--- title: 'Life, Tech & Adventures: A Journey in Bytes and Boardgames' url: 'https://blog.philippludewig.de/en' markdown: 'https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/index.md' lang: en date: '2024-08-06' taxonomy: category: - blog --- ![Hero Image](https://blog.philippludewig.de/user/pages/02.writing/firstimage.jpg) # Life, Tech & Adventures: A Journey in Bytes and Boardgames ### Baja California [Baja California](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/writing/mexico_baja_california) \[\]()Click here for the TL;DR [click](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/writing/mexico_tldr) Our world trip begins after just a short flight of about seven hours on the Californian Peninsula. Upon arrival, we made our way through customs, which seemed to catch someone every few minutes trying to smuggle something into the country. It took forever until... 11th Feb 2026 - Philipp Ludewig ### Reading on the Road: Responsibility, Observability, and Refactoring [Reading on the Road: Responsibility, Observability, and Refactoring](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/writing/on-observability-and-refactoring) Today I had a lot of time at my disposal as I sat on a bus from Momotombo to León. With Reddit blocked by my mobile data provider here in Nicaragua, I turned to my second most visited website [HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com/). Three articles immediately caught my eye and made me reminisce. The first article is from Gr... 6th Jan 2026 - Philipp Ludewig [ ![TL&DR Mexico](https://blog.philippludewig.de/images/a/4/a/7/6/a4a76774a8e0a017b77b656c3f275630790dda97-faro.jpg) ](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/writing/mexico_tldr) [ Mexico ](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/tag:Mexico#blog_list) ### TL&DR Mexico [TL&DR Mexico](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/writing/mexico_tldr) Aloha! We are Sarah and Philipp and we left Germany in October 2023 to live in Canada for a while. Since we couldn't renew our one-year visa, we decided to travel the world. We chose Mexico as our starting point and plan to travel through all countries in Central America and then fly from Costa Ri... 4th Jan 2026 - Philipp Ludewig [ googlepixel ](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/tag:googlepixel#blog_list) ### My Pixel 4A Battery Saga: Luck, Lessons, and a Fresh Start" [My Pixel 4A Battery Saga: Luck, Lessons, and a Fresh Start"](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/writing/battery-google-pixel-4) In my [last post](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/writing/a-word-for-local-password-vaults), I mentioned opting for the free battery replacement Google offered after their update turned my Pixel 4A’s battery into a glorified paperweight. What I didn’t share was the rollercoaster of an experience that followed—a mix of luck, frustration, and a surprising amount of personal... 2nd Feb 2025 - Philipp Ludewig - - 1 - [2](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:2) - [3](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:3) - [4](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:4) - [5](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:5) - [6](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:6) - [7](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:7) - [8](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:8) - [9](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:9) - [10](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:10) - [11](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:11) - [12](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:12) - [13](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/page:13) - - [Start Here](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/about-me) - [Writing](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en) - [Reading](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/reading) - [Now](https://blog.philippludewig.de/en/now) - English - [Deutsch](https://blog.philippludewig.de/de) --- ## Navigation - 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