Heute haben wir bereits die erste Woche in Neuseeland hinter uns, mit vielen Erlebnissen und Eindrücken. Bereits vorneweg: Zum Glück haben wir noch zwei weitere Wochen, es gibt noch so viel zu sehen. Der Reisestart Begonnen hat die Neuseeland Rundreise mit einem langen Flug der Singapore Airlines von Singapur nach

Pünktlich am 10. April 2014 um 11:45 startete unser Abenteur mit einem Airbus A380 der Singapore Airlines in Richtung Singapur am Flughafen Zürich. Nach einem wider Erwarten kurzweiligen und sehr ruhigem Flug landeten wir bereits um 05:15 (Ortszeit, 23:15 Schweizer Zeit, 11.5h Flugzeit) auf dem Flughafen

Displaying Squeezebox [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox_%28network_music_player%29] "Now Playing" information on a Dashing [http://shopify.github.io/dashing/] dashboard is now very easy with my widget, which can be found on gist.github.com [https://gist.github.com/tobru/9714028]. Just type dashing

After using Jekyll for quite some time now, I was looking for a way to publish to a draft website before publishing to the live website. As I'm using a git hook to publish my websites (see Why and how I moved from Wordpress to Jekyll: Publishing [https:

bup [https://github.com/bup/bup] is a backup tool based on git's packfile format. I use it every day and I'm very happy with it, except it's handling of the commandline task and that there is no way to just do a backup

A missing piece on my static generated personal website tobru.ch [https://tobru.ch/] was a nice looking, well integrated photo gallery. Some time ago I came across Lychee [http://lychee.electerious.com/], a very nice looking, simple gallery. It uses JavaScript to render the content in the browser and

When I created this statically generated blog, I decided to not integrate comments. Mainly because there was no solution which suited my needs: self hosted, small, easy to use, nice look. For my personal website I used Juvia [https://github.com/phusion/juvia], but for my needs its too big

Some network services are predestinated to be used as DDoS helper: They are UDP based and the response payload is much bigger than the sent request. UDP makes it easy to fake the sender IP. So anyone can send a request on behalf of some other IP which then gets