Historic notes
Stuff I messed around with, centuries ago :-) Noted here before it falls into total oblivion.
Recent posts
Deep work vs. shallow work
I’m trying to become a Deep Worker. Minimalism, Rework and Deep Work together would be an ideal package.
Building a Magic Mirror
Since I saw the first Magic/Smart Mirrors appear on the net, I wanted to build one too for our guest bathroom. I had some boards of old wood lying around, fr...
Using webhooks with Telegram (Part 2)
In Part 1, I showed how to create a bot using long polling and the telegram-bot-ruby gem.
Automate Chromium in kiosk mode on a flock of Raspberry Pis
Carl Group manages all technical aspects of large events and conferences, which involves operating multiple connected Raspberry Pis on different screens, dis...
Creating a map and geocoding bot for Telegram (Part 1)
I love Telegram and it’s bot API, which is designed brilliantly. The API could very well serve as an example for other messengers (Yes, Whatsapp, I am lookin...
Archiving email from Outlook and Apple Mail
This is my current strategy for archiving emails.
Receiving Whatsapp messages and posting them to a (Ruby) web service
It had to receive Whatsapp messages in a Ruby webservice. To be absolutely clear: Just for receiving, no sending and no spamming.
REWORK really changed the way I work
I am a REWORKer. I love the books REWORK and “Getting Real” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier-Hansson. REWORK was the most influential and most important b...
Playing around with the fog gem for AWS
This tool started as a little side and test project for managing our own AWS EC2 instances, domains and snapshots. It got more features as we went along and ...