The Art of Command Line

06 Dec 2021

A really helpful resource I found yesterday:

My notes from RC3 2020

28 Dec 2020

This year (Dec 2020) I had a ticket for the RC3. They were freely distributed, but ran out quickly. So I felt proud, and spent quite some time wtaching the CCC sessions.

Mac: Recording screen & sound

11 Jun 2020

TL;DR In order to record the screen of your Mac together with the sound (i.e. a Zoom session) you can use Soundflower.

Setting up my terminal

06 Feb 2020 on Tech

I know, there are lots of articles and explanations out there on how to configure and set up your terminal. Yet, it took me more than 2 hours to get things working the way I wanted. Reason was, lots of the articles and explanations provide step by step guide on installing things, but to little background information on how things relate and work together in the background. And that’s what was missing to me…

Tips for travelling Vietnam

17 Nov 2019

Neulich fragte mich ein Freund nach Tips für’s Reisen in Vietnam: Ein Freund von ihm wollte für 10 Tage (!!) nach Vietnam reisen. Die Tips, die ich bei dieser Gelegenheit zusamengetragen habe, habe ich seitdem noch mindestens 5x weitergegeben. Deswegen schreibe ich sie jetzt hier auf. Und deshalb in der Dialog-Form…

Ping Visualization and Analysis

08 Jan 2016 on Tech

So this is the situation I am facing: I use an internet access that doesn’t feel reliable. Sometimes it’s really fast, sometimes it just feels being very unreliable. And I never know what part exactly is just failing: Is the the application that is slow, is it the WIFI, is it the Internet access.

A nice tool to play around - because it’s nice to see where you’ve been and because it’s a nice piece of JS:

SiteWeightWatcher - keeps your website slim

27 Dec 2015 on Tech

Good software developers test their stuff. And the TDD (Test Driven Development) addicts are maniacs when it comes to testing. Those guys usually think in code, be it Java, Python, nodeJS, you name it. TDD means you write tests first, then you code just as much as it takes to let the tests become green. Then you rework your code and only then you start writing tests for new requirements.

Adding Search to a static site

19 Dec 2015 in Tech

So now I have a static site that is generated by jBake. So far so good. But what’s a site without a search? Search is a must. So how do we add search functionality to a static site? Easy: We use the search giants Custom Search functionality ;)

Today I discovered Highcharts: A tool to easily create charts online. It actually lets you create the chart on their website (you litteraly need less than 5 minutes!) and publish it from there.

No real content from me, but a meme I discovered and I felt I need to remember:

I’ve been playing around with HTML & JavaScript. And Geometry is just it ;)

How I moved to GitHub & JBake

30 Nov 2015 on Tech, Website

*** This page is under construction unfinished… ***

The first one to mention it to me was my father in law (Danke Henry!). He said: “When you go to HCMC, do you stay in the famous Hotel Rex?”. I had never heard about it, but he told me about the Americans staying there during the American War (that’s how they call this war here in Vietnam). When arranging meetings here in Saigon, another guy I was supposed to meet came up with a list of hotels where we could meet, and when I saw the Rex I immediatly picked this one. Additionally it was within our budget.

Tonight I learned a new thing: Vietnamese also have Fast Food. Like McDonaldViet. My showed me such a place tonight. It’s called Star Beef. Believe it or not, we had something like a “Hot Stone” menu. Except that the stone was metal.

Just because it’s my last food shop in Da Nang (for this time), and because I never mentioned it.

Since its my last evening in Da Nang, I’d like to introduce you to my nightcap traditions that I have elaborated the last 3 weeks.

Ok, it’s Friday night, the hard work part of my stay in Da Nang is mostly done – so I hit the road for a bar hopping tour.

This is a piece of software I would love to have: A proxy that runs on my notebook and that intelligently caches certain websites so I can surf them when being offline.

Crowdsourcing! Zahle 100,- € für Wappen

01 Apr 2010 on Tech

Diese Webseite heißt gartnerich.com weil sie von der Familie Gartner ist. Und wir Gartners sind adelig – also so bissi zumindest… An sich ist das noch nicht spektakulär, weil solange man kein von im Namen trägt (oder noch besser einen Graf) bringt das nix. Etwas hat man allerdings davon: Ein Wappen! Unser Wappen schaut so aus: