Making Software

The best way to understand something is to try to explain it. It shows you right away where the gaps are…

Playtime! Christmas on River

Playtime! Christmas on River

Ok, I admit, I never was a big gamer and only a few computer games really caught me. However, there was a time when I spend weeks of my life virtually flying around with the Microsoft Flight Simulator. That was in the 90s and landscape was …

Computer says ‘no’

Using 3rd-party tools to write software for iOS is quite often quite an extra bit of pain. It feels like a good portion of development using DotNet MAUI became more or less fixing certificate and provisioning burdens that seem to be only installed to maximize the …

Sailing Journalist, Photographer & Podcaster …
Sailing Journalist, Photographer & Podcaster …

… from Germany living in Switzerland. – Currently confined like many other people. However, I enjoy the solitude of these slow times, of walking the dog, and my camera. – To me it is the perfect situation to shoot landscapes around my home. You can find them collected in a project here called #Cham360. Taking landscapes has always been like a short meditation under the open sky. I enjoyed it while traveling, embraced it when working on an assignment and still do relive many magic moments when post processing them at home. Here you can see some of my visual works. Many of them are related to open water, yachting and travelling the world’s oceans. If you enjoy these views, you are welcome to browse for more and share them to your friends and colleagues …

Reboot like it’s the 90th

Reboot like it’s the 90th

In the finishing decade of the past century it was a common saying among Windows Sysadmins that average power users reboot at least four to five times per day. Having access to a parallel universe made from various Unix and VMS systems that time it had …

Functional Programming Concepts

Functional Programming Concepts

I remember the late 1980s when Computer Magazines were all about OOP. — Object Oriented Programming. Everything should be an object, everything was about moving that Object from one state to another. A concept, that has it‘s benefits in many cases but quite often carries a …

Open AIS data

I just found an open and (for now) free source of world wide terrestrial AIS data at aisstream.io. and I think I will play a bit with that in a not so far future. …

Celebrating a web browser

What many call the Internet today celebrates kind of a thirty years birthday these days. The Mosaic web browser was the first public available one of it‘s kind. Before it’s release in 1993 the young web was only availabe on high end Machines before. But from …

(Not) fixing Podlove Podcast Publisher Export and Import functions

(Not) fixing Podlove Podcast Publisher Export and Import functions

Podlove Podcast Publisher’s import and export functions could not be more dysfunctional written by chatGPT. This workaround might safe you a few days manual work.

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