Motivation Inspired by the session at BarCamp Regensburg I started to think about pain points in my workflow. I figured out that the conversion of my photos was too cumbersome. Before When writing articles I download the images from my phone via AirDrop to my Mac. Apple stores images in the HEIC format on my…
Motivation Many software developers use a multi monitor setup with two or three screens at 24 inches or more. Some folks like videoeditors even use giant curved screens with more than 34 inches. Thus it sometimes can become painful to find your mouse pointer on such big screen estate. But macOS got you covered. Settings…
When you write articles you occasionally need a screenshot of a program or a website. macOS got you covered with several options. Here are some useful keyboard shortcuts to use them: Screenshot of the full screen Press Shift + Cmd + 3 simultaneously Part of the screen Press Shift + Cmd + 4 simultaneously Window…
Motivation I skipped the first 7 series of Apple watches successfully but now Apple got me on the hook! As I become older I become more and more aware that I have to get my ass off the couch much more often and do more sports. And here comes Apple with their new watch 8…
Inspired by the Blog Post https://gingter.org/2016/12/15/my-developers-toolbelt-2016 I want to share what my tool set looks like in 2022: PyCharm as main IDE for Python and markdown pandoc for converting markdown to PDF Android Studio Github (now with private repo support) Guitar Pro Version 7.5 (Thomann Affiliate Link) Logic Pro X Spotify for getting into “the…
Download German dictionary http://www.winedt.org/dict.html Unzip Put de_neu.dic into your project folder Preferences -> Editor -> Spelling -> Add Custom dictionary Select path for de_neu.dic Open Ok
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In Thoughts on building a library I introduced you to the concept of a personal library. In this part I will guide you through some issues I had with sorting and cataloging my library Categories After buying a ton of books over the last couple of years, I hadn’t figured out yet how to categorize…
When working with a terminal / console in unixoid systems like Linux or macOS you may have encountered a command like CTRL + C to terminate a running process. There are a few more: Signal Control character SIGINT CTRL + C SIGTSTP CTRL + Z SIGINFO CTRL + T
JuPyteR Do You know the feeling of being already late to a party when encountering something new? But when you actually start telling others about it, you realize that it is not too common knowledge at all, e.g. Jupyter Notebooks. What is a Jupyter notebook? In my own words: a browser-based document-oriented command line style…