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Online applause simulator – Clap.wtf

In the last few days, Mathilde and I created an online applause simulator called clap.wtf. The idea was to have feedback from a remote audience in live streamed concerts during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the site, clicking or tapping on the clap emoji will increase the counter. The server counts the “clap” of every visitor […]

Software

Configure Wayland notification daemon mako with NixOS home-manager

Since this year I started using NixOS as my main operating system used in production. So far I’m really excited configuring and using it. Although there are still quite a few packages and configuration options missing. Compared to ArchLinux, I have to solve some problems again which were already fixed on my old installation. For […]

Software

Tuxtimer – Integratable terminal stopwatch

In the last few days, schitzu and I wrote a new stopwatch script in Bash. It simply prints ongoing time in hours, minutes and seconds format. Running the same script again in a separate process, pauses the timer. Running ./sw –stop resets it. The output format is in Json, so you can use it in […]

Hardware

Aus dem Archiv: keyComfort – Der besondere Fahrradsattel

An dieser Stelle möchte in unserem Sommer-Format “Aus dem Archiv” ein besonders kreatives und ausgefallenes Projekt vorstellen: keyComfort. Um garnicht erst viel Worte zu verlieren, lasse ich einfach das großartige Video unserer Indiegogo Crowdfunding-Kampagne (Web-Archiv 1,2) sprechen: Trotz seiner ansprechenden Ästhetik und professionellen Machart ging die Kampagne weder dort noch auf YouTube viral. Dabei waren […]

Hardware

Aus dem Archiv: CNC-Fräse Lightning Talk GPN10

Eigentlich hatten wir, Benibr, ST und ich damals 2010 schon verschiedene Texte zur GPN10, der Gulaschprogrammiernacht des Entropias in Karlsruhe, veröffentlicht. Auch der Talk von ST und Robert hatte erwähnung gefunden. Die Aufzeichnung zu dem Vortrag über die erste, selbstgebaute CNC-Fräse wurde aber leider noch nicht verlinkt oder hier hochgeladen. Das möchte ich mit dem […]

Software

Officepad – Etherpad alternative based on Onlyoffice

During the Chaos Communication Camp 2019 I was working on a project called Officepad. The aim was to build a web interface comparable to Etherpad. Etherpad is a well established tool for online text collaboration used by software developers, activists and so on. Etherpad is relatively stable and works well on a basic text level. […]

Software

Bye bye Play Store! Mirroring Play Store Apks to private F-Droid repo

This small tutorial will show you how to setup your own F-Droid repository containing automatically mirrored Play Store apps. Using this private repo, you don’t have to relay on Google Play Store or third party stores anymore to keep non-free apps up-to-date. All you need to have is a Linux server with a public web […]

Software

Ebook reader app for Nextcloud

Because of lack of altenatives I decided to write a small ebook reader plugin for Nextcloud. The task of creating such an app was quite easy: I just forked the files_pdfviewer extension and replaced PDF.js with the Epub.js library. In the app template file, I used the reference ebook reader interface which is good enough […]