“Jetzt ist schon wieder was passiert.”
Ever since I had reactivated this blog a couple of years ago, I noticed that something was wrong with its content caching. On each page reload, the browser would download all images from scratch. Even though it should have been easy to cache these images. There are various standards govern how web browsers should cache …
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Most of the image manipulation and media organization applications that I’m using do not have great support for meta data. Sure, they can display and edit relevant meta data. But they’re not great at filtering, bulk-editing, etc. So I’m using the exiftool CLI to get some of the basic image meta-data straight, before uploading images …
When I started this blog back in 2010, I wanted HTTPS, but I didn’t want to pay extra for it. Back then that wasn’t as easy as it is today. So I compromised and got my TLS certificates from CAcert. Problem was that almost no OS or browser vendor trusted their certs. Debian and Ubuntu …
My last post here has been over 4 years ago. I’ve really neglected this blog. Let’s see, if I can change that… Part of the problem was the rotten technology underneath. Even apart from WordPress. It was running on some weird virtual server at a local hosting provider. Weird, because it was neither full virtualization …
“Die Infrastrukturapokalypse geht weiter:” Leider ist selbst diese Notfallseite komplett unzuverlässig. (Daher auch kein besserer Deep-Link an dieser Stelle.) Meist bekommt man statt dessen nur zufällige Textschnipsel zu sehen. Befürchte fast, die Seite macht es nicht mehr lang über den 1. April hinaus.
… I’m posting food recipes now. Next up is random pics of my food. Well, I have a couple of nice recipes lying around in text-files on my computer. This is my way of putting them in the cloud. Mostly for looking them up from anywhere. But I’m also willing to share;) So maybe there …
I notice that a most of my recent (!) posts are related to atheism and similar. Didn’t I study computer science and software engineering? Does that mean I’m getting old? As seen on SMBC Hm, I have to post some more on computing in the future. That’s serious stuff, but I can still pull it …
In the beginning of last week, I finally got my first Internet phone that actually deserves the name. So far, I have to say it’s pretty neat:-) It’s a Google/HTC Nexus One and it’s one of the first phones I know that actually feels as smooth as Apple’s iPhone. I say ‘feels’, because that’s what …