Robin Glauser


My Blog about Development, Design and my random thoughts.

Lakka – The DIY retro emulation console

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


Use beeminder to force yourself into writing regular blogposts

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


Throw away your tables – tableflip.robinio.ch

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


How to get scaled 5.1 surround sound in Google Chrome for Google Music

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


steambuddies.robinglauser.ch – Find steam games you can play

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


Use Alfred and SSH-Keys for blazing fast password-less SSH login on OSX

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


Use Github Webhooks to automatically push your changes to a webserver.

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


Resolve caching issues without additional ?v=versionnumber parameter

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


Some VIM tips and tricks.

<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


Nice CodePen of how a CSS triangle works

This is a really nice and helpful CodePen how a CSS triangle works.