What if you really messed it up, say, after hours of work you log off from your virtual server at AWS, realizing you want to correct just one little thing, and then you learn that you can’t log in again! And all your work before is still unsaved! D’oh! What…
Let’s Encrypt is a very convenient way to enable https for your website. This short primer will help you getting all steps done in just a few minutes. I assume you to have set up a fresh web server that is already able to receive http traffic; you should be…
Last year I plannedbuilding a custom keyboard. Instead, this year was all about Kubernetes and virtualisation. I guess I suck at predictions.
Setup Setting up a Kubernetes cluster can be a daunting task when doing it manually. Although it’s helpful for beginners to use scripts like kube.sh (for K8s 1.3) or kubeadm (for K8s 1.4), they have their limits if you want to build up something that meets productive requirements like load…
Reading Swiss periodicals is always rewarding: Basel’s Historisches Museum has elected a font created by typographer Katharina Wolff as winning contestant in a typography competition. The winner is a beautiful Renaissance-style Antiqua font “whose capitals recall the Capitalis Monumentalis of Ancient Rome, while the lower case letters are modelled on…
I sometimes wonder what people outside of Germany are thinking about us. The other day I got aware of this article on a Canadian news portal quoting German officials who ask for not urinating against Ulm Minster church any longer. Ulm Minster, by the way, is one of the tallest…
Learning something new can be a frustrating experience, especially when you are running into errors without knowing how to solve them, because you haven’t reached the necessary level of background knowledge. You start googling; there are people like you who encountered the exact same error situation, but then the discussion…
I’ve fiddled around with BitchX on my Mac the other day, and one question that came up was: how can I display all characters correctly?Google says this question is asked once in a decade, so I’m happyto give an answer for2016. Installing BitchX is easy: brew install bitchx, but starting it in…
Spotted at the station kiosk: ‘Zen – the color book’. Sure. No text, black-and-white drawings of gold fishes (sorry, I mean: kois, of course) and you’ve got plenty of zen for painting in. This even beats ‘Zen in 30 hours’.
Ah, springtime! Life is coming back, so do allergies, everybody’s busy cleaning the house, and so did I: there’s a lot of stuff I’ve found in the attic, some of it might even be useful to the one or other. I’ve brushed off the dust and put the findingsin a…