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Control your AV receiver with Raspotify

Published on November 14, 2018

For months I was looking for a good way to replace my Echo Dot out of privacy concerns. When I realized I actually don't need the Voice Assistant part of Echo Dot but only the Spotify Connect one I replaced it with a Raspberry Pi and added some magic.

Expiring TODOs

Published on October 28, 2018

The easiest way of justifying bad or hacky code in times where there are too many tasks and not enough time to do everything properly is by just putting a TODO next to it in which you explain how it should be. But this never means that you’ll actually go back to implement those...

The End of the F***ing World

Published on April 02, 2018

If you use Netflix you know that there are loads and loads of series to watch and new ones popping up every day. And from time to time I watch one of them - so I thought about writing an article about at least the serieses I started watching (and finished) in 2018 so far...

How I graduated by accident

Published on April 02, 2018

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my Bachelor's Thesis but what I didn't expect at that point was how quickly my studies would end afterwards due to some "features" of services I use but - to be honest - mainly my own mistakes.

Bachelor's Thesis

Published on February 26, 2018

After studying IT System Engineering at the Hasso Plattner Institute for 3.5 years I (hopefully) finished my studies now with a Bachelor of Science. At the moment I'm waiting for my last grades but I guess it should be at least passed and I already got the grades for my Bachelor's Thesis last year...

Newton

Published on April 15, 2017

Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten seine E-Mails zu lesen - vom Browser bis hin zu einer endlosen Anzahl an E-Mail-Apps. Zum Lesen reicht für viele Nutzer die normale Mail.app unter Mac - viel mehr als das und Standardfunktionalitäten wie Signaturen und Filter bietet diese aber auch nicht. Newton kann da deutlich mehr.

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