Sharing thoughts on software development, science, technology, human foolishness, the future and the world at large. Musings by an old dog learning new tech. Introducing Pinboard Archive, a zero-dependency single-file HTML app for browsing
Almost ten years ago, I wrote a review of Pinboard, the “social bookmarking for introverts” service that I had been happily using to hoard links, always with the firm intention of reading them later, which in most cases, I never did. A lot
Articles on software development, science, technology and the state of the world. Introducing Pinboard Archive, a zero-dependency single-file HTML app for browsing and filtering exported Pinboard bookmarks locally. Relaunching the blog afte…
After eight years, I am finally writing a blog post again. There are many reasons for this long break. Mostly, I was just stunned by where politics and society have been heading, both globally and here in Germany. The list is long: the anne…
This blog has been dormant for too long — it’s time to post another article. In order to live up to the blog title, this article will combine some old and seasoned stuff (PostgreSQL and Shakespeare’s works) with the latest trends for agile
An epic battle is going on deep inside in the registry of my Windows PC. The combatants: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and the allied forces of TortoiseGit, TortoiseHg and TortoiseSVN. The weapons: blank spaces. Let me explain: As so ofte…
In this blog post I want to show how you can create WebExtensions for modern web browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Edge using the new Angular framework (i.e. Angular version 2 and above). In the past, each web browser provided its own…
Yesterday I noticed a bug in a Python program that only appeared when running it with the new Python 3.6. It turned out that the program had been running a slippery slope all the time. Essentially, the program tried to find for a given list…
This year my brother’s family sent us a puzzle in their Christmas package, mentioning that they already solved it and we should give it a try over the Christmas holidays, too. The puzzle is called “36 Cube” and looks like this: The “36 Cube…
Hurray! It’s Christmas time - and Python 3.6 has been released! One of the many goodies packed into the new release are formatted string literals, or simply called “f-strings”. In this blog post I’ll explain why this is good news. First, th…
Here is a short review of the Pinboard bookmarking service that I’m using for several years now. Every web browser has a built-in bookmark manager, usually opened with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B. Modern browsers also allow syncing y…
It’s this time of the year again, and I decided to use some of the cold and long winter evenings to finally start blogging. It is a crazy time in which we are living. So many exciting developments, opportunities and scientific discoveries,