If you’re in the market for a high-quality Bluetooth/WiFi speaker, Libratone has started its Black Friday sale. We own the Libratone Zipp and Zipp Mini 2 and are really happy with them. They are fully AirPlay-compatible, robust, and, at least in my opinion, look quite good. The newer models have an optional Alexa integration that is turned off by default.
Read more…I finally have a use for the many old iPhones in my closet that don’t make the cut as webcams anymore.
Read more…Inspired by Hemispheric Views 097 - Duel of the Defaults! and this post by Robb Knight I wanted to list all the apps I use sorted into the various categories as defined by Andrew:
Read more…About a year ago, I took advantage of a fantastic deal on Amazon and purchased a new router. I had been planning to revamp my home network for some time. Our Wi-Fi speed and coverage were never satisfactory, and there were several dead spots throughout our apartment.
Read more…Just posted one of my Hamburg pictures from earlier this year to Unsplash.
Read more…For many years now the way that I’ve been improving my coffee game was by taking a lot more care buying coffee beans as I was a bit initimidated by the sheer amount of options when it comes to fancy home coffee setups.
Read more…SwiftUI was first released almost 3 years ago but it’s still lacking some pretty fundamental functionality. I’m partial to the issue that you can’t change the background color of list items in a list-style Picker or any layout specifics of that component to be honest. Admittedly this is a minor annoyance when you realise that there is no SwiftUI equivalent for WKWebView. Luckily the implementation of a simple UIKit wrapper is straight forward.
A couple of weeks ago I’ve submitted pictures I took to Unsplash for the first time. This was a weird experience for me. Photography appears to be such a widespread hobby amongst programmers, that it feels almost too cliché to admit to it publicly. Getting into cameras seems to be just what you do, when you work in technology.
Read more…I’m glad you’ve stumbled upon my fifth, no sixth, maybe tenth (who keeps count…) attempt at creating a personal website/blog. I intent to upload as much stuff as possible here. Expect notes, discoveries and maybe even some occasional wisdom.
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