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My gaming year 2023

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-12-my-gaming-year-in-review/

Published: December 27, 2023 16:38

As a passionate, but ultimately unsuccessful Counter-Strike player, 2023 was a big year for me. But surprisingly CS2 wasn’t the only new game that I played: Here is my gaming year 2023.

Side project: Feedrebels - Make your own podcast feeds

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-11-feedrebels-make-your-own-podcast-feeds/

Published: November 30, 2023 22:50

Everyone knows this situation: You are surfing the interwebs, and are coming across some audiofiles. You would love to listen to in your podcast player of choice. But there is no RSS feed - the very thing that makes a podcast a podcast. 1

Ode to my old headset

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-10-goodbye-sennheiser-pc-150/

Published: October 31, 2023 11:20

I knew it would happen eventually. The bare wires visible in two places of the flimsy cable for years. The earpads long compressed into solid flat pancakes. And my friends on Teamspeak reporting a cracking sound every time I un-muted myself using the…

Fixing Ubuntu not starting after GPU driver change

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-09-ubuntu-not-starting-after-gpu-driver-update/

Published: September 30, 2023 11:20

Last week I selected a new GPU driver from the “Additional Drivers” list in Ubuntu 22.04. Big mistake. The system seemingly crashed and I was left with a blinking cursor on a black screen. Here is how I fixed it. The situation After selecting a different…

Entrypoints to the Indieweb

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-07-entrypoints-to-the-indieweb/

Published: July 31, 2023 23:35

The indieweb is all the rage, especially as we saw the large social media conglomerates, that once replaced it, start to crack. But what is the indieweb? And how do you get there? All this, and more, in this blogpost (on the indieweb I guess). The indieweb…

What Reddit was to me

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-06-what-reddit-was-to-me/

Published: June 29, 2023 21:56

The current Reddit Inc. leadership seems to be hell-bent on prettifying the platform for either an IPO or a new owner. This news has even made it into mainstream media, so I won’t go into details of what’s happening, but rather give my perspective of what…

Learning from Other Industries Learning from Failure

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-05-learning-from-other-industries-handling-failure/

Published: May 31, 2023 00:00

I like to read incident reports, accident investigations and (technical) post-mortems. Maybe a bit too much. But I feel like I’m getting a lot out of it, both for my professional work as a software development manager and my volunteer work as a lifeboat…

How to get started with OpenStreetMap

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-04-getting-into-openstreetmap/

Published: April 30, 2023 00:00

In this blog post I’ll give a quick introduction to OpenStreetMap, and how I started contributing back in 2021. I would still consider myself a beginner or at least not a power-contributor, so I hope that this guide will be the easy to follow for everyone.

On writing small software

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-03-writing-small-software/

Published: March 31, 2023 00:00

I’m a professional software developer.1 I get paid to understand customer and business needs and come up with a software solution that fulfills them, while being secure, correct, maintainable, and scalable. But I am also a hobby software developer. And for…

The State of RDAP Mastodon Bot

https://www.haukeluebbers.de/blog/2023-02-the-state-of-rdap-mastodon-bot/

Published: February 27, 2023 00:00

At a recent hackathon event at work I looked into RDAP - the Registration Data Access Protocol. It aims to be the standard to query and present data about the owners and responsible parties of domains, IPs and ASNs (Autonomous System Numbers). This data…