699,4700,4701,4702],{"id":4589,"depth":199,"text":4590},{"id":4609,"depth":199,"text":4610},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":4664,"depth":199,"text":4665},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-03-03","My experience with the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Pro as a robot vacuum and mop for a house where the floor should not constantly be a project.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Froborock-qrevo-curv-2-pro-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F49DMoEh",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Froborock-qrevo-curv-2-pro",{"title":4567,"description":4704},"zeug\u002Froborock-qrevo-curv-2-pro",[4712,4713,4714,4715,4716,4717],"roborock qrevo curv 2 pro","roborock","robot vacuum","robot mop","smart home","household","The Qrevo Curv 2 Pro does not make the floor magically perfect. It makes it good enough often enough that I take it seriously.","sDezab3L6QYhRze5_DwqtcpkxRrgLV1RXGZbtmublj8",{"id":4721,"title":4722,"badge":7,"body":4723,"category":205,"date":4875,"description":4876,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":4877,"link":4878,"linkText":212,"meta":4879,"navigation":214,"path":4880,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":4881,"stem":4882,"tags":4883,"verdict":4891,"visual":505,"__hash__":4892},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fmova-1000-maehroboter.md","MOVA 1000 robot lawn mower: lawn care without boundary-wire warfare",{"type":9,"value":4724,"toc":4868},[4725,4728,4730,4733,4736,4739,4745,4749,4752,4754,4757,4760,4763,4767,4774,4776,4779,4782,4784,4816,4818,4825,4828,4831,4834,4838,4841,4843,4846,4849,4851,4854,4856,4859,4862,4865],[12,4726,4727],{},"Robot lawn mowers have always sounded to me like a good idea with a bad side quest.",[19,4729],{},[12,4731,4732],{},"The robot itself: great.",[12,4734,4735],{},"The boundary wire: not great.",[12,4737,4738],{},"This whole \"let me quickly bury wire outside so a small plate on wheels knows where the lawn ends\" never felt like the romantic part of smart home.",[12,4740,48,4741,4744],{},[50,4742,4743],{},"MOVA 1000 robot lawn mower"," is interesting because it starts exactly there: unbox, map, mow. No wires. No RTK station. No GPS poles in the garden that make it look like you are sending radio commands to the grass.",[42,4746,4748],{"id":4747},"why-wire-free-matters-so-much","Why wire-free matters so much",[12,4750,4751],{},"With a robot mower, setup is almost half the story.",[19,4753],{},[12,4755,4756],{},"If I first have to open up half the garden, lay cable and then hope nothing gets damaged, it feels less like automation and more like a new hobby.",[12,4758,4759],{},"A wire-free approach changes exactly that feeling. The robot needs to understand the garden instead of me surgically adding an invisible line to it.",[12,4761,4762],{},"That sounds like the right direction.",[42,4764,4766],{"id":4765},"what-the-mova-1000-brings","What the MOVA 1000 brings",[12,4768,4769,4770,4773],{},"The MOVA 1000 is designed for areas of around 1,000 square meters and works with ",[50,4771,4772],{},"UltraView"," environmental sensing, quick mapping, smart obstacle avoidance, rain sensing, off-road wheels and systematic U-shaped mowing.",[19,4775],{},[12,4777,4778],{},"That is the technical side.",[12,4780,4781],{},"In everyday life, I care about the translation: it should not drive around chaotically, should not constantly need rescuing and should not have a small identity crisis at every garden edge.",[42,4783,109],{"id":108},[111,4785,4786,4792,4798,4804,4810],{},[114,4787,4788,4791],{},[50,4789,4790],{},"No boundary wire."," That is the big one. Less preparation, less garden surgery.",[114,4793,4794,4797],{},[50,4795,4796],{},"Systematic mowing feels smarter."," U-shaped mowing sounds much better than random wandering.",[114,4799,4800,4803],{},[50,4801,4802],{},"Obstacle avoidance is mandatory."," Garden furniture, toys, branches and weird corners simply happen.",[114,4805,4806,4809],{},[50,4807,4808],{},"Off-road wheels fit a garden."," Lawns are rarely as perfectly flat as product photos pretend.",[114,4811,4812,4815],{},[50,4813,4814],{},"Quiet operation matters."," A robot mower should not sound like an angry blender in the front yard.",[19,4817],{},[12,4819,4820,4821,4824],{},"In terms of usefulness, the MOVA 1000 reminds me of the ",[308,4822,4582],{"href":4823},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Froborock-qrevo-curv-2-pro",": neither magically deletes household work, but both seriously remove a recurring task from your head.",[12,4826,4827],{},"Inside, the floor.",[12,4829,4830],{},"Outside, the lawn.",[12,4832,4833],{},"Very likeable.",[42,4835,4837],{"id":4836},"where-i-would-be-careful","Where I would be careful",[12,4839,4840],{},"Gardens are mean.",[19,4842],{},[12,4844,4845],{},"Every garden has some edges, tight spots, slopes, flower beds, cables, branches, wet patches or completely unnecessary special cases. That is where it becomes clear whether a robot mower is actually relaxing or just a new device that regularly wants to be found.",[12,4847,4848],{},"Even with the MOVA 1000, I would not blindly assume every garden works perfectly right away. But the direction is right: less installation, more autonomy.",[42,4850,453],{"id":452},[12,4852,4853],{},"Yes, if you want a robot mower but do not want boundary-wire circus.",[19,4855],{},[12,4857,4858],{},"It is no good as the cheapest experiment, and no good if your garden is more obstacle course than lawn.",[12,4860,4861],{},"For a normal garden where lawn care should simply be less of a topic, though, the MOVA 1000 sounds a lot like good stuff.",[12,4863,4864],{},"Especially because it phrases the smart-garden promise exactly the way I want to hear it:",[12,4866,4867],{},"Do the lawn. I have enough other projects inside.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":4869},[4870,4871,4872,4873,4874],{"id":4747,"depth":199,"text":4748},{"id":4765,"depth":199,"text":4766},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":4836,"depth":199,"text":4837},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-03-02","My experience and take on the MOVA 1000 robot lawn mower with wire-free setup, UltraView sensing, obstacle avoidance and systematic mowing.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fmova-1000-maehroboter-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4amDnzG",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fmova-1000-maehroboter",{"title":4722,"description":4876},"zeug\u002Fmova-1000-maehroboter",[4884,4885,4886,4887,4888,4889,4890],"mova 1000","mova robot mower","robot mower without boundary wire","lawn robot","smart garden","ultraView","garden","The MOVA 1000 is interesting because it finally makes robot mowing sound more like unboxing and less like garden surgery.","sPtucLLw2u8oJo_d8wgBNwnk9VgLfcXTL1Zwa_QHsHA",{"id":4894,"title":4895,"badge":1111,"body":4896,"category":205,"date":5037,"description":5038,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":5039,"link":5040,"linkText":212,"meta":5041,"navigation":214,"path":5042,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":5043,"stem":5044,"tags":5045,"verdict":5051,"visual":229,"__hash__":5052},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Faqara-g4-video-doorbell.md","Aqara G4 Smart Wireless Video Doorbell: a doorbell that finally fits my smart home",{"type":9,"value":4897,"toc":5030},[4898,4901,4903,4906,4909,4915,4919,4922,4925,4927,4930,4933,4937,4940,4942,4945,4952,4955,4957,4983,4985,4993,4995,4998,5000,5003,5011,5013,5016,5018,5021,5024,5027],[12,4899,4900],{},"A smart doorbell first sounds like one of those products you buy because you have seen your house in an app one too many times.",[19,4902],{},[12,4904,4905],{},"And yes, there is some truth to that.",[12,4907,4908],{},"But at the front door, technology actually makes sense. I have no interest in archiving every delivery driver in 4K, but the front door is one of those places where a little more overview is genuinely useful.",[12,4910,48,4911,4914],{},[50,4912,4913],{},"Aqara G4 Smart Wireless Video Doorbell"," is interesting to me because it sits right between comfort, smart home and \"please do not make this another subscription\".",[42,4916,4918],{"id":4917},"why-a-smart-doorbell-makes-sense","Why a smart doorbell makes sense",[12,4920,4921],{},"The front door has stayed weirdly analog.",[12,4923,4924],{},"Someone rings, you are in a call, on the sofa, in the garden or somewhere in the house where the doorbell is theoretically audible, but practically more like a distant rumor.",[19,4926],{},[12,4928,4929],{},"A video doorbell does not solve every problem, but it answers one simple question faster: who is there?",[12,4931,4932],{},"And sometimes, that question is pretty useful.",[42,4934,4936],{"id":4935},"what-makes-the-aqara-g4-interesting","What makes the Aqara G4 interesting",[12,4938,4939],{},"The Aqara G4 can run on batteries, but also supports wired power. It supports HomeKit Secure Video, local streaming to Google and Alexa displays, local face recognition and up to seven days of cloud storage without a hidden mandatory fee.",[19,4941],{},[12,4943,4944],{},"So the spec sheet is not boring.",[12,4946,4947,4948,4951],{},"There is already the ",[50,4949,4950],{},"Aqara G410",", but I cannot speak from personal experience about that one. So this article is deliberately about the G4, not a spec-sheet comparison on demand.",[12,4953,4954],{},"But the most important point for me is this: it does not feel like a completely separate island system. If you are already in the smart-home world, compatibility is worth a lot. Nobody needs another app that only exists to remind you life used to have fewer accounts.",[42,4956,109],{"id":108},[111,4958,4959,4965,4971,4977],{},[114,4960,4961,4964],{},[50,4962,4963],{},"Battery or wired is good flexibility."," Not every front door is prepared cleanly.",[114,4966,4967,4970],{},[50,4968,4969],{},"HomeKit Secure Video is a strong argument."," With cameras, I do not want the cheapest cloud adventure.",[114,4972,4973,4976],{},[50,4974,4975],{},"Local face recognition sounds useful."," For automations and known people, less as a gimmick.",[114,4978,4979,4982],{},[50,4980,4981],{},"No hard subscription lock-in is nice."," A doorbell should not demand monthly money before it becomes useful.",[19,4984],{},[12,4986,4987,4988,4992],{},"Together with a camera like the ",[308,4989,4991],{"href":4990},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Faqara-g100","Aqara G100",", this can become a small home-security setup that does not have to look like a surveillance center. More like: I know what is happening around the house without immediately becoming paranoid.",[42,4994,839],{"id":838},[12,4996,4997],{},"A video doorbell is not a magical security fence.",[19,4999],{},[12,5001,5002],{},"It shows you what happens. It does not replace a good door, common sense or the fact that WiFi near front doors likes to get weak exactly when you need it least.",[12,5004,5005,5006,5010],{},"That is why a clean home network matters. If that topic interests you, my ",[308,5007,5009],{"href":5008},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Funifi-dream-router-7","UniFi Dream Router 7 article"," fits nicely.",[42,5012,453],{"id":452},[12,5014,5015],{},"Yes, if you want a smart doorbell that fits well into an existing smart home.",[19,5017],{},[12,5019,5020],{},"Nobody absolutely needs a camera at the door. But it is practical to know what is happening at the front door without walking through the whole house every time.",[12,5022,5023],{},"The Aqara G4 is not a device that dramatically changes everyday life.",[12,5025,5026],{},"It just makes the front door a little smarter.",[12,5028,5029],{},"That is enough for me.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":5031},[5032,5033,5034,5035,5036],{"id":4917,"depth":199,"text":4918},{"id":4935,"depth":199,"text":4936},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":838,"depth":199,"text":839},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-02-17","My experience and take on the Aqara G4 Smart Wireless Video Doorbell with HomeKit Secure Video, battery option and local face recognition.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Faqara-g4-video-doorbell-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4uWPb3S",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Faqara-g4-video-doorbell",{"title":4895,"description":5038},"zeug\u002Faqara-g4-video-doorbell",[5046,5047,5048,5049,4716,5050,707],"aqara g4","aqara video doorbell","smarte türklingel","homekit secure video","türkameras","The Aqara G4 is exactly the kind of smart-home device that does not need to feel spectacular as long as it reliably does its job at the front door.","HeuOAmeYkrDOQHb01nzEpo6XzukFrFtT4CPI7NpHHws",{"id":5054,"title":5055,"badge":910,"body":5056,"category":686,"date":5182,"description":5183,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":5184,"link":5185,"linkText":212,"meta":5186,"navigation":214,"path":5187,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":5188,"stem":5189,"tags":5190,"verdict":5198,"visual":3727,"__hash__":5199},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fmechanische-tastatur.md","Keychron Q3 Max: my experience with the keyboard that no longer leaves my desk",{"type":9,"value":5057,"toc":5177},[5058,5061,5064,5066,5072,5075,5078,5082,5085,5088,5090,5093,5131,5135,5149,5153,5156,5159,5162,5164,5167,5170],[12,5059,5060],{},"I went through a phase where every new keyboard was supposed to be the last one. Switches changed, keycaps swapped, foam stuffed into the case.",[12,5062,5063],{},"With the Keychron Q3 Max, that was the first time it stopped being tinkering and became calm.",[19,5065],{},[12,5067,5068,5069,364],{},"Specifically, this is the ",[50,5070,5071],{},"Keychron Q3 Max QMK\u002FVIA",[12,5073,5074],{},"The 80 percent TKL version with German ISO layout, a massive aluminum case, rotary knob and the freedom to use it over 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth or USB-C.",[12,5076,5077],{},"If you are looking for a Keychron Q3 Max experience: this is my everyday life with exactly this keyboard, not a lab test.",[42,5079,5081],{"id":5080},"why-exactly-the-q3-max","Why exactly the Q3 Max",[12,5083,5084],{},"Because of the feel, not only because of the specs.",[12,5086,5087],{},"The keystroke is precise, but not harsh. The aluminum case removes that hollow plastic clatter. The gasket construction, PC plate and dampening make it sound full without screaming keyboard YouTube show.",[19,5089],{},[12,5091,5092],{},"What I like about it:",[111,5094,5095,5101,5107,5113,5119,5125],{},[114,5096,5097,5100],{},[50,5098,5099],{},"80 percent TKL layout:"," Arrow keys and the function row stay, the numpad is gone. Exactly right for my desk.",[114,5102,5103,5106],{},[50,5104,5105],{},"ISO layout:"," A variant that makes sense for German typing instead of an ANSI compromise.",[114,5108,5109,5112],{},[50,5110,5111],{},"Wireless or cable:"," 2.4 GHz for everyday use, Bluetooth for multiple devices, USB-C when it should be absolutely simple.",[114,5114,5115,5118],{},[50,5116,5117],{},"QMK\u002FVIA:"," Keys, layers and macros can be adjusted without logging into some vendor cloud.",[114,5120,5121,5124],{},[50,5122,5123],{},"Hot-swap:"," Switches can be changed without soldering.",[114,5126,5127,5130],{},[50,5128,5129],{},"Rotary knob:"," Mostly volume for me. Boring, but constantly useful.",[42,5132,5134],{"id":5133},"the-honest-weaknesses","The honest weaknesses",[111,5136,5137,5140,5143,5146],{},[114,5138,5139],{},"It is heavy. For me that is a plus, for a backpack less so.",[114,5141,5142],{},"It is not silent. Depending on the switches, people on video calls can sometimes hear that I am typing.",[114,5144,5145],{},"VIA is powerful, but not pretty. You use it once, set everything up and close it again.",[114,5147,5148],{},"It is not cheap. You are really paying for the case, wireless, firmware and feel here.",[42,5150,5152],{"id":5151},"why-it-stays","Why it stays",[12,5154,5155],{},"Because it does not look like a compromise.",[12,5157,5158],{},"No wobbly office board, no gamer plastic, no driver drama.",[12,5160,5161],{},"It is heavy, direct, customizable and still practical every day.",[19,5163],{},[12,5165,5166],{},"For me, the Keychron Q3 Max is exactly the kind of gadget that quickly becomes unspectacular after buying it.",[12,5168,5169],{},"It is not boring, it simply works every day. That is good stuff.",[12,5171,5172,5173,364],{},"Why only things I would actually recommend land here at all is in ",[308,5174,5176],{"href":5175},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fwarum-diese-seite-existiert","Why this site exists",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":5178},[5179,5180,5181],{"id":5080,"depth":199,"text":5081},{"id":5133,"depth":199,"text":5134},{"id":5151,"depth":199,"text":5152},"2026-02-09","My experience with the Keychron Q3 Max: a heavy wireless TKL keyboard with German ISO layout, QMK\u002FVIA and exactly the right amount of nerdiness.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fmechanische-tastatur-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Fkeychron.de\u002Fproducts\u002Fkeychron-q3-max-qmk-via-wireless-custom-mechanical-keyboard-iso-layout-collection?ref=inmfssut",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fmechanische-tastatur",{"title":5055,"description":5183},"zeug\u002Fmechanische-tastatur",[5191,5192,5193,5194,5195,5196,5197,707],"keychron q3 max","keychron","mechanische tastatur","tkl tastatur","qmk","via","iso-layout","Heavy, calm, properly built. The Q3 Max is the keyboard that made me stop looking.","QhGiql1Z3FNIXy1Rx7M934tCYxAMNLP6VWr07Dxg4B0",{"id":5201,"title":5202,"badge":7,"body":5203,"category":686,"date":5377,"description":5378,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":5379,"link":5380,"linkText":212,"meta":5381,"navigation":214,"path":5382,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":5383,"stem":5384,"tags":5385,"verdict":5392,"visual":3727,"__hash__":5393},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Faqara-smart-lock-u200.md","Aqara Smart Lock U200: when the front door finally feels like smart home",{"type":9,"value":5204,"toc":5370},[5205,5208,5211,5214,5216,5223,5226,5229,5233,5241,5244,5246,5249,5252,5255,5258,5262,5265,5267,5270,5273,5276,5279,5281,5313,5315,5326,5329,5332,5334,5337,5339,5342,5345,5348,5351,5353,5356,5358,5361,5364,5367],[12,5206,5207],{},"A smart door lock is one of those products where you quickly notice whether smart home actually helps or only pretends to.",[12,5209,5210],{},"Lights through an app are nice.",[12,5212,5213],{},"A door through an app is trust.",[19,5215],{},[12,5217,5218,5219,5222],{},"That is why the ",[50,5220,5221],{},"Aqara Smart Lock U200"," is interesting to me. It is not just a motor on a lock. It combines a retrofit lock with a keypad, fingerprint, NFC, Apple Home Key and Matter over Thread.",[12,5224,5225],{},"That sounds like a feature list.",[12,5227,5228],{},"In everyday life, it sounds more like: I leave, I come back, and the keychain suddenly plays a smaller role.",[42,5230,5232],{"id":5231},"after-nuki-the-bar-was-clear","After Nuki, the bar was clear",[12,5234,5235,5236,5240],{},"I already liked the ",[308,5237,5239],{"href":5238},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Fnuki-smart-lock-opener","Nuki Smart Lock & Opener",", especially back in the rental apartment.",[12,5242,5243],{},"Nuki proved to me that a smart lock does not have to be a toy. It can genuinely remove friction from a very everyday routine.",[19,5245],{},[12,5247,5248],{},"With the Aqara U200, the focus feels a little different.",[12,5250,5251],{},"This is less about the rental-apartment-hack feeling and more about the modern smart-home feeling: place your finger, the door opens. Use Apple Home Key, the door opens. Give out a code, the door opens. Add Matter, build automations.",[12,5253,5254],{},"When that works cleanly, it does not feel futuristic.",[12,5256,5257],{},"It simply feels overdue.",[42,5259,5261],{"id":5260},"what-makes-the-u200-interesting","What makes the U200 interesting",[12,5263,5264],{},"The U200 sits on the existing lock as a retrofit solution and does not require fundamentally changing the door. The keypad goes outside, the motor works inside.",[19,5266],{},[12,5268,5269],{},"But the big everyday difference comes from the choice rather than the motor.",[12,5271,5272],{},"Fingerprint for quick entry. Code for guests. Apple Home Key if you already live in the Apple ecosystem. A classic key as backup. Matter over Thread for integration into larger smart-home setups.",[12,5274,5275],{},"That is exactly the kind of redundancy I like on a door.",[12,5277,5278],{},"Instead of one way in, there are several good ones.",[42,5280,109],{"id":108},[111,5282,5283,5289,5295,5301,5307],{},[114,5284,5285,5288],{},[50,5286,5287],{},"Fingerprint is the best everyday entry method."," No searching for your phone, no typing a code, just open the door.",[114,5290,5291,5294],{},[50,5292,5293],{},"Apple Home Key feels right."," If you already use Apple Wallet, a door key there makes surprising sense.",[114,5296,5297,5300],{},[50,5298,5299],{},"Matter over Thread matters."," No setup becomes automatically perfect through it, but a door lock should not live on a completely separate island.",[114,5302,5303,5306],{},[50,5304,5305],{},"Codes are practical."," For guests, family or situations where you do not want to copy a physical key.",[114,5308,5309,5312],{},[50,5310,5311],{},"Retrofit remains reassuring."," As long as the cylinder and door fit, you do not immediately have to rebuild the entire front door.",[19,5314],{},[12,5316,5317,5318,5322,5323,5325],{},"Together with devices like the ",[308,5319,5321],{"href":5320},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Faqara-g4-video-doorbell","Aqara G4 Video Doorbell"," or the ",[308,5324,4991],{"href":4990},", this quickly becomes a smart-home setup that no longer feels like separate pieces.",[12,5327,5328],{},"Doorbell, camera, lock.",[12,5330,5331],{},"Suddenly the entrance area becomes one connected thing.",[42,5333,147],{"id":146},[12,5335,5336],{},"With door locks, there is no room for romantic sugarcoating.",[19,5338],{},[12,5340,5341],{},"The door has to fit. The cylinder has to fit. The keypad has to be placed sensibly. The battery has to be charged. And Matter over Thread needs the right infrastructure, for example a Thread border router and a Matter controller.",[12,5343,5344],{},"Manufacturer apps also still matter. Matter makes many things more compatible, but not every special feature lands perfectly in every smart-home system.",[12,5346,5347],{},"That is not bad.",[12,5349,5350],{},"You just need to know it before expecting one lock to be equally powerful in every app after five minutes.",[42,5352,453],{"id":452},[12,5354,5355],{},"Yes, if you want a smart lock that genuinely feels like modern everyday life.",[19,5357],{},[12,5359,5360],{},"Fingerprint, code, Apple Home Key, smart-home integration and backup in one setup, instead of just app open, door open.",[12,5362,5363],{},"For me, the Aqara Smart Lock U200 is good stuff because it creates comfort in a very important place without feeling like an experiment.",[12,5365,5366],{},"With a lamp, that is nice.",[12,5368,5369],{},"With a front door, that is strong.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":5371},[5372,5373,5374,5375,5376],{"id":5231,"depth":199,"text":5232},{"id":5260,"depth":199,"text":5261},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":146,"depth":199,"text":147},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-02-06","My experience and take on the Aqara Smart Lock U200 as a retrofit door lock with fingerprint, keypad, Apple Home Key and Matter over Thread.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Faqara-smart-lock-u200-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4o11jya",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Faqara-smart-lock-u200",{"title":5202,"description":5378},"zeug\u002Faqara-smart-lock-u200",[5386,5387,5388,5389,5390,5391,4716],"aqara smart lock u200","aqara u200","smart lock","apple home key","matter over thread","door lock","The Aqara U200 is the moment where a smart door lock stops feeling like a hack and starts feeling like everyday life.","QhXUSkgFH__JIKzdZyGI23e_oS6CG-5iDZGs-B9YMVs",{"id":5395,"title":5396,"badge":1111,"body":5397,"category":686,"date":5524,"description":5525,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":5526,"link":5527,"linkText":212,"meta":5528,"navigation":214,"path":5529,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":5530,"stem":5531,"tags":5532,"verdict":5539,"visual":3727,"__hash__":5540},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fshure-mv7.md","Shure MV7: the microphone that stops home office from sounding like a laptop",{"type":9,"value":5398,"toc":5517},[5399,5402,5405,5407,5413,5416,5420,5423,5426,5428,5431,5434,5438,5441,5443,5446,5449,5451,5477,5479,5486,5488,5491,5493,5496,5499,5503,5506,5508,5511,5514],[12,5400,5401],{},"Good sound is unfair.",[12,5403,5404],{},"When it is there, you barely notice it. When it is missing, every call immediately feels more exhausting.",[19,5406],{},[12,5408,48,5409,5412],{},[50,5410,5411],{},"Shure MV7"," is one of those devices for me that does not loudly scream \"premium\", but simply makes sure I no longer sound like an internal laptop microphone.",[12,5414,5415],{},"That is a bigger upgrade than you expect.",[42,5417,5419],{"id":5418},"why-use-a-separate-microphone-at-all","Why use a separate microphone at all?",[12,5421,5422],{},"In the home office, you talk into technology a lot.",[12,5424,5425],{},"Meetings, quick check-ins, longer explanations, maybe a recording or voiceover here and there. Every time, a small microphone decides whether you sound pleasant or like you joined from another room.",[19,5427],{},[12,5429,5430],{},"I wanted something that works without an audio degree, but does not sound like a toy.",[12,5432,5433],{},"The MV7 fits exactly between those two points.",[42,5435,5437],{"id":5436},"usb-now-xlr-later","USB now, XLR later",[12,5439,5440],{},"The big advantage: the MV7 does USB and XLR.",[19,5442],{},[12,5444,5445],{},"For everyday use, USB is wonderfully simple. Plug in, open the software, set levels, done. If you later want to use an audio interface, XLR is there without buying a completely new microphone.",[12,5447,5448],{},"That is the kind of flexibility I like: practical if the setup grows, without complexity for its own sake.",[42,5450,109],{"id":108},[111,5452,5453,5459,5465,5471],{},[114,5454,5455,5458],{},[50,5456,5457],{},"The voice sounds closer and cleaner."," Especially compared to laptop or webcam microphones.",[114,5460,5461,5464],{},[50,5462,5463],{},"Dynamic is helpful in a normal room."," It does not capture every tiny room sound as mercilessly as many sensitive condenser microphones.",[114,5466,5467,5470],{},[50,5468,5469],{},"USB makes getting started easy."," No forced interface, no setup drama.",[114,5472,5473,5476],{},[50,5474,5475],{},"The Shure software is practical enough."," Auto gain, presets and a little sound shaping are enough for everyday use.",[19,5478],{},[12,5480,5481,5482,5485],{},"Together with a proper camera like the ",[308,5483,4432],{"href":5484},"\u002Fen\u002Fzeug\u002Finsta360-link-2",", it creates a home-office setup that does not feel overdone, but comes across much better.",[42,5487,839],{"id":838},[12,5489,5490],{},"The MV7 is not a magical room improver.",[19,5492],{},[12,5494,5495],{},"If the room echoes like a stairwell, you will hear that. If the microphone is positioned badly, it will sound bad. You need to be reasonably close and aim it properly.",[12,5497,5498],{},"It also takes space on the desk, ideally with an arm. Just placing it somewhere and hoping is like lighting: technically possible, rarely nice.",[42,5500,5502],{"id":5501},"who-it-fits","Who it fits",[12,5504,5505],{},"People who speak a lot and do not want to think about sound every time.",[19,5507],{},[12,5509,5510],{},"Calls, small recordings, streaming, explanations, voice chats. Anything where voice matters, but you do not want to build a full studio.",[12,5512,5513],{},"I like that the MV7 sounds serious enough without being intimidating. It is not an audio-nerd monster. It is simply a good microphone that stays on the desk and does its job.",[12,5515,5516],{},"Exactly my kind of thing.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":5518},[5519,5520,5521,5522,5523],{"id":5418,"depth":199,"text":5419},{"id":5436,"depth":199,"text":5437},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":838,"depth":199,"text":839},{"id":5501,"depth":199,"text":5502},"2026-01-30","My experience with the Shure MV7 as a USB and XLR microphone for calls, recordings and a much more grown-up desk sound.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fshure-mv7-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4fFbKpl",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fshure-mv7",{"title":5396,"description":5525},"zeug\u002Fshure-mv7",[5533,5534,5535,5536,5537,4257,5538],"shure mv7","mikrofon","usb mikrofon","xlr mikrofon","podcast mikrofon","audio","The MV7 is my sweet spot between good sound, easy use and enough room to grow later.","D_kJFOg6WR9y26iZ9cRC8AX6btJdrMnwvQfxfF8xiZI",{"id":5542,"title":5543,"badge":1884,"body":5544,"category":686,"date":5676,"description":5677,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":5678,"link":5679,"linkText":212,"meta":5680,"navigation":214,"path":5681,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":5682,"stem":5683,"tags":5684,"verdict":5691,"visual":3727,"__hash__":5692},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Faqara-g100.md","Aqara G100: small camera, big smart-home usefulness",{"type":9,"value":5545,"toc":5669},[5546,5549,5552,5554,5560,5564,5567,5569,5572,5575,5578,5582,5585,5588,5590,5593,5595,5598,5601,5603,5635,5637,5643,5645,5648,5650,5653,5656,5658,5661,5663,5666],[12,5547,5548],{},"Cameras around the house are a topic where I quickly become careful.",[12,5550,5551],{},"Not because I find the technology boring. Quite the opposite. But there is a narrow line between \"I want to see what is going on\" and \"my home suddenly feels like a badly managed airport\".",[19,5553],{},[12,5555,48,5556,5559],{},[50,5557,5558],{},"Aqara Camera G100"," is interesting to me because it is small, flexible and not unnecessarily dramatic.",[42,5561,5563],{"id":5562},"a-camera-for-indoors-and-outdoors","A camera for indoors and outdoors",[12,5565,5566],{},"The G100 is meant as an indoor and outdoor camera, offers 2K resolution, a wide field of view, Wi-Fi 6 on 2.4 GHz, Bluetooth, local microSD storage and support for HomeKit Secure Video, Google and Alexa.",[19,5568],{},[12,5570,5571],{},"It also brings AI detection and two night-vision modes: classic infrared or color night vision with a spotlight.",[12,5573,5574],{},"That is a lot for such a small thing.",[12,5576,5577],{},"But the everyday point is simpler: I do not want to search for a completely different solution for every place around the house.",[42,5579,5581],{"id":5580},"why-aqara-fits-here","Why Aqara fits here",[12,5583,5584],{},"Aqara is interesting to me because many of the devices are pretty pragmatic.",[12,5586,5587],{},"Not always perfect, not always luxurious, but often exactly in that smart-home zone where a product can do enough without reinventing the whole setup.",[19,5589],{},[12,5591,5592],{},"With the G100, the price is part of the appeal too. For a smart-home camera, it is surprisingly affordable. That does not automatically make it good, but it lowers the barrier a lot if you want to test one spot without turning it into a small security budget.",[19,5594],{},[12,5596,5597],{},"The G100 fits that well. It is not a huge camera that visually shouts \"security equipment\" immediately. More like a small viewpoint for places where you want to know what is happening.",[12,5599,5600],{},"Entrance, garage, garden shed, hallway, front-door area. Those kinds of spots.",[42,5602,109],{"id":108},[111,5604,5605,5611,5617,5623,5629],{},[114,5606,5607,5610],{},[50,5608,5609],{},"2K makes sense for overview."," Cinema quality is beside the point, but details should not immediately turn to mush.",[114,5612,5613,5616],{},[50,5614,5615],{},"Indoor and outdoor makes it flexible."," You do not buy a special solution for every corner right away.",[114,5618,5619,5622],{},[50,5620,5621],{},"HomeKit Secure Video is reassuring."," With cameras, privacy is not a small detail.",[114,5624,5625,5628],{},[50,5626,5627],{},"Color night vision can be practical."," Not always necessary, but better than only gray ghost images.",[114,5630,5631,5634],{},[50,5632,5633],{},"Local storage is a plus."," Cloud is nice, local control is nicer.",[19,5636],{},[12,5638,5639,5640,5642],{},"Together with the ",[308,5641,5321],{"href":5320},", this can cover the important areas around a house without looking like a professional surveillance installation.",[42,5644,147],{"id":146},[12,5646,5647],{},"A small camera remains a small camera.",[19,5649],{},[12,5651,5652],{},"It needs power, stable WiFi and a sensible viewing angle. If you place it somewhere and just hope everything works out, you may get an excellent recording of the wrong wall.",[12,5654,5655],{},"Also, with cameras, it is always worth asking what you really need to see. More camera does not automatically mean a better feeling.",[42,5657,453],{"id":452},[12,5659,5660],{},"Yes, if you are looking for a compact smart-home camera that fits well into existing ecosystems.",[19,5662],{},[12,5664,5665],{},"The point is not to film every corner of life, but to cover the few places where overview is genuinely helpful.",[12,5667,5668],{},"For me, the Aqara G100 is good stuff when used deliberately. That is when it feels practical rather than annoying.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":5670},[5671,5672,5673,5674,5675],{"id":5562,"depth":199,"text":5563},{"id":5580,"depth":199,"text":5581},{"id":108,"depth":199,"text":109},{"id":146,"depth":199,"text":147},{"id":452,"depth":199,"text":453},"2026-01-23","My experience and take on the Aqara Camera G100 as a 2K indoor and outdoor camera with HomeKit Secure Video, Wi-Fi 6 and night vision.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Faqara-g100-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4erE0dN",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Faqara-g100",{"title":5543,"description":5677},"zeug\u002Faqara-g100",[5685,5686,5687,5049,5688,5689,5690],"aqara g100","aqara camera g100","smart home kamera","außenkamera","innenkamera","wi-fi 6","The Aqara G100 is interesting because it feels more like a small tool for better overview than like a security project.","uyH4n5TEEkPkpXtw1PFyD1b7iHqoEDNvh5y60s69hYM",{"id":5694,"title":5695,"badge":1111,"body":5696,"category":205,"date":5850,"description":5851,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":5852,"link":5853,"linkText":212,"meta":5854,"navigation":214,"path":5855,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":5856,"stem":5857,"tags":5858,"verdict":5864,"visual":709,"__hash__":5865},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fnuki-smart-lock-opener.md","Nuki Smart Lock & Opener: keys out, rental apartment unharmed",{"type":9,"value":5697,"toc":5843},[5698,5701,5704,5706,5712,5715,5719,5722,5725,5727,5730,5733,5736,5739,5743,5746,5749,5751,5754,5757,5760,5764,5796,5798,5801,5804,5806,5809,5811,5814,5817,5820,5824,5826,5829,5831,5834,5837,5840],[12,5699,5700],{},"A smart door lock in a rental apartment first sounds like a very bad idea.",[12,5702,5703],{},"Drilling, landlord stress, move-out panic and that one screw you will definitely not find again when you need to restore everything.",[19,5705],{},[12,5707,5708,5709,5711],{},"That is exactly why ",[50,5710,5239],{}," was so interesting to me back then.",[12,5713,5714],{},"Not because it suddenly made the door look like a sci-fi gadget. But because it made the existing apartment door and intercom smarter without turning the apartment into an electrical project.",[42,5716,5718],{"id":5717},"why-nuki-made-sense-in-a-rental","Why Nuki made sense in a rental",[12,5720,5721],{},"In an apartment, the door situation is often annoying twice.",[12,5723,5724],{},"Downstairs is the building entrance. Upstairs is your own apartment door. Somewhere between those two sits a keychain that suddenly feels very analog.",[19,5726],{},[12,5728,5729],{},"The Smart Lock handles the apartment door. The Opener connects to the intercom and makes the building door buzzer smarter.",[12,5731,5732],{},"That sounds like a small thing.",[12,5734,5735],{},"It is not.",[12,5737,5738],{},"When you are standing outside with grocery bags, want to let someone in or simply do not want to search for your keys all the time, this combination quickly starts to feel completely normal.",[42,5740,5742],{"id":5741},"the-real-appeal-removable-comfort","The real appeal: removable comfort",[12,5744,5745],{},"The good thing about Nuki was never only locking and unlocking through an app.",[12,5747,5748],{},"The good thing was: it fit rental life.",[19,5750],{},[12,5752,5753],{},"You do not rebuild the whole door. You do not replace the entire lock concept. You mount something on the inside of the existing setup and can remove it later.",[12,5755,5756],{},"Of course the cylinder has to fit. Of course the intercom has to be compatible. Especially with the Opener, you should really run the compatibility check first and not just hope that wires are always friendly to each other.",[12,5758,5759],{},"But when it fits, the effect is surprisingly big.",[42,5761,5763],{"id":5762},"what-i-liked-about-it","What I liked about it",[111,5765,5766,5772,5778,5784,5790],{},[114,5767,5768,5771],{},[50,5769,5770],{},"The combination of Smart Lock and Opener solves the whole door problem."," Not just the apartment door, but the way through the building entrance too.",[114,5773,5774,5777],{},[50,5775,5776],{},"It feels rental-friendly."," No big rebuild, no permanent door changes.",[114,5779,5780,5783],{},[50,5781,5782],{},"Auto Unlock feels magical when it works cleanly."," You come home and the door thinks along for a second.",[114,5785,5786,5789],{},[50,5787,5788],{},"Digital access is practical."," Visitors, family or someone who briefly needs to get in do not immediately need a physical key.",[114,5791,5792,5795],{},[50,5793,5794],{},"Everyday life becomes quieter."," Not emotionally. Practically. Less stuff in your pocket, less key chaos.",[19,5797],{},[12,5799,5800],{},"Compared with many smart-home toys, Nuki had a very clear use. This was not a sensor that makes some graph look nicer. This was a door that became less annoying.",[12,5802,5803],{},"And doors are annoying surprisingly often.",[42,5805,147],{"id":146},[12,5807,5808],{},"A smart door lock is a matter of trust.",[19,5810],{},[12,5812,5813],{},"If the app acts up, the battery is empty or Auto Unlock has a bad day, you quickly remember that keys are actually a pretty robust technology.",[12,5815,5816],{},"That is why I would never treat this kind of setup as something without backup. A normal key should still be reachable. Battery levels should be taken seriously. And in apartment buildings, you have to accept that the intercom may be older than your patience.",[12,5818,5819],{},"Also, the Smart Lock is audible. Not dramatic, but it is a small motor on the door. If you expect absolute silence, you will be briefly irritated.",[42,5821,5823],{"id":5822},"would-i-use-it-again","Would I use it again?",[12,5825,1536],{},[12,5827,5828],{},"Especially in a rental apartment, Nuki was good stuff for me because it did not try to rethink the whole apartment.",[19,5830],{},[12,5832,5833],{},"It just made a very everyday flow better.",[12,5835,5836],{},"Getting in, unlocking, letting someone in, without constantly searching for keys.",[12,5838,5839],{},"That is not glamorous. But when a product removes friction from exactly that small daily spot, it does not need to be glamorous.",[12,5841,5842],{},"It is enough when you eventually notice: I do not really want to go back.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":5844},[5845,5846,5847,5848,5849],{"id":5717,"depth":199,"text":5718},{"id":5741,"depth":199,"text":5742},{"id":5762,"depth":199,"text":5763},{"id":146,"depth":199,"text":147},{"id":5822,"depth":199,"text":5823},"2026-01-20","My experience with the Nuki Smart Lock and Nuki Opener in an old rental apartment where the downstairs entrance mattered as much as the apartment door.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fnuki-smart-lock-opener-cover.webp","https:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F4o1VVLv",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fnuki-smart-lock-opener",{"title":5695,"description":5851},"zeug\u002Fnuki-smart-lock-opener",[5859,5860,5388,5861,5862,5863,4716],"nuki smart lock","nuki opener","mietwohnung","türschloss","intercom","Nuki worked so well for me in a rental because it felt like a big upgrade without turning the apartment into a big project.","xB-vu4MsjO8U3A6fBMfGwiS4oPY8yWXzigFbeGhPXOQ",{"id":5867,"title":5868,"badge":1111,"body":5869,"category":6026,"date":6027,"description":6028,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":6029,"link":212,"linkText":212,"meta":6030,"navigation":214,"path":6031,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":6032,"stem":6033,"tags":6034,"verdict":6039,"visual":505,"__hash__":6040},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fzu-mir-und-warum-mir-dinge-gefallen.md","Why I like things: home office, house and too much curiosity",{"type":9,"value":5870,"toc":6020},[5871,5874,5876,5879,5882,5884,5887,5890,5893,5896,5899,5903,5906,5908,5911,5914,5916,5919,5922,5925,5928,5931,5935,5938,5940,5943,5946,5948,5951,5953,5956,5959,5962,5964,5967,5971,5974,5976,5979,5981,5994,5997,6001,6004,6007,6009,6012,6014,6017],[12,5872,5873],{},"I am Marc, programmer, tech freak and probably the kind of person who does not simply turn on a new lamp, but first wants to know whether it can also be controlled through an app, automation or a dumb workaround.",[19,5875],{},[12,5877,5878],{},"That is not always healthy.",[12,5880,5881],{},"But often very entertaining.",[19,5883],{},[12,5885,5886],{},"I work from home a lot, so I sit at my own desk more than I sometimes like.",[12,5888,5889],{},"That makes small things stand out more: a keyboard that annoys me.",[12,5891,5892],{},"A microphone that sounds in calls like a wet shoebox.",[12,5894,5895],{},"Light that makes the room look more like a dentist waiting room in the evening than a home.",[12,5897,5898],{},"That is exactly where good stuff starts for me.",[42,5900,5902],{"id":5901},"tech-does-not-have-to-be-spectacular","Tech does not have to be spectacular",[12,5904,5905],{},"I do not like products that only impress on the spec sheet.",[19,5907],{},[12,5909,5910],{},"Of course I read spec sheets. Far too many, even.",[12,5912,5913],{},"But in the end, something else counts for me: do I like using the thing? Does it make something better without pushing its existence into my face every day?",[19,5915],{},[12,5917,5918],{},"A good keyboard eventually is just the keyboard.",[12,5920,5921],{},"A good webcam makes sure I do not look in meetings like a hostage situation on VHS.",[12,5923,5924],{},"A good robot vacuum reduces the little floor dirt you would otherwise ignore for three days.",[12,5926,5927],{},"That is not glamorous.",[12,5929,5930],{},"That is everyday life.",[42,5932,5934],{"id":5933},"owning-a-house-is-dangerous","Owning a house is dangerous",[12,5936,5937],{},"Since I have owned a house, the playground has become bigger.",[19,5939],{},[12,5941,5942],{},"Earlier, a gadget was usually something for the desk.",[12,5944,5945],{},"Today, it can suddenly affect the network, lights, cleaning, doorbell, cameras, coffee corner or some corner in the hallway that was actually never supposed to become a project.",[19,5947],{},[12,5949,5950],{},"Spoiler: every corner can become a project.",[19,5952],{},[12,5954,5955],{},"That is exactly the trap.",[12,5957,5958],{},"A house gives tech ideas room.",[12,5960,5961],{},"You try something, notice that it is actually useful, and suddenly you are standing there on Saturday thinking: \"Actually, I could automate this more cleanly.\"",[19,5963],{},[12,5965,5966],{},"Nobody asked. You do it anyway.",[42,5968,5970],{"id":5969},"why-i-recommend-things","Why I recommend things",[12,5972,5973],{},"Being new, expensive and advertised with eight exclamation marks on the product page earns nothing from me.",[19,5975],{},[12,5977,5978],{},"I recommend things when they stick with me. When, after a few weeks, I notice that I no longer want to return, replace or mentally improve them.",[19,5980],{},[12,5982,5983,5984,5987,5988,2584,5990,5993],{},"That is exactly why this site exists. The more detailed starting point is in ",[308,5985,5986],{"href":5175},"Why nurguteszeug exists",". And concrete examples are things like the ",[308,5989,3485],{"href":3484},[308,5991,5992],{"href":1428},"Hermes as AI for everyday life"," or later some light strip where I tell myself that atmosphere is a valid technical use case.",[12,5995,5996],{},"It is, by the way.",[42,5998,6000],{"id":5999},"the-actual-standard","The actual standard",[12,6002,6003],{},"I do not want to collect perfect products.",[12,6005,6006],{},"Perfect products almost never exist.",[19,6008],{},[12,6010,6011],{},"I want to collect things where the advantages in everyday life are bigger than the flaws. Things that bring joy without constantly wanting attention. Things where I can honestly tell someone: \"Take a look at this, it might fit you.\"",[19,6013],{},[12,6015,6016],{},"There is not more behind it.",[12,6018,6019],{},"Just a bit of curiosity, a home office, a house and far too little resistance against good stuff.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":6021},[6022,6023,6024,6025],{"id":5901,"depth":199,"text":5902},{"id":5933,"depth":199,"text":5934},{"id":5969,"depth":199,"text":5970},{"id":5999,"depth":199,"text":6000},"Experiment","2026-01-12","Why I constantly try good stuff as a programmer, tech freak and home-office person, and what owning a house has to do with it.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fzu-mir-und-warum-mir-dinge-gefallen-cover.webp",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fzu-mir-und-warum-mir-dinge-gefallen",{"title":5868,"description":6028},"zeug\u002Fzu-mir-und-warum-mir-dinge-gefallen",[6035,6036,4408,3901,6037,6038,3902],"nurguteszeug","about me","gadgets","programmer","I like things that make everyday life a little easier, cleaner or funnier. There is no more magic to it.","d2v_YvcCUfe_vWvpWtJpbDVwoRjB7DL_zkGPB_SYHhQ",{"id":6042,"title":5986,"badge":1111,"body":6043,"category":6026,"date":6231,"description":6232,"draft":208,"extension":209,"image":6233,"link":212,"linkText":212,"meta":6234,"navigation":214,"path":6235,"pinned":208,"publishTime":212,"seo":6236,"stem":6237,"tags":6238,"verdict":6244,"visual":505,"__hash__":6245},"zeug_en\u002Fzeug\u002Fwarum-diese-seite-existiert.md",{"type":9,"value":6044,"toc":6225},[6045,6048,6050,6053,6055,6058,6060,6063,6065,6068,6070,6073,6075,6078,6080,6083,6086,6090,6093,6096,6099,6101,6104,6106,6109,6111,6114,6120,6124,6127,6130,6160,6174,6178,6181,6184,6186,6189,6192,6195,6197,6200,6204,6207,6209,6212,6214,6217,6219,6222],[12,6046,6047],{},"Over the years, I kept getting the same message.",[19,6049],{},[12,6051,6052],{},"From friends, family, people around me: \"You once recommended this tool, what was it called again?\"",[19,6054],{},[12,6056,6057],{},"Or: \"Which keyboard would you buy?\"",[19,6059],{},[12,6061,6062],{},"Or: \"What was that small adapter again that you were so convinced by?\"",[19,6064],{},[12,6066,6067],{},"At some point I noticed that I was telling the same recommendations for the third, fourth, fifth time.",[19,6069],{},[12,6071,6072],{},"It never annoyed me, more the opposite.",[19,6074],{},[12,6076,6077],{},"I like good stuff.",[19,6079],{},[12,6081,6082],{},"I like it when a product, a tool or some small toy solves a real problem cleanly.",[12,6084,6085],{},"So now this site exists.",[42,6087,6089],{"id":6088},"how-recommendations-happen-for-me","How recommendations happen for me",[12,6091,6092],{},"I rarely just buy anything.",[12,6094,6095],{},"Once a topic has grabbed me, I usually go far too deep.",[12,6097,6098],{},"Reviews, forums, GitHub issues, Reddit threads, spec sheets, bad YouTube comparisons, good comments under bad YouTube comparisons.",[19,6100],{},[12,6102,6103],{},"Everything.",[19,6105],{},[12,6107,6108],{},"Finding the objectively best thing is not the goal. That almost never exists.",[19,6110],{},[12,6112,6113],{},"I want to find the thing that fits my use case so well that nothing surprises me afterwards.",[827,6115,6117],{"title":6116},"The actual filter",[12,6118,6119],{},"Nothing lands here if it is only okay. If I am not completely convinced, I do not recommend it. Then it simply does not exist for this site.",[42,6121,6123],{"id":6122},"what-should-land-here","What should land here",[12,6125,6126],{},"This site is not a testing lab. I do not measure keyboards with fantasy scores and I do not build tables where every product ends up with 8.4 out of 10 points.",[12,6128,6129],{},"This is where stuff lands that I would actually use or already use:",[111,6131,6132,6137,6142,6148,6154],{},[114,6133,6134,6136],{},[50,6135,887],{}," that removes work from me or makes a workflow noticeably better.",[114,6138,6139,6141],{},[50,6140,686],{}," that no longer annoys after buying it.",[114,6143,6144,6147],{},[50,6145,6146],{},"Gadgets"," that stick around after the first bit of fun.",[114,6149,6150,6153],{},[50,6151,6152],{},"Experiments"," that worked surprisingly well.",[114,6155,6156,6159],{},[50,6157,6158],{},"Small toys"," where I immediately want to message someone: \"Look at this.\"",[12,6161,6162,6163,6166,6167,6170,6171,364],{},"Concrete examples are my ",[308,6164,6165],{"href":2778},"RTK experience for coding agents",", the ",[308,6168,6169],{"href":3484},"Keychron Q3 Max experience"," and the ",[308,6172,6173],{"href":3680},"UniFi audit with Hermes",[42,6175,6177],{"id":6176},"why-i-am-making-this-public","Why I am making this public",[12,6179,6180],{},"First, because I want a reference archive for myself.",[12,6182,6183],{},"I want to still know in a year why I thought something was good, which variant I meant and what I really liked about it.",[19,6185],{},[12,6187,6188],{},"Second, because I want recommendations to be easier to share.",[12,6190,6191],{},"Instead of sending three voice messages every time, I can send a link.",[12,6193,6194],{},"Here, this is what I mean. Read this, then you will know whether it fits you too.",[19,6196],{},[12,6198,6199],{},"Third, because good recommendations on the internet have become weird. Too many affiliate lists, too many \"Top 10\" articles, too many texts where you notice after three paragraphs that nobody has really used the stuff.",[42,6201,6203],{"id":6202},"what-you-can-expect-here","What you can expect here",[12,6205,6206],{},"Opinion before neutrality.",[19,6208],{},[12,6210,6211],{},"If something is mediocre, it does not get in here.",[19,6213],{},[12,6215,6216],{},"If something has weaknesses, I write them down. And if I use an affiliate link, then not because a manufacturer paid me, but because this site is allowed to cover its own costs somehow.",[19,6218],{},[12,6220,6221],{},"That is the whole idea: good stuff, honestly recommended, in my words.",[12,6223,6224],{},"For friends, family, random readers and my future self, who again forgot what that one perfect thing was called.",{"title":195,"searchDepth":196,"depth":196,"links":6226},[6227,6228,6229,6230],{"id":6088,"depth":199,"text":6089},{"id":6122,"depth":199,"text":6123},{"id":6176,"depth":199,"text":6177},{"id":6202,"depth":199,"text":6203},"2026-01-09","Why I collect personal product recommendations, tool experiences and gadget tips on nurguteszeug.de that I would actually pass on.","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fwarum-diese-seite-existiert-cover.webp",{},"\u002Fzeug\u002Fwarum-diese-seite-existiert",{"title":5986,"description":6232},"zeug\u002Fwarum-diese-seite-existiert",[6239,6240,6241,6037,6242,6243],"product recommendations","honest recommendations","tool experiences","software","hardware","If I recommend something here, it is because I would use it myself or already do.","WcSQULvT75MPOnoWN8-_gaXD8TkWOtYRV3HqoGhJ_jQ"]