Motivation Maintaining python packages for more than one python version can be a bit of a hassle In https://creatronix.de/how-to-use-tox-to-test-your-code-on-multiple-platforms/ I’ve introduced tox. An interesting alternative is nox(!) due to its programmatic approach Installation pip install nox Example Linting Let’s take a minimum viable example. In our main.py we intentionally omit the newline at the end…
Motivation Migrating old documentation from Microsoft Excel into Atlassian Confluence I was bamboozled that I couldn’t simply copy paste excel data into Confluence Tables. Duh! Googling around for a couple of minutes a provided solution looked like that: Convert Excel to markdown Use the “Insert markdown” macro in Confluence Excel to markdown There are several…
This article is a guest article from Maximilian Brenner Introduction Imagine you have 48 hours to find, implement and present a solution for a complex problem. In return you get sleep deprivation and maybe some money. A hackathon does not sound appealing at first. Nevertheless I have taken several of these competitions and now I…
A little sneak peak into the exposition at https://www.raumfahrtmuseum.de/
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…
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…