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smyck.net

a blog by John-Paul Bader

GeneralLinux / UnixAudio / hi-fiSecurity

’05’10’15’20’25
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172 from 30 Nov 2005 to 3 Oct 2026
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now and then (5 in the last year)
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2026 5

  1. Holocron: The Backup of Last Resort
  2. How to burn 100 GB M-Disc Blu-rays on macOS
  3. CAD for Woodworking: Learning Both
  4. Improved ADS-B Toolchain
  5. My minimal ADS-B Tracking Setup

2025 1

  1. Mobile Podcasting Setup 2025

2024 2

  1. Tuning rspamd
  2. Replacing the TouchMix DAW Utility

2023 1

  1. How to install Photoview on FreeBSD

2019 1

  1. How to Add Caching to Your Website

2018 3

  1. How To Record a Good Sounding Podcast
  2. My Favorite Shoe – és Accel
  3. Pizza Dough

2017 1

  1. Current Home Recording Setup

2016 5

  1. Building My Own Custom Telecaster Guitar
  2. Looking For A New Job
  3. Cheap and Good Photo / Video Lights
  4. How to Recover a Forgotten Password
  5. FreeBSD Slow ZFS Bootloader

2015 3

  1. Truth Tables (… you can handle the truth)
  2. Tape vs Digital
  3. Music Recommendation: ruído/mm

2014 9

  1. An Evening with White Volcano
  2. The SNAFU Principle
  3. Cleaned up my Pedal Board
  4. Proper Grill Cloth for my Guitar Cabinet
  5. New FreeBSD Screencast Episode about CARP
  6. Erlang R16 64Bit on OS X 10.9 with wxWidgets
  7. Getting Started with FreeBSD
  8. FreeBSD: Authentication Error when fetching ports from github
  9. Resampling / Converting Audio Files

2013 7

  1. How to build an electric guitar
  2. Why (not) pay for music?
  3. Orange Micro Terror
  4. How to record your band (rehearsal)
  5. How to set up a basic HTTP API with Erlang in 10 Minutes
  6. Web Typography
  7. How to Build a Guitar Speaker Cabinet

2012 3

  1. Spicy Vegetable Soup
  2. Guitar equipment and learning to play
  3. Why Erlang?

2011 11

  1. Text Editors for Programmers on the Mac
  2. Online Backup Services Revisited
  3. Evaluating Online Backup Services
  4. Camel Case in MySQL Table Names is a Bad Idea
  5. Cannot delete File / unmount disk because it is in use …
  6. Using the Intel 510 Series SSD in a 2011 MacBook Pro at full speed and with TRIM
  7. Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcut for locking the screen
  8. Files with mixed and invalid Encodings in Ruby
  9. How to setup SparkleShare beta2 for mac with your own server
  10. Parsing large log files with ruby
  11. 4x4x4 Cube – Things are getting more serious

2010 16

  1. Your own “DNS server”
  2. Videos now without flash
  3. Back to self-hosted blogging
  4. 3x3x3 Cube with 2nd Board
  5. 3x3x3 LED Cube – Part #2
  6. 3x3x3 LED Cube – Part #1
  7. Arduino Quicky
  8. 5×5 Matrix Demo
  9. Next Stop: 27 LED Cube Street
  10. 2x2x2 Multiplexing Demo
  11. Vive la résistance!
  12. But what parts are needed to get started?
  13. 2x2x2
  14. IPv6 is there, everybody is waiting for you
  15. smyck.org on IPv6
  16. New year new software

2009 4

  1. Link collection about version control systems
  2. Metaclasses in Ruby Part II
  3. Metaclasses in Ruby Part I
  4. iPhone – The first 7 days.

2008 9

  1. rm -rf /opt
  2. My new Textmate Bundle
  3. Bogosort in ruby
  4. Web Applications
  5. Wettermanipulation am 30.05.2008 um 6:00 ?
  6. My favourite Ruby (on Rails) Books
  7. One of my ideas became reality – without me: Port of the Processing language to JavaScript and Canvas
  8. Updates, really
  9. Flickr

2007 28

  1. Creating your own CA – The Miracles of OpenSSL
  2. Demonstration: Freiheit statt Angst
  3. Alexa Eröffnung
  4. Canon 40D Arrived
  5. Migrate from MySQL 4.0 to MySQL 5.0
  6. Canon 40D officially announced
  7. Ruby faster than Python and Perl!
  8. Symbols in Ruby – Short Explanation?
  9. Aus Grün mach Rot
  10. Ruby on Rails debugging with breakpoints
  11. SelfHTML auf dem Chaos Communication Camp
  12. Trick 17 für »Gefährder«
  13. Reading man pages in Preview.app
  14. MacPorts Quicky
  15. Safari for Windows supports color profiles and remote execution
  16. Great Stuff, being able to type utf-8 characters in a Terminal on OS X!
  17. Getting proper unix user land tools on os x
  18. Cheating the hacker way
  19. Berlin – Brennende Autos und so
  20. Hihi
  21. How to bind WEBrick to any IP address
  22. Sonntag Morgen
  23. Using OS X as a decent web server operating system
  24. Groups in OS X
  25. Rails and Postgres with MacPorts on OS X 10.4.8
  26. Still no art for you dot com!
  27. Note to myself: Useful Regular Expressions
  28. Lost my Jabber Contact List

2006 51

  1. So on and snow fnord!
  2. The web2.0 equivalent of color
  3. RubyOnRails on Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)
  4. Getränkeautomaten und Hacker
  5. Trusted Computing – The Apple Way
  6. Verlorene Atombomben
  7. Manche Dinge sollten analog bleiben!
  8. Street art – Julian Beever
  9. Support your local heros
  10. I love Mac OS X
  11. Bookmarklet for del.icio.us
  12. The top ten unix shell commands you use
  13. Das Weblog oder Der Weblog?
  14. Helsinki Complaints Choir
  15. Photoshop Farbeinstellungen Reloaded
  16. Javascript: Dynamic Regular Expressions
  17. Praised be TextMate and its SVN bundle
  18. Web 3.0 !
  19. Rub your eyes!
  20. Design Observer
  21. TextMate Test
  22. Gebrochene Schriften, eine Geschichte voller Missverständnisse
  23. Quarter Live in Concert
  24. I'm sick ! Time for blogging !
  25. Textpattern with XML-RPC !!!
  26. June is misc'ing
  27. Quickie: About to buy a Macbook?
  28. Step.next!
  29. Generate a color scheme for your website with colr.org
  30. YAJP – Yet Another Javascript Post
  31. The Javascript Sessions: Personal Experience
  32. The Javascript Sessions: What's not in the books
  33. The Javascript Sessions: The Books
  34. Writing XHTML on Mac OS X
  35. Web 2.0? – more like Web 1.0 RC2!?
  36. WordPress vs. Textpattern reloaded
  37. Berliner Stadtzeitung – Scheinschlag
  38. Mac OS X on Intel
  39. Leseempfehlung
  40. Preparing Photos for the Web
  41. Website Editing on OS X
  42. Talk or Walk – Presentation
  43. Semesterferien
  44. Es mag Leute mit anderer Meinung geben …
  45. Solange …
  46. Typography and the Web
  47. The (still) Expanding Blogosphere
  48. Sorry, this seat is occupied – by Web 3.0
  49. Textpattern, my favourite CMS
  50. Google Earth is soo 1995
  51. Neues aus dem Reprokurs

2005 12

  1. Winter in Berlin
  2. The 22C3 is over
  3. Bert Bos auf dem 22C3
  4. RGB, CMYK, Profile, Farbmanagement
  5. First Contact
  6. Progress Update
  7. Talk or Walk – First Contact
  8. Mein UdK Projekt: Talk or Walk
  9. The Web according to W3C
  10. Qix as in Kicks
  11. Die Wunder des Photoshop
  12. Hello world indeed !