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In the past week I have noticed in the news something new and extremely cool: A rotary mobile phone - Cellphone invented by Space Engineer Justine Haupt and made available in an open source fashion including all the schematics to produce it (even the 3D

22 Februar, 2020

As a follow up to my previous post on cloud security there is of course another option for storing your file securely: run your own files ☁️ cloud service. This is not as hard as it seems. Here is how to do it step by step Step 1 Have a server The best opt

14 Februar, 2020

Cloud services are now no longer the exception by the norm. Your emails (unless you use your own mail server), your phone data, your chats. Pretty much everything is on “the cloud”. Just a few years ago sensitive files like passport, degree copy, birth ce

13 Februar, 2020

If you are using Django for running your blog or website you almost certainly need a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor to make your life – of the one of your writers – easier. I have tried pretty much all the editors available in the official

13 Februar, 2020

I have recently decided to move my django deployment from Nginx + Gunicorn to Apache and mod_wsgi. There are a few reasons for this but, primarily, is about easy to setup and maintain several django instances on the same dedicated server. With Nginx and G

21 Januar, 2020

After flirting for a long time with different web-framework solutions for my humble website (and other hobby projects) I decided to move this blog from NodeJS to Python, more precisely to Django. Why ? Well it is said that among the rules of programming t

11 Januar, 2020

One of the recurring mistakes in a new django app is to leave the settings.py as generated when you create your app and then store it on GitHub (or a similar repository) where your credentials will be easily available to others. For instance your secret

11 Januar, 2020

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01 Januar, 2020

During the Christmas holidays I usually spend some time finding a new technology to learn. This often means taking some short online course and trying a new project.As I am doing most of the coding for my own learning I would say that whilst it is very ni

30 Dezämber, 2019

In the past weeks I had the chance to work on Server-side swift. The concept is very interesting: use Swift not just for an iOS or Mac OS app but for a server-side web application or backend. What? Why would you need this when you can code your shiny API

19 Dezämber, 2019

Logging in with a key is way safer (and easier) than using your password each time. Here is how to set it up on Ubuntu 18. I assume you already have generated your SSH key. $ ssh-keygen -t rsa 4096 -C "my key" once you have the key just run ssh

10 Dezämber, 2019

Logging in with a key is way safer (and easier) than using your password each time. Here is how to set it up on Ubuntu 18. I assume you already have generated your SSH key. $ ssh-keygen -t rsa 4096 -C "my key" once you have the key just run ssh

10 Dezämber, 2019

While the good folks at Electron are fixing the issue for submitting to the apple store I decided to take the dust of my windows razer laptop and do what electron is supposed to do so well: build a windows version for my retro MP3 player. With the excelle

10 Novämber, 2019

My last post  made it to hacker news where there are over 420 comments about this issue. I am glad that this bug got some widespread attention and I am also grateful to the electron developers that are looking for a way to fix the private API us

05 Novämber, 2019

Finding the right design for an app can be tricky. With so many CSS frameworks I se the usual suspects (bootstrap, material design etc.) pretty much everywhere. I can't blame developers for using them. It is very easy to be up and running in no time but..

05 Novämber, 2019