Problem With the 109.0 Firefox Release zooming with Ctrl + mouse wheel is disabled by default: “On macOS, Ctrl or Cmd + trackpad or mouse wheel now scrolls the page instead of zooming. This avoids accidental zooming and matches the behavior of other web browsers on macOS.” As I’m a little bit visually impaired, this…
tl;dr; software engineering is more than just typing code into an editor and let it run on a computer. Software engineering is a bundle of good practices, tools, methodologies and a certain mindset. Model I’ve “developed” this model with the intention to teach software engineering to our apprentices and interns which often did not have…
Motivation As I started with my Prusa i3 MK3 last year I was bamboozled a lot: Platforms, Tools, gcode, STL, CAD, Slicer, etc. Perhaps this little article helps to shed some light onto the topic. Prerequisites Buy a printer 3D printers come in a variety of sizes and prizes. Nowadays you can start below 200€…
Motivation You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. James Clear My system is to formulate some yearly goals which I want to pursue over the course of the year. Having and developing good habits is definitely worthwhile but “Action needs direction” Technology AI &…
Motivation WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. It was developed by Google, and is designed to be smaller in size than other image formats, while still maintaining high image quality. One reason WebP is often considered better than JPEG is that it can…
Motivation Dieser Artikel ist ein Plädoyer für mehr Ausprobieren und weniger Perfektionismus. Skin in the Game „Skin in the Game“ bedeutet, dass eine Person ein berechtigtes Interesse am Erfolg oder Misserfolg einer Sache hat, an der sie beteiligt ist, und daher eine Motivation hat, dafür zu sorgen, dass sie erfolgreich wird. Wenn beispielsweise ein Firmeninhaber…
Motivation Inspect and adapt & Iterative and incremental are the most basic agile principles. So, inspection of your process after every iteration can be done by a retrospective. Vegas Rule First some psychological safety: Vega’s Rule: What happens in a retro stays in the retro! Participants only want to share their insights and concerns when…
Motivation The DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) principle does not only apply to code but to mouse clicks as well: When you are repeatedly clicking buttons you might want to figure out some keyboard shortcuts. In Jetbrains IDEs like PyCharm you can use the plugin Key Promotor X to learn these shortcuts. Installation Open the File…
Challenge – Part 1 https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/3 Problem vJrwpWtwJgWrhcsFMMfFFhFp jqHRNqRjqzjGDLGLrsFMfFZSrLrFZsSL PmmdzqPrVvPwwTWBwg wMqvLMZHhHMvwLHjbvcjnnSBnvTQFn ttgJtRGJQctTZtZT CrZsJsPPZsGzwwsLwLmpwMDw The first rucksack contains the items vJrwpWtwJgWrhcsFMMfFFhFp, which means its first compartment contains the items vJrwpWtwJgWr, while the second compartment contains the items hcsFMMfFFhFp. The only item type that appears in both compartments is lowercase p. The second rucksack’s compartments contain jqHRNqRjqzjGDLGL and…
Challenge – Part 1 https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/2 Example For example, suppose you were given the following strategy guide: A Y B X C Z This strategy guide predicts and recommends the following: In the first round, your opponent will choose Rock (A), and you should choose Paper (Y). This ends in a win for you with a…