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Author: Andreas

  • on technology

    This a bit old already, but came to my attention only today. Every Product Manager, Designer and Front End Engineer should read and repeat this every day. Every corporate marketing guy should print and frame this and have it hanging somewhere in sight from his desk. The older I get, the more I realize the…

  • Vim 8 released

    Vim 8 was released today. Features include: – Asynchronous I/O support, channels, JSON – Jobs – Timers – Partials, Lambdas and Closures – Packages – New style testing – Viminfo merged by timestamp – GTK+ 3 support – MS-Windows DirectX support Nobody knows why. Source: Vim

  • BOX-256

    Box-256 is a browser game where you need to solve small tasks, e.g. let a program draw a square, in your browser. Through writing assebly. Since I wrote quite a bit assembly throughout my career, I thought this is interesting. Still, I failed at level one. Mostly because of impatience. Source: BOX-256 – Tiny game about writing assembly to…

  • ssl and https with letsencrypt!

    nomorecubes.net now (finally) leverages https! It has a certificate from letsencrypt, automatically verified by the service, maintained and deployed by docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion. The deployment has been considerably easy through docker-compose, adding the container to the existing nginx-proxy like this: version: ‘2’ services:nginx-proxy: image: jwilder/nginx-proxy container_name: nginx-proxy ports: – “80:80” – “443:443” volumes: – “./certs:/etc/nginx/certs:ro” – “/etc/nginx/vhost.d”…

  • IoT Week 35/16

    A few links I came across this week I believe are relevant for the Internet of Things. This is neither complete nor conclusive, but maybe helpful for somebody else. IFA 2016 opened The “Internationale Funk-Ausstellung” 2016 opened it’s doors in Berlin, for the 53rd time since 1923, making it one of the oldest trade fairs…

  • Volunteering and the Work-Life Balance #SYP2016

    As exciting the #SYP2016 in Regensburg has been, it has been volunteers that made it happen. That means, just like all the other IEEE volunteers, the organizing team has not been paid to do it and they did it in their spare time. Therefore, a huge applause to those sacrificing their spare time from work…

  • MSFT and AMZN dominate the cloud.

    Fortune has an article on how Amazon Web Service and Microsoft dominate the cloud market. No surprise there, though. Also, that Google comes in third is no huge surprise. http://fortune.com/2016/08/04/amazon-microsoft-cloud-race/

  • A couple of weeks later…

    A few weeks into the new role, I’m busy with all the new and exciting responsibilities. Being in charge for a product is fantastic, all along with the rising technology in the Internet of Things makes it a really unique experience. Also the approach to the market broadens my horizon and there are so many…

  • Go best practices

    Peter Bourgon has some experience with go, and he shares this on his website. Go is a language developed at Google 2007 and released to the public in 2009. In first place, this is fairly unrelated, but we’re currently evaluating go as a language for an IoT project, which makes it fit the topic of this…

  • Google’s OnHub Gets New Smarthome Functionality

    Googles approach to the smart home gateway on their OnHub Router. This router wants to be more than a router—but Echo is still more robust for talking to your home. http://fortune.com/2016/05/01/googles-onhub-smarthome/