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- WWDC 16 Scholarship
Apple was gracious enough to grant me a WWDC scholarship this year. I’m still blown away! The next challenge is obviously getting to SF. Unfortunately it’s not exactly cheap traveling all the way from Germany, but I’ll find a way. Definitely couldn’t justify missing this one-of-a-kind event. Stay p… read more →
- Cheap DynDNS Alternative
Until recently I had the pleasure of living with a static IP. This made accessing my Raspberry PI from outside my home rather easy. I could just open the port on my router and hardcode the IP anywhere. After moving though easy access like that unfortunately fell away. I looked into some services lik… read more →
- Firewatch
Finished it two days ago and was left in some emotional turmoil. I believed the ending to be spoiled for me after accidentally having read a sentence on Reddit, but it turns out that was bullshit. Unfortunately that made it even worse. It’s a gorgeous game, albeit relatively short (~4 hours). The g… read more →
- Black Mirror
Blindly following a recommendation on Reddit I just finished watching the first season of Black Mirror. Not quite sure what I was expecting, only had the SciFi label in my head. Didn’t quite find that, more of a feeling of deep disgust with the different shown realities. Interesting nonetheless. And… read more →
- 32c3
That was seriously awesome! My first congress and I couldn’t be happier with it. Definitely coming back next year, for sure! There’s so much I could write about here, but I’m going to keep it to a minimum. I kinda regret watching quite a few talks live and not using the time at CCH to have a look a… read more →
- Swift Open Source
Benjamin Herzog and I talked about Swift finally becoming open source at the Cocoaheads meetup in Dresden. The talk is in German. read more →
- HeartBattery
A friend recently had the fun idea to write a small script for his machine running Arch displaying his current battery state as a series of hearts instead of the traditional boring percentage. He did so via a short python script and the magic of Font Awesome to integrate with Conky. I have to admit … read more →
- Bitcoin
I gave my Bitcoin introduction at the Dresden Science Night a second time. Again in German and without a recording. read more →
- ParkenDD
A few months ago Code for Germany launched. An OK Lab (Open Knowledge Lab) was founded in Dresden soon after, although similar projects (offenesdresden.de) were already in place. Everything merged and Dresden has had quite an active community interested in bringing Open Data to the next level. It's … read more →
- Migrating to kilian.io
I spent most of today moving around my e-mail infrastructure. The way I had it configured would probably bring tears to most people's eyes, so I'll spare you the gruesome details. Let's just say that nothing is forwarding to Google Mail any longer and I'll be using a different address as my main con… read more →
- Pycharm and Java 8
There's been a bug with current versions of Jetbrains products (not just Pycharm, but also IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, AppCode and surely the others as well) on OS X 10.10 Yosemite where the editor screen flickers uncontrollably when you scroll the view. It's been making my workflow increasingly … read more →
- Simple Robot
It's been a while since I've touched Blender. A lot has changed, everything is awesome. There's not all too much to say, but I'm a real sucker for pretty clay renders, so here's a simple little robot. Note that this render is in 2400p, the native resolution of the new MacBook Pro. I didn't want sai… read more →
- Installing OS X applications through Homebrew
I have to admit to having been slightly jealous of a friend running Arch Linux on his laptop when he went ahead and installed xmind right through his package manager (or actually yaourt, but I won't make the distinction here). Now don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with installing application… read more →
- Bitcoin
A lightning talk introducing Bitcoin at the Dresden Science Night (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften). It was in German and wasn't recorded. read more →
- This is getting ridiculous
November 29th, 2012: Left a math lecture on a rainy day and wanted to get home as quick as possible. But it looked like I would be carrying my bike home seeing how some douche had stolen my front wheel on campus. Seeing how I moved to Dresden with quick release skewers (if I can trust dict.leo.org)… read more →
