Productivity

We all have our little digital sanctuaries, places where we spend countless hours typing away, solving problems, and creating things. For many of us, that’s the terminal. But let’s be real – staring at the same old prompt day in and day out can get a bit… monotonous. Specially all those minimal small debian boxes or containers I use for this and that. A Simple Bash Terminal Prompt Generator I created a little tool on one of my late-night coding adventures. You know, those moments when you’re supposed to be sleeping but your brain decides it’s the perfect time to go Brrrrrrttt? Anyway, I was looking for a simple one click Bash Terminal Prompt Generator because my previous bookmarked one went out of service and I didnt like the others. ...

Today I want to give a Software Recommendation; Joplin. In the grand journey of life, there comes a point when the sheer volume of knowledge accumulated over the years becomes overwhelming. That’s when the things you learned over Time becomes an invaluable asset. For those of us who’ve embarked on the quest to tame the information beast, a personal knowledge base and note-taking tool are needed companions. I’ve tried various tools like Notion, Evernote, and Obsidian, each with its unique strengths. But in the end, my heart settled on Joplin. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Several times already I had the Problem that in Multimonitor mode of my laptop I undock it and some windows “stuck” to the old now non existing 2nd Screen. There are some things you can do to move it back but sometimes everything fails. So in first I made a small Autohotkey Script to move all Windows, but I wanted it done right and so I just put a small C# tool together. Opensource, feel free to use. Here a small Video how it works with my 2nd Screen attached: ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: Images make articles more interesting, but finding visuals for abstract topics is hard. Stock sites like Shutterstock cost money. Free stock sites are a good alternative, but check licenses: “non-commercial” can be risky. Prefer Public Domain or CC0; modifications and commercial use allowed, sometimes with attribution. Sources: jay mantri. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: I heard about Munich’s LiMux switch to Linux and possible return to Microsoft. Politicians blame Linux for typical IT issues, but many problems are internal, regardless of OS. My Linux attempts recur; past Ubuntu (around 8) had driver issues. Now I’m trying Linux Mint, staying in the Debian world. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: CAPTCHA: acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Intended to block bots, used in registrations/forms. But some are unreadable, frustrating users and increasing bounce rates. Today I couldn’t register because the CAPTCHA was like a Rorschach test. Developers, please consider usability; many won’t try five times. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: Windows 7 tips: Useful hotkeys and a quick note on Aero Peek. You can change the Aero Peek preview delay via regedit at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced by adding DWORD DesktopLivePreviewHoverTime (ms). I use 50ms. Quick access to network adapters: run ncpa.cpl. ...