My Time in Stanford: Summer in the Bear State
Now, shortly after Christmas with vanilla crescent cookies, mulled wine, and gingerbread—and definitely no snow, though slightly cooler temperatures—I’m finally getting around
Software
Advent of Code 2025, solved in C
This year I took part in Advent of Code and solved each of the 12 puzzles in C. A few brief insights into the tasks and my thoughts on AoC 2025.
YourStats - my first app in the App Store!
After around 200 hours of writing software, my first app, YourStats, is now available in the Apple App Store. In this post, I’ll go into the background of the app and its features.
BME680, LoRaWAN and kernel panics: Weather data in the City of Heidelberg’s citizen portal
A district gets more environmental data More and more cities pride themselves on operating data platforms where public data is aggregated — sometimes better, sometimes worse.
Import KeePass file into Apple Passwords
With the release of Apple’s latest operating systems, it was time for me to turn my back on KeePass (or rather the Electron-based fork
Download your own mux.com asset again
Sometimes you may want to download assets again that you previously uploaded to the video platform Mux.com. Since I couldn’t find any other
Retrospectively signing commits on main/master branches: Here's how it's possible!
While working on an open-source project recently, I ran into the problem that after setting up a new Mac, my first commits were neither verified
Read CPU/GPU/chip temperature on M1/M2/M3 Macs (Apple Silicon) under macOS Sonoma
Here, in brief, is the trick for reading temperatures on Apple Silicon Macs (M1/M2/M3 series) under macOS Sonoma — because familiar old tools like
Meross meets InfluxDB: A guide to importing energy consumption data from smart Meross plugs
When I moved to Hamburg, I finally had a chance to set up a proper smart home setup. In doing so, I followed this strategy:
Nginx Reverse Proxy with Wildcard Routing behind a Caddy Reverse Proxy: Two layers are better than one
Anyone running more complex services with Caddy as a reverse proxy on the host system, especially when Docker container stacks are involved, cannot avoid the