The last two days I improved my own architecture and extended everything with a PDF workflow. If you like, you may download my larger blog series from the previous year in one piece as a PDF file and read them offline, a total of 75+ pages of condensed facts: Corona Warning App Home Office Workplaces Macbook Revival Come on, PDFs for old articles? Seriously? Well these are just test-balloons and working examples for my new PDF workflow. With the help of Pandoc, Git, Bash and Xelatex I have been able to achieve a significant improvement. The three linked PDFs are 100% automatically created from the content of this blog without my intervention. In future, this workflow will also be used for audits, documentation or other articles for third parties. Read more

The foundation of every ISMS is a “living” inventory. In an ideal world, this communicates with the Ansible, Bash or PowerShell scripts within IT Operations. Snipe-IT, which I value and have successfully used for many years, was unknown to c’t up until now. Enjoy the read (in German): “IT-Assets im Griff” in der c’t Ausgabe 7/2021.

I would like to wish all my customers, business partners, friends and acquaintances a happy Holiday Season. Please stay healthy! Wherever you are, cosily couch in yourselves and keep the necessary peace of mind during the Corona-Lockdown. May it be like an admin-friend told me recently: Think positive, stay negative! I am winding down my blog activities till January and devoting myself to the persons and activities needing me. For the long, dark and hopefully snowy winter evenings there are some books awaiting me aswell together with a tea, milk and honey. Read more

You’re damn late! This was the initial response of a friend while showing him a previev. But finally, here we are. This is a blog round about my work and all the things I am taking care of. Everything is work in progress and this website is kind of Playground seperated from the formal official website. As you might have expected: No 3rd party ressources, no data collection or transfer to 3rd parties. This website is built and operated with free software only (Builder, Hugo, Gitea, Debian, Apache and damn I am so proud of! Read more