Over the last years I’ve visited many places in and around Central Switzerland. I’ve never been disappointed by the vast views and monumental mountains and valleys. Below you’ll find a collection of my favorite images of Central Switzerland.
My fuel at work. Heavily inspired by the 80s, which I never experienced.
While gathering informations about how an array with objects can be declared in PlSQL and the processed by aa for loop, I ended up with very different results. Some people created temporary tables and other defined complex new types. It was difficult to see through. By prioritizing simpler and more common approaches, I ended up with a suitable solution.
Before we have a look at the the PlSQL script, let me introduce you to the scenario I had to resolve.
Recently I remembered the sunflower seeds art installation by the social activist Ai Weiwei and was curious how he managed to produce those 100 million seeds. I ended up with at a documentation by the tate collective:
People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. – Richard Thaler Richard Thaler won a nobel prize for showing that humans tend to make irrational decisions. He is the founder of behavioral economics and took an unlikely way to success. In the latest Freakonomics podcast Steve Dubner interviews Richard Thaler, clears some misunderstandings and gives insight on how Thaler deals with lazyness and his efforts to fix the world.
The Hugo templating system is very flexible. Even when markdown falls short you can add simple snippets inside the content files. Hugo created shortcodes to circumvent the limitations. For my blog I have create a custom shortcode for embeding Soundcloud playlists into my markdown posts. Creating custom shortcodes is very easy. I will show you how it is done and moreover provide a tool to convert existing Soundcloud set urls into the custom Soundcloud shortcode.
Using Wordpress to run this blog has become an overkill. It was time to change. Static site generators, no database content management systems and JavaScript based tools make Wordpress an deprecated blogging platform. I had the idea of moving away from Wordpress for a while and decided to take a chance two weeks ago. This post is about the migration process and the design decisions made in preparation of the migration.
From the title you can tell that I chose Hugo as my next CMS, but why Hugo? First of all, I only have had a look at Jekyll and Hugo. Jekyll is written in ruby and Hugo in go. To make it short and simple, Hugo does whatever Jekyll does, but based on newer technologies and a lot faster. And also remember it doesn’t really matter. Both Hugo and Jekyll use markdown files and have almost the same format to store posts and data. So no big difference except speed.
It’s been a while since I posted one of my playlists.
Recently I was looking a way to have auto completion with git when checking out a branch. The solution was kind of obvious. The github git mirror repository has a folder containing experimental tools. One of these tools is a shell scripts that enables completion for various git sub commands. Exactly what I was looking for.
This post is about a thought I wanted to process and thus wrote it down.
At work I often find myself to be exhausted from dealing with intensive thinking patterns. In my definition intensive thinking patterns are caused by issues which occur often, cannot be solved easily and require a sustainable solution. This sounds very broad, let me give you an example.