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DiskSpaceTracker
February 27, 2026
tech
softwareweneed
mac
Where did my disk space go? A quiet background process that watches your Mac's directories over time, so when your disk fills up you actually know why.
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Peoplez
February 26, 2026
tech
softwareweneed
The contact app I actually want — one system for all my people across iPhone, Mac, and iPad, with lists instead of accounts, smart capture, and conference networking built in.
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SwiftData on iCloud
November 2, 2025
tech
A step-by-step guide to adding iCloud sync to a SwiftData app using CloudKit, including setup, debugging, and common pitfalls.
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Embeddings in Swift on Apple Silicon
September 30, 2025
tech
Apple introduced new Embedding Models that I want to use to measure proximity of texts. This is my journey on how to make them and how to make them efficiently.
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SwiftUI Cheatsheet
August 3, 2025
tech
My Cheatsheet, built while following [100 Days of SwiftUI](https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/).
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Beyond Vibe coding - Redesigning Filmz
May 21, 2025
tech
ai
Some time ago I built a little iOS App called Filmz with _vibe_coding_. Turns out that's nice until you end up _vibe debugging_. So now I take a new attempt, starting in a more structured way.
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MCP Playground
May 18, 2025
tech
ai
Notes about findings and _understandings_ around [Model Context Protocol aka _MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction).
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Autocompleting my Blog
May 4, 2025
blog
tech
softwareweneed
I now have a Pelican based blog and want to automagically add or fix content: Picture tags, article summaries, translations... Finally a wa to use AI 🤖
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Setting Up Jupyter Lab On Mac
April 8, 2024
tech
mac
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 😉
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Named volumes with docker-compose
September 4, 2021
tech
How to create a volume within docker-compose, used by many containers and within a specific location on the host.
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Setting up my terminal
February 6, 2020
tech
mac
A guide to setting up a macOS terminal with zsh, Oh My Zsh, and powerlevel10k, focusing on how the pieces fit together rather than just step-by-step installation.
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SVG programming
April 15, 2019
tech
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.
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Image encoding in Node JS
April 11, 2019
tech
When dealing with images in a node application I had to learn on how to read and potentially decode image data.
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My static website
August 8, 2016
tech
Static websites are getting the standard these days. So I also had a look at it and compared some website generators.
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Playing around with D3
February 13, 2016
tech
javascript
A very small D3 experiment.
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Ping Visualization and Analysis
January 8, 2016
tech
A simple two-component tool for long-term ping logging and visualization that finally answers whether it's the WIFI, the internet access, or the application that's slow.
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Visited countries
January 4, 2016
tech
A fun interactive map showing all the countries I've visited, built with a neat little JavaScript tool.
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SiteWeightWatcher - keeps your website slim
December 27, 2015
tech
An idea for a monitoring tool that continuously tests production websites for performance degradation, tracking page weight and load times over time.
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Playing with Highcharts
December 16, 2015
tech
A quick look at Highcharts, a tool that lets you create and publish charts online in under five minutes.
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Zipf Mystery
December 9, 2015
tech
A fascinating Vsauce video about Zipf's law that earned a permanent spot on my watch list.
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Playing with JavaScript
December 6, 2015
tech
Experimenting with HTML canvas and JavaScript to create animated geometric spirograph patterns.
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How I moved to GitHub & JBake
November 30, 2015
tech
website
How I set up my blog using JBake as a static site generator and GitHub Pages for hosting.
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iPad Hologram
March 31, 2011
tech
Hidden features of the iPad 😜
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Crowdsourcing! Pay 100,- € for a Coat of Arms
April 1, 2010
tech
A crowdsourcing call with a 100 Euro reward for a modernized design of the historical Gartner family coat of arms from 1699.
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