I’m actually testing on how to control things in a house or flat with Apple HomeKit. It seems to be a pretty nice solution as one would expect from apple but it takes time for the vendors to adopt. After googling around I found out that there are already some projects on github using the […]

I sometimes want to copy and paste content from the web which is styled in a proper way for the website but maybe not for the destination I want to paste it to. Imagine a Numbers table where you collect TV models and some information around them to make some kind of comparison. Normal paste usually brings the […]

Consider a long list of JSON objects where you want to filter for different criteria. jq can be a big help here. See the following data: [ { “lat”: 50.559985870799224, “lng”: 8.478780446017911, “price”: 400, “dist”: 67.0682275804, “exposeId”: “1”, “ownerSsoId”: “100”, “rooms”: 2, “area”: 74 }, { “lat”: 50.58170215982231, “lng”: 8.45889590837296, “price”: 400, “dist”: 90.9399454663, “exposeId”: “2”, […]

Most websites will want to send mails one day. Usually people go the simple way and configure their CMS or whatever else to send mail using php’s mail() function. This works fairly well but without further work most of the mails being sent will be considered spam. This can have several reasons. Please ensure to do […]

As of some time last year, Google Chrome started to phase out support for certificates with SHA-1 signatures. Since March 2015 users see a red warning notice in the address bar. This is a reputation problem every site owner should prevent. The notice occurs if any of the certificates in the chain is SHA-1 signed. So […]