Here’s a cliché of a sport cyclist: expensive gear, team clothes in matching colors, an overly competitive attitude and last but not least shaved legs. Of course it is not true for all cyclists. But go to a professional or even amateur race and you will find these people – and that’s fine. The cliché stopped me from any group events on a bicycle, though. It’s not that I don’t have respect for competitive cyclists and their achievements but I’m certainly not one of them.

It’s fascinating how sometimes rather small companies disrupt a (niche-)market that is controlled by one or two big players. That is what happened in the bike computer/navigation market. It was almost exclusively controlled by Garmin just a few years back. When I started cycling I bought a bike computer from Garmin. I knew Garmin’s GPS devices from cars and they offered a devices made for cyclists who ride longer, non-competitive rides - the ‘Touring Edge’.

Often I’m working in quiet places like libraries or shared office spaces. This led to the desire to have my laptop muted everytime I open it. And it should be muted not with 2 seconds delay but instant, no matter the load.

Years ago I created a very small piece of software to mute macOS everytime it is going into sleep mode or gets shutdown. It works pretty well for me and since people kept asking about it, I published it to Github.