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Stephan

@thetraveller.bsky.social

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I am a traveller (not necessarily in a geographical sense) who seeks, observes … & occasionally finds. I am a programming software tester, studied physics, survived cancer & live at the seaside. I love the ocean and go swimming a lot – in winter, too.

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 20h

#Inktober2025, Day 18: Prompt word: #Deal

The deal of today: 1:30 hours of swimming time for 4 €. 🌊🏊🏻‍♂️🌊
Before going there, I went #OpenWater #Swimming in the #NorthSea @ 9°C .
Thankfully, the water in the pool was warmer than that: 27°C. 👍😃

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A photo shows an ink drawing of a receipt of a public swimming pool that lies on a wooden table.
The drawn receipt is a bit crumpled. On the paper is a black Kaweco fountain pen that was use to draw the receipt.
A red stamp includes the date '18.10.2025'

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 21h

Swimming 🌊🏊🌊 at 9°C in the water.
Sunny plus nice blue sky & ocean ➙ 😀😃😄

#OpenWaterSwimming #NorthSea

A very calm North Sea is under a clear blue sky. The colour of the water is blue, too. The horizon is marked by buildings on Hallig Nordstrandischmoor. In the foreground is a grassy area and an open air-shower. A small wooden bridge leads to a steel railing that allows easy entry inti the water.

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 1d

#Inktober2025, Day 17: Prompt word: #Ornate

An ornamental ornate. Or is it an ornate ornament?
None of the above? Either way: Enjoy & have a great weekend!

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A flowery ornament surrounds a red stamp with the date '17.10.2025'.
The ornament is made of spirals with coloured leaves on them.

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 2d

#Inktober2025, Day 16: Prompt word: #Blunder

Blunder, also known as debacle, fiasco or error.
Therefore: Do not try this on your (Unix-like) OS.
Really: DON'T!

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An ink drawing of an index finger hovering over the enter key of a key board. Above this a command line is shown that reads 'rm -rf /'.
Do not enter this in a Unix-like OS. A read stamp show the date '16.10.2025'.

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 3d

You're welcome. I can say that I didn't expect any reactions to this drawing. 😀
Maybe it cause some learning- or at least reading and consideration.

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 3d

I answered over @ sw-development-is.social/@TheTravelle... ➙ For more about trunk-based dev, I suggest @tdpauw.bsky.social's article thinkinglabs.io/articles/2025/… He wrote more great articles about the topic.
There's even a VCS that doesn't use branches: Jujutsu ➙ jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2025/…

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 3d

#Inktober2025, Day 15: Prompt word: #Ragged

Tattered and torn, ripped, frayn and worn, jagged, rough and notched… today is typography day.

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An ink drawing of the word 'RAGGED'. The letters are tattered and torn, but (more or less) readable.

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 3d

New blog post: Using Vale (https://vale.sh) to find zero-width characters in text files.

#testing

Checking Text with Vale

I'm currently reading Brian P. Hogan's book 'Write Better with Vale', about Vale (a command line tool to ease follwing style guides in prose text).While intended for prose text (as far as I know), Vale can also process any text file, including code. When I tried to copy & paste commands from the epub version of the book, into my shell, I got an error message:

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 4d

#Inktober2025, Day 14: Prompt word: #Trunk

Broadly speaking, a/the trunk (in software development), is the main line of changes in history.
In modern software development the following approach is often used for branching: Don't.

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A colour ink drawing shows how a 'trunk' is used in software development, together with branches.

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 5d

#Inktober2025, Day 13: Prompt word: #Drink

October, time for a hot beverage. ☕️

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A schematic ink drawing of a mug containing a hot steaming beverage.
A red stamp in the middle of the mug's side show the date '13.10.2025'

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 6d

#Inktober2025, Day 12: Prompt word: #Shredded

A contour drawing of a pile of… shredded wood parts.

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An ink contour drawing of a pile of shredded wood parts.
The ink is a light brown. A red stamp show the date '12.10.2025'

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 7d

#Inktober2025, Day 11: Prompt word: #Sting

Since I went swimming today in the North Sea (water 13°C, air 14°C) I felt like inking something marine.
That said: In this part of the ocean I've never seen any rays.

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An in drawing of an eagle ray that can (if it feels attacked) sting. The ray is only drawn as a contour only and the background is hatched in various blue tones.

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 8d

#Inktober2025, Day 10: Prompt word: #Sweep

Time for a technical topic: Cleaning up a directed graph using "Mark & Sweep" ❎🧹
See, for example ➙ www.geeksforgeeks.org/java/mark-an...

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An info graphic explains the "Mark and Sweep" algorithm to remove nodes that are not reachable from the root node of a directed graph.

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 9d

#Inktober2025, Day 9: Prompt word: #Heavy

Things are probably not getting heavier than a black hole.

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An ink drawing of a black hole shows a black disk behind a ring & disk of orange and red.

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 10d

#Inktober2025, Day 8: Prompt word: #Reckless

A reckless mixed media thing. 🤪

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A comic figure holds a sign with the text "Where's my reck???" on it.
The figure also has a thinking bubble saying "And what is a reck anyway?"

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Helena Steinhaus @helenasteinhaus.bsky.social · 11d

just sayin‘

Schwarzer Kreis, oben ein kaum sichtbarer Strich, der 110 Millionen Schaden durch „sozialbetrug“ bedeutet. Der Rest steht für 100 Milliarden durch Steuerbetrug.

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 11d

Since I just updated days-until-agiletd.herokuapp.com ➙ It's only 47 days until the @agiletdzone.bsky.social

Are y'all ready? 😃
Oh and BTW I still have an #AgileTDAmbassador disount code to share. It ask.

#agileTD

Days Until Agile Testing Days

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 11d

#Inktober2025, Day 7: Prompt word: #Starfish

Well … starfish ⭐️🐟

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An ink drawing of a starfish. It's a 5 arm star. The inner part is cross hatched in violet, red and orange.
The starfish is surrounded by a cross-hatching in green, turquoise, cyan and blue.
A red stamp marks includes the date 07.10.2025

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 12d

#Inktober2025, Day 6: Prompt word: #Pierce

With a licence to ink. ⓪⓪⑦

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An ink drawing of the numbers '007' using black and red ink.
A red stamp includes the date '05.10.2025'

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 13d

#Inktober2025, Day 5: Prompt word: #Deer

Oh dear, where's the foreground gone? 𐂂

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An ink drawing on orange ink shows a deer as 'negative space' by drawing only the background in horizontal (more or less) parallel lines.

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 14d

#Inktober2025, Day 4: Prompt word: #Murky

Self portrait in autumn coastal fog.

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An ink drawing shows a figure in blue ink behind a cross hatching in grey and black.
A hanko shows the date 05.10.2025

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 15d

#Inktober2025, Day 3: Prompt word: #Crown

2 × 50 Danish 🇩🇰 Øre = 1 crown

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An ink drawing of two Danish 50 Øre coins

Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 16d

#Inktober2025, Day 2: Prompt word: #Weave

Sometimes the first idea might not be the most terrific one.
And yet, you can see what you end up with.

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An ink drawing of a weaving pattern with the threads in different colours

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Stephan @thetraveller.bsky.social · 16d

#Inktober2025, Day 1: Prompt word: #Mustache

Moustache & walrus seemed obvious, to me at least.

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A black and white drawing of a walrus with a big moustache.