Visit to the Hermann Oberth museum
A little sneak peak into the exposition at https://www.raumfahrtmuseum.de/
Cloud Computing Overview
Motivation Getting the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certificate is one of my goals from my New Year’s Resolutions and Technology Learning Roadmap 2023 So time to buckle up and learn about cloud concepts first! The Cloud tl;dr; the cloud is someone else’s computer 🙂 In general cloud computing means that you don’t pay for computer hardware…
Re-enable Zoom with Mouse-Wheel on Firefox
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…
What is Software Engineering – An Overview
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…
Introduction to 3d printing
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€…
New Year’s Resolutions and Technology Learning Roadmap 2023
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 &…
Pillow how to convert images to webp
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…
Skin in the Game
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…
Three basic types of agile retrospectives
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…
How to learn IDE Shortcuts with Key Promotor X
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…