Dolomiten-Treffen - Best Ride Ever

2026-07-14 Personal Nerdy

Once upon a time—a year ago—my friend Klaus gave me a wonderful present for my 60th birthday: a voucher to attend the Helmut Dähne Dolomiten-Treffen! ...

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Fixing WIFIonICE On Ubuntu

2026-06-30 Software-Craftmanship Nerdy Tips & Tricks

AI Disclosure: AI helped turn live debugging notes into a polished write-up. The problem, commands, and final fix came from the actual session. ...

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Dark Factories Squared - Solving the MVF problem

2026-05-03 Management Software-Craftmanship Augmented-by-AI Innovation Nerdy Thoughts

AI Disclosure: So … this one is … 100% written by human/natural intelligence. I only used AI for spell-checking and polishing and the ...

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Replacing Skype - TEDN is using the force (again)

2025-05-04 Software-Craftmanship Augmented-by-AI Nerdy Open-Source Remote TEDN Tips & Tricks

First of all: May the 4th be with you! Always!!!


Second: (Obviously) In May Microsoft is going to retire Skype and is asking everybody to migrate to ...

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Track-pad behaving erratic - TEDN problem from hell

2025-04-23 Software-Craftmanship Nerdy TEDN Tips & Tricks

This goes into the bucket of problems-people-do-not-have-that-live-a-less-ambitious-life.

I am The Extreme Digital Nomad. I write code. Always and ...

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The AOC 2024 Retro - Finally!!!

2025-04-09 Software-Craftmanship Augmented-by-AI Advent-of-Code Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala

I am calling it! I declare my Advent of Code (AOC) for 2024 done! Finally!

Clarification: This does not mean that I did all of it, but I did what I ...

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Ubuntu, Wayland, Sway - Just mirror the screen!

2025-03-09 Software-Craftmanship Nerdy Tips & Tricks

This is a good one. Let me go back to the beginning …

Once upon a time there was a pandemic and during this pandemic we forgot how to do ...

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About AOC, VSCode, Scala, Mill and NO_COLOR

2024-12-22 Software-Craftmanship Augmented-by-AI Advent-of-Code Nerdy Scala Tips & Tricks

It is this time of the year again: We are all doing the Advent of Code (AOC), right?

For me the AOC has never been about speed and solving the ...

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Huffman Trees/Codes - Why are they different?

2024-11-19 Software-Craftmanship Augmented-by-AI Functional-Programming Nerdy Scala

Right now I am solving the 99-scala-problems. Again!!!

This time around I am using them to learn more about what it means to be an Augmented Software ...

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Mastodon and Emacs - The Restart

2024-07-05 Personal Emacs Nerdy TEDN Tips & Tricks

Ok … I admit it! I am using emacs! A lot!

I am also using emacs to do my tooting.

Means I am using mastodon.el.

The other day I had to ...

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