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I think the bots don’t like me anymore

6 minute read

After about five months of AI bots hungrily munching on my blog’s free training data, they seem to have abruptly stopped. It’s a good sign, but given they s...

StreetComplete: Pokémon Go for map geeks

8 minute read

A few years ago, while recuperating from our at that time “favourite” dreaded lurgy,1 I stumbled across StreetComplete, an Android app to update OpenStreetMa...

My (current) blog article writing process

11 minute read

As with my work, when I write articles on my blog, I have a focus on quality. Here I describe my current writing process, primarily to document things for m...

ptc-it.de is now peateasea.de

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It’s been annoying me for a while now that the URL for this blog somehow just didn’t sound nice. I finally came up with a better-sounding domain name and ha...

Vim hjkl arrow keys T-shirt design

1 minute read

Back in 2018 I found a T-shirt featuring vim’s hjkl arrow keys but stocks were sold out. I therefore had a dab at designing my own.

Two handy mutt tips

5 minute read

Mutt is a very powerful email client, mainly because it’s terminal-based and because it has a vast array of terse commands reminiscent of the terse command p...

Backing up photos from Android to Debian

9 minute read

One would think that since Android is a Linux-based operating system, that integration between Android devices and Linux computers would work rather seamless...

Controlling screen brightness via ACPI

9 minute read

Really, this is just a workaround for an issue I haven’t completely understood. Nevertheless, since I had to work out how I’d handled brightness control via...

Test suite profiling

15 minute read

Recently at $work I found that our test suite was taking longer and longer to run and had begun to slow down development. A long-running test suite smells of...