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Friday, 5. January 12024
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The I in LLM stands for intelligence.

The better the crap, the longer time and the more energy we have to spend on the report until we close it. A crap report does not help the project at all. It instead takes away developer time and energy from something productive.

Fixing Macs Door to Door.

One of my first calls was for a Mac Pro at a private residence. It was a logic board, which means the motherboard of the Mac. I wasn't thrilled, because removing and replacing the Mac Pro logic board was a time-consuming repair that required a lot of light. Instead of a clean workspace with bright lights I got a guy who would not let me go until I had watched how 9/11 was an inside job.

Relevant: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev – Thoughts on building Paper as a solo maker.

Buchla Contactless – Playing Modular Synth Without Touching it, Literally.

How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web.

As one gets older, one feels less and less excitement for the new tech hotness—after all, when one must drive a nail, there’s only so many different kinds of hammers to get excited about before one stops caring and just reaches for the go-to. So when I want to start a new website, I reach for PHP.

Präteritum war für nicht genug befunden gewesen.

Oberdeutscher Präteritumschwund.

Franz Morat KG tv-computersystem 6800.

The UI (basically a classical monitor) allows you to see the content of the RAM and to control the CPU, all of which happens by using the light pen.

🤤

Johans Küche.

Wie meine Mutter immer sagte, koche jeden Tag frisch und Abwechslungsreich. Erst wenn mein Gast zufrieden ist,  bin auch ich zufrieden.

Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.

Saturday, 30. December 12023
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Starting with today, Antville can process images in WebP format, a missing feature that bit me plenty of times – so much that it is a bit weird it took me so long to make this work.

Adding insult to injury, it did not even take any implementation, just adding an ImageIO plugin to Helma and a case for the mime type to Antville… 😅

Update: Oh, almost forgot to configure AddType image/webp .webp for Apache!

Update 2: Alternative, and maybe the better way to enable WebP support in Apache: enabling it system-wide by adding image/webp webp to /etc/mime.types.

It irks me this is not supported out of the (Apache/Bullseye) box…

Friday, 29. December 12023
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Hochwasser und Überschwemmungen in Deutschland: Die Lage in Bildern.