OK, I can already hear you saying “here we go again”. Well, I’m sorry that I’m not really in the mood to report much on my personal life (though, rest assured, everything is really going smooth, so don’t worry). Maybe this blog will undergo certain changes in the near future, but right now I’m not [...]
Up until right now I’ve been using xterm. While it’s not the best of terms it does support 256 colors out of the box (and I don’t use fancy stuff like transparency/translucency). What it has been lacking however, and which Flo pointed out, was the support to make URLs clickable. This is an important feature, [...]
I use git to version almost everything I work with on a daily basis. My emails reside on an IMAP-server and my bookmarks are on delicious. My config files are written such that the same file can be used on any machine I have. The question remains how to keep all of the other stuff [...]
Speedcubing is something that has been gaining considerable popularity over the last 2 years. Just recently Pro7, a big TV station in Germany, did a short piece (Part 1, Part 2) (between “how to open a bra” and “how not to get a cold”) about fw and a few friends of him, calling him the [...]
Normalerweise lasse ich solche Dinge an mir vorbeigehen und bringe erst Recht nicht den Aufwand auf darüber zu bloggen. Nachdem ich aber heute bei Spiegel Online schon wieder etwas lesen musste was von vielen Stellen so oder ähnlich berichtet wird und auch in den Köpfen vieler Leute festsitzt, habe ich mich entschlossen mal meinen Senf [...]
Finally, I found a solution to something that has really been bugging me for quite some time. I use vim, not only on my linux machine but also everywhere else I’m able to get my hands on it. Vim has a feature called viminfo, which is basically just a file that remembers stuff like your [...]
In a shameless attempt to attract traffic I’m gonna do a short review of my new Macbook ;). I had been playing with the thought of buying a new laptop for a while now, and was almost certain it would be the Dell XPS 1330, since Apple didn’t really offer anything for me at that [...]
Since I’ve been developing some stuff for a private intranet (read: web-interface for managing stuff), which runs in their internal network I’ve found myself SSHing into the router/firewall and then into the host I’m developing on. This itself being bad enough, it was even more annoying when you wanted to copy File X from Host [...]
After searching (and finding no existing solution), I created a small JavaScript-based commit-badge/banner which you can show of on your website to point at the latest (or a specific) commit in a Github-repo. This is what it looks like (if you see blank space here or something fubar please reload the page and after that [...]
I like PuTTY, I’ve been using it for years. In my last post I talked about Cygwin and it’s rxvt (which already works pretty good). I also joked about using PuTTY to ssh into localhost. Well, for the people who want to use PuTTY for their local Cygwin there is a solution: PuTTYcyg. PuTTYcyg is [...]
