I read a bout digital gardens and liked the idea. So I started thinking on how I would setup such a garden - and of course used AI help...

I heard an interesting podcast on how to structure different model types in Swift: Domain models that are my internal representation, Data Models (or DTOs) that are the external representation, and View Models that are the representation for the UI. But many aspects are still unclear to me.

I’d love to build a little website that optimizes my swimming slots in Munich’s public pools.

I added comments to my static website. Here's how I did it.

I found this video of a dev with LOTS of helpful tips on how to use Cursor - here are my take aways.

I use different dev tools (Java, Python, Docker...) but I use some of them only rarely. So I forget how I installed them, what version manager I used etc. So this is the note to future me to look it up.

I do sivananda Yoga since over 30 years, yet still can't remember the songs at the end of the yoga classes. So I collected them...

It's been a while that I haven't worked on my site. Now I upgraded to the up-to-date technical tools - and as usual the theme is being reworked again...

Setting up Python on a Mac can by tricky. The number of options is big, and they might interact strangely. Also you have to remember which installation method you used once you want to change version or upgrade. This post should remind me how I did it 😉

Double AI Chat

Und den hat Cecile selber erfunden!

Was habe ich gelacht...

Life is good because I can cycle to work 😜

How to create a volume within docker-compose, used by many containers and within a specific location on the host.

Since our 4 years in Vietnam we love Mango! And here in Germany we mostly turned to dried Mango. So it felt appropriate to have a proper test...

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.

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

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…

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…

For a side project I would like to have a nice, moving SVG Logo. While searching for tutorials, I found a couple that might be helpful.

When dealing with images in a node application I had to learn on how to read and potentially decode image data.

Static websites are getting the standard these days. So I also had a look at it and compared some website generators.

A very small D3 experiment.

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 really helpful resource I found yesterday:

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:

A tool that tracks my activities across all social media platforms.

A list of sites I like - might be outdated... 😉

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 ;)

*** 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.

Ich war in letzter Zeit häufiger in Münchner Bibliotheken, und habe hier ein paar aufgelistet.

Hidden features of the iPad 😜

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.

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: