Yes, I have a passion for exotic languages. This time I experimented with Purebasic1 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

A few years ago, I introduced Enroute1 and was immediately excited.2 For the first time, there is an ‘uncluttered’ app for both (Linux) desktop and mobile devices for VFR navigation and planning. And it’s free and open source and covers all of Europe. A lot of progress has been made since then and I have been able to thoroughly test the operational capability of Enroute on various trips. 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 CCTV1 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

Congratulations to Telekom with its millions of MagentaCloud1 users. Throughout the year2, they will switch to Nextcloud3 and the online office service Collabora4, based on the free LibreOffice5. This is a real success story for Nextcloud and its years of work in winning over ISPs6. Read more