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Silly Mastodon apps
/blog/2025/03/18/silly-mastodon-apps/
Published: March 19, 2025 04:27
Just like used to be the case with Twitter, there are a lot of very nice third-party apps for Mastodon. I’m not neccesarily very good at making those, or at least do not usually feel like writing good software for fun most days, but I do maintain…
Mastodon.py in the browser!
/blog/2025/02/18/mastodonpy-in-the-browser/
Published: February 18, 2025 21:16
Today, I learned that PyScript exists. PyScript is, at its core, some rigging to make Pyodide, a WebAssembly port of the CPython Python interpreter, real easy to use as a proper client-side web scripting tool. Just include one <script> tag and now <script…
Measuring power network frequency using junk you have in your closet
/blog/2025/02/09/measuring-power-network-frequency-using-junk-you-have-in-your-closet/
Published: February 9, 2025 10:22
Over the weekend starting on Saturday, the 8th of February 2025, the Baltic states’ electricity grid is switching from being synchronized with the Russian electric grid to being synchronized with the continental European electrical grid. This involves…
Perry Rhodan, Part 1: Die Dritte Macht
/blog/2023/06/21/perry-rhodan-part-1-die-dritte-macht/
Published: June 21, 2023 12:28
I like Perry Rhodan a lot. If you’re not German, and even if you are German, you might not have heard of Perry Rhodan, so here is a quick high level summary. Perry Rhodan is a German pulp magazine sci-fi series. It has, somehow, been in continous…
Frequent easily avoidable mistakes in student presentations and how to not make them
Published: June 20, 2023 13:47
If you are a university student, you’ll sometimes have to give presentations about research, mostly in seminars, but also for a thesis. I’ve supervised a lot of those as a PhD student, and I’ve seen people Do A Presentation Badly in all kinds of ways.…