Author: hinnerk
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Computer says ‘no’
Using 3rd-party tools to write software for iOS is quite often quite an extra bit of pain. It feels like a good portion of development using DotNet MAUI became more or less fixing certificate and provisioning burdens that seem to be only installed to maximize the pain for people using anything else than XCode to…
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Reboot like it’s the 90th
In the finishing decade of the past century it was a common saying among Windows Sysadmins that average power users reboot at least four to five times per day. Having access to a parallel universe made from various Unix and VMS systems that time it had always left me a bit baffled. Issuing a reboot…
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Functional Programming Concepts
I remember the late 1980s when Computer Magazines were all about OOP. — Object Oriented Programming. Everything should be an object, everything was about moving that Object from one state to another. A concept, that has it‘s benefits in many cases but quite often carries a lot of complexity into programming. In 2023 modern programming…
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Making Maps – Ressources
Some of my daily work is to create printable and static online maps for magazines in various scales, details and often with some unique information that only maritime minded readers will find recognizable. This post is about the tools and data I use. Maybe it will evolve to kind of a scratchpad for my personal…
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Open AIS data
I just found an open and (for now) free source of world wide terrestrial AIS data at aisstream.io. and I think I will play a bit with that in a not so far future.
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Celebrating a web browser
What many call the Internet today celebrates kind of a thirty years birthday these days. The Mosaic web browser was the first public available one of it‘s kind. Before it’s release in 1993 the young web was only availabe on high end Machines before. But from the Moment Marc Andreesen released Mosaic for Macs, PCs…
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(Not) fixing Podlove Podcast Publisher Export and Import functions
Podlove Podcast Publisher’s import and export functions could not be more dysfunctional written by chatGPT. This workaround might safe you a few days manual work.
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Experiences in using code to create problems I need to solve
Hello, since the beginning of time I loved to build things using bits, bytes, wires, lights, … oh, and I do sail ! These are my Clumsy Dev Chronicles. The name is as funny as ChatGPT could get when tasked to invent a name for a Blog where I am going to write about code…