Yes, I have a passion for exotic languages. This time I experimented with Purebasic and wanted to see how quickly a robust, multi-threaded HTTP REST API could be created. Cross-platform for Linux, Windows and OS X, free of additional dependencies as a single-file binary behind a reverse proxy that takes care of everything with TLS and load balancing. Read more

It feels like I’ve been getting more and more follower requests lately that I just have to turn down. Sometimes there are empty profiles, sometimes newly created ones, sometimes profiles with content, comments and followers, where I ask myself: Do you really want to stand in a context with these people? Read more

A nice open source project from the industry. The new plant of a medium-sized company needed to be equipped with video surveillance and recording. Usually engineers use ready-to-use CCTV systems bought in DIY stores, consisting of a network-attached storage and a streaming server. Nowadays, not that cheap Chinese blackboxes, usually tied together with Apps, Cloud and Online functionality without any chance of customization. Read more

Today, shortly before weekend, I felt that pain again when seeing a PowerShell script. Somebody has literally raped the System.IO.DirectoryInfo across several pages and eternalised himself beyond anything related to aesthetics, technology or rationality. The aim of the script was to zip all the subdirectories of given folder one by one and push them to another drive with an ISO -compliant timestamp prefix. Read more