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Rename with a scheme

I am finding myself regularly in the position to have to rename lots of files. Like they all have a common naming scheme now but I need them to have another naming scheme or even be distributed into their separate folders. I’ve found that there are many tools and even your average Explorer, Finder and […]

A special events countdown app: Sandkerwa Bamberg

My wife Stephanie and I have a little bit of a tradition: When an important date is known we start a grid on an erasable board that has exactly the number of cells that the important date is away in days. Everyday we then fill out one of the cells and if all are filled, […]

management tool for your Xcode iOS/ iPadOS simulators

I was juggling around with several simulators on my macOS machine and I found that Xcode does not offer any easy way to clone and re-use instances of the simulator with all its settings. Digging deeper revealed that there is a command line interface that is able to provide these functions. Since CLI is nice […]

OpenStreetMap Overpass but cached

OpenStreetMap data is huge. Like really really huge. Its the whole planet earth afterall. So huge in fact that so far I am using a separate server to host my very own, up-to-date OpenStreetMap planet instance that I can query against with the Overpass-API format. Overpass is quite handy for all sorts of use-cases, like […]

Rewriting an Old Friend: The Toilet Finder App, Version 2

Back in 2015 I built a small app because I was traveling a lot and kept running into the same slightly ridiculous, slightly stressful situation:you never really know where the next public toilet is until it becomes… quite an urgent matter. So I hacked together a simple iOS app, used OpenStreetMap data, showed nearby toilets, […]

Hack-the-Planet Podcast Episode 36: Illegales Kabel

In dieser Folge des „Hack the Planet“ Podcasts diskutieren Daniel und Andreas über Smartmeter, Code mit LLMs, Grafiken (ohne KI), einen USB-Kabeltester, eine teure Gamer-Tastatur, selbstprogrammierte Features und den Xbox Elite Controller. Andreas berichtet über seine Erfahrungen mit Smartmetern und den Herausforderungen, die damit einhergehen, wie z.B. der Kosten und der Umstellung auf neue…

Hack-the-Planet Podcast Episode 35: Aufruhr generiert!

In der 35. Folge des Hack-the-Planet-Podcasts diskutieren Daniel und Andreas eine Vielzahl von Themen rund um Technik, 3D-Druck, persönliche Projekte und Community-Veranstaltungen. Sie beginnen mit einem Rückblick auf die lange Pause seit der letzten Folge und teilen ihre Erfahrungen mit technischen Problemen und Updates an ihren Computern und Software. Ein zentrales Thema ist der 3D-Druck, […]

How about an Eki Stamp, Goshuin, Tetsuin collection app?

english version I am currently contemplating the development of a mobile application that allows users to discover and collect various Japanese cultural stamps, such as 駅スタンプ (eki stamps), 御朱印 (goshuin), and 鉄印 (tetsuin). Additionally, this app will enable users to share their collections. My plan is to utilize OpenStreetMap data and provide functionality for users […]

Hack-the-Planet Podcast Episode 34: unsere letzte VR Hoffnung

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Hack-the-Planet Podcast Episode 33: Shit in, Shit out!

Nach über einem Jahr haben wir uns wieder zusammengefunden und aufgezeichnet. Aber hört selbst: Links:

Finally arrived in VR – Virtual Reality in late 2022

I have really waited this out. Some “galaxy-sized brains” tell us for decades now that virtual reality is the next big thing. And it might as well have been. Almost nobody (me included) cared to even try – and with good reason: There’s no way to transport the experience that virtual reality creates in an […]

parsing the electronic receipts of my regular groceries shoppings

For over 2 years now my preferred local supermarket offers an electronic receipt for each purchase. With a „little bit of data sharing“ signed-off just about a couple of seconds after you paid your purchase a PDF file of the receipt you would have gotten at the cashier is in your eMail inbox. That receipt […]

How to run the irl-obs-switcher on macOS?

Last week I‘ve received a comment on the initial irl-obs-switcher blog article regarding the use of the tool on macOS. And good point: Apart from the source code release on GitHub I am generating binary releases for several operating systems and processor architectures. For Windows it‘s quite straight forward. If you do not have dotnet […]

I made an open source IRL (in-real-life) streaming proxy and scene switcher for OBS studio

Ever since I stumbled across several IRL streamers I was intrigued by the concept of it. IRL or “in-real-life” is essentially the art of streaming everyday life. For hours and totally mobile. Of course there are some great gems in the vast sea of content creators. One of them – robcdee – streams for hours […]

Forschungsgemeinschaft elektronische Medien e.V. wird 25 Jahre

Heute ist der Tag an dem die FeM e.V. ihren 25. Geburtstag feiert. Die Forschungsgemeinschaft elektronische Medien e. V. (FeM) ist einer der größten studentischen Vereine an einer Hochschule in Thüringen. Gegründet wurde der Verein im Jahr 1997 im Umfeld der TU Ilmenau. Er umfasst derzeit circa 2.000 Mitglieder und betreibt das größte selbstverwaltete studentische […]

Hack-the-Planet Podcast Episode 30: Waren des täglichen Bedarfs

Obsidian – https://obsidian.md/ Obsidian Tasks Plugin – https://github.com/schemar/obsidian-tasks AutoHotkey – https://www.autohotkey.com/ Nerd – https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Nerd Unity Lights Watchface – https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/26/apple-watch-gets-new-unity-lights-watch-face Raytracing Ziffernblatt –…

Hack-the-Planet Podcast Episode 29: Katzenfutter Automaten

VB Audio Virtual Cable – https://vb-audio.com/Cable/ VB Audio Potato – https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/potato.htm Rogue Amoeba Audio Software – https://rogueamoeba.com/ Obsidian.md – https://obsidian.md/ Medizinische Informatik Bachelor Hochschule Heilbronn – https://www.hs-heilbronn.de/mib Theme Neon 80 https://forum.obsidian.md/t/80s-neon-theme/63 IMF Workflow…

Hack-the-Planet Podcast Episode 28: Duplikate Schluckauf

EOS M200 – https://www.canon.de/cameras/eos-m200/ USB-Netzwerk-Speicher-Box – https://www.wut.de/e-53763-ww-dade-000.php Czkawka Duplikatsuche – https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka Polyglot Files – https://github.com/Polydet/polyglot-database Polyglot Files – https://github.com/corkami TCPA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Consumer_Protection_Act_of_1991 36c3 Klimafreundliche Software –…

Hack-the-Planet Podcast: Episode 27 – Lucky We

Lucky We Twitter Muted Keywords – https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac56f9bd36ec Megablock – https://megablock.xyz/ Sammlung Quellcode von vergangenen Games – https://github.com/videogamepreservation – MIcrosoft Surface Pro unterstützt Windows 11 nicht – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ways-to-install-windows-11-e0edbbfb-cfc5-4011-868b-2ce77ac7c70e Corne…

Hack-the-Planet Podcast: Episode 26

Gestern. Heute. Morgen. Teil 1 Nach kurzer kreativer Pause werfen Daniel und Andreas einen Blick darauf, was sich im Bereich der Digitalisierung den alles so getan hat. Andreas YouTube Kanal: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasHeil/featured 10x Engineer – https://podcast.hack-the-planet.tv/2019/08/09/episode-0/ Big Blue Button https://bigbluebutton.org/ Moodle https://moodle.org/ Resilio Sync…

LuckyV Spielerzahl für Streamer

Ich hatte ja schon darüber geschrieben dass ich beim Projekt “LuckyV” mitprogrammiere. Im Zuge dieser Programmierarbeit habe ich auch selbst begonnen GTA RP zu spielen und zu streamen. Gleich zu Anfang habe ich mir meinen Stream so eingerichtet dass jeweils der aktuelle Spieler-Counter immer im Bild zu sehen war. Ich finde das einfach eine ganze […]

the little friend in my corne keyboard

I’ve built two corne keyboards by now and I am using them as daily-drivers. I won’t switch back to other keyboards if I have the choice. Also I have settled on firmware features, keyboard layout and what I am using the OLEDs for:

A keyboard and touchpad for the iPad Pro

With the release of the M1 iPad Pro I had decided to order one to replace my aging iPad mini 4 from 2015. And so far I am very happy with it. I‘ve got it with the Apple Smart Folio which comes with this strange material that seems to collect dust like crazy. At least […]

Health related Icons for your Apps and Sites

Found that nice heap of Icons that are free to use and high-quality: Health Icons is a volunteer effort to create a ‘global good’ for health projects all over the world. These icons are available in the public domain for use in any type of project. The project is hosted by the public health not-for-profit Resolve […]

Handheld iPhone 11 Pro low light performance

Reading out non-smart (water/gas/…) meters

The only meter in our house that I was not yet able to read out automatically was the water meter. With the help of a great open source project by the name of AI-on-the-edge and an ESP32-Camera Module it is quite simple to regularly take a picture of the meter, convert it into a digital […]

my 4 layer corne split keyboard layout (germany)

I’ve been using my corne split keyboard for about 3 weeks now and during that time I’ve made a couple of changes to the layout. Right now I am quite happy with the content I am typing these days but I guess over time I am still going to optimize further. Nevertheless I want to […]

building a corne split keyboard

It’s been a while since during a Hack-the-Planet episode I was gifted two PCBs of a corne keyboard by PH_0x17 of Nerdbude and ClickClackHack fame. Since a picture says more than a thousand words, I give you the result first: This keyboard design is made from the ground up as open source and naturally is […]

on joining the LuckyV GTA-RP developer team

Disclaimer: I’ve joined for fun and not for profit – this is a new hobby. For about a year now I was regularly watching some Twitch streamers go along their business and it spawned my curiousity when some of them started to do something they called “GTA V roleplay”. Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) is […]

a network sniffer – like wireshark – for the terminal

Termshark is a terminal based UI that you can use to debug network traffic when you do not have a GUI available to you.

Cyberpunk 2077 in-game panoramic view pt. 2

In part 1 I wrote a bit about this great game and shared some screenshots. By now I’ve finished the story and almost all side-quests and I still see it as the best game since years. Anyway, here are more pictures taken in-game (sometimes stitched):

Cyberpunk 2077 in-game panoramic view pt. 1

For the first time in the last 10ish years I am back playing a game that really impresses me. The story, the world and the technology of Cyberpunk 2077 really is a step forward. It’s a first in many aspects for me. I do not own a PC capable enough of playing Cyberpunk 2077 at […]

Hack-the-Planet Podcast: Episode 25

Diesmal gehen wir der Frage nach, wie viel Speicherplatz ein 5 Meter PNG File benötigt, das Daniel für seinen DIY Arcarde Automaten gebaut hat, wundern uns über LED-Leuchten an, die wie echter Himmel aussehen sollen und freuen uns über den “Digitalen Alltag als Experiment”. Links ASIO4All – http://www.asio4all.org/ Corne Keyboard – https://github.com/foostan/crkbdPrusa Mini –…

a self-built Bubble Bobble bartop arcade machine

I like playing arcade games. I’ve had an “arcade” in my home town and I used to go there after school quite frequently. It was a small place – maybe 5 machines and some pinball machines. In february this year it occured to be that with the power of the Raspberry Pi and a distribution […]

Hack-the-Planet Podcast: Episode 24

Wir haben uns wieder zusammengefunden – diesmal mit unserem Gast Philipp von nerdbude.com – und haben über Tastaturen, Github Arctic Vault, OCRmyPDF und einen selbstgebauten Arcade Automat gesprochen. Wie schon bei der letzten Folge 23 haben wir zusätzlich zur Tonspure eine Videospur aufgezeichnet – allerdings nicht als “Talking-Heads” Episode sondern während wir über die Themen […]