This weekend is all about housekeeping. The reason: PureBasic v6.4 was released two weeks ago.1 So I spent the morning updating my open source projects built on it. No new features, just recompiling and testing. I also took the opportunity to bring the documentation up to date. The way you would expect from a well-maintained Git repository, including my offer of professional business support for real added value. Updated projects at a glance: QR Code Detection A QR/barcode scanner for standard webcams or RTSP streams. It provides a virtual keyboard and essentially replaces dedicated hardware, while offering significantly more flexibility.2 Read more

Some time ago, in my post “From Mistrel to Heretic”,1 I wrote about my journey to digital independence. I received several questions about my tech stack afterwards. A fair question I’m happy and willing to answer: I rely on free solutions with GNU/Linux Debian2 as foundation. Stable3 runs on servers and critical systems, while unstable or “sid” powers my daily drivers. For me, the ideal balance between robustness and up-to-date software. Read more

Today I’ve found this quote in Nitter (Twitter-Proxy): The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles. To the unkown author: You nailed it!

For my presentations and webinars I am always looking for good quotations. A treasure of them, I found yesterday evening in the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma”1, of course in the original English version. I do not know the German translation. Some of those quotes I would like to share with you but not without first saying something about their context. Besides the inventors of the “Like-Button”2 and the “Infinite Scroll”, the documentary features numerous software developers, managers up to the highest levels of management, venture investors from Google, Twitter and Facebook, as well as a lot of scientists and civil rights activists. Shoshana Zuboff3, US economist and professor emeritus of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, is also among them. With her book “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”4, she has written what is considered as the most important reference on tech industry. Read more