Lakka is a lightweight distribution which also runs on the Raspberry Pi and is able to run retro games on your big screen tv. It is able to emulate multiple old console and handhelds like the Game Boy, the Game Boy Advance, the NES, the Nintendo 64 or even the PlayStation. I’ve installed it on my Raspberry Pi 2 but wasn’t able to get the controllers … Read More
Beeminder is a online tool to track goals like blog posting, weight loss/gain, read mail or how much you go biking. I’m now using it to force myself to write 3 blogpost per week. The catch behind the idea is that you pledge a certain amount like 5.-/$/£/€ for reaching your goal. If you can’t reach your goal in the … Read More
Why did I create this project Once upon a time in my apprenticeship I had to refactor some table layout into a fancy new div layout. This is why I’ve created this website, which has the sole purpose of replacing all td, tr and table tags with div tags. How did I implement the solution This is a dead simple … Read More
I’ve just bought the Logitech Z506 5.1 surround sound system. After installing the drivers for my soundcard (http://www.realtek.com/ This website hasn’t landed in the year 2000 yet), I wanted to use my new system with Google Music in Google Chrome. I knew that Google Play Music only provides mono sound, so Google Chrome would have to upscale it so it would play … Read More
What this project is about When my friends come over to my place or when I want to play games online with them, there’s always the question: What game should we play? I’ve created this project to answer this question for once for all. You may already have heard of the website steamparty.info, which does something similar. The problem with their … Read More
You wish you were that fast to securely login via ssh right? Actually if you’re also using a mac you can do that too. First off you need to install Alfred and buy the Powerpack so you can use Workflows with Alfred. http://www.alfredapp.com/powerpack/ Also we need brew so we can install ssh-copy-id. Still following? Now we need to install the ssh … Read More
I’ve installed a little Github Webhook for my portfolio repository so whenever I make changes to the repository they automatically get deployed to my webserver. For this little trick to work you have to have a git client installed on your webserver. Also the shell_exec php function has to be active so we can run the git pull command from php. … Read More
Have you ever had the need to resolve caching issues for other clients? And did you do that by adding some parameter to your resource link? The problem with this method is, that proxy’s normaly won’t cache files with a parameter and you won’t get the advantages of caching if a user is visiting your site via a proxy. With … Read More
<esc> :wq! Save the file and quit vim <esc> ZZ Other way to save the file and quit vim <esc> :earlier 15m Go back 15 minutes in the history of the file <esc> :later 15m Reverses the :earlier command <esc> :! ls Run command ls from inside vim <esc> :.! ls Run command ls from inside vim and write output into open file. <esc> :w !sudo … Read More
This is a really nice and helpful CodePen how a CSS triangle works.