geek stuff
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Checkmk: Event Console + Logwatch = New ticker in the dashboard ;)
What happens when you give techies at heart customizable software like Checkmk? Of course, nonsense, chaos, gimmick! Maybe you don't need a news ticker for the dashboard, but about...
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Crafting Madness: Tick Off GUI Maker, with Mini Lesson
Too much time? A questionable checklist generator is waiting for you! Tinkering for the sake of tinkering. With very little to learn, I promise.
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Spotted buzzcronym: AIBOM
A trip to Papua New Guinea's East Sepik province? nope But do you make lists for suitcases? Then you are not wrong at all ;)
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Pretty kitten thanks to the bat – eye candy instead of cat
Batcat makes output in the terminal prettier, more readable, clearer and shouldn't be missing anywhere. Also exciting for Git users!
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Handicraft start 2023: sticky notes for Notepad++
The sticky notes I wanted didn't exist - wonderful, then I can do handicrafts! An entry in the editor, 20 lines of AutoHotkey and "IT'S STICKY!" ;)
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Find files newer than file X
"Find files newer than file X" - a task that the find tool does in one word! But it can also be more complex, with orgy of brackets and arithmetic ;)
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Bash X Party: Movie Night Drinking Game
Movie night or drinking game? Both at the same time! Personalized, randomized drinking game with a weeenig scripting ;) Plus: With math to 00:04:20 ... wtf?!
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Dream keyboard: Split, ISO-DE, MX-Blue, RGB, Fullsize... Available: Mistel Barocco
Unfortunately, split keyboards are quite rare - if claims such as "available" are added, the search becomes a hobby. But we found one!
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Use your own cowsay graphics
Muuhhhh do the cow - but outside of children's books she says what she wants! Or should the Darth Vader koala say hello? Or yourself? Goes ;)
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Competition: What does the cow want to tell us? (expired)
Spoiler: It's not moo ;) For the solution, someone can look forward to the small nerd loot box - t-shirt and mug with motifs that no pig understands.
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Pros/Cons: Buy Garmin Fenix 6X Pro?
From 409 to 465 to 524 euros in two weeks - is "the" price worth it for a huge smartwatch without a touch? The answer is a clear it depends...
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My 10 favorite automations for Windows
More quickly! Easier! more individual! Life gets so much better with little tools, macros and scripts - here are a few suggestions from my desktop.
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Jon Bot Jovi: Raspi robot rocks like a rock star (in Guitar Hero)
A robot that rocks what might be the heaviest Guitar Hero song of all time? Everything is possible thanks to Raspberry Pi and AI image recognition...
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Instructions: Easier to install Google Play Store on Amazon Fire HD tablets
Only with the Google Play Store does the Amazon Fire HD become a fully-fledged tablet. With a handy toolbox, installation is easier than ever.
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Notepad++: Set up Vim-style navigation
With a little autohotkey code, you can implement individual navigation in Notepad++ - no more switching to the arrow keys!
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Notepad++: Create HTML hyperlinks from selection - now easy
If you want to create a link in HTML notation from selected text in Notepad++, you have to adapt a little - but 2 lines are enough!
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Notepad++: Build in stack overflow search
You can search Stack Overflow directly from Notepad++ - or anywhere else! You can even trigger scripts with the same tool :)
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Sharing links on PC much more complicated, with QR codes
Sharing links can be so easy - but it doesn't have to be! Not anymore, because QR codes, Web QR, ssh and tar are much more complicated.
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Plotters for beginners: devices, workflow, terms, tutorials
You want to know how plotters work? What products are there? workflow? Costs? Software? Step-by-step examples? Do we have.
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Nitter: Crawl Twitter without ads and algorithms
Nitter is a service for everyone who loves and hates Twitter in equal measure. Anyone looking for a NoBullshit version of Twitter should check out the number.
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View website source in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge
Looking at the website source code is not only interesting for web developers. We will show you how to view the code with the major browsers.
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Star Wars, Star Trek & Co.: Size comparison of spaceships
Enterprise, Death Star, Star Fury or the Heart of Gold: Spaceships from films and series are really that big. An absolutely worth seeing video!
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Time travel: Use old versions of Windows in the browser for free
Join us on a little trip into the past: we'll show you how you can use old versions of Windows in your browser for free.
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20 nerd shirts and what they mean
From RTFM to "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" and 4B1L17Y to (2b || !2b) - the best shirts to browse and understand ;)
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Amazingly simple: Build your own USB input devices
How about a special keyboard for your favorite game? A controller for video editing? Or the media center? It's easy with Arduino!
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Project Tutobar: Arduino and Autohotkey Scripts 2/3 (Software)
The software part of the Tutobar is simple, reusable and only needs around a dozen different lines of code. Autohotkey serves as an intermediary.
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Project Tutobar: Freely assignable button bar for Windows 1/3 (hardware)
A small Arduino project, also for beginners: A bar with switches to trigger actions under Windows. Also ideal for games!
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cli.help - Update: Bash builtins part 3/5
Oh, how was that again with the syntax of the fc command? What can I do with the history command? For such questions we have our in-house Linux help cli.help. The help gets...
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Regular expressions save the year 2302
The security of the system depends on finding all rebels named Meier - in any spelling, in many petabytes of data. Captain RegEx helps!
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Great Balls: When an AI writes AC/DC songs
Interested in new music from AC/DC? Well, we can't help with that _directly_. But Funkey Monkey's "Great Balls" comes close.
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Microsoft PowerToys for Windows 10: Amazingly Useful Open Source Helpers
Microsoft has revived an old acquaintance with the PowerToys for Windows 10 - and surprisingly well. A look at the open source tools.
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Bash: Repeat last command with different arguments
If you want to run the last command in the terminal again with changes, you can save yourself a lot of typing - just specify the modification!
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is this art And can that go away?
The visualization of memory allocation as art? WinDirStat manages the feat of making art. And a map of New York has to do with it too ;)
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Instructions: Control the Philips Hue Bridge with Amazon Alexa
The Philips Hue lighting system and Amazon's voice assistant Alexa are made for each other. Read here how you dovetail the systems.
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eufyCam 2C: Wireless surveillance cameras without a subscription!
The eufyCam 2C is preparing to deliver smart home surveillance - without additional subscription costs. We're testing how well that works.
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Media Player Classic: Switch focus to playlist without mouse
With Media Player Classic you sometimes have to use the mouse to focus on the playlist - annoying for couch potatoes, but solved!
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Instructions: Setting up the Philips Hue Bridge – the first steps
The Philips Hue Bridge is the heart of the smart lighting system. In this tutorial we show you the first steps with the Hue Bridge.
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Instructions: Control Philips Hue without a bridge with Alexa
With Amazon Alexa you can conveniently control the Hue lamps by voice command - thanks to Bluetooth even without a Hue Bridge. We show you how to do it.
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Simple scripting in everyday life: 26 hours saved with the cli.help workflow :)
Simple scripting can save a lot of time in everyday office life. Here is a very practical example from the workflow in the cli.help project. Spoilers: sorry ;)
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Pack apps in Docker containers, using Firefox as an example
How to pack a GUI program, here Firefox, into a Docker container and then use it on the Windows desktop - step by step.
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Spleter: Split songs into individual instrument tracks
With the open source tool Spleter you can split MP3s into files for bass, drums, piano and voice. Perfect for karaoke, learning and samples.
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Reboot Chuwi Hi10 and other Windows China tablets
The Chuwi Hi10 used to be a usable China tablet. It can be reinstalled in just a few simple steps: It can then do its job as a wonderful Windows 10 second computer.
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Feature Picking: Tool Outputs in Bash Prompt (S02E08)
Oh yes, autumn is coming, time for gimmicks. How about customizing the bash prompt with some tool output? Maybe a fortune cookie cow?
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Feature Picking: Auto-Completion with AutoHotkey (S02E02)
Not a programmer? It doesn't matter: after 10 minutes you could have your first scripts ready, which will save you time every day - thanks to the "simplicity" feature.
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Retro crafts: Old paper computers
Do you like retro computers and enjoy tinkering with scissors and paper? Then you should know the work of Rocky Bergen!
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Instructions: Beautify terminal output with colors and ASCII art
Text in the terminal can also be colored and formatted nicely - you may have seen this in program help. This can be done via Tput or ANSI escape sequence
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Instructions: Add hardcore sex and drugs to the Sims
The Sims 4 are a long-running hit - but at some point mature gamers will get bored. How about some real pornography and some drug use?
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TutoTools: List Philips Hue lights including their IDs
With the TutoHueList script you can find out the IDs of your lights to address them via the API.
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Instructions: Control Philips Hue devices from the terminal
Accessing Hue devices from the terminal is wonderfully simple: reading the status and switching devices on and off is done with two commands.
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Instructions: Address the Philips Hue API, aka create users
You can easily address the Philips Hue Bridge via the API: The form is already available, you only have to create a user.
