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An essential part of my day exists out of taking notes. I currently still use Evernote and paper for this, but I wanted to have a more lightweight option on the side. The goal was to make taking shorter notes more straightforward and convenient by tieing it into my current work setup, being tmux+Vim.

My brother asked to look at a LOEWE amp that he had lying around collecting dust. It turns out you need to connect a LOEWE television to these amps to get them out of some sleep mode.

After connecting a few different Bluetooth devices to my Ford Transit custom SYNC system, I was suddenly unable to connect anymore using my regular phone. It turns out there is a straightforward fix for this problem. You have to reset the SYNC system which can be done by following the steps below:

Suppose you are blessed with the fact that you have some children running around. You probably know the phenomenon of one of your kids standing next to your bed at five in the morning with the question if it’s already time to wake up.

The devil is in the details, and this also applies to something as simple as finding the right naming convention for your precious photos.

Like most people, the first thing that you think of, when you hear the name, Ibiza is “party island.” Let me try to skew that one-sided perception a bit in the positive sense.

Privacy is becoming one of the most discussed topics especially with the GDPR looking around the corner this year.

When you are active in the crypto world you’ll know that having 3 or more different exchange accounts is not a strange thing. Certain coins (especially new ones) will only be listed on certain exchanges until they reach a certain cryptocurrency market capitalization which will force other exchanges to adopt them. I personally use both Binance and Coinbase as my main trading exchanges.

Probably most of you are familiar with something looking like the image above. A desktop with a pile of irrelevant and unused files. I was totally fed up with the fact that after each work day my desktop looked like a war zone. The solution: cron in combination with some lines of bash.

For a long time I’ve been looking for a good way to geotag my photos. Preferably this workflow would work well with my current photo workflow.

I just wanted to write a short blog post about this awesome new book I’ve been reading lately. The book is called “The Elements of Computing Systems” and learns you in detail how to build your own computer system, compiler and OS.

Getting a stable DIY home automation system up and running is not for the faint-hearted. Deciding which hardware, software and protocols you want to use for your project can be a challenging task because of the overwhelming choice.

I’m really excited to show the result of my first year of growing peppers. I’ve tried 5 different varieties of peppers and they all did pretty well.

In this quick reference I’ll show you how to build the NodeMCU firmware from source and flash it on your ESP8266. In this case I used the ESP8266-01.

I’ve been interested in photography for over 5 years now, but during all these years I’ve been struggling to find a good photo management workflow. After each joyful day of photographing the same question struck me over and over again: How do I manage my photos.

In this short guide I will explain how to delete all photos from your iPhone. For this method of clearing your iPhone you don’t need iTunes or any other software, just the default Preview app that is available on every Mac will suffice.

Under web developers it’s still a common practice to disable the browser focus outline. Shamefully I need to admit that, before today, I also did this. But let’s stop this bad habit by providing a good solution that both designers and accessibility gurus can live with.

For the last few weeks I was having the problem that my iPhone wasn’t charging anymore when I connected it to my USB power cord. When I flipped the connector around it worked, most of the time. But after a few days even this was to no avail.

Because I spend a lot of time in my hobby room/man cave in progress, I was looking for an audio system. The two requirements were that it had to support AirPlay and needed to be cheap. Luckily I had this 10 year old Samsung surround receiver laying around, so that would be a perfect base for my audio system. This in combination with a new Raspberry Pi would be all the hardware needed to make this awesome sound system.

After some hectic weeks, preparing for the birth of our son, I’ve finally found some time to finish up the rewrite of my react avatar component. The code base was becoming a complete mess.

Do you ever hit that caps lock button by mistake too? This annoyed me so much that I decided to find a solution for this.

If you want to start to do some experimenting with your Phillips Hue lights chances are that you’ll need to use the Hue API sooner or later. To use this API you will need to get a token but at the moment there is no official way to do this.