City Break Budapest
After the winter exams, it was time for another city break. I went to Budapest with my friends Nicola, Laura & Ryan, whom I had originally met on my USA trip...
Installing or renewing a SSL certificate on an Apache server
About a year ago I’ve installed my first SSL certificate for this website. I got that certificate for free from the GitHub Student Developer Pack. So now a ...
Live/Video Wallpapers for OS X
Did you know that you can use any screensaver as a animated live wallpaper on OS X? This is how you do it.
The Expanse: Game of Thrones in Space
The Expanse is a gritty, realistic and has a high production value! This is the Sci-Fi series I’ve been waiting for. It plays about two hundred years in the ...
Information Security
This post is a compilation of various information security questions and topics that are likely to be tested in the InfSi21 exam at HSR. I’m expanding this p...
Jailbreak: Enable Live Photos on iPhone6
I’ve never really seen a reason to jailbreak my iPhone. The disadvantages, such as voided warranty and potential security holes always outweighed the cool t...
A weekend in Berlin
In order to make it to the end of the semester a quick city trip was necessary to satisfy my wanderlust. A reunion with some of my friends from the USA adven...
The epic tale of an iPad Air repair
A while ago I watched an episode of the Walking Dead in bed and when I closed the VLC app the glass got a crack. I don’t think I pressed with force, but it’...
44 questions about automata and languages
This post is about automata and languages that are used in theoretical computing. I was supplied 44 questions as a help to prepare for the exam in “Automate...
Is this language regular?
Is the language L={asbtat-s ∣ 0 ≤ s ≤ t} using the alphabet ∑ = {a,b} regular? Let’s find out.
A rant about physics
So tomorrow I have a physics exam. The subject is called “Physics 4 for computer scientists”, which means it’s a dumbed down version of physics. But even so...
New York to New Orleans
New York City The journey from New York to New Orleans has been a blast so far. I’ve been in NYC for three days and it was awesome but also very tiring. On G...
Blogging from New York to San Francisco
Hi there. This is not one of my usual little tech posts, where I review some app or explain how to setup some server gimmick. In a few days I’ll be flying t...
Automate Jekyll publishing with a cgi-bin bash script
I’ve wanted a way to update this site without having to “upload & override” for a while. But I never really got around to it because I thought it was goi...
Review: Working Copy, a Git-Client for iOS
Working Copy is a fully-featured git- client for iOS. And with fully-featured I mean yes it support pushing commits! To the best of my knowledge there’s no o...
Review: Balsamiq Mockups
Balsamiq is a tool to rapidly create mockups & wireframes of user interfaces. It promises a lot of things: work faster & smarter, get honest feedback...
Hack your productivity by editing your hosts file
Have you ever felt like your spending to much time on 9gag, memecenter, facebook and the like? Looking at funny pictures or reading news can be highly addict...
Getting started with Golang
I’ve thought quite a bit about what to write for an introduction, but there’s really no better way to say this:
Minimal Mailserver - From DigitalOcean to Gmail
For a long time I’ve hosted my site(s) at Hostpoint. But nowadays I feel like I’ve outgrown their offerings. Don’t get me wrong, Hostpoint is still a very go...
My top 10 favourite apps on OS X Yosemite
I’ve made the switch to the mac world in 2012. And over the years I’ve found a lot of cool apps. I thought about making this list only about free software, b...
Does the world need yet another todo list?
The answer is “no”. No, the world doesn’t need yet another todo list. But you do. Making your own todo list is fundamentally different from just using one wh...
Protect your secrets on OS X
There’s a ton of fancy security apps on the App Store. And people are buying into the hype because of the whole NSA affair. But in reality you don’t need ext...
Setting up Jekyll on OS X
You know how hipsters do everything before it becomes cool? That means you got to hurry and get a Jekyll site up asap, because Jekyll’s getting cooler and co...
