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Category: Various Tech stuff

  • Tasker.team

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    to be continued…

  • How to build a fully functioning, multi-lingual, responsive web application with an AI tool in a few hours, without writing a single line of code.

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    Overview This post will take you through my experiment of building a quite powerful travel expense website using Lovable.dev, an AI tool specialized on web site and App generation (this process is called vibe coding, a term coined by Andrej Karpathy in february 2025, cofounder of OpenAI). The entire process took one rainy sunday afternoon…

  • Ad-hoc chats

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    I have a QR code sticker at my car’s window. Whenever someone wants to contact me, he can just scan the QR code and directly enter into a chat with me, e.g. to inform me that I’m parking in a restricted place, something is wrong with my car or whatever. Both participants in the chat…

  • Textpage.net – your own URL shortener

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    I had a problem with my (digital) paper-based note taking (on a Remarkable 2): I manually write down information, but sometimes I need a reference to a web page, e.g. a Confluence wiki, a Jira tracking issue or similar. I cannot easily add a link to paper. So I built a very simple link shortener…

  • Coldmonkey.com – a simple prompter

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    For users My colleagues were running a presentation in front of a larger audience, and I acted as (silent) time keeper in the background, giving them subtle signs to either speed up, slow down or explain something in more detail when I realized that the audience wasn’t following. I tried different ways: small hand gestures,…

  • 99q.eu – QR codes made easy

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    This post explains the usage of my website 99q.eu, a site to build very minimalistic websites such as this one and use them for various scenarios. Underlying idea The main idea behind this site was: I needed a quick way to create a QR code which contains some basic information, e.g. my contact data or…

  • Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5

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    Introduction Since a few weeks I own a Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5, a small device with e-Ink display, running (a quite old version of) Android. I ordered it on AliExpress and got it shipped from China to Germany in roughly two months. Google for “Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5” to read some reviews. This is a…

  • c99.chat: Technical blurb

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    I run c99.chat, a no-registration, no-installation, no-cost ad-hoc chat site. Try it! This blog post describes some technical details of this site. Plain php/MySQL The site is made with plain, hand-coded PHP. No Angular, React etc – mainly because it grew from an experimental page and I missed the moment to switch to a good…

  • 9blox.com: Adding a Google calendar

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    This is one of several help pages related to 9blox.com. You can add a block which displays the upcoming events (for the next month) of a public Google calendar. Use this for example to display upcoming events, availabilities of a venue or for similar ideas. Get the calendar ID from your Google calendar First of…

  • Running your own photo gallery

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    There are thousands of photo gallery scripts and tools out there. I played around with Piwigo, an open-source php-based solution that has been around for many years and is actively improved continously. My site faces.photo (now inactive) runs on Piwigo version 2.10, which is the latest version at the time of writing this post. Installation…