Code, discoveries, detours. Collected over the years.
I finally got around to setting up a new mailserver and i decided to give OpenSMTPD a try. It wasn’t a natural birth, i can tell you that. The switching of the configuration syntax makes for a lot of outdated Google Search results. So…
Here is my list of dirty little secrets that make the game more fun and yield more kills. Sending Players to the Gulag before they hit the ground while parachuting with other players beside you, cut your parachute and start shooting at…
Every developer knows the pain of sorting database rows by some custom field. The easiest Example of this are DNS Records. Today i’ve come across a solution using array_position. Basically you can pass it the Order of elements you want…
For almost 8 years i have ran this blog on my own blog engine, println. While at the beginning it gave me all i needed, in recent years my behavior has changed, and thus my preferences. I don’t like editing blog-posts in the browser…
So recently i’ve been cleaning out configurations on our network equipment, in order to get rid of technical debt. Two of these missions were simplifying our Switch and Router Configurations. This has been on my todo-list forever, but i…
For a few weeks now i’ve been thinking about better tools to provision our bare-metal servers and VMs. All tools out there are IMHO bloatware. Over-complicated stuff where nobody knows when the next library upstream will break feature X…
So i learned Golang a few months back. Thanks to @normanmaurer and @MegOnWheels for the great suggestion! Not because i wanted to, but because Scala and the JVM started to suck after almost a decade. Why did the JVM start to suck?When i…
So i have acquired myself a cheap Chinese 3.5” LCD display with Resistive Touch from aliexpress. So far so good, but it took me nearly a month to get a working current setup. The ProblemThe chinese vendor i got it from refers to a site…
So just today we all got the “surprising” news, that Apple is really interested in autonomous cars. We all knew it for months, but hey, let’s play along for a second. Further more, after the groundbreaking innovations we’ve just…
FreeBSD is my favorite OS, not just recently but all the way back to 2003 when Linux didn’t cut it anymore for me. Given that Linux has more device drivers available, it also means more bugs, code duplication and generally speaking bad…