fabian writes.
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I write about walking and mushrooms and small mysteries and how software works.
I also make internet jokes and repair cameras from time to time.
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recent posts
- A low-distraction Spotify player for the home
- The Windows 98 taskbar, now on macOS
- Five good hikes around Berlin
- Let's talk about alcohol.
- We all need more reasons to celebrate.
- How to: Run spotifyd or librespot when a USB sound card is connected (on Linux)
- Berlin weather forecasts on an E-ink display
- A walk from Brighton to Eastbourne (via the Seven Sisters)
- Parse huge XML files quick with Rust + Serde + quick-xml
- kids these days are releasing all their music with lowercase titles
- 2022 was
- A Walk and a Pop-up Newsletter
- Where is Fabian, now?
- Almost deleted photos, 2007 - 2020
- Why is this Floppy Disk Drive Clicking Incessantly?
- Quarantine Diary, Day 12
- What on Earth is this Encryption Scheme?
- 2020. It's over!
- Mushroom Studies, Autumn 2020, Brandenburg
- Cross-Compiling Rust Apps II: Linux Subtrees and Linker Shenanigans
- Cross-Compiling Rust apps for the Raspberry Pi
- It's 2020, and I still can't figure out why I'm getting your marketing emails
- Tech Jobs, Mobile Dev, Blogging: A conversation with Chelsea Troy
- How to ask questions well, asynchronously
- Regarding the Willows on the Landwehr Canal
- Notes on Speaking at EnthusiastiCon 2020
- What is a digital photo, really?
- Hello Colemak ๐
- Animating SVGs with Python Scripts
- How Does Lossless Compression in Fuji RAF Files work?
- I Guess you Could Call this a Crash Landing
- Adding Margin Notes to my Hugo Theme
- The Bagel Code
- 2019. It's done!?
- Ghosts in the Snow
- When do you Stop Writing?
- How Does SQLAlchemy Manage Database Transactions?
- To Read the Heretics
- 3 Novel Features for Hugo Themes
- Grouse, a difftool for static site generators
- Just Diff It
- The tripod mount screws fell out of my Fuji X-T2
- How To: Find and Fix Light Leakages on a Film Camera
- Techniques for setting boundaries around your remote job
- Emoji Haikus, and the deepest secrets of the unicode specification
- Eleven days on the E5 Long Distance Hiking Trail
- Is Fabian Still Alive?
- Reykjavik is
- I sit in 13A.
- Lofoten // Norway
- Australian Election Map 2016
- Embassy Reviews (a Twitter bot)
- Emoji Haikus
- EMR-E / Project Buendia Presentation at OpenMRS Global Summit 2015
- Three tips for better Android development productivity
- Faking Screen Resolution on Android Devices
- App-level Resources Done Right on Android
- So I Rebuilt My Website
- Android Auto Demo With Bill Shorten
- Ebola Crisis Response
- Iran
- Under the Hood of Android Auto
- Open Source Electrical Networks Toolkit
- IPCTK: Run code out of process, use like a normal object
- Git: Undoing a fast-forward merge when you should've just used a new branch
- Rethinking the static keyword in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Information Technology, Data and Context
- Selling Recommendations
- Abstraction, Humanity and Design
- Desperate Men
- Designing Timecard, A Windows Phone 7 App
- On Guidance: Listening Carefully for the Voice of God
- Visualising Serial Data: Arduino, I2C, XNA and more TLAs than are worth it IMO
- Lessons: Getting Arduinos to play nice with I2C
- In the Shoes of Jesus' Disciples