Random geeky stuff
To reverse my devolution from Homo Sapiens Sapiens into a Homo Distractus1, I m going to run a little experiment: I m going to stare at a point on a white wall for an hour every day for 30 days2. The setup Continue reading
Last weekend, I read a post on Reddit where /u/TeckFire claimed that his iPhone 6s became much faster again after replacing the battery. A new iPhone 6s should get a score of ~2300 on the Single-Core benchmark and ~3900 on Continue reading
Last week I attended the MicroConf Europe 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal and spent two days and three evenings listening to interesting talks and having inspiring conversations. MicroConf is a conference targeted at small, self-funded software companies. The audience consists of Continue reading
For a quite a while, the book Zero to One by Peter This (with Blake Masters) has been covering dust in the to-read section of my bookshelf. That would probably not have changed, had I not discovered the Business Book Continue reading
While slacking off doing research on the internet recently, I stumbled upon Raptitude.com, where David Cain writes about getting better at being human. One thing that intrigued me were his self-improvement experiments. He did a total of 22 experiments, with Continue reading
I ve been running for about 18 years now, and knee pain was a regular companion throughout my running career. After finishing the Ironman in 2012, the pain was so bad that I was seriously considering giving up running. Luckily this Continue reading
For the last 8 years, this blog has been my primary outlet whenever I had the urge to share some written worlds with the world. This resulted in a hodgepodge of 44 articles covering a wide range of topics: technical Continue reading
On the first day of Python Unconference Hamburg 2015 I moderated an open discussion about how to convince customers and employers that Python is a good choice for their upcoming project. Here are some takeaways from the discussion that I Continue reading
If you run any kind of webservice, you should set up a security@yourdomain.com email address, display it prominently on your website and make sure it gets read by an employee with a technical background. Not convinced? As a case study, Continue reading
TL;DR: sudo discoveryutil mdnsactivedirectory yes After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, I found myself unable to access any hosts with a domain name ending in .local I could resolve the hostname with DNS tools like dig and nslookup, Continue reading
