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.
If you ever needed to test something mail based on your local computer you may know the pain of waiting for the mail to be processed by your local smtp server and then delivered to your inbox, which probably just marked your test mail as spam. Well fear no more, because I found a solution to your problem! Mailcatcher is a … Read More
Lately I’ve been thinking how we could build an alternative for Googles Chromecast and Sonos Systems with Open-Source technology. The ideal solution would be something that could run on a Raspberry PI or similar device and which would be backwards compatible to the Chromecast API. However, performance could be a problem on such devices. The first problem is to find an … Read More
I’ve been looking for ways to remove Windows from my daily life. Sadly I’m still using it on my main desktop, because I use the Adobe Creative Suite and still play games on Windows. However I had a few ideas how to replace or at least minimize my Windows usage: Steam Streaming (Stream games over the network to my laptop. … Read More
I was looking for a Middle-Earth map to print out and really liked the map on http://lotrproject.com/map. Sadly enough there is no official download to get the map in a high resolution, so me and my buddy @manuelmeister hacked a script together to download all the tiles and create the final image from it. As we are both proficient with php, we … Read More