Development

C++, Web or Embedded? I love to program them all!

Full Stack Developer?

Definitively.

Servers

CI workers, Gameserver - or better Vserver with Docker & more

Virtualize and containerize? Everything.

Hacking

Closed Source microcontrollers? Let's crack and flash!

Paid Open Source? Let's unlock it

...and yes - my lamp runs Linux.

Software development

C/C++ (♥), Python, PHP, HTML, CSS, JS, QBASIC, Java or Kotlin. I speak them all! My favourite rendering APIs? Vulkan, OpenGL and GLSL. Librarys? Here my most frequently used ones: Python Flask, Vulkan SDK, libCurl, GLUT, GLAD, SDL2 and GTK+.

Development operations

DevOps? Of course! Gitlab CI, Docker and Kubernetes: Starting with just some code formatting checks up to tested and scaled, auto-deployed and prodution-ready apps - even this site is part of my CI pipeline!

Software engineering

I love to design systems: Starting by just the internal class diagrams of a server instance up to the whole backend API and frontend representation.

Systems administration

Linux is my world - therefore my love to the LAMP stack! I also enjoy working with a lot of other server-related software: Virtualisation (KVM, Docker), storage (ZFS), serving (miniDLNA, Nextcloud) or management (Netdata) are only some of my expertises!

Webdesign

You need a website or want to modify an existing one? Wordpress, Joomla and now Hugo - I worked with all of them. Or maybe you just want to redesign some static content…

UI/UX

You need an intuitive and unique interface design for your next project? Whether you work with a C++ rendering pipeline or just need some JS with CSS - I’m here to help you!

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From my blog

Random encounters with fascinating software and sporadic posts about the world (of tech). Some DIY projects included - refer to their package leaflet for risks and side effects.

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Maintenance 2021.05.16 - 2021.05.16

on May 16, 2021 10:18

Incoming maintenance! Hey, little heads up regarding a server maintenance - the expected downtimes of the server and all of my services are: 2021.05.16 20:00 - 2021.05.16 23:00 That’s nice, but… …what will be changed? An SSD failed this morning and must be replaced soon - current operation is not (yet) affected A new power cable for the HDDs will be installed Please note, that after that timeframe some services may not work properly and therefore do not hesitate to contact me if any problem persists too long (not everything is monitored from my backend).

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Incident report from 2021.04.29

on April 29, 2021 18:09

Something went wrong! As first: Sorry. As you can maybe imagine, this should not happen! As part of further improving the stability of my systems I post this incident report. This is a more in-depth analysis of the respective incident. It should give you an overview of what went how wrong. Maybe you can learn from it or at least understand how such thing could happen in the first place.

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Maintenance 2021.05.01 - 2021.05.03

on April 27, 2021 11:28

Incoming maintenance! Hey, little heads up regarding a server maintenance - the expected downtimes of the server and all of my services are: 2021.05.01 10:00 - 2021.05.03 10:00 That’s nice, but… …what will be changed? The server gets transferred into a new case Install new fans Relocate storage disks Server room gets better cooling Updates. Yes, they also exist on Linux. Please note, that after that timeframe some services may not work properly and therefore do not hesitate to contact me if any problem persists too long (not everything is monitored from my backend).

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Maintenance RSS Feed

on April 27, 2021 11:09

What’s that?! Okay, in the recent years I’ve become a service provider to more and more people (which is fine by me), but when I need to do maintenance to my server I now have to contact all of them. Individually. Using their preferred way of communication. Me, contacting all of you - visual representation only, not actual footage. As you may imagine, this is sort of a pain in the b*tt - especially when I need to move the maintenance window or may want to report about outages… So here is my solution: As I already have my website on which I publish maintenance notes and also already render the needed RSS feeds - why not use these?

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