Strasbourg Cathedral, Alsace, France




Mark Pospesel (Coding and Other Stuff)
Coding, tech, living abroad, travel, hiking, vintage plastic bricks
Strasbourg Cathedral, Alsace, France




About to make our first road trip outside of Switzerland!

Afternoon outing: boat trip most of the way around Lake Ägeri followed by a 5 km walk home through forest and farm fields.




Previous summers I’ve spent a lot of time coding in flip-flops at the pool (while my son did swim team), and while I may do a similar thing with the lake here, this summer I hope to log a significant amount of coding time in hiking boots up on a mountain.
This has been my first summer working for myself, and the flexibility has really been great. (Previous summers I’ve worked from home with a relatively flexible schedule but as a full-time employee for someone else.)
My son has a friend visiting from overseas for three weeks, so we’re trying to balance work, showing them around, and taking some summer vacation days. After all, I can’t let them stay inside and play Fortnite all day!
Morning mountain: Mostelberg above Sattel. This is a small one (1200m), but it’s only about 15 minutes from home. I took the boys up here this morning to run around while I refactored some Core Data managed object relationships and network calls.

It was also just a beautiful morning in the Lauterbrunnen Valley (aka Rivendell).


Trümmelbach Falls selfie. There was an impressive amount of water moving through these chutes.

This morning we visited Trümmelbach Falls, a series of 10 glacier-fed waterfalls mostly hidden in a fissure in the wall of Lauterbrunnen Valley. Made me think of Henneth Annûn from the Lord of the Rings.


